The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
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Ar unusual marriage took place at the
Registers office last Wednesday evening
A young couple came in from Caldwell
and decided to start on life's journey
together. They could only muster rs
cents and that was only small portion
of the marriage fees, the groom's brother
handed over $1.25 and bystanders COP
tributed $1.00 This satisfied Register
Belland. Rev. w. ]. Tidball proceeded to
pronounce the words that made two
hearts leap for joy. The bell rang and
they started on their bridal tour mount
ed on the running geers of an empty
lumber wagon May they live long and
prosper is the earnest wish of all who
witnessed the smiles of JOY as this happy
couple departed from our town.
There was one young woman at Cape
May however who really is widow,
though on which side of the grass 1 am
unable to state. Her purpose in life
seems to be to make women who possess
husbands uncomfortable. and it did me
good to the bottom of my soul to see
crude play on her part capped by
stroke of genius from a young married
woman who is staying in the same hotel.
The said young wife came out on the
veranda one morning and asked if any
body had seen her husband.
why yes" said several women all at
once, and with the same air. HE went
out with Mrs. Veuve Just little while
ago."
l happened to know that the husband
had made an engagement to go shopping
with his wife. but it is years since
learned how helpless a man is in the
hands of widow. The wife just twirled
her fluffy parasol over her shoulder,
smiled as only wise woman smiles, and
invited me to visit the shops with her.
We visited them, and when We finally
went into a drug store for a raspberry
Sunday, we found the husband and the
widow in there, just finishing ice cream
sodas. The wife nodded gayly, the hus-
band looked a trife disconnected, and the
widow was plainly bent on carrying the
man still farther in her train. She rose.
WELL" said she, I'm going down to
-" naming remote hotel, ito see
my cousin
1t was plainly in the husbands eye to
Jump up and go with her, but the wife
was too quick for him.
why, Bob she said, reproachfully,
where are your manners? Don't let Mrs.
Veuve go all that way alone. Run along
with her; there's a good boy"
And off went the widow, crestfallen to
the last ruffle. It's one thing to carry
a man off and quite another to have his
wife send him with you. Worst of all is
it to have added to the sending the as
sumption that he wouldn't have gone If
| she hadn't ordered him to CO. Altogether.
| it was the wife's day. and if the widow
| thinks to amuse herself with another
womans discontinue hereafter l think
that Bob won't be the man in the case.
| Often amid the most solemn scenes
| the humorous appears doubly humorous.
| The defendant Laws was being arraign-
| ed for the killing of Jim Walls. He had
answered the questions preceding and
| the solicitor asked. "how will you be
/ tried?" His lawyers told him the an
swer, "by God and my country" but in
stead of repeating the answer he said
| simply ives" Again his attorneys told
him to repeat the answer, but he said
| only yes" This was repeated several
times till at last he seemed to catch
the idea and in quick nervous tones he
exclaimed, ''yes, by God, and my country,
yes.'' And the dignified court even
''smole an innocent smile. '-Wilkesboro
| Chronicle.
Here are some homspun yarns in the
| lott
| Courier:
/ Mr.. Mic Weeks, of Carteret county
SAYS he has a watermelon two-thirdS
grown that weighs rs pounds. Mic says
i lie expects it to weigh, when ripe, l25
ounds; also he says. he is going to sell
| t in Swansboro to the highest bidder
i Mic told us bear story: Mr.. vii
Taylor killed bear last Saturday whicf
was the largest ever seen in this or any
other country.
According to Mic the bear was skinned
and the hide stretched on the ground
and Mr.. Will Bell came along in hi:
, buggy driving fast horse. and Mic says
| 1T took him Just % minutes to drive
) around the bear skin on the ground, an'
he drove at the rate of 20 miles an hour
Then Mic told us a turtle story. too
5 He said A. Fl. Conway, Carteret count!
man, was out at sea last spring when HI
: saw a small island in the ocean. HI
went to/the island, got out on it witt
his crew of twelve men. walked abou
awhile exploring, when Mr. Island begal