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 THE GREEN BAG valuables as could not be burnt left and abandoned the bed and board of defendant. But after several months' absence she returned to defendant's home, apparently repentant, and he again gave her food and shelter, and all was condoned. Defendant states that on election day of November, 1902, plaintiff again mounted the camel of Lust and took her Hegira from his bed and board without fault on his part. He states that he is a merchant, and that she took the goods out of his store to the amount of $10.00 to $15.00 per week and sent them to her children, and sent his money to her son Wra. Clymer, who is a convict in the state penitentiary at Frankfort; these are her children, but not the children of defendant. Defendant makes this answer a counter claim against plaintiff, and says that plain tiff is a migratory, lascivious bird, and when the baleful fires of illicit love begin to burn fiercely on the altar of lust she flies away to some soft Persian gulf or Italian sea, and after being laved and cooled in its Ionian waves then returns to the reedy margin of some northern lake, and for a time leads a purer, chaster life. Defendant charges that plain tiff has on divers occasions, both in former separations, not so well known then as now, and therefore condoned, and before and since the last separation, committed adultery, has soiled his snowy sheets, dishonored his name as husband by the commission of acts violat ing the sacred vows at the marriage altar taken, and has forfeited all claim to the sacred name of wife, or to maintenance pendente lite, alimony, dower, or to any of defendant's estate. He says that she has piled honor, virtue, good name and fair fame in one grand heap, and set fire to, and burned them into ashes on the smoking altar of lust, and from those Dead Sea ashes Virtue can never rise, Phcenix-like, to live again. Defendant states that he is now in advanced years, and the lengthening shadows are now stretching far toward the East, and life's declining sun is almost ready to pillow his weary head upon the broad bosom of the West to rise no more. Wherefore he prays that the petition of plaintiff be dismissed, and that he be granted a divorce a vinculo matrimonii from plaintiff,

and that he be restored to all the rights and immunities of an unmarried man. F. F. Bobbitt, for Defendant. LINCOLN CIRCUIT COURT. Ida Savior, Plaintiff, v. (Petition in Equity) Granville Savior, Defendant. The plaintiff Ida Saylor states that she and the defendant Granville Saylor were married on the first day of August, 1904; that before they had been married six months she discovered that she had made a great mistake in com mitting her happiness upon the ship of matri mony to such a pilot and captain, who had not the nautical skill to navigate such waters, and soon lost his bearings, and wrecked plaintiff's happiness upon the coast of desola tion. She states that she is quite young, and endowed by nature with an attractive face and the form of. Hebe; and the defendant, being much plaintiff's senior, was soon afflicted with the Shakespearean green-eyed monster, became insanely jealous of her, and though he offered, her no personal violence, yet by his cruel tongue has lacerated her heart and wounded her feelings beyond endurance. She states that for more than six months he has behaved toward her with insane jealousy day and night, which has so increased as to make it dangerous for her to live with him longer. She states that she has left him, and now resides separate and apart from him, never to return again. She says that it would be cruel to ostracize her from society and the possible happiness she might find with a more congenial mate, after time, the great anodyne, shall have cicatrized the ghastly wounds in flicted by defendant. By way of a kind of second paragraph of rehearsal of defendant's cruel treatment she further says that he selected a gloomy pass in the adjacent hills known as Wolf Pass, and erected a rude cabin there and took this plaintiff to this isolated spot, where in the dead •waste and middle of the night she is serenaded by the dismal hooting of the horned owl, and ever and anon the fierce scream of the wild cat and the barking of the fox, which digs her den in the hills unscared. Wherefore she prays for a judgment to release her. F. F. Bobbitt. Attorney for Plaintiff.