The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-26

sUnned an Awful Addiction Out of
( Revenge, and Kept Up the Illusion
10 the End.
From the Detroit Free Press.
When Allan Davis married Luella Clark
persons who were not consulted in the
matter-as very few were-wondered
what he saw in that girl TO fall in love
with; not her beauty, certainly, since she
had none; nor her intellectual graces,
which were few and far between; nor her
amiable character. for she had a sharp
tongue-and they left the matter as one
beyond their comprehension. But if any
of them had asked Allan himself he could
not have told them. 1t was enough for
him that love goes where it is sent, and
that he did love Luella with his who
true heart no one knew better than he.
So they were married, and / wish 1
could add the dear old story-book for
mula, lived happy forever after;' but
| this is true story and not a romance, it
must follow out the beaten track of real
life even to the bitter end.
Allen knew when he married his wire
that she had a complaining tongue He
had heard her talk to her old father. and
not even his great love for her could
make her singing words spoken with
! than discourteous and uuhlial And when
| the meek old man bent his head to the
| word that was more cruel than a blow.
he-Allan-blamed himself for submitting
so tamely to woman's invective, promis-
| ing TO himself different state of affairs
! When ne should have the right to object.
For a brief time Allan was as happy as
any of us are permitted TO be in this transit
! tory life, and Luella, pleased with her new
| estate, and her handsome, loyal husband,
/ was like a creature of a different nature
and the old father. having passed peace
fully away left an interim of suspended
| hosullty, IN which Allan established a
| kingdom of happiness, which he imagined
| to be on firm foundation. He was never
| more mistaken
For the ruler of this kingdom was the
! queen of discontent. Allan had never been
| nagged, but Luela was perpetually nag
! sing. Having found the vulnerable point
| IN his armor of peace, she thrust the jave-
! Inns Of anger in, with the slightest pretext
| and smiled to see him vince. II gave evil
! dence of her power. The old father had es-
! capped; but her husband was hers he must
| stay and hear.
l know this is not pleasant story. and
| readers need go no further unless they are
| interested i'm curious psychological fact
| / myself am believer in heredity. / am
| sure that somewhere in the past this wo-
| man had an ancestor with a sharp tongue
| which she had never tried to bride If
! there is sympathy for the man who inher-
| its consuming thirst for drink. why not
| for woman who has had bequeathed to
| her bad temper, which she took with her
| hair ana eyes?
Luella had everything to make her hap
| Ply, from the standpoint of any reasonable
| being, but she never ceased complaining
| and al last the good nature and fortitude
of her husband deserted him, and he turn
| ed, not as the worm turns, but rather like
| a raging lion, and Luella held her peace
| in sheer establishment.
Il wish you were dumb he said, in a.
! voice of concentrated wrath and scorn
Il wish might never hear the sound of
| your voice again.
Like all evenly balanced natures. when
fG1r sio he
| far; but there was this in eXtenuation-
his words came from the lips and not
from the heart; they sounded far worse
| than they intended, and they recoiled on
| himself, even before he had seized his hat
| to leave the house. He turned to see
| their effect on Lmella and found to his
| horror, that she had tainted.
| Then he called himself a brute. sent for
| friends and DOCTOR and hung over his
wife PROSTATE with grief and remorse, un-
I'll she opened her eyes and recognized
| him.
He begged her forgiveness, but to all his
| entreaties she only shook her head feebIv
| until at last, when he pleaded for one
| word, she made motion which indicated
| wish to write, and, with horrible fear
| taking possession of him, he gave her
paper and pencil, and this is what she
wrote:
'You have your wish You will never
| hear my noise again. 1 am stricken
! dumb"
1t was noised about in the community.
and people talked-old people especially
! of what they called IA visitation of God -
The doctors had another name for il
| They called 1t acute paralysis. and said
| 1t was reflex, and would pass off presently
! but they were wrong in their prognosti-
! cations. Luelia went about her work
| again, the light household duties which de-
| NOlVed upon her. but no word came from
! her mute lips. Allan who was beside
| himself with grief and disappointment
/ urged her to learn the labial language
! indeed, offered to forego speech for her
| sake and learn the lessons Of silence with
! her, but she would not listen to the sllc-
geshon. And then began the martyrdom
of Allan Davis.
! Luella. could hear perfectly. so that her
] husband and friends were not constrained
! in their speech, but any word she had to
! say, any message or answer in their con-
versation coming from her, must be writ
! ten. She was always provided with the
| means OF communication, and writing ia
| blets of the daintiest sort were scattered
around the house like some new bric-a-
| brac of speech
The devotion of Allan Davis to his af-
! ficted wife was something marvellous He
| never Wearied of lover-like attentions
/ and he never demanded the slightest rec.
9g2nltlo2n o. tnem' he spent every hour of
/ MS existence not employed in his business
! in deVising pleasures for Luella and on
! those unfortunate days when a dumb de-
/ vii of ill nature asserted itself he met her
! mute reproaches with a establishment
that was neither unmanly nor servile b1It
/ Christ-like. His bonny brown locks turned
| gray, his laughing, boyish face took on the
shadows of early age, but his spirit re-
manned serene and patient and the love
! he held in his heart for this woman grew
! brighter and more feTvent toward the end
And the end came before the fire of youth
had quite turned to ashes-the end for Al
| Ian Davis.
1t was simple case of influenza at first
! with no suggestion of danger, until one
| day the doctor looked grave and the next
! he said to Lucia: your husband will
i dier
He watched her sharply. but no culver
! of an eyelid told him what he wanted 10
/ let:
/ How soon?'
AT any time-to-night, perhaps" an
| swered the doctor and again he watched
! her narrowly. Did he surprise flash of