The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-11-02

"Why, you see, we don't think it is right
dor US to be living together this way any lon
ger, and we have been talking over the
matter to-day and you SEE"
Eyes, yes, see you have been talking
d over the matter, over the bottle and have
come to sort OF drunken conclusion to
get married. When you get sober you will
both repent of it probably"
"No sir, we are not very drunk now, not
so drunk but what we can think, and we
don't think we are doing right-we are not
dsing as we were brought up to do by pi-
Gus parents. We have deem reading about
the good things you have done for just such
poor outcasts as we are, and we want YOU
10 try and do something for u.s."
''Read! Can you read? Do you read
the Bible?'
"Well not much lately, but we read the
newspapers and sometimes we read some
thing good in :hem. How Can we read the
Bible when we are drunk?"
H"Do you think getting marred will keep
you from getting drunk?'
i eyes, Tor we are going to take the pledge
too and we shall keep it, depend upon
that"
Suppose you take the pledge and try
that trst and if you can keep it till you
can wash some Of the dirt away, and get
some clothes on, then will marry you"
"No; that won't do. will get to think
ing what poor, dirty, miserable wretch |
am, and how am living with this woman.
who is not bad woman by nature, and
then | will drink, and then she will drink
---oh, cursed rum!--and what is TO prevent
us? But if we were married. my wife,
would say. Thomas would not say
'Tom--you dirty brute, don't be tempted
and who knows but what We may be some-
body yet--somebody tha our own mothers
would not be ashamed Of"
9 Here the woman who had been silent and
rather moody burst into a violent food of
tears, crying Mother, mother, | know not
whether she is alive and dare not inqBire;
but if we were married and reformed.
would make her happy once more"
~'I could nc longer stand the appeal"
said Mr.. p. "and determined to give them
trial. have married good many poor,
wretched looking couples, but none that
looked quite so much as this. The man
was hatless and shoeless, withot coat or
vest, with long hair and beard grimmed
with dirt. He was by trade bricklayer,
one of the best in the city. She wore the
last remains of silk bonnet, and something
that might pass for shoes. and an old. very
cd dress, once a rich merno, apparently
without any under garments"
"And your name is Thomas-Thomas
what?" 'H .'y@'
ga"Elting, sir Thomas Elting good
and true man, that is, shall be if you mar
ry u.s." l' a' "' '
."Well, well. am going to marry
yod'' p. 81 .1'a ~ ''.. a.'.
1"Are you? There Mag, l told you
Bo" g" >Da a1.A .iao' ..'. "H
s'hon't call me Mag. III am going to
be married, l will be by my right name,
the one my mother gave me' sA
sr"Not Mag. Well / never knew that"
"Now Thomas hold your tongue, ysu
talk too much. What is your name?'
Matilda. Must l tell the other?-
Yes, will, and will never disgrace it,
] don't think should ever have been as
bad if had keptit. That bad woman who
uTSG Lctlpteu IHc w Iutip Hldue me take a
false name. 1t is bad thing for girl to
give up her name, unless for that of a good
husband. Matilda Fraley. Nobody knows
me by that name in this bad city," w s.a.
"Very well, Matilda and Thomas, take
each other by the right hand, and look at
me for / am going to unite you in the holy
bonds Of Marriage by Gods ordinance. Do
you think you are sufficiently sober to
comprehenlits solemnity?" &"''l' .I '.t l",-
'a"Yes, sir" i3si '@A n w '..4
Wharfage being one Of Gods holy or
diaaces, cannot be kept in sin, misery.
filth and drunkenness. Thomas, will you
take Matilda to be your lawful, true, only
welded wife?" ''a"n.''5'"N,'.'
"Yes, sir''iepv 9dl ma '4s'" 3+El 'T-a
ys'Yoatpromise that you will live with her,
in sickness as vel! as health, and nourish,
protectand comfort her, as your true and
faithful wife; that you will be to her true
and faithful husband; that you will not get
drunk. and clothe yourself, and keep clean" :"
actSo 1 will !" .pE&t iIr5 % a1'ti 3tl'
"Never mind answering 'tillI getthrough.
You promise to abstain from every kind of
drink that intoxicates, ain | treat this woman
kindly, aifectionaselyg and love her as a
Iaan should love his welded wife. How all
LmA4E44u bal ns3dE l@an0 ,saiba anu9y on
q .