The Osceola times., 1875-05-01
The Man Who was Shook y


n white headed young man OF
twenty, as he stood before the SER
1 geant in charge Of the Central sta
ton yesterday, "what came here
for was to get some advice"
"Proceed," said the sergeant.
"You know Nancy Thomson,
don't you"
"Never heard Of her"
"Well, she's a widder over forty
years old, and I've been boarding
there"
"Yes I"
! And We were engaged to be
married"
"Whew :" whistled the officer.
81 don t blame you,' continued
tho young ma" in II broken voice
"l'm only twenty and she's forty,
but man cart always tell when
he's going to make a fool of him
self"
"And you fell in love y
81 Gid that aud 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 in love - loved woman
OF over forty"
Sand what followed Y'
"What ioIlercd 7 why, what al
lers follows? I'm human, same's
any body else, and when | love, !
! love like locomotive on II down
grade. What do yoI think | did
/ il Just six weeks by the watch p?
went to the theater sixteen times,
cut sleigh riding Twelve times, had
three parties, went to three iect-
ures. and took her out TO eat oys
tiers ten times. Fact, slr--cost
me durn near $500
! But 1t was all f.r love- reI lied
the sergeant.
Il though, 80; and what else did
do ? Bought $40 watch, II $40
bracelet II S5 ring, 81 set o. Jew
elry, new dress, and gave her u
50 gold piece with II hole in it !,
Yes, sir. | drew $500 from the
bank every red hsd-sni used
it all up on her.
'An1 then"
'Sh. pur,ended to love back, and
when | squeeze her hand she smiled
ana smiled, and looked heaps Of
| love Oh me. She'd lean on my arm
and la k about Cupid, and git of
poetry by the rod, and it was
/ plainly understood that we were
to be MARI ed in June. Oh she
knew her biz, aud she slid around
me as he Bengal tiger does around
II lamb
Did she break the engagcmeutY
Last night, SAID the young man,
swallowing the lump in uis throat,
"she told me shed been trlfing
with me all along. She said she
wa, engaged to another man, and
she could never be more than sis
ter TO me tell you, sergeant, you
could have knocked me down with
straw | braced up after II while
and called her hypocrIte when
she called me a white-headcd idiot,
and the boarders threw m. out
doors. Five hundred dollars gone,
and I'm wrecked man.
lie blew his nose wiped his eyes
and continues:
Il don't want to drown myself;
the water is awful cold, aud per-
haps I can get over this want
hem presents back, and III go To
Mu,kegon and Try to forget her.
it's wrenched me all to pieces.
and | can never love again.
Were you ever shook, sergeant 2
'Nu, never.
'Th-n you don't know the an
guish-,he gripping around the
he'rt. 1t cuts like knife, and all
that | can think of is being laid
out in a cotiin, my right hand hold
ing bunch OF roses and my lefl
resting on my heart
Ion are young, you may out
grow it,
Il may-l may, but 1t isso awful
sudden, and hits 50 hard that | feel
/ that had fallen from a house. Go
/ to the house, sergeant, aud zee II
you can get them things back. II
I'm alive I'll be around again to-
morrow, and Ii don't come you
may keep the things tor your
kindness. Pm white headed; but
I'm tender hearted, aud want to
retire behind some barn and sill
dom aud think.
And he retlred.-[Detrolt Free
Press.
"A prominent Detroit Univer-
"A