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JUNE 16,
OVE AND MARRIAGE
popes for a p iaoe to dupU* uu, um
brella. bag, but and th-i parcel she h«*
sent down to the office, far him to bring
homo. *
| MAN WHO *«
HIS L' rE
ENGAGED ALU
I" - to bo married all
^■fSa bachelor, because, as he
' #fl ‘ ’ , r t„ inquiring friends, if
.A ill 1 1 . , .
**ii iMHUitfi-UHl there would.be no-
,, fl .„i s ,H*nd the evening!
■***£ nnodion is. was this man
J'ttan na« in general, or was he
s* JiV p^ihe miss :dl the qmet
sT * of domestic life—some-
■^‘^t^V.ii-slipp-rs. and nnrso his
» lj tsii iu , vt , a 1 .right room and worm
ffi’’ J(ir i,j m when he came home
^ol'ahv.Aod get only a whimsical
i ’“. , ht j.iace of tliem, or did he es-
the fret and worry of too close
^ ytv and tlie miserable feeling
f^Lwablo u. getaway from what
^ — -wishes to retain?
iVssh-
-More Fond
’ i til l i .,„„U of Affection.
Oil All Disguise*—Lovo
tl> (io A Jons.
M 1*1. I.y American Press Assocla-
VENICE.
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tw, ioili{t.*i*
^ tho answer u> that query is, He
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My mother used to toll a story of one
of her girl fnende who invited her to
come«ud Witness the nerfeetion of her
mnmod bliss. She Wnt. never having
seen tin, hnshand, and the first evening
saw. a very tired, rather cross looking
and much laden man plod up the door-
steps in a rain. Her friend saw him; too
and shrieking, “Oh. there’s mv honey
potr she rushed into the hall and went
.. I(f the gentleman ‘^“Sh fte Merrtses mentioned above;
|J ' - ■■ his 1 ,n t * ,e tOPlst of her exclamations
carno another voice, low and growly in
its tones, yet qnite audible in the parlor:
“Love mo a lot, don’t yon, Bessie?”
‘Oh, ves, yes, yes my own, own dear
est love! And yon love your Bessie, don’t
yon, darling?”
Yes; bnt if she didn’t love me qnite
so much, perhaps 1 should love her more,”
was the reply; whereat Bessie laughev.
as at a good.joka.
Of course the man was a brnte to say
such-a thing; bnt, oh, dehr me, how
many.men think it, and don’t say it!
Men are predatory animals, loving to
hunt, to pui sne, to capture, and to hold
by main force, and the moment the
prey ceases to resist, tire interest of the
conquest is over. All the linnters of big
game tell us that the only chance of
safety for the victim of a lion, tiger,
bear, or other beast of prey, is to remain
perfectly pasrive-and inert beneath his
daws; the least resistance rouses his en
ergies, and he soon enforces a quiet never
to be disturbed. The same instinct in
a modified form is to be traced in the
lord of creation; he only pursues while
the dear creators runs away, and dis
dains a victim that is only too glad to re
main in his grasp.
Any man constantly assured that his
wife lives, moves, breathes and has her
being solely in him; that Bho has a fnnd
of caresses and honeyed words always at
high water mark and eager for an out
let, becomes first calmly confident, then
careless, and at the last bored and sur
feited by sweets for which ho never is
allowed to get np an appetite by fasting.
I once traveled in company with a
somewhat cynical, bnt very delightful
mau, who, as we neared the shores of
onr native land, remarked:
“1 wish the first twenty-four hours
after my arrival were well over! It is
so hard to come up to the expected mark
of enthusiastic affection!"
And yet this man had wooed his wife
with the ardor and perseverance of a
hero of romance. The trouble was that,
whereas she had been a coy and coquet
tish maiden, she was a very demonstra
tive wife, and had choked out her hus
band’s affection with a perennial flood of
her own.
But often enough .the disillusionment
comes from the other side, and results
from a perverted idea of marital obliga
tions.
, lbo oV Ua ami did not attain the
\ ^ Marriage may be counted as
ur hell, but, betrothal is
**“T condition called purgatory,
one may l*> very much in
"Ly w get out of purgatory.into
ou. would be loth to exchange
•'* !i( 4 And that ugly word reminds
remarkable book called “Let
Heir Which I read many years
V jev of that place of torment
-ty, (track me most forcibly was the
companionship with persons
longer loved, and the necessity
Snawoin* occupations once very ab-
twins', bnt now odious. Does not that
jf-i-ription fit in with the idea of ail ill
, r itd union, and if that is really hell,
j., *v not often see it begun upon earth?
\m; if this view is correct, of course
^ ^rse >himid also be, and we should
>r the other unions whose perfect har-
and bliss give an image of heaven
on.-artu. So doubt there are such, but
< tear they are more rare, or at any rate
conspicuous, than the other, and cer-
din)v ilu not furnish as much material
for tiw pen of the satirist or the pencil
of the cariraturist. Now, why is this?
Mitiy pTsons. at least in our own
(oantry, marry for love, or at least from
i uitmml fancy and sympathy which
h, v mistake for love. In many cases
the” sympathy is not very deep, nor the
lincy very pTinaneiit, but at any rate
t>- two i»o]ile really believe that mar-
riag • will, each other is going to lead to
t[,;,ing i.'.oj.mess—and it doesn’t. Why?
Well, tin
sold of naira's candescent sky
, r'ko ooinoand campanile, sharp and clear.
Jaugling sweet bells on llie stiil city’s ear.
olrarvge sccnfsof musk and myrtle hovel- nigh.
' i, ™ 1 tomrgranate blossoms, banging high
Above the .lark canal, drop straight and
sheer.
on, a crimson fleet, then disappear.
•lish bcnpnl with son kissed fruits the boats
8« by
With cade need oar to tbb gay market place,
Woere purple, bloomy grapes, Tor very st^eep
Of swollen sweetness, burst and spill their
wine; t
^hero broused melons lie in shade and shine.
And the Sea Lilly’s deiinite impress
Glows in swart splendor from each dusky face.
-Bessie Gray. .
A MODERN ELIJAH.
He was small and black—a child of an
inferior race. There was nothing in his
appearance to suggest the hero, and if
you had told him that he was a hero he
would scarcely have known what yon
meant. An unschooled, illiterate, ngly,
bullet headed negro, he had neverthe
less been baptized by the same spirit
which had caused the face of SL Stephen
to shine as the face of an angeL
One winter day—almost a year before
the event which gave him a chance to
show the stuff that was in him—he
came into the hotel looking for a job.
The office was brilliantly lighted and
filled with a crowd of handsomely
dressed men. There were politicana,
club men, men about town, reporters,
many members of the sporting frater
nity, the usual loungers und hangers-
on, an occasional hayseed—all forming
a very startling background for the
rags and tilth of the poor, shivering,
half starved little darkey. It was no
easy matter for him to steer his coarse
to the desk, and when he got there the
splendor of the man behind it dazed him
so that his voice almost failed him. He
had, however, even at his early age,
reached the point where he had to work
or starve. So his necessities made him
eloquent His eloquence prevailed. He
was on the next day placed on the pay
roll of • the great hotel.
As a bell boy he was not a success. I
fear I must confess that he was lazy.
People liked him—1 do not know why—
and for some reason or other he was a
favorite with his employers. If he had
not been they would have dismissed him
before his first week was out. Instead
of doing that, they concluded to find
more congenial work for him, so they
put him in charge of one of the eleva
tors.
Among the passengers who used to
ride up and down with the boy was a
little five-year-old girl, the daughter of
a f:uxiily living in tire hotel.' She w.-is as
perfect a type of her race as he was of
his. With her fair, white skin, golden
hair, deep blue eyes and pretty womanly
ways, thtvqhild was. a general favorite.
Every one knew her; every one loved
her.
Between
survive the shock. It was sure to catch
fire sooner or later. Even then he would
be on the way to safety with his pas
sengers. And at any rate he knew that
he could bring some people out of the
fire burning above.
He had not been good at going up
stairs.' but he could rnn his elevator.
Trip after trip he made, each worse than
the last. Th fireman at the bottom of
the shaft to whom he turned over his
living freight sought to stop him in his
dangerous work. The whole well was
full of smoke, and far up toward the
roof the fire could be seen.
Still he kept on, and it did a°em that
every time he storied skyward he was
going to certain death. But he knew
that the rooms and halls were swarming
with people, and he would take any
chance to save a life. The firemen were
doing their best outside; death was busy
within; and he finally made np his mind
that it was no use to go back again, till
all at once he remembered that he had
seen nothing of his little friend.
Could he weather the storm and flame
once more? He could try- He pulled
the rope, and the journey began. It was
slow, oh, how slow. The smoke was
terrible—worse even than the fire—bnt
he held his breath and fixed his mind
upon the business in hand.
The flame kindled the woodwork of
the car. He fell on his hands and knees,
but he kept his hold on the rope. At
last he reached her floor. He found her
room, and found her. She was asleep
and alone.
Wrapping her in the blankets, and
throwing about her a rug which he
snatched from the floor, be struggled
through the flame and smoke back to the
burning car. “Back from the jaws of
hell” it was that he brought her, fighting
the fire away from her every inch of the
way down. He had just strength enough
to stop the car.
The children were taken out and car
ried to a drug store across the street—
the girl alive and well and the boy seem
ingly dead.
He was horribly burned. Among the
people who stood around were the pa
rents of the little girl. They had been
out to an.evening party, and returning
after a long cold drive found their home
on fire. Every effort had been made, in
respouse to the agonizing appeals of tin-
father, to save the child—and now here
she was, safe and sonnd. laughing in her
mother’s arms.
And the hero? He opened his eyes.
“Did 1 bring her froo all right?”
“Yes, yes,” said the father, “and how
can we ever thank you for what you have
done7“
“Nebber min’ ’boat dat, boss. Ef she’s
safe dat’s ’null for me”—and be closed
his eyes.
Dead? Yes, dead and gone to heaven
in a chariot of fire.—Richard Yorke: Ro
mance.
A man who is paying his addresses to
.Teat reason, it seems to j a young girl, or even to an older woman, ; Between her and the boy a great
• in small natures and ’ holds himself under constant restraint j friendship had sprung up. He was de-
-1lo- only strong and en-j in all conversation laddering upon sub- votion itself, and his attentions to the
is i lie love of Self, and'as j jects unfit for an innocent and delicate | little Caucasian were so grotesquely
th<-outside fancies come in con- i
die;\ntli this real passion they go to the
sail Th.- man sees a pretty girl in the
Mintsi if her youth, and he wishes to
otiU iw his own. She is sprightly, full
iif tan, nukes every effort to be agreea-
Wt-aml amusing, ami lie -feels that her
wsi-tyit.il rest and refreshment after
tix-iiMiotoiiy of business. Perhaps she
ku or is to have some money, and this,
Bled to his own, will keep a comforta
ble home, where lie can be free from the
ai;i. -yaiH «*s of a boarding house and the
tiiiiii-traliens of a laundress.
-W iill litis, of course, is pure selfish-
t»'-. Tne man has not once considered
the claims aud rights and wishes of the
(t:-r party to the bargain, and when he
hide,as lie will very soon after the we<l-
iliig. tluu these are quite as prominent
»s his own. he is at first surprised, then
indignant, and Hi the end profoundly
feltufml.
Fit the bride may be, in her fashion,
quite as selfish as her groom. She has
tinmol to gain independence and a freer
“•-' -f money; to have tlie position and
dignity of a married woman; to avoid
kin? an old maid, even for the sake of
»smart wedding, a paragraph in th?
n**s|ia]ier. new clothes and wedding
I'tirmte; a y e ar later the clothes are out
of fashion, the presents an old story, she
'Wi t find liiat she has any more, If as
iMch, independence and freedom as she
®Joyed while a girl, and her husband is
to more requiring than her father and
mother iin-d to be.
So the poor little veneer of mutual
’“*)• and sympathy they dignified by
name of love is worn off, the tin-
shaken selfishness of both man and wom-
M “tuies boldly to th^T front, and the
•“an cynically declares that marriage is
»mistake and divorce a happy thought,
i ® his wife shakes her bead and
? °°mily advises lier young friends to
now when they’re well off, and not be
great a hurry to get married.
* 'h'u't know that wo can say marriage
'strove,1 the love in such a uuion, for
. UVe w °rth speaking of never existed,
. . “‘ftaiuly marriage dispelled the de-
m-iiou that there was any love, and the
pretence soon vanishes,
kook at a higher and happier class of
la S B8 : hike one where both parties
V wish and intend to make the other
dW, to make sacrifices, and to stndy
,, “ a **its, tastes and wishes of that
«, er; where there is, to begin with, a
n « iff notion and the capacity for yet
J** lov «- Such a couple marry and
minded woman’s ears. The stories, the chivalrous as to be alraost pathetic. She
main. .1, • “ “ cuupio “““
c. 6 tl>elr vows in tones and with looks
each other’s eyes that prove to those
k ’ J mok and listen that here is a true
e marriage, with every prospect of
PBness and constancy,
tb. vt ar8 1 XISS !ln d how do you find
uk w “ 1 * ied lovers? She has grown
,i ® KU,u t. is fond of her dinner, talks
i B , “‘ r children, and does not turn
head to look when her husband
is ** 11110 the room. When lovers are
question she wears a smile of indulg-
• *°penority and says: “Ob, yes; I
. a '' about it! Tom and I went on
wh» , ore we were married.” And
w »y is this?
fine cauf ’? I’utont to produco this state
•ngs is overfondness on the part
' wi * e - Before she was married her
tnihi re8traiI ied by coyness, by the
r'ininsr mwi - , . x, i_
jests, the songs, the conundrums which
alleviate the toils of the office, the count
ing room, tlie lunch counter, the chib,
the bachelor dinner or the little supper,
are most vigorously ruled out. from tho
conversation with which the man enter
tains his betrothed or any other respect
able woman. But the betrothed becomes
the wife, anil all in a minute the new
made husband emancipates his tongue
from all reserves, throws aside all care
as to whether what he has to say is fit
for the ears of a carefully educated girl,
brings home the story, t'ne jest, the con
versation that only last week he would
have felt it an insult to repeat in her
presence, astonishes, shocks, repels her
in all her fiuer nature, aud excuses him
self, if she remonstrates, by saying:
Yon know we’re all one person now.
so 1 needn't mind what I say.”
But tlie girl is tho same girl from
whom all coarseness or indelicacy has
been carefully kept, and she has never
realized that such matters could be
spoken of. far less that they are the
habitual conversation of a large class of
men, including her own especial man.
Probably, poor little soul, she lias ideal
ized this man into one of those luirox de
roman never met with outside of ro
mance or a young girl’s imagination;
she has fancied that he is so much bet
ter, wiser and stronger than she; that
her one great effort must be to keep up
with him, to climb to his level. They
marry—his pursuit is over, and he throws
aside the fine costume of the chase, puts
on his Boiled workaday clothes, lights
his pipe, and throwing himself upon the
conch with his heeis higher than his
head, amuses his wife with two or three
of the now stories and delicate jests
with which “the fellows” greeted his re
turn among them. She, daring this, his
first day of absence from hey, has been
arranging the ^ittle souvenirs they have
bronght homo from the wedding jour
ney, putting away his clothes in the
chiffonier, not without some shy blushes
ami smiles that such matters should now
become her recognized duty, and in look
ing out two or three poems she means to
read to him this evening.
Just fancy the disillusionment! Just
fancy how the hiro de roman becomes a
facing phantom; how the feet of clay all
at once become more conspicuous than
the head of gold; how she feels insulted
and frightened and bewildered, and then
hiamM herself that she should feel so,
and tries to believe that she is a poor, ig
norant little fool, and that whatever her
husband thinks right to say to her must
be right
a rut so begins in that woman’s heart a
conflict which more often than not ends
by the destruction of all that was best
and finest In her love. She may never
say it even to herself, but she knows in
her inmost heart that her ideal is shat
tered; that the being she fancied a demi
god is only a man, coarse, indelicate,
profane, material, and so far as regards
at least h:df her life, utterly unsympa
thetic. :
Does not marriage destroy love in such
a case?
No, there is no epoch in his whole «»-
reer, there are no conditions of his exist
ence when Love is to be trusted to take
care of himself. He must be guarded,
®?°? “others give their girls, t puffied, restrained, encouraged and caje-
^S^S**** Bxst most jroqng fullynurtnred from first to last, at be-
l tha * onoe they lirf ' married faro yon know it he will have spread his
and all reserves are to be wingg *ndfiown—forever. . .
that it is a duty as well , when fdl k said, the happiest
hot v!, a8are n °t only to love their lords I marri ^ 1K „ : , n i e are those with whom
^j^pvecoMtant evidence of their this g^ie, troublesome, exacting pas-
iMotuTl Tooynwhat him as he comes - ^ nH . rgo a into a sober affection,
tnfvAW 6 ’ tired ’ coW * wet ’ “ritato* 1 founded upon mutual needs, mutual in
1
tired, cold, wet, irritated
stained, jeize him around the
ud cling while be feebly
accepted them all with a dignity anil
grace that were charming. Her family
lived on the top floor of the house, and
as she always rode iu his elevator when
she could manage to do so, the boy and
girl saw much of each other. Once she
was ill. The medicine that help: d her
most was/a wretched little bouqnet sent
her by her dusky friend.
It was winter again. The evening of
which 1 write was very cold and clear.
The stars were diamondlike in their
brilliancy. Everything was frozen up—
the wheels creaked on the snow.
The hotel was crowded with guests.
Not more than two or three of the hun
dreds of rooms wore unoccupied. ’A be
lated traveler, who had been on a wenth-
ei bound train, came in at 1 o’clock,
tired nnd cold. He ordered a fire iu his
room and then went to the bar for a
drink. A few minntes later he stepped
into tho boy’s elevator and was carried
to the top floor.
The great house was quiet. Most of
the lights in the office' had been extin
guished. Two night owls were talking
in low tones on one of the settees which
lined the -walls of the lobby. -The bell
boys were most of them asleep. The
clerk was drowsing.
Two o’clock! The night owls got np
and walked out into the cold air. A
drunken man poked his nose in the door.
The sleeping porter sefemed to scent him.
for ho hnstled the poor fellow out.
The quipt deepened till it. became al
most oppressive. The air was heavy
with it
Suddenly, without a note of warning,
the cry of “Fire!” rang through the
house. There was life enough now.
Scantily clad people were scurrying
wildly through the smoke filled corri
dors. They came plunging down the
stairs to the office, and so out into the
freezing night. Shrieks and curses and
groans and prayers—it was Babel broken
loose. All the bella in the house were
ringing. The smoke grew denser. ’ It
seemed to come from everywhere—above
and below. Great black volumes rolled
through the lopg halls. Outside, .the
streets were jammed with people. The
engines, with their clanging gongs, hur
ried to the scene. Ladders were raised,
and the work of rescue began.
It was time, for there was a white fig
ure at almost every one of the multitu
dinous windows. The awful wall loom
ed up in the darkness, story on story,
dimly seen as to its upper half, for that
part of it was wreathed in the blinding
smoke. The smoke turned to flame-
flame bursting through scores of win
dows. The terror stricken creatures be
gan to jump. The people in the street
below were frantic.
“BackJ back!” they shrieked. “Wait!
we’ll save you! don’t jump!”
Whicbis the pleasanter, to be roasted
alive onto be-onashed out of shape on
the stone pavement? If there is to be
any saving done, it must be done quick
ly. Many people were busy saving
themselves. The (sleeping clerk and
porter and'bell boyi had gotten out.
But what of the Tittle black fellow in
the elevator? He, too, had been asleep
He bad been awakened as .tins others had
been by the first cry of fire. Unlike
them he had that “two-o’clock-in-tht
morning courage” which Napoleon said
was the rarest sort In an instant he de
cided that it was his duty to stick to his
post Aud stick he did-
Up and down he went, and every time
his car touched the office floor it was
loaded with people. Tho journey was
frightful one, but he did not shrink.
How long he could continue to make the
Man or Beast.
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York.
ON THE RAMPAGE.
The Red River In Taxas Above High
Water Mark.
St. Louis, June 10.—Dispatches from
several points along the Rod river in
Texas, indicate that that stream is on
the rampage. At Gainesville it is above
the high water mark. The rise was
very rapid and unexpected, and many
people barely escaped with their lives.
All communication with the Indian ter
ritory has been cut off
Messengers from Burling state the
river is running wild in that section,
destroying property and some lives lost
north of Doss, on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway. J. P. Harris, a
stockman, lost 400 head of cattle and
fifty-five horses.
A dispatch from Belcher says that the
Red river, which runs throe miles north
of there, is on one of the greatest ram
pages known for years. Friday after
noon about 1 o’clock a volume of watei
ten feet high came rnshiug down the
▼alley bearing trees, brush, housetops,
dead animals and debris of all kinds,
and in thirty minutes the whole valley
was one vast sheet of water. Crops of
all kinds near the river are all under
water and mud.
During the heavy rain at Chillicotche,
Tex., two employes of W. P. Lindsay
and two strangers, who were camped
near the bridge at that place, were
drowned.
SMITH GOT EVEN.
With his Wife's Relatives by Inviting
Them.
Plainfield, N. J., June 10.—James
D. Smith is a joker. It was never sus
pected until now.
He never lived much with his wife,
Lizzie, because, he says, her relatives
interfered. He thought out a scheme
for revenge, and put it into execution
by sending collect telegrams, with his
wife’s name signed to them, to all her
relatives in Maryland, Long Island and
New York, telling them of his death
and inviting them to the funeral at 8
o’clock in the afternoon of the next day.
So Jim, in his old clothes and com
fortably smoking a clay pipe, sat on a
rail fence behind the brush heap, to see
the mourners arrive.
When the train came in twenty
mourners, most of them women, got off.
They brought flowers and other offer
ings, and some, of them, who did not
know Jim, asked him the way to Lizzie
Smith’s house. He directed them, and
afao heard them talk with each other
ab&nt his- own jgCUl&rities. Then he
mode himself scarce.
The wife’s relatives came back to the
station pretty mild. There were no ac
commodations for them at the house,
and they all had to go home.
ORDERED HER RELEASE,
Aucl Ceil, llutlur Left the Coart Hoom
Smiling.
Boston, June 10.—United States Dis
trict Judge Nelson gave hi ;, decision
upon the application of Gen. Butler, for
the release cf /Mrs. Claretta Johnson,
upon a writ of habeas' corpus, and after
delivering a long opinion, ordered the
discharge of the prisoner. An appeal
was taken.
Judge Nelson found that the writ of
power to exercise, and
that, therefore, the prisoner had been
lawfully returned to prison, bnt, on the
other huud, the court found .that the
Sentence of six months’ imprisonment
without hard labor was Illegal, and or
dered her release on her, own recogniz
ance. Gen. Butler left the Court house
smiling. ,
For msPEML.,
Indigcstlonfand Stomach disorders, urn
BROWN’S BIOS BITTERS.
All dealers keep it, SI per bottle Genuine has
trade-mark and crossed rod lines on wrapper.
SHORT ITEMS.
the anniversary of
a Davis a legal hoh-
Important General News Dispatches In
Condensed Form.
The Southern Life, after the order of
"Life,” Is a new illustrated weekly
which has just made Its appearance in
Atlanta.
The tusk of a wiki boar, ten inches
long, was found in Gum swamp, and is
on exhibition at Eastman, Go. It is
said that are still many wild boars far
this swamp.
Tbfc bill l mitring _
the birth of Jefferson ■]
day in Florida has become a law^ After
the bill was passed, the legislature ad
journed sine die.
At Williamsburg, Ky., Sidney Lewis,
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Captain J. H. Adams, Eatonton, Ga.,
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Imbi*- and the memories of far trip he could not U-1L The elevator
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the people iu it mi£ht
Al » fct ouuiijg.
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tint strains of Mendelssohn floated
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bride stood before the altar with her
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The pastor of the church,ritual in hand,
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the critical moment, when he said:
Repeat after me, ‘1, William, take
thee, Frances.’"
He did not proceed at once, for to every
one’s astonishment, before the bride
groom could find his voice, the bride, in
clear, firm tones, repeated:
“ T, William, take thee, Frances.’
There was a dead silence, till the sec
ond officiating clergyman, unable longer
control himself, laughed outright.
This was the signal for a contagions wave
of merriment.
As soon as the pastor conld compose his
features and resume his dignified voice,
be said:
Repeat after me. 'L William, take
thee, Frances.’ ”
This time the bridegroom spoke np
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Improvements In Divers* Costume.
The well known French engineer, M.
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