Show too late on an atlantic city pier gazing sadly out over the blue water a vet eran of the civil war talked about the late general sickles A good man he said a brave man but a most theatrical one in the black tragedy of his youth he was kind to his wife but something marred something vitiated hla kind ness I 1 think it was and the poor young woman died two years after he took her hack once at an army reunion I 1 heard sickles rebuke a man who was run nang down wives and marriages sickles bald with a queer smile a significant smile perhaps ah jim the trouble with the average married man Is that he doean doesn t know what a jewel his wife Is till he comes to put her in a casket |