WIFE'S SACRIFICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 October 1907, Page 4

WIFE'S SACRIFICE.

SEEKING DIVORCE FOR HEK HUBBAND'B HAPPKESS.

«■ New York, September 3. The first step in a striking matrimonial arrangement between Air. Ferdinand Pimejr Earle, a wealthy American artist, and his wife will be taken to-morrow.

, Sir. Earle has fallen in love with another woman, and in order that he may marry her lira. Earle has agreed to en.deawr to obtain a divorce, lire. Earle is & i'eiiehwpman, and was married in .1897, then being one son of the mar-

nag* , She will sail from here to-morrow for Traiee in the steamship Ryndam with Aer ton, and both her husband and the ,woau he withes to marry will bid the ..voyagers farewell. The arrangement is an entirely amicable one. llr. Earte says that for many months now he has been intensely un--happy, but owing to his dnty to his son ie has tried to overcome his feelings. • - Hit lmnappiness began on a voyage to France last spring, which he undertook ■for the purpose of attending the funeral .of his brother. On the steamboat be met the woman he believes was ordained to bs his wife. He has explained the situation to his wife's father, who has agreed to receive his daughter and to assist her in obtaining the divorce. THE SEQUEL. . HUSBAND TBBEATENED WITH TAB AND FEATHERS. New York, September 5. The matrimonial arrangement made by Mr. Ferdinand Earle, the well-known Socialist artist, and his wife, whereby the latter promised to obtain a divorce in her native country, France, in order that Hr. Earle may marry another woman, has aroused intense indignation among the artist's rftighbors at the village of Monroe, where he possesses a sumptuous home. llr. Earle, after bidding farewell to his wife and son, who sailed for Europe yesterday, returned to his home alone, and was met at the station by the entire .Tillage. He was vigorously hissed as he left the train, and violence was threatened. Mr. Earle is a man who has the courage of his convictions, and he stood his ground on the station platform, defying his neighbors and protesting that he had done right Then he entered a carriage, and was •boot to drive away when it was overturned by the villagers, Mr. Earle being thrown m a mud puddle. He quickly picked himself up and tried to fight the crowd* with a horsewhip. Somebody wrenched his weapon from him, however, and struck him on the about Eventually he was rescued by the police Sad escorted to his home, a jeering, booting crowd following him. Demonstrations have been constantly in progress outside his house ever since, and the villagers have threatened to tar end feather the artist should they catch bun outside his house.