The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-02-14

Not necessarily for publication. but
| Just as an evidence OF good faith.
said Josh long after when twitted
about 1t.
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 cIack of the press on that
might long after u. II they had OBJ
served closely. they might possibly
have seen that the door was standing
wide open and that over 1t was
square white patch of something.
The next day--ah. what a Friday
That was for Lower Corners! 1t has
been written IN great big letters into
1.-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
| fice. The sun was just lifting Its red
disk over the cornfields to the east.
| He WINS whistiing his favorite tune.
the one he had learned in the old days
when he wooed and won Nancy Cor
win. He spied the bit of paper over
| Kidneys open doorway. He passed
through the latticed gate and up the
| hill to the cabin. There he adjusted
his spectacles and read these words:
TO subscribers: Walk in and get your
s.to
Manning. consumed with curiosity
land never hashfui about getting what
was coming to him. went in and picked
lup paper from huge pile stacked on
| the office table. He glanced over the
drst page and then turned to Kinney's
leditorials--h always liked to read
them even though he was not always
convinced by them. There was some
Thing there this time that blanched his
face and made him totter to a chair for
support.
His first impulse was to tear his pa
per into fragments and burn the rest.
but instead he folded II up, thrust It
| into his pocket and hurried from the
office.
"Drat his hide!" he mumbled to him
lself. "He might at least have asked
me. How'd he know what might
have said"
In two hours every man. woman and
child in Lower Corners who could had
Idevoured these double loaded lines:
with this issue publication Of Tie
Sangamon Boy is suspended for lack
lof an editor. He came to you empty
handed: he has gone with the fairest
flower OF Lower Corners. with the
queen rose CT the rosebud garden Of
girls He hopes he has gone, too, with
1.-THE kindly wishes OF all this worthy
people. He bears with him no enlnities,
no regrets. save those tina. come from
| the sense Of work i'll done. II lie had
ideals and failed to reach them. it was
mot because he lacked the inspiration
| or your generous support.
Better The Sangamon 10y should
Idle In his youth than be cast a waif
lupon the world. OF him shall hold FOR
myself the tendercst remembrance: to
you bequeath whatever Of good lie
may have done. loved him the more
THAT he was only a boy, just strip Of
Ia lad who longed to be man and
wield a mans power. Pity that one SO
young should not have had avwlser
hand to point his way and guide his
twavering feet. When you. my friends.
tshall read these lines. his life will have
closed. and mine-will have begun in
fuller measure. Do you doubt my
prophecy? Read:
s'KlNNEY--M AIMING. Married. June IL, In
| Springfield, at midnight by Rev. John ingalls,.
| pastor Of the Grand Avenue b. E. church. at liis
residence. Joshua Kinney and Miss Mary Manning.
both OF Lower Corners. Shortly after the cere-
| mony Mr.. and Mrs. Kinney left on the Alton for
Kansas City. where the late editor Of The SangR-
mon Boy will give his entire time to newspaper
work. The bride is the daughter OF John Man
ming, one OF the best known farmers Of Sanganon
county.
| Two hours after he had read this
concise notice John Manning held In
one OF his hands a telegram from st.
Louis signed MARY" 1t simply stated
that she was very happy with the
dearest man in the world"
A cynical nelghbor said Manning was
conciIiated by that statement about
zone OF the most prominent farmers:'
but. whatever the cause. Manning de-
clared that Kinney is mighty long
| way from being the worst man In the
world. Chicago Record Herald.