The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-21
JOSHUA TEARS SAD a

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Another striking Instance Of the Abuse of
Man by Woman
The New York Tribune has, Il says, sew
eral times called attention in the past to
individual instances Of the abuse of man
by his natural enemy, woman, ranging
from the case Of the South Carolina wo-
man who shot her husband because he
forgot a spool Of thread Mt the village
store, to hat of the New Jersey woman
who ran away with the hired man and
took the best COW on the place with her.
We have heartily advocated the forma-
ton Of q national mans rights society,
but SO far the men seem rather tn tamely
rear the abuses to which they are sub
iected than to take steps for their own re-
lief. But now comes the report of a case
which Il would seem must awaken the
men of this country to q realization Of the
fact hat the time il at hand TO act. A
man has been driven to suicide by his
wife constantly urging him to 60 to work.
Still woman claims that she Is oppressed!
city of Bundle Bee, Idaho territory. He
was q man OF 80 years OF age. Some
years ago-we do not know how many
Mr.. Tear married. Joshua Tear had
lived In thisw world for half a century. and
had never Ions a days work. Naturally
IN VIZ Aksh tAAtht lSlN ~ IGt6
reason why he should work in the second
half century of his existence than In the
first. As he used pathetically TO remark
to Hiram Livingstone at Schroder's gro
Gerry store, "Work o come easy, like
il Ulster thirty years ago. Not that he
a ever done any any work thirty years
ago. but he loved to pretend that he had
So did Hiram Livingstone. Caleb Johns
was another sympathizer. They fire.
quently met at Schroder's and held
long consultation on work i'm the
abstract, drawing on imaginary reminis-
them helped himself to a cracker, and an
other scooped up. a handful of dried
prunes, and the third dipped the long
blade of his jack-knife into the brown
sugar barrel. Joshua claimed that he
built n mill-dam across the upper Susque-
hanna river when he was Is years old, do
ing all of the work alone. He always
said that he was q ~glassblower by trade,
but there was no glass to blow i'm Rumble
Bee. In the winter he would tell how he
enjoyed the work of binding wheat I'm
harvest, and as harvest approached he
chewed refectively on one Of Schroder's
dried apples, how he would like to get a
job on the railroad at shoveling snow.
Blu this is not wholly to the point-we
introduce il merely TO give n hint mt
Joshua Tears character, and to show
Wll&tk kESht IIoto III iltir IuNs lItu
before he turned to suicide. For all the
time Mrs. Tea was making his life mis-.
cradle about work.. She kept at him
morning, noon and night. In vain he
pointed out the fact that she was doing
well at supporting, the family; that he
he used to ask pathetically, at which the
heartless woman would intimate that he
was too lazy TO kick and he would put
on his IA and go down to ~Schroder's.
Gradually Livingstone and Johns began
to notice that he neglected the salt
Goldfish, and took only a small h~alf-hearted
bite when a stranger came i'm u passed
around a plug OF tobacco. They OBJ
served, too, that as he sat on a salt barrel
by the stove II took him half a day TO
| white n hole in a stave, where formerly
he had never required over two hours.
that Joshua Tear was growing gloomy
and Respondent. Livingstone remarked
to Johns that he was afraid Tear would
be driven to work by that wife OF his after
all. Schroeder said he didn't thin there
was any danger OF ii, and he
r SIns m, ans soa, E S wi.S a back GLOOMY be,
countenance. The sequel proved that
the grocer was right. Mrs. Tear kept up
her prosecutions. Last Friday Joshua
Tear decided that he conld endure il no
longer. He borrowed Schroder's gun
some people now whisper that Schroeder
was rather too willing to lend it-went
out in the woods. shot himself In the head
and died.
The facts in this case are SO eloquent
hat nothing remains to be said. Here
was n strong man driven directly to sui
cid by his wife. To-day thousands Of
men in this country will heave a sympa-
thetic sigh as they think of Joshua Tear
of Bundle Bee, Idaho, but what woman
will give him n kindly thought?