The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-01

pants. a HOOK OF ueep cOuStnt upou
the old mans face.
Fades the night. The stars die out
Bright breaks the morning light.
A Warning to American Girls.
joseph +. Potter, our consul al
Crefald, Germany, has been making
Investigations in regard to matter of
great interest to our fair country
women, and the result of bis labors is
to be found in a report full of mfg
nation of the most vital interest. He
has been inquiriug into the results "f
marriages between American girls and
German mobiles, aud what he tells US
is most startling.
In thirty-three marriages cited there
his not been a single happy union.
but either q divorce or abandonment
has speedily followed the wedding.
He finds the reason for this unhappy
state of affairs 10 be that the Aneri-
can wives have been brutality treated,
and In some cases absolute violence
was used. The brides were expected
to perform the most mental "tfices. lu
one instance. tie husband, who is an
officer o; rank in the German army,
demanded that mis- wife perfrrm the
service usually expected from a serv-
ant of the numblest SORT, aud one OF
the things she was ordered to do was
to superintend the cleaning of his
boots. This lady was the daughter OF
a leading railroad magnate 10
western state, and the story she
tells is a most pitiable one.
Her hardheaded father took the
Drecaution at her marriage to settle
his daughters fortune upon her, and
tied it up in such way that she could
not relinquish Its control eTeu if she
desired to do 50. After many humili-
stiug tasks had been given the boot
cleaning was required. Then she re-
beiied. She drew the line there, and
with her American blood at the boiling
point she fatty refused. Her war
rior husband, who, besides his mill
tary rank, has the title of count, al
tempted 20 enforce discipline in his
family by using his riding whip upon
his recalcitrant bride, and after a
serious time of il she evaded the fog
ging aud left the bed and board of
the kuightly Uhlan for her native
land. Her husband could not pre-
vent her departure. but tried to com
pei the payment Of certain SUN of
money by way of salve 10 the wounds
his sensibility received by her abrupt
departure. He did not succeed, for
the lady had no property in the
province that could be held, so she
got away without further loss Of time.
A well-Dessrved Distinction.
The Lond q Daily News
Sir Walter Scott took his bonors
and rejoiced in title which, though
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distinct fashion, his border ancestors
Suuthey refused on the score of pow
erty. Lord Lytton. Lord Houghton
md Lord Macaulay, though all
writers of poetry, were not poets pure
and simple like Mr.. Tennyson. Lord
Lytton's verse was probably the least
remarkable, certainly the least popu-
lar, part of bis work. He too was an
active politician, and Lord Houghton
is at least as well known in politics a.
in song. Whether Macaulay's lays
we're poetry as We incline to believe,
or pipcbbeck. as Mr.. Matthew Arnold
has proclaimed, is not a question
much to the purpose. He was not
made a peer, as Mr.. Tennysou is to be,
for his poetry alone. The distinction
is all but unique. aud reflects honor on
the queen as the fountain of honor, ON
the prime minister, and on the House
of Peers. Whether it is the most
appropriate form of recognition NAV
be open to doubts which we will not
at present consider. Mr.. Tennyson's
own fame can neither lose nor gain
by any dignities which may be impos-
ed on him. L. is he that confers hon.
or on the nous, of Lords when he en-
ters it.
Mr.. 1ennyson's poetry, in the opin-
ion of Edgar Allan Poe. is the most
beautiful 10 English literature-per-
haps in all literature. Whether crit
les GO as far in their admiration as
Poe, or not, it is easy for any one
who understands the American writer
to see what he meant. In Sir. Ten
nyson's verse, especially in what he
written when Poe proclaimed his faith.
there is as much of the soul of poet
~, beauty, and as little of the bodys
as little padding" moral, historical.