The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-07-24

failed to attract his attention.
Pretty Miss Sue Peters next appear
ed to take her place in the carriage,
and Mr.. Bingham had just gathered up
the reins preparatory to a start when
a cloudburst of rice enveloped him, the
carriage, the horse and good share of
the people on the street.
The horse, a restless animal, started
with a jump, and, further irritated by
the futtering ribbons before his eyes,
swept down the street at runaway
pace The shoes swung back and forth
under the carriage for some distance,
but finally dropped off in front of the
office Of the Snowsville Clipper, and
Editor Dodge, who had lively reaEza-
ton 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 flying carriage, the
Ri e and the shoes in front of his Office
| door.
"HOld on, john" he called to the
foreman, who had just finished max
Ing up the paper; unlock the last
form and take out half column Of
matter l will be back in a few min
htes with something to fill Ia
So saying, he rushed out, and, strid-
Ing up street. met by chance the lady
who had been visiting Mrs. Herrick
that afternoon.
Heard about the wedding?" she
asked him as he drew near.
mo, but was just going to find out
about it," De answered. young BinG-
ham and Susie Peters, wasn't itY
s'Yes. 1 was next door during rhe
ceremony, and it was the quietest
thing in the way of wedding | ever
heard Of
/ "Who married themY
"Parson Hildreth, 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 was their dress?" queried
Dodge, jotting down the points as fast
as his garrulous informant brought
them out.
white duck skirt, pink shirt waist
and a plain white sailor hat. She look
ed real sweet, but no one would sus-
pect from her dress"
Mr.. Peters was among the first that
afternoon to get paper, but, without
stopping to look at it's contents, he
wendell his way home and tossed the
sheet into his wife's lap.
Here, mother, is The illumination"
his favorite name for The Clipper.
"Where are the twinsW
81 put them to bed" said Mrs. Pc
tiers, unfolding the paper, that they
might realize how naughty they were
this afternoon, but, oh, what is this
'Bingham-P eters?" And with wide,
distended eyes-horror, indignation and
amazement in her whole attitude-she
began to read the news while it was
news, and decidedly fresh.
"a pretty home wedding took place
this afternoon at the residence of our
esteemed fellow citizen, Mr.. John f.
Peters, whose eldest daughter, Miss
Susan Amelia, was united in marriage
to Mr. Charles Gerald Bingham, ris-
ing young lawyer of Snowsville.
1.-THE wedding was a quiet affair-in-
deed only the immediate members of
the brides family being present-which
was performed by the Rev. DR.. Hill
dreth, pastor of the First church.
81 CanxrrcyxTi1Iatc fair
est daughters, was plainly but most
becomingly gowned in a white duck
skirt and pink shirt waist, and was at
tended by her twin sisters, Pauline and
Polly, who showered the happy couple
with rice as they started away on
carriage trip.
'Mr. and Mrs. Bingham are popular
young people, and The Clipper joins
their host of friends in extending con-
gratulations and good wishes"
"Those wretched children" breathed
Mrs. Peters, starting to her feet, while
Pauline and Polly covered their guilty
heads with the bedclothes.
"Don't faint, mother, don't! His es-
teemed fellow citizen is going right
down to interview Editor Dodge, and
while I'm gone you can write up his
obituary. I'll guarantee that it will
be founded on fact at least. Where's
my hatw
But Mrs. Peters was dissolved in
tears, and before her husband succeed
ed in finding his head covering, alone
and unaided, Susie and young Bing-
ham returned from their ride in
state of satisfaction that even The
| Clipper was powerless to disturb. Aft
er they had read The Clippers account
of their wedding Mr.. Bingham plucked
up courage to propose that they regard
it as a prophecy and proceed immedi-
|. ately fulfill it.
Mrs. Peters, in the awkward circum-
stances ia which they were placed, ap-
proved of the idea, and Mrs. Peters, aft
err a time, was persuaded to tip his hat
at a less murderous looking angle and
departed in search Of Parson Hildreth
instead of the moving spirit Of the
press, while Mr.. Bingham sought the
town clerk to procure a license.
] At the intercessiou of their sister
| the term OF imprisonment was snorleH-
ed for the twins, and they emerged
from their temporary confinement in a
state Of subdued joyousness that
found expression in a remark from
Polly to the effect that they would
| play nothing but funerals after this.
But Editor Dodge never really I'M
derstood why Mr.. Bingham subscribed
for The Clipper and paid down ten
years In advance, with the remark that
he liked to encourage genius, or why
Mr.. Peters at the same time stopped
his subscription and tried for whole
year to exist by borrowing his neigh
bors' papers.-Atlanta Constitution.
| Two Methods.
Visiting the late A. T. Stewart one
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