Show following instructions now nor said the aitor di tor of t alic lie genius of mf liberty to his I 1 reporter ep orter in your work I 1 shall look for a calmi dispassionate state ment of facts 1 my ay I 1 paper I 1 a 10 er is noted for its veracity and no enago exaggeration era t 0 o is is a allowed I 1 on anny in v subject 10 do YOU yon think you dundei understand stand that clear clearly lv ye i it sir then you may attend the skim gullet weddin wedding which takes place at noon today and ill see how you handle ia it raid eaid the editor turning 0 to bisek his bis desk dk this is what the reporter handed in after the festivities were ever it ft is the custom of most newspapers pap rg in in giving giving 0 accorn accounts ts of local wd weddings lings to speak of the bride as beautiful even if slie she is as ugly as a mud fence the genius nf liberty scorns such flatt flattery erv however ifa if a woman is beautiful wo ecsi tate not to say so but if she is not it is not our fault tault we proclaim the fact we vc wish we coull say that miss melinda durn who became mrs dennis Slim 0 til let at noon today was lovely in form and feature but we cannot while we have seen uglier 13 girls it must be conceded by all impartial observers that brick dust dus t hair and a multitude of freckles do not look well on a bride Ilo however wever she did lite best she could under the circumstances cum stances in wearing 0 a tolerably thick veil and rigged out as she was in a dress of cacam satin I 1 looked k A quite presentable at a distance hardly so much can be said of her husband who walked with a limp and whose sparsely cely settled chin whiskers of a pale dun color wo would uld have improved his hij appearance if they had been shaved off we ascertained by careful inquiry that eisold is old enough C to be liis his cifes father and has in point of fact commie committed tell the offence offense of matrimony twice before some bay that both his former wives were starved to death others that he work worked ed them to ileath death which is correct the genius of liberty does not pretend to say ay s the statements are arc given for what they may be worth what miss ale saw in him to marry is a mystery unless she thought she would be more inore successful than her predecessors in getting etting hold of tho the bonev money which be is said to keep buried somewhere on liis his farm we heard it said t hat her father owed skim 0 gullet tillet and that the latter threatened to have him arrested on a char charge ge of forgery forger if lie he did not dot get melinda to marry him but this statement has not been verified veri tied yet the presents were not very numerous ous and the roost most expensive sive one that we saw was a vase worth a dollar at yet retail ail the couple left on the accommodation for a bridal tour of two lays days to podunk we asked the rev X E genicks how much the groom t gave tave him for tying 0 the kno tand broor I 1 he e said seventy five cents this ther eforo ci can bo be relied upon as official young man said the editor after reading r the re reporters orter I 1 s account you are fir far too 11 high agh a g genius enius to bury aury your talent in it a small place liko iko Quo hosh hosli I 1 would like to keep you but I 1 am sure that would be doing 11 you an injustice I 1 think YOU yon had better go to new york where your talents will be ampre coated as they deserve and I 1 by the alie way when you go to the station to buy your bour ticket avoid making in the fatal ii mistake of buying 0 a n return ticket we are arc fond of you but not licit so very fond that absence could fail to in increase creao it W 11 II SIVITER in the editors drawer in 11 harpers alpers magazine for march 0 |