Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-10-28
4 MAN or TALENT.
He Was Too Great Genius to Remain Un.
known.

He Was Too Great Genius to Remain On.
known.
'Now," said the editor of the Quohosh
Genius Of Liberty to his reporter, Sin your
work shall look for calm, dispassionate
statement of fact. My paper is noted for
its veracity, and no exaggeration is allowed
on any subject. Do you think you under.
stand that clearly?"
Eyes, SIR"
"Then you may attend the Skimgullet.
Dumsquizzle wedding, which takes place
at noon today, and I'll see how you handle
it," said the editor, turning to his desk.
This is what the new reporter handed in
after the festivities were over:
1T is the custom Of most newspapers, in
giving accounts of local weddings, o.speak
Of the bride as beautiful, even if she is as
ugly as mud fence. The Genius Of Lib
erty scorns such flattery, however II a
woman is beautiful, we hesitate not to say
SO, but il she is not it is not our fault
We proclaim the fact. We wish we could
say that Miss Melinda Dumsquizzle, who
became Mrs. Dennis Skimgullet at noon
today, was lovely in form and feature, but
we cannot. While we have seen ugliel
girls, it must be conceded by all impartia
observers that brick dust hair and null
titude Of freckles do not look we'll on 6
bride.
However, she did the best she could un
der the circumstances in wearing tolera
bly, thick veil, and rugged out as she was ii
dress of cream satin looked quite presenta
BILE at distance. Hardly so much can b.
said of her husband, who walked with
limp, and whose sparsely settled chill
whiskers of pale dun color would hav
improved his appearance if they had bee
shaved off. We ascertained by careful in
quiry that Skimgullet is old enough to b
his wife's father and has, in point of fact
committed the offense of matrimony twic
before. Some say that both his forme
wives were starved to death; others, tina
rect The Genius Of Liberty does not pre-
tend to say. The statements are given TO
what they may be worth.
What Miss Dumsquizzle saw in him tt
marry is mystery, unless she thought sh
| would be more successful than her prede
cessors in getting hold of the money whicl
he is said to keep buried somewhere on hi
farm. We heard it said that her fathe
owed Skimgullet sl35, and that the latte
threatened to have him arrested on
charge of forgery if he did not get Melinda
to marry him, but this statement has no
been verified yet. The presents were no
very numerous, and the most expensiv
one that we saw was a peachblow vas
worth 81 at retail The couple left on tn
accommodation for a bridal tour Of tw'
days to Podunk. We asked the Rev
x. f. Geticks how much the groom CAV
him for tying the knot, and he said Is cents
This, therefore, can be relied upon as off
cial."
Young man," said the editor after read
ing the reporters account, you are far to-
high genius to bury your talent in
small place like Quohosh. would like t.
keep you, but am sure that would be dc
ing you an injustice. think you had bet
ter go to New York, where your talent
will be appreciated as they deserve. And
by the way, when you go to the station t.
buy your ticket, avoid making the fata
mistake Of buying a return ticket. w
are fond of you but not so very fond tina
absence could fail to increase it."-W. H
Siviter In Harpers Magazine.