The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-01
MARRIED BUT NOT MATED.
Curious Wedding Incidents as Described
by the Oficiating Clergymen.


Curious wedding Incidents as Described
by the Officiating ClerGymen.
You see, I've been among the poor
all my life, says an English clergyman
in the London Tit-Bits. My services
in the church include Il curacy for fiji
teen years in the East end of London
and an incumbency for twenty-five
years at u small church in the most
densely populated part of one of our
large towns. AS you will readily sup.
pose, my forty years services have not
been without some strar sc experiences.
/ remember n morning at about 8
o'clock the clerk came to my lodgings
and informed me that couple wished
o be married at once. Can they not
=, it until the proper timer" | asked.
,tT, ey are most unreasonable. You
o,,nA, not to have brought their mes
ss,sa. You know we don't marry till
1nsS0.,p We'll, sir. urged the clerk,
iii q "a. e lady who sent me, and |
thought Is 10. IS a most important case"
ooh I see said ]. She made it
worth YOUR wbh g to come" Yes, sir.
and II its not b. ing too bold l think
she'u make il wort. 1 yours to 60" In
no pleasant frame OF mind | rose
from nv breakfast and accompan.
led the clerS, nor ~ iet
slip the opportunity OF le> ''u,ins MN
on the ~desirability OF ent. 'oi's INC
time-honored regulations our
church. When l had duly in ,'esteo
myself in my robes | entered the c. WI
%nunion-rall, and beheld, with NJ
small surprise, II man in cordnp0Y
trousers and a duck" jacket wiriles
by his side stood a well-dressed lady.
/ felt called upon to expostulate with.
the man for not being attired in Il.
mainer more becoming the solemn
occasion. He made no attempt to de-
fend himself except by saying he had
not had time to change. However.
the lady seemed satisfied, and as ther@
Was no valid objectjon-for they werm
prepared with Il special license-E
married them. After the ceremony.
the man signed his name with a cross.
while the lady wrote u bold aristor.
cratic hand. When leaving the church..
l saw the lady bid her husband good.
by and drive off IN Il carriage, while,
he went IN p different direction, APP.
parently to his work. The handsome
fee with which the lady rewarded me
did not prevent my specializing, as L
turned my steps homeward. of the
circumstances that led to this extra.
ordinary union. Why should ii lady
only % years Of age and with no small
share of good looks link herself to an.
ignorant and uncultlsate1 workman
almost twice her age? | have never
found any satisfactory solution to the
problem, and ! hand it over to the in
genuity of any novelist in want Of Il
plot.
Part of my duty at that time on
sisted in receiving the name OF those
who wished to have their banns called
in church. One day AN awkward
looking man, with hair almost ficrcely
red, called on me and asked how much it,
would cost Ito have his banns CRIED.
Two shillings." | replied, IAN
right" said he, laying down the
money. Your name?" / asked, get
ting out the book. John Dawkins."
Married b~eforG?' mo, sir" What
is the lady's name" I repeated.
well, l didn't think OF that he an
swered; but let's see there's Bessy and
Sally and Widow Magee. See, sir, if
you don't mind waiting, I'll go and
ask one of them and come back in an
! hour?' He went, but never returned.
Evidently neither Bessie o Sally nor
Widow Magee was 'willin'.'
Many of the candidates for matrimo-
ny have little or no previous knowledge
of the words Of the service, TO have
and to hold" frequently becomes Ito
have or the whole" and till death
us do part" is given till death has to
part" There is. however. on record
a story-for the truth of which | can
not v%ouch-to the effect that a young
nan about to be married learned, as
he thought, the responses by rote~
Unfortunately he had studied the Or
der for baptism. and when confronted
with the question wilt thou have
this woman to be thy wooded wifeP"
ETC., boldly replied: II u
them all"