The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-12-01

guments more potent than any TO
: which ! have yet listened to convince
me that there is no higher aim in life
! for me to fill than to follow m the sue
cessive downward steps Of the drunk
ards career"
''But perhaps your influence would
be the means of saving him"
'If it was the mission Of woman to
save through suffering, enough have
already been sacrificed to the insatiate
demon rum, to save a world of drunk
ards, but like the horse leech, it still
crieth giveI givel Again, Mr.. st.
Clair, you say that woman is the mere
complement of man. Nowa compile
ment is a subordinate part, and must
be inferior TO the principal that it
completes, and it consistent with the
import of its name be the superior
added to an inferior, or the correlative
cannot be greater than the principal.
If I am a mere complement destined
4 TO complete the existence of some 9th
er human being, that person must be
my superior, morallyand intellectual
", for according to the teachings of
all history from the day of the Patri-
archs to the present time, the stronger
have striven with the weaker, and the
weaker have been brought into sub
lection, and the law that makes right
has held good IN all ages, and will, 1
suppose, until the UtOpian period
dawns upon US, when, perhaps, it will
be acknowledged that right is right,
because of right, and the dignity of
human nature acknowledged ire
spective of rank or physical strength.
Then perhaps the American people
will have learned to solve the great
problem of melting out justice to all
ere justice is wrung from them by
forces they cannotresist. But, Mr.. st.
Clair, this interview has already lasted
too long. Were there any rational
means at my command, / should be
too glad to save you from the impend-
ing doom. But aYarice and appetite
are stubborn qualities that will not be
controlled by reason. There are plen-
ty of willing devOtees ready to throw
their bodies and souls before the
wheels of this American Juggernaut,
why not choose from the willing num-
Der? l must confess, sir, know no
such devotion to this false Deity, and
here we will let the subject forever
Iest."
Mr.. st. Clair plucked moss from
the conservatory, and almost momen-
tarily seeking the society of Miss
Gray, whispered in her that old, old
story first spoken in Paradise, but
which to this degenerate age has re-
tanned much of its original sweetness,
and asked her if she would wear that
flower for him. Nestled among the
rich laces and jewels that Ornamented
her corsage, that bud was left to with
er and to die, the blight having COM
menced with his touch and breath
'sTo hear, to heed, TO wed,
Fair lot that maiden's choice"
-Four weeks later, and there was
another wedding in Gennesee Valley,
more magnificent than the one from
which we have just retired, and the
Hon. Mr.. st. Clair takes from her
pleasant home his new made bride, to
enter upon her promised brilliant ca
reer at Washington. And her expect
ed elysium has not proved altogether
q deception, for the year she has al
ready spent has been one unceasing
round of gaiety. Court balls, and par
ties, operas, theatres, and State din
ners, have furnished continual in
tOxicatiIg pleasure that has kept her
somewhat insensible of her husbands
baser intOxication. True, there have
been some dark spots on this sun of
prosperity, and one that threatens to
cover its entire disc; but the rays
shine brightly about it yet, and her
glory is not eclipsed. Once during the
year she has been called upon to re-
! tire for a season from thsse scenes of
gaity to keep her ceaseless vigils by
the bedside of her husband during the
incipient stages of some supposed
dreadful disease, but when it proved
to be only delirium tremens, he was
carried to the hospital and cared for
till his recovery, and his wife allowed
to resume her wonted place in the So
cial circle, the lines on her face scarce
ly deepened.
Dear reader, we hope you will par
don this departure from the usual rou-
tine of fiction. We should be glad to
favor you with a different sequel, if
facts would verify it, but we cannot
sacrifice our fidelity to truth for the
sake of pleasing romance. We
should be glad to say that Mr.. st. Clair
had resigned his public duties and re-
tired to private life, and was devOting
an energy worthy his ability to the
mastery of his own ruinous appetite.
We should be glad too, to state that
his wife had found something
"a pleasure possessing
/ More worth than society, dashing and dress
ing"
But these are not the facts; for Mr..
| st. Clair still holds his seat in Con-
gress, and as the vir tue or infamy of
any corporation is exactly equal to the
sum of these qualities as found in the
/ individual characters of the persons
who compose it, so Mr.. S. is adding
his proportion to that evil that has al
ready so fully defaced our fair Nation
al Escutcheon. His wife is still the
star of fashion in the Nations Capital
/ fit example for American women to
| initiate. Mr.. Lazelle has entered the
arena of political strife, fully armed
| for gladiatorial combat, determined
never to retire till the beast is van
quished. Though the scene is one that
might blanch the cheek, and terrify
| the soul of one less courageous yet he
has strength and fOrtitude equal to
great results. Already there is
cloud in the distance, and though no
| larger than mans hand, he has faith
to believe that it will continue to in
| crease till it shall cover this entire
| horizon and burst in blessing on the
heads of the American people. He al
so believes this single contest proving
successful, and the beast destroyed,
/ that the present system of Olympic
games will be banished from our pO-
litical arena, and a mans right to pO-
litical life be no longer determined
by political trickery and dishonest
wire-puiling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parkinson are settled
/ in their ample home, and we should
! Judge from all we can discover, that
/ Fannie finally mastered what appear
ed 10 her the most desirable of the
womanly arts. Bennie is alternating
| between six months of hard, manual
/ toll upon the farm to strengthen the
/ bones and muscles, and six months
study in the village academy, to de-
veIop the mastery elements of mind
which are so apparent in his boyhOcd.
| Mary is working over her academic
/ studies with an earnestne5s worthy
/ the intense nature of an intenser
cline than this, preparing to enter
/ Western University that has recently
opened its doors to receive her. The
younger Miss Gray, sister of the wife
of Mr.. st. Clair, still pays her uneeas-
ing devotion to dress and the conven-
tionalities of society, seldom doing
anything more questionable than to
sit idly waiting, ''not for greater work
to do,n but for some inappropriate
young gentleman to come and solicit
her hand. Mrs. Lazelle, for all her
life has been one of usefulness and
duty, not unmingled with sorrow,
grows youthful and beautiful each day
under accumulated responsibilities.
Her husband, too, is happy, for al
though his life work has been ardu-
GUS and is still far from being accom-
plished, yet he lives in the affections,
and here man finds his highest happi-
ness.
Mr.. Raymond removed with his
bride to fiourishing city in the West
and invested the patrimony bequeath-
ed him on his wedding day in the
mercantile business. He soon drew
around him a large and influential
class of customers, and allied with his
interests the respect and confidence of
all who knew him. He has long since
acquired a princely fortune, and many
a vounO man has been started on the