Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-03-06

lake care tttere, You VIII run flgHt
over the stove" said the groceryman
to the bad boy. AS he came nlnng the
floor, his eyes fixed as though he was
looking into the future about twa
years, and his mind su occupied that
he did not seem to see the stove.
"What yon thinking about Lately
you have got So you think lno much,
and by aud by YOU will he one of these
vacancies, that don't know heaus. Pro-
pie are getting 81 they think ton much,
and especially boys. Nuthing hurts n
boy so much as 10 get in the habit ct
thinking. What did you have on
your mind whea you came in =
"Oh, | was blinking Of that felIer
down in this Third ward that Killed
his girl and then killed himself, all on
account of their religior being IA diff
ferent brand, sl they cnuldH'l marry
each other. Gosh, il don't seem rs
though religion ought to bar - icller
out OF the heaven OF his girls love
does it," said the hoy,
WELL said the groceryman. as he
wiped some syrup off his hands on a
coffee sack. ''iou can't drive two
kinds Of religion to the pole, in
family, with auv kind of success. Inu
may drive two kinds of religion single
or tandem, hut when YOU hitch 'em up
together and they try to travel along
at a good road gate, one will 60 oft its
feet aud gaIlnp while the ether lrots,
and then the galloping religion will
catch and come down to trot aud
the other will break up. and there they
are, see-sawing, aud the air full of
creeds, and doctrines, and there is
danger they will run away and smash
something. No, it is better for the
people who are going to marry, to
have their measures taken for the
same kind of religion, and then each
can wear the others religion, aud oil
will be lovely"
Il don't know says the bad boy,
taking an apple, about this thing of
waiting till you find out about a girl's
religion before you love her. Some
times you can't do it. If a girl has
not got any sign out warning q fellow
what kind Of religion she has got con-
eealed about her person how il he
going to know until it is everlasting
too late. When a young feller fails
in love with a girl, il is like falling
down on skates. Everything seems TO
give way at once 1t strikes him like
a sand bag. aud there he is, asphyxia.
ted the first thing. He knows that
she is perfect, aud be takes her right
into his heart and wraps his heart
around her, and puts rubber weather
strips on ell the cracks 30 she can't
get out, and her religion il the last
thing be thinks of IL her religion
pulls her Que way, aud his heart pulls
her 'tother way, something has got to
bust, sometimes it's the religion that
busts, and sometimes it's the heart.
think there ought to be a convention
of delegates from all kinds
of religion, and let them make Law
hat any religion shall be legal tender
.nyN here, like a gold dollar Reli.
Zion ought TO be pure gold, good any
Ehere. IL . mau comes in here TO
Buy soap, and gives you a gold dollar. |
,oined in Rome, or Jerusalem, or Cali |
iornia, or China, or Russia, or the |
Feejce Islands, he gets his soap. But
{ your son is in love with Hebrew
Eirl, her religion says your sons reli.
gion is counterfeit. and che goeS TO her |
grave With your sons love In her
heart, and he goes to the devil with |
ler image in his heart, ard both are
-uined for life cause they couldn't |
match their religions. A Baptist girl |
falls in love with q young fellow that
. q perfect specimen of manhood,
brave, noble, intelligent, tender to her
md O. kind a. man can be, and they |
begin TO plan fDf the day when be can |
lake her to, a home and be all the
xorld aud small section Of heaven
10. her, vhen some day = friend says u |
her, "your lover is one of the noblest |
men ever saw, but Il is o pity be is n |
Catholic. y Then the trouble com. |
menees. He believes his religion Is
The grandest in the world, and she be.
lieves hers il no slouch, each tries TO
induce the other TO adopt another re-
ligion, but IL is 9 failure and they
drift apart in all except the buried
love that can never be quenched on
earth, or in heaven. tell you IL is
pretty tough to have 30 many different
kinds Of religion that cant be made
70 jibe, don't you think 80 T.
"Yes, It i rough :, said the grocery.
man, "but little difference like that
hadn't ought TO make fellow kill the
girl be loved"
Course uot," said the boy. This
feller surely didnt love the girl, else
ne wouldn't shoot. Say, spose you
loved q girl, regular old spontaneous
kind Could you pull out : revolver
aud send two. bullets into her pretty
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