The morning call., 1894-04-06
THE GRASS WAS TOO SHORT.
And the Lodi Rancher's Wife
Was Very Tickle.
COIN ExERTED ITS INFLUENCE.
The Couple Thought 1t Better to
Move Back to Lodi Than to
Pay Rent in Eureka.

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son. wife of Levi Jacobson. the wealthy
Tyler Island farmer. is accredited with
having started the debate. and now all San
| Joaquin County is talking about how coy
Mrs. jacobson gave Edward Randle, whom
she professed to love better than her life
and home. the cold. cherries shake.
| Randle is reported to be pacing the docks
at Eureka. tearing his hair and cursing
loud and long the i'll luck that brought
| him to the town of Lodi.
Cupid and fate dealt most unkndly with
Edward Randle. and now. instead of the
love light once shed upon him by the eyes
of coquettish Mrs. j., he sees only the
shadow of her frowning brow.
And why this sudden change from warm
affection to chilly indifference on the part
of Rande's late lady. for whom he SO
calamity sacrificed his conscience and
good standing in the land of tules?
In the language of the gaming table,
"coin talks" Coin whispered a few
seductive words Into Mrs. Jacobson's
ear, and presto the lady returned to her
first love.
OF course some people say that money
didn't do it, but then there are others.
closely allied t. the proverbial little bird,"
who tell tale of desertion. cruel deser-
ton, in which Edward Randle was not
even permitted to play Romeo 10 another
mans Juliet even though he tried 10 re-
peat the balcony scene before somebody
gave him the wrong tip. sending him upon
a wildgoose chase in the direction of Eel
River.
Yes, coin talked. Mrs. jacobson was
Influenced by it TO come to San Francisco
on the steamer Pomona, and is now be-
leved to be in this city pending her de-
parture for Lodi. and, alas! perhaps the
dreaded farm.
The husband has forgiven. and is now
trying to be hypnotized into forgetting.
Mrs. Jaco bson has had enough adventure
TO satisfy her for some time to come, and
does not at all enjoy an alusion to hard
| times in Eureka.
Randle was blacksmith when he re-
sided in Lodi, and one would imagine that
his constant handling of horseshoes would
have proved an effectual mascot for him
through life. but it didn't.
He was not that astounding success as a
finder of employment, and though Eureka
is alleged to be an exceedingly verdant
place at this season of the year the grass
for Randle and his love persisted in re-
naming exceedingly short.
The future was full of bright hopes
when Edward and be misguided wife LEFT
Lodi, but when the stern reality of the ex-
pense of living confronted the couple
| there wasn't even a cloud with a silver
| lining on the horizon of their expectations.
Several letters passed between Mrs. ia
IT, Ia Id.
grew restless and Randle was still out of a
| job.
| Finally the proposition was made by
jacobson that he send to Eureka S125 to
defray Mrs. Jacobson's expense and pur-
| chase her ticket for San Francisco.
One of the letters Is said to have read:
Dear Wife: II you will leave that man and
return to your Lodi home will forgive you.
Answer me quickly.
Soon after this letter was forwarded
Mrs. jacobson answered knowledging
| her willingness to give up the man she ran
away with, leave him to make his living
as best he may in Eureka and escape
quietly to San Francisco. She did it.
Was ever there a similar case? Was
ever a woman more changeable? Was
ever a man more complet ely fooled in a
person than Edward Randle was in tickle
! Mrs. jacobson?
Questions such as these have started
Lodi tongues to wagging, and every staid
matren of the river towns and every good
Superintendent OF a Sunday-school has an
| object lesson to present to his or her es-
| pecial charge calculated to make an ever
| lasting impression.
| When Mrs. jacobson left Eureka Ed
ward Randle did not know it. He was
told to go to Eel River, as that was the
direction in which his sweetheart had fed.
When he got back the Pomona had gone,
and even the constable who had been au-
thorized : to arrest him if he attempted to
follow the woman had disappeared.
1t was Randle's intentions. as it is told,
TO go on board of the Pomona under an
assumed name and hide away until the
vessel got to sea.
| Jacobson's friends told him that Mrs.
jacobson would not go on the boat, but
that she would 60 to Eel River Thus be
was led away.
Farmer jacobson gave no explanation
to his neighbors as to why he decided to
forgive his hayward wife and recall her
to his home.
Mrs. jacobson gives no reason for hav-
ing joined RandIe in flight except that she
had tired of country life and longed for
the noisy rumble and excitement of the
city. She preferred to live in San Fran
cisco, but owing TO the notoriety given her
elopement by the daily papers she decided
that Eureka would be the best place of the
two cities in which to avoid further tres
| passers upon her affairs.
When John Randle left this city with
| Mrs. jacobson on the steamer Hum oldt
there evidently still existed an infatua-
ton for the man in the woman's heart.
Her lovemaking made her conspicuous
when the steamer left the wharf, attract
ing the attention Of several local police
and newspapermen.
The cause of the woman's sudden
change of base, the perfect Indifference
with which she treated Randle after she
had received money from her lawful hus-
band and the slip she gave poor Edward
in Eureka is said to be the inability of her
| blacksmith to get employment.
Randle might have been commercial
success in Lodi. but he was a failure in the
| north