Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-04-11

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ners thought he was accommodating.
that was all.
Would she protest also when he
should tell her OF his longing, OF his
lover You. gentle reader. know she
would not. and Josh made bold enough
one night when the moonlight was
glowing on tie hills TO End nj for
himself. n wns not for others to
know wAat he said.
Not necessarily for publication, but
inst as m evidence Of good faith"
eoid Josh long after when twitted
ai9ut 1t.
There came another night when the
moon wns not shining. The little Office
was rs dark MS the great world out.
side and MS quiet. II 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 10. II they had OBJ
served closely. they might possibly
have seen that the door was standing
wide open mud that over It was a
square white patch OF something.
The next day-ah. what a Friday
that was for Lower Corners! II has
been written In great big letters into
the history OF the neighhorhood. BY
some freak Of fortune or misfortune
John Manning was the first man TO
ride down the road past Klnney's Of.
dcc. The sun was just lifting Its red
DISK over the cornhelds to the cast.
he was whlstling his favorlte tune.
tho one he had learned III the old days
when be wooed and won Nancy Cor
win. lie splcd the bit Of paper over
Kirncy's open doorway. lie passed
through the latticed cate and UP the
hin 20 the cabin. There be adjusted
his spectaclps 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
no q paper from a huge pile stacked on
the Office table. He glanced over the
FIRST ra2e and then turned 10 Kinney's
cditorlals-hc always lised ID 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
ner into fragments and burn the rest,
but instead he folded It up thrust it
into his pocket and buried from the
Office.
"Drat his hider' he mumbled to him
self. ne might at least have asked
me. How'd he know what l might
have suidF'
Ia two hours every woman and
child in Lower Corners who could bad
devourcd these double loaded lines:
with this issue publication Of The
Saugamon 10y is suspended for lack
of an editor. He came to you empty
handed: he has gone with the falrest
dover of Lower Corners, with the
once rose of the rosebud garden Of
girls dc hopes he has gone. too. WIN
the kindly wishes OF all this worthy
people. He hears with him no enmities,
no regrets. save those that come from
the sense Of a work III done. II he had
ideals and failed to reach them. it was
not because he lacked the inspiration
of your generous support.
"Better The Sangamon Boy should
die in his youth than be cast a waif
upon the world. or him | shall hold for
myself the tenderest remembrance; TO
you I bequeath whatever of good be
may have done. / loved him the more
that he was only a boy, just a strip Of
a lad who longed to be a man and
WELD a mans power. Pity that one so
| youn. should not have had a wiser
hand to point his way and guide his
wavering feet. When you, my friends,
shall read these lines. his life will have
closed; and mine-wlll have begun In
fuller measure. Do you doubt my
prophecy? Read;
"KINNEY-MANNISG Married. June II. In
Springfield. At midnight. BY Rev. John Ingalls,,
uastor Of the Grand Avenue NJ. +. church. at hii
residence, Joshua Kinney and Miss Mary Manning
both Of Lower Corners. Shortly alter the eere
nony Mr.. and Ma Kinney lett on the Alton iol
Kansas City, where the late editor Of The sanga
mou Boy viii give his entire time to newspspel
work. The bride Is the daughter Of John Man
ming. one Of the best known fariaers Of sangamoT
county.
Two hours after be had read this
concise notice John Manning held In
one OF his hands a telegram from st
Louis signed MARY" II simply stated
that she was very happy with the
dearest man In the world"
A cynical neighbor said Manning was
conclllated by that statement about
zone OF the most prominent farmrrs;'
hut. whatever the cause. Manning de
clared that kinney Is a mighty Ions
way from being the worst man In The
wOrid."-Chlcago Record Herald.