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A New One On Maud We've heard of Maud on a hot summer day, who raked bare-footed the new mown hay; we've read of the maid in the early morn who milked the cow with the crumpled horn; and we've read the lays that the poets sing, of the rustling corn and flow ers of spring; but of all the lays of tongue or pen, there's naught like the lay of the Texas hen. Long before Maud raked the hay, the Texas hen began to lay, and ere the milk maid stirs a peg the hen is up and laid an egg. The corn must rustle and the flowers of spring, if they hold their own with the barnyard ring. If Maud is needing a hat or gown, she doesn't hustle her hay to town; she goes to the store and obtains her suit, with a basket full of new hen fruit. If the milkmaid’s beau makes a Sunday call, she doesn’t feed him milk at all, but works up eggs in a custard pie, and stuffs him full of chicken pie; and when the old man wants a horn, does he take the druggist a load of corn? Not much, he simply robs the nest and to town he goes—you know the rest. He lingers there and talks perchance, while his poor wife stays at home and scowls, but is saved from want by those selfsame fowls, for while her husband lingers there she watches the cackling hens with care, and she gathers the eggs, and these she'll hide till she saves enough to stem the tide. Then hail, all hail, to the Texas hen, the greatest blessing to men. Throw up your hat and make Rome how! for ‘the peresvering barnyard fowl, Corn may be King, but it’s’ plainly seen that the Texas hen is the Texas Queen— Exchange, ‘tion of the ante-nuptial agreement which Lemp signed in the presence of Bishop John J. Kain of the Roman Catholic church in 1899. The docu ment agreed that all the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Lemp should be bap tized and educated in the Catholic faith. The first witness was Miss Mollie Dodds who formerly lived in St. Louis but now lives in New York. She tes tified that Peary Ritchey never lived at her house. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14.~—Mrs. W. J. Lemp will not receive a gross sum in alimony, even if she is granted a di vorce from W. J. Lemp, Jr. Judge Hitchcock made this announcement to her attorneys who were seeking an order from the court that the books of the brewing company be brought in to determine the exact amount of Mr. Lemp's fortune. Judge Hitchcock did not intimate how he would decide the case. The case on behalf of Mrs. Lemp was closed by a deposition from the secretary of the brewing company, giving an estimate of the value of Mr. Lemp’s holdings, and by the introduc t I have known Mr. Lemp for sixteen or seventeen years,” she said, “and he positively never was in my house after his marriage.” Testimony contradictory of other witnesses for the plaintiff concerning Lemp’s alleged midnight visits was given and then the cross-complainant ‘was called. In an even, dispassionate manner Mr. Lemp flatly contradicted the tes timony of his wife regarding the sign ing of the second ante-nuptial agree ment, and he also denied that he had struck her, knocked her down stairs or otherwise abused her. Lemp asserted his wife read the document which she said she signed while ignorant of its contents and he denied he had covered up the docu ment so she could not read the terms of the agreement. He declares posi tively he did not present to her any paper which would give her free hand in training the children religiously after they were seven years old, and said no such agreement had ever been discussed by them. He denied he had told his son there was no God or had spoken to him of the Roman Catholic jar of religion in general. An allegation which Lemp admitted was that he had engaged a detective to watch his wife, but he said he had done this only after the discovery of the “dear little pal” letter which Mrs. Lemp acknowledged writing, after ex plaining that it was merely a decoy for her husband.
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Abilene Daily Reporter
Abilene, Texas, US
Mon, Feb 15, 1909
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