The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1875-08-07
The Yeuss Man Who Was SAssk,
From the Detroit Free Press.

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"What I want to know" said
white-headed young man Of TWEEN.
ty, as lie stood before the sergeant
in charge of the Central Station
yesterday, "what l came here for
was to get some advice"
Proceed" said the Sergeant.
"You know Nancy Thompson,
don't your"
"Never heard of her."
Well, she's u widdcr over forty
years old, and Eve been boarding
with her."
"Yes."
"And We were engaged to be
married."
Whew!" whistled the officer.
IL don't blame you," continued
the young man in a broken voice.
"Fm only twenty and she's forty,
but man can't always. tell when
he's going to make u fool Of him
self"
"And you fell in love ?"
81 did that, and as soon as we
get through talking Pm going out
to get somebody to kick me over
to Canada and back Yes. sir,
fell dead in lovc--loved a woman
of over forty"
"And what followed p"
| "What follered? Why, what
always follows? Pm human same
as anybody else, and when love
love like IL locomotive Oh, a down
grade. What DO you think | did
in just six weeks by the watch Z
Went 10 the theatre sixteen times,
out sleigh riding twelve times, had
three parties, went to three lec-
lures, and took her out to eat oys-
ters ten or eleven times. Fact,
sir-cost me durn near 5000.
But 1t was all for love-" re-
piled the sergeant.
81 thought SO. And what else
did do? Bought her n ss4 watch,
a $40 bracelet, : ring, a ~ set OF
jewelry, q new dress, and gave her
ass gold piece with hole in IL
Yes, sir, | drew $500 from the
bank-every red | had-and used
1t all up on herr"
And then?"
"She pretended to love back,
and when l squoze her hand she
smiled and looked heaps of love
at me. She'd lean on my arm, talk
about Cupid, and git off poetry by
the rod, and it was plainly under
stood that we were to be married
IN June. Oh, she knew her biz,
and she slid around me as the Ben.
gal tiger does around lamb"
Did she break the engage
mcnt?"
last night" said the young
man, swallowing the lump in his
throat, "shc told me she'd been
tritling with me all along. She
said she was engaged to another
man, aud she never could be more
than u sister to me. toll YOU,
sergeant, you could have Knocked
me down with y straw. I braced
up after while and called her a
hypocrite, and she called me a
white-headed idiot, and the board-
ers threw me out of doors. Five
hundred dollars gone, aud Pm a
wrecked man."
He blow his nose and wiped his
! eyes, and continued:
don't want to drown myself.
The water s awful cold, aud per-
haps | can get over this. Iwaut
them presents back, and III 20 to
Muskeg0n and try and forget her.
It's wrenched me all to pieces.
and | can never love again. We're
you ever shook, sergeant9"
"NO, never"
"Then you don't know the an
guish--thc gripping around the
heart. 1t cuts like a knife, and all
can think Of is being laid out in
my coffin, my right hand holding
bunch OF roses, my left resting
on my heart"
You are Young; you may out
grow it,"
may, may; but it's so awful
sudden and hits SO hard that | feel
as II I'd fallen from a house. Go
to the house, sergeant, and see if
you can get them things back. Ii
I'm alive I'll be around again to-
morrow, and II / don't come Won
may keep the things for your kind
ness. Pm white-headed but Pm
tender hearted, and | want to re-
tire behind some barn aud sit down
and Think
And he retired.