Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-09-19
THE NEWSPAPER WORM TURNS.
The Journalist was Imposed Upon by His
Wife, but wiIIEContinue Business
At the Old Stand.

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The editor of an Iowa newspaper in
a recent issue speaks thus of the do
mestic troubles he has lately been call.
ed upon to endure:
My wife has applied for "a divorce,
and will get one, or at least'this act of
hers means that we, who became bus.
band and wife.on August 5, 1890, for
better or for worse, are to separate
from the sacred ties of matrimony for
ever. We must live apart and under
different shelter. We never have lived
as one, but that was her fault.
II do not wish to. mention her faults,
but do believe that there is not man
in the State of Iowa, with mind and
body that could live happy with g
woman of her disposition. She always
had her own way and never gave me
air chance She was willing for me
to take the buzzard and her the turkey,
or her the turkey and me the buZzard,
and that had to end it, and generally
did. She took for her motto, Heads
I win. tails you lose, and never devia-
ted from it. She never smiled-she
never cheered me and always pulled in
an opposite direction.
when we got married she had a
mother and daughter, who with her
self, turned against me, but, like the
foolish ass, bore the burden with only
an occasional bray. My load was
heavy and my work was burdensome,
but l had "a hours to do my days
work in, and on more than one occa
sion l have worked every hour of the |
"a, realized that it was long lane
that has no turn, and l was looking |
for turns. Finally my wife's mother
was called to the other shore; then her
daughter got married, leaving my
wife, my little son and myself in the
family. The turn had come sure
enough. My wife turned against her
daughter and renewed her enmity
agaist me, and there was not ray of
hope in the family--things had gone
from bad to worse and had continued
10.
''If she had weighed all matters on
The scales of justic instead of Jumping
,hem off with eyes of prejudic. she
would haye learned to love instead of
nate the husband who faithfully slaved
or her so that she might live in luxu
y. She never wanted for clothing,
Medicine, food or fuel, and on the very
lay she filed her papers for divorce the
cellar was filled with fruit, the flour
Din with flour, the henhouse with eggs
Ind there were groceries enough on
land to supply an ordinary family a
ortnight. She had every obtainable
luxury at her command. Her railroad
are was paid from one end of the line
% the other; she went and came as she
,leased, and the old man paid the
reight. and the bills, too-(and did the
cooking while she was gomez
"As she goes through life with her
oul burning with revenge and spite,
hey will cease when she arrives at a
,olnt where the paths appear to meet
she will think fast and recall the
lours l have spent bbing her aching
cad and back with ointment, trying
0 displace diseases she was heir to-
,he form of Regret will suddenly
Use before her, from whom she can
ever be divorced by any court this
ide of heaven.
''She has severed her connection with
he Journal, and it is doubtful if work
rom her pen will ever find place in
is columns again. AS for myself, l
will continue in the work and will ex-
rt every effort to make the Journal
he best local paper in the Mississippi
yalley.
Il have just received photograph
f my wife, taken a few weeks ago.
he is smiling and never looked more
eautiful. If she had smiled at her
usband just once in the II years of
larried life as she did at the camera,
o judge could ever grant her divorce Z
n good and sufficient grounds