The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1873-12-06
Oakley Hall on Love and Marriage


Oakley Hall thus describes love and
marriage in his lecture ON love, marri-
age aud divorce: True love rurifies the
heart, emancipates 1t from the slavery
of passions, and makes man and woman
strong, noble and Courageous. 4 man
falls in love just as he falls down stairs.
It might be an accident, probably it was,
or it might be amisiOrtune which lasted
all through life. How inexpensive was
that phrase paying attention, as If
that did not belong more to marriage
than TO coUrtship, and the phrase was
not iufrequently heard in former years,
which was immortalized 10y Mrs. Pod
snap, "Bless me, they have gone on
their bridal tour to become acquainted
with each other" fit were possible to
have a preliminary bridal tour, under
proper escort, and the young couple
had experience of the annoyances nee
essarily entailed by a trip of that char
acter, and if they were familiar with the
tempers and dispositions of each other,
the wonder would be, not that there
are so few happy marriages under the
ARRANGEMENTS of modern society, but
that there were so many. Marriage was
not a partnership. He did not wish to
be understood as saying that alone, for
it was a cold word. Marriage was
cOmpaniOnship. Driving hOmefrom the
business cares, as Disraeli used, they
would find that the old individuality
was gone, that a new companion
ship existed; and as the best illustra-
tion of the idea of marriage, he would
60 back to the time of Lord William
Russell, who was represented mt his trial
by his wife, and of all the pictures which
hung in the historic temple, there was
none so attractive and beautiful as the
picture of Lady Russell in cOmpaniOnship
with her husband, not only in the court
room, but IN the prison, and In his last
moments. And, if they asked for
definition of true marriage, it was
compressed in the word cOmpanionship.
Who Can Most Easily be Spared?
Young men, this is the first question
your employers ask themselves, when
business becomes slack, and when it is
thought necessary to economics in the
matter of salaries. This question is an
sWered in an American journal to orr
satisfaction. It answers the question
who can best be spared this way The
baruaclos, the shIrks, the make-shifts,
somebody's nephews, IlrOtegCcS, some
bOdy's gOOd-fJr-nothings Young man,
please remember that these are not the
ones who are called for when response
bile positions are to be filled. Would
You like to gauge your own fitness for a
position OF prominence? Would you
like to know the probabilities of yOW
getting such position? Inquire with
I'D What arc You doing to make
yourself valuable in the position You
l.,
your might what your hands find TO do,
the chances are ten 10 one that YOU Will
soon become so valuable In that posi-
ton that you cannot easily be spared
from it -; and then, singular to relate,
viii be the very time when you will be
sought out for promotion to a better
place. BE content to grade among the
men who can easily be spared, and you
may rest assured that nothing viii
spare " you so certainly and so easily
~ promotion.
GEN. ScHENcK's LITTLE JoKE.-The
English Of to-day are most severely,
prosaically practical and commonplace.
Gen. Schenck, our minis ter to England,
having had as IL fellow passenger on the
outward steamer a son of Ben Holiday,
of overland stage fame, thought to make
Joke on a gentleman named Christmas,
whom he met soon after landing in En-
gland. Said the general: q think I
met a relative Of yours on the steamer,
Judging from his name--a Mr.. Holiday"
''Ah % said Mr.. Christmas, meditatively,
60 think not. I never heard of rela-
tive by that name" Afterward, Mr..
Schenck told the story at a dinner-table,
and the guests each glared at his neigh
Dor, and no one saw the Joke. At last,
out OF very ciyility, the host, a noble
lord, feebly laughe and said, I" All
vas very good, general. All. we're they.
eh-relatad. yoB know