Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-24
PICKS BAO Ser AND Ms PA
Peck's Sun. ]

I SSA SbA
lake care. there you will run rich
over the stove" said the grocersrnen Z,
the bad boy, As he came along the floor
his eyss fixed as tho1eh be was lookiu,
into the future about two years. and hi
mind so occupied that be did not seen
TO see the stove, What are YOU think
ing about: Lately yoa have go, so yo,
'hink toe much, aud bv and hv yoy
VIII be one of those vacancies tina
don't know beans. People are ge,,in.
SO they think too much. and espsciall,
boys. Nothing hurts bov so much A.
to get into the habit OF thinking. What
did you have on your mind when YOU
came in"
Oh. | vas thinking of that fellow
down IN the Third Ward that killed his
giri and then killed himself, all on ac-
count of their religion being of differ
| en- brand, so they couldn't marry each
other. Gosh. Il don't seem as though
religion ought 10 bar fellow out of the
heaven of his girls love. does i.?' said
| the boy.
Well" said the grocerymap. as he
wiped some syrup OFF his hsuis on a
coffee sack, you can't drive two kinds
OF religion to the pole. in a family. with
any kind of success. You NAV drive
two kinds of religion single or andem.
bu. when You hitch EN- up together and
they try TO travel along at a good road
gait. one will go off his feet and gallon
wnile the o.her trots, and then the gal
looping religion wilt catch and come
down 10 a trot and the other viii break
up. and there they are. see-sawinp. and
The air Is full Of creeds and doctrines.
and there Is danger they vii! run away
and smash something. No. it Is better
tor the people who are going to marry
10 have their measures taken for the
same kind IT religion. and then each
can wear etch others religion, and all
will be tovelv."
II don't know" says the bad boy.
taking an apple. about this thing of
waiting till You find out about a girls
religion before you love her. Some
times You can't do t. If a girl has not
got any sigh out warning fellow what
Kind of religion she has got concealed
about Ter person, how is he going to
know until 1t Is everlastinely too late?
when young fellow fails in love with
grl, 1t Is ike falling down on skates. |
EVERYTHING seems to give way at once.
II strikes him like a sandba0. and there
he Is, asphNxiated the first thing. He
knows that size Is perfect. and he takes
her right into his own heart and wraps
his heart around her. and puts rubber
weather strips on all the cracks so she !
can t ge' out, and her religion il the last |
thing he thinks of. If her religion pulls |
her one way, and his heart pulls her |
other way. something's got to bust: |
it's the religion that busts. |
but sometimes it's the heart. think |
there ought to be a convention oom- !
posed of delegates from all kinds of re- |
ll9lon. and let them make a Law that |
any religion shall be legal tender any !
where, like gold dollar. Religion
ought To be the same as pure gold. |
anywhere If man comes into
your store to buy soap, and gives You
y gold dollar, coined in Rome,
or Jerusalem, or California. or China,
or Russia, or thu FIJI Islands. he gets
his soap But If your son Is in love
with Hebrew girl. her religion saws
your sons religion is counterfeit, and
she goes to her grave with your sons
love III her heart, and be goes to the
devil with her image in his heart. and
both are ruined for life cause they
couldn't match their religions. A Bap-
list girl falls in love with a Young fell
low that IS a perfect specimen of man
hood, brave, noble, Intelligent, tender
to her and AS kind AS man can DO, and
they begin to plan for the day when he
san take her to a home. and be all the
world and a small section of heaven to
her. when some day friend says to her,
Your lover IL one of the noblest men
ever saw, but it is pity he is a Catho-
ic.' Then the trouble commences. He
believes his religion is the grandest in
The world, and she believes hers Is no
SLOUGH each tries to induce the other
20 adopt another religion. but it is a
failure. and they drift apart in all ex-
sept the buried love that can never be
luencued on earth or in heaven. tell
You 1t ls pretty tough to have 50 many
different kinds of religion that can't be
made to iibe. don't you think 80 p
Yes, 1t Is rough" said the grocery
nan; but a little difference like that
hadn't ought to make fellow kill the
girl he loved"
Course not" said the boy. "rhis
teller surely didn't love the girl, else he
wouldn't shoot. Say, 8 p $50 you loved
/ girl. regular old spontaneous kind.
Gould you phil out a revolver and send
wo bullets iato her pretty cheek. and
,ord her up against the fence dead!
Nav. you couldn't: nor nobody else. He
didn't love that girl. He thought he
lid, bnt it WAS something else. You see.
f he had loved her. not having any
particular religion himself, he would
have let her take him by the b md aud
cad him to her church like a child. and
he would have got down on his knees
and prayed with her, and become her
brother in the church and then married
her. But he was wrong in the head.
and when he found that she loved her
,hurch he got jealous of her religion,
that was all. and as long as he couldn't
kill her religion. he killed her. BY
inks, if he was some fellows. they
would join any church that ever was for
the girl they loved. Pa says he knew a
nau that got in love with Jewess, and
her folks tired To stand him IA, but he
Joined their church aud opened a pawn
shop, and got rabbi to marry them on
The slv. and when her folks came blow
ing around he put up his hand and
shook 1t and said, Hast dogeshen. Vot
you going to do about it, Ma SAWS
she and pa had good deal of trouble
about their religion before they were
She was Baptist. and pa
wa3 a Democrat, but IA kicked when
hey nominated Greeley, and goes to
her church now. We'll, must go down
10 the moreue and see the lovers that
spuidn't agree about going 10 heaven
and the boy skispsd out.