Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — A Wise Compromise. [ARTICLE]

A Wise Compromise.

Anthony Koch was so imprudent as to marry a second wife before death or divorce had parted him and the first one. The latter resented this. She came to Chicago and had her bigamous spouse Indicted. The case against him Is so clear that it is pressed he will go to the’penitentiary, where, according to the theory of the law, all bigamists should go. But,-althougn he Is not a rich man—and it is often that such men alone can slip through the meshes of

The second wife, who is in an unpleasant predicament, will have somebody to take care of her after a fashion. The husband, provided he can be contented with one wife and will provide for her, will be a more useful member of society than he would be if set to work at Joliet. The recent Italian census record* the fact that there are 392 persons In Italy over a hundred * years old; among them are sixteen monks and nuns.