Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-11-22
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JAS R'S NURS Z
BIZ MR.. L +. co OWN.

WANTED - A soldier If the Potomac
Army wishes to open a curresp ndence
With some young lady, with q view t. mu-
tnal entertainment and Involvement -
Address, Jasper Dean, ca, G. - Mass
Reg. of Vols. Washington, d c.
Now tell me. who GOULD have thought of
Hitty Blake answering an Advertisement
like thst2 Stranger things NAV have
happened, hut hardly in the village of
Belmont. A paOr orphan girl, adopted
irto the family OF the rich E-q. G,ve-the
lie advantage e her adoptrrn was that
she had drudged without pay-Hitv had
grown Up, so her scb"UlmHtes said, 'as
homely as u hedge fence Nome knew
better than Ii thy hogselt, that she was
very very pam.
The 'sqnire'a wife. who WAS q great
manager, thnugh always doluruusly advis~
ing her friends 'Herer 10 adopt a child
epeaking as from personal experience
as often IN the 'squire's ear alone Coz graf
Mating herself on the bargain she had
made IN adopting Hitv Blake IL might
he another instance of the mistress scon.-
my, that Hitty, though nearly seventeen,
was still in short clothes, looking like a
| child Of twelve
Nob"dy, IN fact, ever thought Of Hi'ty
as ever becoming a woman, with the ieel
ings and aspirations belonging to her spx
How the glddy boarding .rcho,l band
would have laughed at the idea of her hsv
| ing q besu-a gentleman correspOn6ent-
and Gaping the climax by getting mar
| ried
Yet Hitty had her OVID ambitions If not
hopes; and her feshnSs-Were mostly sCr-
roWful enough. Her bGuntrful benefac-
tors, the squire and lady, had given her
snme small chance at the cOnmOD school,
and from this Hitty had becnme quite a
schOlsr; not, of course, that she could
paTlez UOuS like Miss Imopsne, the 'suulre's
DIece, bur in ordinary English branches
she was much better educated than that
young lady, and especially had acquired
pretty handwriting.
! Well, it was the night of the first of
January, 1864, and HItty, after hard
days work. went up to her attic hedroom
at last. No one bad thought of New
Years gift to her but during the day she
had cnDe into possession of a newspaper :;
so shutting her duOr quickly, she dropped
down before her little table, to read the
few minutes that her night-lamp should
last
and she read that advertizement Of q
colder. 1t was the fret thing her eyes
| fell upon, and It seemed tn satisfy them !;
they gently lifted themselves from the
printed columns. and though turned only
on the bare yellow washed wall. which
am sure they did not see, q dreamy, pleas
ed look came into them, which by-aDd>b ye
Ike the water of an OVertull fountain, rip
| Piled out upon ell her face. No one was
there to see it, but while thus she dreamed
her Girlfsh dream with quick ened pulses
aDG rmiliDg lips, the face reflected uncun-
sOiUGsly in Der bIt VI broken mirror, had Q
strange fascination that was almost beau
lty
When her lamp burned itssif oct she
never knew, nor when she undressed. aDc
went to bed, leaving unread the stury and
the poetry she bad ilonged after all the at
ternOOD, and continuing her dream, which
vas to her poem and love tale Dersnni.
fed. Hmty bad never been 81 happy in
her lite.
| Mkt morning she rnss BE soon a. il was
light aud wrote q letteF-Its object of
eIurse, being pimyly entertainments and
Improvement, Toe letter she took down
stairs with her, not daring to leave 1t 10
any Of her boxes, TOR fear Mss lmopsns
should happen USer and make se7rch, "a
she always took the liberty of dung when
it suited Der /; and fudIDg it show it NJ to
the family, as she had done q copy of sUme
love verses q short time befure, making
them and poor Kitty standard OtjecI Of
ridI0ule. -.-s. a-f--
The letter she carried in her bosom al
day, and secret deep beneath il 10 hsf
heart. When another day Of drudgery
was past, somebody with lace deeply hid
den IN q hood ,crept timidly into the VII
lage post-ofhce, Deposited letter. then
ran away, as though post Office aud g
letter to q soldier we're the most Irigbtiul
things 10 the world. Huty knew nothing
of society, and .lhe que-IioD OF the prOprle-
ty or improperly Of what sbe had done,
never once arose 10 her mind. Least OI
ali could she have imagined Loyal heart
ed man, wiling to fight for his oonrtry,
setting trap for young unvuspecting To-
males. And in this instsnce, at any rate,