People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — A Sickening Sight. [ARTICLE]

A Sickening Sight.

I Tuesday afternoon a lean I’oman with disheveled hair and pnned cheek, driving a team of fcre- footed, skinny grays hitched to a two seated rig, attracted lur attention. With one bare land, she held the lines and with Ke other, a baby in long dresses, ■everal times she passed up and Mown Main street, seemingly Kr.no other purpose than to see fed be seen. At last she disappeared and we thought noth■g more of her until about night* ■hen we saw her on the road feme in company with a creaKre, some might call a man. ■lst as we were in the act of feiving past her rickety rig, she Kse up, with a cudgel in her fend and a cigar in her mouth, fed struck the man over the fead. Then fighting and swear- ■ e began, the woman holding fee baby with one hand and ■funding the man with the ■her. Soon the team stopped, feth got out, and in true prize fehting style they began pelting ■ch other’s frames; the woman Biding the baby with one hand fed vigorously plying the stick with the other. Just at this wage of the fight some teams feove up and shut out our view, Kt,the last we saw of them, the Kht was still on* the cigar was ■ the woman’s mouth, one hand Kid the “kid,” the other the fedgel, and from the applause, Be think the gathering crowd Bas betting two to one on the feman. KB ’ 9 • ■ ■ ■' ■Father Cotton is again seen on ■b streets.