Show MARRY IN HASTE PAY AT LEiSURE LESURE Bridegrooms Who Stand Off Of the Minister for 0 His Fee CONFESSIONS OF CLERGY Butte ute Pastors anti and Justices id Tell cn of or Odd Experiences In the Uio 1 Marrying Business All Al the world loves loyes a lover lo er but but Justices justIces Just just- ices of the time peace and ami ministers do not loo loo look to wishes with wih favor oc Ca upon tho time lover who his without paying become a a bridegroom matrimony matrimony mat mat- fee Cec Thero There are arc men who rush Into with wih so little financial preparation the that they are ate broke when they get to Justices Justice's office or the parsonage Then the tho they timey attempt to wriggle out of paying Ice fee feeA his girl A chap camo came In here with wih several weeks necks ago said Justice Deevy and amid wanted to get married I 1 tied ted the knot and then the tho happy h bridegroom handed me nie 2 Z 2 Here I 1 said the time legal fee Is five 1 0 plunks I dont don't ask more than that but butI I really must ask that you pay the time legal lesal fee fee lie He fidgeted about awhile and then said le Well Wen I haven't a cent more Ill I'll lJ ll 0 come back and pay you ou next week All Au Al rl right ht was my answer and meantime I wont won't sign the marla marriage e When hen you pop around with that little old 3 Ill I'll sign tho tue certificate but until th then n Ill I'll Il keep sig It hero llero in my desk eak married until un un- Remember youre you're not real really til t ii I 1 sign sig time the certificate Stilt Still Sti to Tar Pay That hat fellow has hns been hero here three or four Cu times lames since sluice continued the time Justice t to t tell J me that he lie I Is going to pa pay pa thu tho 3 but out It It hasn't been handed over yet and ani h M-i M lo marriage certificate is still tl uns un- un s 6 ne S That man tried to stick me otherwise I wouldn't have been so hard on him Sometimes a Justice will wJ perform a ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony for foo to nothing because he lie believes the Iho circumstances warrant it It It I remember Oi omit Jt v young oun man n who was a cook earning a good salary salar He lie decided to marry marr sent his Imis girl a ticket and expense money to come comae West Vest and having quite a bunch left started to celebrate a little by bO buckIng buckIng bucking buck- buck Ing tho tue tiger Result when Result when Resul-when when the girl arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived ho didn't have a sou more than I Ithe the lee fee for Cor the marca marriage c license He lie le came to me told me the situation and ami said that hed he'd pay a as soon as he could I 1 married him to his girl who was as pretty at u. they make them and he lie and his hla wife went awa away The They left town but hut about two months later In him walks the bridegroom and hands me a n 20 P bill bm 1 I asked askel him i if 1 he was happy Well Weli I guess yes he ime al Do you Id I'd here to give suppose Id come over you 01 20 o for the time Job it I I 1 1 wasn't Quite often 1 I get more than the fee tee rime Tho lar largest est tee fee I remember getting was front from a man who had been heen divorced and wanted to remarry quietly quiet I went vent to his house to perform time tho ceremony and when It I was dono done ho gave mo j. j m E Experience ot or Ministers ln S Ministers have havo ninny many peculiar experiences with wih bridal couples The Rev Rc J J. J E. E of ot tho church church related T T Tout tho time story of or one omm bridegroom who beat him I out of or his lila fee lie IIo was very eo much In a h harry rr said Mr and ard after aler the tho marriage was performed he drow drew me aside and said RaJ 1 that he was was would busted lust busted would d-would would 1 I wait walt Naturally Natural Naturally Nat Nat- ural I had to wait for the deed was done The Time man didn't come around for fOl or several days and ns as I was going going- out of town I left lef word with wih m my substitute who conducted the time church In my absence absencE to give gl e the man maim tho time certificate which layon lay layon layon on my table but to see seo that lint he ime paid H n for It 1 I didn't care about tho time fee feE but tho the certificate cost m mo me 1 1 The Time happy bride who decided Immediately after the marriage mm-marriage that she couldn't couldn't stand the tho double harness arrangement with wih time tho thoman man came comae to the house soon after asked for or the certificate which she wished to use to fight him In the courts and when m my substitute handed over o er the parchment parchment parch parch- ment gave ga c him hint GO cents cent He lie le was so paralyzed par par- with wih astonishment that he lie let her hergo hergo hergo go without the other half hal dollar The moral morl seems to be that a man who rho will wl stand one off of for Cor the marriage fee Is not Icel likely tb to make malee a good husband husland for or a girl however Butte couples are As As a rule eule Bute not niggardly In their fees Ten dollars donaI Is much more common than 5 5 for or fees Cees and not Infrequently I have received 25 The hl highest 1 lover over got sot was 3 Neither Fee Fcc Nor or Thank Tho only time I 1 can remember get get- getting tn ting neither fee nor thanks said the time Rev S S. S F. F Chambers was wa from a wealthy couple I once married marrIe In Minnea polis The brides bride's father Cather owned several to eral mills and a lot of other property and the bridegroom was pretty well wel oil off of him self cJ It I was to be le a aCI very CI swell wel church wedding and in ium 0 order to do myself and lie tho party proud I bought a new necktie put a special shine on iii my shoes and in instructed instructed in- in time the laundry to polish my collar until It shone like the jewels of the queen of Sheba My special preparations cost mo inc about 0 Then I found my amy train Into the city was late and I hired a rig rigHt Ht ft a cost of several dollars more ar arrived arrived ar- ar rived in time to perform time the ceremony and performed It with gladsome visions of u a really fat and goodly fee 1 I never rot pot a cent or even a nod of thanks from the bride OP or bridegroom or from fromn the families And I was out all au my expenses There was ono one amusing Incident at a wedding where I officiated After I have pronounced the couple man and wife I deliver a short benediction This Timis young oung bridegroom appeared to be a very bashful chap but as soon as I had imad said i you man and wie he threw its his arms about his hla bride and amid kissed her resounding vigor Gives time the Benediction Hold on omu I said Thom Tho ceremony Is not hot quite done dorme and I gently separated them and finished the tho benediction My explanation of his eagerness is that he lie probably hadn't had the courage to kiss toe girl before and that he lie wanted to get lousy Perhaps she hind had promised him hit uk first kiss when they were married mar mar- nell ried and he hue didn't want to lose any time ii In claiming fulfillment of that promise In ln Butte I have never with one exception tion Oo fl been asked to perform the ceremony a fee and usually even time the poorest poor poor- est emot couples are surprisingly liberal The onto man whom I married without a fee lucre here as not a Butte man and the cir circumstances clr- clr were such that his money money- l l' l condition was The odd oddest est fee I over received was froni a travelIng travel ravel Ing man luau who was an Inveterate Joker and anda n a Democrat lie JIo sent me ruie a huge anti and very much alive rooster and a 20 u gold piece to buy feed for time tho rooster I have had fees of Hour flour potatoes and nearly everything cl ehe e for or a Methodist preacher seems to got get the most varied assortment of fees you can Imagine I have however yet to be presented with witha a sample of copper ore as a fee |