Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-08
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BY JUNIS.


"What ails my pretty daughter to night!
Why Anna your very features are contor-
ted with anger. What can be the cause 2
asked the pleasant voice Of Judge Clair
mont.
"There father read that, it will explain
to you the cause of my Indignation ex-
claimed the beautiful Anna, handing her
father letter which he read aloud. 1t
ran as follows:
DEAREST ANNA.
Oh Anna, beautiful rosebud Of this
wilderness, how fervently | love you, pen
cannot write. Do you return that love
| feel convinced that already hold place
in you affection. But your father will not
consent to our marriage, for he has chosen
for you that awkward boor Harry Warner.
Let US then fly to one of the Eastern States
and there be married, and to render more
secure our happiness, l would recommend
that you get yourself in possession of a few
thousand of your fathers spare dollars -
The utmost secresy will be necessary. /
will meet you at the elm tree this evening,
Only consent to my proposals and l shall
be one of the happiest of men.
Affcctionately,
HENRY MILLER.
"Zounds !" exclaimed the Judge, red.
dening with anger, "propose to elope with
my daughter, and ask her to rob her ia
thcr. The rascal should 60 through tho
rough course of law,if we lived in one of the
States, more thickly settled, where they
have courts established as when 1 used to
be Judge. But here, in this thinly set
tied country, scarcely know how to pun
ish him as he deserves"
"Suppose I send for Harry Warner.
can then meet Miller at the elm tree, and
while he is urging his propositions upon
me, Harry can slip up and seize him, and
then he can be punished as you think best,
suggested Anna.
"Your plan is an excellent one, I vii
60 and see Harry Immediately" So say
ing the old gentleman departed for thu
residence of Mr.. Warner.
The day soon sped by, and the dusk o
the evening set in. Then Anna Clairmon
put on her bonnet and shawl, and startet
for the elm tree designated in Henry Mil
ler's letter.
Upon arriving there she found, no
Henry Miller, but Harry Warner.
"Here Harry" said she, ,"take this rop,
, and go up in the tree. Make haste, Mil
+ ler will soon be here. Make moose in tn
rope, which you can slip around his necl;
while l seize and hold his hands. But d
not be too fast about securing him, we vii
see how far he will go with his proposals
and when cough, then secure him.
Harry climbed the tree and had just &C
himself seated, till the approach of Henr
Miller was he ard
"Well, Darling Anna, you have como,
T. see. And do you consent to my proposals
spoke Miller as soon as he came in sight.
Anna did not reply till he arrived Ill
. der the tree, and then in voice apparent
q ly tremulous with emotion, but which tn
t careful listener might have detected as
forced effort, ooh Mr. Miller, how can
leave my poor papa alone"
But Anna, your father will not be lie
,, alone. lie is to be married to the wido'
Icler, soon, she told me SO herself, in cor
fidence of course, and in the enjoyment {
=. his newly made bride your father will 500
forget his daughter"
Anna knew this to be false, but she re
piled. "My objections then silenced
reference to that, can scarcely make u
: my mind to take the money from father
it would be no better than stealing, woul
,g it?
10 "Stealing ~ calculated Miller, in vel
feigned surprise, care you not sole heir
your fathers estate, and will it not all !
yours when he is dead what diAieren,
n . then, does it make if you do put yourse
5l fa in possession of part of it before his deaf
Surely there is no harm in that"