Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-04-23

this dark-eyed girl, to give or withhold
He told his love manfully, il the franl
yet quiet manner that was natural to him
and Margaret answered him:
You ask me if can return your love
l tell You frankly I do return it. Stay
1t is but fair to tell 20 that if | MARI,
iyou l will lose half my forrune.'
81 never knew you had Fortune was
the reply. II love you, and would ask
no woman to be my wife were not my own
means sufficient to support her in com
fort. AS it is, can promise YOU more
dentirely your owl, but tae fact has never
T, influenced me.T
1 She laughed, then, merry low laugh
and answered;
Il believe ou,f.'r you rejected it utterly
/ five years ago. Rejected both me and my
foftune.''
IT" cried Stephen.
''rhe half of my IN ,ney that lose upon
my wedding day will become yours, Ste
I pllen; for, in spite of al! your heroic re.
i solves, when you marry me you will be the
4 husband of that red-heAded imp, Dolly
{ Cowen.'
/ You? Impossible!"
1 quite possible. had been SIX months
/ in the seminary where Uncle Stephen
1 placed me, to take the mischief out OF
me- he said, when was Frustrated by
typhoid fever. was very dangerously i'll,
and when | recovered every spear of my
| fiery hair had been shaved off during my
de!irium. The freckles faded away, and
when the lost hair WAS replaced it was by
the curly brown locks you see. Finding
myself so altered. and having strayed so
near the confines of the grave, tried to
mould my mind into steadier and more
profitable shape. I studied hard, and
dropped my impish tticks with my red
hair. After uncle died, I remained at
school until last October, when l invited
my mothers sister to chaperone me dur
ing visit to this city. [ selected your
| hoar'ling-hnuse, Stephen, for resolved to
see il ,uld nos restore to yMl the inner
itance you had rejected. Had found yon
t. win your heart. l could still have
claimed you for a friend and cousin.'
''But you will be my sweet wife, he
said taking her little hand to slip a dia
mond ring upon the finger, land tell me
when I may ask you to clange-by the
way your name?"
My name is Marg lret Harding Cowen'
was named for my mother, taking her
maiden name. Dolly is a nurse. y nick
name that was kept up at home, and by
my uncle. u.
SO the old gentleman S will was fulfilled
in its conditions, aud Owensvilie remained
entire, the legacy of his nephew Stephen
Cowen Hill, and that red-headed imp,
Dolly.
PAPER DRESS PATTERNS. -'s Burleig'l"
seys in d recent letter from New Y ork city
to the Boston j ,urnal:" A great business
has grown up apparently out OF nothing.
This business is the making of dress pat
terms out Of q fimsy sort of paper made for
thepurpose. The amount of business me
is simply marvellous. Through it ladies
IN the backwoods, in the country, and in
the spa"sest and rem )test districts. cen at
the cost Of dime or so secure the latest
fashions for themselves and children. One
+ Of these establishments sued house in
New ork on Il note given for goods de-
livereG. The defence set up WAS that there
was no consider N. A quantity Of the
goods Was brought into the court and their
.lilnsy texture exhibited for the inspection
of the Intelligent iury. The jury gave
verdict for defendant ON the ground that
there wis no pro perty ip such material.
Yet the deal ngS in this frail fabric are
hardly eq laled by any other branch o.
trade. One house does 100000 worth Of
trade year. T lie paper is manufacture
expressly for the work, an is sent into the
city tons at time. A single order ex-
lausts 5000 reams. This house has l 900
agencies. Tney are in every part Of the
United States, in Canada, and acress the
seas. Orders for patterns come in from
S25 to 81 900. The largest establishments
| i'll New York, brooklyn, Philadelphia and
Chicago buy $500 worth at IL time. One
hundred and fifty llan,ls are kept CONSTANT
| ly at work to in let the orders.