Show wi mill I 1 a I 1 1 1 P A PARSON PA jve 4 0 N NELMS MR h MS uI WEAKENS EAKENS vy d the reader has very likely noticed the meek and lowly front recently assumed by parson george E nelms of the consolidated wagon and ala na a chine company and has doubtless asked himself the reason there a reason all right enough and it has bas remained for the N nwe ws to rive give it to a waiting end and anxious public nelms fT elna la Is no real parson however muth hi may attempt to make people think he ia is anu nil at thin air of deep humility boling to ret izet him anything except wl ath h outsiders who are not on to hia his past record the bedrock bed rock fact of the matter la Is simply oil george has just got himely himself self nic nicely fitta fitte dinto into his new judicial judi claf eshee rob robes hes a living breathing justice of the peace in and for the precinct of price and aa as auch such feels his catl not that be takes himself so seriously as a plain justice of the peace but there are ministerial duties devolving upon him which would puff up a lees less contained man with pardonable pride this thing of suddenly finding yourself called upon by the law of tho the land to perform the duties of a minister of tho the gospel is no josh and when the full force of his new responsibilities struck him mr kelma nelms ia Is said to have worn a path deep around rev dr N ich leh cla cis and other priests and preachers pr cachera to see how they bore themselves in public and private before en entering trIng upon his tits new duties then ho he declared himself as fit as a fiddle and on wednesday was called upon to make good A couple from scofield on the day name came eme to town looking for or somebody competent te to tie tle a matrimonial i knot kno last and warranted not to fray farle or asen aa at the splice par eon son elma waa was sent ernt for and after looking oyer over the situation bet set hia his jaws and said hod hed tackle tack to vae arh job he lie did tackle it and ia said to have hm e c vered himself alth alth glory I 1 in all abo tb ordeal the parson la Is said to havu shown but a single eign sign of everybody know s that it is aa up to every well regulated matrimonial i sharp to kisa kiss the bride the parson i wis so frustrated ted that he overlooked thi this met me roc t important feature of the occasion and making a weak tion of hia his de to a newa news representative later in the week said you fellon a can josh all you pla please put yourselves your seb es in my place I 1 know 1 that bride Y ind of expected domett we ing and I 1 batal like ho he very dickens to 1 7 disappoint her seeing that she was a rr T mighty prepossessing iong lady but im so infernally bashful that I 1 imply simply do it maybe the next time ill be e able to do utter itter but some nl al lowance ought to be made on account I 1 k T of thia this being my first offense and im naturally so coy and shy I 1 feel that 11 haysay may ay without fear of successful contradiction that I 1 am a good deal j better looking than cither either bishop hora hors ley or dr nichola nichols but they are old handa hands at the business bui iness give me a littie little tino tine ti no ne all I 1 need ie Is practice |