The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-12
"LOng Parted Met Again."


In sweetness and in tenderness, -ah, then
might be deemed a poet.
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''Long Parted Met Again.
THE GREETING OF A SEVERED HUSBAND AND
Night before last, Friday, the up-train
on the Missouri Pacific railroad stopped
long enough at the depot here for the fol-
lowing scene to be enacted and witnessed ::
1t was about IL o'clock when the cars ar
rived ; the sleeping car was crowded and
its occupants were dreaming, the ladies'
car next to it had no seat unoceuPied and
yet a lady got aboard here who must find
room somewhere to seat herself and rest
little. She entered this car from its lower
end and had walked probably half up the
aisle without being invited to place, when
a middle-aged gentleman, who had been
lying upon a seat to himself, suddenly
arose and politely offered to share it with
the lady. AS politely accepting it, she sat
down beside him. She had seen, from her
face, many years that had been sorrowful,
for in passing they had taken their sun
shine with them and left only the shodows
behind. 1t was such face as one has
when the heart is conscious of great mis-
take when, in looking back over the past,
the eyes catch the CLEAN of no streams
running upward to ones youth, where
flowers grow and the sunshine fingers as
the dew upon summers hill. As the
eyes of the lady became accustomed more
the features of the man beside her. she
became violently agitatcd, and exclaimed
in painfully acute tone, rs if suffering
some mortal agony:
''You here my God, after so long
The man was no less agitated on his part,
and his lips worked nervously as he replied
to her:
eyes, we meet again, but under what
circumstances You on your way to meet
your husband. l to meet my wife. All !!
Ellen, Ellen, it would have been better for
both of us if we had never seen each other
again, since that cruel day when you left
me-
"And, George, did l not have reason
"a reason which no woman could have
and live with you? But let the dead past
remain buried. 1t is not good to touch it
now
How much longer they sat together and
what was said between the two through
the dim watches of last Friday night, we
know not, but here is the previous history
of that middle-aged couple who met under
the shadow of great sorrow at the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad depot in Kansas City:
George A, young man, fifteen
years age lived in the town of Harrodsburs,
Ky. There he met, loved and married
| a young woman named Ellen Harrison. 1t
was a love match, people said, and predict
ed for the future much JOY and happiness
the husband being so generous and the
wife so amiable. For ears-probably three
the days that passed ever them and left
their heads older, stillisd not one passion
ate impulse in their hearts-laid not one
iconoelastic hand upon the alter of demes-
tic bliss. A child came to bless them, as a
flower comes to make the spring glad, grew
sick, died and went to heaven. By and by
the husband became careless, cold and in
different. He drank mere than he had ever
done before. and sought at criminal places
for smiles which before his wife had given
him, and for comforts which before his
home had been adequate to furnish. His
wife's relations interfered, too, to widen
the breach which might have been repair
ed and one day, in drunken frolic, he
went travelling with a woman who was not
| his wife A divorce followed. The peni-
tent husband, realizing at last the nature
of the fall before him, came back to his
first love with great bound, and felt LEAP
into flame from the ashes of his memory
all the passion of his wooing days and all
the triumphs of his conquest Too late
| The burden Of her replies might have
borne that reseluts regret, i'll which there
shone not one ray of pity:
eve stand on either side the sea,
Stretch hands, blow kisses, laugh and lean,
| toward you, you toward me;
But what hears either save the keen
Gray sea between? -
They were separated for all time. In af
ter years they were both married again
and lived, the husband in Platte county,
Missouri, and the wife in Sioux City, Iowa
The meeting of Friday night was the first
since their separation, nearly II years ago
and it will be the last, probably, this side
that shadowy land where tho waves of the
river of death break upon an unknown
shore.-Rdnsas City Times.
DOMESTIC LIFE.-The banes of domestic
life are littleness, falsity, vulgarity, harsh
ness, scolding, veciferation, an incessan
issuing of supertluous prohibitions and or
ders, which are regarded as impertinent in
references with the general liberty and re
pose, and are provocative of ranking o.
exploding resentments. The blessed anti
detes that sweeten and enrich domestic lift
are reiinements, high aims, great interests
soft voices, quiet and gentle manners, mag
unanimous tempers, forbearance from al
unnecessary commands or dictation, ans
generous allowances of mutual freedom
Love makes obedience lighter than liberty
Man wears a noble allesiance-not as ;
collar, but as garland. The graces ar
Z never SO lovely as when seen waiting OIL
the Virtues aud where they thus dMel
together they make a heavenly home
ALGER's " Friendships of Wonsen."