A young clubman, who prided himself upon his popularity, made a wager with a friend that he would marry a certain society girl. His wooing met with great success as far as the girl was concerned, but her father, a judge, did not look with favor upon the young man, so the latter induced the girl to elope. She wrote her husband-to-be, telling him to have a closed carriage at a certain corner near her home and she would fly with him. The clubman received the note and rejoiced. But he carelessly left the missive in his coat and his valet took the garment to the tailor to be pressed. The letter fell out and the tailor carelessly put it into the wrong coat, which, it later developed, belonged to a meek little man whose wife ruled him with a rod of iron. The husband had told his wife that he would be detained at the office that night, and when the woman read the letter she was convinced that he was false to her. So she kept the appointment indicated in the missive, and when the carriage rolled up to the curb she dived into the carriage before the astonished girl, who was also waiting, could interfere. The carriage drove rapidly off. In the darkness the woman did not notice that the man was not her husband, but a stranger. She was strong and used her umbrella with telling effect. When the police, summoned by the alarmed cabman arrived, the young man was a sorry looking object. Both eyes were blackened and his clothing was torn. The officers who brought the pair to court nursed sundry bruises, dented helmets where the woman’s umbrella had hit them, and numerous scratches where she had clawed them. The judge before whom the culprits were arraigned, was the girl’s father. He did not like the clubman and he pitied the henpecked husband, so the young clubman and the jealous wife each got fifteen days in the workhouse. The girl heard of the affair and promptly broke the engagement, while the henpecked husband read a “Declaration of Independence” of his own to his wife when she returned from her labor for the city, and henceforth his life was far more happy than before the time when she had to say, “Good Morning, Judge.”