The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20

I I'm not at all romantic, but | want
something different from just calling
in the minister
But how am | going to fix for a
balloon?" he asked
| Il don't know. but that's what you'll
have to do. No balloon, no marriage"
| Moses went riding through all the
villages for twenty miles around ask.
ing questions about balloons, and it
was two weeks before he returned to
the widow to say:
! I'm willing to obleege, but we can't
get no balloon here short of a thou
sand dollars. and mebbe not for that
Even II We could, no preacher would
| go up to marry u.s."
We'll. Moses. | don't want to seem
over-partic,,lar." replied the woman
married up in a balloon how about
down In coal minc?"
| THAT might do, il can find one"
Moses went inquiring again. and by
and by ascertained that the nearest
, coal mine was $50 miles away. and q
very wet place at that. Besides. a
minister told him that he wouldn't
descend into coal mine and marry a
couple for less than hundred dollars
When the widow Durham had been in
formed of how the matter stood she
replied:
Il had rather set my heart on It.
but | have always been woman tC
sacrifice. Why can't We be married in
a circus ring before all the people?
why, | never heard OF such
thing! We'd be almost took for
couple Of camels or something! No
| no."
Moses, We must he married in
circus ring or not at all.
Moses made his rounds again. II
was now September, and no circus
could be expected within ten miles Of
the village until the next summer
! When he spoke to his minister about
performing the ceremony the gooc
man exclaimed:
"No-never! should be put or
trial for doing such a thing!"
You don't seem to be man o
much energy" remarked the widow
when she had heard his third excuse
IL guess we had better drop the mat
ter
Moses begged for another chance
and after taking three days to cen
slider it the woman said:
Well. perhaps I'm a little too par
:tcular to want balloons and Goa
mines and so I'll be content with
dying machine. You can surely ge
one of those | read in the papers
every day OF their carrying passen
gers at the rate of mile minute
Why can't We be married at the rat
of mile a minute?"
LANDS. woman, it would cost ever!
dollar we are both worth" groane'
Moses. And If we got a machine and
went up 1t would be the preachc
again We couldn't hire one to q
with us. Preachers amt taking
chances. | don't see why we can
so to a preachers house or have on,
come here"
We must look at the sentiment Q
the thing It's for woman to hav
, her way about such things. Moses. 4
there tall tree anywhere arounG
here?"
Yes. there's a big elm about ;
mile beyond the bridge
Can you build a platform In tn
top and then run ladders up"
LANDS, but do you want to be mar
ried in a tree-tOp!"
II do. You have disappointed M
about the other things. but you musn'
about this.
Moses went out to survey the ire
ut close range, and to talk to carpen
ters and the minister's The carpen
tiers said it could be done. but whe'
the minister was approached he re
piled with SILVER:
What? Climb tree TO marry
couple! You can have little respec
for the cloth to propose such thing.
The good man consented. however
to call on the widow as Il mediator
and he did call. and after argument
lasting two hours a compromise wa
cfocted. The marriage was to TAX
place from platform on top Of
haystack. and two weeks later 1t cam
off with the whole village as spec
, ta;ors. Later on, when the bride wa
asked why she was so bent on tn
unusual she smiled and replied:
, why. I suppose I was put out t.
think | had been a widow tor eigh