Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — Old Si Talks About Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Old Si Talks About Suicide.

Old Si y-as slightly unwound when he made his morning. you been drinking?” dsked the business “Ng, shh—dat is ter ’say, -not drinkin’ jess fqj de drinking but T went ober heah ter Marse Pat Otis’ ter get sumpin ? ter kinder kyore de misery in my stummiefc, an’ he muster drugg’d me, fer ahol Welk he say he -gimme er le<tle of dish ’ere French brandy* an’ I say I like dat moughty well, ant jess as I wuzAetchfti’ fer hit hesqunrt aum gheen ftmdfrin lift whuthe ffay wuz ‘absinoe’— dat*? Miat ife ''say, but hit lock’d moughty" ku’us ter me! But I tuck hit ip !’k “Did it cure you ?” “Yes, sah; J’se bleeged ter saf mt did?~but hit addled up my hedpow’rful. W’yjw’en I num crost Broad stteet I Jett jess lak I didn’t keer ‘ef I jump over -an.’ hah er suinside in.de fgiubly.” “Why (I’l n’t you? It have good item ’megiber’ddaA I ■ode-seberal gen’lmens ’bout town er few thatieeveral gep’lmens odo-me sum dollars, an’ I jess ’lowAd dat I wuz too hopfrbullteri (sheet nfy creditirts an’ loo?' ipo’r ter; fergib’tay debtors, «o I didn’t lak dat-way er goin’ fitter brffikrupshun, nohow’’ Yh& Geordi# W