The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-18
"wE" AND WIFE TO PART.
An Iowa Editors Touching Tale of
His Discordant Married Life.
C. B. Ciingman in the Monuose tIa.)

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Journal,)
My wife has applied for a divorce, and
viii get one, or at least this act of hers
means that we, who became husband and
wife on Aug. 3. 1880. for better or for
worse. are TO separate from the sacred
ties of matrimony forever. We must live
apart and under different shelter. We
never have lived as one, but that was
her fault.
1 do not wish TO mention her faults,
but l do believe that there is not man
In the state of Iowa, with mind and body,
that could live happy with a woman of
her disposition. She always had her own
way and never gave me a fair chance
She was willing for me to take the buzz
card and her the turkey, or her the tur-
key and me the buzzard, and that had 70
end it, and generally did She took her
motto, Heads ] win, tails you lose. and
never deViated 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 herself. 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 / had twenry-foUr
hours to do my days work in. and on
more than one occasion l have worked
every hour of the twenty-fOur. / re-
allied that it was a long lane that has
no turn. and I was looking for turns"
Finally, my wifes mother was called to
the other shore; then her daughter got
married leaving my wife, my little son
come. sure enough My wife turned
against her daughter and renewed her
enmlty against me, and there was not a
ray of hope in the Clingman family
things had gone from bad TO worse and
had continued so.
II Mrs. Clingman had weighed all mat
tiers 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 shaved
for her so that she might live in luxury
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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 flour, the hen house with eggs
and there were groceries enough on
hand to supply an ordinary family a fort
night She had every obtaina bic 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-(aud
did the cooking while she was gomez
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 10 meet-she will think
fast. and recall the hours ( have spent
rubbing her aching head and back with
ointment. TRYING to diSplace 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 ot heaven.
Mrs Clingman has severed her connec-
ton with the Journal. and it is doubtful
II Work from her pen will ever find a
place in its columns again. AS for my
! self. ] VIII continue in the work and viii
exert every effort TO make the Journal
| the best local paper in the Mississippi
valley.
have just received a. photograph Of
| Mrs. Cllngman, taken few weeks ago.
She Is smiling and never looked more
beautiful If she had smiled at her nus
band 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 grounds