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Show KNEW WHEREOF HC SPOKS. Minister' Answer to Expoi.uU in, Bridegroom Not Consoling. Tho jjroom entered alone ami salo confidentially: "Do you use tho. word 'obey' In our mnrrlage service, Mr. ?" "No," said tho minister, "I do not, usually." "Well," salil tho expectant benedict, "I have como to ask jou to marry me now, and I want It used." "Certainly," leplled tho other. "It shall be done," and presently the couple stood solemnly before, him. "James T ," said tho clergyman, "do you take this woman to bo your wedded wlfo7" "I do." "Do 'you absolutely promise o lovo, to honor and obey her so long as you both shall live?" Horror and rebellion struggled with the sanctities of the occasion on the brldgegroom's faco, but ho chokingly responded: "I do," and tho meek brldo decorously promised In turn. After tho ceremony was over the bridegroom Buhl excitedly aside to the grave minister: "You misunderstood me, sir: you misunderstood me! I referred to tho woman's promising to obey." "Ah, did you, Indeed?" serenely answered an-swered his reverence. "Dut I think what Is good for ono side Is good for tho other, don't you? And, my friend, It is my advtco to you to say nothing about It, for as an old married man, I can tell you you'll have to obey nny-how." |