The Brookhaven leader., 1886-02-25
We've had VIZ ane e.,snsr.
Now we mann totter down, John.
But hand and hand wen GO;
And sleep thegither at the foot

nave naFu Wofk 70 COntFOt your temper
and II you should strike him down the sin
win not be unpardonable. Bya complete
q surrender as the universe ever saw, ex-
cept that OF the Son Of God for your saliva
ton and mine, she has first mortgage on
your body. mind. and soul, and the mort.
gage is foreclosed, and you do not more
thoroughly own your two eyes or your
two hands than she owns you. The longer
the Journey Rebekah makes, and the great
or the risks of her expedition on the backs
of the camels, the more thoroughly is
Isaac bound to be kind and indulgent and
worthy.
Now, be honest and pay your debts. You
promised to make her happy. Are you
making her happy! You are an honest
man in other things, and feel the import
ance OF keeping q contract. IL you have
induced her into a coniugal partnership
under certain pledges of Kindness and VAL
liable attention, and then have failed to
fultll your word, you deserve to have q
suit brought against you for getting goods
under false pretense. and then you ought
to be mulcted in a large amount OF dam
| ages. Review now all the fine, beautiful,
complimentary, gracious and glorious
things YOU promised her before marriage,
and reflect whether you have kept your
faith. Do you say: ooh, that was all sem
timentalism and romance and joke" and
that "they all talk that way"
Well, let that plan he tried on YOURSELF
Suppose am interested in Western lands,
and fill your mind with roseate specula-
ton, and tell you that city is already
laid out on the farm that propose to sell
you, and that new railroad will run close
by and haye depot for easy transporta-
ton of the crops, and that eight or ten cap
italists are going to put up fine residences
close by, and that the climate is delicious,
and that the ground. high up, gives no
room for malaria, and that every dollar
planted will grow up into a bush bearing
ten or twenty dollars. and my speech CLOVIS
with enthusiasm mt you rush of with mo
to an attorney to have the deed drawn and
the money paid down aud the bargain COM
pleted. You can hardly slssp nights be-
cause of the FL Dorado, the Elvsium, upon
which You are soon to enter. You give up
your home at the East, YOU bid goodbye
to your old neighbors and take the train,
and after many days journey, you arrive
at a quiet depot from which you take
wagon thirty miles through wilderness
and reach your new place. You see a man
seated on wet log in the swamp and
shaking with his fifteenth attack Of chills
and fever, and ask him who he is. He
says: az am real estate agent, having
in charge the property around here" You
ask him where the new depot is. He tells
you that it has not yet been built. but no
doubt will be il the company get their bill
for their track through the next Legisla-
ture. You ask him where the new city is
laid out. He says. with chattering teeth:
'If you will wait till this chill is off I will
show it to YOU on the map have in my
pocket" You ask him where the capital
lists are going to build their fine houses,
and he says: "Somewhere along these
lowlands. out there by those woods, when
the water has been drained off," That
night you sleep in the hut of the real estate
agent. and though you pray for everybody
else YOU do not pray for me. Being more
fortunate than many men who go out in
such circumstances, you have money
enough to get back, and you come to me,
and, out of breath in your indignation,
YOU saw, "You have swindled me out Of
ing me about that Western property"
son." reply, "that was all right; that
was sentimentalism and romance and a
joke. That's the wav thew all talk"
But more excusable would be in such
deception than you. o man, who, by glow
of words and personal magnetism. in
duced O womanly soul into surroundings
which you have taken no care to make at
| tractive, so that she exchanged her faith
er's house for the dismal swamp of mar
ried observation-disclosures, howerless, shell
| terless comfortless and goddess. l would
not be half so much to blame in cheating
you out Of aksfarm as YOU in cheating a
woman out e the happiness of lifetime.
MY brother. do not get mad at what I
but honestly compare the promises you
made and see whether you have kept
them. Some of you spent every evening
of the week with vour betrothed before
marriage and since then you spend every
| evening away, unless you have influenza
| or some sickness on account of which the
| doctor saws yoA must not go out. You
| used to fill your conversation with inter-
| jections of adulation, and now you think
| it sounds silly to praise the one who ought
TO be more attractive to You as the years
| go by and life grows in severity OF strug-
| gle and becomes more sacred by the bap-
| tism of tears-tears over losses, tears over
| graves. Compare the way some of you
used to come in the house in the evening
when you were attempting the capture of
her affections, and the way some of you
come into the house in the evening now.
Then what politeness, what distillation of
smiles, what graciousness, sweet as the
peach orchard In blossom week!
Now some of you come in and put your
hat on the rack and scowl, and say: ''Lost
money to-dayw and you sit down at the
table and criticise the way the food is
| cooked. You shove back before the others
are done eating, and snatch up the even
| ing paper and read, oblivious of what
has been going on in that home all day.
| The children are in awe before the do
mestic autocrat. Bubbling over with
| fun, vet they must be quiet, and with
healthful curiosity, vet they must ask
| no questions. The wife has had enough
| annoyance in the nursery and parlor
and kitchen to fill her nerves with net
ties and spikes. AS you have provided
the money for food and wardrobe. you
feel you have done all required OF you
Toward the good cheer and the intelli
gent Improvement and the moral enter
| tainment of that home, which at the
longest can last but a few years. you
are doing nothing. You seem to have
| no realization of the fact that soon these
children will be grown up or in their sep.
ulchers, and will be far removed from You
influence, and that the wife will soon end