Smyrna times., 1902-01-08

When Josh Kinney took Mary Man
ming home after choir practice. He
was just the bass singer and she the
orSanist, and of course he would not
let her go unprotected. Lower Cor
ners thought he was accommodating.
that was all
Would she protest also when he
should tell her of his longing. of his
love? You. gentle reader. know she
would not. and Josh made bold enough
one night when the moonlight was
glowing on the hills to find out for
himself. 1t was not for others to
know what he said
Not necessarily for publication. but
just as an evidence of good faith"
said Josh long after when twitted
about it,
There came another night when the
moon was not shining. The little office
was as dark as the great world out
/ side and as quiet. 1t was Thursday /
night. and the hand press was still +
/ That seemed strange to passerSby on /
the road They were used to hearing |
the steady clack of the press on that
night long after - If they had OBJ |
served closely. they might possibly |
have seen that the door was standing
wide open and that over it was a
square white patch of something.
The next day-ah. what Friday
that was for Lower Corners! 1t has
been written in great big letters into
the history of the neighborhood. BY
some freak of fortune or misfortune
John Manning was the first man to
ride down the road past Kinney's of
fee The sun was Just lifting its red
disk over the cOrntplds to the east.
He was whiSt!ing his favOritc tune.
the one he had learned in the old days
when he woOpd and won Nancy Cor
win He spipd the bit of paper over
KinnryS open doorway. He passed
through the latticrd gate and up the
hill to the cabin. There he adjusted
his SpcctaclpS and read these words:
ITO subscribers: Walk in and get your
paper The editor is busy elsewhere"
Manning. consumed with curiosity
and never haShful about getting what
WAS coming to him. went in and picked
. up Il paper from Il huge pile stacked on
the Office table. He glanced over the
; first page and then turned to Kinney's
editorials-he always liked to read
7 them even though he was not always
convinced by them. There was some
t thing there this time that blanched his
/ face and made him tottPr to Il chair for
g support.
: His first impulse was to tear his pa
e per into fragments and burn the rest,
t but instead he folded it up. thrust it
r into his pocket and hurried from the
s office.
"Drat his hide!" he mumbled to him
: self. He might at least have asked
a me. How'd he know what | might
have said:'
It In two hours every man, woman and
t child in Lower Corners who could had
S devourpd these double loaded lines:
It with this issue publication of The
SangamOn Boy is suspended for lack
IS of an editor He came to you empty
l. handed hc has gone with the fairest
It flower Of Lower Corners. with the
It queen rose Of the rosebud garden of
IT girls He hopes he has gone, too. with
4 the kindly wishes OF all this worthy
e. people He bears With him no Cnmities
is no regrets. save those that come from
G. the sense of work i'll done II he had
ideals and failed to reach them. it was
re not because he lacked the inspiration
IN of your generous support.
VS. Better The SangamOn Boy SHOULD
I'd die in his youth than be east wai
as upon the world. OF him shall hold fO
Of myself the trnderest remembrance: t.
pn Eou | bpQupath whatever of good h'
mt may have done. | loved him the mOr'
ly that he was only Il boy. just a strip O
ce q lad who longed to be Il man ant
w WELD a mans power Pity that one s.
young should not have had wise
he band to point his way and guide hi
elk wavPring feet When you, my friends
mt shall read these lines, his life will hav
rd closed. and mine-will have begun i
of fuller measure. DO you doubt N
in prophecy? Read:
lSt KINNEY MANNING. Married. June II,
Is Springfield. at midnight. by Rev John lngal
yh pastor Of the Grand Avenue NJ. +. church, at h
=" residence, Joshua Kinney and Miss Mary Mannin
lal both Of Lower Corners Shortly after the Ger
as mony Mr. and Mrs. Kinney left on the Alton f
lse Kansas City, where the late editor OF The sang
a., mon Boy will give his entire time to newspap
W. work The bride is the daughter Of John Ma
zen ming, one of the best known farmers Of Sangam'
county.
no Two hours after he had read tn
of concise notice John Manning held
ing one of his hands telegram from S
! Louis signed Mary" 1t simply state
Is? that she was very happy with Il
If dearest man in the world"
p | A cynical neighbOr said Manning w'
concIiated by that statement abo'
to zone of the most prominent farmers
ose but. whatever the cause. Manning q
ttv clared that kinney is mighty loI
an way from being the worst man III Il
big. world."-Chicago Record Herald
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