The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-23
JUSTICE OF THE PEACH
BIN Nye ohao!ates Mt . Frontier Mai

Edgar Wilson Nye, otherwise Bill
Nya has been writing series OF auto
biographies for the Century. From
the first paper we quote as followss
II forgot to say that the Office was not
q salaried one bat solely dependent
upon fees the county furnishing only
the copy Of the revised statutes and
woolsack, slightly and prematurely
bald. So whilezI was called Judge
Nye and frequently mentioned in the
papers with great consideration, was
out of coal al ut half the time and
once could not mail my letters for
three weeks because I did not have
the necessary postage. Friends ip the
Eastern states may possibly recall the
tine when my correspondence. from
soTne unknown cause, seemed to flag.
That was the time OF course could
have borrowed the money, but l had
and still have, foolish horror of bor-
rowing money. did not mind rum
hing an account, but I hated to Dor
row.
The first business that had was q
marriage ceremony. I met the groom
on the straet. He asked If could
marry people I said that I could to
a limited extent He said that he
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. It 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 I would marry them at
their home. He maintained that his
home was over eighty miles away and
that 1t would consume too much time
to go there.
'Where are you stopping atP' I
inquired-using the Pike County style
of syntax in order to show that I was
one of the people.
WELL we met here, Squire. She
come in On the Last Chance stage, and
FIN camped up in Gov'ment Canon,
pot fur from Soldier Crick. We can
60 out there reckon
Il 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 Q rambling, desultory
sort of way.
The bride was q peri from Owl
Greek, wearing mocoasins of the plio-
gene age. The rich Castilian blood OF
the cave-dwellers mantled In her
pheek along with the navy blue blood
of Connecticut on her fathers side.
Her hair was like the wing of raven,
and she wore tiara of clam-shells
about her beetling brow. Her brace
let was 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 the charming naiveta of the cow
puacher. She was called Beautiful
Snow. But think it was mostly in q
spirit of banter. She was also no
longer young. L asked her. with an
air of bandinage, If she remembered
Pizarro, but she replied that she was
away from home when he came
through. The cave-dwellers were q
ssrious people. Their plum bling was
very poor indeed; so also were their
jokes. Her 4 features: - wore rather
classic, however. and-I was about 10
cay clean cut but on more mature
thought will not cay that HerGnoae
was bright and piercing, 1t resem-
bled the breast bone Of . sand-hir
crane 3ssf5 r n. y: as 10y Z
The groom was q man Of grea,
courage and held human life at avery
low figure. That is:,, why he married
Beautiful Snow without any ainching;
: also why have refrained from men.
tioning his name; also why / kissed
the bride. ] did not yearn to kisl
her. There were others who had
claims on me but / aid not wish tc
give needless pain to the groom, and
SO did It. He had no money, but
said that he had a saddle which If
could use I was Welcome to. M did
not have anything to put the saddle or
{ at home, but rather than returz
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