The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-16
1oKr w1rH orr FLOOD.

| LOVE WITHOUT BLOOD.
 Many people take love hard Some are so affected by it that if anything
 happens to interfere with the smooth
 running of its course they feel obliged
 to pine away and die, commit suicide
 or kill the object of their affections.
 And others who do not go to such
 extremes lose what little sense they
 had when they fell in love and make | themselves ridiculous and troublesome | in one way or another. But there
 have been and are people in this world
 who can love and retain their senses
 Enoch Arden was one of them. He
 came home one day, found his wife | happily married to another man, and
 went quietly away without killing her
 or the other man. He reasoned very
 properly and justly that it would make
 his wife good deal of trouble to
 change her affections back to him
 and so, like considerate and thought
 full husband he didn't ask her to do it. Enoch is dead, and has gone, we
 trust, where there is no marrying or
 giving in marriage. But they still
 marry and give in marriage in Kan
 sas, and there has recently been a
 deal there which, though not as senti- mental as Enoch's performance, well
 illustrates the fact that it isn't strictly necessary to kill those who may cross the course of one's love.
 Several years ago man fell in love with woman in Atchison, and in order to get rid of each other they were married. All went happily for awhile, and then stern necessity laid it upon the man to go to western Kansas to get some money to support himself with. He left his wife behind, for his existence that he didn't even write to his dear wife. Time rolled or slid on, and the faithful wife waited patiently until she heard that her lost love was a dead man. Then she felt absolved from further faithfulness to him and married another man who loved her with great fervor. This marriage was success. in that the husband was able to live with his wife He begat children, as they say in the bible, and the family was about as happy as most families are outside of novels. Then the other man who had or had not been mourned as dead turned up. He did not initiate Enoch Arden by peeking into a window, be- holding his wife's happiness and going away and leaving her with it. Oh no. He walked right into the house and told her that he had come to claim her as his long loved and very own. Of course she didn't know what to do, but she wanted to do what was right. | So did the man who supposed he had married her, and the man who really | had married her was willing, in view of the peculiar circumstances, to make 1 some concessions. They talked it all | over and concluded that it wasn't | necessary for all or any of them to | die or to kill. The two men went to | a justice of the peace and caused him | to draw up an agreement providing l that the woman was to live with her first husband a certain length of time and, if she was not satisfied, he was to draw off and the other man to take her. The second husband has left town, and she is now living with her first husband. If this arrangement is not satisfactory, after the time speci- fled in the contract has expired, the second husband will return and claim her. If it is he will have to fall in love with somebody else if he feels that he must be married.
 This incident shows what can be 1one It is just as interesting and as a bloody tragedy would nave been, and is much more sensible. We hope there will in the future be 10 elopement or any other antic that will in any way detract from the jobriety of the situation. Good luck to