White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-23

"My g~oo'nessl" he exclaimed. sHow
you c'leck all dem fac's7"
cry day for four years, and now he's
got a full beard. and he's going to get
married this y~ear-before he's eighteen
years old.
Joe Bullitt's got a cousin in Iowa
that knows about this ase. he knows
the girl this fellow with the beard Is
going to marry, and he says he expects
it'll turn out the best thing could have
happened. There's hundreds of cases
like that. only you don't hear of more'n
just a few of EN-. People used to get
married at sixteen. seventeen. eighteen
anywhere in there-and never think
anything of II at all. Right up to
about a hundred years z there were
more people married at those ages
than there were along about twenty
four and twenty-five, the way they are
now. For instance. you take Shake
sp@are"-
William paused. He had mentioned
Shakespeare impulsively, in the ardor
of demonstrating his point. However.
ON second thought he decided TO with
draw the name.
Il mean. you take the olden times
he went on. Hardly anybody got
married after they We're nineteen or
twenty years old, unless they were
widowers. because they were all mar
ried by that time. And right here in
our own county there were eleven
couples married in the last six months
under twenty-one years Of age
Mr.. Genesis uttered a loud chuckle.
MY goo'ness!" he exclaimed. How
| you c'leck all dem fac's7 Lam name!
What puzzlin' me is how you member
'em after you done c'leck en-"
Williams expression was pleasant TO
SEEN fact. 1t was the pleasantest ex-
preston Jane had seen him wearing
for several days. Almost always late
ly he was profoundly preoccupied and
80 easily annoyed that there was no
need to be careful Of his feelings. be-
cause, as his mother observed. he was
certain to break out about every so
often. no matter what happened"
CHAPTER X.
Speaking Of Early Marriages.
"H REMEMBER pretty much ev-
erything," william said to the
aged negro. as II In modest ex-
PLANTATION OF the performance
which had excited the aged mans ad-
miration. IL can remember things that
happened when | was -four years old.
william coughed with a certain I'm
portance. do you remember he ask
ed, when you were marriedf How
did you feel about Il? Were you kind
Of nervous, or anything like that, be-
forehandY'
Mr.. Genesis again passed . waver-
ing hand across his troubled brow
II mean,' said william, observing
his p~erplexity. were you sort OF shaky
FIR instance. as II you were taking
IN important step In lifef"
"Lemme see." The old man pondered
for q moment. ~ felt mighty shaky
once. I r~ickalect-dat time yalla m'lat-
! n man shootin' at me rum behime a
snake fence"
"shootin' at your Jane cried. stirred
from her accustomed placidity. M
Genesis! What did he do that forF
Muffin" replied Mr.. Genesis, with
feeling: MUFFIN In de wide worf! tie
| boun' TO shoot somebody an pick on
me cause I 'ux de handles"
He closed his knife, gave the little
boat a final scrape with the broken
glass and then a soothing rub with the
nalm of his hand. Dab, honey ne
said. and simultaneously factory WIS
ties began to blow, dab yo' Ut steam
boat good as | kin git her widout no
bller ner no smokestack. reckon 20
pappy'n buy 'em fer you"
Jane was grateful. Its a It'll
boat. Mr.. Genesis. do thank your
Genesis, the son. laid aside MS tools
ana approached. "Pappy finish wnit-
hin spang on EN- noon whistles be
huekled. Come long. pappy. l bet
you walk fas' nun goin' todes ON
uah. / hear fry cakes ploppin' In
eli1etr'
william and Jane watched the prisR
departure OF the antique with SINCERE
rsIeein and liking.
He must have been sixteen said
william musingly.
tNhen7" Jane asked. -.
Eiiliam. in deep Thought. was SUI
,1Ene after Mr.. Genesis. He vas Al
a. unconscious that he had spoken
and he replied automatically
Zen he was married"
with a start, he realized INTO
.relt a condeseension he Ind oeen
cd and hastily added. With pro