Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-28

BETWEEN THE PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT.
| ing the divorce works and ever and
anon sticking fork in her decree to see
if it was done. Her husband said that
she was crazy, AMI tried to put her in a
retreat. She has him on the run, how
ever, as this goes to press.
| According to the baroness, who is a
| tall, handsome woman, the baron used
to open the exercises of the day by re-
versing his cuffs and calculating to his
wife, Il wish had never married you."
met man who was here as a wit
ness. He said he /, ided here.
And how does W. messing pay here?"
inquired.
Very WELL" he said; very well in
most cases. have Il comfortable home
here now, all made as a witness in di-
vorce cases. Sometimes | act as a wit
ness and again as a juror. Formerly was
an actor. played the doom in an emo
tlonal play one year and returned to
Chicago very much broken in health. |
applied to a physician, giving him my
card and telling him my symptoms. He
looked at me keenly, then he read my
card and said:
| "'You have made a mistake. The
place where they cure hams is farther
down the street
! "a have since that abandoned the stage
to its fate"
| have decided that lack of suitable
employment has much to do with these
divorces in high life. If the husband
had to saw wood or jerk an engine over
500 miles of mortgaged roadbed every
day, and could come home tired and
hungry six days IN the week instead of
loading himself NJ with spirits and club
scandal, he would probably be able to
put more money into stock and less into
alimony.
1t is the same on the other side of the
house. 1t is no fresh discovery that
Satans intelligence Office supplies more
work for the unemployed than any other
place.
The life of the party to an action for
divorce here is indeed bleak one.
Plaintiff and defendant at Sioux Falls
live at the same hotel because it is the
best one. There they NOPE around,
waiting for their turn at court, and
p
meringue. Different cases do not get
acquainted much with each other, each
regarding his OF her case as exception
ally aggravated, while the others Of
course are mere dissraceful cat and cog
fights.
| did not see the Baron dc Steurs, but
/ saw his successor. Being baron, as
n Dakota man said Yesterday is not al
ways the snap that it is regarded by the
masses. The heart of baron may be
at times cast down even as others are
A cold hearth 5tone around which are
clustered the slippers of another person
no doubt chills the heart of a baron just
rs it would the heart of one who is in
trade.
sometimes think that possibly have
hurt the baron business in this country
by light and fiippant manner in re-
ferring to some of our struggling barons,
but am sorry for it now. Barons who
mean to do right will always find in me
hereafter a warm friend, patron and
chaperon.
Miss McSwel Ian WOertZ writes a let
ter from postoffice in New Hampshire
which | cannot make out. She says:
DEAR SIR-Pardon stranger from thus ad-
dressing you, no doubt, as your time is all
| taxing up and You hate, dare say, to be bur
dened with the cares of others people, but
am so situated that ] must write or talk to
some one.
My life thus fla has been a Perfck he'll You
cannot understand it with the sun of prosper
ny shining on you pro and con. but with me
II Is no shimera- 1t Is real. Oh, | have prayed
10 die and be shot of the whole business, but
Providence seemed to have it in for me-
My father married injudiciously and has al
ways hated me because am so little like him.
How can Tesen BILE papa by request? / can
hot resemble people on such short notice. /
cannot resemble people while they wait.
Even If could resemble pa | would hesitate.
He Is plain and Chews hard tobacco. His soul
Is Just as sordi1 ii can be. Once man
called pa PeSs, mist and pa bit his ear off
He was sorry for il afterward because whilst
in jail a kind hearted lady showed pa the die
tionary and he saw that he was too hasty
lost my mother last week. Grief and hi
chloride of gold killed her. And so Mt the age
of twenty mine years l am motherless and
never did look we'll in mourning. hate it. |
look like oamphorated widow Father
threatens to marry again. This time he will
marry into the army-the Salvation Army
She is a peri from away back. She sings
| Come to Jesus, and the teams then run AWAY
and break things.
But father loves her. can see that He
can't keep his res off from her. You ought to
see her on ths street singing at eventide
marching thror gh the mud. 1t would make