The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-03-17
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.


JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Bill Nye omcatrs at Frontier Mar
ri.sge se~emony.
Edgar Wilson Nye, Otherwise Bill.
Nye has been writing series of auto
biographies for the Century, From
the first paper we quote as follows:
1 forgot to soy that the Office was not
a salaried one but solely dependent
upon fees, the county furnishing only
the copy of the revised statutes and a
woolsack slightly and prematurely
BALD. So while ] was called Judge
| Nye and frequently mentioned in tbs
i papers with great consideration. l was
! out Of coal al 1t 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
time when my correspondence, from
| some unknown cause seemed to flag.
That was the time. OF course could
| have borrowed the money, but had.
and still have, foolish horror of bor-
rowing money. I did not mind run
ming an account but hated to bor-
row.
The first business that had was q
marriage ceremony. met the groom
on the strset He asked If could
marry peop,. I said that l could to
| q limited extent He said that he
wanted to get married. I asked him
to secure the victim and I would ge,
the other Ingredients. He then wished
to know where my office was. 1t oo-
CURED to me at that moment that
| there was no fire in the stove; also, no
coal; also, that the west halt of the
stove had fallen in during the night.
SO l 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 atr
| MISUNDERSTANDING the Pike County style
of syntax in order to g how that was
one of the people. *. -
WELL we met here Squire. She
come in on the Last Chance stage, and
Pm camped up in Gov'ment Canon,
not fur from Soldier Crick. We can
60 out there reckon 90
II 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.
The bride was a peri from Owl
Creek wearing moccasins OF the plio-
Gene age. TIE rich Cas- '1ian blood OF
the cave-dwellers; mantled in he,
check 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 bsetling brow. Hsr brace
let was a costly string Of front teeth
selected from the early s7ttl ,rs at tina
foot Of independence Mountain. With
the shr twdness of Yankee and tbs
hautur OF the savage she com bin I'd
th< grotesaue grammar OF Pike county
and the charming naivsts of tho COW
| puncher. She was called Beautiful
Snow. But think it was mostly in a
spirit of banter. She was also no
longer young. I asked her; with an
air of bandinage, if she remember
Pizarro, but sha replied that she was
away from home when. he came
through. :, The cave-dwellers were q
serious people. Their plumbing was
very poor indeed; SO also were their
jokes: Her features wore rather
classic, however and-I was about to
say clean cut but on more mature
thought will not say that Her nose
WAS bright and piercing. It rescm-
blod, the breast bone of sAad-hil
crane ! ~ Z; s.: -.
+ The groom Was a man of great
courage and held human life at very
low figure. That is why he married
Beautiful Snow without any Ainching;
also why I have refrained from meu-
tioning his name; also why i kissed
the bride. I did not yearn to kis,
her. There were others who had
claims on ma but I did not wish to
give needless pain to the groom. and
SO 4 did ii. He had NO money, but
said that he had q saddle which II
could use { was weloome to- I did
not havs. anything TO put the saddle on
at home, but rather than return
empty-handsd took ii. 49, -
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