Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1899 — HIS WIPE COULDN’T COOK. [ARTICLE]

HIS WIPE COULDN’T COOK.

So he decided to apply for a divorce, for he considered he had good grounds therefor. But the Judge, after hearing his complaint, scratched the bald place on the top of bis head, looked over bihpecs at the poor fellow, shifted Jre quid of tobacco to the other side of his mouth, and said: “You don’t need no divorce. You go borne and ask your wife to forgive you. On the way home stop at A. F, Longs and buy a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Symp Pepsin, take it according to directions, and if you can’t eat anything k* lessthan a week from biled cabbage opr come up t ome, and I will give von a divorce and alimony both.”