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Show 156 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. tranged, and the children were receiving but little parental care. The husband sat at one side of the Court room and the wife at the other, but both close to the Judge. From the evidence it appeared that the only cause for this estrangement was dyspepsia on the part of the husband, and this dyspepsia had been occasioned by the wife persistently making salt-rising bread. These parties had lived together for nearly a quarter of a century, had accumulated considerable property, and were respected in the community where they resided. The case was regarded as sensational on account of the character of the parties, and the court house was densely packed with people anxious to witness the progress of the trial, and to hear the result. After the evidence was all in Judge Belford, leaning back in his chair, devoted himself to a few moments thought, and turning to the parties said there was no provision in the statute which especially related to " salt-rising bread," but he fully recognized the fact that there was an intimate relation between the stomach and the brain, and when the former became diseased and disturbed the latter would become irregular and ungovernable; that a dyspeptic man or woman could not treat their best friends with common courtesy. He said further, that there used to be a law in Switzerland, when a divorce was applied for, both parties were locked up together in a cell of the prison, compelled to wash out of the same basin, eat from the same plate, and sleep in the same bed, and it was generally found at the end of thirty days, that neither of them desired to be separated from the other. He said these parties had journeyed together for twenty-five years, |