True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-07-21

see MIN ole. Ills request was complied
with, and soon his weeping parents arri-
we'd to bless their dying son. While they
were lamenting over him, the door open
ed and Susan-the cruel, but now repen-
tant object OF his love--entered the room.
As she approached the bed side of the
expiring youth, he raised himself feeby
up and said:
"Susan, for thee I diet" and sank
back helpless on his pillow.
Who shall paint the anguish, the agony
Of the lovely maiden! With shrieks that
rent the air into shreds and drove the an
cient tabby from the room, she rushed 10
her doomed lover and implored his for
glveness. She called him by every en-.
dearing epithet, but alas, it was too late
too late Fondly she embraced him
tenderly she parted the hair from his
brow and kissed his pale forehead. They
were reconciled while he was on the brink
of eternity, But the poison was at work
within; he felt it coursing its burning
way through every vein. He was con-
scious that he had but few short mo-
ments to live, when his ohum who had
entered to bid him a last farewell, enqui
red wha. he had taken. Perhaps there
is an antidote.
"Alas--no," murmureG the unhappy
victim; cit is too late to think Of rene
dies. Lam almost gone. The bottle ol
poison is on the mantle do not know
its name."
The chum seized the phial; he looked
a. what remained Of the fatal draught-
obviously he sighed, and extracting the
cork applied it to his clfactory proboscis.
Three long shifts took he and the phial
fell with crash from his almost palsied
hands. while in tones Of wonder he ejacu-
lated
:" Catnip! by thunder!"
I" What!" exclaimed the expiring 10.
yer, springing bolt upright in bed.
"Extract Of Cataip, sure as shunks ;
you are not poisoned atall."
With one bound the poisoned man
gained the middle of the room. His lady
love fled in dismay at beholding him in
in bis scanty attire, and he, picking up
the phial, soon satisfied himself that i,
was indeed catnip he had swallowed.
Great was his rage at the discovery ;
with horrid imprecations on the luckless
wight who had deceived him, be got into
his clothing, and arming himself with a
big stick he sailed forth to wreak ven.
geauce on his devoted head. But to his
deep disappointment, the drug store was
closed and the attendant gone. Taking
the edge off his wrath by shaking out O.
his boots small boy whom lie encoun
tered on his homewald way, he swore ;
deep and terrible oath of vengeance OF
the druggists clerk, to be inflicted the
first time he encountered him at large il
the open air, after sundown. Horrible tt
hear were the words he breathed, and tn,
oath was registered where.
And now each night may be seen ;
slender stripping vending his way home
wards at rapid pace. He has big bo
vie knife and a revolver in each hand, ye
he starts at every footstep and trembles a
every shadow Ever and anon he cast
looks Of terror behind for he fears th'
duenger. 1t is the doomed druggist
clerk, and since the threat of the poisone,
man has been told him, he has grown 81
thin that his employer intends to use hin
as an illustration to a course Of lecture
on anatomy.
MoRAL.-When a rejected young MAJ
bent on suicide seeks to purchase poison
let him have it.; it is decidedly the bes
thing he could take, and BY complying
with the request the apothecary may es
cape future drubbing.
Secondly, young men-when you &c
!" the milten," don't commit suicide in
hurry, if you do you may hve to repsn
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