Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-01-10

this man uuspeakably; and u cross man
hate above all things. What right has he
to murder the sunshine of theday2 What
right has he to assassinate the joy OF life ?
When you go home you ought 10 feel the
light there is in the house; if Ii Is In the
night 1t will burst out OF the Goors and
windows and illuminate the darkness. 1t
is Just as well to 20 home ray OF sun
shine as an old. sour. cross curmudgeOn,
who thinks he Is the head OF the family.
Wise men think their mighty brains have
been in turmoil they have been thinking
about who will be alderman from the hfth
ward; they have been thinking about
politics; great and mighty questions have
been engaging their minds; they have
bought calico at eight cents or six, and
want 10 sell 1t for seven. Think OF the
intellectual strain that must have been
upon h man. and when he gets home
everybody else In the house must look ont
for his comfort. A woman who has only
taken care Of five or six children. and one
or two OF them may be sick. has been
nursing them and singing to them and
taking care of them, and trying to make
! one yard OF cloth do the work of two. she,
of course. is fresh aad fine and ready TO
wait upon this great conference.-the head
OF the family. (Lsughter) | don't like
| hun a bit.
/ w Wa'tsf you are ElCu Ut poor.
use your wife as though she were a splen.
! did creation. and she will all your life
with perfume aud joy. (Applsuse.) And
do You know. 1t is a splendid thing for me
10 think that the woman you really love
I Will never grow old to you. Through the
wrinkles OF time. through the music OF
years, If you really love her you will al
ways see the face YOU loved and won.
And woman who really loves a man.
does not see that he grows older, he Is
not decrepit; he does not tremble; he Is
not old, she always sees the same gallant
gentle who won her hand aud heart.
Ike to think of It in that way; / like to
think of all passions; love Is eternal. and
as Shakespeare says. Although time
with his sickle can rob ruby lips and
sparkling eyes. let him reach as far As he
can. he cannot quite touch love; that
reaches even 10 the end OF the tomb"
And to love in that way aud then 20 down
the hill of life together. and a. you go
down hear. perhaps. the laughter OF grand
sing once M more ,ef IN hs 9f sy sod 81 loys viii
age. believe in the fireside. | believe In
the democracy Of home. I believe Ia the
repubicsnism OF the family. believe In
liberty aud equality with those We love.
sTINGY MIN.
Il Is possible for a man 10 die worth fty
millions of dollars or ten millions OF dol
lars Ia a city full Of want. when he meets
almost every day the withered hand OF beg
gary and the white lips of famine. How a
msn can withstand all that and hold In the
clutch OF his greed twenty or thirty mil
lions of dollars. Is past my comprehension.
| do not see hos he can do IL. tApplause)
| should not think he could DO II any more
than be could keep pile OF lumber when
hundreds and thousands of men were
drowning in the sea. should not think he
could do it. DO you know / have known
men who would trust their wiveslwith their
hearts and their honor, but not with their
pocket books; not with a dollar. When |
see "A man of thai Kind ! always think he
knows which OF these articles Is the most
valuable. Think OF making your wife q
beggar. Think OF her having to ask YOU
or for 80 cents w hat dld you 40 ~iIn
that dollar gave you last week. Think
of having wife that was afraid OF you.
What Kind of children DO you expect to
have with beggar and a coward for their
mother: Oh: tell you If you have got but
a dollar in the world. and you have got to
spend 1t. spend II like king, Qsughter;)
spend II a though 1t were a dry leaf, and
YOU the owner OF unbounded forests
That's the way 10 spend it! ] had rather
be beggar and spend my last dollar like
king, than be King aud spend my money
like beggar. (Applause.) IL It's got TO
go. let 1t 90, (Laughter.) Get the best
you can for your fsmily-try TO look ss
well a. you can yourself When you used
10 go couriing hov nice you looked! All,
your eye was bright, your step was light.
aud yon just put ON the very best look you
could. Do.you know that it is insuffer able
in tn af "A 4
going TO love you always looking As bad as
you can. Think OF IL! Any woman on
earth will be true 10 you forever when you
do your level best. (Laughter.) Some peo-
pie tell me, your doctrine about loving
anc wiye, and all tina; is splendid for the
rich. but IL won't do for the poor" tell
you tonight there Is. on the average, more
love 10 the homes OF the poor than la the
palaces of the rich; and the mesnest hot
with love ia II is tit for the gods. and pal
ace without love Il "A den only dt for wild
beasts. That's my doctrine! You can't be
So poor but thst you can help somebody.
Good nature Is th- cheapest commodity in
the world. aud love Is the only thing that
will paw ten per cent. to borrower aud lend
er both. (Applau,e.) Don't tell me that
you have got 10 be rich. We have all
false standard of greatness in the United
States We think here that for man TO
be yrea, he must be notorious; he must be
extremely wealthy or his name must be
between the lips of rumor. IL Is all non
sense. IL is not necessary TO be Rich 10 De
great or TO be powerful To be happy, and
the happy man is the successful man. Hap
piness i, the legal tender OF the soul. Joy
Is wealth.
\ little while ago stood by the grave Of
the old Napoleon, magnificent tomb ut
for dead deity almost. and gazed in the
great circle at the bottom OF IL. Aud
thought of the orphans aud widows be had
made. thought OF the tears that had been
shed for his glory. | thought Of the only
woman who ever loved him; who had been
| pushed from his heart by the cold hand OF
ambition; and as looked at that sarcop-
hagus. said Il would rather have been .
| French peasant aud worn wooden shoes;
/ would rather have lived in hut, with the
vine growing over the door and the grapes
| growing and rpeniDg in the autumn sun;
| l would rather have been that peasant,
with my wife by my side and ms. children
| upon iuy knees twining their arms OF alec
| ton about tDe | would rather have been
| that poor French peasant and gone down
at last to the eternal promiscuity OF the
dust, followed by those who loved me;
would a thousand times rather have been
| that French peasant than that imperial per-
sentative of force and murderi anu SO
would ten thousand. thousand times.
| (Great applause.) 1t is not necessary to be
| great to be happy il is not necessary to be
rich to be just and generous, and to have a
heart filled with divine affection.
THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.
II women have been slaves what shall
saw of children; of the little children In the
alleys and sub-cellars; the little children
who turn pale when they hear their fathers
footsteps; little children who run away
when they only hear their names called by
the lips of mother; little children-the
children of poverty, the children Of crime.
the children Of brutality wherever. you are
-fotsam and jetsam upon the wild. mad
sea OF life-my heart goes out to you. one
and all. tell you the children have the
same rights that we have. and We ought to
treat them as though they were human be-
ings: and they should be reared by love,
nv kindness, by tenderness, and not BY