Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-08


street.
The horse, nervous animal, start
ed with o jump, and further irritated
by the fluttering ribbons before his
eyes, swept down the street at a run
| away pace. The shoes swung back
and forth under the carriage for some
distance, but finally dropped off in
front Of the Office of The Snowville
Clipper, a country weekly whose force
lived up to the motto, ''All the news
while it is news, while il is fresh"
Editor Dodge, who had lively
realization of the fact that eternal
vigilance is the price of items, cast
his eagle eye out of the window in
time to note the occupants of the fly
ing carriage, the rice and the shoes in
front of his Office door.
Hold on, Johr," he called to the
foreman, who had just finished max
ing up the paper, unlock the last
form and take cut half q column of
matter; I will be back in q few min
utes with something to fill in"
So saying he rushed out, and strid-
ing up-street met by chance the very
lady who had been visiting Mrs.
Herrick that afternoon.
Heard about the wedding?" she
asked him, as ae drew near.
"No; but was just going to find out
about it," he answered. Young
Bingham and Susie Peters, wasn't it?"
eyes; was next door during the
ceremony, and it was the quietest
thing in the way of wedding 1 ever
heard of. Mrs. Peters likes so much
style that reckoned she would want
to make considerable of spread when
Susie was married"
"Who married them?"
"Parson Eildreth, and he was the
only person there outside the family.
1 don't believe their nearest neighbors
would have known anything about it
if it hadn't been for the twins. They
were on hand with their rice and old
shoes and gave the couple good send
off"
"What vas her dress?" queried
Dodge, jot.ing down the points as fast
as his gG-rulous informant brought
them out.
"Well, she did have on the queer
est rig fer bride "a white duck skirt.
pink shnt waist and plain white
sailor hat She looked real sweet,
though, anl as they were evidently
going away on carriage trip it was
we'll enough, but not what you would
expect from Mrs. Peters's daughter.
No one would suspect from her dress,
though, that she was a bride, and that
is probably what she intended"
"Thank you ever so much, Mrs
Smith, said Dodge; meeting you has
saved ne lots of trouble"
BacG he hurried to the office with
qualification so plainly depicted upon
his coGntenance that the idlers IN the
square, as the business part of the
town was called, wondered what
"Hustler" Dodge had got onto now to
make him look so happy. and several
old farmers, who had driven down to
the village to do some trading, decided
to wait until after the paper was out
before going home; "the women folks
would like to read the news" they
thought.
Now, girls, wake up" said the edi-
tor as he blew into the office, ''and set
this copy as fast as you can; we have
only ten minutes to spare, and it
won't do to miss the mails; people are
toe anxious to'get The Clipper, he ad
ded complacently. Here is the first
take" he called, after moment OF
two Of violently scribbling, and type
began to rattle into the sticks with
basinesslike rapidity.
In due time the article was set up,
the proof taken, read and corrected,
and o'clock in the afternoon The
Clipper-with great news SCOOP
was awaiting its eager readers in the
boxes of the postofice.
Mr.. Peters was among the first to
get the paper, but without stopping to
look at its contents he wended his way
home and tossed the sheet into his
wife's lap.
Here mother, is the Illuminator,
his favorite name for The Clipper;
"where are the twins?"
81 put them to bed" said Mrs.
Peters, unfolding the paper, sshat
they might realize how naughty they
were this afternoon, but oh! what is
this Bingham Peters," and with
wide distended eyes-horror, indigna-
tion and amazement in her whole at
titude, she began to read the news
while it was news and decidedly
| fresh:
''BINGHAM- PETERS,
GA very pretty home wedding took
place this afternoon at the residence
of our esteemed fellow citizen, Mr..
John f. Peters, whose eldest daugh-
ter, Miss Susan Amelia, was united in
marriage to Mr.. Charles Gerald Bing-
ham, rising young lawyer of Shows
vile.
"The wedding was a very quiet af-
fair indeed, only the immediate mem
bers of the brides family being pres
ent at the ceremony, which was per-
formed by Rev. DR.. Hildreth, pastor
OF the First Church.
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