Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-27
BEES Stroke Up NONE
Isaac Otis. . Retired Farmer 81
Ames. Explains Famous Bee
Episode
He Issues Circular Letter Setting
Forth Sad Story Of Domestic
Infelicity.
Incidentally He Points to Path o.
Rectitude for Present and Pros.
pectivs Wives
Special to Times-Republican.

E AlneS, NOV. S1.-Mr. Isaac OTIS, fe.sI
tired farmer and real estate dealer, re-
siding just west OF the college, mas is
sued a circular letter to his friends ex-i
planning the bee episode which APP
pearet in several state papers last
summer and which caused Mrs, Otis to
apply for and obtain divorce, as we'll
as goodly part Of the property. The
story was that Mr.. Otis had become en-
ragged at Mrs. Otis actions toward him
and going home one day In a rage,
brought hive OF bees into the house
and turned them out In the different
rooms with the intention of driving his
better half of the place. 1t had the
desired effect for q while. Mrs. Otis
Immediately came down town, consult
ed an attorney and applied for a die
vorce. which was granted in the last
term of court. The bee incident acted
as boomerang, as Mr.. Otis, besides
losing his helpmeet, lost his home. He
is not feeling very hilarious over the
result and issued the following circular
to square himself with the public, part
of which is a TRADE against his wife,
tho much of 1t reads like an article on
bee culture. After alleging that the
bees were not brought into the house
for any mercenary purpose and that
Mrs. Otis had never before objected to
such proceeding, Mr. Otis expresses his
belief that Mrs. Otis. being in bad
5humor. thought she saw an emporium
ity to wrongfully obtain a part Of my
property In her own name. Hence this
terrible, disgraceful lawsuit, in which
Mrs. Otis has probably disgraced her
self more than any one else
Mr.. Otis then goes into an elaborate
treatise on the subject of bee culture.
quoting authorities to prove there is no
danger in handling them il you know
how to go at it right.
He then comes down to the business
!. in hand, and with a few words Of adj
vice to women In general and wives In
4 particular, proceeds to state his side OF
THE controversy. The circular reads:
Even II assaulted they seek only to
escape and never sting unless they are
hurt. That the queen bee is often lost
and that her colony will be ruined un-
LESS such calamity is seasonably rene
died ought to be familiar facts to- every
beekeeper. Their home like the mans
who is cursed in his domestic relations
Is melancholy place and they enter 1t
only with reluctant and slow-moying
steps, and here let me be permitted to
address word Of friendly advice to
every wife, do all that YOU can to make
your husbands home a place OF attrac-
4 ton. When absent from 1t let his heart
| glow at the thought of returning to its
dear enjoymsnts. AS he approaches it
lslet his countenance involuntarily as
sumo more cheerful expression, while
his joy-quickened steps proclaim that
he feels that there is no place like the
cheerful home, where his chosen wife
and companion presides as its happy
and honored queen. The tenth and last
species Of women was made out OF bee
and happy is the man who gets such a
one for his wife: she is full of virtue
and prudence and is the best wife that
Jupiter can bestow. Try all the virtue
of winning words and smiles and the
cheerful discharge Of household duties
and exhaust the utmost efficacy Of love
and faith before those words OF fearful
agony anywhere out OF the world are
extorted from the despairing lips of
4 your husband as he realizes that there
is no place or home for him until he has
passed into that habitation not made by
human hands nor inhabited by human
\ hearts.
My highest ambition when coming to
Ames was to build nice, happy home
for Mrs. Otis and her boys and myself,
and to help school the boys and make OF
them honorable upright, educated men
I built the home large by Mrs. Otis re-
quest, that she might take in roomers
and make little money to help along
lin family expenses and save as much as
\ possible for the boys when they became
4 of age, and all that asked in return
4 was to be treated like husband and
father, which tried to be to my family,
i but 1t seemed that Mrs. Otis principal
desire was to rule or ruin and her domi-
/ neering spirit and sarcastic tongue, and
twitting me OF being brought up in the
woods and my children not being as
smart as hers, and Of being uneducated
and dishonest and untruthful. and even
4 going SO far as to tell me I lied and put
lting hired man into our bed to sleep
and many other unwifely actions was
Ienough to make man weary Of his
4 home.
We had about as beautiful a home as
there was In the county and worked
day after day to NOV and rake the lawn
and keep the place nice and clean, and
when think OF the money and muscle
that have spent to make q nice and
comfortable home AID then be deprived
of it by the cruel hand OF the law and
an ungrateful woman II makes me
somewhat sad, but I am glad that the
terrible ordeal is over and I am free and
rid of such wife, and thank fortune
still have funds enough to keep me and
4 build another home nicer than ever
DETWILER FOUND GUILTY.
First Conviction Under statute Pres
scribinE Penalty For DesertionsAf.
ter seduction.
Des Moines. Nov. PA Jury in the