Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-09-06
SHEPHERDST0WN JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. SATURDAY,
THE DELUsIoN OF LOVERS.


A case has just occurred in which love 5
young dream was dispelled in a cruel
and unsympathising reality. A clerk,
whose business it was to stand behind
the counter of fashionable emporium
and expatiate upon the merits of bis
employers stocks of gentlemen's scarfs,
hosiery, handkerchiefs and underwear,
came to grief in distressing way. The
young man had delicate and exquisite
taste, and the goods which he sold to
the snobs and swells of the city never
passed from his hands without having
every merit forcibly and eloquently pre-
sented to the purchaser. He was emf
nently successful in his line, and had
not the fires of ambition been kindled
in his bosom too soon, there is no tell
ing what salary would have been at
his command.
But fate, as if envious of this prosper
Gus existence, led the youth to believe
that he was destined for a more brilli-
ant career. Accordingly he betook him
self to the Springs as the most advanta-
geous field of operations.
His eagle eye rested upon a young
girl reputed to possess great wealth,and
seeing
Ibis duty dead sure thing,
Went for it there and them
lie set about to captivate the bloom
inc and unsophisticated heiress, whose
fortune, the rumor ran, consisted Ill
lots, tenements, and hereditaments in
this city, with paying stocks and hard
cash in proportion. He talked freely
with the lady's aunt, and spoke often
of his capital and the admirable use he
had made Of it He wooed the young
maiden, and being gentleman Of taste
and fashion and fine clothes he won her.
The marriage day was set, but before
its arrival the young man called unex-
pectedly at certain other emporium in
the city where ladies dresses and ladies
underwear was made, and 10 he found
his heiress in draggled dress of faded
sea green sitting at sewing machine,
very laboriously manipulating some
frills with the identical hand he had
kissed in his moments of amorous and
moonlight devotion. An eagle basking
in the sunlight could not be more sur
prised at blow from tbunderbolt; a
nimhel squirrel of the forrest nibbling
the shell from a nut, suddenly struck in
the head by a rifle ball, could not have
been more shocked. The young lady
laised her head saw the young capital
list gazing in bewilderment upon her,
and fingered only long enough to upset
the chair in which she was sitting, turn
over one sewing machine and leap over
another, and as a servant gill departs
when she lights on lot Of substance
which she thinks will suit the constitu-
tion of her aged parents, so the young
heiress left through the door that OPEN
ed in the rear of the building in which
she elabored for seventy-ive cents perday.
The moral of this story is So plain
that no one can escape it. All is not
gold that glitters. Young man, beware
of the fortunes which are picked up like
blackberries at the Springs. Set not
your hearts OH those tieeting treasures
of earth, which pass away so soon, and
are no more. Princes and poets have
been deceived and the very elect are
not infallible in their judgment about
the value of those midsummer fortunes.
The Prince of Wales was astounded
when he heard the expression of his
fiance, 'I'm SO glad I'm going to be
married because then | shall have some
new gowns, and Lady Wortley Mon
tague, instead Of going to her lover
with full purse and an elaborate ward
robe, wrote to him at the last hour, 81
shall have to go to your arms in my
night gown; my father says not a shill-
ing.
And young ladies, beware of the gay
and dashing capitalists" you find at
such resorts. Ten to one his entire for
tune is carried on his back AT the
Springs he talks of investments, stocks
and dividends. When he gets you he
will talk of "gums, gals, groceries, gin
ger, gin" and will tell how hard it is
to support family on one thousand a
yoar-that you had better take the
dressmaker's bill to your father, with
tears in your eyes.