The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-09-15
VOL. X. LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY,, SEPIEMB

was enlarged until many adult men
could enjoy its honors; but little chill
dren and women and slaves were not
admitted into its e%nvirons. Infants
were slain readily. Wives were
whipped, bought and sold, divorced at
pleasure, or killed in some countries
dead slaves were not buried. There
were ravines OF sink-holes into which
dead slaves were thrown. You could
find the places by watching the carrion
birds in their circling flight. Cicero,
in the four or five hundred letters he
left written to friends, mentions often
his father, but never his mother; he
divorced two wives; loved his daugh-
ter, indeed, but was reproved by Ro-
man statesmen for weeping for her
when she died. Nero killed his mother,
and Seneca, his moral guide, made no
complaint. It thus seems to have taken
the human rae q long time to expand
the word man to such a proportion,
that into its nobleness, and security,
and peace, the woman and the little
child could take refuge; but at last
into this gigantic ark the weakest and
humblest gather themselves, and are
quite safe as the storms of life come
and the floods climb higher.-Pr0f.
David Suing.
Her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs, XXI. 10.
Earth's noblest thing-a woman per-
fected.-F r. LoweU.: "hene."
The woman is the glory of the a
81. Paul.: l Cor. ii. 7.
She behaved like an angel why
do I say an ANGELA woman.-LJe@
E. Burke.
Grace was in her steps, heaven in her eye
In every gesture dignity and love.-MI.roN.
Cdin-Then leave me.
Adah-Never, though thy God left
thee! Byron.
Woman is like the reed, which
bends to every breeze, but breaks not
in the tempest. Wateley.
Most of their faults women W to
us, whilst we are indebted to them for
most of our better qualities.
The world was sad! the garden was a wild!
And man, the hermit, sigh'd-till woman
smiled!
Campbell: "Pleasures of Hope" part
II, line 81.
Nature is in earnest when she makes
a woman.-O. W. Holmes: "Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table,"
And Jacob served seven years for
Rachel, and they seemed unto him but
a fen days for the lone he had to her,
! Genesis xxx. 90.
Her Office there to rear, to teach,
Becoming as Is meet and ft
link among the days to knit
The generations each with each.
TENNYsoS.
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still and bright,
With something ofan angel light.
Wordsworth: "She aOds O. Phantom of
Delight"
She openeth her mouth with wisdom;
and in her tongue is the law of kind
ness. She looketh well to the ways of
her household, and eateth not the
bread of idleness.
Proverbs, XXI. 26, 81.
o fairest of creation, last and best
OF all Gods works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
Milton: "PGr. Lost" tx. 896.
Women in the course of action de-
scribe a smaller circle than men ; but
the perfection of a circle consists not
in it's dimensions, but in its correct
ness.
Hannah Moore.
Withoute women were al our joye lose;
Wherefore we ought allie women to obeye
In al ~goodnesse; I can no more say.
CHANGER: ~ Praise of Women."
There is in every true woman'sheart
a spark of heavenly fire, which lies
dormant in the broad daylight of pros
perity, but which kindles up and
beams and blazes in the dark hour of
adversity.-IrUin9.
No man ever lived a right life who
had not been chastened by a woman's
love, strengthened by her courage, and
guided by her discretion John Ruskin.
She is the most delightful Of Gods
creatures-heaven's best gift, mans
joy and pride in prosperity, mans sup
port and comforter in affection
Shelly.
More human, more divine than we
In truth, half human, half divine
Is woman, when good stars agree
To temper with their beams benign
The hour Of her nativity.
+. @. Holland.
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung
Not she denied him with unholy tongue:
She, while apostles shrank, could danger
brave.
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.
E. BroWring.
Blessing she is-God made her so;
And deeds of weekday holiness
Fall from her, noiseless as the snow;
Nor hath she ever CHANGED to know
That ought were easier than to bless.
F. II. LoWeN
Honored be woman !, she beams on the sight