The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-10-02
MATRIMONIAL TROUBLES.

Editor G. r. Clingman, of the Mon
trose, Iowa, Journal relieves his mind
in his columns as follows:
My wife has applied for divorce
and will get one, or at least this act
of hers means that we, who became
husband and wife on August 5, 1890,
for better or for worse, are to separate
from the sacred ties of matrimony
forever. We must live apart and un-
der shelter. We never have lived as
one, but that was her fault
do not wish to mention her
faults, but I do believe that there
is not man in the state of Iowa
with mind and body that could live
happily with a woman of her DISPOSE
ton. She always had her own way
and never gave me fair chance.
She was willing for me to take the
buzzard anil she take the turkey, OF
she the turkey and the buzzard, and
that had to end it and generally did.
She took for her motto, Heads
win, tales you lose,' and never de-
waited from it. She never smiled,
she never cheered me and always pull
ed in an opposite direction.
When we got married, she had 6
mother and daughter, who, with her
self turned against me; but, like the
foolish ass, bore the burden with on.
ly an occasional bray. My load was
heavy, and my work burdensome, but
| had twenty-four hours to do my
days work in, and on more than one
occasion | have worked every hour
of the twenty-four. realized that
it was a "long lane that has nc
turn" and 1 was looking for the
turn. -
Finally my wife's mother was call
ed to the other shore. Then he1
daughter got married, leaving my
wife, my little son and myself i'll the
family. The turn had come, sure
enough. My wife turned against he1
daughter and renewed her enmity
against me, and there was not 8
ray of hope in the Clingman fami
ly. Things had gone from bad to
worse and had continued so. If Mrs.
Clingman had weighed all matters on
the scales of justice instead of lump.
ing them off with eyes of prejudice,
she would have learned to love in
stead of hate the husband who sc
faithfully shaved for her SO that she
might live in luxury.
She never wanted for clothing,
medicine, food or fuel, and On the
very day she filed papers for divorce
the cellar was filled with fruit, the
-four bin was filled with flour, the
henhouse with eggs, and there were
groceries enough on hand to supply
an ordinary family fortnight.
She had every obtainable luxury at
her command. Her railroad fare
was paid from one end of the line to
the other. She went and came as
she pleased, she bought what she
pleased, and "Clingman paid the
freight" and the bills, too, and did
the cooking while she was gone.
AS she goes through life with her
soul burning with revenge and spite
they will cease when she arrives at a
point where the paths appear to meet.
She will think fast and recall the
hours I have spent rubbing her aching
head and back with ointment trying
to displace diseases she was heir to-.
The form of Regret will rise suddenly
before her, from which she can never
be divorced by any court this side Of
heaven.
Mrs. Clingman has severed her
connection with the Journal, and it is
doubtful if work from her pen will
ever find place in it's columns again.
AS for myself, I will continue in the
work and will exert every effort to
make the Journal the best local
paper in the Mississippi valley.
I have just received photograph
of Mrs. Clingman, taken few weeks
ago. She is smiling and never look
ed more beautiful. If she had smil-
ed at her husband just once in the
twelve years of married life as she did
at the camera, no judge could ever
grant her divorce on good and
sufficient reasons.
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