The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-21
HIS WEDDING FEE.
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eeuses had 20 be paid for, the Mary
fsn5ers and Virginians rode across the
narrow frontier in the valley and mar
red for nsihing in Pennsylvania. Of
course. they gave something to the
preacher for his trouble.
The consequence was that all the
preachers on the Maryland side of the
the became as lean as geese, and the
nreacber- across the line ia Pennsvl-
yauia became a lat as turkey gobbiers
Rat there was one preacher near
Wavnesboro who did not grow lat.
f,arriek H0wton, who did the largest
hpsiness, became ieaner and ieaner
the faster be married people. He was
TOO mean, the people sad. 10 enjoy
lie ike good Methodist itinerant or
a rabicuni priest No chicken coops
we're agitated at his approach. No
little pigs squealed and got under their
anxious uammas when tiarriek leaned
over the stye and surveyed them
Nobody knew Just what sect or
church Garrick belonged to there.
where everybody was his own theOlo-
gian.
He called his church the Zionskites,
and vas the only one OF 1.-THE bishop.
indeed except his ron, Wea.ley How
ton, whom he called the deacon
The church building did not exist
though branches OF the Zionskites
BODY we're said b be furder West -
by both the bishop and the deacon.
Inquisii.ye people limited that there
never would have been as many as
two ZiOnskijes except FOR tbe fat mar
rage fees which we're to be had along
Mason and DXOn's line. and that
4 L. N..f+
his son Weasley into the priesthood re-
luclantly that he night occasionally
take some recreation himself and not
miss any runaway couples which,
should arrive between midnight and
morning.
All people far or near understood
that the Howtous would marry any
body. the delivery OF the certificate be-
ing conditional on the pas meut of the
fee and pains were taken 10 impress
strangers that iu the Zion, kites dis
cipline the certificate was part OF the
ceremony itself.
4 story was started and grew that
old iIowtou married children for the
sake OF his fees.
This story came up from Borrowing
and broken hear ed pareats in Virginia
and from the rich manOrs ami hamlets
OF Frederick in Maryland. The Penn
syiyanians never verified these reports
because il was none OF their business.
That was the golden age. when the
people Of every state did to the people
OF every other state just what they
pleased, and the boundary line made
outrage justice or simplicity criminal.
A. time advanced, Bishop HOwton
became widower, and his mind was
set on marry ing again.
IL may have been the example of
marrying children under age, torn
from their parents by their own dis
obedieut impulses or the powerful sin
ister influence ot man, OF il may have
been the childish beauty OF Eunice
Ho~ton, his distant relative. which
doomed her TO become the bishops
wife when she should be old enough
70 receive his orders and not bring the
laws OF Pennsylvania down upon his
head. The bishop bided his time.
Euni&Was hardly fifteen. a slender.
eray-eyed blonde, whose feet, touch
the ground as they would, turned into
lines of grace and music. seemed 10
be playing a. she walked OF moved. 70
such harmonies does she blend while
in the action OF head upon her deli
cate neck, aud even in the motions of
her lips, there appeared 20 be violin
music whist!ed by her spirit as the
upland Eephyrs played upon 1t and her
heart desired 10 dance.
The country people said that this
was because her mot er had been
an actress and dancer.
Somewhere back in the undiscerned
past vagueness OF a large world It vas
said that Bishop Howton had been
show manager aud that his orphan
cousin had married French dancer
who WAS in his strolling company.
This cousin had been LETT t. GarriCk,
who had kept him down and nearly
starved him, REFRESHING his spirits by
an avaiice and superstition which lay
across each other and fiuaily retired
GaFreck from the show business "A
complete failure. while his ward. set
free hy matFimuny. made nice little
fortune keeping dancing academy
with his vie
When the parents died something
OF the husbands inherited tenets
caused him to repent, though he had
never done anything bad. and IN the
weakue-s of DIVING he gave his child
10 hi, relative t. he her trustee and
the trustee OF respectable hI'ie Tor
tune,
The poor dancing teacher thought
the word Bishop covered a regen-
crate heart
The bishop Was merely a capitalist
N marriage lees.
This i considered reasonable humil-
ay
Some OF the school boys called him
Old lokeGnpki, because he yoked 50
many couples
What education he had picked mp
ayarice aud illtsrlte association had
chased out OF his head; like AN old
country Dutchmau, he could spell
pist, from his barn joyce and talk
shoat the hreechmau on his horse
Ehen he meant breechiug.
As time advanced Garrick grew
deeply la love with Ennioe, and forgot
10 give spiritual restraint Ia has son.
AT l. sharp. obi Garrick Howton
Often repeated 10 himself. looking AZ
kaniCe with the Tia eci0ld passion OF |
love, ayarige aud superstition.
often when an old man fails IN love, /
Hseeais % him like holmes, when II |
Is only iooli>huess
In that way Garriek threw him elf |
sack into hi> natural state before he |
Wcame an ayaug3uu> >Coundrel or "A |
%a-irghicned hypuyrite. He got 20 |
ueiieGng IN the religion he pTaSuced |
upon. He feared night solitude and
saosts Tie believed that hl- mon>trouS |
passion Vas sacrifice on hl, part tor
NE sake of securing Eunice soul.
shoaid he the devil, prize With
vgt her. mu-cd GJrrlCk HoWton. |
Inc children | have tied IN Wedlock
despair, the uniformed souls have
M-aaeled TO selfish tends, the head
Heag schoolgirls ! have made tge
ssA slaves OF hldcuu, >kiuHints, ANA |
vac have ia 3 few months awakened
everlasting repentance and horror,
sVald Toop into nay lonely home
~nohg these mountains AMI drive me
FAY With taeir curses. should "a /
A1. Hut Euulce, she viii guard my
lgof and warm uy heart and bring
S,hsf angels ike her from heaven 10
reset and comfort"
II sas plain that the hypocrlt.C5i old |
ssnHe'nen Vas becoming slightly hys-
Wesley HoWton hal been notified /
hs father that lee must 60 West
sid establish bis own congregation al |
peculiar Lionsk!Je..
a. nc vas sent 20 the garnet 10 study |
- pine and thoroughly contemplate |
scriptures.
uae day Eanlge stole up into tbe |
s4lsel While the il>hop was marrying