Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-19

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 are generally used as shaws to ara4, ,.,4, i .iie multitude and create sensation Int 'nls ceremony viii l,,Te qaite ana, je, purpose. Let Us fee eur minds enea itlole if a ana face the fact that a ceremony. a,,5 al carried out scientifically. has a power and meaning. i''''ei 1i7 tleh efiefiy related the trials and .llpoIatioas of the young connie apd now the opposition to the match ygsa overcome. He asked that eyelvbo5lv sneuId , wish to the pair happiness and
 Mrs. Alice Cleather of London aleo oellYefed long and philosophical trea. use on the marriage relations. 4 fair theosophist who had just a little world. Illness hudged her nefgh6or and remark. nervous. ? '''' : ''l-y
 Mrs. Julia Campbell Yer Plapek helghtley of London and Pennsvlyania read the formal eonsentof tho inner cir bers. ss's ii'''.4-
 Music, soft, low and weird. stole out from an inner chamber.
 The bride, the bridep' said the gia. dy theosophist sister. elasping her hands. Mss Leonard. accompanied by a bridesmaid whose name must net ha bFeathed, entered the room. She was } beautiful young woman. Her face was of classical outline and indicative of ia. teilectual strength as well as of gentle. womanly qualities. She and the brides. maid were dressed i'll simple Greek robes of nuns yelling bound ab tho waist with cords of white silk.
 They were followed by q child < years old, Hiss Genegiove Mercedes GWendolyn kluge cf Newark, who be. sides her name, carried basket of white lQtas flowers. She is Q full neage.l member Of the Theosophioai society She was clad i'll GEoeian robo which covered her feet and tfailed along tl1a floor
 E. August 1Jeresheimer, Q member of the inner council, stepped down from the platform and received the bride. MT. Wright clutched nervously ct his lavender tie and in doing so revealed on his finger 3 solid gold ring engraved with mystical inscriptions The briaa wore 2 diamond ring.
 The Great Unknown arose. Gr. Wright and Miss Leonard approached each other, touched hands in kind of an afternoon tea handshake and separat- ed. The child stepped upon the platform, at the risk cf stumbling in her long dress and hurting her delicate nose, and pr0ffered the basket of lotus flowers to the Unknown He took therefrom a papyfus scFell which was 3 pledge signed by the contracting parties He handed 1t to Mrs. Keightly, who read it to the aasemblage. This is what she read:
 Ne pledge ourselves. in renewal of the prom. ise given ages ago, loyally to continue together in the work o9 the lodge and since the Ink aid union about t8 be recognized by the whel0 world is effected for the doubling of our indi- vidHal efforts, we pledge ourselves before all heneeforth and forever to sink all personal ambitions. bending all epr energies to the up lifting of humanity and abiding together in unity and confidence to the end of time.
 The adept, with the facility of a magician, took from the basket ring, supposed to possess occult properties, and put it en the third finger of Miss Leonard g left hand. He then joined the left hands of the bride and bridegroom He spoke nof 9 word. The inner circle, the outer guard and the eommonera arose to their feet and repeated mys- tical Sanslsrit word fifteen times ill blocks of flye.
 ''Then the Unknown projected his mind and, to quote the words of ona who saw it all, performed 8 silent ceromony, aud by the power of his will strengthened the bond between the two souls upon q spiritual plane ,
 Then the band played. Itwas q string band, consisting of q cello and fou1 violins.
 The guests came up two by two and shook hands swith Mir. and Mrs Wright and Dr. Archibald Keightley of Lon, don burned some very bad incense on the altar
 The bride. bridegroom and one or two witnesses then went to another room, where Alderman Robinson, who was not yelled, threw away his cigar and performed | civil marriage in bass voice. New York Herald.