The San Francisco call., 1904-09-11

Juns an Chinks. The weddin' will take
place at the schooIhouse on the 18th
OF June. The Skookum brass band will
furnish httin' music fur the occasion,
an the exercises will be unusually
good
After the weddin' ceremony has
been concIoodsd everv one viii repair
10 the Ya1ier Dog Hotel, where all sorts
Of good things 10 eat Will be served TO
everybody All come an Join in the
fun. Swart Pete foots the bills
An, say. stranger, u1ebbe you think
they didn't all come. Their was only
one man thin fifty mile what didn't
show Up at those doin's.. That was
Horseshoe Charlie, an he would Nv
come. only the boys strung him up that
mornin' bout daylight fur stealin'
Jedge Smiths bay horse. Charlie said
be didn't so much mind helm hung,
cause he'd allus expected TO wind up
that way, but he did think they might
Nv waited till he'd went to the weddin'.
"Swart Pete wasn't perzackly what
you might call pious-anyway it didn't
show on i'm nuf TO hurt-an he didn't
purpose to have the JoyOusness. Nv the
'casion spilled by anythin' Nv a religious
natur. So. stead Nv havin' ParsOn
Jones. the reg'lar sky pilot. perform
the GER 'nouy he asst Jedge Smith 10
fix i'm up. The Jedge. had been Jestics
Nv the Peace here fur bout two years.
but they hadn't never no weddin's come
mis- way. His official duties he'd been
mostly confined TO persidin' at necktis
parties an sech. an to be suddintly
called pom to unite these two palpi-
tatin' hearts plumb ratified i'm He said
he didn't know how TO go at Il, an
Jest pint blank refused TO tempt the
job.
But when the boys heard thet ther'
was a chanct NV the match havin' to be
declared Off on this count they cor
rallied the Jedge an perlitely informed
him that If he persisted In sech con-
duct prejudicial to the good Nv ths
community his friends an relatives
'ud hev opportunity to. plant flowers
on his last restin' place. The Jedgs
seen the put OF the Argument an
submitted peaceful. He fixed up some
kind Nv a Ger mony an lernt It by
heart
doin's arrove. All the boys come In
from the hills early. Also the cels-
bratin' commenced early. Pete wouldn't
let nobody paw for nothin' that day.
so you can Jest bet the booze shops did
a howlIn' biznes- Some OF the boys
caught TWO Chinks right after break
fus an tied their pigtails together an
set 'em to fghtin'. Say. have you ever
heard two Chinks cussin each other In
Chinese? Well, If you ever get the op-
pertunity you don't want to miss II.
It's wuth the price NV admission easy.
But this was fest kind Nv side issue.
The motto OF the day was. drink
early an ofen.' an everybody lived
up TO the motto.
THE weddin' was scheduled to take
place at noon. Pete wasn't nuthin' II
not fashnable. Long fore that time
the school house was filed to over
fiowin'. When the boys what had been
out 'tendi1' the obsequies Nv Horse
Shoe Charlie arrove they wasn't no
room fur EN- TO get in. but seem as
how thev'd been performin' public
duty. ledge Smith made some Nv the
others move out an make a place
fur 'em.
When Swart Pete an his bride en-
tered the door the band struck up The
Arkansaw Traveller them noble an
/. flttin' strains. after which the .weddin'
party ranged themselves In their re-
spective corners an the doin's COM
menced- The Jedge begun by askin' II
ther- was anybody present what hac
any reason to offer why this weddin'
should not take place. Sswart Pete's
hand crept round kinder keerless ike
toward where ne kept his hootin' iron,
an nobody had nuthin' to say
; The Jedge then perceeded. but some
how he got kinder ratified an his
speech got mixed up In his mind
'Swart Pete he said real sOium. do
you promise that you win luv. honor
an obey this woman what you're mar
! ryir' for the balance NV your natural
: days?' AS I said before. Pete was
; dead game. an he said yes 'thout
) turnin a hair.
Liza said the Jedge to the blushin'
bride. DO you promise to feed an sup
port Swart Pete TO the best Nv your
ability. so help YOU?
Liza looked kinder dumfoOzIed. but
blushed real pretty an said she would
Then pernOunce you man an wife
!. an may God have mercy On you both,
amen said the Jedge. an the boys
turned loose a yell an shot all the
windeTS out. jestStO show that they ap-
proved Nv The sentence. -BrOncho Bill
in a absent-n.n6ed Ir0nent NV keer-
lessness perforated a Cl1ink what hap
pened to be standin' cross the road IN
the way. but as he didn't owe nobody
nuthin' ther wasn't no harm done.