, 1890-09-28

tell US all about il, old man, and thu,
please one who reads everything you
write and treasures il for years. | inclost
n piece of ribbon for yOu to write YOU
autograph on in indelble ink for our grab
bag. We have also wrote to Tallamadge
and MIR. Sullivan TO favor us in the same
way. We asked Ingersoll, the lost and
undoDe combustible of an irato God, TO
write a sentiment on a piece OF silk for
our quilt, and no wrote on il in indelible
ink SOS TO Spite the block il was wrote on:
why in the name Of hat i'll ventilated
future state toward which l almost hope
that you are Fastening do you ask me TO
write my autograph on an old hat lining?
X. G. ~lNGERsoLL
The silk had beenr | admit, the lin
ing to Little SunbeAm's hat that he was
married in, but | declare | didn't think
that a man with as lew privileges as In
gersoll has had would ever drop on it."
Marriage anniversaries are ignored by
some people, while Others regard them
with I'VE and admiration. 1t is well
enough to observe them. especially if
you feel that you are popular with the
masses, and can get a good return for
each COB Of cake that is ground into
your ingram carpet.
After you and Little Sunbeam had
been successfully welded for one year
you were entitled to a cotton or safety
pin wedding You could avail yourselves
OF the anniversary to barter popcorn
for muslin ii you had so decided. | do
not know that it pays. His Royal
Altiloodleum the Prince of Wales told
me last summer in a burst of confidence,
as we strolled out to the barn after the
marriage OF his daughter, that his cotton
wedding was really a loss 10 him. Folks,
he said. that had means and had credit at
the store for all the shee.inR and spreads
aud such stuff that they had h mind to
buy, come to his house on that occasion,
deposited IN the royal archives a penny
wipe or a cheese cloth portiere ana then
Rorged themselves on the grub Of the
Guelphs till the cows came home. as he
expressed IT,
After two years comes the lelther wed.
ding. and in Eve years from the nuptials
comes thu wooden wedding. A clergy
man friend of mine had a wooden wei
ding 10 all sincerity and honesty of pur-
pose. Donations had taught him not to
hope for ANYTHING more than kind ex-
pressions and some new SAMPLES OF hair
oil On his wall paper, but be loved his
congregation. and liked to show as far
as possible that even if he did feel a little
more secure for the future than they did,
he was not disposed to refer to it any
more than necessary. He was n good
man, and be earned his salary just as
faithfully as he would if he had got it
Well. he had a wooden Wedding. and
his wife reversed the skirt of her black
dress and put in new waist and sleeves
for the occasion. and cooked up I whole
lAf of nhalaanpnA r.taf..ala u,l I.,.kt
some Chinese lanterns with the money
her folks had sent her to buy other things
with. and she skipped around for days
warblinR such mirth provoking songs as
Il Stood on the Bridge at Midnight, and
other ballads that we're too depressing to
be wicked.
DAYS pissed, and then at last came the
evening tide and quite a number of peo-
pie, who looked with a keen. searching
glance at all the parsonage properties. as
who should say we paid for this and we
have a right to see what is being done
with it. They put up their horses and
came IN. They shook hands with the
pale pastor and presented him with a
stepladder.
Quite a good address was made by Mr..
Earnest Patterson, who did not feel able
10 give anything except the address, so
they let him of with that. He went on
to state how it was emblematicsl of the
pastors upward tendency and closed with
a firing tribute to the pastors good quail
ties and the general advantage of being
born 10 the land OF gospel lights ant
privileges as contrasted with heather
lands, where lpeople do not read the pa
pers. but persist in being born at point
where it IS incouyenient and expensive Il
send the Rev. Samuel Jones OF Georgia