Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-07
A FAMILY JAR.
By JOHN QUILL.

When l came home from my South
ern trip the other day, / perceived by
Mrs. Quilts demeanOr that there was
going 10 be row. There was q certain
fire in her eagle eye, a scornfIl curl in
her usually straight lip, frOwn upon
her alabaster brow. She looked dag
gers, and seemed capable of using carv-
ing knives. Her greeting was cold. /
tried to assume q jOcund air, and rally
her upon her melancholy appearance.
But she wouldn't rally; she fell back
upon her dignity. / couldn't be jolly
to save my lite. | felt like q man who
is showed under pile-driver on the up
stroke; he knows it won't be more than
a minute before the whole concern will
he down on him, and crush him out
fiat.
ate my supper in silence. When I
had finished, Mrs. Quill said:
Now, walk into the sitting room, if
you please. have something to say to
you"
felt that the crisis was at hand.
tried to affect Indifference.
did any letters come for me, love?n
/ asked.
That jerked the cork out OF the thuu-
der storm, you understand.
"Lettersn said she; "letters! you ask
for letters you, you. you ask for letters
and call me love- Letters! | should
think there We're"
"Well, why don't you produce 'em,
then, rs the hen said to the egg with
two chickens init"
"See here, John Quill, | don't want
any of your miserable jests now, Pm i'll
earnest. While you We're gone letter
came for you marked important |
opened il. The horrible wiCkednesS
and treachery it disclosed so shocked
me, that determined to open all the
Others that came / did so. I have
found you out. Plumging headlOng
INTO dissipation and vice, you thought
to deceive me, your wife. You We're
mistaken. You thought | would never
know of your infamous transactions. |
have caught you at last. I've often
wondered what you did with your
money; why you always said you had
no change whenever l wanted AGENT
for the house; why you never could
afford to clOthe your wife and children
decently. l know you now. | have
solved the mystery. | want you to eX-
plain the meaning of this letter which
came the day you went away. Listen.
Ny DEAREST LOvE-When, when
are you coming to see your own Ame-
liza? You do not know how count
the hours Of your absence, and long so
very, very much to have YOU with me.
Oh, when will the day come when lean
call you my darling, darling husband?
Ma says | shall be married as soon as
that hOrrid woman is out of the way.
Do come around to see me. | got the
love of bonnet you sent me. You
have such sweet taste. You know that
bracelet you gave me on Christmas?
Well, the clasp is all broken to pieces.
| look at your portrait every hour of
the day, and kiss it over and over again.
Come around Sunday evening if you
can, and take me to hear that dear DR..
Gibbs. lie shall marry US, shan't he
love" Your own darling,
AMELIA SMITH.
''There, Nh. Quill, what do you say
to that? You give her bOnnets, do
YOU" You buy bracelets for her, when
here is your own lawful wife that hasn't
got a rag to her back that's fit to be
seen" She kisses her portrait, does she,
the nasty hussy; and calls me 'horrid
woman and wishes me out of the way?
Wait till get my hands on her, I'll
scratch her ugly eyes out. Wants DR..
Gibbs to marry her? Let him dare to
do it, and I'll tare off what little hair
he's got on his good. fOr-nOthing old
scalp"
But, my love, this is mistake. l
n ever heard of such woman" said |.
"Oh, don't love me. lOu can't de-
reive me again. Pun going TO sift this
thing to the bottom. What does this
mean, I'd like to know? Listen to
this: :"
DEAR OLD Boy; Can't you let me
have that twenty-five dollars you lost
ut euchre last week? Pm desperately
hard up. Binns wants to be paid for
the champagne and salad we punished.
| should have asked you for it the same
evening, but you were so drunk could
hardly get you 10 bed. How are you
on the Firefly's ball next week? l
think I'll go round and shake my leg
for on hour or so. Yours till death,
Bob STRUrHERS.
"And that's where the money goes,
is it" Champagne and salad? And
gambling, too; gambling, while your
family may want the neceSsaries OF lie.
Put to bed drunk. You. and protesting
to be decent man, and telling me you
had been out of town on business all
night. Whoi is Bob Struthers, | want
to know AlOw-life vagabOnd, I'll be
bound, or ne wouldn't go to vile ball
and use such disgusting slang. Shake
a leg indeed. I'll shake his whole
body, and his soul out of it, too, If get
a hold of him"
Upon my wOrl, Mr.. Quill, this Is
getting too outrageous. don't know
any man named -"
There's no Use of denying 1t, MIR.
Quill. Norman ever wrote = letter like
that unless he meant il. Don't add
falsehood to your other crimes. L Won
der the earth don't open and swallow
YOU up. But there's worse to come yet.
Oh, it's lucky for me you went out Oh
town when you did. What have you
got to say to this?"
SIR-In regard to that assault and
battery case in which you are defend
ant, and which you have placed in my
hands, have to say that the man you
struck is not expected to recover, ana
think YOU will be rearrested and held to
await the result. If he dies, you will go
to prison for homicide, certain. Take
my advice, forfeit your bail, and leave
the country forever.
Yours respectfully,
GEORGE NOLLEPRoS.
$50, you're murderer, too, are you:
/ You've brought shame and misery and
disgrace on your wife and family, have
| you, and"
| Mrs. Quill, never struck man in
the whole course of my life"
| And now you've got to leave the