The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-26


 commoner in Airedale, and the presump- tive heir of Towton baronetcy. Aske was deeply enamored of her beauty, but by no means the man to be it's slave. Many things rivaled Ada in his heart, even in the earliest days of her married life; his estate, his hunters, county mat ters, and politics.
 He was an Englishman of the old order, and had no very exalted ideas of women, except as the mistress of house. holds, and the mothers of children. Ada's efforts to establish female auto cracy in Aske hall seen came to disastrous failure. Atfrst George "Pooh poohedw her orders and tried to laugh away her betting and tears. But he was not the man to put himself out of the way for an unreasonable woman, and even this concession was soon given up.
 In three months it had come to sim pie announcement of his intentions, and perfect indifference as to how she ac- cepted them. Thus he would say:
 Ada, am going to meet the Towton hounds in the morning; you had better go with me-a gallop will do you good"
 But if Ada met the request with a negative of any kind, he accepted it without demur; and if this produced tears or complaints, he generally began to whistle and left the room. This "rudeness" brought on passionate at tacks of hysteria, and George went to the hunt and sent the family physician to watch her through them.
 Very soon poor Stephen had double burden of household trouble te bear. Ada began to bring her wrongs and hu- miliations home, and Mrs. Thirske warmly espoused her cause. A com plaining daughter and 8 weeping wife were enough to make the most splendid house miserable, and they were but the elements out of which far greater troubles were to come.
 In the meantime Antony's affairs were equally unsatisfactory. Mrs. Thirske bad spoken to Stephen about Mary Hut ton, and for the first time in her mar ried life admitted a failure. Antony would not believe that she had done her best, and he forgot in this one denial the ninety and nine unreasonable favors she had before procured him.
 Stephens opposition to Miss Hutton was sulky and positive. He dare not, in the first place, disobey his wife's or ders to forbid the match. In the second, he was angry at the authors of this new | element of discomfort in his home. In the third, he was not prepared financially to support another household. Adds settlement had been drain on his busi- ness; he had other losses, and another wedding and house-furnishing, with the Increased allowance necessary to main- tain it, was really beyond his present jmeans.
 He was quite sensible of this last req son, but he did not wart to admit it even to his wife and son, 30 he sullenly and authoritatively forbid Antony to marry any one at present; and for some months there was 8 growing feeling of anger between father and son. Then one day, after stormy interview, Antony left his home without word of farewell, and Stephen, too proud and angry to seek after him, had to bear, in addition to his own sorrow and disappointment, the mothers fretful reproaches and anxiety.
 The very day on which Antony left his home Ada returned to it. There had been between her and George Aske a wearisome succession of fierce disputes, and at length, in a moment of intense passion, George had struck his wife. Mrs. Thirske was dumb before two such sorrows, and was really i'll, and Stephen was dangerously angry.
 Aske suffered three days to pass and then sent for Ada. Ada refused to re- turn, and Mrs. Thirske supported her in the refusal. In week Aske's messages became go insolent that Stephen was compelled to reply to them, and the poor father, against his sense of what was best for his child and himself, was forced into supporting the refractory wife. Intoler- able words passed between the husband and father, and when they next met they instantly gave each other the Yorkshire mans warning-a word and blow, and the blow first.
 After that it was open enmity, and Stephen was well aware that he was ill., armed to fight so rich and so bitter an enemy. Aske'srevenge was a subtle one. He began within week to build on .he same stream as Stephens much larger mill. Stephen winced at the coming competition, but had not at first any idea of Aske's real motive. When the mill was finished he "loched" the stream and thus, as his mill stood higher up than Stephens, deprived him of the water whenever he felt disposed to io SO.
 "He had no right to do this" Of course he had not. He knew that very we'll, and quite anticipated the lawsuit | which would follow. But in the mean.