Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-04-25

mo answer.
Uncle Joe fetched stamp that shool
The whole house.
g what! --ashamed to tell, hey? Pretty
fellow for husband, amt your
, Here Charles looked at Jenny,
e and you, you jade; pretty fellow for ;
,r wife, amt your
ID Here Jenny looked at Charles.
u That such children should dare 10 ge
married! Upon my life wouldn't n s.
u either Of you with a rag baby.
/, Here both looked at uncle Joe; and at
ter two or three wry faces, all three burst
/ out a laughing together.
;, And then the glorious old fellow, who
was bit OF ahumorist in his way, and
? very fond Of mischief, giving Jenny a
! pinch, and Charles a,wink which brought
the color into her cheeks, and made him
look like simPIeton, flung himself back
into an old fashioned arm chair and up.
setting fancy table with lamp on it
that was never lighted, and a quantity of
old china oil no earthly use, fell laughing
with all his might, and kept on, as if he
would never stop, till the chair creaked
and trembIed IN every joint, and the poor
wife looked at her husband in dismay,
expecting every moment to see his dear,
old, good-ior-nothing uncle Joe pitching
head foremost among the glitlering frag-
ments OF her china, or sprawIing at his
whole length upon the floor.
And then there was full; and then
another bolsterous outbreak; and then
there was a little playful questioning,
and then II turned out that the marriage
promise referred to by the wife was about
swearing; and that when the husband
came into the room, and she asked him
about the weather, and he answered, a
little pevShIy perhaps, that it was a
damp cold day, she had mistaken what he
had said for something very naughty; very
naughty indeed; and when she reminded
him OF the promise made to her literally
on her marriage day, and moi hAGare, in
The sea son OF courtShlp and she found not
only that he had forgotten that promise.
but that he was inclined to iast "lsh it,,
and 10 turn the whoIe OFT with laugh; no
wonder she had swelling of the heart,
and lost her patience.
This affair settled, and another long and
hearty laugh; another YET, and YET anoth-
er being over; uncle Joe turned suddenly
on his nephew and asked him, with
the look Of thoughtful man Of business,
| if he had made up his mind to insure,
The nephew seemed puzzled for a mo
ment, and then he answered, no, He likes
the plan but really; uncle Joe must
excuse him.
But uncle Joe won't excuse you. You
have no right 10 run such risks. What
is to become Of your wife and children,
| if you should have any, and happen to
die in hurry, as young men always do?
Here Jenny caught her husbands hands
between hers and sat gazing into his
eyes with look of unutterabc tender
ness. Don't uncle, DON'T can't bear it :
she whispered.
Hold your tongue, child; you're
goose. You don't know what you're talk
ing about. want Charles to insure his
life; it's all the property he's got, or is
likely to have.'
Life; property; | don't understand you,
uncle joe
Il dare say not. Allow me 20 make
myseicear. People insure their ships,
and houses, and proits-and leave what
is more valuable TO themselves, to their
families, and to their creditors, uninsured
this is their lives. Life is not only prop
ery, but always the best property man
has! will not man give all that he has
for his lGeF
yes, unce--but to insure ones lille
seems 10 me to be wicked, uncle Joe; our
life is in the hands oil our Maker; and il
is for him to insure It,
Nonsense! are not our ships and hous,
es in the hands of the Maker? our crops?
our health? our happiness? Why not
leave him to the whole care Of these of
oar hands? Why sow2 why reap! why
take medicine? why provide for the NOR
row? why for our families!
& see, uncle you do not mean to prevent
death, by insuring against DEATH
Certainly not, when we insure a ship,
we don't say that she cannot 60 to the bot
tom-we only say that II she does' we
nay for her and the owner shall not 90 10 I
the bottom with her a ruined and dis t
man. So with fire, we don b
say that if we insure, houses won't burn; o
but simply, that if they do burn we will I
pay for them, and save the owners from
ruin. So; by insurng life, we do not y
mean to say that men shall not die; bul h
only that when they die, their families n
shall not die with them, be scattered to
the four winds Of heaven; or s,arve aud c
rot in cellars and work houses; that ac, P
compIished woman shall not be turned
adriil upon the world or helpless children !!
ho smitien once with bereavement ana