Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1894 — A Domestic Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

A Domestic Tragedy.

Life. * There was sorrow in that little home. “I shall never forgive him! Neverl Never!” she cried. Then she threw herself upon a divan and wept bitterly. There was a ring at the doorbell. “Ah, my dear mother, it is you!” she exclaimed as a woman of commanding presence entered the room. “It is I,” was the answer. “Why do I find you weeping?” i “I have been cruelly'treated by the man whom I had trusted—the man whom we led —who led me to the altar.” “Has he struck you?” “Worse.” “Deserted you? Left you to face poverty alone?” “Worse. He—he asked me to mend his trousers." “And you?” “I refused. And now —oh, horrors!—l cannot toll it.” “Speak, me child, speak." “He has worn my bicycle bloomers down to his office.” /