Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-04


summer people were gone, when there were
no Japanese umbrellas aud nobody screamed
at the snais, when there was no washingtby
the dozen to he had, and only now and then
y letter from Miss Ritter-in November, Just
before Thanksgiving, when the weather had
turned cold aud the Wind blew from the
north.
Nothing is easier than to lud a reason for |
the unpleasant IN ourselves in causes outside |
of ourselves, and vet, IN spite OF this calm, |
proverhisl philosophy, II is probably true that |
Ii IL had not been for William y. salt IL |
would never have happened. At least Ellen
Jane said so, aud Will say So to her dying
dav. For from whatever cause-diVlne,
diabolc, or humsn-whether because vii.
liam y. Salt treated Henry, or because Henry
allowed William y. to treat him, or because
Heaven permitted or hell decreed-the truth
remains that Henry and Ellen Jane Salt, like
many another welded pair loving less than
they, like many another loving even more
than they, quarrelled but the worst
of II WAS that they qusrreled the night
that Henry set sail in the Atbey Il.
Salt, with William y. aud Peter and job
Ely aud the other iellows--ten in all-for the
Grand Banks OF Newfoundland.
William y. Salt had given him the whisky
for, rs | say, IL was turning cold, aud the
wind blew bitterly from the north, and the
men had worked till they were tretted
and chilled, getting their traps and travis
aboard. Now Henry was sober man,
for the most part, and meant to keep
so or his wife meant to keep him SO, which
is much the same thing and / should libel
him were l to say that he came home To
supper drunk. He was not drunk. strictly
speaking, he was not sober. In point OF
| fact, he was what may be charitably called
sensitive to liquor, owing to some passing
| familiarity lof the nervous system with its
| effects in early youth; and it took little
| enough to make it clear that he had better
| have taken none at all. As rule, Henry
| recognized this physiological tact. That
| Npyanipr NIGHT ha rpll and tlrpl and
| " down, " aud William ", who was sober
| sometimes, but so seldom that, 10y the law
! ot chances, that could hardly have been one
| of the times, was moved to treat at the wrong
| way aud il Henry had taken a little less
| or even a little more, and come home to his
wife drunk, it might not have happened,
we must admit, for he was jolly and silly
when he was drunk but he got only so
| far as the cross stage, and cross he WAS
1t need not be denied-to Ellen Jane.
What was it ali about? What is it ever
all about when two who love each other
dearer than any great thing ON earth, fall
sharp asunder because of some little one
too little to find The pity OF love Is that it is
| given to small creatures let us not forget
that itself il great.
Perhaps il was the door that slammed
perhaps it was the coffee that did not settle
| it may be that the baby cried, or the chOwdeT
| burned their tongues, or somebody upset the
| milk pitcher, or the lamp smoked, or the
| ironing fire was burning coal too fast or the
| DarDerrN sauce brought out 10 nOlOr the OC'
| casion) had not enough molaSSes in it. or the
| griddle-cakes did not come fast enough, OF
there was adraught somewhere-who could
| say Neither Ofthese married lovers, perhaps,
after it was ali over. Less than any one ot
! these almost invisible causes has broken
| hearts and homes before and will, world
| without end, till lovers learn the infinite pre-
ciousness Of love, and human speech is guard
ed like human chastity.
In short, then and there, on the night, on
the hour Of their separation, Henry and Ellet
Jane Salt " came TO words
She had been crying all day, poor woman
because he had to 60. She dreaded
November voyage intelligenuv and in
sanely. Rafe had cried too, but he hit
| in the parlor to do it The children wer
all sober except the baby and the othe
| baby. The house was iiluminated-ther
, were two Kerosene lamps and the lantern
All Henry's mendiLg was teGriulIy ant
eXquisitely done. There had been fresi
dOugnnuts fried, and a squash pie eek
, travsgantly made TO please him. EnIm
Eliza, at the instrument, played the "Swee
by-and-by." Her mother was dressed il
, her, best calco-a new one never at tn
; wash-tub, one of those chocolate pattern,
with strong minded flowers that womel
r fancy, Heaven and the designers know
, | why. Her hair was brushed and her col
lar fresh, and she had looked as pretty as
. | pink, poor thing, dashing away the tear
| when he came in-Teady for all the ittl
, | feminine arts that make men cheerful a
, ! the cost Oh Wouleh nerve anu courage
. Then it happened-whatever it was an,
the glow went out oi her lace as the gloon
: gathereu on ms, anu that sweet LOOK aDoh
her mouth setttea away, anu the shoulder
ing hre purheu up Slowly from a great depti
in her sunken, tired blue eyes; and with
breaking heart she blamed nun anC
win paroarous tongue ne aamlreC
her anu lhelr words ran a. hlgt
as thelr nerves were strained anC
because they ioNeo each other dearly every
harsh "oru they SAID scorcheu them iIk'
| IN cover mn the hIaza and ha,,ns. m pa,- ,,ar,