Show HIS TOMB A WELL means adopted by a nill cr to stay reformed As as it may seem it is nevertheless a fact says a mount clemens correspondent corres of the detroit journal that there is a man now living in this city w ho has dug his own grave in the side of an old deserted well several feet down from the top and placed a rudely constructed coffin therein in uch a manner as to baffle detection n acquaintance bordering on to sincere friendship for the last twenty rears between alie writer and this eccentric individual is what led to the divulging of liis secret an ironclad oath not to reveal liis name was demanded lie then proceeded to relate how the device and intrigues of supposed friends had led him into bad habits some years ago ag o in this city when gambling and dissipation was at its height lie kept them up until ruin stared him in the face resolution after resolution to chang change e was broken the hated vice had him with an iron rip god knows he said lt tried ird to escape them but like the siren i ancient mythology did these habits i raw on and devour me until I 1 hit pon this unnatural barbarous and idea some time ago since hat time all desire for the fascinating mit cruel hiren seems to have left me cr haps gruesome sight which I 1 lome and look at has caused the hange but should my passion again return tor the old life and I 1 break this nv last resolve I 1 shall come this old forsaken well climb down to where eliat coffin is embedded act into it and sake a sufficient amount of chloroform to produce an everlasting sleep wrap the drapery of my overcoat around me for a and declare myself master at last the seriousness with which this man spoke would leave no doubt as to his present intention should the occasion demand it lie is a man of ence and is strongly strong ly averse to wrongdoing wrong doing in other channels but rather than fall back into liis former rough and rugged rugg ed path and continue there he will commit suicide as above stated and hide himself forever |