The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, May 09, 1895, Image 4
Auralit't Unfortunate Young Man.
[Mark Twain.]
The facts in the following
case came to me by letter from
a young lady who lives in the
beautiful city of San Jose; she
is perfectly unknown to me,
and simply signs herself “Au-
reiia Maria,” which may pos
sibly be a fictitious name. But
no matter, the poor girl is al
most heart-broken b, the mis
fortunes she has undergone, and
so confused by the conflicting
counsels of misguided friends
and insidious enemies, that she
does not know what course to
pursue in order to extricate her
self from the web of difficulties
in which she seems almost hope
lessly involved. In this dilem
ma she turns to me for help, and
supplicates for my guidance
and instruction with a moving
eloquence that would touch the
heart of a statue. Hear her sad
story:
She says that when she was
sixteen years old she t met and
loved, with all the devotion of a
passionate nature, a young man
from New Jersey, named Wil
liamson Breckmride Caruthers,
who was some six years her
senior. They were engaged,
with the free consent of their
friends and relatives, and for u
time it seemed as if their career
was destined to be character
ized by an immunity from sor
row beyond the usual lot of hu
manity, But at, last the tide of
fortune turned; young Caruthers
became infected with small-pox
of the most virulent type, and
when he recovered from his ill
ness his face was pitted like a
waffle mould, and his comeli
ness gone for ever. Aurelia
thought to break off the engage
ment at first, but pity for her
unfortunate lover caused her to
postpone the marriage-day for
a season, and give him another
trial.
The very day before the wed
ding was to have taken place,
Breckinridge, while absorbed
in watching the flight of a bal
loon, walked into a well and
fractured one of his legs, and it
had to be taken off above the
■ knee. Again Aurelia was mov
ed to break the engagement, but
again love triumphed, and she
set the day forward and gave
him another chance to reform.
And again misfortune over
took the unhappy youth. He
lost one arm by the premature
discharge of a Fourth-of July
cannon, and within three
months he got the other pulled
out by a carding-machine. Au
relia’s heart was almost crush
ed by these latter calamities.
She could not but be deeply
grieved to see her lover passing
from her by piecemeal, feeling,
as she did, that he could not
last for ever under this disas
trous process of reduction, yet
knowing of no way to stop its
dreadful career, and in her tear
ful despair she almost regretted,
like brokers who hold on and
lose, that phe had not taken
him at first, before he had suf
fered such an alarming depreci
ation. Still, her brave soul bore
her up, and she resolved to bear
with her friend’s unnatural dis
position yet a little longer.
Again the wedding-day ap
preached, and again disappoint
ment overshadowed it: Caru
thers fell ill with the erysipelas,
and lost the use of one of his eyes
entirely. The friends and rela
tives of the bride, considering
that she had already put up
with more than could reason
ably be expected of her, now
Came forward and insisted that
the match should be broken off,
but after wavering awhile, Au
relia, with a generous spirit
which did her credit, said she
had reflected calmly upon the
matter, and could not discover
that Breckinridge was to blame.
So she extended the time once
more, and he broke his other
leg.
It was a sad day for the poor
girl when she saw the surgeons
reverently bearing away the
sack whose uses she had learn
ed by previous experience, and
her heart told her the bitter
truth that some more of her
lover was gone. She felt that
the field or her affections was
growing more and more circum
scribed every day, but once
more she frowned down her
relatives and renewed her be
trothal.
Shortly before the time set for
the nuptials another disaster
occurred. There was but one
man scalped by the Owens Riv
er Indians last year. That man
was Williamson Breckinridge
Caruthers, of New Jersey. He
was hurrying home with hap
piness in his heart, when he lost
his hair for ever, and in that
hour of bitterness he almost
cursed the mistaken mercy that
had spared his head.
At last Aurelia is in serious
perplexity as to what she ought
to do. She still loves her Breck
inridge, she writes, with truly
womanly feeling *
what is left
It is a delicate question; it is
one which involves the lifelong
happiness of a woman, and that
of nearly two-thirds of a man,
and I feel that it would be as
suming too great a responsib
ility to do more than make a
mere suggestion in the case
How would it do to build to
him? If Aurelia can afford the
expense, let her furnish her
mutilated lover with wooden
arms and wooden legs, and a
glass eye and a wig, and give
him another show; give him
ninety days, without grace, and
if he does not break his neck in
the meantime, marry him and
take the chances. It does not
seem to me that there is much
risk, any way, Aurelia, because
if he sticks to his singular pro
pensity for damaging himself
every time he sees a good op
portunity, his next experiment
is bound to finish him, and then
you are safe, married or single.
If married, the wooden legs and
such other valuables as he may
possess revert to the widow,
and you see you sustain no act
ual loss save the cherished frag
ment of a noble hut most un
fortunate husband, who honest
ly strove to do right, but whose
extraordinary instincts were
against him. Try it, Maria. 1
have thought the matter over
carefully and well, anu it is the
only chance I see for you. It
would have been a happy con
ceit on the part of Caruthers if
he had started with his neck
and broken that first; but since
he has seen fit to choose a dif
ferent policy and string himself
out as long as possible, I do not
think we ought to upbraid him
for it if he has enjoyed it. We
must do the best we can under
the circumstances, and try not
to feel exasperated at him.
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pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale at Willcox &
Co’s drugstore.
He—“You told me your fath
er was a retired capitalist, and
now I find, after marrying you,
that he is not worth a cent.”
She—“i told you the truth. He
was a capitalist once, but after
the panic hit him he retired
from the capitalist business
completely.—Cincinnatii Trib
und.
Ride a "Rambler"!
A wise man should take as
good care of his body as he does
of the works of his watch; but
few men are wise enough to
take vigorous exercise out doors
when they need it. He whode
vises means whereby men of
sedentary habits are tempted to
exercise in the open air confers
a benefit on the human race se
cond only to the man who in
vented eating and sleeping.
“My mother-in-law never un
derstands a joke,” says a corre
spondent. “So I was surprised
to receive a letter from her a
few weeks after my little boy
had swallowed a farthing, in
which the last words were,
‘Has Ernest gotten over his
financial difficulties yet?’ ”—
Tid-Bits.
Did You Ever
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edy for your troubles? If not,
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his medicine has been found
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ful direct influence in giving
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If you have Loss of Appetite,
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need. Health and strength are
uaranteed by its use. Large
ottles only fifty cents at Will
cox & Co.’s Drug Store.
“Excuse me, madam,” said
the paying-teller, “but you have
not endorsed this check. If
you will write your name on the
back of it, it will be all right.”
“Oh, of course,” said the little
woman. “I had forgotten.”
Then she endorsed the check:
“Sincerely yours, Janette
Hicksworthy.”—Harper's Ba
zar.
A Household Treasure.
D. W. Fuller, of Canajoharie,
N. Y., says that he always keeps
Dr. King’s New Discovery in
the house and his family has
always found the very best re
sults follow its use; that he
would not be without It. if pro
curable. G. A. Dykeman, Drug-
gist, Catskill, N. Y., says that
she till loves i Dr. King’s New Discovery is un
is left of him—but her j doubtedly the best cough rem-
parents are bitterly opposed to edy; that he has used it in his
the match, because he has no family for eight years, and it
property and is disabled from has never failed to do all that is
working, and she has not suffl- claimed for it.
cient means to support both
comfortably. “Now, what
should she do?” she Saaks with
painful and anxious solicitude.
Why not try a
remedy so long tried and tested.
Trial bottles free at Willcox &
Co’s Drug Store. Regular size
60c. and $1.00.
Hall’s Hair Renewer contains
the natural food and color-mat
ter for the hair, and medicinal
herbs for the scalp, curing gray- i
ness, baldness, dandruff, and
scalp sores.
“Don’t you think that a good
many of those Easter bonnet
jokes are overdrawn?” she in
quired. “Y e s,” replied her
cheerless husband, “and a good
many bank accounts.”—
inyton Star.
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by leading physicians and drug
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efficient remedy for biliousness,
nausea, costiveness, indigestion,
sluggishness of the liver, jaun
dice, and sick headache; also to
releive colds, fevers, neuralgia
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our trou
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by that re
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Brown’s
Iron Bitters,
which for more than 20 years
has been curing many people
of Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Ma-
Johnny Smart—“There’s a
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er and a streak of lightning.”
Mrs. Smart—“How so, sou?” ;
Johnny—“H e strikes several !
times in the same place.”—PAe7-
adelphia Inquirer.
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depends upon the solidity of its j
foundation, so health depends
upon the condition of the blood.
To expel impurities and cause
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combination of iron, the great
strength-giver, with selected
vegetable remedies of true
value that makes Brown’s Iron
Bitters so good for strengthen
ing and purifying the system.
It is specially good for women
and children—it makes them
strong and rosy.
Brovm'f Iron Bitters Is pleasant to take,
and it will not stain the teeth nor cause
constipation. See the croMaed red limem
on the wrapper. Our book. ' How to
Lire a Hundred Years,” tells all about it;
See the Cyclene Thunderbolt!
PRICES THAT WILL PARALYZE ALL COMPETITION!
free for *c. etamp.
Clown Chemical Co..
Baltimoex. ME
Miss Maggie Jones
desires to announce to the ladies that she
is opening up a line of
MII_l_INERY
that for STYLE and PRICES ^
not to be excelled, and j)^]]Y to fit all the
babies. Also a line of
STATIONERY.
24 Sheets note paper, .01
12 Good envelopes, .01
1 Bottle best ink, .03
12 Good lead pencils, .03
12 ” ” ” .10
24 Sheets Clb note paper, .04
24 Commercial envelopes, .04
24 9-inch, legal envelopes, .05
1 Receipt book, 50 receipts, .08
1 10xl6-inch scrap book, .10
136 Page blank books.indexed. 18
100 ” ” ” ” .14
500 ” Ledgers, Counter
books, journals, blotters
&c., 10 cents and up.
Cannot mention half;
come and see. A big
job in novels and other
books by best authors.
Webster’s Dictionaries
and family Bibles to go
cheap.
TOILET GOODS.
5 Cakes fine toilet soap, .05
(1 cent each.)
Dr. Ningua’s magnetic
complexion soap, only
1 Cake cuticle soap,
3 Cakes buttermilk soap,
MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE CAREFUL AND PROMPT ATTENTION.
WE ARE NOW OPENING UP 00R
3 ” Turkish bath soap,
1 Fine tooth brush,
Nocnd to brushes, combs,
hair curlers, powders,
hair ointments and such
goods at half price.
1 Paper sewing needles, .01
1 ” pins, .01, .02 and .04
1 Leather belt, .05
2 Dozen dress buttons, .05
1 ” safety pins, .03 and .05
A never-ending variety
of small not.ons that can
not be mentioned.
CORSET DEPARTMENT
Just think of a fine summer
cor set for only 44 centsl Corset
fronts, only 5 cents. Corsets'
We have them from 24 and up.
HOSIERY.
We have first-class hose for
5 cents per pair. Men’s seam
less socks, 5 cents. AH grades
up to silk stockings.
LADIES’ READY-MADE
GARMENT DEPARTMENT.
These goods are first class,
well made, and good fits. Think
of a handsome wrapper for 05
cents; a dandy, full sleev*.-?,
collars and trimmed, only 98
cents; a “smasher,” ribbon
trimmed, only $2.35; a “hum
mer”,—it dazzles,—5 rows rib
bon, round collar, only $2.r>5.
All kinds of underwear at prices
that makes it go the way it
should and is going.
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
AH we can say of this superb
stock is that it is in the hands
of Miss Hall, an expert trimmer,
and the stock is selected from
the best houses. Our prices
have no competition. A hand
some hat sells as low as 50 cents;
others, 50, 75 and up; all ready
to wear.
LACE DEPARTMENT
12,000 yards of woven Torchon
8, 9, 10, 12, 14 and 19 cents per
yard. Bolt, half price. AH laces,
white and cream, at half price.
Embroideries, all widths; come
and see it.
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
140 cases. Think of a high
cut, solid plow shoo for only 88
cents! A $3 calf for only $1.78.
Dongola button, 85 cents; grain
button, solid or no go, 75 cents.
Slippers, oxfords, black and tan,
for ladies, misses and children,
all prices; come and see.
MEN’S AND BOYS’ HATS.
In this line we have straw and
felt. Think of a $2.50 fine crush
hat for $1.28. They were com
pared last week; that settled it;
hey are going like hot cakes.
Straw hats from 6 cents up.
Fine parasols, silk and ging
ham, 35 cents and up. Fans,
all prices. Umbrellas, silk and
gingham. 55 cents and up.
Think of a heavy duck shirt
for only 25 cents' A big lot of
shirts selling way below value.
Pants cloth, 7 cents and up.
Handsome striped duck for
men’s shirts, boys’ jackets, &c.,
only 7} cents. 40 inch Persian
lawns, 7} cents. Best table oil
cloth. 15 and 18 cents.
Next and most important is
our giant stock of summer dress
fabrics in Organdies, Foulards,
Pogees and Sateens in all the
latest patterns. Also draperies,
piints, &c., at prices not easily
matched. If we should receive
advice from our Broadway
headquarters to sell goods at
manufacturers’ prices and take
out our profit, we would do it.
This places us absolutely beyond
! competition. See the effect:
| fruit of the loom muslins, only
| C cents. We make our profit
' standard. Calico, 41 cents per
j yard, in lots of not less than 10
yards of one piece; as much
more as you want. We handle
J only standard prints; come and
see and be convinced.
NEW
Yes, the RACKET MAN has returned witli
$15,000 Worth of the latest
styles of
js pR| Ncj; gpni,,. a||j t0MS
of all kinds, bought at prices that defy competition: with us it it
BIZ OR BUST!
We are not going to be “lost in the shuffle or soaked in th<
soup;” not if we know it. We are here to stay and compete witl
all comers, stock against stock and dollar against dollar.
We are after the
Which We Intend Selling CHEAP!
TOBACCO GBOras, yon tan go! your PLANT-BED
COVERING In no; a new lot jnst rotomfl.
Brunson, Lunn £ Co.
A/\Zoops Trilling
Have just received a very large and carefully selected stock of
FOR THE
SPRING
AND
SUMMER
T RuSlIDEL
A beautiful line of
TrfJV SHOES
for gentlemen.
For LADIES, MISSES and CHILDREN
Their line cannot be excelled anywhere in quality, variety and
style.
A
«&c.
THEIR HATS ARE JUST SOMETHING NOBBY.
The Darlington Shoe Store,
WOODS & MILLING, Proprietors.
3- Shining shekels -fc
and we expect to get them by giving value for them; we dont want them on anv other terms.
Come and see us and you will find us death on high prices: yes,
“DE^WH dm THE 3HCKE
We take no man’s dust on the trade track without value returned. We won’t be bluffed out of tl
business game. We are now ready to show you the largest and best assorted stock of
SUMMER GOODS AND MILLINERY
you ever saw here. They are all marked at a low price. Come and size them up, and you will s*
WE ARE FIXED TO STAY IX THE GAME
CREDIT^nDrqrAnwT' g w Wi , th U8 ‘ deal to all” i* our motto. NO BAITS, N
v&JSJ/IT, NO DISCOUNT. We please, or it’s “no go.”
RESPECTFULLY,
J. J. SHEPHRD,
The acknowledged leader of low prices. No over quotations belov