The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-11

be discontinued; unless indeed, you ih- tend to check and destroy your popula- tion which, in the youth of your exist ence, ought rather to be encouraged py every possible means Wherefore 1t IS OUT opinion that some eonnivance IS useful, and that at least the consciences of man ought to remain free ana uh- shackled. Let every one remain free as long as he is modest, moderate in hls political conduct and as long as he ooes not offend others and oppose the gov ernment The maxim of moderation has always been the guide of our mag
 strates in this city, and the conse- quence has been that people have flock ed from evry land to this asylum. Tread thus in our steps and we doupt not that you will be blessed.
 After that we ventured to build a meeting house, and, by the grace or the
 Divine One, we have never been moles'- ed The venerable George FOX, the father of our faith, came to Flushing III 1872 and preached under two spreading
 oak trees opposite the BoWsne mousse
 This grounded the faith of our believers more firmly, and some of us nave not wavered to this day"
 The Quaker mother arose, adjusted her drab shawl carefully about her
 shoulders, and left the room, saying that there were some duties to which she must attend. The daughter put aside her work and put on a smile. It
 was always hard for Quaker maidens
 to be true to every restriction of the sect. and to-day. when there are so rev of them and other girls are so happily different, it is all but impossible.
 You are smiling" remarked the vis- | itor.
 aso art thou" she said. Why should I not smile? Mother has gone, ana
 there is no longer need to keep sober | face"
 l Cant you tell me Quaker TO- mance?" she was asked.
 l "Tell thee a Quaker romance! l did | not know we were allowed to have TO- mances.' And she put on an air of mock gravity Then she smiled and | continued: T do remember one that
 happened long time ago. Shall l tell | it to thee?"
 That will be just the thing | q found 1t the other day in the strangest sort of place. Where dost 1 thou think? In the records ot the | Quaker church It happened before the ! Revolution, and no one would have re- membered it had it not been written
 down in the old book, There was girl named Mary Halt, a pretty girl, l am
 sure. for once before the elders had
 scolded her for wearing ribbon and be- ing present where fiddles played and
 people danced Dost thou not think her awful? Well, she loved man. How 1 silly that sounds! Of course she loved 1 a man. His name was Ford-Willian Ford--and he loved her But theii 1 fathers did not like each other, and
 both said that the young folks shoulc not marry. They tried to get Quaker minister to unite them, but, of course l he refused, for marriage without the consent of ones parents is grievous sin.
 l "The girl was willing to do anything | to get her husband, and she did not care l if they called her before the meeting | The young man appealed to his cousin | William Thorne, to find a way by whicf they might marry. We will go over tc 1 New Rochelle, where the English par son will marry you said Thorne, whose faith was not firlmy grounded. H. rowed them in a small boat to New | Rochelle, and they were married. Th' elders threw them out of the meeting | but they did not care, and, embracing | the new religion, lived in happiness
 ever afterward, Poor Thorne was tn one who had to suffer, They threatened
 to expel him from the meeting, and h' | had to condemn his action publicly and confess his sin before the who'll
 congregation. I don't believe thot could do that. It is very hard ''-Nev York Tribune.