Show A QUIET WEDDING S It Seemed Lively Enough to the Editor Edi-tor Bat Not So to Alkali Bill Harpers Magazine Did you attend the BirciherJacklcmg wedding out at Billybee Dam last night Ike asked the able editor of the JJaw rifle Clarion Aw yes answered Alkali Ike wearily weari-ly I was thar Of course there was a lively time and nil thrill9 Accordin to hOw you looked at dt I I called it mighty slaw Outside of the regular reg-ular routine and the eaitin noitihin happened hap-pened worth mentaonin To be sure the preacher and the groom got into a row because the divine wanted his pay an advance but that is a common occurrence The Rev Mr Harps is too old a bird to take any chances Of course Jack Howxxxme the fiddler had Wad too mudh as usual and thls time tie fell off from the table and broke his bow arm Jack always was more trouble than he was worth I I The brides mother who didnt like the I groom anyhow jumped on to the poor fellows neck jest before the ceremony With a rollin pin and it took Waif a dozen doz-en of us ten minutes work to tie the old lady fast in a rocWn chair and carry her a few hundred yards out on the prairie Durin tine rumpus somebody stole the feed and we never saw hide or hair of it the rest of the evemin They accused me of it but I was as inmercent as a lamb I haint that kind of a man and besides I Bad a private smack of my own I That was every blamed thing that happened except that a deputy sheriff I slid to and arrested Ooyctte Pete for horse I etealln or a little suthln that aWay and some feller had a fit I Shucks Weddns haint noways what they used to be a few years ago Lord them was the times But now evrytWn Is glttdn to be too much like it ds in the I east I |