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Show REASON FOR VANTINQ RAIN. Georgia Mountaineer Aailgna a Sufficient Suffi-cient but Peculiar Cauae. Itev Mr Livingston of Georgia, told thl tory "A friend of mine down in one of the small towns of Georgia hits many proteges among the peoplo In tho mountain country near Several years ngo there vra a long dry spell In Ooorgla. At about the beginning of It the wife ot one of the mountaineers died. The disconsolate husband followed fol-lowed her to the grave and was tho Inst to leae the burying ground Hla footprints remained, large and distinct, dis-tinct, In tho clay beside tho grave. Six weeks afterward my friend drovo out to see how the widower was doing. He was sitting In the door of his cabin staring hopelessly at the cloudless sky. "Kf hit would only turn In an" rain. lis sold, 'I wouldn't ask nolhln" of nobody ' "The dry weather l bad for tho crops.' the visitor remarked. " "Tnln't crops, said the widower, 'hit's Miss Sellny Johnson. She swears she won't marry me un'M It rains.' "'She 'lows It wouldn't lie showing proper respect for my first wife to marry beforo my tracks In the grave-unl grave-unl Is washed out. I shore do ulsh It would turn In an' rain. I been courtln' her six weeks (lood Lord, a man kaln't wait on the weather forever.' " |