South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-01-06
THEINTKLLIGENcEF
FRIDAY. JANUARY S. 1898.
sUsr sropFoRD's INVESTMENT,

the autumn morning revealed eve
ry crack in the discolored ceiling,
every flaw in the uneven board floor,
and Mrs Kisbes looked around with
a bewildered air Is she came In to
get the breakfast.
Come, mother, make haste 7
shouted old Kisbee. sI've got to
get out to the wood lots bright and
Ecarly this MOI ming Z
Eyes, / know, father The old
woman still stared around her. Il
can't think what makes the room
look so queer. ooh, know
Father, you've torn those morning
glory vines away from the window
'Of course, haye,' said he. 'Dri-
ed mp old truck, keeping out the
light and air. What use were
they p
'But there was lots O. flowers and
buds on 'em yet, father. And in
that sheltered spot the frost would
not hev touched for q week ia
como
'Mornin' glories don't amount tc
nothln', snarlsd Kisbee. Besides,
I'm goin to hev q load dumped
there to-day. Is>s q handy plac,
for the wood-pile,'
Father 7
'Pm-goin'- to -hev-a-load
% = dumped-here-to.
day. Don't l speak loud enough ?
Bat father, you always said you
was goin' to build 9 kitchen out
there
Il never said nothin' of the sort!
! Il want a Kitchen pleaded the
poor old woman.
That's horse OF another color,
sneered the old man.
sAnd when We were frat married
you promised me-
Il dare cay ! promised q good ma
ty foolish things then. There
some promises better broken than
kept phiiosoph.cally observed
Luke.
and this old rooms damp, ant
che walls has settled, and the cell
ing has felI-and l was calculatin'
to heV it fixed up and put my bee
here. when the new kitchen was
blilt. 1t always makes me feel SC
dreadful cheap when the sewing 80
ciety meets here, to hev our beds .
standing in the psrlor, no matter
how handsome the patchwork IL =
Luke wiped his banda on the
towel.
well, you've stood it thirty
years. he said, an l guess you car
stand it little while longer
DO you mean that l amt to hey
the new kitchen after all p
That's exactly what / do mean
Mira. Kis5ee said no more, bu;
the slow, bitter tears of old age
trickled down her checks as she
lighted the fire, brought a pail Of
drinking water from the spring and
began to fry the ham aad eggs in
little skillet.
Il must have been awful wicked,
thought the poor old woman, fol
I've most made an idol o that new
kitchen, an thought 80 much abou
the best room with no bed In it
An now I'm punished
Her son George came over that
afternoon from FErlsy's mills,
where he was foreman Ia q great
shirt factory.
Mother !! said he, Eve got some
thing to tell you. Inn engaged to
marry Susy Stopford. Why, moth
err. what's the matter ? / thought
you d be 30 pleased Y
Its jest like all the rest O the
luck = sobbed poor old Mrs. Kis-
bee. Faith RS been am tore down
all my mornin' glory vines, an
amt to have any new kitchen after
all these years, an now my only
son has got engaged to one of the
Shepherds that yasn't never friends
with our folks an
But mother, 'lAughingly pleaded
George, these are not the days Of
Montague and Cspulet feuds.
Il don't know what you are talk
IN about said Mrs. Kisbes, who
was not . student Of the immortal
Shakespeare, but always despised
them Shepherds. An Susan she's
q story writer, I'm told, az she goes
about with her fingers all inky, and
don't help none 1t eli With the
homework
But mother, she hires a girl to
assist her aunt with the money she
earns She's the best and sweetest
girl in the world. WheR may
bring her TO see your
Il don't want to see her ct all,
said the old woman, querulously.
And then she broke down again,
crying.
George went away much perturb-
ed in spirit lie had never seen
bis mother 90 heart-broken before.
u don't know what she'll say
thought be, when she hears tbs
fathers made up his mind to sell
the old place. It's too bad Of him.
But father never treated mother
half decent
Susy Stopford was at The window
when young Kjsbee came back.
She ran out TO meet him, her bright
hair blowing in the wind, her red
lips apart.
Wen, Gsorge'' she cried.
4 don't know what to say to yop,
SpsyS be began. 1Mother isn't