Show the old settler ny my dear san Jua nars ners human events have an unfailing way of ripening the process reaches into the centuries into the millenniums into the eternities considering how much they ripen iriven in fifty years and what surprising changes they bring I 1 am struck with awe in contemplation of the tremendous developments which will result through the ages ahead fifty years ago I 1 watched men I 1 lay the foundation toun dation lor a big bis stone house those first stones were so b big ig that it took three men to get them in place and we figured that th tha wall to be raised above them would stand for ages but that foundation was laid on the sand no enduring structure can be built on sand the walls laid up there with care and hope are cracked beyond repair and it is i but a matter of time till the build I 1 ing ng falls in a sorry heap I 1 fifteen years ago a wedding was celebrated d in a most elaborate fasion great demonstration and extravagant professions of love declaring that the union was not for a month nor a year but for always there was a lavish ex denture of cash a palace of a house had bad been prepared for the future life was trumpeted to the i four winds my opinions about it were such that I 1 wanted for my persi per nal comfort to keep thern them to myself but some of mv friends dug them out of me and I 1 became a pessimist pesi mist and a grouch by saying that the stuff on which the brida and the groom had built was shifting sand and their building would fall un lass some fortunate set of adverse circumstances should develop to bring them down to the bedrock of common sense and sanctify their love one for the other they had built on shallow pride greed iea lousy mistrust and the hope of land a glory which was never right and cannot endure instead of the fortunate events of adver adversity sit y coming to save them from th tb wreck and uniting them in true love anve together money flowed into their hands from all sides so need to explain to thinking people how they became estranged ed and then separated with their accusations and counter ions echoing with unsavory stink in a wide area twenty vears ago the report was repeated that joe ong one of th common workers at the saw mill was go going Z to marry kate a poor mans daughter who had gone to the mill mil to help with w th the cooking joe had nothing but a team no I 1 land no roof of his own under which to find shelter an ani and I no thought of such a n m n as 1 a fedling ring chev intended to begin house in one of the shacks of the mill and to ampro vise with their own hands such ar ls l l s 4 oe 0 furniture PS they had to have the report of their mar rinse wa was repeated renea ted with disgust thern should ho bo a law again against t such poverty stricken people get ainu tip er marri married d some one declared I 1 knew them my sympathy was with them it hurt me to hear condemn condemned al and belittled for theirl their courage to act on their abst con dictions now why not I 1 insisted aisted so far as a I 1 am concerned they have rt perfect right to mar rv love is the kind that heareth 11 ll 11 things all thines en dureth an all th things inaR arft are building on mighty good foundation and should bp be ted to build a real home and raise a good fa family alv chev have lived happily and in lve love tol together zether these years vears have a house which though it is not a palace it iq yet the sacred thing home they have 0 the old settler continued from f born pae i 1 children who love them and and who know how to work they have never had much money nor many of the luxuries of lite life but they have richly in their souls the wondrous milk of human kindness and they have done the thing which god first required of men and women ALBERT R LYMAN |