The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-03-08
THE BAD BOY.
From PHcK 5 sur.

NlOUE inc HOoI, us eyes HAtu dS
though he was looking into the
future about two years, and his
mind so occupied hat he did not
seem to see the stove, "What
you thinking about! Lately YOU
have got so you think too much,
and by and by you will be one of
these vacancies, that don't know
beans. People are getting so they
think too much, and especially
boys. Nothing hurts a boy so
much as to get in the habit of
thinking. What did you have
on your mind when you came in 2"
"Oh. | was thinking of hal fell
low down in the Third ward that
killed his girl and then killed him
self, all on account Of their riligion
being a different brand, so they.
couldnf marry each othcrs Gosh,
it dout seem as though religion
ought TO bar a Teller out OF the
heaven of his girls love, does itl'
said the boy.
Well" said the grocerymsn, as
he wiped some syrup off his hands
on a coffee sack, you can't drive
two kinds Of religion to the pole in
d family, with any kind of success.
You may drive two kinds of relig-
ion single or tandem, but when you
hitch 'em up together and they try
to travel along a. a good road gait,
one will go off it's feet and gallop
while the other trots, and then the
gallopng religion will catch and
come down to a trot and the other
will break up, and there they are,
see-sawing, and 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
from the same kind of religion, and
then each can wear the others re.
ligion, and all will be lovely
81 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. Sometimes
you can't do it. Ii a girl has not
got any sign out warning a fellow
what kind of religion she has got
concealed about her person how is
he going to know until it is ever
lastingly too late. When a young
fellow falls in love with a girl, it is
like falling down on skates. Every
thing seems to give way at once,
1t strikes him like a sand bag, and
there he is, asphyxlated the first
thing. He knows that she is per-
feet; and lie takes her right into
HIS heart and wraps his heart
around her, and puts rubber wealth
CT strips on all the cracks SO she
can't get out, and her religion is
the last thing he thinks of. If her
religion pulls her one way, and his
heart pulls her 'tother way, some
things got to bust, sometimes it's
the religion that busts, and some
times It's the heart. | think there
ought to be a convention composed
OF delegates from all kinds Of relig
ion, and let them make a law that
any religion shall be legal tender
anywhere. like a gold dollar. Re
ligion ought to be pure gold, good
anywhere. If a man comes in
here to buy soap. and gives you a
gold dollar, coined in Rome, or de
rusalem, or California, or China, or
Russia, or the Feejee Islands. he
gets his soap. But if vour son is
in love with IA Hebrew girl, her re
ligion says your sons religion is
counterfeit, and she goes to her
grave with your sons love in her
heart, and he goes to the evil with
her image in his heart, and both
are ruined for life cause they
cou]dn't match their religions. A
Babtist girl fails in love with a
young man that is a pc, feet speci-
men Of manhood, brave, noble, in
telligcnt, tender TO her and as kind
as n mar can be, and they begin to
plan for the day when he can take
her to a home and be all the world
and a small section of heaven to
her, when some day a friend says
to her, ''your lover is one OF the no
blest men | ever saw, but it is a
pity he is a Catholic" Then the
trouble commences. He believes
his religlon is the grandest in the
world, and she believes hers is no
SLOUGH, each tries to induce the
other to adopt another religion, but
it is a fairure and they drift apart
in all except the buried love that
I'VE DE quenched on earth or
in heaven, | tell You it is pretty
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