Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-01

are that he carn't help hisself; but
when a noncombatant, so to speak,
let's hisself get fouled in a love affair,
then it's ito his house trouble" as the
fortoon teller says.
That's wot happened to pore OF Bob
Barnacle. He mixed in a love affair
wot did not concern him, an he got
married, an married permanent, to a
woman wot held the most revoltin
idees regardin' wives not workin' an
husbands turnin' over their wages to
pay bills. Ii occurred this way:-Bob
were allus infatooated, so to speak, re-
gardin' moosic-plumb crazy over it.
You wouldn't never believe wot he'd
do TO hear 1t. Blow me II many
time | amt seen him take and spend
money which a man o. sense would
have invested in rum, so to speak. to
hear phonygrafts sing songs about
gals wot lived in places never hearn
o..
Well, Bob's friend, Henry Peters,
wot was once his shipmate but had
retired an were stevedore, believin
he was entitled to restful life, so to
speak, havin' sailed the seas up'ards
of twenty year, an havin a wife an
child in Gloucester wot he liked better
than any o. those wot was a-waitin'
for him in foreign ports. owned a moo.
sic box. 1t was very good mobsic
box, playin' three toons very good in
deed, eXceptin' that some o. it's parts
was a-missin' an you had To find out
wot the toons was afore you could
| reckernize 'em, so to speak. Bob
were clean crazy to own that there in
strument, an saved up for five years
10 buy 1t from Henery. He saved up
ontil he offered Henery three dollars
money, for it. though it took him a
long while TO do 1t, he bein' in con
slant fear o seizures, his great-grand-
father on his aunt Julias side havin'
been took off that away arter losin'
thirty cents out o hole in the port
side o his pants.
One Real Dollar.
Henery, who were a far seem man
an a good trader, havin' made care
full study o. his various captings' slor
chest accounts, refoosed Bob's Offer
an demanded 81, dollar in actoo
money bein' paid down. This stag
gered pore oil Bob, even though he
did have no idea o. the valoo o. money
tbaSidaS uv'ich hA didn't hax-. 90 ,,,u,b
SO he refoosed to pay II very indignant
like. Howsumever he keeps on dick
erin with Henery, not havin' the hear
TO give up the idea o. ownin' the moo
sic box. They keeps this up for two
or three weeks an is gettin' to tn,
pint where each is tellin' how scan
dalized they is at the way each others
relatives by marriage has acted in tn,
past an all looks encouragin' an hope
ful for a beautiful fight, when Molly
witch is Henery's wife, ups an dies
bein' contrarywise. like all wimmen
an dyin' seemin'ly to interfere with
her husbands business affairs an {
leavin' him with six-months'olC
babby.
Wen, when this happened. Bob salt
private that he didn't have no doub
but wot her death were a Judgment OF
Henery cause o. the selfish way he't
a-been a-treatin' him, but public ht
were the loudest o the mourners
quite outstrippin' Henery, so to speak
witch caused considerable talk. HI
TUX entire charge o. the funeral. never
lettin' the pore, bereaved husband oui
o his sight an constant bewailin' his
loneliness, adviSin' him continual e
sell out his things by auction an move
away. SOS he could forget his troubles
His advice didn't seem to make nc
effect on Henery. so. when him an
Bob come back from the berryin
ground, Bob, who were fair tuckered