New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-07
Tur SAD EiTE or JOSHUA TE

Tho Tribune has several times called attention
I'm the past 10 individual instances of the abuse
Of man by his natural enemy Noman' ranging
from the cnsr II tie South Carolina woman VINO
shot her husband because lie forgot to get spool
Of thread AZ the village store 10 that oil me >e"
Jersey woman who rae away with Inc hlreo
man and took the hest COW on the place VIVA her'
We have heartily advocated tho formation OF
National Mans Rights Society. but 50 far the men
seem rather to tamcly bear the abuses 10 which
they are subjected than 10 take steps Tor thelr
own relief But now comes the report OF a case
which il would seem must awaken the men OF TINS
country ~ a realization OF the tact that the time
is a, hand IN act. y man has been driven 10
suicide by his wife constantly urging him 70 90
10 work Still oman claims that she IS op-
pressed
Joshua Tear lived in the thriving Young CITY
NJ Bundle Bee Idlfo Territory. lie was man
dfiy wears ~ ncc. Some years ago. we do not
know how many. Nj Tear married. Joshua Tear
had lived IN This world for half n century and
had never done DAYS work. Naturally he rccog-
nizcd the fact that there was less reason why he
sbopId work in the second half century Of his
existence than IN the first. As he used path"'i-
collv - remark 80 Hiram LIVINGSTONE n SchroderS
grocery store Work don't come easy. Ike II
rs,cr thirty wear ago Eot that lie had ever
done any work thirty years ago. but he loved To
prcrcud tina, hc had. SO did Hiram Livingstone.
Colcb Johns was another svmpathlzcr.
Ticr frequently mot al Schrodcr'. ana
l..d long consultations on v"r, 10
the abstract. drawing on imaginary remin-
i,ccnccs as they sat b. The stove AMI ore OF
,lcm helped hin self 20 a cracker and another
,coopcd up handful Of dried pruncN and the third
dippcd the long Dlndr of ms lackknlic into the
hrown-suear barrel Joshua claimed that he
built a mil-dam across the upper NHSluchanna
River when he was eighteen years Old. doing al
~ tho work alone. lie always sad thA' he
was a glnss- blower hv trade. but there was Il"
GLASS n blow in Brmble Bee. In the winter he
would tell how hc cnloNcd t1c work OF pindInG
wheat in harvest and as haryrs, approached he
would mention 10 Livingstone. as lie ch"wcl re-
nectiyely on on, o: Schrodcrs dried apples. ho'F
he would like 60 get l"o on me fallroa" al
shovclling snow.
Bu, this Is not wholly 10 the poin'-vc intro
ducc il merely 10 give n hint at Joshua Tears
character and 10 show what great provocatlon
he u,ur have lad before he 'urncd I" suicide.
For all the time Mrs Tear was making his hic
miserable about work She kept ri him morning.
noon and night. In vain hr pointed cat the tact
that she was doing we'll al supporting the family.
that hc hod no fault {" ind. An kckin
ne uscd - ask pathc'icallv ~ which tho hcarteNS
woman would intimate that he was too lazy 20
kick: and he would put on his hat 'nd
90 down 10 Schrodcrs Gradually Livingstone ana
Johns hcgan 10 notice that he neglected the SAIL
Goldfish. and took only small, haf-hcaricd bite
when a stranger came in and passed around a
plug Of tobacco They observed. too. that as he
sal ON a salt barrel by the stove II took him hail
"a DAY 10 whlitlc hole in a staNc, where
formerly he had never required over two hours
II hcgan 10 he whispered about town that Joshua
Tear was growing Gloomy and Respondent. Law
lnpstonc remarked 10 Johns that he was afraid
Tear would be driven 10 work by that wife Of
his after all Schroeder said he didn't think there
was any danger ~ il. and he rolled the cracker
barrel back behind the counter with gloomy
coun,cnance The sequel proved thar the grocer
was right. Mrs Tear kept mp her prosecutions.
Last Friday Joshua Tear decided that he could
endure H. no longer He borrowed Schrodcrs
gun-somc people now whisper that Schroeder
was rather too willing to lend Invent out in the
woods shot himself through the head and died.
The facts in this case eloquent that
nothing remains 10 BE- said. Here was a strong
man driven directly 10 suicide by his wife To
day thousands Of men in this country will hcavc
a sympathetic sigh as they think of Joshua
Tear, Of humble Zee, Idaho. but what woman
will give him kindly thought?