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With the debtor's name on his collar, ~ TERMS OF ADVERTISING, While I am king and you are queen, in, 1 week, $ ,50 ; 1-4 col'n 8 mo. For we owe no man a dollar, » h ts «of oe » 1,00 C01 year, » 1,25 | 1.2 \0 6 mo. & | * 1 year, ,00 | 1 * 8 mo, » ' og 9 yeby, 10, \ 1 year, $1.00 a Year. would have been a very handsome wo- man. | Sho lad not changed so much as had the captain; but both recognizable, were and each, after one glanch knew the other. Mrs, Sarah looked up from her cranberries cargerly, 2 - -*Oh;- Abel, here's ~Jane- Jano Finch !\ Captain Abel came forward, and ox- tended his hand ; but it was an awk wird meeting, - They had not seen each other since the breaking of their engaginent-over a score of years bo- forte-and both of them were uncom- fortably conscions of the fact. But Captain Abel drew a chair ap to the stove, and tried to talk as if he had forgotten all about it ; they discussed the weather the crops, and else they cared nothing about, until Mrs. Sarah, who was all ip a whirl with the surprise of Miss Jane,s visit, and who could not keep still-try as she would -and she brolke into the conversation Cilbertsville, Otsego County, N. Y., Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1877. - He had not seen her since her girl- bood and his memories of her were all of that happy time. ''No,\ said James Finch sadly, - «'We hear of her, ;but nothing from her. - She still lives alone,and still re- fuses to hold gommunication with any of us.\ Ll Captain Jones: Jooked around the poorly furnished little room and sigh ed. *Slie has changed greatly,\ he said; \if she can enjoy wealth, while you are struggling on in this style, I can- not understand it. But there's no use in talking it over. - Years ago we de- cided that it was incomprehensible. Come to-morrow 1s Thanksgiving, and we must bestir ourselves to give if a hearty reception. 'The busband and what that meant, Caytum Jones proposed to provide the Thanksgiving dinner. ~ James Finch with all his poverty was a proud man. with : . * I can't take it,\ eaid he, resolutely. 'Oh, Abel, do you remember the ; \If I was in need, Jones, I'd come to Inornday. wa saw Janes you; but.I-can got along very well\ mess 1 was in ! was engaged to Jim without that ; and so,until I'm unable and nobody know it ; and mother was to provide myself with one, I won't bound you and I should maken match have any.\ - of it, - I never shall forget the after- What the captain would have said, | noon we decided to tell her all about must forever remain a mystery, us, it, Goodness how I cried-on your just at that moment. the disputed shoulder, too, Abe-and how you tried dinner, in the shape of Miss June's | to convince me that poor ma didn't donation, drove up at the door., care much about you, and had just as It was in vain that Mr. Finch pro- [heve I'd take somebody else, if you tested that the load was not for him. that Abel had time and again told her that Sarah was just the same to him as a dear sister; Miss Finch grew righteously indignant ; yet she was just-very just;iideed ! she would not judge them on this evidence,although to most any one it would have been proof enough of a very disagreeable fact ; but sho would wait, and see how their conversation rccording with their poried. - So she waited. © , '\Don't ery,\ said.. Mr. Abel Jones, pleadingly. \Lam sure I can fix it all right. Bhe isn't nearly so fond of me as you think ; and you know, Sarah, how dear you are to fer. FH break it to her gently, and I'm sure she'll give me up of her own accord.\ Now, Miss Finch hadn't a jealous nature, not ab all! but the most un- suspicious idiot.in the universe could not have misunderstood, that speech. It was very evident he wante? to be free from her. So she stole gently out, without letting them know of her presence, walked home at railroad! speed, and with a very proper self re? spect, immediately tied up his picture his fow presents and his fewer ctters, and sent them back to him with the pretty falschood that she found she didn't like him well enough to marry him and should be obliged if he would release her from the engagment. She didn't propose to be jilted by him-and sho wasn't. Then she wont off on a visit, staid two mouths, and came home to find $ 6,00 10,00 18,00 18,00 30,00 20,00 80,00 50,00 Our neighbor you saw in his roach to-day, With his wite and his flaunting daughter, While we sat down at our coveriess board, To a crust and a cup of water, 1 saw that a tear drop stood in your eye, Though you tried your best to conceal it ; I knew that the contrast reached your heart, And you could not help but feel it; But knowing now that our scanty fare Has freed my neck from the collar, / You'll join my laugh, and help me shout That I owe no man a dollar ! » » wife well knew Business Cards, five lines or less, Three Dollars and Fifty Cents a year. JOB OFFICE,-Now complete, is ready to attend orders Ensiness Lards, FOR SALE, A—Quhmiw'of SIDING, Planed and Joint. Also Six Inch Flooring ready for This neighbor whose show has dazzl'd your eyes In fact is a wretched debtor ; I pity him oft from my very heart, « And I wish that his lot were better ; Why the man is ghe veriest slave alive, For his dashing wife and daughter, Will live in style though ruin should come- Sn he goes like a Iamu to the sLflflghter 1 But he feels it the tighter every day,- That terrible debtor's collar 1 Oh, what would he give could he say with us, That he owed no man a dollar ! ° You seem amazed-but ['Il tell you more ; Within two hours I met him, ed. use. 0 SW EG O L UMB E R. A large number of Doors and Sash, Blinds. Mouldings, etc., for sale Cheap at H. C, BUSHNELI/S ~- Sasit axp Burxp Facrory, Gilbertsville .N. Y. of all The most fashionable sfyles oT O6 I ALVIN BENNETT, TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT . A LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. W Mt. Upton, N. ¥, Ie t#~0ffice in Drug store Building, adjoin ing the Post office, gowning NEW FoR GIBERTS Robert Drysdale, The New Tailor,. Is prppared to make you a good Clothes and give a first class fit. uttended to promptly, Cutting 2018 Fall Fashions of I8 7 7 ! .-. | Sneaking away with a frightened air As if a fiend had beset him ; Yet he fled from a very worthy man, 'Y hom I met with the greatest pleasure- hom I called by name, and forced to stop, Though he said he was not at lefsure, held my Inst note | so 1 beld him fast I Till he freed my neck from the collar ; 2»-27? | Then I shook his hang as I proudly said : \ Now I owe no man a dollar !' VILLE! Ah ! now you smile, for you feel the force Of the truths I've been repesting ; I knew that a downright honest heart In that gentle breast was beating ! To morrow Tl rice with a giant's strength Suit of To fallow my duily labor; * But ere se sleep fet us humbly prev For our wretched next-door veighbor ; And we'll priy for the time when all shall be free, Miss M, N' Rod-mom, - Wl-‘rnm the weight of the debtor's enllar- Invites the Indies of Gilbertsville and vicin- ity to cal and examine her new stock of Mil linery Goods consisting of Bonnets and Hats | < with all the naterinis for making up, Stock | __ the season Prices made to suit all, New Goods constantiy received from the city. - Come and see, 20m: —“I RS. J. B.HOWLAND, has fuse returned New York with a fine assortment of Millinery and Fancy Goods, For Fall and Winter wear, and desires the hen the poorest will Tift his vaioe and ery, * Now I owe no man a dollar {\ her brother engaged to her false friend and her false lover nowhere. In vain she endeayored to prevent this marrirge. Her brother would not be convinced without absolute proof that Sarah Jones was not a perfect woman. - She begged, pleaded and urg- ed. But pride prevented her giving him the one fact of which she had be- [come possessed, nnd so the two wore married, and she took her fortune (left ber by her father's only sister) and herself to another town gradually withdew herself more and more from , the world. until.at twenty-six she was !w confined misanthrope,\ seeing no one. > L This sort of existence she had kept up until the time our story of - ens. Why Sarah Jones married James His name and address on the card were correct, and the expressman re- fused to be convinced. co The captain was impaled as the | th sender ; but his astonishment - was so evidently genuine, that the veriest skep- t1c in the universe could not but have believed him incocent. But that mystery ! Mrs. Sarah was | de ia tilitarian. She (did not waste her energics in trying to imagine where the things came from-not she ! She loa rolled up hor sleeves, put on <a big apron, and wont to work,. . Oh, the marvelous time she made that day ! But atter all, it was little | yo wonder, for she impressed everybody |\ -from the big good natured captain to little six year-old Jimmy-into ser- vice. ON WITH THE OLD LOVE. A story. Miss Jane Finch was lonely : the Finch, and why Abel Jones was still n bachelor - sea-captain, were mysteries she did not trouble herself to explain. | Sure of their treachery, what mattered it to her how they spent their lives ? To-day Miss Finch,in thinking over her past, acknowledged to herself for the first time that she might have been sensation was the old ono,and she was- lrasty ; not\ §o far ag the stalwart sril- Miss Jane made her apperrance bright and carly, on Thanksgiving | go morning. | Mrs. Sarah was alone in the kitchen when she entered. \How do you do Sarah ?\ said she not very cordially, it must bo confess- e#4, for, although prepared to extend the right hand of fellowship to.James and the ones, she could not, even now, Iobk her sister-in- only explained it to her properly-and you were right too !\ And the little woman, quite over. me by these rominiscences, opened e oven-door and commenced un en- ergetic basting of the turkey contain- ed therein. Poor Miss Jane was too much as- tonished by this revelation to be pru- nt. \And wasn't you in love with Sarah ?\ sho asked, breathless of the - ptivin. . \In love -with Sarah ?\ he repeated. \Why I was ongaged to you.\ \I know it!\ she said. u-\ * \Thought what ?\ und the captain \But I tho't drew his chair eagerly toward her. \Was that the toward me P* reason you acted so If silence gives consent, Miss Jans nfessed that it was, apd he went on 'Well, now you know it wasn't so, what are you going to do ubout it ? And Captain Abel hitched his chair closer still, Miss Jane didn't pretend not to understand. \We're too old !\ she murmured. *- ladfes'of Htbertsville and \vicinity \to call upon 1 ata loss what to do with it.-She had | or was concerned, but about her broth- and examine at her store in the stone house lived for fifteen vears a solitary life, | of, luw, except as a traitor, whom she But, a woek after, she was Mrs. opposite Oliver's store, 1{I(‘HAK1) MORRIS SALTUS, L, L. B., Attornefi and AT LAW. COU N SEL LO MORRIS, X. Y. {#~Office in the residence of the late Gen- | Morris, midway between Morris and Gil-; ertsville . THE DAILY PRESS.> Gives all the news of the World by tele. ' to the knowledge fihflt her Is sent by mall post- | was not to be envied. gPaph every morning. paid for only TEN CENTS A WEEK 18 Braver ALBANY. N. Y. paspk g her ol If-satisfaction. -It John H. Farrel, W. H.Reoker. James Mc. | PACK into her old self-satis Farland, Editors and Publishers. it a week. Closing Out Sale ! thought she The stock of 22y1 Executors of the estate of Wm.; Oliver, deceased, offer for sale his large | had prided herself for a decade and a half on being independent of and in- different to the rest of the great hu- man family,and now she grew sudden- ly weary of her self-imposed solitude. I’t might be because it was Thanksgiv- ing week and everybody about her was so busy and bustling and happy, or it nay; might be from many other reasons ; \ but whatever the cause, the fact re- | maing that, on a certain sunny morn- ing in November, Miss Fimuch awoke condition Try : _ In vain she tried to argue herself | was just as true now as it was yester- ___: day that her brother James had mar- ried Sarah Jones-a girl that she had good reasons to hate, 'but, someway, there was no pleasure to , be gained from comparing their pover- ty with her riches. A monster turkey was just being ! brought into her next door peighbor's; (it reminded her that the following day twas Thanksgiving. and that she had D R Y (GO OD S , [yet to provide herself with the: cal Boots and Shoes, Hats Books, Notions, &c.. At Cost And Less Than Cost. We call 'he abtfention of C ASH Bo YERS ca the scequa ed larza rs that the (Goods mast be sold wo ran offer as w thin srx mantbs from date. if. HASTINGS H D poeNaLDSoN Exeen r Thanksgiving dinner might be prop- {erly celebrated. It always made Miss Finch's face i burn to tgmk of Captain Abel Jones and Cap S, '-first cousin to her obnoxious sister- | ; Thanksgiving day with no great pleas | m-law. Long ago, when she was in , her teens, they had been lovers, and his ship. Able Jones and Jenny Finch were to he man and wife; but one even- ing she ran over to Sarah's (they had ance been hosom friends) and hearing yoices in the parlor, had stopped a moment to discover who was there In tvat moment she had seen Miss Sarah erving. as if her heart wonld Lreak. with her head on Mr. Able's shoulder. Q rtecgnomng the fart that these **o had 'en bronght up together and Aun everybody knew that as soon as he got: Tol C f fo ge. inspiron cito Panah HRs HHE ETE e yeu when blocks tebe ae) scree Chs i weber ine aimee RC 5 r muat L j \I don't suppose I onght to have expected him to give up his sweet- heart without any - reason,\ she thought. \I wouldn't have -done it myself, I believe I'll send them s 'good Thanksgiving dinner. - From {all that I car. hear, they ain't able to do much in that line for themselves ; 'and with a sudden twinge :onsci- jence, the more acu rom being irs; ‘nsuul. Miss Fi hurried on her bon- net and shawl, and started off to ‘marketv. i _ Oh, the marvelous purchases she | made! Pumpkins, and cranberries, and turkeys, and chickeng,and barrels of potatoes, onions. apples, flour and everything else in the eating line that could be desired. 1 _ give 'em a Thanksgiving that will last the winter,\ she said, grimly; and then. all of a suddedf she felt a great desire to partake of the good : things she had generously provided. <_ I've s good mind to go down and eat dinner with them. I don't know 'as I'll be welcome, but they can't do 'more than shut the door in my facé. I belive I'll try it any way.\ Accord- \ing to all accounts, Sarah's been a ! good wife to him.\ | __And so that night Miss Finch start- ed off for a visit to her brothers'. James Finch looked forward to {ure. Captain Abel Jones had just return- ed from a voyage to the Indies, and, as was his custom, repaired immedi- ately to the home of his cousin Sarah, there to remain until such time as his ship should ' be ready to start again. * ''And you hear nothing st all from Jenny *\ To hin Jane Finch, sninted. aged forty-one, was not the grim, forma- able woman she seemed to everybody else. would be obliged to muke the best of. © \\Oh, Jane !\ and Mrs. Sarah, with one rush, left the cranberries to tuke care of theroselves, and gave her hus- band's sister a heartier welcome than she deserved by a good sight. Miss Jane didn't return her kiss, / but she suffered it ; and though she ; th did mutter \Judas!\ under her breath ro Able Jones ; so it supposed that Cap- tuin Abel vetoed the notion. n Married on the Spot. \I'll marry any girl in the room at will have me.\ said a half-tipsy ung fellow. _ \I'll take you.\ sard a I think she was a good deal more COM- i frosh, clear-eyed young girl of 17. fortable than she would have been if | her;hos tness had been as cold and stiff as herself. \\Draw right up to the the stove and And in balf an hour the two were mar- ried and being congratulated by their friends. This aotnally cooured only take off your things,\ and the little |a few woeks ago in the near vicinity of woman bustled about in a whirl of de- light. \Oh won't James be glad! ear, dear! He ought to be bere this min- ca ute. And to think its Thanksgiving | iP day, and we're got so much to be er thankful for !' And then her thoughts went back to their unknown friend the Franklinville in this county. - The oc- sion was a country dance.the partic- ants were a farmer's son and a farm- 's daughter, nother of whom had exchanged a word with the other un- till the above scene occurred. The day before, and likes flash the truth {young fellow had been drinking and came to her.-\O Jane | she went on | th with a gasp, \I see now, it was you sent us the things. Ob, dear! how can we ever thank you ?\ Then she rushed back to the cranberries which showed signs of stewing over, and for Jane had a chance to put in a word. She had just opened her mouth to say something in explanation of her st sudden appearance. when the door opened and in walked Captain Abel. 'he asked, with a laugh; and then the lgresbwhlskered man stopped skort, ,, 'in front of the fire. , were as white as ever,and ber dimples \Got anything for me to do Sarah >\ ' perceiving the stranger, who - sat just Miss Jane had been a beauty in her th youth, and even now was not at all hgiy. were not things of the past, manner of means. wrinkles, and a hard look which was ought he would say something \'smart' and astonish the girls with his andacitv. heard that he was a and being moved by the spirit which «'will not take a dare if death come,\ the first time since her entrance, Miss ' took him at his word. living with the young fellow's parents and are sirding each other's character The girl, however, had \good fellow,\ They are now their leisure -Olean (N. F.) Record, o-___ Burlington Hawkeye: Six months ago a party of young men left Burling- a for the BlackHills. From time to time they have proudly written back at thev were doing well | Bat last week one f them wrote to his father Her eyes were bright, her teeth . that he would be home Wednesday evening, and added. by any the Ageretr road. a* dark. just out of But for a few town. and bring a blanket, or a whole air of trowsers with vou. \Meet me on I have a the nataral result of her hard life,she hat.\ s tue i ict cic ns o tie
