The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-10
A WISE JURJST.
Texas Siftings.r

JCtitit3n lS d WOikuACSo AEiiuN. HIS WIG discovered this fact some time ago, during the honey moon,' in fact, for when she ventured to suggest, in conse- quence of unpaid bills, that Iellman should perform some kind of remuner- alive labor, the worthless fellow re- marked:
 4 Why, hang il, you don't expec. man te .ork immediately after getting mar Ted. do you. My father, SO have been ;old, refused to discharge his duties as couny clerk for five months after his union with my mother. How are you fiA-S. Nary
 What" exclaimed the bride
 How are you heeled:'
 "I don't understand you, sir,n re- sponded the lady, with rising indisna- tion
 Don't be disturbed. 1 merely asked con -erning your hnancial standing. |; Is necessary that one of Us should be pos sessed of few shekels, and as such a fortune Is quite beyond me. why of course hold you in measure responsl- ! bcr
 Iellman. you are fool.r Presumably"
 And don't see why married you.'
 Doubtless t was because 1 married you. or. perhaps because you had no mure sense than the very small amount for which you give me the credit of pos sessing. Co. fifty cents abou, you ~
 liwas quite impossible for these peo- pie io be happy, and no one was sur p:ised, the other day, 10 hear that | di- vorce had been granted ihe disappointed woman but the grounds upon which the decree of the court was based, caused considerable comment in legal circles, yet. no ore denied the justice of the de- cision nor questioned he sound sense of the 9dge. ellman went home pretty full. as he saying goes. When l.e left home at morning. he took ten do.iafs that had been presented 10 the wife by hei father.
 Now. she saidSsiYing him !. hst oi purchases, remember your falling
 I'll remember H."
 Remember that you never have come home with cent m you. pocket"
 He declared that he would guard against coming home without cent. When he returned at night he failed to bring the purchases. His wife was ex- uemely angry, and Ii was with difficulty that she could keep from choking him.
 Don't dem feller fore yer know faxen case. Said wouldn't come home cent in pocket. Have come with scent. See v and he took out q bottle ofcheap cologne. That's scent" and he fell back and laughed like fool.
 The ehaneery judge said that Iellman had right to drink that he had right to spend his wife's money, and that these points did not constitute legal grounds for divorce. Butt continued the wise Jurist. !" there is no law among civilized people to ooE:pel woman to live with q man who would intiiCt upon her such ruthless attemp. at d joke. It Is we'll enough for single men 10 be funny 1" the just judge went on but desire to say here, that a married man should have better sense. From the single pun ster. all women can escape, but wife Is compelled to stand the loke experiment.. The last legislature of Arkansaw voted down bill 10 free the wives of all funny men, but il IS to be hoped that the next general assembly will be more consider ate. My wife left me some time ago. in consequence of my asking her if she ever saw a horse fly, and since then. after studying over the matter, granted her a divorce, rendering the decree myself