Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-02-19

Why, people. old people, took money out
Of their bibles that they had laid away TO
bury them, to invest, expecting it to re-
turn them hundr.d-fold before il would
be needed. Burial day always seems so,
distaut to u,. sspecisIly ii there is a
chance to make any money Tomorrow.
"AHy's father was bitten by the going
madness. lie gathered tho little he could
together. lie drew his salary regularly.
and let his household bills run lie sold
wrongfully Il few bark shares that he held
in trrst for Amy, which an uncle had
willed to her, aud invested the money in
the golden land, secretly, in the name Of
4 brother in Ohio.
The voyage turned out mighty poor.
The land was well iimbered, but a hund-
red miles away from river or tide.water.
The bubIe burst. So the rich became
poor, aad the poor became happy, think
ing bow their bettcrs had couo down.
They we're sure ola burial, for nobody
was ever too poor for that.
The old gentleman aged. lie grew
fretful aud absent-mipded. The grocer
and the butcher called again and again
for their dues-at the front door, too.
The nilk-boy was even more malicious.
He chalked on the gnrden-gate, 'Wornin,
pay up, ol' boss aud chuckled to himself
around the corner, as be peeped and sa"
Betty Floyd, the old domestic, spend
many minutes spelling out, and many
more in securing of the words, and shak
Ing her cloth at the empty street. Thrift,
had abandoned the household.
Amy knew but little Of the truth
He said he had only the amount Of twt
or three quarters sa'ary in the lamented
slide. She saw the falling step, and tina
he did not like to have her note it liz
was glad, though, Other help at the bank
which was needed now oltcucr than ever
The toll began 10 tell on little Amy. Sh
| didn't lose her beauty, though. don
believe she will ever lose that. My boy
ALI | tedious?"
Very. Go on"
"Don blow your smoke in my eyes
then, Or you'll swear !'m crying"
We'll, well ) forward !"
Where was |? This went on awhile
f the old man keeping the ship ou the tack
t close hauled, flag at the peak, AMI pump
-. sgong. But there came day when tn
/ wo. Id could DO little for Abram Woodso
and he could do less for the world. On
morning, when Amy was helping him 0
with his coat to 60 to the bank. he sta:
gered and fell upon the sofa. The dot
e tor came and said paralysis He revive
. somewhat, but the old general was wrec
!. of the saddcst kind. He couldn't spea
a an ineligible word. Amy became b
n hands, eyes and mind. Roy Elwcll WI
c appointed acting cashier. for the direc
Il ors would not supercede him at once /
S fingered for months with his faculties
It skies and sevcns One day lie said som
e thing that sounded like May 10Th, al
:. soon drolped anchor for the last time.
d The bank officers, when examining h
is cash and accounts, discovered de6cien,
t. of between one and two thousand dollar
o And they who had held the old general
II ncorruptable said, There is none tr
under the SUM-. His bondsmen were call
r upon, and tic few, which finally mea
d the many, thought they knew the CASH
f. had used the funds in his keeping
,r Amy, living secluded with her old d
m nestle, Betty Flood, was ignorant of t
d affair at the bank. She knitted worst
it work, and fitted ball-dresses for her col
i panions of old days Young Skinem
,e fered her what he called his heart.
h. Jove. twenty youg fellows would ha
10 come forward for her hand, but there "
lc something 10 her way that wouldn't lei
c. man with a decent heart offer It, Ski
as mem thought his magnamity twenty +
e. cent. above par. He had Inherited frt
On his father the mortgage on the Woods
N homestead, wich he threatened TO fo
as close. Troubles came in troops.
Nv "Looking over her fathers papers G
IT. day, Amy discovered note addressed
is her. 1t was in the neat hand of the g
cral. Ii told her that he wrote this
en- her in case anything should happen to b
GU that the world, after he was gone, mil
er Judge him amiss. That he had, it is Il
H. wrongcd her, his sweet. beloved dausht
ily that be had been false to his trustcesh
sr- thai their means were all gone with
he broken land b.e--that his heart ;
cr thought we're long sick with the secret
pg it. !; that, May the 10Th Of such sc
he hal found his cash uracconntably SUI
an and no man yet knew it. If be lived !