Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
show last week, and states that he
got satisfaction.

pulled the blue smoke curles toward
the ceiling, Il have had an experience
in that line, so | can speak knowingly.
When | married my first wife she had
a mother. | have since married an
orphan. was young and foolish and
at that time had more money than
brains / knew nothing about bridal
tours. Mother-in-law knew this and
during the three years | had been
counting her girl, she had been plann-
ing the good time she was to have at
my expense in case | married her
daughter, and she realized her dream.
"She always let on as though she
thought her daughter could do better
than to take me; this was simply done
| to make me anxious to win, and the
girl anxious to 60 contrary to her
mothers will. Mother-in-law was a
widow of only 40 and looked almost
as young as her daug hter, and she wass
really fine looking woman. The fam
| lily had been we'll fixed once, but the
extravaganza of the wife had bank
rupted the husband. After he was
broke, her unconquerable desire to 60
into champagne society and the poor
mans lager beer income turned his
mind and he died in a mad house, but
| didn't know this until after | was
married When Jane and | were
married [ was told that [ must call
her Jeanette, which l was willing to
do, for she was a splendid girl, and
nv mot her-in-laW became affectionate
and called me every name that was
nice, and loved me as if was her son.
Finally she suggested that a trip to
the Sandwich islands would be the
proper thing for a bridal tour, and
then she sighed and said that would
leave her all alone. Not at all,
mother, said, i Will take you along
and then she blushed like bride and
her handsome face lit up with a glow
of pleasure that would do credit to o.
Midway maid at Madison carnival.
'sWell we started, and when two
days out on the voyage one moonlight
night when the ocean was calm and
smooth as glass, wife and l were on
deck spooning Suddenly my mother
in-law appeared and said. That's the
way! When girl gets married she
forsakes her mother and treats her as
a stranger, and then she cried. Well,
| tried to act like a dutiful son, SO,
going to her side
Il kissed her fair face and told her l
loved her,
She returned the caress, and |
thought her divine
But happier I'd been had [ purposely
showed her
From the deck Of the boat to the
deep rolling brine.
"She became so exacting she wanted
my wife to stay in the cabin to let her
do the prom made act, and they had
three rough-andtumb BILE scraps over
me before we reached Honolulu, Our
honeymoon was not happy one and
when mother-in-law learned that she
was not in it she set about to part us
but never accomplished her object.
In couple of years | lost my hand
some little wife, but that mother-in-
law is still living, though |. never 90
near her. | married again after living
a widower for four years, and | mar
ried an orphan this time, dispensed
with the sea voyage for honeymoon
and settled down to business, and we
are as happy as shouting Methodist
at a camp meeting"
All men are just simply awaiting the
the end,
Some of them happy and some of
them sad;
Some of them bad with a goodly intend
And some Of them good with intend
that is bad,
Some find that pleasure keeps filling
their measure,
Others find sorrow their drink and
their toast;
Some hasten, while others plod on
ward with leisure,
But somehow or other we'll give
up the ghost.
All men are just simply awaiting the
The grave is the goal of this body
of ours;
Our foemen will moulder to dust as a
friend
And with us shall lie through eter-
nity's hours.
Some dream this existence forever
will last,
Some care not the hour when the
summons shall come;
But, boys, if we don't stop our living