The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-26
BABY GAVE THEM AWAY.
SECRET OF TWO YOUNG PEO?LEsRE.
VEALED AFTER Slx:-YEARS.

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IsECRET OF TWO YOUNG PEO2LEsRE
| VEALED AFTER slX-YEARs.
| How James Insley and Annie Weide
We're Married Despite Cruel Parent
md Kept Their Secret for Six l.. n
| Years.
PHIL1psByRG, N. j., March 90
There is cute baby, full of pluml
| curves and pink dinples, up on tht
Weider farm. It cannot even utter
| the word mamma" yet, for it is only
a few days old, but it has neverthe
less diyulged o secret concerning
which the two persons vitaly inter
ested have been silent for six years
And one Of these persons is q woman
too.
The little newcomer blinks at the
sunshine and COOS in the most happy
and mconcelned fashion, little know
ing that its advent on the farm has
caused such a sensation as to make
the great tongue of Warren county
wag in most unprecedented fash
ion.
THE BABTs LACK OF FORESIGHT.
Had the youngster foreseen this
commotion, with q generous flial in
stinct it might have postponed it's
visit for six years more. But nature
is inexorable in some things, and the
young one, from appearances, is here
to stay, and James Insley and pretty
Annie Weider, two of the most eligible
young people of the county, are eGgi-
bic no more. They are married, hay
ing kept to themselves the secret of
tnen union for six long years.
Farmer George Insley resided
near Still Valley for many years. His
lands were broad and well kept and
the name OF Insley is synonymous
with thrift and integrity. The family
is wel-to-do, and accounted rich as
people 60 in this section. Ten years
ago David Weider settled on large
farm adjoining the Insleys and pros
pered and grew in the esteem of his
ne1ghbors: ~ sy:ss:.zs-
TEE LOVERS AND THEIR TRIALS.
Both families had grown sons and
daughters, healthy and handsome
young people, who were the life of all
countryside gatherings, and it is not
that of this material should
spring a love affair. Surely no one
could blame James Insley for losing
his heart to Annie Weider. She was
the youngest Of Farmer David Wei
der's children, vivacious and pretty,
besides possessing all of those quail
ties which promise q gentle mother
and model country housewife.
Du1om Annie was II then and James
was a paragon Of punctuality in pay
ing his court. There were two years
of rosy love-makng, when suddenly
Insley's parents became bitterly OPP
posed TO the match. No reason was
given for the objection, but it is said
the old folks told James that Annie
Weider should never enter their house
as his wife
GETTING ROUND THE OLD FOLKS.
James was dumfounded, but easily
saw a way out of the difficulty with
out disobeying the letter of his
parents Injunction. The Weiders,
hearing Of the objection, then said
that Annie should not marry any one,
as the loss of such q treasure would
leave desolate one of the best homes
in Warren county. The young peo-
pie, however, continued on the best
of terms, while they apparently gave
up the intention of marrying, and the
old folks looked sternly at each other
as they passed by. So six years
passed away, during which time Far
mer hsley was laid to rest in the
country cemetery. While Mrs. Insley
was the nominal head of the house,
all the responsibilities devolved upon
James. The old man had died with
out Withdrawing his objection to An
ME Weider. James and Annie were
apparently no more sthan very dear
friends, dutiful to their parents, and
patiently awaiting a reversal of the
decree which kept them apart
THE SHOCK CONES.
The shock came a few days ago.
There was a baby up at Weider's and
Annie was the mother. Such a SEN
sation! Then the young people made
a clean breast of the whole matter.
Six years ago they quietly went to
Preacher Miller of Easton and were
married. They lived six secretly hap
by years, with no one to share their
secret but the old minister, and were
contented to live six more in the same
fashion ava ting parental approval.
But the baby! James produced the
certificate and the minister coTobora-
ted the story. Young Insley had nc
desire to take his wife home while his
parents lived, and was too good a
son to desert his mother in her gray
old age. Hundreds of friends have
visited the farm house to see the lit
tie one who divulged a great secret
and though the young people still
live at their respective homes, the
time is very near when there will be
o great big reunion up at the Insley
and Weider farms.
a Boy Kills His Mother