Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

life was i.terwoven sThe day Of the sales
Is always remembered by the children.
And the widow remembers IL too. for she
has In had package OF promissory notes,
some good. some pal. some simply ina .ar
suit TO enforce collection. and on half OF
the balance she never hopes for penny.
On the remaining quarter she realizes faco
value after waiting ten months or yean
courtship In the Country.
When the course OF true love docs run
smooth in the country IL runs very smooth
indeed. Darby loves his Joan, ana has
loved her ever since they went barefoot TO
school In the distant seasons when he was
8 and could play ablackman,p while she
was 0, and danced I'm the center OF that
circle OF girls, who contented themselves
with sRipg Around the Rosey." DARBY
gathers his personal belongings together
and secures paternai approval not often
expressed but none the less certain. lie
goes home with Joan from preaching Sum
day night. though she came without escort
and could go twice the distance unattended.
lie leaves her at the gate, just saying
sgood- ight,n lest watching comrades
should suspect serious intention. They
have few hours together. but those few are
enough. Joan Is making bed quilts. knit
ting smforters and sewing rag carpet with
suggestive industry. When they marry
the young men and women "wlsh them
much joyn to their faces. but prepare a
charivari Mt night his charivari has
come to be pronounced sshlvaree" In In
diana, but no change has come over the
spirit of the sport
The house In which tho bride and groom
find shelter that first night Is almost sure
TO be sArounded by crowd OF stealthy
young men, who at a signal inaugurate u
din of jangling bells and beaten tin that
would drive to bedlam any but the
healthiest OF nerves After perhaps half
hsur of exercise in which all the neighbor7
hood Is informed of the celebration. tie
groom appears and @treatSn He may have
provided against this visit and stored up
cakes and cider II he has chosen autumn
for his Duptials hut as rule in these
later years he surrenders money, 81 being
generous ransom. And after that the
chariyari ceases
But IL marriage Is looked upon with noisy
mirthfulness the somber side OF life Is Mt
tingly adorned in the country IL makes
small difference who the man or Woman
may have been In life. In death he Is re-
, garded. He may have been rich. he may
have been generous, he may have been
kindly, or he may have simply lived long In
the neighborhood. When his home Is In
mourning the best people leave their tasks
! and gather TO mark their homely tribute tC
I his worth. They are hushed in the house
Of death; they sit or stand about in rever-
ent silence while the service Is In progress;
they follow the coffin to the graveyard and
walk In sadness all the way. There Is nc
| hurrying TO the tomb. no trotting OF horses
no halting at wayside saloons, no sinister
! scHeming by official or aspirant There Is
| the genuine sorrow for a man who ha:
gone; for man who was with them in thu
| fullness OF life Tut yesterday. and Is nov
sesseess. something they cannot UNDER
stand and can only bid farewell to with
sobered faces. covering with great, strong
| hA - Law haT I-an
| them.
There il a genuineness after all In tn,