The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-12-16
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An Excellent Example for WOnld.be SUI.


An Excellent Example for WOuld.be Sui
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There il 4. gentleman Of the middle age, who
might be summoned as . witness for walk oil
half u block, NO assures US that there is never
any sense in ssi.-,., .suotion. He declares that
when he was very young man he was madly in
loye. His love was returned; and there was
every prospect OF a Dpy result OF sudden,
kewever, event came to pass which put mar
rage out of the question. So what did this young
gentlemen I've ms n .ais middle-aged gentleman
who was as the time indicated a young gentle.
man, what did this infatuated young gentleman
DO? This is what he did. He went and pur.
chased him two hose pistols; he dressed himself
in his kandsomest suit of clothes, and he called
at the farm heuse which sheltered the object Of
his hearts desire. 1t was \ moonlight summer
night. So what did this infatuated young man
ask the Young lady to do? He asked her to take
q walk. The lady-sae was very proper young
lady, and loved this y~.ug man quite IL destruc.
t.on-assented, OF course, and they strolled into
a deep wood "f,r from the hauu,s D. men, and
out of the reach ''of any voice or eye They sat
down on log, and this gentleman very plainly
told this young lady that they never could DO
man and wife, and all the why's and wherefores
which were indeed conlusive. Tho young lady
like an affeotionate dear girl she was, began to
cry; whereupon our hero produced his two horse
pistols, loaded down to the very muzzle with
buckshot.
"Susan," says be, and there was solemuty in
his voice, and fearful and terrible earnestness
in his voice.
"Susan," says he.
Susan looked up, frightened to behold tho
murderous weapons cleaning in the bright
moonlight.
"Whst are you going to do? says She"
II am going to get over this in thirty min.
utes," he says steruly, taking out his watch and
you shall do tho thing, or I'll kill you first
and then kill myself. mean it, Susan. Don't
doubt it."
She did not. She sat and unused, and he sat
and meditated. and time ran along with the
moonbeams that trotted around the watch dial
At the end OF twenty-nine minutes he said,
"Time's up. I believe had rather live without
you, Susan, than die with you. What do you
say y,T ~
"Good" says the infatuated young man. re-.
placing his watch in his vest pocket, and firing
OFT the two pistols III the air. Lets 20 home and
say no more about it,"
They went home. Susan was married to an.
other gentleman inside a year. Our hero is still
bachelor-a jolly bachelor--with plenty Of
money, and friends and health and he saws
now and then, referring to this episode in his
young career: NOV, wouldn't have been
blarsted fool to have let the thirty minutes run
out? Why, sir, Susan is old, ard fat and ugly.
and has nine children; and Ms Tor me,-why,
damme, feel rs young as gal with ribbons"
Certainly the gentleman docs, and is moved
beside with the sweet consciousness of having
saved not only his own life, but the life of an in
nocsEt young woman, and the lives Of niue limo.
cent young children, by an act Of severe. but
practical wisdom and virtue; the which is com.
mended to al! aeskerf after suicide.