Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-06-14

one, and get the medicine he may pre-
scribe; and for these necessaries the
husband is liable, but here his liabil-
ity ceases"
The suit was about goods I had pur-
chased by my lawyers ADJECTIVE
black silk dresses, thirty dollar
shawl, dozen pairs black kid gloves,
stockings, flannel, linen, half dozen
yards white Brussels lace, any one of
which would have outlawed the bill,
even If I had gone in an Eden cos
tune to make the purchase; but being
clothed when l made my appearance
at the counter, the merchant could not
plead that had no Dress" and lost
his case.
In a subsequent suit carried up to
the Supreme Court and decided in '68,
1t was proved that my husband had
forbidden our merchant to credit me
on his account, and the merchants
books presented in court showed that
for twelve years he had kept two sep
arate accounts, one against my hus-
band and one against me. On his
were charged clothing for himself,
mother, brothers and employees, COM
mon groceries, etc.; while on mine
were entered all my clothing, all high
priced tea, white sugar, etc., all table
ware, fine cutlery, table linen, bed
ding, curtains and towels; on his were
credits for farm products; on mine,
only cash: and he was credited with
butter and eggs on the same day that
I was charged with bed-ticking and
towels. My personal expenses from
Nov. Is, SO, the date of our marriage,
until Nov. Is, sc, twenty years, aver
aged less than fifty dollars a year. All
my husbands labor for all his life,
and mine for twenty years, with a
large part of my separate property,
had gone to swell his mothers estate,
on the proceeds of which she kept her
carriage and servants until she died,
aged ninety-four, while l earned liv-
ing for myself and his only child.
left Pittsburg with my baby about
the 10th of May, 81, and went by boat
to St. Paul. Before leaving, went
to settle with Mr.. Riddle and say
goodbye, and found him much trou-
bled. He said:
why is it have known nothing
of all this? l did not dream there was
anything wrong in your domestic re.
lations, and may have been selfish
and inconsiderate."
My husband, mine no more, came
upon the boat while she lay at the
wharf, held baby on his knee and
wept over her; when the last bell
rang, he babe me goodbye; carried
her to the gangway, held her to the
last moment, then placed her in my
arms, sprang ashore and hurried up
the wharf, He would, I think, have
carried her of, but that he knew she
would break his heart crying for
mother before l could get to her.
He had once taken her away in
fit of anger and walked the floor with
her most of the night, seriously alarm.
ed for her life, and could not venture
on that experiment again. He loved
her most tenderly, and his love was
as tenderly returned. Since, as duty
to her, l was careful to teach her to
"honor thy father" on earth as well
as in heaven.
Had he and l gone into the pine
woods, as he proposed, upon MARRIAGE;
had we been married under an eQuit-
able law or had he emigrated to Min.
nesota, as he proposed, before l thot
Of going, there would have been no
separation; but after fifteen years in
his mothers house I must run away
or die, and leave my child to a STEP
mother. So I ran away. He thought l
would return; enlarged and improved
the house, wrote and waited for US;
could make no deed without my sig
nature; would sign none; and after
three years he got divorce for deser-
ton. In 20 he married again, and i