Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-01-24
S FAUNTON VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY "a, 1879.

sumed doubtful expression when the plan
was spread out befo him.
~ don't know about that he said slow
ly, ''Do as you would be done by, is my
motto, and how should like to have ev-
erybody il town to run off to Hartford or
New York to buy the goods I offer for
sale. Patronize home institutions, Annie;
spend your money where you make it, and
help to build up your own town, say.
Why the country is going to ruin for this
same reason! Nothing in America will
do for people. unless the maker is shrewd
enough to brand it with foreign mark.
We spend all our time and strength in
gathering dollars to be sent out of the
country. Aud what do we get for them
A lot of French fripperies and manufac
tured articles which need only to stand
side by side with our own to show their
inferiority.''
Eyes, John; but-the dress !" Exports
and imports were matters to be settled by
graver heads, or to settle themselves.
| "Buy at Morton & Briefs. They trade
with me, and I should like to turn my
money into their hands,
"But their goods are so common john
And we all dress alike-like mutes at. a
funeral''
''Like what?' John Fay burst into a
loud laugh. You are dear little woman,
Annie, but you never originated that re-
mark. 1 don't believe like the style,'' he
added, after pause. s'But do as you
please. dear"
1t was hard to say ''no'' to this little
wife. ''At least you can buy the cloak at
Morton & Briefs; and be sure to make
the money 60 as far as you CAM
Il will, John; it shall go as far as New
York p she replied, with a happy laugh,
throwing her arms around his neck and
giving him an enthusiastic hug.
She wrote her letter to New York at
Mrs. Jupe's dictation, and the samples
came in due time.
John turned them over quizzically.
"Conldn't you judge better of the color
and quality to see them in the whole piece.
rather than in such little scrap as this p
''Oh, what a silly John! Of course not
when I can examine them at nv leisure
now, with no saucy clerk to snatch them
out of my hands or talk me into buying
what I don't want at ALL"
A long hour was spent in this inspec-
ton.
"Do-do you think it had better be mix
ed goods or plain p
John was good-natured. He laid down
the newspaper to take the bits Of cloth
again in his hands. "Do you cali that
mixed?" singing out a scrap all knobs, and
long, loose hairs, and vying with Joseph's
coat in colors-the latest fashion of warm
ugliness?
eyes, to be sure"
swell, then, dear, should say let us
have it plain -
So she chose soft, warm basket-cloth
in dull maroon. Six yards, eighteen dol
larsl But it was double width and these
new goods were expensive. The prices ran
as high as five dollars yard; three was
moderation. And there would be enough
for a long sacque, and then-last consider
alton of prudent mind-it would s'make
over" admirably.
Then the silk-(for this was to be
handsome suit)-Mrs Jupe had said that
silks were to be got at any price now.
And not to be mean or to buy poor quail
ity. Mrs. Fay had fixed her price at dol
lar and half per yard.
But scrap at two dollars just matched
her cloth. And, she fancied as the most
of the sampled ranged at prices even high
or, with an lmpetuosity which character
lied the movements of the small woman
cided upon this. Seven yards-no eight,
it was we'll to have piece left, and there
should be bonnet to match. Eight, it
must be. She sent her order in haste and
then awaited the result with an excite
ment which held IN it more and more Of
repentance as the day went by.
Early in the afternoon Of the third day, an
expressive gon, a man and an enormous
book appeared at her door. She ran to
open it. She took the precious parcel
which bore her name and placed it careful
ly within the sanctities of the parlor,
while the man was fumbllng for the bill.
"Thirty-four dollars, ma'am."
She had the exact amount in her hand.
She had had the exact amount within reach
for the last two days.
| write your name just there" And
Mrs. Fay wrote her name where the pur-
| Lola v,I tod oho,
tiers a good deal like the trembling ones
with which she had written, Eyes, dear
john" two years before, in reply to GER
tain letter which need not be mentioned
| here.
"And dollar for the EXPRESS
I'll thought it was fifty cents.''
Both ways, madam, you know, Z. 0.
D." No, she did not know; not at that
moment, certainly, but she slipped a fifty
cent piece slyly back into her pocket and
paid him the dollar he demanded.
She did not open the parcel at once.
She sat down to do sum in mental arith-
metic. Thirty five dollars from fifty left
fifteen; and there were the Innings and
trimmings, the dress maker and Susan
James to be provided for. And Aunt
Maria's CLOAK! There was no impotence
In the fingers that united the string as she
prepared to inspect the new dress. She
had lost her enthusiasm over it already.
Horror of horrors Could this be her
silk2 as a broad ray of sunlight struck
upon it. It was by no means of the same
shade as the dress. Coula the dealers have
made mistake? But nos she compared
a scrap Of the sample which she had cho-
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