The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-23

tereut occasions when he had stayed
4 minute over his time his wifc APP
peared at the door and beckoned him
out and took him by the ear and led
him home. The next day he got moth
Ing to eat as a punishment.
"As IL this bossing business was not
bad enough for man who imagined
he was a sturdy oak and capable Of
supporting a dozen clinging vines, the
wife was woman of fads. She took
II into her head that he had liver com
plaint, and for two straight years she
made him take four doses a day of a
compound she had prepared. There
was no escaping it. He had to walk
up to the rack and dose. Then she
took a notion that he had jaundlce,
and she brewed another decoction for
that. Then she decided that his short
ness OF breath came from the asthma.
and she started In to cure Il. Nothing
whatever allied Joel but too much boss
Ing. 1t was his grief and humiliation
over It. Any man would have got
thin and. peaked with his feelings to
carry around
You all remember that we had n
circus VISIT this town two years ago.
Joel made up his mind to go and see
the elephant. His wife forbade him
to, and on that day he was set to hoe.
Ing corn. He ran away from his
work, and she followed and took him
out Of the tent. l think he had de.
haN
shackles at any cost, but, alas, 1t was
too late. His wife brought the rolling
pin into play, and he was licked
man. II was q day or two after that
he came to me and wanted TO know
II man could swallow enough plug
tobacco TO kill himself. / could not
tell him, and the sigh he heaved when
he turned away rings in my years yet.
He was thinking of suicide at that
very time.
Just what happened today to drive
Joel into the mill pond can't say. but
| know that about three months ago
his wife made up her mind that he had
tapeworm and began doctoring him
for 1t. She cooked up compound of
dock, and the number of doses day
was eight She said she'd lay out that
tapeworm or kill Joel. and she had
kept her word. OF course there was
no tapeworm. 1t was just remorse on
Joel's part to think he hadn't taken
our advice. The remedy was kept in
a bottle on the clock shelf, and eight
times a day he had to walk up and
take 1t. II he lodged dose he had
to take two next time.
Felt Sorry For Him.
Three days ago as was going
past the house l saw him out behind
the smokehouse wlping his weeping
eyes. felt to pity him, but passed on.
knew that the time had passed when |
he could stand up and assert his rights, |
and II the wife had seen me talking to
him 1t would have only made. matters
worse for the victim. |
Gentlemen, we are to meet here at
o'clock in the morning to drag the |
mill pond. 1t is sorrowful mission \
we have. We shall find the mortal re-
mains of Joel Taylor among the old
boots and shoes and rusty pans that
nave found their way there for the last
en- years. He may have stuffed stones
n his pockets to make a surer job of
t. or he may have hung to log after
le found himself on the bottom. In I
'lther case he will be found. When
We have got him ashore and turned on
lis back we will look into his face.
We shall there find a smile of peace.
70 more bosslng-no more dosing. He
S free at last. 1t will be our duty as
nen and neighbors to follow his re-
mains to the graveyard and hear the
lirt fall upon his coffin, and that will
De the end for us-that is, it will be
he end of Joel Taylor. But we who
i've on will still have another duty.
{ will be to warn mankind that there
ire various kinds of widow women,
md he who marries one of the wrong
lind will find that she will sting like
| hornet and bite like an adder"