Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12

Of whom had ever seen the bride or
groom, but the affair was distinct
success in every particular. Every
body kissed the bride and all the men
folk present wrung the hand Of the
groom and congratulated him with a
fervor not all assumed, for Jessie was
really lovely in her bridal gown. And
then came the preparations for the
wedding journey.
After the ceremony had been per-
formed it occurred to Tom inasmuch
as Flora was to accompany the party
it would sort of even matters up little
If Ned might go with them also, and
accordingly the subject was broached
to Ned, who demonstrated that he
couldn't possibly go because he had
obtained leave of absence for only one
day. Tom offered 10 pay the expense
Of q long-distance telephone message
to Chicago if he would use it in asking
permission to be gone a few days.
This was an argument not to be gain
said, and the message was sent, with
the result that Ned obtained permission
to be gone week if he wanted to.
1t was very merry party that left
the depot, bound for Oconomowoc, and
it was not until their destination was
reached that Ned gave n gasp as he
recollected that he had an engagement
to take q young woman friend in Chi
cage to the theatre that evening. 1t
took him but an instant to decide what
to do, and he rushed to the telegraph
Office and sent the following message
to the young lady with whom he had
the engagement:
Cannot take you this evening. Am
away ;on wedding trip. Z sssls.ss
-QUarIers nau Deen engaged SL0r inc
bridal party at a comfortable hotel on
the edgN of little lake, and there was
no difficulty in arranging for the ac-
commodation of the fourth member of
the party. The other guests at the
hotel had been duly warned of the ex-
pected advent Of a bridal party, but
when the quartet arrived it was the
hardest kind of a job for the guests
to pick out which were the bride and
groom and which the interested
friends, as this had been a civilized
wedding and the clothing of the bridal
party was not full Of rice, nor did their
trunk have any facetious tags attached
thereunto, and nobody held hands OF
put any heads upon other peoples
shoulders. -,
The next day was devoted to fishing.
Ned and Flora very generously offered
to go by themselves and leave the brid-
nj pair to enjoy each others unii ter.
rupted company, but Tom and Jessie
insisted that this was just as much
trip for the benefit of their guess as
for themselves and they would not
listen to separation, Ned was In
hard lines. He had left Chicago ex-
pecting to return the same night and
so carried no baggage, and here he was
scoifronted with the prospect of going
fishing with his best suit of clothes on.
He compromised by leaving his coat
and vest, collar and necktie at the
house, and borrowing an old pair OF
5oyeralls from the landlord for the fish
ing trip, and indeed for the rest of his
stay his regular program was to don
his coat and vest and collar and tie
as he came to. the house for meals
and then carefully remove and hang
them up again as he started out on an
expedition around the lake.
By the third day Ned and Flora be-
gan to insist that the bridal couple
must positively be given some time to
themselves, and so they took to going
of in boat by themselves, leaving
the bride and groom to follow or not
as they wished. Tom winked at Jessie
and Jessie winked at Tom, and it was
easy to see that they saw how things
were going, and Jessie said she always
hoped so, anyway, and wouldn't it be
lovely if it should turn out so, and then
the whole four Of them could rent a
double fiat and life would be one
grand, sweet song.
1t now became the bride and groom's
turn to arrange to be alone, ostensibly
for their own benefit, but really in
order to help along the progress of the
correlative affair. Flora remarked in
confidence to Jessie that she never had
any idea that Ned was SO nice and
at just about the same time Ned re-
marked to Tom that Flora was a
crackerjack.
On the fifth day of the wedding trip
Ned was silent at breakfast. After
breakfast he removed his collar as
usual and donned the customary over
alls, and without saying a word as to
his intentions strolled off up the road
way alone and sat down upon a little
culvert which spanned aravine short
distance off. The other three waited
for him to. reappear until they begun
to fear it would get too hot for good
fishing, and then Tom and Jessie went
for the boat, leaving Flora to wait for
Ned to finish his meditating. But Ned
didn't finish worth cent. After wait
ing until nearly noon. during which
time she had done heap of thinking,
Flora strolled Up the roadway and en-
countered Ned still sitting upon the
culyert dangling his legs over the little
stream beneath.
whats the matter, Ned, sick" she
inquired, rs she snatched the farmers
straw hat from bis head,