Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-05
BEFORE THE PEOPLES BAR
InsiStsnt and Venerable suitor Makes Mis-
take Of Calling Too Early.
LADY LOVE RUNS HIM OUT THE HOUSE
He Trudges Six Miles I'm the Cold,
Gray Dawn and Wins
Ont the Marble
Heart.
.ADY LOVE RUNS HIM OUT THE HOUSE

II Mark Jones would have presented his
case to some authority on affairs of the
heart the chances are he would not have
had his name registered before the peo-
pies bar Saturday morning, when Mrs
Mary Anderson Of 722 Bancroft street APP
peared and swore to a complaint charging
Jones with disturbing the peace. The case
stands unique on the peoples bar scroll.
Jones will be taken to the city jail as
soon as Police Court Sergeant Whelan can
find him.
What Mark Jones should have done
would have been TO have written to the
Ladies' Home Advertiser OF the Fireside
Record stating his case briefly and max
ing a clean breast of it all, saying:
II am 90 years of age and deeply in
love with woman just half my age.
have a box Of carpenter tools and three
sons, while the woman who is the apple
of my eye has a quit claim deed and three
small children We have both been mar
ried before Her house needs shingling
and her woodshed is falling TO pieces.
have made love in honorable fashion, but
she turns the clock on two hours every
time l call What would you suggest?
Mark J. STAMP enclosed for reply.
Mark J.-Your case is not an unusual
one. Get busy with the shingles and show
your love by works rather than senu-
mental talk A woman with three children
has passed the poetic period. Drive up
with an order OF groceries and bale of
hay for her COW and then hang your hat
up in the kitchen.
Jones went on the rocks about $50 Sat-
urday morning, when he called at the An
derson home and aroused the woman from
her beauty sleep. AS Jones had been in
] - ha
frequently, the woman admitted him, at
the same time chastising him for the un-
seemly time of calling. Jones walked all
the way from 1919 Military avenue TO 722
Bancroft street. a distance Of about six
miles. When he reached the side Of his
/ lady love he asked TO borrow 25 cents.
/ Being Ia no mood for lending money or
| receiving callers at $50 a m, Mrs. An
derson ordered Jones to go hence, but
Jones proceeded to hang his coat up and
make himself at home, Mrs. Anderson
grabbed a stick of wood and threatened to
| make a dent In Jones head Jones jumped
through a screen which released a raised
window. The window fell with a crash
and the glass broke. Jones ran until his
form looked like a speck on the horizon.
/ Mrs. Anderson donned her bonnet and
went down 10 the peoples bar. where
| wrongs are EiBhl0a anu bau P0oPio HlaNe
| good
The woman stated Saturday morning
| that Jones had made seven offers of mar:
| rage TO her. Mrs. Anderson is 30 years
OF age. Jones is Co.
Inc thoughtful wife brought her hus-
bands spectacles down TO the police court.
/ although the husband had locked her and
children out and had abused her.
| Thomas Barnett Of SIG North Forty
/ seventh street. arrested Friday evening
! by Patrolman Aughe on the charge OF
! drunkenness and abusing his family. was
sentenced thirty days by Police Judge
! Crawford Saturday morning. The mans
wife and oldest daughter appeared against
! him. The women cried when the police
magistrate passed sentence All day Fri
day Barnett locked himself in his home
] and refused 10 admit his wife and dye