The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-25
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The subject | intend to enlighten my
brethring on, this evening, is one that
consarns the whole human race more
than any other appertaining to the cata-
logue of circumstances in the voyage of
life. My brethering, the text | shall take
for the occasion will be found in the book
of books, and when found will read as
| follows
Il have married wife and can't come,
pray have me excused
Ny brcthring, matrimony has been a
very different thing in different ages of
the world, and also in different countries.
In the earliest period of the world the
sons of Adam went into a certain land
called. Nod, and there got wives-where
their wives came from, or how they got
into the land of Nod, the best navigators
have never been able to find cut, as Eve
was the mly romaa in the world at that
time; but, my brethering, if they get
wives ii signifies very little where they
came from-and when they got them,
they spent the honeymoon in that drowsy
country, forgetting the land of their fore
father, Adam, and their mother, Mrs.
Adam; and when they were expected
back to the parental roof, they were so
happy and so humbusticated, and so tos-
sicated, they could not think of return
ing, so they sent letters by the mail in
sealed envelopes, each saying, 81 have
married wife and cant come, pray have
me excused"
NY brethering in the days of Solomon
marriage was quite different affair alto
gether from what it am now; for the
great men of the world, and the rich men
Of the cast, could have as many wives as
ever they liked; and as an example OF
wisdom, no doubt, Solomon had nine hun
dred and sixty wives-which, did he
compliment them all severally, as | have
no doubt he did, by spending a day each
with them, would just consume three
whole years all but fraction, while his
affairs got very much into disorder by
giving up so much time to one object
And the wholesale trade being left in the
hands of strangers, and the retail trade
suffering equally, no wonder that his
notes should have been protested, and
his credit destroyed, so when the banks
refused to discount for him, he wrote un-
to the cashiers saying:
81 have married a wh0te heap Of tetrcs,
and can't come, pray have me excused"
My brethcring, matrimony in the first
going off is momcntous affair, it both
ers a man upside down, so that he hardly
knows whether he is standing or sitting
Now, s'pose you had an angel round and
about you all the time, with a pair of
dazzling black eyes always looking at
YOU straight in the face, what do you
think would be the consequence You
would forget everything else in the world
the evening edition would come out
blank, and the editor would receive a
note saying:
al Ihave married wife and can t come,
pray have me excused,
My brcthering, your suspected preach
er speaks the words of science from long
experience; when first | got married.
shall never forget it-l was in the fiat
boat of which | am now the capting,
and having occasion to land one evening,
| was axed to go to a dance. So, accor-
dinghy, | put on my best rig, and off |
set, but who should receive me at the
door but love of an angel in the form
of a young woman; her eyes were like
those of the gazelle, and as to her hair
and her lips, my brethering, | can only
describe them in the words of the inn
mortal Byron
The color of amber was my loves hair,
Her rolling eye did my heart ensnare,
Her ruby lips, they were soft and fine,
Aud oftentines they were laid on mine. -
My brethering, | got head over top
that evening in love, popped the ques-
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