The Iola register., 1898-09-30

threatened to do and left me. then
returned to my brothers. home in
Joplin, Mo-, where 1 have lived ever
since. had lived with him then
about five years. After he had been
gone for several months he came back
and we lived together short time,
but separated again. "Ies, we have
one child, baby about year and
half old, born after we had finally
separated, and while he, as | since
learned was living with his other
lady, No. ., in. Kansas City"
Wife No. ended her story there
and No. took up the thread. She is
u much better educated and better
looking woman than No. !, and talked
calmly about the mihutest details of
her short but recent affair with
Madden. She is thin and pale and
has the air of one who has suffered
what she considers the greatest i'll,
discussion of which pales into com
monplace experience.
81 met Madden in Sedalia, Mo-, and
married him there. He learned Of
my neice how to approach me
and wOoed me with tender and
considerate kindess in. most
gentle manly manner. | tried to
learn more of him and his history,
but he said his family were all dead
and that he was born in Syracuse,
y. Y. He left Sedala soon after and
| had only his letters to Judge by,
and accepted him, thinking l had
found what all girls desire above all
things a good, kind husband.
ave were married October 80, 1896,
and soon after went to Ottawa
hadn't been married to him three
days until regretted it," c'Neither
had /, ~ interrupted No. ~
HE threw Off the mask entirely
and abused me at times, drank, cried
and whined and made up. He was
all emotions and when he was
troubled and would beg me to make
up he would frequently get sick and
vOmit.
"In March 1897, we moved to Kan
sas City, and largely through my in
fluence, he obtained work. He work.
ed at various shops and, as learned
afterwards, tlirted and ran around
with women and neglected his work.
had some money and while it lasted
he stayed with me, but frequently
threatened to leave me, saying he
could get plenty of ether women.
We worried along until he went on
a weeks drunk, came home that way
and when | wanted to get medicine
to sober him up he insisted on my
taking pail and going for beer.
left him then and went to my sis
ter's home.
"He sank as low rs any body dur.
ing that spree, but kept away until
IL WAS over. Then he came back
wearing new suit, neat, clean and
handsome.
"Oh, how he begged and coaxed
and cried and promised to get me
back. Like fool believed him, al
though knew he lied eternally. He
first told me his folks were all dead
then he said his mother and sister
were living, but they had moved and
he didn't know where they were.
suspected that he was Catholic and
but he said no, it was Scotch.
Soon after we were married, he
knelt down beside me to pray and /
caught him crossing himself. Then
he admitted it but said he hadn't ob.
served it for ten years. tried to get
him to go to mass and be good Cath
Ollie, but he said if he tried to confess,
any priest would refuse and order him
up on his feet before he was fairly
started.
Fourteen months thus dragged by
and l guess we spent about three of
them together in peace.
My life with that wretch was one
long horror. He annoyed me in little
ways For instance while he himself
Is insanely vain, he was jealous of
me. lie would spend hours in combing
his hair and waxing his mustach and
arranging his tie, but if he caught me
curling my hair he'd say suited him
as | was, and that ] must be trying
to catch other mems eyes if fixed up
so.
And then he was coward with
men, but bully among women. He
threatened my life frequently, but
my brother, smaller man, chased
HIM like whipped dog him
down the street.
He was always trying to
jump bills and when l urged him
to be honest he would get angry and