Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-01

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the clerk, mocking her. "Well, | think
differently, and that's all about it
We shan't pay you for these Shirts
They will have to be sold at loss
but what shall | do ?" asked Miss
Vernon in seeming distress.
"That's your business, not mine
We will try you once more, and give
you another half dozen shirts. If
they are done better, you will be paid
for them
To the indignation of the clerk,
who was not used to such indepen-
dence in the poor women who worked
for the establishment, Miss Vernon
took the shirts to another part of the
counter, where she saw VIM. Winsor
himself.
"Mr. Winsor," she said, "your clerk
will not pay me for these shirts; he
says they are not well doae."
Mr.. WinSor took up one and pre-
tended to examine it.
"No, it's poorly done. We can't
pay you for these, but you may nave
another bundle, and if they are salts
factory, you will then be paid"
"Didn't tell you so ?" said the clerk
tliumphantly. Now, how much did
you make by that operation p
More than you think, perhaps" !"
said Miss Vernon, quietly
"Do you want any more work ?"
"No, don't wish any said she,
coldly.
"Oh!you are on your high horse,
are you? Well, you may be glad to
get work some day, when you can't
have it.
The evening was one which William
usually spent with his be:rothed.--
When he was announced, be went for
ward warmly, as usual, to greet Miss
! Vernon.
| She drew back coldly, and did not
offer her hand to grasp his.
What is the matter, Margaret p
he asked, surprised and startled.
Ny hand has taken yours for the
last time, Mr.. Winsor. y said Marga-
ret.
Good heavens! what is the mean
ing Of all this? | cannot understand
! it.
Il cannot take the hand Of one who
grows rich by defrauding poor women
out of their scanty earnings
Who says this Of me? Some one
has been slanderiug me- Confront
me with my accuser. There is some
mistake here"
will do as you desire. Wait
FIVE minutes"
Miss Vernon left the room and soon
returned in her disguise.
The young man strobe up to her
angrily:
Are you the one who has SANDER
ed me to Miss Vernon ?" he demand
ed.
told her the truth.
The young man reflected. Violent
contradiction, he saw, would not avail
him; he would try another course.
"Hark you" he said, in a low voice.
"There was a mistake. | will make
it up to you richly, | will give you
ten dollars on the spot, and all the
work you want at double rates, if you
will tell Miss Vernon it was all a mis-
take"
Too late, Mr.. Winsor," said the
yelled figure, throwing up her veil and
showing the contemptuous face Of
Margaret Vernon. Your bribe is
offered in vain. Good evening. sir"
Confused and astonished William
Winsor found his way to the door
and has never ventured to enter the
house of the heiress since.
RELEASING FEvER.-The appear
ance and rapid spread Of the Siberian
plague, or relapsing fever, in New
York, is creating considerable alarm
as the disease is known to be fearfully
contagious among the poor, who live
in filthy neighborhoeds. The Symp
toms and treatment of the fever are
thus summed up:
Headache, shivering and high fever
comes on suddenly, and succeed eacE
other rapidly, so that in the course o
from six to twcnty-four hours the pulse
is beating from one hundred to ont
hundred and forty times per minute
and the temperature is found to bt
from one hundred degrees to one hun
dred and five degrees Fahrenheit. =
Excessive painlulnesS in the shoulder.
and legs continues for three or foul
days, and about the sixth, sometime.
as early as the fifth day after the on
set, the patient begins to sweat so ex
cessively that the temperature is re
duced in the course Of a single day t.
point TWO or three degrees below
the natural heat of the body, that i
to ninety-five degrees or ninety-si,
degrees Fahrenheit. During the frs
stage of the fever there is usual,
much vomiting and disturbance of tn
: bowels. Now comes on O period @
: rest from the fever and from nearl
every symptom of the disease, whic
continues throughout an entire week
sometimes day or two longer, an
L until the 18th day from the onset whe
on that day or very soon subsequent
the headache sickness and fever retur
suddenly and the patient suffers
still more protracted attack than i
the first instance. At the end of twer
ty-one days, if alive the convalescen
! begins to hope that all is over wit
u his sickness, and finds, on attemptin
to leave his bed, painfulness and e2
cessive weakness Of his muscles,
L blanched and sallow skin, and an al
sence of all energy and strength, tha
L make every hour and every da
e wretched and miserable, and if nc
carefully nourished and surrounde
4 by good sanitary circumstances
quite sure to have q second relapse
Il 1t is said that in London and St. P,
l. tersburg three, four and even five r.
Il lapses have been by no means uncon
mon. The convalescence is so prt
+ tracted that the patient becomes pa
perized by the disease, and man
+ months elapse before he can agai
earn his bread. The only treatmel
i of any value is confessed to be goo