The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-25
DIR. TuPpgR,s TROUBLE.
The Atlanta Preacher Has a Ia
With His Wife.

The Atlanta Preacher Has a Talk
With His Wife.
A Leavenworth (Kan.) special to the
Constitution has the following about Din
TupPer's arrival in that city and his meet
ing with his wife:
A solitary Mason brother greeted the
Rev. DR.. Upper as he stepped Off the s
O'Clock Missouri Pacific train this evening.
hearty grasp Of the hacd. hurried,
whispered consultation, lasting few sec
onds, and with a low ''ThIs way, doctor, :"
DR.. Upper was led by an obscure route to
a carriage in the rear of the row where no
observance would be aroused, and there DR..
Upper, who left here only few months
ago. with head erect aud face beaming, re-
turned to his desolated home and the suffer
ing wife.
The doctor and his comrade drove a few
blocks, aud alighted at the Office Of a prom
inent physician Of the city. After con-
sultatlon, lasting half en- hour, the sub
stance of which could not be learned, the
doctor and his conrade proceeded to the
home of the unhappy wife.
COLD MEETING.
The meeting was full OF pathos-nay,
tragedy. Not word of welcome did the
wife give the husband and father Of her
children. A few bitter recriminetions, and
she turned coldly away, and walked around
the house.
The doctor asked brokenly, 'Imogene,
may | see the chidrenN
A queer rasping coincidence. little COL
ored hoy passed along the street whistliug
platntive dItty, called "Oh, You Break
Ny Heart" It was only trfe, but it in
vested this side story with a deeper, sadder
meaning, by reason CT the incident.
MRS. UPPER oBDURATE.
Et1 l. g. -
walk around 10 the front of the house again,
and they sat down to talk the matter ovor,
but the talking was all on Mrs. Tupper's
side, and she showered n volleY of wander
ing but bitter rocriminatiOn3 upon the
doctor. and reiterated over and over again,
her unalterable determination to have
nothing more to do with the doctor.
PLEADING ALL IN VAIN.
All this pleading and protests were in
vain. 1t was in vain that no begged her to
return to Atlanta with him. II was vain
for him to assure her that she was laboring
under an Authorization regarding the in
timacy which she imagined TO exist between
him and Mrs. Fanderwerker. She was
deaf to all eutreates and assurances. She
would have nothing to soy but bitter accusa-
tons and cutting sarcasm in answer to
everything the doctor said.
THE wiFE'S CONDUCT.
IL must be confessed, without going into
the merits of this case or arguing Oh the
one side CT the other, that Mrs. TuppeT's
conduct Tonight wns slightly cratic. She
was laboring under q fierce excitement. and
ali the outraged feelings which, whether for
cause or not, she might be expected to suffer,
the excitement she strove bravely 60 sup
press, but the result was only a digniiied
hysteria, which alternated between fits of
weeping and periods of joy, icy cutting sar-
casm and bitter recriminations.
DIR. UPPER TALKS.
DR.. Topper cried like Guild when asked
by the Constitution correspondent if he
had anything to say. He said:
Nothing. | do not want to be inter-
viewed have trouble enough now. am
here to take my wife back to Atlanta, if
can persuade her to CO."
"How long will you remain hereP was
asked.
II want to go back to my work as soon as
possible" he replied; but" he added
brokenly, II want to take my wife and
children. o. God, help mel" and the rector
THE WIFE BREAKS IN.
Mrs Vanderwerker will be- here to-mor-
row." interposed Mrs. Topper, in cold,
They generally go together"
'Not at all, 'Imogene. You ought not to
talk that way.n
Here Mrs. Upper broke out into broad
side of denunciation and recrimination.
which nothing could stop, no denial turn
aside, no assurance lessen, no reason temper.
PUBLIC OPINION GAUGED.
The Constitution correspondent left the
unhappy pair sitting on the porch together,
with only the pale moonlight for candle.
and only the blue sky for q canopy, while
the autumn leaves rustled mournfullv
through the yard, rs the wind made them
scurry along before 1t.
1t isunquestiouably safe to say that the
majority of the people lay great stress
upon Mrs. Tuppsr's paysical condition.
She is lady of unusually intellectual
tastes, and her periodical and multiplied
confinements are agreed as the origin, or at
least the prologue, of oil this trouble. The
people here uuquestionably believe that
Mrs. Upper has exaggerated the facts;
that, though Mrs Venderwerker may have
followed the doctor and the doctor may
have yielded more than he should, it is
nevertheless a safe cast of local opinion to
say that those who believe Mrs. Upper to
have exaggerated the affair outnumber
those who hold the opposite.
THE PROSPECTS POOR.
The prospects tonight are very poor for
a reconciliation. Whether they will inn
prove by the events of the morrow is not
known. The doctors condition Tonight is
one to excite the keeneSt sympathy, as con-
trasted with the demoanor of his unreason-
ably bitter wife.