Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-30
By Fl M Jackson.

m T QuihutN WHttfitf 1o So 'o P''"" with boiler plate or stick in scare croW line tell ng the readers to watch thie space next week" But he haG done the latter just the week before and lnew that Es readers had their evee on this particular spot and It wouldn't do to ask them to rivet their attention on it for another week. And his boiler plate vas old and had been used several times. So neces- -itv, .hat kind old motner of all new things. forced the quifl=pusher out !. to the August sun in search of news. He tisited the various sources of ln- formation and found Them as dry as an Impoverished well. Even the court house officials could furnish him nolh.,g printable, and he was slowly Ieavir the last quarter when super. anuated squire beckoned him back and informed him that he was ab '1lr 10 perform a marriage ceremony or 
 ralties appeared.
 Now. weddings on the Mississ ppi river in Arkansas, ordinarily create n, txcitr, clt That is. among t'i- co,nrp.l ,on! gent The is nothing new or edd about them, ci the o's- tunes would rot e%ci,e the eNH of the fashionable world, and the pres ents were not sufficiently costly to warrant mention And this wedding was no exception ta the rule. John and Mary had chopped cotton together and had sandwiche1 in their love making between the rows of the fleecy staple. but whether in field or forum the divine passion works with the same result And with the poignant bangs of love pierc ng their simple hearts John and Mary had come to inc sacred altar to plight their faith.
 John looked like stray fragment of Egyptian darkness just escaped from his native heath. The smallest hole in the shirt he wore was the one through which his kinky head pro- truded. The bosom of h.s trouser- lets resembled the map of the Malay islands. His one gallus of bed ticking hung imposing diagonally across his left shoulder His feet were mak' ing vain effort to escape from his mismated shoes, and had partially succeeded, as was evidenced by the small toes in the 1imelight of the mat rimonial altar. He was rather uncer tain as to which foot he should stand on or both. and halting between opin ions he shifted uneasily from one foot to the other.
 The bride-but what pen can de- scribe the bride. Those dreamy. fril ly, feathery, fairy brides Mine Is rot that kind, however. She was eX' cuisitely gowned in a wonderful crea- tion of cardinal-colored calico, fires coed with rosettes of saffron ribbon and girdled with a sash of dlspropor' tionate dimensions. Her simple straw hat had furnished the barnyard calf with at least one square meal and there was scarcely enough left to be disnified with name. Her col or was beautiful blend of lamp I ;,,;, seen blushes struggled in vain with her mahogany veneer to give her a hr;de-like appearance. She found many interesting figures in tAe carpet about her feet and seemed absorbed in the weave. Her right hand was clasped in that of Johns while her left play ed nervously about her nose (though thought it would have been more proper had she used q handkcrchiefO
 The proud mother of the bride stood Tn the rear, conscious of the fact that 2n important event was about to trans pre Her face was wreathed in smiles with suggestion of superiority. She acted as a sort of a director-genoral or aide-de-camp for Cupid. And ir the background stood two little picka ninnes, brothers of the bride. They were oily black and bore strilline resemblance to the gold dust twins Their eys stood out like ineanaescen bulbs, and their exposed teeth locke like miniature monuments on dress pa rade. They were greatly agitated ant excited and were ready to run at th' first suspicious move.
 It took the good old squire but few minutes to cement John and Mar, into the holy bonds of weal0ck. Johl vowed by the great hornspoon and tn ghost of his great grand-daddy tha Ge would stick to Mary until the COW come home and see that she was wei
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