Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-05
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these in a few years may be gone. There
re some things, however, that are a per-
pesual fortune-good manners, geniality
q soul, kindness, intelligence, sympathy,
courage, perseverance, industry n whole
neartedness. Marry such a one and you
nave married a fortune, whether he have
an income now of $4,000 a year or an
income Of 500. A bank is secure accord
ing to its capital stock, and not to be
judged by the depo sits for a day or a
week. A man is rich according to his
sterllng qualities, and not according to the
vaclllation of circumstances, which NAV
leave with him a large amount Of re-
sources to-day, and withdraw them to-
morrow. If q man is worth nothing but
money he is poor indeed. If 81 man have
upright character he is rich. Property
may come and go; he is independent of
the markets. Nothing can buy him out.
he may nave more money one year than
another, but his better fortunes never
vacillate.
But do not become cynical on Ibis sub
Ject. Society has a great multitude of
grand men, who know how to make home
happy. When they come to be husbands
they evince a nobility of nature and
a self-sacriticing spirit that surprise
even the wife. These are the
men who cheerfully sit in dark and dirty
business offices, ten feet by twelve, in sum-
mer time, hard at work, while the wives
and daughters are off at Saratoga, Mount
Desert, or at the White Sulphur. These
are the men who, never having had much
education themselves, nave their sons at
Yale and Harvard and Virginia Univer-
sity. These are the men who work them
selves to death by fifty years of age, and
go out to Greenwood, leaving large estate
and generous life insurance provision for
their families. There are husbands and
fathers here by the hundreds who would
die for their households. II outlawry
should ever become dominant in our cities
they would stand in their doorway, and
with their one arm would cleave down, one
by one, their invaders, face to face, foot to
foot, and every stroke a demolition. This
is what makes an army in defense of a
country fight more desperately than
an army of conquest. 1t is not so much
the abstract sentiment of a flag as it is the
wife and children at home that turns en-
thusiasm into a fury. The world has such
men by the million, and the homunculi
that infest all our communities must not
hinder women from approaching the glory
of true manhood.
Twas reading of a bridal reception. The
young man had brought home the choice
of his heart, in her elaborate and exquisite
apparel. AS she stood in the gay drawing
room and mid the gay group, the young
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thought that she was his. Years passed
by, and they stood at the same parlor on
another festal occasion. She wore the
same dress, for business had not opened as
brightly to the young husband as he had
expected, and he had never been able to
purchase for her another dress. Her face
wal not as bright and smooth as it had beer
years before, and a careworn look had made
it's signature OH her countenance. A
the husband looked at her he saw the diff
erence between this occasion and the for
mer, and he went over where she sat ant
said: "You remember the time when w
were here before. You nave the SAM
dress on. Circumstances have somewha
changed, but you look to me far NOR
beautiful han you did then" There i
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many of you know it in your own homes
But, after all the advice we may Civ
you, we come back to the golden pilla
from which we started, the tremendou
truth that no one but God can guide yo,
in safety about this matter, that may de
eide your happiness for two worlds, thi
and the next. So, my sister, I put you
case where Naomi put that of Ruth ant
Orpah when she said: ''The Lord gran
that we may find rest, each of you in tn
house of her husband"
Imagine the hour for which you pledg
ed your troth has arrived. There is mucl
merrymaking among YOU young friends
but there is an undertone of sadness in al
the house. Your choice may have beer
the gladdest and the best, and the joy O
the whole round Of relatives, but when.
young eaglet is about to cave the old mes
and is preparing to put out into SUNSHINE
and storm for itself, it feels its wing
tremble somewhat. She has a good or,
before leaving home, and at the marriag
father and mother always cry, or feel lik'
it. If you think it is easy to give up
daughter in marriage, though it be will
brightest prospects, you will think differ
entity when the day comes. TO rave al
along watched her from infancy to girl
hood, and from girlhood to womanhood
studious Of her welfare, her slightest ill
ness an anxiety, and her presence in you
home an ever increasing joy, an
then have her go away to some othel
home-aye, all the redolence of orang,
blossoms, and all the chime of marriage
bells, and all the rolling of wedding marcel
in full diapason, and all the hilarious con
CALCULATIONS of your friends, can not maxi
you forget that you are suffering a loss il
reparable. But you NOW it is all right
and you nave a remembrance of an en-
barkation just like it twenty-five OF thirty
years ago, in which you were one of tn
parties, and, suppressing as far as possible
your sadness, you say: "Good-bye."
hope that you, the departing daughter
will not forget to write often home; for
whatever betide you, the old folk will never
loss their interest in our welfare. Make
visit; to them also as often and as long al
you can, for there will be changes at the
old place after awhile. Every time you
go, you will find more gray hairs OF
fathers head, and more wrinkles or
mothers brow, and, after awhile yor
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