The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-14
The Interrupted Wedding.

All the Colorado hills were melting
in the opal dlmness of The soft Octob,I
haze, through which, among tn: pine
aspen groves shown like yellow famef
Day by day the wine.colored trends O.
the sumach were scattered by the winds
The air in its mingled brightness and
vigor rekindled that pure Joy OF
living whose loss the effeminate world
bewails to-day. But it also reminded the
miner that it was time to bank his cabin
or leave for the valley--a thing he was
likel ly to do earlier than usual this year
on account of threatened Indian
troubles. 1t likewise set Mrs. Kent to
making preparations for her only
daughters wedding. Out there we'd
dings do not occur every day, nor are
when they do. This, however, was a
special affair. Mrs. Kent having been
widowed by an accident some years be-
fore, had proved herself brisk, capable
woman, had opened stopping place on
the way to the mines, and made it
with Mandy, Ielp-so clean, so home
like and popular that she was in fair
way to become \ capitalist. She owned
on claims named more or less openly
after herself or her daughter; she had
more than one present by which to re-
member grateful guests; she had her
regular profits and her privileged posi-
ton.
1t could not be expected that such q
state OF things would long endure with
out some matrimonial catastrophe,
though both were adored with that
general affection which is not very
dangerous in its results. Maudy's choice
had at last fallen on young ranchman
well started in life, but no great favorite
of Mrs Kent's. She would have well
coined Prince Arthur if he had came to
AXE away her right hand but, seeing
there was no help for it, she determined
to give, in honor of the occasion, the
grand "spread" of which only such a
housekeeper was capable.
The poor, hearty, generous miners
All the delicacies of Delmonico's cannot
so please the cloyed appetites of his
patrons as the prospect of a wholesome
"square meal does them. They were
invited cordially-where indeed, would
Mrs Kent have been without them =?
She had her two hired girls tidy to the
utmost, the tidy dining-room that had
welcomed such various figures, from the
"tony" capitalist and his tonier hire
ling to the last dead-broke adventurer.
Under her directions caldrons of oysters,
stacks of ham, bountiful cakes and
coffee were prepared to invigorate the
guests who, mostly masculine, might be
depressed by the coming ceremony
At the very moment, however, when
the minister was ready to unite George
Dickerson and Amanda Kent in holy
bonds, the young lady proved hel
womanly qualities by an engaging fit o.
hesitation. She didn't know as she
wanted to get married at all. In vair
her girl friends soothed the sobbinl
bride-elect, and urged her not to disap
point every one. She only retorted, hal
angrily: Just wait till you go to ge
married and see ii it isn't serious.
Finding that they could neither reason
nor joke her out of her whim, they lef
the field to her lover, whose protesta
tions finally induced her to dry her tear
and consent to their union.
The patient preacher had just opene,
proceedings in the orthodox manne
when galloping horse, the Wester
signal of disaster, was heard without
A moment after a red-headed youth burs
in the door, but no one resented hi
want of manners as the new arrivG
gaspedi