The Newtown bee., 1878-03-14
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Jonatllan's Experience in G0urting.

l like to tell the old story. It makes ne feel almost young again. The blood rushcs more quickly through my veins, and seciu lu live tie old scenes airesh.
 The smouldtiing coals upon tue hearlh-stUne of my heart appear 10 be famed anew into tiame,as the breath of niemory passes over thsm. You would not lhlnk to luuk at lhe well developed matrouly proportions ut my wife yonuer, that she was once such slender sprlghl- ly girl The freshness of their bloom lIus left her cheeks, but remember wheh lhcy were us rosy us the sunny side of a peach. There ale grey hairs creeping in among her locks, but l bring to mind when they were as black and glossy us the raven 5 wing.
 Her eye has lost none of the brilllancy of its lustre. recall tntse by-gone days when at singing school UT ill church, she used to let tuelr radiance fall upon me, my heart huttered with an unusual Ire mur They say some folks have no heaIt, but knew by experience that one individual ht least, possessed a' tlules a pretty llvcIy one ii making itself felt was uny sign.
 "ilrr voice was low and sweet" as the poet beautifully ob,erses.yet ottentimes ln the songs ut' the saRctuary. 1t would rioe towards heaven as though borne un an angels wing.
 Her waist has now the rounded ful ness ut maturity, Yet Iecoiltci then 1t seemed wonderfully small as sInE my atm around it in lhe ot>curiiy W the tN Ilighl hour. or laier siiIl beneath ihe shade oi the great cha when tue moon had il Her ra,lldnt lamp.
 Memory brings back to me the time when in our sucial festivities, in our old iasnloned cotillions and country dances, as Al oid writer has apply expressed il :-
 "Har fee. beneath h.r pett.cosf,
 Like little mice crept in aud out.
 As though they te. red the lg ht."
 Oh she had such combination of charms That my soul cuuli not resist, aud i frankly acknowledge that did not Try very hard
 Thc old pIov.rb ssys:--'The course of true love never runs smooth. Now is far hs she and were concerned it went smoothly enough Our happy bark glided dowu the stream with both wind and lide in our favor. But there was opposition il another quarler. and to carry uat figure sierm Came up against Us thfcalenlng to dash our bark to pieces unless through skllIiEl pilutuge we should out-weaiher il.
 Tkls opposition Came as we say from llie "o.d ioiks 'nut naine but hers. Her mother Was rather indifferent in the matter, but her t.ther who was deacon in chuicli, and wliu, LI Use one of hIs savtdlte expressions, "sut his face like a iinl against all evil" yUn would have thought, Considered that evil vas incar- nate Ill mc. by the Way he let that lace lroBn N hehvver caule in the range of i lis vision. had asked his perRls>ian as aas cusiuii,ary ia those days, tu pay my adir,ises lo his daughter, but had met slth decided refusal. But Cupid had shol ills arrows so deeply into my heart that 1t wss impossible to remove them
 As light emanates from the san, as all liylug things seek for and turn to the llgAl, s3 my soul ,urued 10 tLe light of h. prpsenc- and smiles The old Say. ibg ls"Lpve sevks ils own, 'aId s.,ughl aiIue.
 5, Faint heart never woa fair lady, "and rheu at length l fousd hsd the synps.