The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-08-28
TIE SHERIFF WANTS &c
MARRY.

As / started down to church to
night, and say what You will of thu
thrcadbareness of my morals, raise
your storms round and about IN!
head, flash your vivid lightnings and
roar your sullen thunders, nevefthe-
less l am still a genuine fullbloode6
Methodist and always attend church
I say as was walking along in front
of DR.. Young's l saw a small bo!
squatted down behind stump;
asked him what he was doing there
and he answered, II am waiting fol
my sweetheart" Well sooner Ol
later we all watch and wait for oui
sweetheart. l lave been waiting fol
mine for long, long years and thu
truth is she has never come but now
and then another fellows came; bui
unfortunately for me he was gencr.
ally along also. A few times tho
other fellows girl came by herself
still she sat and dreamed for him, hcl
eyes were then with her heart and
both were far away. But 1 have not
despaired, have not thrown up the
sponge. have not quit picking the flint,
have not deserted the sinking ship. ]
have an abiding faith that some time
in the not, far distant future she will
C me all aglow with the eternal sun
shine of joyous youth blooming upon
,ler cheeks and that | will yet enjoy
the true happiness of married and
contented life. The truth is | am
compelled to marry and that pretty
quick, there is not button on these
old clothes, not q gusset band or seam
that is not ripped from top to bottom,
from stem to stern so to speak. l
don't want TO marry so help me heav-
en- never did: but it is a matter OF
business, Il military necessity, fate al
ways cruel and unkind to me, drives
me to it. And l would like TO say
right here Gas the lawyers say) that
the longer live and the more | have
to do with men and women and
things in general, themore thoroughly
become convinced that the saddest
misfortune that ever befell man or
woman is to marry fool, scrub a
nothing, blank, figurehead, a no.
body. | never was a society man,
never mixed and mingled much with
people; yet have ever watched their
actions and more than a thousand
times have been astonished to see
bright happy looking young faces
clinging like the ivy to the arm Of
the yeriest numbsKnells on the face
of the earth. The idea of going
away off perhaps, out even into the
broad green country andsettling down
with an empty headed man or woman
and then and there dragging out a
miserable existence for perhaps three
score and ten years, surrounded by
half a dozen chips from the old
blocks, the thought sickens me. l
would rather marry tomorrow vix-
en-, shrew, Il raging, remoreless She
devil whose chief delight for three
fourths of her time was to knock the
cats and dogs around and smash
things all to swithereens if the lucid
moments would come and she would
spend the other fourth talking sense,
and if | were young girl with my
life young pure and fresh as an open
ing rosebud, before would link my
destiny for all time and perhaps fol
eternity to numpskull, to him whom
only anatomy can call a man, ]
would live on.and on single to the
grave, would rear me an idol of my
own; would worship it on down Il
death; vac even out into the dream
beyond.
God forbid that any friend of min'
should ever marry fool.
But the truth is don't want Il
! marry, aud my time is two preciou
to waste in writing about it. Wall
: in sir, want to pay your taxes
, guess, take pleasure in writing you
receipt. I
: rr HIRAM.