The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-02-15

woman wonldp't grow old 1t must
be wicked, if'twas real.
Mrs. MarrAbles mover forgavc
Matilda for making her grandmoth,
er. But Matilda did not repeat the
offence. Mr.. Wimbush died, leaving
his widow respectable maintenance
f,r herself and child. The child
Garry Wimbush, had put short dresses
to shame when she was twelve. She
ran up like scarlet runner. She
ran right through by express from
childhood to womanbood, without
stuping ut the intermediate station OF
gi:ldom. At seventeen she was q
grown W. MN Of mature experience,
who had given up tlicting for love,
along withhcr other playthings, and
was ready calmly to discoss an offer of
marriage on the basis of its afforling
a good s;rategival position in the bat.
tie Of life.
Here, therefore, We have Mrs.
Wimbush, comely widow, with a
daughter somewhat prematurely de-
veloped, on the one hand, and with q
mother porsistcntly and evergreen,
on the other Mrs. Wimbush and her
daughter Garry living together in
! Whittinston Lodge, Highgatc Mar
/ rabies, tha youthful and the uugrand-
, mothcrly, dwelling by herself at Taun-
ton, and devoting her time to oolicc-
, ting subscriptions for different chari-
table objects, nor forgetting her own
rents. Ms. Wimbu>h seldom CORES
pondcd with her mother. They were
on the best of terms now, yet, by a
; sort Of tacit undcrst tauding, each per.
sued the even tenor of her way, very
, rarely interchangiog ecstacies by post
In the spring of l7G8, Mrs. Vim
bush shut up her house in Highgatc,
aud came with her daughter to
B,urnemo.h, where she hired a villa.
M.ny Of hcr friends were staying at
Bnurnemouth, and through the assia-
tance of pa,ties aud jaunts, and,
pic"ies and balls, she made a great
many more. Among these the Brook
shanks must be especially noticed as
particularly involved in tho brief his
tory.
Old Broakshrank, Go everybody call
cd him,) a cheerful ola person in the
shady side of sixty, was very rich,
but very unpr escntuble, in the eyes Of
the rather rigid society Of the place.
He had made his money BY tho iuven-
tiou of a patent medicine, familiar to
us I'LL by the name Of BrooEshauE's
lnfallible Ointment. 1t brought him
no end Of money. But although he
lived in grand house in a fashiona
bic watering place, he was still. sole
proprietor of the iLfalliblc Ointment,
and his London manufactory and de-
pot was yet in full working, with
"Brookshank" over the door and pic
lures of people with sore limbs all
over the windows. All this, society
might have winkel at-might have
admitted him within its doors upon
sufferancc, and pretended never to
wake to the notion of "strangcr pre-.
sent in the gallery" But tho worst
of old Brookshank was, that not con-
tent with living on ointment he
talked ointment always and puff.
ed it everywhere. 1t was not
hypocrisy the man believed in it
heart and soul. He said he had a
sacred mission to alleviate tho woes
of mankind, at thirteen pence half
penny the box and he meant it. Ho
believed in all his testim onials-~more
devoutly than the writer's could have
done. He was consciontiously Of opin-
/ ion that his ointment was, rs he said ,
"good for cvery mortal complaint, in.
side or out" He carried bills with
him everywhere, and distributed them
as zealously as though they had been
tracts. "Shall cease" said he, "whio
q single fellew.crcature suffers agony
| that can cure Society could not
stand this for the man would have
distributed his bills in every ball
room and at every soireo, and never
rested till each guest was supplied
with picture of bad legs and a string
of testimonials. Hs believed in his
mission as much as Mohammed did.
! He said he had committed many sins
! in his life time, but he trusted the
good his ointment had done to suffer
ing humanity might be taken into ac-
count when they were rcckoned up.
The ointment was his orced-the
ointment his extreme junction.
Brookshank's 's sister kept Lis house !;
little faded old maid, who believed
10 him as much as ho did in himself ;
who would move softly ia his presence
| from reverend regard for the great
healer Of the people who would place
his last published testimonials in her
f; hymn book, and read them on Sunda y
with evcry appearance of devoutne, IS
offering up thanks from her simple
he Art for the good works he had been
able to do ; Brookshank had two
SONS, both getting on tow ard middle
age. Thomas, the eldest, surgeon
with capital practice, used to de-
,lare that half hts cases among the
| mar ,yarc tho.e of neonle aufferino