Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-08

ed all then kinslnen and neighbors IN
and made great preparations When the
time drew nigh, they sent out two mes
sengers to meet the grooms and theiI
brides with a trumpet to welcome and
to accompany them.
When they came near unto the house
Of Reuben, the father, the messengers
came ON before them and gave shout,
and the whole multitude ran out with
shouts Of joy and music, playing ON all
kinds OF instruments. Some We're play
ing ca harps, some ON yiols and some
blowing on rams horns. Some also were
casting dust and ashes toward heaven
and chief among them all was josiah,
blowing his bugle and making sound SO
great the neighboriug hills and valleys
echoed with the resounding exclamation.
When they had played and their harps
had sounded till the groalns and their
brides approached the gates, Reuben, the
father, met them and welcomed them tc
his house. The wedding feast being now
ready, they were al invited to sit down
TO eat, placing the bridegrooms and
their wives at each end of the table.
Walters were then appointed to serve
and wait on the guests When MI had
eaten and were full and merry, they
went out again and played and sang till
might. When they had made an end Of
feasting and rejoicing, the multitude
dispersed, each going to his own home.
The family then took seats with their
walters to converse while preparations
were being made i'll an upper chamber
Cor tho brides and grooms to bc convey
ed to their beds. This being Zone, tbs
walters took the two brides up stairs,
placing one III a bed at the right hand
of the stairs and the other OIL the left
The walters came down, and Nancy, the
mother then gave directions to the wait
CTS Of the bridegr0oms, and they took
them up stairs, but placed them in the
wrong beds The walters then all came
down stairs. But the mother, being fear
full Of mistake, made inquiry of the
walters, and learning the true facts took
the light aud sprang up stairs 1t came
to pass she ran to one Of the beds and
exclaimed, % Lord, Reuben. you are in
bed with the wrong wife! The young
men, both alarmed at this, sprang up
out Of bed and ran with s1ch violence
against each other they came near knock
ing each other down The tumult gave
evidence to those below that the mistake
was certain. SO endeth the chapter
1t viii readily be discerned that the
walters had been thoroughly drilled III
advance fer the respective parts each
was to play III this rather unique piece
of bacilwoods horseplay OF course it
was the work Of Abe, who had also
adroitly arranged with one Of the invit-
ed guests or attendants at the mfare
when he feasting was ended TO assist
in the ceremony The result was y
comedy If errors, which gave Abe and
Others interested in The secret as much
satisfaction and JOY as it oeeasioned The
G3rigshy household embarrassment and
chagrin The chromcler also improved
aho rare opportunity presented BY carl
caturiag and puncturing Blue Nose
Crawford who had exacted Of him
when boy such an extreme penalty for
7he damage done to his Life Of Wash
lngton.
As The reader viii naturally con
eltlde, the revelation Of this chapter Of
7he Scriptures stirred up the social lions
of eennyville as they had never been
aroused before. Nothing but the blood
or bones Of the author who had hitherto /
eseapaa-because, Us the productions
were SaITeptitiously dropped III lie road
Of nights, no one could identify The
@rltez-Yonld satisfy the wrathful
vengeance of the Girigsbys and their
friends But while the latter were con
cernel in schemes fer detection and de-
tails If punishment the versatile young
sath'is5 was at work en- William. diff