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Fio*k to Talke ihe Fateful Trip to the Alfar-—-Various Reasoas et Al Spell “afraid.” ~ “There is a great dea) of specula tien.” said a well known lawyer, “as t 0 why mon are so reluctant to marry, but one reassn never secms to occur to the speculaiors, and that is that many et them are afraid to. No, 1 am not joking. It is a sober and well con sidered statement of faci, for which 1 can adduce as many prcofs as you want, that many men would almost as soon think of patting a fierce bull on the head or facing the midnight bur glar as tuking a trip to the altar. ] remember as a boy an amusing specimen of this kind of man in lowa. He was a farmer and was as notorious for his amorous entanglements as for his ingenuity in getting out of them wwhen mearriage ‘bezan to loom near. {* was said he had been engaged a dozen times, and though he left all his fiancees in the lureh he never found any difficully in getting a successor. One day my father, who was his law yer, asked him: "Why don’t you get married, John? .It isn’t for want of opportunities, you know, and it's quite time you thought of settling down.. « syWell, sir,” John answered, ‘it’s this Say: You eeé, 1 like coorting well enough, bat I ¢an nivver summon up pluck to go any further. To tell you the truth, I'm afeard of getting tied for life to one of ’em.’ : “If you have heard many breach of premise suits you will have observed that this svholesonie drexd of matri- THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, Leesbhburg, Georgia, Friday, June, 24, 1904. - mony is the cause of a good proportion >f them. though all the detfendants have not the courage to say so. “One client of mine had allowed mat ters to proceed right to the eve of the " wedding day, when he disappeared mysteriousiy and was not discovered for some months. The voung lady promptly sued him- for du. aages for ' breach, and at the hearing the reason ' for his conduct came out. He admitted ' that he was fond of .the girl, but sun . dry exhibitions of ber temper and jeal ousy which he had witnessed had so " scared him that Le simply badn’t the - courage to marry her. ‘I meant to " marry ber right enough,’ he said, ‘but r when it came to tiie point my courage . failed wme, and I thought it safer to i bolt” v [ “In another case in which a widow , sued & widower for playing her false ; the defendant put in a singular plea. It | seems that the widow’s family strongly i objected to the watch, and as passive | opposition was useiess to prevent it one ; of the sons, a stalwart young fellow, ; called on the middie aged wooer and i told Lim that if Lie persisted in his suit | he (the son) would give him such a { thrashing as would effectually cure him of any further sentiment. ‘So what could [ do? the defendant pathet | fcally asked. | “The more one sees behind the scenes | the more one realizes that there is often ! a great deal to be said for the man who | loves and runs away. One of my clients { a few years ago found himself in an { awkward guandary. He had engaged himself to three girls at different times and, having canceled his engagements with two, -was on the eve of murrying | No. 3. No sooner was his intention known than the two jilted ladies threat l ened Liun with legal proceedings if he '[ggl's{:t-fll in his proposed marriage, and I have a few pair of women shoes good valie going at ______B4cts. per pair Dresspocdafromy - -0 oo oaogk RO TOC T REERL ST ek Trimmings and laces to match at reduced prices. A fall line of Ribbonsfromy oo anoeae L Sots, 1O 93010 D VAN When in town call around and examine my line of Buggy and Wagon Harness, Call and get prices on my line of Crockery Ware, Tinware and Hardware before bßuying elsewheve, ... . oo 0 e e Youcan still get A. & A, K. Coßea loPkg Jor .~ -oo=o oo BT OF 81bs: of grannlated sugartor. . oo bt ie s g v S A You can buy one pound of Tobacco as good as Liberty Bell for zocts. with tags L. R.ODCODA, the favored _dy iu turn threatened a similar fate if Le didn’t.. “Here wis a dilemna, for whatever he did wou.d end unpleasantiy. How ever, like & prudent man, he decided to run tbe smaller risk. He pacified his two former fiancees by canceling his engagenient and prepared to face the music of the third lady. ~ “The wother-in-law is often a fatal disturber of love’s young dream. One breach of promise defendant declared that he wouid willingly have married the plaintiff only he couldn’t stand her mother at any price, and the pros pect of having his married happiness disturbed by her interference so scared nim that he decided it was more pru dent 1o birea s OiF the engagenment, wiiw another frail lover actually stated in court that he was afraid to marry the plaintiff lest she should ‘grow up like her mother.” whose ‘tongue and tem per’ had shown him some of the less desirable possibilities of married life. “One man whom I defended last year seciis to have had a constitutional dread of matrimony.- He had been en gaged to the plaintiff no less than nine years. Ifour times the wedding day had been tixed, and as many times it was adjourned by his wish. Finally he cried off oltogether, and in court he declared that, although he loved the girl. ‘'he felt he could never screw up the cotrage to marry her. When he was asked the reason for his diffidence he said that he had seen so much of the unlappy side of married life and the difference ' between wooing and wedding that he didn’t feel equal to running the risk. “These are but a few from scores of similar cases which have come within my own knowledge. One man feared to face matrimony on account of his fiancee!s extravagance, another quaint- Iy confessed a borror of his wife’s cooking and domestic gifts generally, a third deiendant was afraid to wed because a distant relative of his lady love had died in an asylum, and so on. But. whatever the cause, you may take my word for it that the men who are downright afraid to take wives are le gion.”—Chicago Tribune. Careful, “Bridget. can I trust you with the chinn ?” “Sure ye can, ma’am. Of'll save ev ery piece.”--Life. 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