The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-11

black. balled me- Did it hisself, OF course
Didn't want me around knowing to his
goings on. Of course, he didn't and l
told him so.
"Then he lined the Sons Of Matter
Didn't say nothing to me about it, bu,
sneaked off one night, pretendln' he'd got
t. set up with sick Odd Teller, and I'd
never found it out, only he come home
ookin' like man that had been through q
thrashing- machine, and I wouldn't do a
thing tor him till he owned up. And so
it's gone from bad TO wus, and from wus to
wusser, jinin this, and that and t'other
till he's Worship Minister of the Masons,
and Goodness Of Hope Of the Odd Fellows,
and Sword Swallower Of the Finnegans,
and Virgin Cerus Of the Grange, and
Grand Mogul OF the Sons of Incidence,
and Two-edged Tomahawk Of the United
Order of Black Men, and Tale Bearer OF
the Mercitul Manikins, and Skipper of the
Guild Caratrine Columbus, and Big Wizard
of the Arabian Knights, and Pledge Pass
er of the Reform Club, and Chief Bulger
of the Irish Mechanics, and Purse Keeper
of the Order of the Canadian
Conscience, and Double Barrelled
Dictator of the Knights of the
Brass Circles, and Standard Bearer
of the Royal Archangels, and Sublime Porte
of Onion League, and Chambermaid of the
Celestial Cherubs, and Pussant Potentate
of the Petriied Pig Stickers, and the Lord
only knows what else. I've borne it and
borne 1t, hopin' he'd get 'em all jined after
a while, but faint no use, and when he'd
got INTO new one, and been made Grand
Guide of the Nights of Horror, | told him
I'd quit, and / will"
Here the Major interrupted, saying;
"Well, your husband is pretty well mi
tated, that's fact; but the court will
hardly call that good cause for divorce. The
most of the societies you mention are COM
posed Of honorable men, and have
excellent regulations. Many of them,
though called lodges, are relief associa-
tons and mutual insurance companies,
which, if your husband should die, would
take care of you, and would not see you
suffer if you were sick"
"See me suffer when I'm sick Take
care of me when he's dead Well / guess
not; | can take care of myself when he's
dead, and if / can't, l can get another.
There's plenty of em. And they needn't
bother themselves when I'm sick, either.
If want to be sick and suffer, it's none
of their business! especially after all the
sufferin' I've had when amt sick, be-
cause of their carryin's on. And you
needn't try and make me believe it's all
right, either. I know what it is to live
with man that jines so many lodges that
he don't never lodge at home, and signs
his name, Yours truly, Sam Smith, NJ. NJ,
|. O. o. F., X. o. B., X. of P, p. of H., r.
A. H., l. l. P, X. of x, N. c., L. E. T., H.
Err, R. j. p, X. Y. T., etc.
"Oh, that's harmless amusement re
marked Mr.. Huse.
She looked him square IN the eye, and
SAID:
N believe you are jiner yourself"
He admitted that he was, to a certain ex-
tent and she arose and said
81 wouldn't have thought it. A man
like you, chairman of Sabbath. school and
of the Republicans! It's
enough to make woman take poison. But
don't want anything of you. want
lawyer that don't belong to nobody or
nothin'."
And she bolted out OF the Office, and in
luired where Captain Patten kept Mod
ern Argo.