Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-19
a HUSBANDS RIGHTS.
They Arc Clearly Defined by Progress-
i've Legal Decision.

They Arc Clearly Defined by Progress
i've Legal Decision.
A peculiar, though perhaps Just, de-
cision has just been rendered by the
Supreme Court Of North Carolina.
Last May, Horatio j. Mickle took up
his residence near Guilford Court
house, and, shortly afterward, became
acquainted with Widow Sanders, who
kept clearinghouse. This acquaint-
ance soon ripened into love, as tho
novelists say, or at least it seemed So,
for Mickle called upon the widow one
evening and declared that if she did
not promise to marry him, his body,
sadly mutilated, should be soon laid
away in the unsympathetic soil. The
widow was tender-hearted and gener-
Gus. She had never caused the death
of any one, and, at her time of life. did
not feel disposed to begin q course Of
such cruelty. She was married to Mr..
Mickle. He brought his valise over to
her boarding-horse, lighted a cob pipe
which he found in a cigar-box on the
make himself thoroughly comfortable.
At dinner time he paid high compli-
ment to the Widows cooking by eating
in IN unrestrained manner. This
pleased the widow, undoubtedly, for it
was the highest praise which any ono
could bestow upon her art, but us the
days passed-as the perfumed dew b.
gan to fall from the roses in the ger
den of the honeymoon-she became
less joyous, for her bills had material
ly increased. One day she limited to
Mickle that it was time he were doing
something. This deeply wounded his
sensitive heart, and, turning to his wife,
he said:
polly, must I conclude, with other
thinkers, that marriage is failure?
Are you going to shut out the SUM-
light and let dark shadows convince
me that the holy ordinance of matri-
mony has accomplished its mission
and is therefore without that Divine
force given to it by our ancestors?"
She was moved. Forgive me, dear
Horatio," she replied. 1T was only a
momentary fret. It shall not occur
again
''Polly, please see that it. does not. :"
A few weeks passed. The dew was
all gone from the roses. In truth, the
roses were whitening. Another large
ly-increased bill had been sent in.
Polly spoke to Horatio. Tears shone
in his eyes.
Polly" said he, lam I to under
stand that the bright star of marriage
has forever set?'
"Yours has unless you get some-
thing to do; I'll give you a pointer on
that
''What would you have me do, sweet
creature?"
|'Hustle; get out and hustle"
''Hustle!' he exclaimed. |'Why, did
I not drive up the cows yesterday even
ing? Mermaid of the ocean of my soul,
how would you have me hustler"
I'D have you. chop cord-wood-
something to lessen my bills"
"Why, do you not know that chop
ping cord-wood would greatly increase
my appetizer"
''But it would bring in more money"
''Yes, but not enough to make up
the difference. I know myself better
than you do, Polly"
Then you must be Disguised"
''Alas, you will drive me insane"
mo. but am going to drive you
away from here"
She did. He sued her, not for d.
vorce, but for board. The lower court
decided against him. He took an ap-
peal. The Supreme Court decided in
his favor. The following is an extract
from the decision rendered by the
Chief Justice.
THE court holds that when a widow
is fool enough to marry a loafer, that,
in case she keeps boarding. house,
she must at least grant him table,
board, and that when she finds herself
unable to do this, he shall, if so in
clined, be. granted a divorce. "-Ar-