Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-12
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 Abe Warner was I g9oI-for-no;lling whose meek little wife supported him. One day came Il Womans rights oiu maid, Miss Stranger. In three days she had organized Il woman's club in Graf ton and made an address that aroused the patriotic hearts of the members Within all hour most of them had thrown off the yoke of slavery and were prepared to take hand in rln- ming the government. It so happened that little Mrs. Warner was doing some sewing at the house where the first meeting was held. and it was in sisted that she join the club. She was scared half to death at the idea of hay ing any rights and asserting them, and after the meeting was over Miss Stran- ser took her in hand to make her some thing more than d worm of the dust. She was talked 10 for an hour, and the effects were felt at home that same evening. Abe wanted 50 cents, and for the first time in her life the wife refused him. She did even more. She demande to know why he didn't go to work.
 The husband loafed of downtown to play checkers. but he didn't play. His feelings had been hurt. There was rebellion in his own house. He had suffered loss of dignity. He couldn't get over these jolts, and so he returned home to cuff his wife's ears and tell her how ungrateful she was not to ap- preciate husband like him. She took the cuffs, but not as meekly as formerly. In fact. there was a danger signal in her eye that set Abe to won- dering what had conc over her. She still refused him any money and he thought it best not 10 cuff too hard. He heard through some of his cronies that his wife had joined the woman's rights club, and it made him laugh. He went home and guyed her about it, but she had nothing to say. She sim ply looked at him in a queer way, and he wound up by saying:
 eff hear any more about this non sense I'll make your ears ring for you. You've got all the rights coming to you, and you want to stop right there 9 When he was ready to go down to his 1oafing place that evening his hum- ble wife voluntarily offered him half a dollar and gave him a glad surprise. He hadn't been drunk for ten days, and now here was the wherewithal. ! The fact that she offered the money 2 forced him to deduce that she had got over her rebellious spirit aud wanted to placate him. and he went away pat { ting himself on the back as the only husband in Grafton that knew how to manage wife. To make up for lost time he got drunker than usual and at < midnight was brought into the house and dumped on the floor. This was no unusual occurrence, but unusual things 2 followed it. He awoke about o'clock the next forenoon to find himself tied hand and foot. He started to inquire why in Texas his breakfast wasn't ready and why he hadn't been un- dressed and put to bed, but as he oDen- ed his mouth to do so he noticed that ], his humble wife was sitting with her , sewing not far away and that she had $ what looked like a horsewhip across s her knees
 '.Well. what does this mean% he finally asked
 ;"It means that great change is about to take place.
 'sWho tied me up this way"
 II did It's the first move in the change
 ''You unite me and hustle me up some breakfast or I'll make things hot H<,. hut Ia you do such a thing"
 .Abe," she said as she laid down her sewing and stood up with the whip in x her hand. you have been lazy. good " for nothing man for years past. Are 2 you going to work:'
 "Of course not Why should I go to work
 ''You are not only a lazy. shiftess loafer. but you are a drunkard. You have no ambition. no sense of shame Are you going to promise me never to f get drunk again:"
 .No, l ain't. I guess l want little $ fun once in awhile as well as other x folks. Seems to me you are talking mighty strange all to once. Is this what you call woman's rights?' Is Yes, Abe: it is.'
 sThen I'll lick it out of you in about ' I've minutes.
 %sS1S,"Not in thousand years, Abe. On |SSthe contrary, I'm going to lick some thing out of you"'
 E|k And then she began. She was lit 3)e woman, but she had strong arm, md she was melted by the remem-
 aance that for seventeen centuries her
 ox had been only worms of the dust.
 He stood there and laid that whip on
 til Abe beloved for mercy. Then
 stopped for five minutes rest and
 yan again. She dashed him, and she
 ruped him. and she walloped him,
 d he blubbered like boy. While
 e was giving him drink five mem
 of tho l,,h ooynn in sEhoV had no