The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
THE WAGES OF SIN.

IHE W AGED VI DIN.
THE ONCE FAMOUS CORA PEARL CAR
RED OFF BY A CANCER.
She Dies Wretchcd. Poor and Desplsed-
Some Incidents of Her Adventurous Life
-How9SShe Spurned n Man Who Had
squandered Millions Upon Her.
PARIS; FRANCE. July Cora Pearl
died here last night of cancer. She was
in dire poverty. and was attended during
her illness by an official of the bureau
for the Medical Relief of the Poor.
1t is now many years since Cora
Pearl took Paris by storm. She ap-
peared one morning in the Champs
Elrsees, mounted on fiery horse, with
her long, red hair hanging down her
back and ghstening in the sunlight.
She had a voluptuous figure, and man
aged her horse with admirable skill.
She became the rage, and young men of
fashion lavished their gold on her and
were ruined with rapidity. Her career
was remarkable, and she was the heroine
of few tragedies. So long as the
monex9f her admirers lasted everything
was smooth, but when they came to the
end ofssheir tether they received rude
dismissal. Some of them, after being
cast ca, ,ended their sorrows in the Seine.
In her palmv days Cora lived in a
beautiful villa on the Lolret, near
Orleans, given to her by a baron. The
villa bore the name of Beausejour, and
for many years Cora and her successive
victia,s dwelt there in licentious splen-
dor. In her decline she got young
parvenu, son of the founder of the Bouil-
Ions ;Duval, to spend 1900, 0,000f. on
her. When he thus got through his
fortune he appealed to her tenderness
fora small loan, which she dryly rcfus-
ed. He called again to renew his
instances" and failing to soften her,
tried 30 blow his brains out. In
doinssthis he wounded himself severely.
Cora, on seeing him fall and the blood
streaming from his wound, CRIED out.
"You low, coarse fellow; do YOU take
my honse for your fathers butchery?
Don'tYou see that you have flthied my
new carpet?"
Among her admirers was an imperial
prince, ,.who encouraged her in her desire
to appear on the stage as Cupid in
part in which there was good deal to
say. Her vaulting ambition on this oc-
casion overleaped itself. The footlights
are cruel to. reveal vulgarity and plastic
defects. AnEnglsh accent is unendura-
BILE in a French role played in Paris
theatre. Sothe siren was damned, and
her imperial admirer took her on tour
ronnd Europe, beginning at Bristol,
Clifton AMI Bath. where he passed her
offas!lli il lSustrious wife, who was repu-
ted TO hake reddish hair. She even
.wen..stto q INT tsas. the Princess in ques-
tfon. aud won the adlniratlonNof the
field.
A correspondent who met her in the
early days thus describes her: Cora
had fine, though perhaps too stocky
figure, but she did not seem to weigh a
feather on her thoroughbred steed. She
was vulgar impudence personlied, and
uctyoung. 1t was the excess to which
fascinated those who gazed on her.
Her hair was exactly the shade .ofa deep
tinted carrot. There was. until she
came to PARIS, a strong prejudice against
a carroty head. Instead Of trying to
hide her locks she combcd them out and
brazenly let them fall in trizzled mass
down to the very saddle. With the
setting sun striking on them they were
a superb advertisement. The face
was very PLAIN. 1t had the frccklcd,
pasty complexion which goes generally
with her shade of hair, and which added
to the vulgarity Of features. The nose
was snub; the mouth was wide, being
formed evidently to say harsh and
shameless things the chin was narrow,
the check bones were prominent and the
eyes small. She understood dogs and
horses and was abashed at nothing.
Not long ago she published her me-
moirs, giving rather interesting details
OF her experiences. She claimed to be
the daughter of Prof. Crouch, author of
kathleen Mavourncen," and as the
Professor has pever authoritatively de-
MED it, it was probably the truth. 1t
is certain that Crouch married Cora's
mother, Lydia Pearson, whose history
was not unlike that Of Cora herself.
The memoirs on which Cora Pearl
depended for ready cash fell flat. and as
Cora had always been remarkable for
extravaganza, she became poor as her
admirers fell of. Her last years have
been passed in misery. Deserted by all
of her former associates and universally
despised, she has existed upon charity.
and her end was as remarkable for its
suualor as her rise was for its splcndor.
In Line With the Democracy.
The Farmers Convention of Sumter
County, which assembled on Saturday.
.Iuly Sd, unanimously adopted the l0l-