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Show WEDDING HAD TO STOP. Ceremony Halted While Sally 'Jarj-fled" 'Jarj-fled" the Chickens. I'lshop Candler of Georgia, recently to: J one of the national lawmakers from that state an experience he had when he first began to preach the got-pel got-pel and tlo nuptial knots, snjs tho Washington Times. v "One day I was cnlled on nnd engaged en-gaged to marry n, couple In one of tho out-of-the-way districts I found the house a rudely constructed log affair, with but one room and a loft above, which was entered by a ladder and a trrp dcor. A big table was In the ce-'cr of the room, nnd It was loaded with sood things to eat, eerj thing hnlrig been cooked on an open fireplace fire-place which took up nearly all one side of the room.. The bride and groom lined up and 1 was proceeding with the ceremony, and while In the most Impressive part of It, the old lady poked her bead out of tho trap door In the loft and called: "'Sally, turn thehi chickens nnd Jag 'em with a fork.' "The cv unnd was obeyed by tho daughter, she leaving tho trembling bridegroom whllo she Jagged 'em with a. fork. I could not help laughing at the ludlci-ousness of tho whole affair, af-fair, and 1 hae never witnessed n marriage ceicmony since without remembering re-membering this experience." |