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The Justice Trusted

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
December
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

    Those who follow the records of the justice courts are often reminded that matrimonial difficulties do not always cluster around the tradition of the divorce court.

   Not very long since a middle aged individual, with an expectant expansion in his eyes, edged into Judge Duffy's temple of practice and inquired of the court, who was sitting on bench, celebrating the evacuation of Cuba by surrounding himself with a halo of blue, curling Havana ringlets, the regulation price for performing the marriage rite according to the statutes of the state of Michigan in such cases made and provided. "Two dollars" and trimmings was the answer. "Do you trust?" "All business in this court is strictly cash," said the judge with due judical severity.

   The fellow went away. About a week later he presented himself before the court, accompanied by a woman. The judge performed the ceremony in his most impressive manner and then the bridegroom, excusing himself for a moment, left, conducted his bride into the outer hall where he left her and returned to the judge's office. Carefully closing the door behind him he softly approached the judge and handed him a dollar saying, in a whisper, "I'll pay the other dollar next week. ' '