The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-05-05
Trying Experiences of Youth
Who was Tilted by q Widow.
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From she Detroit Free Press.
"What I want to know, said
white headed young man of twenty
as he stood before the Sargeant il
charge of the Central Station yester
day, "what came for was to gel
some advice"
II Proceed" said the Sergeant.
"You know Nancy Thompson, don't
your oa
Never heard of her. ?
fWell, she's q widder over forty
years old, and I've been boarding
there
"YesP' fa
"And We were engaged to be mar.
ried." sl
"Whew T. whistled the officer.
"Idon't blame you" continued the
young man in q broken voice. I'm
only twenty and she's forty, but q
man can't always tell when hs $ going
to make a fool of himself"
'.And you fell In lover
''I did that. and as soon as we get
through talking I'm going out to hire
some one TO kick me over TO Canada
and back Yes, sir, fell dead i'm love
loved q woman of over forty"
"And what followedF'
"What followed5 2 Why, what alters
follows? Pm human, same's any
body else. and when love I love
like locomotive on q down grade.
What do you think did in just six
weeks by the watch2 Went to the
theater sixteen times. out sleigh-rid-
ing twelve times, had three parties,
went to three lectures, and took her
out to eat oysters ten or eleven
times. Fact, sir-cost me durn near
$780,"
"But it was all for love-" replied
the Sergeant.
81 thought so; and what else did
| do2 Bought her $40 watch, $40
bracelet, $5 ring, % set Of jew
elry. new dress, and gave her a $5
gold-piece with a hole in it! Yes,
sir! drew $500 from the bank
every red | had-and used it all up
on her -
"And then?'
''She purtended TO love back, and
when l squoze her hand she smiled
and smiled, and looked heaps of love
at me. She'd lean on my arm and
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 Bengal
tiger does around lamb !''
Did she break the engagement? p
Last night" said the young man,
swallowing the lump in his throat,
''she told me she'd been trifiing with
me all along. She said she was en-
gagged to another man, and she could
never be more than my sister to me-
| tell you, Sergeant, you could have
knocked me down with a straw
braced up after a while and called
her hypocrite when she called me
a hite-headed idiot, and the board
ers threw me out of doors. Five
hundred dollars gone, and I'm
wrecked man.
lie blew his nose and wiped his
eyes and continued:
Il don't want to drown myself;
the waters awful cold, and perhaps
| can get over this. want them
presents back, and I'll go to Musken-
gon and try to forget her. It's wreck
ed me all to pieces, and [ can never
love again. Were you ever shook,
SargeantF'
mo, never
'FThen you don't know the anguish
the gripping around the heart.
1t cuts like a knife, and all can
think of is being laid out in coffin,
my right hand holding a bunch of
roses and my left resting on my
heart
"You are young; you may out
grow it."
IL may-I may. but it's so awful
sudden. and hits so hard that feel
as I'd fallen from q house. Go to
the house. Sergeant. and get, if you
can get. them things back. IfPm
alive I'll be around again tomorrow,
and il l don't come you may keep
the things for your kindness. I'm
white-headed but I'm tender heart
ed, and want to retire behind some
barn and sit down and think
And he retired.