The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-10-17
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Twenty-Five dollars reward Lost on
the evening Of January 5, in Broadway
or Fifth Avenue, large cape Of Rus
sian Sable, The above reward will be
paid to any one who will return it to
The office of tho journal of Com
merce.'
This to Miss Julia Lane was the most
interesting paragraph 10 the newspaper.
She read it over and over again Was
she obliged to believe that il referred to
the beautiful cape which her father had
found in Clinton Place2 Very likely
the advertisement meant another Peo-
pie were losing things continually
Then how strange to have it returned
to the Office OF the journal of Com.
morco. 1t looked very much as if some
one was making capital Of lost capes,
presuming on the probability Of at least
one cape being lost in the length Of
Broadway and Fifth Avenue from tho
numerous parties in the open sloighs--
The omission of the connecting "Clin-
ton Place" confirmed this supposition.
No; she was not at all sure this was the
one. She doubted more the more she
thought about IT,
Julia had been positively unhappy for
weeks from the want of fur cape. So
many Of the other girls, in fact almost
everybody, had them. She wondered
how they could afford it; but they had
them, and she hardly felt respectable
without one. Her father had told her
that he could not for a moment think of
making such a purchase. He had not
recovered from his heavy losses Of last
winter, and his profession gave him a
bare support, Devoted to his profos-
sional pursuits, and enjoying, too, with
keen relish, the society Of the cultivated
and literary circle in which he moved
he could not sympathize with his daugh-
ter's cravings for fur capes. So the sub
ject had been dismissed from their con-
versation, though not from the mind of
the young lady. She, too, had higher
tastes, but for the time they were obscur-
ed She really felt ashmed to 60 out
wearing her old, narrow, faded mink
victOrne. Why could she not dress as
well as other people?
And now the way seemed to be open
ed. A fur cape, handsomer than her
utmost ambition qspired to, was brought
to her door. 1t was asking too much
for her to relinquish it to such an in
definite demand as that advertisement.
Besides, reasoned our consistent young
lady, people who wear such capes can or
ought to afford to lose them. The loss
to the owner was probably but a slight
inconvenience, while the finding of it
was to her the qualification of her strong.
est and otherwise unattainable desire.
Still lower down in the strata of her
thoughts was this: Anna Willard has
just returned from Europe a rich heir
css. George Willard has been quite
attentive to Julia this winter, and spe-
cially requested that she would call up,
on his sister, who was on a visit to her
uncle. She did not like to so and cal
upon those stylish people in that old
ivictorine. The cape was exactly tht
thing to make her feel comfortable ant
as good as anybody. IF she could only
think it right to keep i'll
She pondcred the matter all day. She
had no mother, poor girl, or perhaps a
| fur cape would not have seemed of SO
much Importance. Several Of her young
friends came in during the day, almost
all of them the happy possessors O
capes, sable, mink, or squirrel; but no
one of them, thought Julia, with self
congratulution, not one Of them so hand
some as mine
ave have to 60 down to Gunther's,
said Miss Bidwell. "His furs are 81
cheap that mamma said she could no
resist the temptation, and bought on,
/ for Kitty. You have not got yours yet
have you, Julia?"
Julia had comfortcd herself by i'm
agining that, in some possible contin
gency, she might have a capo in tn,
course of the winter, and it had SCENE,
one step towards realizing her hopes Il
confdo them to her friend Miss Bidwell
! How delighted she was to reply,
81 think [ shall have one soon.
was talking to father about it this morn
ing
ITO think of that school girl, Kit,
Bidwell, having a mink capel Tha
makes four fur capesin that family.
am sure that father could afford it a
we'll as Mr.. Bidwoll I wish that fathe
felt little more pride about my looks
| If 1 had a mother to care for mel" An
iJulia burst into a passion Of tears, whic
she imagined were tears Of flial devo
ton and regret. Before she came ou
of il She fut almost as it Providenc
had taken her case in hand, and ha
gratifed in a mysterious way the wis
denied by her sympathizing father.
"Any advertisement Of that capo2
asked her father at the dinner,table.
"None that answers to this one.
sent for the other papers. The sam
advertisement is in them all, butit doe
not mention Clinton Place.
"Whoro are tho papers? Let me SC
them2"
They were up stairs in Julia's room
She had almost persuaded herself, b.
she was somewhat fearful that her faith,
would not be so easily satisfied. II
Z was a man of the strietest integrity, an
did not for a moment imagine that h
, daughter would not DO as desirous
himself to restore the property to i
owner. flo aid not know the power
a passion for fur oapes.
~ think | will advertise il, he sal
"I should think that the owner Wou
A.. do that" replied Julia.