Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-09-16

pYMhK TWAIN.


The facts In ~ following case came
to me by letter pm q young lady who
lives in the bea) fhl city Of San Jose.
She is perfectly unkown to me, and
signs herself Aurelia Mara,' which
may possibly b. fictitious name
But no matter, nc poor girl is almost
hcart-broken by' the misfortune she
has undergone, and so confused by the
conflicting counsols ofmisguided friends
and insidious enemies that she does
not know what course to pursue in
order to extricate herself from the web
of difficulties IN which she seems al
most hopelcsaly Involved. In this di-
lemma she tirns 70 me for help, and
supplicatcs for my guidance and in
structi0n with Z moving cloquencc that
would touch tho hart Of u statue
Hear her sad stsas
She says that when she was sixteen
years old she met and loved, with all
the devotion of passionate nature, a
Young man from New Jersey named
Williamson Breckenridge Caruthers
who was some six years her senior
They were engaged, with the free con
sent of their friends and relatives, and
for n time il seemed as If their career
was destined to be characterized by an
immunity from sorrow beyond the
usual lot of humanity. But at last the
tide of fortune turned. Young Caruth.
ers became infected with smallpox OF
the most violent type, and when he
recovered from his illness his face was
pitted like waffle mould, and his
comeiness gone forever Aurelia
thought to break off the engagement
at first, but pity for her unfortunate
lover caused her to postpone the mar
riagc day for season and give him
another trial.
The very day before the wedding
was to have taken place, breckenridge
while watching the fight of a balloon
walked into a well and fractured one
of his legs, and il had to be taken of
above the knee. Again Aurelia was
moved to break the engagement, but
again love triumphed, and she set the
day forward, and gave him another
chance to reform.
And again misfortune overlook the
poor youth. lie lost one arm by the
premature discharge of Foruth Of
July cannon. and within three months
he rot the other pulled out by card
ing machine A,irelia's heart was al
most crushed by these later calamities
She could not but be grieved to see hel
lover passing from her by piecemeal
FEELING. as she did that he could moi
last forever under this disastrous pro
lcess of reduction, vet knowing of nc
way to stop its dreadful career, and in
hertearful despair she almost regretted
like brokers who hold on and lose, that
she had not taken him ut first before
he had suffered such alarming depreoi
ton. Still her brave soul bore her up
and she resolved TO bear with hel
friends unnatural disposition yet a lit
tie longer /,
Again the wedding day approached
amaa & carn,Sers sslI m with IN,
ervs;nclas and lost The uso Of one q,
his aves entirely The friends and
relatives of the bride considerine thaI
she had already nut up with more than
couiu DC eHPcc.eu VI n.', ho" AN .aI,
ior"hru anu nisis'eu ,ua' cno NAV.
,ng a littlo. Aurelja. with n generous
shirt that did her credit. said she had
reflected calmy upon the matter, and
could not discover that Breckenridge
was 10 blame.
80 sbe extended the time once more
and bo broke tbe other leg
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'aa 'oaIneu y P,v.'Vho .so h;,t". Truth
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"sn os;lea sapwms o,, E as M ms ance @ mora she
e.a,nnad 'y Jay X rolat;vas and re,
iiomneu ,.n u up~n ,,na, ~ ~ "
HeNe' por pe''o'"al
shortly peiore tno ume seI LOT Ihe
nnptials another disaster occurreu.,--
There was but one man scaiped ~ the
owens lnver Indians last year. ina'
man was Williamson breckenr'uge ga
ruthers, OF New Jersey ne was hurry
ing home with happiness N MS neai., !, J
when he LOST his mar ioreveri anu y,
that hourof bitterness ne almost CURSED CURSED
the mistaken mercy that nao spared
his head.
At last Aurelia is in serious perplex'
ity as to what she ought to do. She
still loves her Breckenrldgo, she writes
with true womanly ieehng-she SUI
| ems are DlIIGflN ODDOStCI lDt