The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-11-15
He Turns Society Reporter and Writes
Up the Event.
He Naturally Gets Poetic-The Affair Was
Brilliant and Everybody Enjoyed 1t
Immensely Everybody Was
Happy. Too.

stricken husband. The good old father
and mother have come from their dis
tant home and are broken down with
grief
As looked upon the lovely wreaths
that loving hands had wrought and sent
to adorn the dead, | recalled Mrs
Heman's beautiful lines:
Bring fowers-pale nowers-o'er the bier to
she'd
A crown for the brow of the early dead;
Though they smiic in vain for what once was
ours,
They are loves last gift-bring howers-pale
flowers
As | journoyed home / saw more
flowers that kind friends were sending
to my house and | knew that they were
foi the bridal occasion-not the death,
but the nuptial of daughter dearly
beloved, and then another verse of the
sweet poetess' came to mind:
Bring flowers fresh flowers, for the bride to
wear.
They were born to blush in her shining hair;
She is leaving the home of her childhoOd's
mirth-
She has bid farewell to her fathers hearth.
Her place is now by another's side
Bring flowers, sweet flowers, for the fair young
BRIDE"
For time | was sad and my heart
was sick. But remembered that life
and death and marriage and the separa-
ton of friends is part of the common
lot. 1t is not good to grieve over that
which we cannot help. Certainly there
is no cause to grieve for our house, for
it is not far to whore our child has gone
only block or two away, and she will
como home every day until we get re-
conciled. She was away at college for
months and we got reconciled to that
The difference is that then she loved us
better than she loved anybody, but now
she doesn't He has cut us cut, as we
boys used to say when a fellow took our
sweetheart away. 1t is a case of larceny
after trust. We trusted the young man
with her until he began to claim the
goods and wouldn't give them up.
Strange to say, we acquiesced in the
theft and indorsed it in church and con-
graduated him on his success. We
couldn't help ourselves and concluded
it was the best thing we could do. But
she will be missed. No she won t,
either, for she is miss no more. Yes
she will be missed by all of us and Aunt
Ann and the dogs, too, for everything
loved her dat man no bisness take
Miss Jessie away from here, but reckon
he couldn't help it, said Aunt Ann
Looks like everybody loves dat child
and everybody send her sumthin. Never
seed so many purity things in all my
life. Wonder who her ma gwine to call
on now to get her scissors and find her
spectacles?"
And all went merry as marriage
bell" 1t always does. A marriage
illls the church with good people. 1t is
! erybody's business, and there are
eager, eXpectant smiles on every face.
| For time, at least, the bride and groom
have eyerybody's sympathy and good
wishes There was nothing sweeter,
lovelier, than the scene. The goodly
array of fair women and bravo men, as
they marched down the aisle to the
altar-marched in stately steppings to
the music Of the organ; the pealing,
swelling notes that came from masters
hand-for Signor Randegger was at the
keys. Oh, music! What is it and where
does it dwell? Soldiers can't fight
without it; preachers can't preach with
out it; lovers can't court without it. 1t
helps to consummate marriage and to
bury the dead. 1t is the only thing
on earth that will be found in heaven,
for it is common to angels and to men.
Well, it is all over. Solemnly, sadly,
sweetly. | gave the bride away and
then took seat by my wife. There
was no tears upon her checks, but
saw them in her eyes--iust skim OF
''lachrymal effuslon," as DIR. Calhoun
would say and / could feel the tremor
OF her hand She will stick a little
closer to me now, | reckon. She will
let me find her spectacles. The old man
is not of much consequence until the
younger props give way. lie is no
quarter horse, but he is mighty good on
the long run. Maybe she will take
Jesse's place and count my back hair
and battle my brow with cologne when
my head aches. I'll be her John Ander-
son my Joe with my frosty paw and she
will be my Genevieve once more.
But oh, my, what reception we hadl
What an aftermath with kindred and
friends-with bridesmaids and grooms-
mcn-with children and grandchildren
and nephews and nieces and cousins.
There are new kinfolks now amazing,
for two large families have got together
by common bond. Old South Carolina
stock has found welcome place in our
family tree and our baby girl has found
another mother--a mother blessed in
her children and the children blessed in
having such mother. We will make a
combine nova trust-and stand or fall
together. What a bond it is when the
young people of large families mate and
marry How often it unites those who
have been estranged and makes friends
of enemies. What beautiful scene it
Is the nuptials of those who are mated
as we'll as married. What a contrast to
hastg, inconsiderate matches that are
made in haste and reDen ted of Mt leis.