The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-01-20

wench chimed in Mrs. 2, with
that glance of expression which charac-
terized her, and turning up her nose,
advised the ladies to leave the room, and
no longer be insuted by her presence.
This advice was assented to by the in
telligent company, and the poor, but In
finitely superior girl, was left alone,
abashed, confused, and almost over
come with emotion. He who invited
her thither was the son of her adopted
father, who united with intelligence a
gentlemanly and graceful department,
and the command of extensive posses
sions in one of the most fertile portions
of our state. He was absent when the
revolution in the ball room took place;
but returned as soon as it was evacuated
by the ladies. Astonished at the change
and perceiving Amanda standing with
her face suffused with bushes, hastily
inquired the cause. A friend drew him
aside and communicated the facts as
they have been stated. The young man
was enraged and with an emphasis ade-
quate to his just excitement exclaimed :
What's that purse proud fool, that
ignorant parrot of fashion worth, who
scorns virtue because it is coupled with
poverty 2"
"Ten thousand dollars,' answered
bis friend.
"Ten thou sand dollars, ell ?" Well
Amanda is worth that sum and the heavy
;,,fo lor In,
dollars And that forsooth, against re-
spectability. Here, Amanda my GIRL"
said he, taking her hand and bowling re-
spectfully to the gentlemen present,
| &, let us leave this place, where naughty
| pride pampered and fed with the crumbs
of wealth, exercises an infunce superior
to the dictates of good sense, when vir-
tue is endangered"
So saying they left the place and re-
turned home.
The morning after the ball, Amanda,
the poor, sighted and abused girl, who
was denied the boon of mixing in socie-
ty, because she wore the russell gown of
| poverty, received from the indignant
young man an instrument of writing,
securing to her possession the full
amount of ten thousand dollars. The
gift, and the motives which prompted it
were soon made known to the naughty
Mrs. 2, and revenge more painful
than disdain took the place of the latter
Nor was the cup of bitterness yet full.
With all the solcitude of designing
mother she laid traps to ensnare the
young man in question, as a husband
for her own grey-eyed daughter, and
fondly imagined that his urbanity gave
evidence that she had caught him in
her meshes. But alas how soon do the
most towering expectations fall. Ere
two months had elapsed the humble
Amanda became the wife of the
wealthy Edgar N.
Time rolled on its silent course, bear
ing on its bosom sweet flowers and
beaming sunshine, and every ingredient
of happiness for the youthful pair, and
those who turned their backs upon Capt.
Bacon's servant GIRL became the cour-
tiers, the fawning sycophants of Mrs. N.
who in her new station, was no more
worthy of esteem, no more beloved by
the truly good. Twenty summers have
since scattered their blossoms around
her quiet mansion, and the slight
touches of the frost have gathered upon
the temples of her fond husband, yet
love, pure and holy, still warns the do
mestic circle, wherein the altar of true
benevolence is reared.
The simple tale have told is not the
filagree work of fancy, wrought up from
the tinselled material of fiction-it is
based upon facts. How often are such
facts exhibited to our view, to the great
} discredit of intelligent wealth.
Virtue, beauty, intelligence, moral
worth-the highest attributes of intelli
gent creatures, are often forced to bow
before the gilded shrine of mammon
whose affairs are often built up amid tn,
J mouldering ruins of genius, and whose
sacriicial rites consist in the utter pros
} tration and destruction of all that is
, great and noble in nature, all that Ii
/ bright and lovely in humanity.
: The good things of life are poured in
7 to her lap in abundance, while she dis
tributes with prodigal hand, their bles
sings among the children of cherries
poverty, and it may be truly said, tina
$ her children rise up and call her blessed
= her husband, also, and he praiseth her.
n Some Forfelts for Fun.