Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1902 — SHE LOST NOTHING. [ARTICLE]

SHE LOST NOTHING.

Omission in the Wedding Service that Didn’t Count. A distinguished naval officer was telling this story on himself the other evening to n gathering of his friends. At the time of his marriage ho had been through the Civil War and had had many harrowing experiences aboard ship, through all of which he kept his courage and remained as calm as a brave man should. As the time for the ceremony came on, however, his calm ness gradually gave way. At the altar, amid the blaze of brass buttons and geld lace marking the full naval wedding, the officer was all but stampeded, and what went on there seemed very much mixed to him. Fearing the excitement of the moment would temporarily take him off his feet, the officer had learned the marriage ceremony letter perfect, as he thought, and he remembered repeating the words after the minister In a mechanical sort of way. After the ceremony was all over and all was serene again, including the officer’s state of mind, the kindly clergyman cubic up to him and touched him on the shoulder. “Look here, old man,” he said, "you didn’t endow your wife with any worldly goods.” "What’s that?” asked the bridegroom with something of astonishment In his voice. "Why, I repeated the sentence ‘With nil my worldly goods I thee endow’ several times and, despite my efforts, you would not say It after me.” The bridegroom seemed perturbed for a moment, and then a beaming fight came into his face. "Never mind, sir,” he said, “she didn’t lose a blessed tiling by my fall, ure.”—Washington Star.