Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-02-10

Scarcely q day passes but the papers In
some part of the country record one or
more cases of men who have, in at Of
rage, induced by jealousy or intoxication,
taken the life Of the one they promised to
love and cherish. Fortunately in most
of H. ese cases the strong arm OF the law
Is brought TO bear on these iends, and
occasionally one or more pay the penalty
on the scaff1ld, while others are consigned
to living tomb within the walls OF q
Jail. This Is right and just, but there is
another class of wife murderers, that,
strange as 1t may appear, the law 10
powerless to reach. They exist In every
city, town, village and hamlet, and can
be found even on farms, where they are
surrounded with all the wealth that a
bounteous nature supplies with such .
lavish hand.
This class do not take an axe, club or
gun TO perform their murderous work,
neither do they resort TO deadly poison,
but in many instances they would be
more merciiul to their victims II they
| used either Of these agencies and ended
their sufierings at once. Instead OF that
| they use slower means, but which In most
cases prove equally as certain In accom-
plishing the end.
The man who goes home night after
night drunk, and squanders his earnings
In saloons instead of nsing them TO pro
vide the comforts and neccesaries OF lie
for his family, causing days and nights OF
weariness and suffering TO his heart
broken vile, until finally they do their
work, and she Is carried to the cemetery,
lis a ife-murderer.
The man who is able to work aud IL too
lindolent 10 do 1t, bat instead spends his
Itime lying around tine house In cold
weather, or summing himself on street
Icorners when it is fine, also belongs to
this class. He may not notice the pale,
wan face, the sunken eye or hacking
leough OF his patient, forbearing wife,
until 1t is too late, but none the less he Is
lhurrying her on to an untimely grave.
There are others, brutes they can justly
be called, who murder their wives by
degrees with blows and ill-treatment, and
some, who, while they consider them
selves model husbands, are, unconscious
TO themselves, just as surely numbering
their wives as those already named
These men work steadily themselves ant
exPect their wives to do the same. Thes'
Q meL work ten hours day, and must mol
lhave their rest disturbed At night by I
sick child or any other cause. The viii
= tolls half as long agaln In wrestling will
4 Iher manifold household duties, and fre
{ lquently spends great part Of the nigh
q awake with q sick child or cross infant
0 When evening comes the man Of th
IL house ats back with MS paper, or dresse
himself and goes out, but the wife re
a mains at home to care for the children
|. During the day she has prepared tire
b meals and cleared them away possibl
!, done the weeks washing, ironing o
= baking, and she 10 just as weary as th
= husband, but she has no time to rest, 10
J. the children must be got ready for bed
20 and there is mending or some other wor
,t that must be done, and she thinks sadl
q of the truth OF the old axiom that
u mans work lasts from sun TO sun, but
al woman's work is never done"
vi Thus days, weeks and years pass eac
+ day Is but the repetition Of that whic
Q preceded It; she seldom goes out; hi
q husband never asks her to go. She know
but little beyond her own home, an
Id finally, broken in health and spirit, fee
as ready TO welcome the King Of Terror
lgl Friends come to console the bereayt
Il, husband, and talk about the mysteriol
O. ways Of Providence, wnen 1t would
= much more appropriate and to the poi
al to talk about his mysterious neglect, al
I's how he had assisted her In working he
81, self TO death under his very eyes