The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-09
JUSTICE OF THE pEAcz.

JUSTICE OF TIVE PEACH
Bill Nye onolstss at a Frontier Mer-
rage Ceremony. =,
Edgar Wilson Nye. otherwise Bill.
Nye has been writing series OF auto
biographies for the Century. From
the first paper we quote as follows:
I forgot to say that the Office was not
a salaried one but solely dependent
upon fees, the county furnishing only
the copy Of the revised statutes and q
woolsack slightly and prematurely
bald. So while I was called Judge
Nye and frequently mentioned in the
papers with great consideration, I was
out of coal ab,ut half the time, and
once could not mail my letters for
three weeks because I did not have
the necessary postage. Friends in the
Eastern states may possibly recall the
tiEae when my correspondence, from
sose unknown cause, seemed to flag.
That was the time. Of course could
have borrowed the money, but had.
and still have, foolish horror of Dor
rowing money. I did not mind run
ming an account, bus hated TO bor~
row.
1.-The FIRST business that had was q
marriage ceremony. I met the groom
on the street. He asked if I could
marry people I said that I could to
limited extent He said thst he
wanted to get married. I asked hisn
to secure the victim and I would get
the other ingredients. He then wished
to know where my Office was. 1t oc-
CURED to me at that moment that
there was no fire in the stove; also, no
coal; also that the west half of the
stove had fallen in during the night
So said that would marry them ST
their home. He maintained that his
home was over eighty miles away and
to go there.
Where are you stopping at9'
inquired-using the Pike County style
OF syntax in order to show that / was
one OF the people
well we met here, Squire. She
come in On the Last Chance stage, and
Tn caznped up in Gov'ment Canon,
not fur from Soldier Crick. We can
go out there reckon
81 did not mind the ride, so I locked
my Office secured a book of forms,
and meeting the young people at the
livery stable went out with them and
married them in rambling, desultory
| sort Of way.
1.-The bride was q peri from Owl
Creek, wearing moccasins OF the plio-
eene age. The rich Casttlian blood Oh
the oaye-dwellers mantled in hes
cheek along with tho navy-blue blood
OF Connecticut On her fathers eide.
Her hair was like the wing of 8 raven
and she wore clara of shells
| about her beetling brow. Her brace.
let was a costly string Of front teeth,
selected from, tho early settlers at the
loot Of Independence Mountain. With
the shrewdness of a Yankee and the
hautur of the savage she combined
| the grotesque grammar OF Pike county
and the charming naivsta Of the cow
| puncher. She was called Beautiful
Snow. But think it was mostly ia 6
spirit Of banter. She was also nc
longer young. I asked her, with az
air OF bandinage If she remembered
Pizarro, but she replied that she was
away from home when he cane
through. The cave-dwellers were 6
serious people. Their plumbing was
very poor indeed; so also were theii
| jokes. Her features wore rattle,
classic. however, and-I was about ia
| say clean cut but on more mature
thought will nos say that Her rose
was bright and piercing. It resoln
| bled the breast bone Of sand -hil
crane. .~,
The groom was q man Of grea
courage and held human life at a very
low figure That Is why he married
Beautiful Snow without any hinching
also why I have refrained from men
tioning his name; also why I kisset
the bride. I did not yearn to. kisl
her. There were others who has
claims on me- but I.did not wish Il
give needless pain to the groom, ant
so did it. He had no money, Blu
/ said that he had a saddle which il
could use / was Welcome to- i di,
not have any thing to put the saddle 8,
at home, but ra:her than return
empty handed I took it. "