The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
LOVE TANCLES
OF BRUMMACES
They Circle About the Home,
the State Penitentiary
And the Governors Office at
the State Capitol.
JUDGE SMITH REACHES LIMIT
Writes Aggrieved Parties That
He Can Do No More.
They Now Must Work Out Their
Own Salvation.
JUDGE SMITH REACHES LIMIT

There have been many rough spots
+ in the loves of Clark Brummage and
his wife and the governors office has
deSpaired and abandoned all efforts &c
/ iron out the kinks in their domestic
affairs This morning Judge c. W
Smith wrote Mrs. Brummage the final
word in the controversy. Hereaf ter
Brummage and his wife must sail the
/ matrimonial seas alone. Neither Gov
ernor Capper nor Judge Smith, the
governors executive clerk, will pilot
them.
Sometime ago. Brummage went to
the penite ntiary from Mitchell county.
An officer invaded the Brurnmage
home in BelOit and found some stolen
property Brummage pleaded ignOr-
ance as TO the property, but the court
and jury looked al the matter in an
other light and Brummage drew a
term at Lansing prison.
Then things began to happen. Mrs.
Brunmage nOurned for her mate
household and life is a rough and
barren path without a companion.
Mrs. Brummage wrote to the COVER
nOr's office and appealed for justice
tempered with kindly mercy. If she
just had her loving husband back,
there wouldn't be a thing in all the
world to desire.
Judge Smith thought the matter
over. He concluded that a husband
as greatly in demand at home as
Brummage, was perhaps a pretty fair
citizen. He was a dead loss and an
expense to the state at Lansing ana
Judge Smith induced the governor to
give Brummage a parole on the
strength of the tender pleadinss of his
lonely wife.
About three weeks after Brummage
went home, another letter came to
Judge Smith 1t recited that the
Brummage domestic troubles were
finding rougher seas than ever before.
Asks For More Help.
In a thoughtIess and unguarded
moment and before she fathomed the
rushed into the district court and Sc
cured a divorce from her husband
Then ne came home a paroled con
vict. He couldn't remarry without
couldn't live together without fractur-
ing a sacred and respected law.
Wouldn't the governor please do
som ething?
Judge Smith thought it all over
again. Surely this was a worthy and
deserving case. Judge Smith was
anxious to aid Dan Cupid in laudable
endeavor. So Brummage drew citi-
zenship papers
This was some weeks ago. This
morning another letter came to the
governors office. 1t was tinged with
remorSe and sorrow. 1t told of a love
dream that never came true Ihlnss
in the Brummage. home are worse
than ever before. the letter recited-
Mrs. Brummage didn't know what to
do. She intimated that she is sorry
she asked for her husbands parole
and for his citizenship papers. She is
sorry she ever remarked. After all,
this is cold and cruel world and love
is a mighty speculation Wouldn't the
governors office please make some
further suggestion? Mrs. Brummage
intimated that maybe the state might
want to take Brummage back.
Last Call of Love.
But Judge Smith has answered the
last call of love in the Brummage
home. He wrote back that the future
was up to Mrs. Brummage.
I'VE do not conduct a matrimonial
bureau the judge said in his letter.
And now, Mrs. Brummage, sad, lone
", disappointed and uncertain as to
the future, must work out her own
salvation.
Truly love is a funny game" said
Judge Smith, as ne read the woman's
letter. But maybe she can court him
and make love to him and win him all
over again. This office has done all
in its power to make the woman
happy.