The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-01-05
AN EXAMPLE FOR wOULD.BE
fa SUICIDES. @

~ There is gentleman of the middle
age, who might be summoned as q
witness for walk of half block, who
assures us that there Is never any sense
in self-destruction. He dictates that
when he was q Young man be was
madly in love. His love was return
ed and there was every prospect Of
a happy result. Of a sudden, howev.5
er, an event came to pass which put
marriage out of the question. So
what did this young gentleman 1--WE
mean the middle-aged gentleman who
was at this time indicated as q young
gentlemanl what did this infatuated
young gentleman do? This is what
he did. He dressed himself mp in his
handsomest snit of clothes, and he
called at the farm house which shell
tered the object of his hearts desire
It was n mooiit evening. So what
did this infatuated young man ask the.
young lady to do? He asked her to
take walk. The young lady-she
was very Troper young lady and
loved this young man quite to distrac-
tion.-assented. of course, and they
strolled into deep wood s.far from
the haunts of men," and out of the
reach aof any voice or eye. They
sat down upon . log, and the young
gentleman very plainly told this
young lady that they could never be
man and wife, and all the why's and
wherefores. which were. indeed con.
elusive. The girl. Ike an affec-
tionate, dear girl that she was, began
to cry; whereupon our hero produc-
ed his two horse pistols, loaded down
to the muzzle with bnckshot.
''Susan," says he, and there was sol
emnity in his tones, and a terrible
earnestness in his eye. Susan says
he. g
Susan looked up, frightened to be-
hold the murderous weapons gleam-
ing in the moonlight,
"Wlat are you going to do?" says
She szsiss ssz
81 am going to get over this in 80
minutes" he says. sternly,. taking out
his watch, "and you shall do the same
thing, or I'll kill you first and then
kill myself I mean it, Susan. Don't
doubt it.a sa es
She did not. She sat and unused
and he sat and meditated, and time
ran along with the moonbeams that
trottsd around the watch dial. At
the end of twenty-nine minutes he
said: ass @s s
"Time's up. I believe had rather
live without you, Susan, than die with
you. What do you sayyn s.
s'Them my sentiments" said SUI
san. aaH 24 Z
| sGood,n said the infatuated young
man, replacing his watch in his vest
pocket, and firing off the two horse
pistols in the air. sLet's go home
and say no more about it.n
4 They went home. Susan was mar,
ried to another gentleman inside .
year. Our hero is still bachelor
! q Jolly bachelor-with plenty of mon.
q ey and friends and health; and he
says now and then, referring to this
4 episode in his young career: Nov,
, wouldn't have been blasted fool II
! I had let that thirty minutes run out:
Why. sir. Susan, is old and fat and
! ugly, and has nine children. and a.
, for me-why. damme. feel IS young
, as gal with ribbons
= Certainly the gentleman does and
sl is moved beside BY. the sweet coo
= seriousness Of having saved not ensj
d his own life but the life of au inuaoe6|
young woman, and the lives Of n1pl
Il innocent young children, by an Act D
,rr:of5 So. ed xrs.-