THE EFFECT OF MARRYING AN EDITOR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1001, 24 June 1881, Page 3

THE EFFECT OF MARRYING AN EDITOR.

A traveller in tho State of Illinois came to a hut on tho prairie, near Cairo, and there halted. He went into tho house. It was a wretched affair, with an empty box for a table, while two nr three old chairs and disabled stools disgraced the receptionroom, the dork walls of which were further ornamented by dirty tinware and a broken shelf-article or two. Tho woman was crying in one corner, and tho man, with tears in his eyes and a pipe in his mouth, sat on a stool, with his dirty arms resting on his knees, and his sorrowful-looking head supported by tho palms of his hands. Not a word greeted the interloper. “ Well,” he said, “you seem to be in awful trouble here j what’s up?” “ Ah, we are almost crazed, neighbour,” said the woman; “and we ain’t got no patience to see folks now.”

“That’s all right,” said the visitor, not much taken back by this polite rebuff; ‘ ‘ but can I bo of any service to you in all this trouble ?”

“ Well, we’vo lost our gal : our Sal’s pone off and loft us,” said the man, in tones of despair. “Ah! d’ye know what has induced her to leave you?” remarked tho new arrival.

“ Well, wo can’t say, stranger, as how she’s so far lost as to be induced, but then she’s gone and disgusted us,” remarked the afflicted father.

“Yes, neighbour, and—not, as I should say it as is her mother-but there wasn’t a pootier gal in (he West than our Sal. She’s gone and brought ruin on us and on her own head, now 1” followed the stricken mother.

“ Who has she gone off with?” inquired the visitor.

“ Well, there’s the trouble. The gal could have done'well, and might have married Martin Kehoe, a capital shoemaker, who, although, he has got but one eye, plays on the flute in a lively manner, and earns a good living ! Then, look, she was surrounded by all the luxury in the country !” said tho father.

“Yes, who knows what poor Sal will have to eat, drink, or wear now ?” groaned the old woman.

“ And who is the fellow that has taken her into such misery ?’’ “ Why, she’s gone off and got married to ft critter called an editor, as lives in ihe village. and the Lord only knows how he aims a living !”