Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-01-19
AsHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JAN 10, 1867. T

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7 Mabel Montressor went to the party
4 nevertheless, and wuz the gayest Nv The
gay. All! Good those who envied hel
hair hev knode by what means she became
I possessed Nv it! Good those who notist
the heavin Nv her buzzum knode how
heavy the heart. she wuz carryin under
I meath it But they didn't. They never
do.
4 That mite wuz one NV onmixed agony
1 She passed the floor til the dawning Nv
the dsy, aud wept and tore her hair and
4 tore hsr hare and wept. Wuz ther nc
I way, 70 escape: him? Good she not out
] WiseEiin Wuzther no faw in the con
W. uz such contrax bindin under
of Iliinoy2 TO all these ques
> cot no answer, and family in
dispare she went to the minis
church in which she he'd bin
ger since she he'd bin in Chicago,
Il ole do when the Devel gets
She told him her story, weep
carpet wuz soaked
l sed he to her tenderly ez is
IL Fuvpreachers when they are
ia Ieeato young and preposessin
fe pu didst foolishly Watts the
tr hings NV life; wat is beauty,
W. sicli,ef 700 can t enjoy EN- for
father" sed she. &c Pve he'd a
i hunk ne oft for ten years, VOC ma bet
! You eanst not appreciate my sitooashen
OWN to yoor sex yoo never 2ia be scrag
gy female, yaller-haired and freckled,
and rumin mostly to hands and feet. IF
yoo he'd bin sich yoo'd hev done ez
| did. /" "gIr-za rita.>aar III u .a r~=---s,
%Mable, one way remains, and only
one; when the arch-fend eometh, give him
back all that he gavest thee; tell him to
restore theeto thy normal ugliness, and
the contract is at un end"
rs But wat shell | do then 2"
SCI yoo. are too ugly to move in good
society, turn retormer, my child, and go
! to lectrin on woman's rites. Why didn't
yoo think of that afore pa
Ane she took his advice. Percisely ez
the,clock struck twelve, on the mite NV
the thirty-hrst NV the twelfth month nv
the tenth year (she wuz in her chamber),
before her stood hervisitor; this tine with
out his coat and hat and gentlemanly at
tire. When the Devel makes bargain,
he alluzappears fixed up; when he comes
for his pay, he snot much such a pleas
ant-lookin individjle NeTE BY THF AUTH
ORR learned that wunst ina fit of de-
.lirum tremens, caused by bein a candi-
idate for a county office in Injiany, t
-"Avant p sed Mable 81 Tue the bar
grin. I will not go!'
''My dear,n retorted he, otis too late.
100 can't back out Here See Here
is the contract dooly signed and sealed
and the stamps sufs bent; Ny dear, yoo
must go!" 95a 9a t,a binoHSuf.fei-
"Place me- shreeked she, s'ez 700
found me. Take back. these welth, them
beauty, these hair, these teeth and give
me back my old set, wich wuz ez good ez
new. | will not gol / Our arrangement
sas an end.p ~ ~ Hee
""Mable," sed he, smilin sardonically,
and fixed onto her wicked eye, "look
at this ha! ha / .ea H-yba tr.r-
And he held afore photograph wich
she he'd he'd taken ten years ago, andwich
she thot she he'd destroyed, There WIZ
the ya1ler hair, the, wrinkles the freck-
les, the skinny neck, the long hands, and
| the feet wich even hoops wuz insuffishent
to hide; and as her eyes were glued onto
it, the deyel smiled still more sardonic-
ally. r5Hsj s.s +el5 % gsh ytr
"Wood yoo be agin like these and be
agin beneath the notis NV laim shoema-
ker p sed he. ass. J. sia5-
'Neyer!" shrceked she, stake me y
and she fell faintin into his arms
x <
W hen the servant cum up the next
mornin at l l a, NJ, to awaken her mis-
triss, she wuzent there There WIZ how
ever, a strong oder NV brimstun pre-
vadln the apartment, wich completely
oyerpowered the Nitebl omin Serus wich
stood open unto her table The servants
helped themselves to her clothes and
.iewelry, and all Nv them married well and
he'd large families. The house was sold
for taxes, ez is the custom nv the city,
and wuz finally conyertid into boarding
house. .Il91. rst.
There are several morals to be drawd
from this legend; the principal wun NV
wieh is that the onquenchable desire for
bein handsum and rich is wat general
y sends women to the Devil. Eff the
reader sees any other moral into it, he lis
privileged to extract it. He pays his
money, and kin do ez he likes.
A REMARKABLE IUNAT1C-Is seen
every day at the telegraph Offices, cor
ner Of Broadway aud Liberty street
where he goes regularly to send a dis.
patch to the President on the condition
Of the country, and which the operators
always take from him as if they deemed
it as of as much Importance as himself
Twenty years ago he was one of the most
prominent lawyers in New York, had an
ample fortune, and was a ripe scholar
outside Of his profession. He lost his mind
Oh account of some unfortunate love affair
think Of a lawyer falling victim to his