Show KC HC MAD HAD A MANIA anti wife a i stop slop should E rv put to lo it A policeman on west AI adlaon street was accosted day by a pale sad i oman loman whose oye eyes wes re full of tins unshed lied tears 1 I wish abe sail saal that you would go to the second floor of that building ovi over r abr abere and arret arrest a big bie redheaded maniac you will find chete alio 13 I 1 he find and what hat ims has he been dome lugay lie is my husband doing what he be been doing you yoa know that times are hard bard I 1 reckon well harder in our house bouse than anywhere else in tho the state of illinois tho the whole faun tn milya ilys down witti willi diphtheria except the old man and me the old man mail has bas a mania for collecting swords and othil r weapons that was all right when when we had money in the house and no sickles sickness t but now hes bets out of work and its going to ruin us the other day I 1 gave him 2 to go to the drug store anti and buy medicine and became be came home with an old claymore about three feet fc ct long that he suid lochiel was carrying when the wizard appeared to him ho he bring the medicine no he I 1 lectured him and gave him t 81 2 more to go on the same game errand and in three hours ho he ear came back carrying a persian scimitar miter that you might have sliced oft the head of a rhinoceros with ue he said it was the same scimitar miter that Alusta mustapha pha used to carry the next day I 1 iet him hii e the money to go up town to pay tho the rent I 1 see him again until night but in ill the middle of the afternoon a dray bucked backed I 1 up to the curb aud and unloaded a c ord cord of zulu assegais asse gais and a bushel bashel of italian stilettos tos you are very unfortunate madam unfortunate not the word next nest time that I 1 had bad to lia have ve lAe medicine dicine 1 I went after it myself but i hile h ile I 1 was away my husband took away the cook stove on oil a wheelbarrow and traded it for the knife that charlotte corday used to carve marat Iila rat lie ho is now anxious to get act hold of the pillow with which tho the princes were smothered mothered in the tower of london i nd ad it if you over and run liim him in lie he will be carting away the bedclothes and the family bible 1 I am sorry to say eay said the policeman shedding a real tear that I 1 have not the auth wity to arrest him if you could get him to a attack you with the scimitar miler miter or I 1 oot poisoned arrows into the furniture I 1 would consider r it a pleasure to lock him up chicago Tri tribune buLe |