Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — Waited Twenty Years. [ARTICLE]

Waited Twenty Years.

Twenty years ago a minister in a certain mission church married a couple who had decided on matrimony after a very short acquaintance. The man was a sailor, very much down at the heels, who had just shipped for a long voyage; the girl was a thrifty servant in a good house. The sailor called the parson apart in the vestry (for it was a church wedding, although with only the witnesses required) and confided to him that he was literally reduced to his last cent, which he proffered as a marriage fee, saying that if all went well with him he Mould return some day and pay more. He Mas to spend a few days with his bride at.her mother’s, then snil for a three years’ voyage. He had told her It Mould take his last cent for the minister, but sbe did uot know that this Mas literally true. Tlie parson bad forgotten all about the Incident when, the other day. he received a call from a happy, prosperous second mate of a vessel of a big freight line, accompanied by his wife and a flock of five youngsters. The call M-as made for the purpose of thanking the minister for his politeness about the one-cent fee, and requesting his acceptance of a tueutydollar gold piece. “It’s Morth more’n that,” said the cheerful husband, “but perhaps that will help out on marrying some more folks on the installment plan, a cent down and a dollar a year!”— Neu’ York Mall and Express.

Why Mountains Never Grow Smaller. The mountaius are always moving down Into the valleys. When springtime comes every stream M ill run muddy in Its course. At this rate all the soil from tlie hills M’ould soon be gone Mere not this soil being constantly replaced. Water soaks into the crevices of the rocks, and when it freezes it swells M’ith almost irresistible force. That a very little of It can crack an Iron pipe most of ns have found to our cost. Thus the rock is split, and the pieces made In this M’ay are again broken Into finer and finer fragments until neu' soil Is made to take the place of that Which is so rapidly moving down to the lowlands.—lndies’ Home Journal.