| Show Back Dack In Ithe progressive state of Iowa where every everyone one Is supposed to know a 0 young man and an his young oung woman oman went to the office of the county county county coun coun- ty clerk and asked for a marriage license By Dy the system of ot nods and winks with wih which such Information Is I conveyed news of or their presence presence was conveyed to the favorite Justice of the peace and he dropped In at the window window window win win- dow of the clerks clerk's office and engaged the young young- people In fn conversation Among other things he declared he h knew the father Cather of the bride and thus established a n ver very good bunko mans man's basis of operations He lIe asked them themI If I the they Intended to be married and when the lie they sid said somewhat surprised that the they did he told them to clasp hands and In a minute the they were married As they never had been marrIed married mar mar- ried ned before they didn't know what had happened nor what was the fee for forthe forthe tor the marriage license and so the they paid all al that was demanded which demanded which was wa the tho license and the thc marriage fee Cee combined com corn and went vent happily happl away awo When the parents asked to see the lc license nse they showed shoed a marriage certificate and then there was trouble Every arrangement had been made for achurch n n. church wedding In their little town and man many invitations had been hj issued med Lawyers were called upon and could not ad advise them that another nu- nu nU would be legal since Ince neither of or them thorn was a single person per on The minister min mm- ister Isler refused to perform the ceremony since he had not been the first and at last reports they wore ore Incon Inconsolable If I the they had lived In an any other state they would have known leown enough to tell their friends and all al the rest of or the population to go to the lie they were married anti glad o of It It And the they would have stood pat on that proposition no sion-no sion no matter mater what the lie rest of Iowa ma may do on the tariff question Queston |
