Nevada County picayune., 1890-10-16
POOR AND PROUD.

"Pm afraid we can't go to Saratogs this summer" said Mrs. Whitby tC her eldest daughter, stylish looking girl or nineteen. II have pinched and contrived in every way, and yet l can hardly make both ends meet.
 But what will everybody say oi us?' answered the daughter.
 ''Very true" replied the mother.
 So they went to Saratoga. By what strategy it was effected we can not pretend to tell. Some people have a way of cutting down their servant S wages, and with haggling with their seamstress about the price of days work and Mrs. Whitby was one of these. It was by what she called economy. but plaln people call mean ness, that she saved the money for her summer trip. The day had been fixed for their departure, and the eldest daughter had begun to pack her trunk, when Mrs. Whitby came into the room, with an open letter in her hand and dismay written on her countenance.
 You might as we'll put your things back in their drawers" said the mother. ''Here is letter from your aunt Ellen. She is sick and out of work as well as out of money, she says. declare, it's too provoking. She has always been burden to the family. She might have married when she was young, and then your father wouldn't have had to support her, as he has had to do half the time. There was old MT. Smith was dying for her, when she was your your age and still pretty. But, with her ridiculous notions about love and similarity of tastes, she refused him and now. without a penny, would starve, if it wasn't for us.. And good ness knows, we've enough to do to take care of ourselves.
 But, ma, we cant give up Sara atoga," said the daughter. "We should never be able to hold up our heads again, if we do. People will suspect the truth. We've talked toe much about it to stay at home. Be sides Itold Dr. Burnet we were go ing, and he said at once that he'd meet us there" And she looked quite serious. For Dr. Burnet was no antiquated physician with a gray poll and a gold-headed cane, but g handsome young man just entering his profession, and the inheritor of q competent income. All the girls in the Whitby set declared him ia love of a man." He was, in reality, very much more than than this silly term implied, having iirst-rate abilities, 8 high sense of honor and a manly character. The pretty face of Miss Whitby had pleased him, and had been showing her considerable at tention.
 That alters the case," said the mother, decidedly. Your aunt must get somebody else to help help her. She's no right, either, to ask us; we have already done enough for her. Besides, she'll get sewing again, if she looks out sharp for it. Of course it won't do to sit with her hands fol- ded. wonder what would become of us all if did it."
 So they went to Saratoga. To have seen the Whitbys at Congress hall, a stranger would have thought that they did not have care on earth.- Little did people there imagine the shifts to which Mrs. Whitby had been driver in order to raise funds for this expedition. Meantime Dr. Burnett was hurrying through his engagements, so that he might fol- low q certain pretty face to Sarato- ga. He was not one to neglect a duty, however hence, while one or two patients continued so i'll, he could not persuade himself that il was right to leave. But one day af- ter watching little boy through a dangerous illness, he was drawing on his gloves at the final visit, when the mother spoke:
 q wish, Docter, if you could, you YOU would go up stairs and see