The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-01-18
HIS YOUNG WIFE UNTRUE
A Colored Dominic Breaks Up
Housekeeping With a Bed Slut.

A Colored Dominic Breaks Up
Housekeeping With a Bed sl0t.
Society and religious circles in Little
Africa this city, those of Brownsville.
Brooklyn, and of Crow Hill near by, are
greatly excited over the escapade of
Dominic Gabe" Harrison, which oc.
Cured Sunday night week. Dominic
Gabe's'' real name is John Chester Harri.
son, and he obtained his nom de plume in
this manner: For many years the old
gentleman resided on Sullivan street, in
this city, and by close attention to his
business, which is that of an artist, with
a broad gauge brush and a four quart
palette, he soon became wealthy and pur-
chased considerable property in the neigh.
boIhood of the executive fiat which he
had erstwhile occupied. With his grow
ing years Artist Harrison grew religious,
ana ABOUT twenty years ago he doomed up
as a lay preacher and hunted around
among the souls of his kind to see if any
we're worth saving. Then he threw up
the brush and palette for the big book
aud hymnal and became q drawing card
at the suburban camp meetings.
Dominic Harrison was a pronounced
Second Adventist, and at the last un.
~avoidably postponed debut of the Angel
Gabriel the good old dominic assembled
his hearers in his Sullivan street study.
COINED a night shirt and a fish horn and
sat on the chimney pot for three straight
hours, determined to give Gabriel BIAS.
for blast as sbon as he showed up. The
wind wasn't blowing in the right direc.
tioa, however, but it blew through the
domlnle's whiskers and other clothes un.
III he had absorbed a sixteen button dose
of the influenza, and then he was forced
to get oil his roost and admit that Gabriel
had probably missed the train. Ever
lncet then he has been known as Dom.
lnle Gable by the sacriligious youth of
the bai'iwlck.
FANoRITE WITH THE AIDES.
Dominic Gabe is IS years of age, and,
notwithstanding the fact that he is not
pretty, he is a great favorite with tile
ladies. He is built somewhat after the
architectural design of a boomerang, and
the moth OF many years have made such
sad havoc with his gray Donegais that
they look something like an overdue
pawnshop muff. His shiny head has only
a fringe of sparsely settled hair around
the borders and he has misery" in his
back, but, Notwithstanding these slight
discrepancies. about two months ago he
took unto himself a helpmate in the per-
son of a bronzcd South Fifth avenue
beile, Wenie Clawson by name, who was
but % years of age in her socks. 1t was
said at the time that ,Wenie only married
him for his money and that, to save
expenses, he had performed the marriage
ceremony himself. The match was
20 disparased that Mr.. and Mrs.
Dominic Gabc were finally compelled
10 move from the ~neighborhood, as they
nightly received more wedding presents
in the shape of old file G back nun.
bar apples and obsolete sea fruit than
their room could conveniently accommo.
date. They therefore removed to
brownsville" Brooklyn and they lived
happily together until last Sunday night.
when the dominic broke up housekeeping
II the most of his newly laid bride with
a bed slat.
One of the heirlooms left by ore of the
former Mrs. Harrisons-tor the donnie
had had n job lot of six prior to his last
venture-was William Henry Harrison,
who stands nearly six feet high and who
IS something of a dude, being a waiter at
Coney Island hosiery in the
summer time and a stove minder by oc.
cupation in the cold-cuts-at-all- hours sea.
son. The pair had only been married a
week or so when the dominic, to use his
own words, began TO imagine that Owe
ME wac too dam slick roun' Wi'um Hen.
cree, an he pretermint to watchum.
san"
The Brownsville home consists of a
parloT, boudoir, dining room, kitchen
coop en- suite. The bride and groom oc-
cnpy the %bouloir, and when William
Henry made his semi occasional visits
and invited himself to stay all night he
occupied a digan in a kitchen. The
chicken coop is a sort If a Queen Anne
extension to the boudoir, and was so ar.
ranged to guard against %incursions of the
poultry ~fanciers with which the country
abounds.
For a week or so the green eyed lobster
III the dcminje's make up had been
who1oplng itself, and on Sunday night a
week ago 1t came to "a cripus" as he in
formed his lawyer. He had frequently
interrupted Wenie and William Henry in
ciandestinc meetings in the Crow Hill
cleaning, and on that Sunday night he
put up a job which very nearly resulted in
3 casualty with Grape, trimmings. AT
about seven O'Clock in the evening the
dominic enveloped himself in his so-to.
meeting Mother Hubbard. wcolen mitts
and disjointed stovepipc, and with his
poots freshly creased. cologne on
on h's fringe and a Bible under his
arm. he started out for church, on
me huht Tor a few more unrcdeemed
pledges. He kissed his wife goodby at
the door, heard it slam, cantered around
to the chicken coop, crawled through he
him pntGrfl tho 1>>,J.;, -, 3,
undo the bed. This is what he heard
COLD sLAns1DED" APPEARS.
'Wunner wot time de OF slabsides Ill
be back, Wenie, PETE"
81 doan guess he'll be back untwil 10.
Doan yo' be frcckened; cf we hayr his
laglets cummin yo' kin go out troo de
henneFy, baby"
Ihen the dominic heard enough to
convince him that his bride was untrue
70 MIN and that she had only married
Nun Tor has money, and then, at an on.
perfume moment he sneezed. William
Henry and WcDie were on Their feet in an
Instant, and, imagining that there was a
paTg'ar under the bed, William Henry
drew a revolver, with an oriIice like n
pickle barrel, pointed it under the bed
and remarked:
No", ~ cum QUEER Qere feet fun
mist or III blow yer full O. cuspydoahs!,
'Wium Henneree!" screamed the
frightened dominee, 80 de good lawd's
sake pint dat shootin' gallery der oddcr
va. Doan yer know We, paw wot
raised yer2"
When the dominic had emerged and
had possessed himselfof William Henry's
pistol he took a bed slat to the two lovers
and fractured everything in the house,
lnclrding William Henry and the recall.
%ciirant Wenie. Then he put the guilty
ones out, and on Saturday he began a
suit for divorce and for the reconveyancc
OF some property in the city which he
had decided TO Wenic when they were
betrothed. Mrs. Wenie admits her guilt.
and says that she only married the domi.
ME for his money.
Does dat OF r%amshacklc tink | mar'd
him fur his good looks1" she asked me
inter had interviewed her. ssNixey!
Him only a bag O. bones. Him can have
his devoce fur al | kyar, but he doan cit
a dam cent of his mummy back, an dat's
my hoJer. William Henry's good huff
tea party fur me, and yo' hyar my large
sized tIyO finn .r1orfor ep,;loup