The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-12
JUSTICE OF THE PEACH.

SHNAo SCCOI1OAJs
Edgar Wilson Nye otherwise Bin
Nye has been writing series of auto.
biographies for the Century. From
the first paper we quote as follows:
i forgot to soy that the Office was not
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 1 was called Judge
Nye, and frequently mentioned in the
papers with great consideration, I was
out of coal ahuut half the time and
once could not mail my letters for
three weeks because did not have
the necessary postage. Friends in the
Eastern states may possibly recall the
t1me when my correspondence, from
soHae unknown cause. seemed to flag.
That was the time. OF course could
have borrowed the money, but I had.
and still have q foolish horror of bor-
rowing money. I did not mind rum
ming Oh account but / hated to bor-
row.
1.-The first business that had was 4
marriage ceremony. met the gro DOM
on the street. he asked If I could
marry people. I said that I could to
q limited extent He said that. hs
wanted to get married I asked him
to secure the victim and I would get
the other ingredients. He then wished
to know where my Office was. ItQc-
Cured to me at that moment HAT
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 al
their home. He maintained that his
home was over eighty miles away and
that 1t would consume too much time
to go there.
l" Where are you stopping atp' I
Misunderstanding the Pike County style
of syntax in order to show that was
one of the people. ,o 49,.
We'll we met here, Squire She
come in On the Last Chance stage, and
Tn camped up in: Gov'ment Canon.
not fur from Soldier Crick. We can
go out there I reckon -.
Il did not mind the ride, so LOCKED
my Office, secured book of forms,
and meeting the young people at the
livery stable went out with them and
married them in q rambling, desultory
sort of way.
The bride was g peri from Owl
Creek, wearing moccasins of the plio-
Gene age. The rich Castilian blood OF
the cave-dwellers mantled In her
cheek along with the navy blue blood
of Connecticut On her fathers sido.
Her hair was like the wing of a raven.
and she wore a tiara of clam-shells
about her beetling brow. Her brace
let was a costly string Of front teeth,
selected from the early settlers at the
foot Of Independence Mountain. With
the shrewdness of a Yankee and the
hautur OF the savage she combined
tho grotesque grammar OF Pike county
snd tho charming Raivsts of the oow-
puncher. She was called Beautiful
Snow. =. But I think it was mostly in a
spirit of banter. She. was also no
longer young. asked her, with an
air OF bandinage, If she remembered
Pizarro, but she replied that she was
away from home when be came
through. The cave-dwellers were a
serious people. Their plumbing was
very poor indeed; so also were their
jokes. Her features wore rather
classic, however, and was about to
say clean cut but on more mature
thought will aot say that Her nose
was bright and piercing. It resom-
bled the breast bono Of sand-hill
crane .l=> Z. =. - =;
4 The groom was a man, of great
courage and held human life at q very
low figure. That is why he married
Beautiful Snow without any Ainohing;
also why I have refrained from men-
,tioning his name; also why / kissed
the bride. f. did not yearn to kiss
sher. There were Others who had
claims on ma but I did not wlshsto
give needless pain to the groom and
:so : I did it BE had 30, money, sbu1
'saia that he had q saddlo which II
could use AZ was ws1e6ine to- 4 did
not ihrtva anvthiiY1 Il, mt Cha aafldla III,