The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-17

from New Hampshire I was aroused
one night at the dread hour of twelve
O'Clock. The man who knocked al the
door wanted me TO go with MIN AT
once. 1 asked him of course what he
wanted with me. He wanted me to go
with him and marry him to lady who
was In carriage at the gate. He in
sisted on being married on the New
Hampshire side right in the highway.
The man claimed that it was runaway
match and that they could be married
in New Hampshire without license.
He insisted that 1 should accompany
them, but refused. Who they were L
never found out.
BRIDE WAS ANXIOUS.
"a more peculiar experience was
when l married a couple who did not
understand a word of English. The
bride was about 16-years Of age. wore
a black dress. pink stockings aud low
cut shoes tied with large bows OF green
ribbon She smiled an almost audible
smile and was so completely happy,
not to say joyous, that her happiness
almost disconnected me in the perform
ance of the ceremony. On the other
hand the groom was shy, stammering
and looked as though he would like an
opportunity to run. The friends who
accompanied them acted as an IN
terpreter and together we soon made
them one and sent them on their way
rejoicing"
Rev. J. w. Anderson said: Il was
greatly embarrassed at my first mar
riage ceremony At Harper several
years ago a couple came to the town
about midnight The hotel was full of
people and there were no rooms TO be
had. The couple sat in the parlor from
midnight until daylight and then the
groom came to my residence and got
up and went over to the hotel They
wanted ME to marry them right, away.
and the groom took his position be-
side the bride-and on the wrong side.
l was slightly embarrassed at this, and
the guests at the hotel who had as
sembled to witness the ceremony began
to laugh. / Strengthened them out.
however, and the knot was tied
learned afterward that they were a
runaway couple from Medicine Lodge,
which explains why they were in such
a hurry.
SHE DIDN'T SHOW UP.
81 was amused at a young man one
time. He came to me in the morning
and said he wanted TO get married that
evening, and that the bride was com
ing in on the train. I agreed to have
the ceremony take place in my resi-
dence. Shortly after the train pulled
in, the young man came walking up to
my house. He was alone. L did not
understand at first what it meant, but
it was explained when he said: 1
thought / would stop and tell you she
didn't come.
Rev. ]. J. Sheppard said: 81 was a
little embarrassed during my first cere-
mony, but got through without any
mistakes.
Did you ever perform a ceremony
where anything out OF the ordinary oc-
curred?''
s'No sir I never did. I have mar
ried several hundred couples but never
had a mistake made during a ceremony.
One reason for this is that / always
join the hands of the couple myself.
have heard of the gentleman's left hand
being taken by the bride but l never
had anything of the kind happen to
me- The ministers do most OF the mar
rying at my old home in Kentucky, but
here the probate judge is croWding US
out
Rev Colt was called upon, but he said
that all the ceremonies be had ever per-
formed were not out of the ordinary.
Several other ministers We're called
upon, but were not at home.
Bits of Wichita Life.
81 feel all run down." said the mer-
curry in a North Main street thermometer
yesterday.
Governor Lewelling can be seen in
his establishment on East Douglas
avenue any day now.
The old levees which were thrown up
along the Little river at the time OF the
flood in ~ are still to be- seen
AS a rule there is difference of four
degrees between the thermometers
A little tot on the North Side looked
at the thermometer yesterday and de-
clared that it was nothing weather"
again.
About half the hams consumed in
Wichita are put up i'll Topeka, which
doesn't speak very we'll for the Wich-
ita packing houses.
Years ago the great objective point
in Wichita for boys at this season was
Englishs pond. 1t was situated In the
south end of town, but was filled Up
long ago.
A Wichita philosopher says that a
man and woman's friendship for each
other is nine time out of ten based on
the fact that she admires him and he
admires her for doing it,
Mrs. D. F. Taylor, the Wichita wo-
man whose portrait is published all
over the country in a medical adver-
tisement doesn't appear under those
initials in the city directory.
There is a man in Guthrie, Oklahoma,
who claims that he is a great prophet.
He says that when the Dold packing
house was being built in wichita he
told the contractor that II would Iali
and the next day it did.
Occasionally you hear something
good from the statesmen on the street
corners. One man said yesterday that
the only difference between Hell and
Heaven was that one was eternal bliss
and the other eternal blisters.
Emmett, the actor, advertises that
Miss Lyttton viii he with him at the
theater in Wichita. Miss Lytton Is
his wife, but she will not be with him.
They had a row over at Pittsburg. Kan.
Emmett struck his bride and she left
him.
THE DISCOVERY SAVED HIS LIFE
Mr.. C. Cailloutte. Druggist, Beavers
vile. H.. says: ITO DR.. KING New
Discovery l owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the physl-
clans for miles about. but OF no avail
and was given up and told could not
live Having DR.. Kings New DiscoV-
cry in my store l sent for bottle anu
began its use and from the first dose be-
gan TO get better, and after using three
bottles was up and about again Ii IS
worth its weight in gold. We won I
keep store or house without IL. Get
a free trial at the drug stores OF Charles
Lawrence and CT. GehrinS.
New Realty Bureau.
Messrs True, Richardson and A L.
Hiett. who recently removed TO the city