The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-07
I'VE" AND wlrE TO PART.
An Iowa Editors Tale of His Discord-
 ant Married Life.

This is the manner in which Editor c. R. Clingman of the Montrose dowa) Journal tells of his domestic troubles in the columns of his paper:
 My wife had applied for a divorce, and will get one, or at least this act or hers means that we. who became hus- band and wife on August 5, 1890, for bet ter or for worse. are to separate from the sacred ties of matrimony forever. We must live apart and under different shell ter. We never have lived as one. but that was her fault.
 T do not wish to mention her faults. but I do believe that there is not a man in the state of Iowa. with mind ard body that could live happy with woman Of her disposition. She always had her own way and never gave me fair chance She was willing for me to take the bug gard and her the turkey, or her the turkey and me the buzzard, and that had to end 1t, and generally did. She took for her motto. Heads I win tails you lose and never deviated from it. She never smiled she never eheered me, and always pulled in an opposite direction.
 When we got married she had a moth- CT and daughter, who with herself turn ed against me, but like tho foolish asss I bore the burden with only an occasion- al bray. My load was heavy and my work was burdensome, but I had twen- ty-four hours to do my days work in, and or more than enc occasion 1 have worked every hour of the twenty-four. 1 realized that it was a long lane that has no turn,' and I was looking for turns Finally, my wife's mother was 4o har 1ub ter got married. leaving my wife, my lit- tie son. and myself in the family The turn had come sure enough. My wife turned against her daughter and renew ed her enmity against me, and there was not ray of hope in the Cl1ngman fam ily-things had gone from bad to worse and had continued so.
 of Mrs Clingman had weighed all mat ters on the scales of justice instead of Jumping them off with eyes of prejudice, she would have learned to love instead of hate the husband who so faithfully slaved 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 her papers for divorce the cellar was filled with fruit the flour bin was filled with four the hen house with egfl-and there were groceries enough on hand to supply an ordinary family
 
 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 Cling man 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 displaee diseases she was heir to. The form of Regret will suddenly rise before her, from whom she can never be divorced by any court this side of heaven.
 Mrs. Clingham has severed her con- nection with the Journal, and 1t is doubt ful if work from her pen will ever find a place in Its columns again. As for my self I will continue in the work and will exert every effort to make the Journal the best local paper in the Mississippi valley.
 T have just received photograph of Mrs. Clirgman; taken a few weeks ago. She is smiling and never looked more beautiful. If she had smiled at hor hus- band just once in the twelve years of married life az she did at tho camera, no judge could ever grant her divorce on good and sufficient grounds