WHAT IT COSTS TO MARRY.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 379, 13 August 1903, Page 6

WHAT IT COSTS TO MARRY.

Owtr » It* OMlae Bill Is RMnun . f D«f*»r tk# *£xp«aa*« ta Hott PUcm, > Marriage is one of the cheapest of luxuries if one reckons oiiiy the otitis\ required for the payment of the preacher or magistrate who performs the ceremony and the cost of the license in such states as require licences. Any minuter, priest or preacher of the Gospel in the United States may solemnize marriages, and in many states* judges for one or more classes of courts may officiate. In all save half a dozen states, too, justices of the peace have the privilege of officiating at the highly important function, say* th« Chicago Chronicle. In some parts of the United States the person performing a marriage ceremony must have personal knowledge of the identity, names and residence oj the parties, and inasmuch as such La* are enforced in some of the wtst: states where young people fretjiit-.. drive long distances to be marriti.. stipulation has ou occasion ca~ more or less inconvenience. In . of the states two witnesses arc vjiired to be present at the soln.i. tion of a marriage, although in a. states a single witness is sulhc. There is still in force in Pe&nsy an old law which prescribe-) ..: witnesses shall be pr.citi, t ::'.:- action is seldom if ever tiii.,.«... haps the strangest stip'ns .ou is that which appears in tin la Tennessee, and i* Jo the effect tl.. validity of a marriage sbi 11 be k. wise affected by ihe omission ol .. baptismal name of eithrr party in .. license and the use of a nickname a stead, provided the parties can be :tu . titled. Any person conversant the conditions prevailing in th< tain districts of Tennessse wil. «j . riate the wisdom of this unique p: viso. Common supposition is to the effect that the fee for performing the u>i> - riage ceremony is rlrpend'.-nt upon thegene.rosi v ■ : thee ridegroei and it will, doubtless, th-rejor. prise many persons to Jt-sru " several states the law ha.-, a L. the matter. Iu the Old Domini instance, there is a statute whi ▼ides that the person sole it. marriage is entitled to a fer dollar, and that "any person t> a greater fee shall forfeit to th aggrieved £50." In West Virj" stipulated that the f«rr h- "' one doll; " <*~d the ld.--h thai ' ' • '-■■ shal; he n*. any c:. ...■-*•-■• given by : lo stica msi... e In 16 sta.i. • :..:■ union a wedd«r. couple may ontam a more or less e.ai/ orate certificate of their marriage. Sows of Them Hit*. "This article," she said, looking up from the paper, "says that physicians almost invariably have no business ability." "So?" he replied, absent-mindedly. "That's what it says," she asserted. "They are too easy-going in a business way. a rl really don't know how to ;-. •:•(.;>: r return for their serv:ces. Tin ri- is no c'n.ss. it says, that : i »-> n-»i '' .-..'pcse-J upon. Do you Ur:t:-: it*:, .; ar'i'' ' **V.'r-'l.™ he replied, thoughtfully, '*: .:--.-» of tl.rm mcy lack business :t"»»il»*y, but others have enough to make the average good. Do you rs-lt!:-rol.rr that you asked Dr. Pilla to ii'r.'C with :is last month?" "Vis. What of it?" "He's charged it up in his hill as a professional call."—Chieaga Post, \\ istrr Mancnrrr of Romlib Troop*. The Russian a count upon their climate as one means of defense, as it v.as when Napoleon invaded Russia. Their troops are accordingly trained 1 hj winter maneuvers, including loadIrfr a battery, with its war transport r.Tid material complete, upon sleighs, moving it for some distance ovsr a r'fiieult, sno T .v-covered country and bringing it into aetioa again.—N. T. Sua, c Two Champions.—lt i« said that the roar of a lion can ba heard farther than, the sound made by any • ..her living creature. Ifert to that < iwnei the note of a woman wno ha* found a mouse tn her buraau.—Bo-iVoa Tr»n«eript. , ,