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Show SHOT FIVE TIMES The following article, which caught our eye in one of our exchange papers, and which is written on a subject not new, is so chuck full of good common sense, without the usual usu-al amount of gush commonly penned on the subject, that we are taking the liberty of re-printing it for our readers: "Man shot five times by wife." These were the glaring headlines on the front page of one of the Seattle dailies Monday morning. The shooting shoot-ing was premeditated, the account recited. We are unfamiliar with all the intricacies of the events leading up to the shooting, but we'll venture the assertion that if after living with a man a dozen years or more, cooking his food and bearing his children,! the wife determined to end his life, I that she has slept in no bed of roses j during that time. Without a doubt he has shot her hundreds of times with his indifference, indiffer-ence, discourtesy and bullying. Perhaps Per-haps not with leaden bullets but with shafts that are more painful and while they are slower in their effects they are none the less deadly, as the bullets which she sent crashing into his body. When men will learn to live up to the same high standards which they demand of their wives, when they become less of the bully and more of the gentleman in their attitude to the one they have taken a solemn vow to love, honor and protect, when they are willing to give her as much tender care as they expect of her, there will be fewer dead husbands. A woman who was seeking a divorce di-vorce from her husband had her attention at-tention called by her husband's attorney at-torney to the fact that her husband bore an enviable reputation in the neighborhood. It was pointed out to her that neighbors had testified to his generosity in dealing with those with whom he had business interests. Further it was declared that his credit was A-l at the bank. To all this, the woman in question answered: "I am willing to grant all that his witnesses wit-nesses have said. John is a fine businessman. busi-nessman. He is ready to contribute to any call for the needy. He is good to everybody except his wife." Then she related a tale of indignities heaped heap-ed upon her during her martial life. She told how her loving advances had been rudely rebuffed. How he freely gave to a needy widow woman, but refused to furnish his wife with decent clothing and, she said she had borne all this until his children had reached their maturity, for their |