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VOL. IV. fMMKJiWt HE fSKW: C I IAI . TKU . TBION R. A. CHAPTER. No. 19, meets at Trion on the Friday night before the third Sunday in April, May, June, July, August, and Septem ber and on Saturday night before the third Sunday in October, Novemper, December, January, Feb-uary, and March. 0. 0. BRYAN, H. P. O. B. MYERS, Sect’y. ATTORNEYS: J. M. Robertson, Attorney at 1/aw, and Solicitor iu Chancery. Chattanooga, - - Tenn. PRACTICE In Chancery, Circuit and Huprcrao Court* of Tennessee and U. S. District Court. jWio in adjoining counties In Georgia. (X?-< )ffice in Court House. Robert M. W.; Glenn, Attorney at Law, LaFayetth, - - - - Georgia. "fliriLL PRACTICE in the Supeilor Courts of the W Koine and adjoining circuits. Collections a •psciitliy. Offic* on eor.ier opposite Drug store. 35 3m. Jobs I’bklan, C* P. Gorkb. Phelan & Goree, Attorneys at Law, Poss Block, 249 Market St., CHATTANOOGA, - - - TENNESSEE W, TJ. & J. P. Jacoway, Attorneys at Law, Trenton, - - - - Georgia. PRACTICE in the counties of Dade, Walker and Catoosa, and adjoining counties, and in the Sta promt and Federal Court A eo, Jackson, OeKalb •m dClierokee, in North Alaham\ and elsewhere hy epeoial contract. Special attention given to the col- Itetiod es eluirus. ¥.*M. Henry, Attorney at Law, Bumhkrvil/T-e, - - - - Georgia. TYTILL practice in the Rome and adjoining Cir- V T cuita. Collections a specialty. J. C. Clements, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - Georgia. Wfijj practice In the several counties of the Rome and Cherokee Circuits, and the Supreme flheurt of Georgia. F. W. Copeland, Attorney at Law', I. Fayette, - - - Georgia. WILL practice in the SuperiorConrts, of Rome Circuit. Elsewhere hy special 'agreement. Col laetions a specialty. (Office in rear of Culberson'* Store.) 11. P. Lumpkin, Attorney at Law, LaFayf.tte. * - Georgia. 11, ILL cive prompt attention to ail business i j entrusted to him. fXf Okies at Shuford & Lumpkin’s store. " '.■"TiEcqmßmw DENTISTS: Dr. Geo. B, Jordan, Resident Dentist, Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga. Offers his professional services to the people of Dads and Walker counties. Dental operations per formed in a neat, and substantial manner. All work warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Will make a professional trip through VJcLc naorM* Cave, on the first of each month. Dr.lJ. P. Fann, Resident Dentist. Dai.ton, - - - Georgia. T AM PREPARED with nil the tf£*£k gSffiP LModern Improvements in Dental to turn out ns good work as ca* be hart In the State, and at ns low prices as can be doneby anv first el ass workman. #7-1 guarantee all woik turned out tn stand any ml all reasonable tests. feJpeeinl attention given to correcting irregularities in children’s teeth. (ST-Ladies waited on at their residence, when un able :o visit the office. A liberal share of patronage solicited, (KT-office: Up-stairs ou Hamilton street, opposite Wa.ional Hotel. Will visit LaFayette, Walker Co., at Superior Courts August and February. HOTELS: HAMILTON HOUSE, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. J. *t. * m®,. Drop’s. Centrally Located ; Good Accommodations; Rates Reasonable. Terms* sl-50 to $2-00 per Day- THE ROME HOTEL, Broad Sit., Rome, Ga. In Ten Stpps or the Railroad. NO OMNIBUS HEEDED LOCATED in the Principal Business Square of the City, convenient tithe Wharf, the Banks and the Post Office, and is thoroughly renovated and repainted. J. L. M. ESTES, Proprietor. NATIONAL HOTEL, JT. ((. A. LEWIS, Frop’r. Dai.ton, * - * Georgia, This house is a largo four-story brick, within a few steps ot the Passenger do* SoARD PER DAY - - - $2.00 Polite and attentive porters at every train; pass them your checks, waik right T A- BASS, —draper in — Staple Dry Goods, FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES. Allkinds of produce taken in exchange for goods. , . ~ We keep the best wagon yard in the city, and feed stock at reasonable rates Our yard is free to ali during tho day Walker County Messenger. Music in Camp. By John r. thomppon’ Two nrmle* covered hill nnd pl-nfn, Where RappahnnuMk’* water* Ran deeply crimsoned with the *uin Os battle’s recent slaughter*. The summer cloud* lay pitched like tents In mends of heavenly azure; And each dread gun of the element* Slept in it* high embrasure. The breeze so softly blew, It made No finest leaf to quiver, And the smoke «,f the random cannon <dc lolled slowly from the river. And now where circling hill* looked down With cannon deeply planted, O’er listless camp and silent town The goiden sunset slanted; When on the fervid air there came A strain, now rich, now tender, The music seemed itself aflame With day’s departing splendor. A Federal band, which eve and morn Played measure* brave and nimble, Had just struck up with fl ute and horn And lively clasli of cymbal. Down flocked the soldiers to the banks, Till, margined by its pebbli*, One wooded shore was blue with “Yanks,” And one was gray with “Rebels.” Then nil was still; and then the hand With movement light and tricksy, Made stream and forest, hill and strand, Reverberate with “Dixie.” The conscious stream with burnished glow, Went proudly o’er Its pebble*, But thrilled throughout it* deepest flow With yelling of the Rebel*. Again a pause, and then again The tuinpet pealed sonorous. And “Yankee Doodle” was the strain To which the shore gave chorus. The laughing ripple shoreward flew To kiss tii* shining pebbles— Loud shrieked the swarming Bovs in Biue Defiance to the Relies. And yet t nee more the hu .la sang Above the s'.o iny riot; No about upon the evening rang— Ther reigned a holy quiet. The sad, slow stream its noislcss flood Poured o er the glistening pebbles; All silent now the Yankees stood, Ali silent stood the Rebels. No Unresponsive soul had heard % That plai..tivc notes appealing. So deeply ‘Home, Sweet Home’ had stirred The hidden founts of feeling. Or blue m gray, the soklicrsecs, As by the wand of fairy, The cottage ’neath the live oak trees, The cabin by the prairie. Or cold or warm his native skies, Bend in their beauty o’er him; Seen through tiie tear mi>t in his eyes His loved ones stand b .iore him. As fades the iris nfter rain in Aprils tearful weather, Tin: vision vanished as the strain Aud daylight died together. But memory, waked by music’s art, Expressed In simp.est number*, Snbdued the st«ri>est Yankees heart— Made liylit tin* Rebel* slumbers. And fair the form of Music shines, That bright celestial creature, Who still ’mid war’s embattled Pnca Gave this one touch of nature. The Scottish Banker’s Dilemma. CHAPTER 11. Dismay fell on the quiet little hank of Tollkirk. The former un easiness became in the office a panic. Hamilton had been made ill by the anxiety of his position, and was in bed on the day Mr. Traill’s defi ciency occurred. After closely scrutinizing each entry in the books, Traill came to the conclusion that he had not paid the money in ex cess to any one, and that the notes must have been stolen by some one on the premises. The bank’s safe was duly examined; but the locks bore no marks of being tampered with. The windows and doo/s of the office were unaffected; and Mr. Duff’s domestics —who swept out the office—had been his servants and were known to him for years. The matter was on this occasion reported to the bank’s head office; but thence came the cold intimation that no further deficiency could be made good, and referring the bank agents to their recent letter to that effect of such and such a dale. Mr. Duff began to think the place was haunted. Wherever the money was gone, it had to be paid up; raising the total losses made in this mysterious way to the unpal atable sum of fourteen hundred pounds in less than three months! The mystery was all the deeper that during the day of the differ ence in Traill’s cash it had happened there had not been a single cash paymentamounting to five hundred pounds. Then there came vague rumors —such as the police, bad the matter passed into their hands, would certainly have made use of —that there was an itenerant lock smith, a gypsy, in the neighborhood to whom popular rumor attributed almost miraculous power in the manipulation of locks. Yet it would take a very clever locksmith indeed to open the Central Bank’s safe unheard in the house, and to close it again without leaving traces i LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1881. of his work. The safe had a foun dation of eight feet of store, and was coated on tho floor, wall, and roof with a two-inch plate of solid iron. The doors were, of course, of iron, and eacli —there were four doors—had two keys and separato locks. Through the lock of the outer door, an iron bolt was each evening shot down from Mr. Duff’s bedroom above, and while that bolt was down no key in the world could open the door. It was neces sary to be in Air. Duff’s bedroom before the bolt could be drawn or dropped. It was extremely im probable that there were any in Tollkirk who could, even with the necessary keys in their hands, find their way in the strong-room, un aided. No longer was Mr. Duff able to leave the bank with an easy mind for a two o’clock luncheon —with forty winks to follow —as had been his custom these twenty years. He was closely on the watch. Yet there was no visible cause for sus picion. Bankers and clerks were fast becoming demoralized —in the military sense—from sheer fright, accelerated by mystery, and a sense of utter helplessness in face of it. Mr. Duff might far better be losin;*. his fortune on tho stock exchange, or throwing his money away on turf speculations; in these there would be some remote chance of profit, if not satisfaction in losing his property. His bark had up to this time sailed in smooth seas, had even, hitherto, floated in a sheltered bay unexposed to financial tempests or breakers; but now a leak of a dangerous sort had sprung, as likely he imagined, to ingulf him at his anchorage as any buffeting of waves in open sea. Mr. Duff became a changed man. He was thin and worn and ill with anxiety and watching. They were all watching. Traill was watching Hamilton; Hamilton turned a keen glance on the boys; the boys kept their eyes very widely open all ronnd. Mr. Duff was unwilling to put the matter in the hands of the local police, knowing that the first to he suspicior.ed would l>o hie clerks, and that the affair would speedily become town gossip. Se cretly, Mr. Duff began to think the placo was bewitched. His partner, George Traill, being called upon to pay up half the five hundred pound, resolved to get to the bottom of the matter. He had a bed fitted up in the bankers bus iness room, and determined to spend his nights thers until some solution of the problem presented itself. His transfer from the Aber deen branch seemed just then to prove a bad bargain. The keys of the safe, it should be mentioned, numbering eight, were placed every night after the locking up of the safe and the dropping of tho iron bolt from the banker’s bedroom, in a strong box, the key of which was always carried by Mr. Duff. Geo. Traill, armed with a revolver, in spite of Mary’s protests and Mr. Duffs jeers, occupied theroom where the bed had been fitted there, and waited philosophically the course of events. He slept little for the first night or two; but no intruder came to disturb his repose. The long dull hours crept on without adventure or other result than to make Traill sleepy and cross during the following days. The hankers were beginning to despair of dis covering the thief. Yet Traill — despite Mr. Duff’s perfectly reason able argument that if any man broke into the safe it would not be j merely five hundued pounds that j would satisfy him, nor would he j risk a second or third visit —con- tinued t‘o spend his nights in the hank. At daybreak, however, or. a cer tain morning in the fol’owing Week, Traill, who slept very lightly, was j suddenly awakened and startled by . hearing the bolt that passed through j the lock of the outer door of the j safe drawn sharply up. He could | hardly believe the evidence of bis j ears, thinking that perhaps he had dreamed. But the “click” was still 1 reverberating, exaggerated as all ! sounds are in the stillness of night. If the bolt was really lifted, the person that drew it up must be in the room where Mr. Duff slept.) Traill was a courageous man; hut in spite of himself, lie trembled as he felt for nnd examined his revolver. When the, reverberation subsided, there was a silence for a moment ns of Death, Sleep’s twin brother. Then he thought he heard, far off, a doer open; presently the door opened, nnd a man entered, carry ing in one hand a lighted candle, in the other a bunch ot keys. The revolver was firmly held in Traill’s grip, nnd before firing, he was about to utter a cry of warning, when he noted that the figure paid no heed to bis presence, hut passed hint, making straight for the sale-door. In the dim light, to his astonish ment, he distinguished the fixed, even rigid features of his friend and partner, Air. Duff! His eyes were wide open, and be moved with his usual deliberation, but with an air of stern preoccupation quite foreign to his working habits. Traill saw at a glance that the banker was walking in his sleep. His firs* impulse war to seize and wake him: but a moment’s reflec tion decided him to wait the natural issue of events. Mr. Duff, without hesitation or fumbling, chose the right keys for the outer door, and pushed it, as the lock sprang hack, slowly open; then the wicket-gatei the inner iron door, and so on, till he disappeared silently in the vault like shades of the strong-room. When he reached the inner safe, he took from the well-packed store of pound notes—Traill eagerly watch ing him from the door —a bundle containing five hundred; he then noiselessly shut and locked the door as he retreated. He passed within arm’s-length of Traill, hear ing tho bundle of notes, the keys, and his lighted candle; leit the office —followed by his partner— walked slowly up stairs to his bed room, where he deliberatsly dropped the bolt back in its place, and finally laid the keys carefully, ap parently counting them, in their usual place in the box, fixed in the wall for the purpose: Traill ex pected he would then retire to bed; but it was evident that the somnam bulist hud not finished his night's work. if..ving safely put away the keys, he lifted his cantih; end again went down-stairs, carrying the notes in his hand. Traill followed him through the kitchen and ont into the court-yard behind. With the same purpose-like delib eration that he had shown ot the safe, he now marched to —the pig sty ! Arrived there, he lifted a loose fold of thatch that rested on a slab of stone in the rickety roof, secreted the bundle of notes there, replaced the thatch carefully, and then turned with an air of relief, and went in-doors. Traill did not disturb him, did not even take the trouble to follow his partner to see if he reached his bed safely, but sprang eagerly to the loose thatch, in which, 3nuglv lying, lie found the comfortable sum of one thousand nine hundred ; pounds in bank-notes! He could j not help laughing as he stood there in the dim gray morning, half-clad for the pursuit hadn’t been without excitement. “An expensive roofing for Duff’s pjigs,” he murmured, gathering the various dusty bundles together and retreating indoors from the cold morning air. “I think, Duff,” said Traill, seri ously, when they met in the office alter breakfast —“I think, to make certain that no thief, or witch, or ghost has been tampering with the j cash during the night, we had better , count the cash henceforth in the morning as well as at night; that j will make certain whether the money disappears hy night or in the day.” Mr. Duff assented. “■Suppose you begin this morn ing.” Again Air. Duff assented; nnd with reluctant fingers, at his part- j ner’s suggestion,counted the money I himself. “Powers of Darkness!” he ex claimed, “I shall not stay another day in this house. The cash is again five hundred pounds short! ’ J Had Air. Duff not been a remark- j able bald man he would probably have torn his hair iu agony. “How much do you reckon your, pigs cost you annually, Duff?” I r l mill asked with apparent irrele vcnce and, as Mr. Duff thought, flippancy. “Figa! Hang the pigs! Hang the bank! and Yes; I mean to resign my office. I'm not going to remain here to lie robbed and ruined.” “I see you are putting a new roof on your sty, and papering it,” ho went on sententious!)’. “Snaring no expense on it. Doing the thing [ stylish, eh?” “Are you mad, Traill?” “Well, let me see. At the rate of two thousand pounds, say, in three months, that pig-sty will cost you and me just eight thousand pounds a year.” Traill was apparently in his gravest mood. “That’s pretty mordernte, vh?” “Poor Traill! The loss of his money has taken his brain. What demon has entered this house?’ sighed Mr. Duff in tho presence of a despair more tragic even than his own. “Look here, old felowl” said Traill, suddenly bursting into a (it of laughter—“l found these in the roof of y lur pig-sty this morning; and what is more, I saw you put them there.” “Prodigious!” Yes, all the missing money was there! The banker gave a champagne dinner to his delighted clerks on the evening oi that day. llis own health, however, was in a rather had way. In a month or two he resigned his office, retiring on a liberal pension to his farm; and in order to compensate James Hamil ton, Mr. Dull requested that the directors appoint him assistant agent with Traill. The offices both gentlemen hold with honor to this day. George Traill ami James Hamilton are now brothers-in-law, each having wedded one of Mr. Dufl's daughters. The bank is Hamilton's home; Traill has rented a farm adjoining Mr. Duff’s. Tho fresh air, and exercise, and fishing, and unlimited golfing, all enforced on him hy the doctor as the best medicine, have put an end to the old banker’s somnambulistic ram bles. aw Arguing with a iiur 0 -!ar. It is an open question whether wo men or men are most brave when “the villainous eentrebits grind on the wakeful ear in the liusli of the moonless nights,” but to Miss Stock ley, of Brighton, belongs the credit of an elaborate argument, in the semi-darkness, with a gentlemanly burglar. The young lady was dis turbed in her first slumber hy the unwarantahle intrusion of a re spectable-looking young man” hi her bed room, who was busily oc cupied rummaging over her dress ing table by the light of a dark lan tern. “What do you want?” asked the maiden, undismayed. “Be quiet,” was the answer of the “en terprising burglar.” “It's all very well to tell me to be quiet,” conttn ued the lady; “but you’ve got my purse, in your hand I” The thief pocketed the purse, and proceeded to ash ’‘Where’s your watch ?” . Miss Stockley was still alive to the , humor of the situation. “Oh ! come row,” said site, “it’s only Geneva, and not worth £5; you surely won’t be so mean ns to take that.” But the thief pocketed the watch, and with a courtes) worthy of Claude Duval, said, “Remember I will send you the pawn-ticket!” After an amicable altercation as tn the im- 1 propriety of proceeding to the bed- ‘ room of Alisa Stocicly, who was an ' invalid, the burglar ceased to “bur- . gle,” and Miss S. went to sleep as if i nothing had happened. Next i morning she gave information to the police, declaring that she could 1 recognize the thief, having exam- 1 ined his countenance with the aid of the lantern and a friendly gas j lamp. A young and innocent up- holster’s apprentice was arrested who t.ad been employed in putting | up some blinds in the house of the | , prosecutrix; thn supposed burglar, j when put on tri.fi, was almost in- j stantly found “not g'uity” by a sympathetic jury. So the ease is still enshrouded in mystery. Said lie, “Lot us be one” and she was won. The difference between perseverance i ami obstinacy is. tb.it one often conies j from a strong will, and Ibo other from a strong won't Life, It Is a strife, ’Tis a Uttftle, 'tis a dream ; And man is but a little boat That paddles down the stream. A man named Howardnf Delaware, has been sent to Slate prison for five 1 j years for stealing a flat-boat loaded ; with tar. A blacker crime was never ; committed. It’S hope that keeps our spirits up, . It's hope that keeps our memories ■green; It ’s hope that makes out- lives sublime, It's soap tlint keeps us clean. If there is any tiling a young man Considers a disgrace, It's to have Ills beard referred to As the down upon his sac Ids [girl. “It-isall very well,” said henpeck ed husband, when told to look after Die children, “It is all very well to tell me to mind the youngsters, but it would suit me better if the youngsters would mind me.” Many a young lady who objects lo being kissed under the mistletoe lias no orjsetlons to being kissed under the rose. A careless compositor made an error in the above, rendering it, “lias no objections to be kissed under the nose.” “There’s one kind of ship I al ways steer Menr of,” said an old batchelor sea captain, “and that’s courtship. There’s always two mates and no captain.” Father Boyle, of Washington, ad dressing a school on the subject of Easter celebrations, a young miss asked him: “Father Boyle, whnt is the origin of Ester eggs?” “A hen, no doubt, miss,” replied the father, quietly. Women in the Island of Lowes do all the carrying. When they come to a river or ford, the man slings the creel upon his back, and the women carries both the man and the creel across. What a wife one of these women would mu|^tl A Galveston woman is about to marry her fifth husband. Her pastor retailed her fi r contem plating matrimony so soon again. Weil, I just, want you to under stand, if the Lord (r/vsthem I will too,” was the spirited reply. “I have left all my fortune to my wife,” said the philosophic hus band of a grumbling nnd scolding spouse, “on condition that she shall marry again.” “What is that for?” asked his legal aJvisir. “I wish to be sure that there will he some one to regret my death when I am gone,” subl the husband. A fashionable holy was unexpectedly left without a servant. She undertook to make her husband a cup of codec, but it took «o long lie asked what in the Halifax was the matter with tlie eotl'ee. “I don't know,” she said, bursting into tears, “I’ve boiled them beans for a whole hour, and they are no softer now than when 1 first put ’em in the pot.” ‘lf you’ll pick tiie daisies I’ll weave tiie vlinliis,* was the merry suggestion of Hie fair and curly liulred little one to the brown and ruddy cheeked boy with a pineapple cut. Audit is ever thus, we thought, the man as well rrs the hoy pick daises, the woman as well as the. girl weaves the chains, and the dai.-ies are while and tiie links golden, no matter how old we grow. A voting negro mail, by the name ! of John Arnold, was recently killed in a shocking manner, at (lie saw mill of 1 J. K. Itoop, nine aud half miles south j of Carrollton, lie was steadying a log | at the time, aud his hand slipping, lie j lost Ills balance, his head being thrown : forward under the saw, by which it! was terribly mangled, resulting in j immediate death, —Haw kins villi; I tis- j patch. A young man from tho country, | having married a city vocalist, i proudly wrote homa that, his wife I was a first-class singer, with a re- | markable voice. “In fact,“he wrote “she has a Mezzoeoprnno of un- , usual [lower and compass.” His mother immediately answered: “My sor., that is what your Aunt j Keziah died of. She waited too; long before she bad it operated on. j Don’t delay. Have it cut out at | once.’ NO. .3,‘S. Hi rap* Tran ,Inti’d by j. .r. a. Polil l' B"proof.—Guest:—“Mad am, I’l’n:’- ;i raven blackhairin my ROUp !” 1. milady—“ Well ilo you ex pect mi'to hire a blonde cook for I your accommodation ?" | Mullieinus —"Yea Doctor, my i d*tter p i segars extraordinary reach' wit. ftlie’s very witty in* deed.” ‘1 sill'll not dispute (lie point, madam, Imt, you must allow mo to remark, it’s not mother wit,” To be among wolves and not howl with them, often places one in an unpleasant predicament, but the embarrassment is enhanced when orio is among sheep and ex pected to bleat ivi.h them. Fatal.—'-[rave you heard that our friend the slater fell from the roof and was instantly killed?” “That don’t surprise me, for he has been loosing bad for some time.” Widowed Brother. Lady : “Kate who was that young man with whom you were talking so lrng at the front door last night ?” “Kata, the cook—“ That—thatt —that, — that was my elder brother.” Lady—“ Your brother! Ididnot know you had a brother living, what is his name ?” Kate —“Jacob Feigcly.” Lady—“ How does it happen that lie lias not your family name ?” Kate—“ Why you see, madam, lie’s been married once.”— Couranl, (Pa) __ ('anuing of a Pox. Berne fishermen on the west coast of Ireland were in the habit of going to n small island in queßt of bait. The island was inhabited by n large number of rabbits and couhl be reached at low tide by wading, (be water there being only a few inches deep. One morning they went (o their boat quite early, ii being high i'uie, and on’ landing saw a dead fox lying on live beach. The fur of the animal was all be draggled, and he scernod to have been drowned. One of the inert, remarking that bis skin was worth something, pitched him into tho boat. Procuring their bait they returned lo the main land, and the man who luid possessed him self of the fox seized him by tho tail and flung him on tho shore. As soon as the animal struck the l ank he picked himself up with eonriderable agility*for a ('end fox, while the men stood staring at each other in mute astonishment. The men ccneulded that he had crossed over to the island during the night, when the tide, was low, in search of rabbits, and finding in the morn ing that he was rut off from tho main land, counterfeited death, with the expectation of thereby procuring a passage to the shore in the boat, and an expectation which was fully realized. A Cold Blooded Fiend. A most revolting butchery was re cently perpetrated in the little town of < liinii, in M ilne, Charles Merril, a timid only twcnty-lliree years old, who Imd cherished an apparently causeless resentment against his mother, killed • her with a hammer on February 19th, cut her hoily to pieces w'tli an axe. burned some par! of it in a stove and fireplace, and burled the rest, and in li, - inlet vals of his ghastly work, wiii' li oeeiipieil a full week, slept and ate in apparent peace of mind, and at tended to the various duties ot the house and farm. Os course, suspicion Dually ripened into conviction, anil last Sunday morning lie was arrested. He now is supposed to exhibit S' me regret, hut on the whole, appears trail* ipiil and contented. When two young people start out in life together with nothing hut a determination to succeed, avoiding the invasion of each other’s idiosyncrasies, not currying the candle near the gunpowder, sym pathetic with each other’s employ* tnent. willing to live on small means until they get large facilities paying as they go, taking life here \s a discipline, with four eye? watching its perils and four hands flighting its battles—whatever others may say or do, that is a roy al marriage. It is so set down in the heavenly archives, and the orongo biossom shall wither on neither side of the grave.