Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1920 — The Mean Bridegroom. [ARTICLE]

The Mean Bridegroom.

Bishop Benjamin Brewster said at a wedding breakfast In Portland: “The meanest man I ever hqard of in my life was a Kansas farm hand. He rang a Kansas preacher up at 12 o’clock one night to marry him, and after the ceremony he said: “ ‘Well, parson, are we spliced nowr “‘Absolutely,’ saio the parson. “‘Spliced hard and fast?’ “ ‘Nothing but death,’ the parson said, ‘can break the sacred tie which now binds you to this lady.’ “ *You couldn't unsplice us again, parson, even if you wanted to?* “No ; the ceremony I have performed is irrefraglble and irrevocable.’ “Then, parson, Pm goin’ to stand you off for it? SAW the farm hand, with a relieved look, and, taking his wife by the arm, be departed, never to return.”