The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-10

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: to the old man would hardly have bee
tolerated, but now III is quite commor
and so the modern YOUTH avoids mucl
emoarraSsmenG Why, they even DO
> the question ina letter aud cOver@ mol
+: pages with adoratiuu and adiniratio,
, and adulation and all the other i,tion
and some some promises that are iiEeI,
To be forgotten after the honeymoon /
over. In our day the girls waited mod
estiy to be courted, but now they ar,
more aggressive aud many of them sci
SHARES 20 catch their game Dean Swilt
says that tlie reason way there are Sc
many unhappy marriages is that the
| young ladies spend more time in max.
ing nets than IN mt&1ng cages | don't
ilke, those cold, calculating matrimu-
MAI alliances Toe oXquislte, ecstatic.
angelic On stiops Of love shmln not ba
/ suppress, d. Never waS a brIffe mnrn
charInioply won tran @ rlu9 s 6, n
eVleYe. III hat tVnLHhGr n r.
| t9uehing stos! suH 80 eet y
that U
She wept vita p,ty uGd dsltqlTt:
She blnshed with tOve ahd virg n
shame,
And llke tue murnu' OF Il dream,
heard her OreaJhe.uy name"
''uU SCdrIeu 10 tel ABOUT the COM
motlon-the prepare ion Tor the Unfair.
That is waat it used to be called, and
IL Is II proper word, II Is in the die
tionafy and Ineaus the reception of the
wvculng party at the home Of the
groom's parents You see, the bride
was stranger to us. Her home was
In Pniladelphia and our boy had To
travel 900 miles 10 get her and liked
TO have been shipwreckrd OH Cane
Hatteras ON the way, Tse vessel lost
Two days IN the storm. For Il week be-
Tore that my folks bad been cleaning
up the house and the YARD aud seeding
raisips and stull.feediny turkey yob.
biers and they kept meor the man SER
vaut trotting to town for sugar and
spice and ali that's nice y or something
else dozen times day. And they
thleGG and worked ana wondered Whit
kinu oi q girl the boy was bringing INTO
the family. | was greatly ad monishe5
now to behave, ana aS. njends and kim
dred had been in 1Sfr22 Hssr.i d dini nxso,
and some wonld =
done before On sus ~ i .l. 4 4 y .,<z Z +:
very humble 80 s. l ' 3 8 a s.
sid have i Il.
If they had sTrc So | vas ~ - SIS q
to go to Atlanta and meet the bride and :
groolo and cscOnt them to our uupre-
tcntioGs home, which | did with eX-
cecding pleasure.
1t is all over now and my wife and
sre calm and serene. What the Qlnt-
ker City has lost we have gained
other kind, loving and constderate
daughter. They were not married in
haste and are not likely to repent at
leisure.
There is another entry to make now
in the family Bible. The good old book
is getting pretty full Of records. Births.
and deaths natures rOta-
tlon--giadnoss and sUdnoss, JOY and sor-
row. Oid Father Time mas 6ccn KIND
to us for Il good while. The ten are
still living and he has takrn but two
from the flock The
Did rascal shakes his whcttcd srythe at
me occasionally and wHEs his head and
grins and passes on---pussus unuuG cuts
Down my friends, the friends of my
yOnth, to warn me. Not long aro he
Jut Gown Dr.. }attey, the noble hearted
the friend Of my family for
forty. live years: the gentle hearted
man whom every body loved. He had
1"''" -'''I'- '-'1!lutt Wat tired. And only
asst week he cut down Drr G!nh Hr,.n--,
nam, the man OF God. the preacher.
editor and educator, Il man whose pure,
exalted character ami liIu-,ong service
" - 60 - N'N' '''' N'Nsrr''l'.' w ohS 4 u
'fa6ioh that Ioiloweu III MS wake lie,
LOO, wa" ripe
The lives of such men all remind us
We may make our lives sublime.
But We don't do it. It j. pitiful to
think how few out oI the millions leave
ON tho snnu How many
millions have died ana left no sign. no
mark no Impressive example for 4uod:
nothing bui t.at thry lvrd ana dird
ana the cp tap should NE
one. l,.iu. # r.I ne. .,,
.,v.rl., uan
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"A mau.ur ur,.,,.n'tn u.c .u.,u,iest
walks uf nl. cag al. no r ana
o, taou ,,o Il, .n,.ny
saws it il sub.ln, 10 'snlT r. and po
,tr0nu." 1 rcmcmb.r. u u,,pg bnd.rid-
den Invalid whose Knees we're ura,yn
to his cbin ana ms ingrr, To mis- wrist,
and hi- spine bent ike a bow from
chronic rhcunatjsm. out his face was
almost angelic i'm us swcutncss aud his
graft tude Lp Cod Tor MS goodness w,
TnHt good muu'7 inllnonce
over tho family JuaL gy.ge Ii "a TODD and
shelter and over tn Lr.4hDurs was
sublime. Tho poor have more uppor-
tunities to slUV true subj !nllty Of char