Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — Extravagance. [ARTICLE]

Extravagance.

Judge Edwards of Lee County, who has married over 100 couples since ho has been ordinary, performed the ceremony recently for a runaway couple seated in a buggy in the public road. The ceremony over, the groom fumbled in his pockets and fished up 36 cents. “Jedge," he said, “this here’s all the money I got in the roun’ worl’. Es you’re a-mind to take it you kin; but I’ll say atraightfor'ards that I'd done sot it aside for the honeymoon expenses!"—Atlanta Constitution.