New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-20

| buo crown. aUO Whatever romance tnere
was Ia his life, whatever sentiment he may
have had. whatever poetry there vas pen,
up in the heart OF the great Titan. it found
no other expression than this.
The geDteel gambler, Who sac behind q
table, with his green cloth and silver faro
box, forgot to throw his card, but held his
arm poised in the air til any man could
have seen the Jack OF elube, though a
thousand dollars worth Of gold dust de-
| pended on the turn.
! Yet all this coon hsd an end, Of course.
and there was q prOfuson Of tongues and q
noise that settled gradually over against
I the bar. Even there it was atterwaId re-
marked, though the men really interested
did not know it at the time. that the CHINA
mon headed dealer Of drinks put cayenne
! pepper in q gin cock tail and Schiedam
1 scbnapps in Tom and jerry.
I Timber Tim was there in their midst, but
was sad and silent man. Perhaps he had
l been told all about il before. and perhaps
ROY. Tim was not . talker, but q thinker
! This 90 him meant the loss OF his partner
| the man he loved--A divorce.
Poor Timber, he only backed up against
the wall, screwed bis back there, twisted
| one leg ia behind the other, stuck his hands
In behind him, and so stood there Till he
! saw a man looking at him. Then he Topped
over with his face to the wall. dug up his
great pencil from his great pocket and fell
TO writing on the wall end trying to hide
his face from the fellows.
Rather sudden, amt it, judge
''Well, not SO euddeD--not 50 sudden,
coDsiderin' tfis-this--tlli. glorious climate
OF Caliiorny."
The wedding day came. The camp had
been invited to a luan. There was but one
place in the camp that could hold a 1.-THE of
its people, and that was the Howling Viii
d-rness. The plan had been 10 have the
wedding under tho pines on the hill; but
the wind came pitching down the mountain,
with frost and snow in its beard, that morn
ing, and drove them to the shelter.
What place WAS that Nowling Wilder.
ness! 1t was battle field, prize ring. dead
house, gambling hell, courthouse, chapel.
everything by turns
There they stood, side by side and hand
in hand, before the cracking fire, before
the little judge. The house was hot. II
was crowded thick as the men could stand.
Tighter than sardnes ia a tin box, the men
stood there, bare headed, with hardly room
to breathe. The lat little magistrate was |
terribly embarrassed. He had sent all the !
way across the mountains by tho last pack
train, by the last express, by the last man |
who had dared the snows; but no pack |
train, no express. nothing mad returned |
with the coveted. the SO much needed mar |
riage ceremony and service, which he had |
with such remarks and moral observations |
az the case might require. Alas the form |
of the ceyemony had not arrived. He had |
nothing of the kind to guide him. He had
a svtr Officiated in this way before. He had
never studied up in tins branch. Why |
should he have studied up in this line " hen
there was but one woman in all that camp, |
in all this little EOrlds
A the form had not arrived, he had
not hing in the world but his moral observa-
tons to use on this imposing occasion, and
he was embarrassed as man had never been
before.
He stood there crying hard to begin. He
could hear the men breathe. The pretty
little womsn was troubled too. Her face
was all the time held down, her eyes
dropped, and she did not look up-did not
COX right or left or any " here, but seemed
10 surrender herself to tate, 10 give herself
away. Her soul seemed elsewhere, as il
,he sat on . high bank above a! this and
\ a. not of 1t or in il at all.
'.Do you solemnly swear.''
The Judge hat jerkea himself together ,
With AN effort that made his joints fairly ;
attic. Re hoisted his right had in the air ! ,
IS he said this, and hav.rg once broken ,
.rsund, he went on: DO you solesnaly !
wear to love and honor and Obey!"
Poor Timber Tim, who had just room c
nough behind che Judge to turn over, here ,
,ecane embarrassed through sympathy for !
he little red faced magistrate, and, Of !
curse. Topped over and began to write his '
anne and the date, and make pictures on the {
vail, with = nervous rapidly propor,ionate Z
o his embarrassment. II
.'OO you sOlsmnly swear.' Il
II was very painful The little man took a
own his lifted flagstaff to wipe his little f
aid head and he could not get it ~ gain, d
NJ stood there still and helpless. =
You could hear the men breathe az they 4
,aned and listened with all their might to I
ear. They heard tho water outside gurg- o
ne on down over the great powders over q
leir dams, and On through the canon. c,
hey heard the little brown wood mice nib q
lie and nibble at the bits OF bacon-rnt and a.
ID leather boots up in the lott above their t,
eads; but that was all. At last the Judge a
'vived. and began again, in = voice tina. nj
az full Of desperation %,
do you solemnly swear TO love and pro
CT and honor and obey till death do you
Lrt: and -"
Here the voice fell down Tow. lower, and "a
@ judge was again tiohndefing in the SO
ster. Then his head went under utterly. le
zen ne arose. and "Now l lay me down to %
ssp' rolled TREMENDOUSLY through the m
ent room from the lips OF the Judge tn
zen again the head was under water; then M
rose up again, and there was something hr
- Twinkle. twinkle little star" Then
Q voice died sgain; tho head was under ~
'ter. Then it rose again. and the head org
mt up high in the air. and the voics was m
III and resolute, and the man rose on his ia
toes, and beginning with when in the 40
Irse of human events" he went on in a Ri
ep and splendid tone with the Declare an
II OF Independence TO the very teeth of fir,
ran'ical King George, and then, bringing a,
hand down smphat,callv on the gam ve
ng table that stood to his right, said, he
I'd and clear and resOlute and authorita- 90
eiy, as he tilted forward on his toes: $50 of
p you God. and pronounce you MAN bo
! wife. '--IrdeEsudent. it
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