Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-12-18

slesl Whenst hey ara married. 3 aresfrignt v
med within an inch Of Il heir lives. ana;
after it is all over, they swear they
we're as cool as the prov e,b al e ucuIn-!
Soer. not scared a bit; ana III fact "a theI
liked it. Are these men hewing asscloses
to1the line OF truth as they We're taught to
tell it when nIatrimony was With them
dream as irridescent, ana as feeting.
Is the visions CT Kris Krinsle and his
Wonderful sleigh? Let each man an
;wer the question by reading his own
soul. Jerry was not OF this kind.
When the boys asked him if he was
scared, he answered an eloquent Yes
Jerry is not naturally fluent BUT the
coys got to asking him questions. and
Aell-Jerry had just been married and
&c was full of it. He grew supernatur-
Ally laxative.
Yes. l was scared: yes Sir" he said,
IS nc warmed to the theme, land You
would have been scared too, if you'd
oeen in my place, and the man that
says he wouldn't is either liar or he
'asn't been married. That is all I've
got to say
III tell you how it was continued
Jerry. rendaciously. 1T was like this.
You see. did not realize altogether
What l was doing until l heard that
olamed organ start up. and then it all
came on me ct once. and liked TO have
keeled over ljghs there Heard about
people seeing everything they ever did
pass before them in Il second when they
were in some great danger Well it was
the other way. Everything 1 was about
10 do passed before me while that or
ganst was resting on that first note. l
don't know what note it Was, but l
never heard any scrap OF noise that
conveyed as much meaning to my MIND
before in my life. and yet l never heard
IL. that is to say l was so busy thinking
I did N-.lS h;.9 7 =
it,
II got to point where was a
prophet. That's What I did. The past
was q blank. I might just as we'll just
been born for all that knew OF what
had happened. l wasn't afraid of the
girl. Oh, no; it wasn't that. 1 was
afraid OF myself. I felt SO burned mean.
knew first Of all. that I wasn't good
enough for her, and | wondered What
she would do when she found it out.
She's bound to do it, you know. for if
there's 4 secret that can't be kept from
a woman it's Il mans meanness, and
that's q fact.
We'll and then I thought about what
a good time she had been having all
her life, and how she had always had
enough Of everything. you know. and
! l asked myself what l was going to do
to pay her back for giving it all up, and
there's where ] saw my finish again,
for I swear I couldn't see anything
ahead OF her but starvation. and two
dresses a year. at the most: for, YOU
know. ! haven't been able to keep my
self, and I thought, How in The -
am l going TO keep her and me too?'
And then the rest Of the family. l
couldn't see my salary getting 4 cent
larger. but that family grew to ten
While + stood there; yes sir.
shes a good Christian. you know !:
YOU know what I am. or, rather, what
] amt. I'd managed to make her be-
| lieve that I was Il pretty decent kind
of q. fellow, religiously, you know, by
| telling her that l wasn't, and it seemed
to me there, that it wouldn't be Ions
before she wouldn'S need any telling;
for the time comes in every mans life
when he swears before his Wife, or be-
hind her back. somewhere where she
can hear him: and I'd rather die than
get up in the morning to so to church.
never could see the religion in it, YOU
know miserable the Whole time, and
| swearing at the preacher because he
won't stop: you know how it is.
Il summed all these things up, and a