The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-07
SETTLED OUT OF COURT.
A Divorce Case in the Mountain Dis
tricts of the State of Kentucky.
THror, tho Oo+rof. E7-,, Ipuo1.
From the Detroit Free Press


From the Detroit Free Press.
A divorce case is a rarity in the courts
of the mountain districts, of Kentucky,
yet sometimes, among those persons liv-
ing near the country towns, where law
yers congregate, such legal proceeding
occurs. Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey LOCKER
were of this class. They lived near a
country town and had lived there for
twenty years, very comfortably, and had
accumulated some property. A difference
arose between them, however. and they
agreed to a division of the property and
a divorce. Harvey let his wife have the
house they had always lived in. and on
that half of the farm it was agreed should
be his he built log cabin for himself and
transferred to it his share of the house
hold effects. Each one secured a lawyer
to attend to the legal part of the affair,
and then they waited for developments
For the first month Harvey did very
nicely in his new home and was appal'-
emily quite well satisfied The second
month he was lonesome, and every even
ing he could be seen sitting in front of
his cabin gazing lOngingly toward the
much better house in which his wife
lived. II she appeared at any time about
her house, however, Harvey lodged out
VI SlSIlb, anu bEltu 10 make OllllSeII DG.-
ieve that Mandy was woman any man
ought to be glad he had got rid of He
held frequent consultations with his law
yer, after each of which he felt better,
but as the rough winter days came on
and he could not get into town so often,
and the long winter evenings shut him in
by his fireside, Harvey felt sometimes
that perhaps Mandy wasn't quite as hard
to get along with as some other things he
knew Of One day he went to town for
consultation, because he couldn't stand il
any longer, and when he returned later
in the afternoon, he looked as if he had
been through a threshing machine, but
there was a satisfied atmosphere about
him which had not been there in the
morning.
After he had smoothed himself out
little at his cabin, he started off to his
wife's house. 1t was growing dark rap
idly and MandY's light streamed from the
window that led Harvey from the gate to
the house. He knocked nervously at the
door-the door that he had opened so
many times as his own.
who's thar" called Mandy from
within.
It's me-" responded Harvey with a
nervous jerk to his voice that frightened
him.
Who's me-"
Don't you know me Man-Mrs LOCKER?
It's Harvey"
So" he could hear her say, as she un-
fastened the door, but he could not find
much welcome in it.
Its YOU, is it - she continued sharply.
as she stood in the doorway with a candle
in her hand.
0"Yes Mandy, it's me-" he confessed
awkwardly, without attempting to come
beyond the sill
''Well. what do you want? l thought
you lived down thar by the road. You
hain't made a mistake in the house, have
you!"
No, Mandy, I haint. / come up to see
you about our divorce"
Il thought the lawyers was tendin' to
that"
"Your'n is Mandy, 1 guess" he said,
rather vaguely.
Amt your'n too" she asked, mani
Testing an interest that gave him some
hope.
mo, Mandy, he amt. You see, Mandy"
he went on hurriedly, 4 had Il talk with
him to-day, an in the course Nv his re-
marks he said some things about YOU that
! wuznt goin' to stand minute from no
body, so | throwed my coat and gave him
such a whaln' right thar in his office
that he amt agOin to be able to tend to
nobodY's business for month, much less
mine, so | thought I'd better come up here
an see you about it,"
She made no reply for several seconds,
but there was something in her face that
had not been there since Harvey went
away.
Been to supper" she asked abruptly
No, Mandy" replied Harvey, with
SILVER, for it was cold at the door
Then come in, and we kin talk it over
while we're eatin' Z" and as Harvey sat in
the bright light and caught the fragrance
of the coffee and the ham, and saw the
fleecy white biscuits that Mandy set be-
fore him, touching him now and then as
moved about. he thought of his cold
cherries, comfortless cabin and great
lump came into his throat and as Mandy
sat down at the head of the table he
looked up at her almost timidly.
"Drat the divorce she said, impetu-
ouslY.
"Amen!H exclaimed Harvey, and he
didn't so back to his cabin that night or
ever again, except to bring home what
WAS there of his and MaudN-'g