The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-08-03
From the World.

A sad, resigned look passed over his
! interesting features when nodded in
! the affirmative. He was, indeed,
nearly gone. But there were traces OF
| great beauty upon his enaciated cOun-
tenance. His large blue eyes and
/ classic brow and long silken hair,
which was parted in the middle and
lay in heavy masses of ringlets upon
| the pillow, gave him a very striking
| appearance. sit might be well, sir, "
| he continued, "if you have leisure, to
| take down from my lips such account
as l can furnish of my sad history. 1t
| may serve as a warning to other
young men similarly tempted, and
save some of them from being SINH
larly led astray."
SPY all MEANS" I replied, taking
our writing materials. "Let us begin
at once.n
Pushing back the silken ringlets
| further from his brow land, by the
way, his attachment to them was
about the only trace he showed of that
natural vanity which had been the
means of his ruin), he began as fol-
lows:
1 was born in Massachusetts. My
parents were poor, but respectable
my mother being a deacon in church.
| We lived in a small village on the
Connecticut River. There was moth
ing especially noticeable about me in
my bOyish days, except what you
must see was rather uncommon beau
| ty. Though strong and healthy, I
was rather timid-used to be very
much annoyed, when l was no older
| than ten years, by the persistent at
! tempts of the bolder girls to kiss me.
| In our evening parties 1 had to stand
continual fire of forfeit kisses. No
wonder that gradually lost that ex-
| treme modesty which naturally char
acteriZed me, and though was never
| forward, got quite resigned to these
| demonstrations of affection before I
was in my teens.
Years passed. / became q clerk in q
village store at a good salary. was
| not particularly fitted for the position
but my beauty was such an attraction
to feminine customers that was con.
sidered worth the amount of my sala-
ry to my employers, even when /
did almost nothing, and did that bung-
lingIy. I had arrived at my eighteenth
year. My mother knowing how
much attention was attracting from
the other sex, and fearing evil cOnse-
quences ifI was left ungUarded, watch
ed me continually and followed me
everywhere. I was really VeXed some
times when mother would not let me
walk home from church with some
girl who was pining for me, or when
she used to call me in from the garden
gate, where had been standing lean
ing over the fence, chatteCing with a
number of my admirers. All! she
little knew how many a parting kiss
was snatched from me at such times.
And now come to serious times. AS
said, had reached my eighteenth
year. I was pretty mature for my
age, but as you must know, was mild
and yielding IN my disposition; and
being also generous aud affectIOnate,
found it very difficult to say "no."
All! that fatal generosity, so common
a trait of my sex, to how much evil it
leads. We lived on the outskirts of
the village, where every woman had
several acres attached to her house.
| Our orchard adjOined that of farmer
whose daughter had always attracted
me more than any other girl, This
| attraction was probably due to the
| fact that we were opposite in appear
! ance and character. She was a stur-
| dy blue-eyed, strong wiiled, high
! tempered girl; but alas, her mother
was one of the richest women in the
country; mine was poor. She, how
| ever, always took much notice of me,
! even when was small, and in her
| free way used to compliment me on
my goods looks after l was in my
| teens. l became quite infatuated with
! her, though I was repeatedly warned
| by those who knew the pride of her
| family that she was only fOOling with
me, and that her intentions could not
be honorable, as she knew her parents
| would not consent to such an alliance
and she herself was ambitious of mar
rying very well in every respect.
| But would not listen to these warn
ings, so confident was 1 that my ap-
pearance was q full off set to her
wealth. My parents forbade me haV-
! ing ANYTHING to say to this fascinating
young woman, for they saw that
| nothing but disgrace and misery to
me could result from the continuance
of our intimacy. Many now were
the stolen interviews. Where the
| orchards met, there we met. At last
one moonlight night, as sat on the
intervening stone wall, in an intOXica-
| ton of bliss, while her curls swept my
Faee, and her low-whispered vows
| tb ,>iiIed my whole being, she passed
| her ,rm about my waist and said,
| IIDear ast let US listen to the behests of
love. Let us break loose from the
! absurd restrictions in which they hold
ms: i'm a word let us eiope. We can go
In Roston and get married, and after
q while, when the storm has SOmc-
what abated, we can return.n l lis
! tened approVingIy to the voice OF
the chaTrner in that wild hour, for
0etting how much more serious a
Stem II was for noe than for her to thus
spurn parental authority. Again, Ike
so many of my sex, ! forgot IN that
tender moment that half the vows OF
woman are false; and that the most
of them will be ready when they see
q chance to crafty a fleeting passion
at the expense of their own honor and
the future happiness of their victim.
So, as she stated that she had seVera!
hundred dollars at her disposal,
agreed to take the fatal step the very
next day. 1t was arranged that we
should start on different trains to pre-
I-enf susDicion, on the preteSt OF Wis
, ting a friend in a town half way t
Boston. She should so first TO thu
, halfway town and telegraph TO BOs
: TON ClerpvWnman of her acquaintance
! - meet Us. and perform the ceremony
in fbe hotel when We reached th'
root cifv. We started cccnrdingly
| z was so agitated that my Itsenas 3
5 the village depot asked me if | wa
f sick. But ali went according to on
2 nIan. She met me at the h2lf-wa.
/ town depot, and the joy OF her pres
ence soon made me forget the danger
of my position and the warnings, lll una una
: were ringing in my ears. we arrive
a i'm Boston late in the evening, ana
s ,11e were 10 10 married at once IN on
: nrivate room, shs registered on
T names as wife and man, while sioo
= looking on in such trepidalon thS
: the clerk would have been inclined I
question such a youthful couple ina
nv lover not stood there so bland an
= composed in her bridal attire, Whic
q She had donned at the half~way tow