The Glenwood post., 1915-03-13
ADUED WIZ

A v04an, the mother of Eve child
ren, the eldest not Vet thirteen and
the youngest barely eighteen months,
ias At the point of death At the hes
pital suffering from s-pticsSia- In
sAan, llfuraissed tent diaSo.ally
across the street, is . man, the father,
taking care 81 these children whs ees-
stantly cali fer their mother. This
woman, who is q foreig.er and vhs s
Mrs Peter Ksvack by the laws q we'd
lsek, Lies Q. . asA of Psia waiting fos
dsatA to relieve her Of Aef tsesible
suffering In the graveyard there is
= fresh aouad that marks the rssting
place of babe. babe that vas bern
still bern-en The AOos Of this ILL
furnished tent where lives the father,
mother and their little children
And, behind all this, there is atrag-
ely, . domestic tragedy, aud one that
is most revoating, most horrible. 1t is
that old, old tragedy of = man coming
Asne under the influence Of liquor. his
very brain aaAme with criminal intea-
tion-his demon, brute desire to cOia-
init . fiendish crime. And what hap
pens, This wife and mother is the
victim. She is kicked; kicked like
inhuman persons kick dumb animals in
a effort to veat . spite. She is
kicked not once, but many times. Her
delicate condition matters not to the
man whose iacensed brain tells him
to kick the more. She screams - is
the only natural thing for any woman
to do under the same circumstances.
Her piercing cries for succor arouse
the neighbors. They are moved to
sympathy for this woman; they know
something is wrong They do not
force an entrance to this ill-furnisAei
tent and threaten this man for 70 ua-
merciful beating the mother Of hts
children; the woman who has been .
~ife-a good wife-to him all thsse
years, but instead they summon the
oarshal
Hardy Decker is the marshal Of this
ts~a. His heart is Is big as all Of
outdoers, but . heart Of stone when
~ knows that . wroag has been con-
nitted. Nor lid Ae force n entrance
to this tent when he arrived. He lis
tsasd - satisfy himself that I'll vss
not well, He waited until he ~ lo.esr
cOald stand this wenas's terrible
screams aad he went int this tsnt.
He brought the husbasd ssed6s aad
did what any man With . heart wssld
do. He kicked this man. He kicked
him not once, but many tines aad
then asked this husband And father
how he liked = dose of the medicine he
aad administered to this wonan-kis
wife. Hardy Decker has NO time for
inAunaa humans; he has little regard
for any maa who abuses a wOmar,-
child or dog. He locked this man IN
Jail; the place where he belongs, the
place where he should remain in soil.
tary confinement and the place where
remorse that has been guilty of so re-
roting a crime.
Neigbbors-good and kindly neiga-
tOrs-of this woman, appealed to their
friends for financial assistance. They
got all the money they needed and
this unfortunate woman was made
comfortable al the hospital. Her con
ditioD is serious; it is critical: it is
There is not one chance
:, the little ill-furnished tent are the
in Q thousand for her, recovery. And,
i've children constantly calling for
their mother; in that tent is the father
taking care of these children. Tne
Mothers troubles are nearly at an end;
have the fathers begun!-Oak Creek
Tines.