National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-22
An Examine for Would-be Suicides.

There is gentleman of middle age,
residing in Louisville, Ky, who asserts
that there Is never any sense in self-de'
struction. He declared TINT when he
WIS II very young man he WINS madly in
love. His love was returned, and there
was every prospect of happy result
or sudden, however, an event came
TO pass which put marriage out OF the
question. So what did this young gen
tleman 1--WE mean the middlc-aged gen
tloman who WIS ut the time Indicated q
young gentleman what did this infatu-
ated young gentleman do This is what
he did He went and purchased two
horse pistols he dressed himself in his
abandonment suit of clothes, and he call
ed at the farmhouse which sheltered the
object of his hearts desire, II was u
moonlt summer night. So what did
this infatuated young gentleman ask the
young lady to dc ? He asked her to take
walk
The young lady--she was n very pro-
per young lady and loved this young
man quite to distraction -assentcd, OF
course, and they strolled They strolled
into n deep wood "far from the hnunts
OF men, and ont of reach " Of any
voice or eye" They sat do IN upon n
log, and this young gent very
plainly told this young lady that they
could never be man and wife, and all the
why's and wherefores, which were indeed
conclusive. The young lady, like an af-
fectionate dear girl ms she was, began to
cry whereupon the lover produced his
two horse pistols, loaded down to the
muzzle with huckshot.
"Susau, says he, and there was solem-
nifty in his voice, and terrible earnest
ness in his eye. Susan
Susan looked up frightened to behold
the murderous weapons glimmei1ng IN
the moonlight.
What are you going to do ?" says
she.
Il am going to get over this in thirty
minutes" he says sternly, taking ont
bis watch. :" and You shall do the same
thing, or Ill kill You first and fheu kill
myself. I mean it, Susan. Don't doubt
it,"
She did not. 81 sat and unused and
he sat and 'Aeditated, and time ran
along witt the moonbeams that trotted
round the watch dial, At the end Of 20
minutes he said
"Time's up. | believe | had rather
live without Won, Susan. than die with
you. What do you say p
"Them's my sentiments, says Susan.
Good, says the infatuated Young
man, replacing his watch in his vest
pocket. and firing off the two horse PTS
tolls in the air. Let's go home and
say no more about it.
"They went home. Susan was mar
RED to another gentleman inside of n
year. The gentleman is still a bachelor
"a Jolly bachelor with plenty of money
and health; and he says now and then,
referring to this episode in his young
career
Nov. wouldn't have been blarst
ed fool if had let the thirty minutes
run OFT Why sir, Susan is old and
fat and ugly, and has nine children ; and
as for me-why, | feel as young as gal
with ribbons
Certainly the gentleman does, and is
moved beside 10y the sweet conscious
ness of having saved not only his own
he but the life of au innocent youl g
woman, and the lives Of nine innocent
young children, by an act of severe but
practical wisdom and virtue the which /
is commended to all seekers after suicide. |
SAVED BY Nor BRIGADE. A let I
ter dated at Hutchinson. Minnesota, de /
scribes the operations of mop brigade /
organized to fight the prairie fire There .
was a fire company formed III Hutchin- /
uyl, n az
night or dav, at the cry Of alarm, to fight /
fire. There are about forty of them in .
all Sometimes they would go out in
one direction and work till they had put
ont the fire, and come home and turn III
to rest, and within half an hour would
be summoned again in another direction
to fight the advancing flames. Horses
would be harucsscd, attached to what
ever vehicle came first in the way. and
no questions asked, and away they would
90 Mr. Pntnam. the hardware mer-
chant was called the " General of the
brigade. and under his lead they did
splendid service. Lawyers and mer
ehants would throw off their be tier gar
ments, and, developed in old clothes,
and armed with "mops," as they called
consisted of old bags tied
firmly to broomstickS and soaked in wa
ter-would march to the front of the
fiery battle The town was many times
but the efficiency of the fire
brigade saved it. Every hotel and store
would have about dozen of these
mops on the steps ready for action.
SoCrr,Ty WoNFN There is no class