The National tribune., 1897-04-15


In the old days of the pine torcb-light we
didn't see so much. Even then, of course, we
used to overlook an occasional romance on the
hurricane deck when the night was dark and
the young folks sat on the cabin skylights and
never thought of the old pilot up in the glass
house with windows on every side. But in
those days it was nothing to what it is in these
times of the electric search-light.
"Yon see nowadays every steamboat is
equipped with a powerful search-light with
which the pilot can sweep each bank of the
big river. A pilot can turn it on off hy the
pressure of a button, and make every nook and
Granny on either shore as light as day by q
twist of the wrist.
"Courtng couples? The funny thing about
it is that the favorite courtingplace, especially
in the smaller towns appears to he in the
graveyard. Why, it seems as though when a
young man nowadays wants TO talk to his
sweetheart about love and life and happiness,
he cOaxes her of into some nice quiet cemetery
and sits beside her OH plump, grassy grave,
with headstone handy To strike match on
| when he wants to light his cigar. Then he
| puts his arm around her and they hold hand
| and look ut the stars, and think aud thrill, and
| thrill and think until a nasty steamboat comes
| chow-chow-chowing up the river. and the
| pilot turns OIL the search-lght. Then they
| suddenly get TO opposite ends OF the mound
and get out their handkerchiefs and try to
| look as il they were mourning over some dear
departed:
think I'm joking? Not bit it. There's
| Quincy, Ill. There's a lovely graveyard there.
It's right top of eff the biggest bluffs that
overlook the river. don't believe that OH a
| Summer night there's an un0ccupied mound IN
that whole cemetery. And there are others
| Burlington, Muscatine and Davenport.
why, it's cOurt-court-court-a say
| Did you ever stop to think what thoughtess
/ L.: IL: 80 tt,n
! light on and SEQ all these lives making love
on the lap of Death it makes me shndder.
Here are young couples sitting on the graves
of Folly and preparing to follow in Folly fatal
| footsteps. No. believe in marriage, but only
between healthy men and women"
| Never were truer words spoken than those
uttered by this old pilot philosopher. Court
| ship is right and the happy privilege of all
loving couples, but marriage is q crime until
| both groom and bride are healthy and robust
| The young woman who marres while suffering
| from weakness aud disease Of the delicate or
gans that make wifehood aud motherhood pos
sible does her courting in q graveyard and
1 passes her honeymoon facing an open grave OF
| life of suffering.
The young man who marries while in i'll.
| health courts death and dooms his children to
| disease.
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