Smyrna times., 1902-01-22
TYRNA TIMES WEDN AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22 1902.

and she even figured out who he would
take for his second wife. They went
to bed in an unhappy frame of mind,
and two or three times during the |
night each woke up and wondered |
about hot lead being poured into hus- |
bands ears and wives being smothered |
with pillows as they slept.
The next four weeks were wretched |
ones. Not a meal did the husband sit |
down to without wondering if the food
or drink had been sprinkled or mixed
with poison, and hardly an hour passed
that the wife was not on her guard
| against some sudden attack on her life
One day the milkhOuse door blew to
on her and made her a prisoner, and
she uttered such screams of fear that
the tramp on the highway who heard
| her did not dare go to her assistance
until he had summoned help. At an
other time she slipped on the cellar
stairs, and after much looking about
she discovered peach stone and treas
ured it up as legal proof of the hus-
bands planning. Love, trust and con-
fdence had flown out of the window,
and the neighbOrs sagely shook their
heads and observed that they were
prepared to hear of an awful tragedy
amy day.
One night the husband woke up with
chill of fear. He had dreamed that
he saw his wife standing over him
with a butcher knife raised to strike
He found her beside him and SEEM
ingly fast asleep, but he determined to
pass the rest of the night on the hay
in the barn. He had scarcely left the
house when the wife woke up. She
had dreamed of being hacked to pieces
with the ak, and her husbands alb
sence seemed to be proof that he had
gone out after the weapon. She would
battle him by hiding in the carriage
shed until morning. 1t therefore hap
pened that while he was skirting the
, duck pond on the right to reach the
) barn she was skirting it on the left to
! reach the carriage house, and presently
they came together in the darkness.
q Murderer she shouted as she
G. turned to fee.
r "Murderessv' he shouted as he start
n ed back.
o Then both went slipping down th'
;. bank, clawing and clutching at eacl
l. other, and brought up with a grea
n souse in the pond. Wet and bedrag
: gled, they climbed out on Opposit
O sides, and while she spent the remain
d der of the night shivering under tn
$ currant bushes and wondering if h
! | lyiII hO1 of Grct I,1Ovxr or oh
l. her up by degrees he sat ON the doOl
e step and made up his mind to appeG
to the law without further della!
1 Morning had come. and the pair ha
o just confronted each other when
IS neighbor who was passing halted 8
= the gate to say:
Hello. Jake, have you heard til
e news"
e NO" was the reply.
a "Ain't you and Mary insured in tt
d Sure Pay Life Insurance company"
k YES"
o "Well, she's busted higher'n a kit
Is and your policy amt wuth corncObs."
'She's busted for sure? queried j
If cob.
d "Sure's you live"
"And 1 amt insured and Mary ain
insured, and we wouldn't get durne
g. cent if either diedY'
N "NOt a burned red.'
IL 'Then-then, come here, Mary, con
; and kiss me-" said the husband as
g opened his arms.
"'Pears to me like you might be 81;
at of the bust up," remarked the neig
r. bor.
On "Durned if 1 ain'tv' replied Jaco
ne with tears in his eyes.
Ie- "And som I"' sobbed the wife as s.
threw her arms around his neck.