The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-26

sesni a the serene happiness that no bad
hopsd would attend his hnueymoon. life
has been . burden 70 him since he h<scanae
. benedict, and through no fault Of his. ]
INST him upon the street . few days ago
and he had the appearance OF . man who
bad made . desperate b0t futile attempa
70 knock cant . hay-teddler under full speed
according 20 the marquis OF Queensberry
adorned hi. nose. his right optic was en-
tirely closed fog repairs and pulled out ON
his cheek. three Of his front teeth and .
part Of his right ear were gone, and as he
feelinGly caressed . huge bsuiss on his
face there was an air Of settled melan-
choly about him. not at all like his OLD
.Fos hsavsn sake, nis, ~h"s have you
"Doing nothine,"' he replied. 'I had a
fight with our rocker last might and, a.
shoash I cam. ar. out best in the end i Al" not
Inquired what he meant by u ''rocker,"
and, while invading a neiRhboring drug
election Of the episode, he related the fol-
.Yoa SEQ I married one of those little
that You rcad about; one OF the kind that
. great, biR fellow like me loves tai pet and
81 oSs :cii ss.K g" v d,,s 40, and ss "aR. t baainc.s. s yo"
understand. II was lovely. while i was
counting her, but I'm not stalking SO much
"Shortiy after our marriage we took a
little two-story cottage up ON Belden ave-
. .sn. :"a a sy prsp nisss i E"- that Si'h / q a. efps I'd
lock up and retire. 1t soon became SO
much of = habit with me to secure the
would ASK me II I had locked 'up.'-I
s ss,s mental ssa ss : ss%s Che Rssnlia5 zig y s Wife .o r:
" Of our domestic fortress. before ! had
got into bed and was just going on into
the, land Of dreams, h would
".: sSis snS s,d dn Ya. sr iSck the from, door.
WHY. yes. think SOL would reply.
.. ".i ann N ,~e""onah'S sure but l can't
down TO see. just 70 obiies me? That's a
vinced that IL has been attended TO-.
s :a.a there he, and h n s,.s1 h, 70. him oc to do hut hut
room in the dark and downstairs as hest
he can, only. TO ind the front door fasten-
ciincd to erumbie a little at the useless
ness Of his GRAND, and, forgetting 70 he
careful. knocks q chunk or two out Of the
the bed Now, IL my wife would only let
wouldn't complain. hat just as i am
to ask fl locked the library win
a1 afiidavi n 7" ,Snt effect HaSe
to waltz myself down stairs again. BY
nearly everything in the hall and parlor,
and broken several pieces of br~ic-a-brac
in a mad search for matches, l have. for
furnace or lowered the window for ventil-
alton, and as she can't seem to think of
more than one of these little duties at a
time, l am kept i'm q constant state OF get
ting mp and going to bed FOR nearly an
hour. BY the time she calls a halt every
bump or a bruise, and l feel that IL I only
had a .yalier' dog would just delight i'm
pounding the life out of him.
81 bore up under all this pretty well,
however, until the burglars began work:
ing in our neiRhborhood, and I was routed
imaginary midnight piunderers and assas-
G"Nieht before last Mrs. BIZ reused me
man in the house"
"No, there isn't replied.
Y there is; just listen and you can
WELL, I listened; and asI couldn't hear
anything I told her tn go to sleep, but h
".I wish you would 60 down and see,
BIZ; can't go To sleep. dear, until 1
AS I knew that tn he n fact and realized
out, and as the chill night air struck my
proved any. Thinking that my wife might
he right in her Imposition, l picked mp
my revOlver and started cautiously Tor the
head OF the stairs at the other end of the
hall. While / was carefully feeling my
way along, the instep of my right fooa
suddenly came in contact with the
sharp corner of some object, knocking
the skin of and causing me intense pain.
Now l had forgotten that my wife had
moved a big Boston rocker, an old family
hierloom, out into the hall. as there was
room for il nowhere else, and as l stopped
with an involuntary cry of pain to caress
my wounded foot I was totally u~nprepartd
for the singing blow l received upon my
head. l was knocked back upon the floor,
my revolver was discharged, and being
struck from my hand fell to the floor be-
low. I was half dazed with pain, but.
thinking that I had run foul of two burg
lnrs and that one had fired on me ON
hearing me cry out, while the other had
struck me by the light of the explosion, ]
jumped to my feet and threw myself upon
chem. I heard my wife scream and that
nerved me to make rs husky q fight M
possible.
.I used to he considerable of q wrestler,
and with the hope of throwing one OF
both over the banister I taught one Of che
villains around the middle. He fairly
seemed to collapse in my grasp, hut ]
could not reach his legs tn trip him, al
though I could feel his heavy shoes bark.
ing my him as he kicked me with all
his might, while pounding away At my
rib with his fists. All this time the other
chap seemed to he dancing around me,
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