Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-01-19

the present price OF MAXIM Sf1rtS thOI
woodst hev plump face and genera
plumpitood all over; thou weodstv hey
the feet redoost and the matexial waste
on em placed where it wood show to /
g better advantage; thou woods lose then
freckles, wich is neither yoosful nor or
namental thou woodst hev yooth ant
gay attire to adorn thy yootIl, and golt
galore, and silver and precious stones, e
settry.'' e za ss ln1s.
"Yoo weep, Mabel, becoz last night Al
church VOC saw each maiden hev her es
cort, and they went Off two and two G
the animals entered the ark, but MARY
one looked at 700, and you wended yool
way home throo the rain alone and un
; cared for Yoo wood change all this
Ist not so?
And bendin her head like sunfowel
| in gale, she whispered, ''It istest p
"Maiden," sed he, seezin her hy the
shoulder bone, and fXin his eyes onto
her with a hungry intensity, 81 kin Give
! thee these and more.' ' g
"Oh! sirr' sed she, F'wichever yao iii
give EN- me give EN- mel But, "and q
doubt crossed her mind, swat must pay
wat must do to gain all these ?''
"Only sign yoor name. Here, maiden,
/ is tie dockment, sealed with a notaiy's
seal, with United States Revenue stamp
onto il and place left blank for yoor
name. See how bootifully the blank is
printed. i hev em done here in NCo
York so ez to hev EN- handy where [ do
the heft, oy my bizincs. Sign, Mabel,
sign p ~
"Read it to me, sez she, ''read it to mt" "
! He read it. 1t wuz a article NV agree
ment in .wich he promised to give her
yooth, booty wealth: ez much NV them
articles ez she shood order on demand,
for the space Nv ten years, in considera-
shun Nv wich she shood at the end NV
| that period, become hisn, soul and body.
"And who are 700 2" sed she, tremblin,
her system shakin like castanets.
"The Devil, Mabel, hisself, in person"
"Ayantp' she cried, DRAWN herself up
to full hite, ez all heroins do when they
say "aYant !"
'sShel go and leave 700 here-yaller-
haired, freckled, and soraggy, Mabel p
sed he, sardonically. Il 4tsl l}/IKOt 5
She he'd bin revelin in dream NV bliss
while he he'd bin talkin, and in imagina-
shen he'd bin all he he'd painted her, and
the thot NV goin back into her old condi-
shen wuz too much. She thot NV the
church the mite afore she remembered
that she he'd never he'd beau but wunst,
and he wuz shoemaker who never, come
the second time, and in a fit, Nv frenzy
she exclaimed, ''I WILL sIGN,nfand atried
to ftll, overcome with emotion, onto his
neck.
ssNot any Wv that sed he, dodgin );
"biznis Is biznis, but please don't" and
he whipped out a lancet and tied up her
arm SO ez she shoodent bleed too much !;
it alluz WIZ the regler thing for sieh con-
tracts to be signed in the blood NV the
victim, tho | don't see why red ink wood
ent do ez wei, ef ftwuznt for the precedent;
and she signed. -
Ez the final,curl wuz put to the tail NV
the 'r," there wuz another clap nv thnn-
der into wich he seeZed the fatal scroll
and vanished -ez he come, without going
through ary door, and leavin behind him
a perceptible odor Nv sulphur.
The next morning Mabel Montressor
wuz missin. Quietly she packed her
trunk and bought ticket for Chicago by
the way NV the Moo York and Erie, with
out fear; for she knowd that for ten
years she WIZ safe, .-''7 ..
She wuz never seen no more in Moo
York.
PART H.
Chicago! Mabel Montressor wuz at
her toilet in a luxurious mansion on W.
bash avenue, wich she he'd bought nine
years and eleven months before, and wuz
a okkepying. She wuzn't the Mabel Mon
tressor we seed at the opinm Nv this
legend, not by no means. A more beau
tiful female never stood afore lookin-
glass. Her teeth had crowd out agin !;
her hair he'd cum in thicker and longer
than any VOC see on the labels nv the Hair
Restorers her skin wuz ez pure ez Ala
baster, her neck wuz trooly like a swans,
and her arms wuz rounded ez they ought
to be. Her feet wuz shrulk into IS or SIS,
and altogether she WIZ allowed by good
judges to be the most perteckest piece nv
femiHiaity in them parts. She didn't
pOWueT, COZ no pow cOOu IilipiON0 hcl
complexion {; she didn't paint coz no paint
Good rival the material roses in her cheeks;
and she didn't embelish her tigger, COZ
there wuz no necessity for it.
When the devil makes contract Nv this
kind he alluz fulfils his part to the letter.
Lovers she he'd EN- by the thousand.-
Half ov the noble youths in Chicago WIZ
at heT feet They sighed for 20 ession of
her matchless charms; they sighed for
her wealth onto which to go into the
wheat biznis; but to all Nv EN- she turned
.deef ear Her motto WIZ 'eXcelslor,"
and she wuz waitin for some noble Lord,
some Grand Dock, or some princely po-
tentate or power to fall at her feet. And
besides, she had growed scapricious and
wayward, and it wuz a source Nv serene
pleasure to her to hev en- danglin after
her,
NVun mite Mabel stood at her toilet pre-
parin herself for gay assemblage, at wich
she wuz shoor to be the admired NV all
admirers. She was jist. putin the last
touch to herself, and was admirin. the effek
in the mirror, when horror ther WIZ an
other face beside hern in the glass She
shreeked, for it wuz the identicle face
wich she he'd stood afore ten years ago an
her deslit chamber in Hoo York.
ssMabel y, sed he ssT am come for yOo-t