The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-04-15
EDITOR BARES WOES
To CHECK GOSSIP
Declares Publicly He Didn't Beat
Wife's Face TO Jelly; She's Gone.

DAHLONEGA, Ca, April 13-The
editor of the Dahlonega Nugget, which
Is the largest, in fact the only news
paper in Dahionega, has lost his wife.
He knows just where she is and just
why she ism home, and in an effort to
s,ill the tongues of the village gossips
and have the subject discussed and
abando5 ed in a short time he has placed
the entire matter before the reading
public of Dahlonega in an editorial
which misses no detail of the event
Leading up to his wife's rebellion.
The editorial follows:
Yes, an editor without a wife. 1t
is the way we are today. 1t may seem
strange to you, gentle reader, that
man and his wife after living happily
together for nearly 40 years will then
separate. But 1t matters not how
strange it may seem. 1t is our condi-
ton which we would not refer to hadn't
a party who is too sorry for the dogs to
notice circulated the report that we had
beaten our wife's face into jelly first
of the week, running her off from home,
causing the city marshal to become IN
usually active by riding two miles MAX
ing dillgent inquiry about the matter
when there were real violations OF the
law committed on and near the public
square within the last three or four
weeks, one of which we are told that
he witnessed, and If he ever opened his
mouth about it we have not heard of it.
Besides the real liars, we have a
lot Of double equipped forked, loose
tongued tattlers who haYe been busy
ever since, and, being willing to do good
for evil, also cause US to want to say
something to keep them from running
themselves to death and be given
quarters with the devil on account of
leaving this world with a lie in their
mouths. This separation and jower of
ours, and no fight or even a lick struck,
was on account of two of our grand
children who mad been playing on the
street pitching ball for hours. instead
of cutting wood and delaying in dong
what they were sent to look after.
Boys who We fed and cared for. Yes,
the ones who we wanted to work in the
office; not that we needed them, but to
try to encourage them to work placing
money in the bank at the end of every
month to their credit to see if it would
not cause them to be more active and
grow up in usefulness. But our efforts
allied.
''TO see and know of them idling
away so much time caused US to carry
in some withes tC be put into use when
they came home. This started the
racket, resulting in our wife taking the
two boys and leaving but for her
daughters in the country. To see them
.rIerriug idleness to Industry was
more than We could stand
1--WE couldn't help but swear, but we
were at home and it is nobody's bust
ness. We don't get out on the streets
to swear and disturb persons like some
persons do. No man or woman can say
that we fail to provide for home and
tried to cause our wife and daughter to
lessen their work, by begging and per-
suading them to cut out their laundry
business, without effect.
Then we cut up clothes, broke wash
pots. notified persons not to patronze
them, because there was no necessity
for them to run laundry. Even cut
out our residence phone for a while to
see If they couldn't be stopped. Bob
Meaders and many citizens know these
to be facts, even the liars and tattlers
know it, but they only tell one side.
And our daughter quit home rather than
to be ruled in this manner.