| Show HIS TOMB A well means adopted by Bator aru gambler to stay reformed As as it may seem it is nevertheless a fact says a mount clemens correspondent of the detroit journal that there is a man now living in this city who 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 huch a manner as to baffle detection an acquaintance bordering on to sincere friendship for the last twenty between the writer and this eccentric individual is what led to the divulging of his secret an ironclad oath not to reveal his 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 in this city when gambling and dissipation was at its height he kept them up until ruin stared him in the face resolution after resolution to change was broken the hated vice had him with an iron cn ip god knows he said 1 I tried hard to escape them but like the siren in ancient mythology did these habits draw on and devour me until I 1 hit upon this unnatural barbarous and monstrous idea some time ago since that time all desire for the fascinating but cruel siren seems to have left me aci haps this grew some sight which I 1 often come and look at has caused the change but should my passion again return for the old life and I 1 break this my last resolve I 1 shall come this old forsaken well climb down to where that coffin is embedded get into it and take a sufficient amount of chloroform to produce an everlasting sleep wrap tho drapery of my overcoat around me fora shroud and declare myself master at last the seriousness with which this man spoke would leave no doubt as to hia present intention should the occasion demand it lie Is a man of intelligence and is strongly averba to wrongdoing wrong doing in other channels but rather than fall back into his former rough and rugged path and continue there he will commit suicide eu icide as above stated and hide himself forever |
