The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 10, 1906 E.H. STORIE - - - - Opened his eyes to the beauties of this world not far from thirty years ago in the city of Chariton. His full name for the benefit of this article is EDWARD HORATIO, showing that he has distinguished tastes, ratifying the names which were given to him in early childhood. As a youth he was promising, wore pants two sizes too big for him, and got stone bruises on his heels but has now outgrown all of these juvenile follies - especially the pants. He went to school some and learned a whole lot but has never compiled any encyclopedias on the subjects forgotten. His name is famous among the archives of law, of which we will speak at some future time. He finished his literary education and graduated from the Ann Arbor law school and is now in the active practice of his profession. Two years ago he was elected Justice of the Peace, with jurisdiction co-estensive with Chariton and has held the office with neatness and dispatch ever since. He is a candidate for renomination a! nd election and were it not for our failure in being able to put up the stakes would wager handsomely on his continued elevation. He has never had many hair-breadth escapes from alligators to endear him to the people, or climbed castle walls to rid himself of pursuit by buccaneers but the reason of this is that he has ever loyally remained in Chariton and left mere adventure to those who would rather be scared all their lives than work. However, his life is not without its thrilling incidents. He performed a marriage ceremony by cable which joined the Sultan of Sulu to his forty-seventh queen, and the Insular Reporter wrote up the affair to the effect that the Sultan was attired in his conventional breech clout and that the bride wore a tiger skin, cut low in the neck, and carried a bolo in her hand. But this was not without its reward. About three months later the officiating magistrate received a box of stone hatchets from the Sultan, accompanied by a live peacock an! d an invitation to attend the wedding feast which would take place a f ew days before the Sultan's next approaching nuptial. So we say a man who can thus perform marriage ceremonies at long distance certainly should receive the generous suffrage of a grateful constituency without regard to political affiliation or previous condition of servitude. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 11, 2004 [email protected]