Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-21

Florida's land OF flowers, were favored
with neatly engraved and highly per
fumed invitation to the baptismal SER
vices. When the flowers bloomed in the
spring time and old Sol had begun to
get in his work the butterflies OF fashion
hied themselves away to some fashion
able resort. When the aroma from
Groton pond, the stencil from imperfect
sewerage and fostering corruption of the
streets, intensified by June sun, began
to permeate the whole city, il reached
the delicate olfactory organs of our Bob
and his wife. They did not tarry long
nor stand upon the order of going, but
moved at once down upon the assembled
nabobs at long branch, Then followed
the revelry by day and by night. No
king ever bore his paternal honors with
more pride than did Eldorass once hum
BILE scribe.
Mrs. Mcbride had probably never
heard John Dillon's famous warming to
the woman who insisted upon embracing
him, Madam, beware. / am no angel;
I'm democrat" or perhaps she thought
her Bob too noble, too pure to commit a
wrong. Bob began to absent himself
from home nights. There were clubs to
attend and other places to attract
him away from his wife. Mrs. Nc
Bride No. 5 did not grieve herself
TO death as wife No. / did, nor
court the company of other men as
No. 2, bat she resolved upon plan
which secured results more quickly than
she could have anticipated. She en-
ployed one of the shrewdest detectives
in New York and commissioned him to
keep his "heagle hey" upon Bob by day
and by night and not allow him to es.
cape. The detective had no trouble in
following Bob to some of the most ques-
tionable resorts at Five Points and Cher.
ry street in New York, where he was
wont to drive duH care away in the CON-
pany OF the demi-monde. When Bob re.
turned from one of his trips down to the
city he found, instead of kindly greet
ing and an affectionate embrace, the door
locked upon him. He was barred from
his own home. The next day Bob sue
ceeded in having an interview with his
wife, and die soon realized that "hell hath
no fury like a woman scorned." BOZ
was only too glad to bring the interview
to close and to escape to some safe
retreat, where he could take an inven-
tory of himself and count what it costs
to become singh roller" in New York
Bob hung around New York for some
time, hoping his wife would relent and
take him back, but she had no though
Of such thing. She preferred to keep
the fatted calf and let the prodigal secure
his substance where he fain would have
wasted her wealth but for her business
sagacity.
Bob then returned to Mitchell, S. d.
where he hoped to enlist Col. Lawler
his wife's sisters husband, and forme
warm friend, to intercede for him, bu
the gallant colonel had no use for Bob
He had fooled away bic day of grace, h
had committed the objectionable sir
and he was told to go his way.
Bob HE'D himself to the mountains
where he sought in vain to retrieve hi
fortune, but the fates were against him
A few weeks ago he returned to Mitchell
where he became editor of the Mail, anC
is eking out a precarious living running
democratic paper. Bob, true to hi
earlier instincts, is yilifying Col. Lawle
because that gentleman did not hell
him regain bis wife.
Contrast the life of Bob Mcbride will
that of J. 8. and r. P. Clarkson, pub
lished in last weeks Herald. Mcbride
educated for the ministry and giver
every opportunity that money could So
cure, became a wanderer from home
preferring the life of Bohemian t.
that of the favorite child of strict Pres
byterian parents. Bob came to Eldora
where he made his home for some tim,
with his uncle, James Woodside. Ii
1852 he enlisted in the Thirty -secont
Iowa, but Capt. Edgington discovered
that he was conspiring to secure tn
captaincy of his company, and scratches
Bob's name of the roll, the compan,
not yet having been sworn into tn
United States service. Bob followed tn
army as correspondent and attracted
no little attention as war correspondent
by his mastery descriptive and imagina
tive genius. At the close of the war b
studied law with HUFF & Reed, and wa
admitted to the bar. On the LIST of Jan
Iuary, 1866, the Eldora Ledger wa
started by Eldora business men and Bol
Mcbride vas made it's editor. 1T wa
not long before he picked a quarrel witt
the principal owners Of the Office am
waged bitter, relentless warfare. 70
years Bob kept neighbor arrayed agains
neighbor; but all things have an emo
Deserted by two wives while he lived il
Eldora, and forsake1 by everybody pos
sessing responsibility, he turned th
Ledger over to the interest of the Brew
Iers' association, and drew a regula
weekly stipend from that source 70
months. When he could keep his hea
no longer above water he deserted th
sinking ship and went to Dakota, wher
he took up claim. He afterward be
came editor OF the Mitchell Mail, and
was while engaged on that paper he me
and married Mrs. Col. Dousman.
The Bear Escaped.