The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-04-28
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What | wan to know" sad q
wbite-headed young man OF twenty
ss he stood before toe sergeant IN
charge of the Central Station yester-
Id.v what / came here for was too
get some advice
Proceed said the sergeant
You know Nancy Thompson don't
.yOu?" -,
"Wen she's a wilder, over forty
wears old, and I've been boarding
there"
"Yes?n
and we are Engaged to be mar
ried."
~Whew!p whistled the officer.
al don't blame you, continued the
Young man in a broken voice. am
only twenty and she's forty, but d
man can't always tell when he's 60
ing TO make a fool of himself
land you fell in love!"
u did that. and as soon as We SET
tbronob talking I'm going out 70
hire some one to kick me over 10
Canada and back! Yes, sir, fell dead
in love-loved q woman o. over forty
years"
And what followed? 2"
What folIered? Why, what alters
follows? I'm human. same's any
body else, and when | love ] love
Ike q locomotive on a down grade
What do you think ! did ia just six
weeks BY the watch ? Went 10 the
theatre sixteen times, out sleighrld-
ing twelve times, had three parties,
went to three lectures, and took her
out 10 ea. oysters ten or eleven times.
Fact, sir-ccst me rear 5000"
But it was all for love" replied
the sergeant.
Il thought So; aud what else did
| DO? Bought her a $40 watch, a
81 set Of jewelry, a S. ring, a new
dress, and gave her a s. gold piece
with a hole in it! Yes, sir; | drew
$500 from tie bank-eyery red | bad
and used it all up OF Der
"And then ?"
"She ~purtended to love back, and
when | squoze her hand she smiled
and smiled and looked heaps Of love
at me. She'd lean on my arm, talk
about Cupid, and get of poetry by
the rod, and it was plainly under
stood that We were to be married in
June. Oh, she knew her biz, aud she
slid around me as the Bengal tiger
does around a lamb"
did she break tie engagement p
Last night, said the young man,
swallowing the lump in his throat.
she told me she'd been triaing with
me all along. She said she was en-
gagged 10 another man, and she could
never b. more than a sister to me ;
| tell you, sergeant, you could have
Knocked ne down with q straw. i
braced up after a while aud called
Der a bypocrit when she called me a
white-headed idiot, and the boarders
threw me out Of doors. Fiveihun-
dred dollars gone, and I'm a wrecked
man"
He 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 III go to Muske-
gon and try and forget her. It's
wrencbed me all to pieces, and | can
never love again. Were you ever
shook, sergeant
NO, never
Then you don't know the anguish
the gripping around the heart It
cuts like a knife, and all | can think
of is being laid out 10 a coffin, my
right hand holding a bunch of roses
and my left resting on my heart"
you are young you may out
grow IT,"
my M~1 bAA -
( sudden. and hits so hard that ] feel
as II I'd fallen from a house. Go
to the house, Sergeant, and see II
you can get them things back II
I'm alive III be around again to-
morrow, and if | don't come you
may keep the things for your kind
ness. I'm w~hith-headed but I'm
tender hearted, and | want to retire
behind some barn and sit down and
think"
And be retired.-Detr0i Free
Press.