The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-19

for. Bntsh discharged the girl within
q week, and tried TO make good bread. II
was not a success, however, and the oil
man was not slow to express his lissatls
faction. Edith left the table In tears.
Another dribbler-'Liz'beth was al.
ways q Cryn' just that way oyer every lii
tic thing" sighed tho old man.
Edith eventually conquered the difficult
ties Of bread making, and became a To-
nous cook. But she she did not please
her husbands father any tho better by
this achievement.
YOU'RE always q ilxin up some new
sort Of trash for tho table," he said to hei
one day. dessert Is 1t, you cnll it2 'Nul
TO mako n mans patience desert him, to
SEQ sugar and flour wasted 30. '1iz'beth
liked your fancy cooking, but l cured her
Oft"
"Ycs. aad you killed her, too" cried
Edith, for tho first timo since her mar
riago losing control OF her temper, and IN.
swering back. Everybody says you wor.
ried hor Into the grave. But you won't
SUCCEED sc well with mo. ! will llvc Just
10 defy you, II no moro. And I'll show
you that III not bear everything, too"
II WIS oil over In q momGni, and 1t wAs
not repeated. Indeed, Edith was kinder
IND gentler and moro submissive in her
manner after that for days, as sweet ma.
lures always are when they have once
broken over the rules which govern their
lives.
Yet tho old man always spoke Of Edith
as n yirago after that.
"She's worse'n 'Liz'b0th, he said, "and
sho had a temper OF her own at times that
would just sings things"
Bon passed most OF his evenings and a
good part OF his days at tho village
'.store.h He camo homo tho worse for
drink occasionally, and he was absolutely
indifferent to all tho work and care Of the
farm and family.
"she's just like 'Liz'bcth," tho old man
said 10 his neighbors; "sho don't make
homo cntertainin' for her husband. But
Ben isn't balanced like mo, and he goes
wrong. Hos excitablc. | never was.
II she was tho right kind Of o woman she
could keep him ut home"
Aftera child came TO tlemmatters began
to mend for a time. So long as tho intant
lay pink and helpless in It's mothers arms,
or in its Glib, it WIS a bond to unite
them all.
So loon az 1t began to be an active child,
with naughty ways which needed corrcc-
ton, 1t was another element Of discord.
Tho old man did not think Edith capa.
bic OF controlling tho child. and Zen was
hasty and harsh, and no did not like to
hear tho baby cry. So he stayed more and
more ut tho store, and WAS an object Of
fear 10 the child and rcproach to tho
mother when he did return.
They drifted farther apart, and tho old
man constantly widened the breach DO.
tween them. They had been married six
years, and tho baby girl was four years
old, when Ben struck Edith a blow, ono
day, and told her to take her child and
leave the house.
In less than IN hours she had gone, and
no one knew whittier.
Shell come back, more's the pity" tho
old man said. "Liz'beth, she started or
to leave mo once, but sle concluded to
colno back and try it wei again."
But Edith did not como back. Months
they heard of her in a distant
part of the State teaching school and sup.
her child.
Ben applied for a divorce on a plea OF
lesertion. Edith never appeared against
him, and he obtained it.
ITO be Concluded To-morrow.1