The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-05
WOULDN'T MARRY THE
STATUE OF LIBERTY
If Freed From the Yoke
Which Had Made Life
Miserable, lie Says
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New York. May War and mat.
riInony are the same thing. I've been
through both. and if had my choice
I'd take the cannon game for mine
Yes, I've heard General Sherman
definition of war, but he must have
been Z; Bachelor
II isn't to be supposed that these
disparaging remarks viii have deter
ing effect on persons about to inter
view the parson. but they 80 a long
way toward proving that even Cupid
turns out a poor job occasionally. They
also prove that when Charles Christ
enscn and his good wif Julia mar
ried and settled down, they didn't
1--we happily for after
Thirty-four year htve elapsed since
Charles and Julir msol dated. For
six years they lived as one; for the
next twenty-five they lived as ten,
Julia being the one and Charlie the
cipher of the combination; for the last
three years of the Journey each has
been making an independent Derade
Charles had Sixty-nine candles ie mis-
last cake. While his wife's called for
eight less. The climax of their do
nestle difficulties was reached on
Thursday when his wife had him be-
fore Magistrate Higginbotham in a
Brooklyn court on the charge OF non
support.
Justifies His Course.
Mrs Christensen secured the floo
early in the proceedings and blocked
her husbands efforts to tell his tfou
bles, with the result that the court di
recied him to pay his wife So week
until the case comes up Tor disposi.
tion ncxt week When seen by
World man at his store on Gates ave
nue. yesterday Christensen was more
than willing to tell OF his troubles.
He Is a slightly built little man with
a Joe Cannon hedge around his coun-
tenance Steellimmcd glasses mount
ed on q stubby nose and fastened be-
hind sci of extra size listeners give
him stHdious appearance What he
does to the English language is g..
tirely uncalled for
"Julia had all the hest of II in the
court he heean, but if / ever get
a chance TO tell just little bit Of my
story I'll have the judge snd jury on
my side
"Is Il true that you have an assort-
meut OF aiGinities?' he was asked.
DO look like that kind Of a mani
he demanded with a show Of heat.
"As fei MY running around TO
dances and parties | haven't been %
one in a year. IN admit I'm one 81
the boys. but I'm one Of the good
kind"
"She says you are anxious TO marry
again. suggested the reporter,
eShe knows better than that I've
told her seven thousand times that n
| ever got free I'd keep my name Tor
my own use Marry again. ta ha,
wouldn't marry the State OF Liberty
If President Roosevelt gave her away
and she had the United States mint
for a dOwry"
What started all the tr0uble2'
III doesn't matter now, but il start
ed right after we moved 20 Brooklyn
from New York in 1880 Non don't
blame Brooklyn for IT,
Has a War Record, r
And don't think 7 haven't any
backbone, he added; wait I'LL J
prove il to you
Christensen stopped talking long
enough TO so to "A drawer and drag
forth a bag OF medals. Several OF
them were for bravery IN the Danish
war and one was given him by the
KING OF denmark. lhe bNAelo MflN
emblems of the different orders TO
which he belongs
"The King doesn't decorate "a cow
ard said the old man proudly.
Don't you think You deserve a med
al for living with a wife2" asked inc
reporter.
"a medall shouted Christensen y
deserve a monument As compared
with marriage war Is a picnic J wenr
through the Danish war and ! was