Savannah morning news., 1886-02-08

NSAoQ CALHRt 1VuA QOus l1kI udnl6 Will
have in It more music tbau in all that
Chopin or Bach or Rheinberger composed.
Her eyes, swollen with three weeks Of
night watching over child with scarlet
fever, viii be TO you beautiful as a May
morning. After the last rose petal has
dropped out Of her cheek, after tha last
feather Of the ravens wing has fallen
| from her hair, after across Ter forehead
and under her eyes and across her face
there are as many wrinkles as there are
| graves over which she has went, you Will
be able truthiully 70 say, in the words Of
SOlom0n's song: 'Behold, thou art fair,
my Lowell Behold thou art fairl" And
| perhaps she may respond appropriately,
in the words that no one but the match
| less Robert Burns could ever have found
pen or ink or heart or brain to write;
"John Anderson, my 10 John,
We clamb the nil thegither;
Ard mOny q cant day, John,
We've had wi ane anither.
Nov we maun totter down, John,
But hand In hand Wen go;
And sleep thegiiher at the foot,
John anderson my Jo."
II any one assail her good name you
will have hard work to control your tenn
per, and If you should strike him down
the sin will not be objectionable. BY as
complete a surrender as the universe ever
saw, except that Of the Son OF God for
your salvation and mine, she has first
mortgage on your body, mind and soul,
and the mortgage is foreclosed, and you
do not more thoroughly own your two
ewes or your two hands than she owns
you. The longer the journey Rebekah
makes and the greater the risks of her ex.
pedition on the back Of the camels, the
more thoroughly is Isaac bound to be
kind and indulgent and worthy.
k...k a.a -
You promised to make her happy. Are
you making her happy? You are an hon
est man in other things, and feel the inn
pOrtance OF keeping contract. If you
have induced her into a cOnJugal partner
ship under certain pledges of kindness
and valuable attention, and then have
failed TO fulfill your word, YOU deserve to
have a suit brought against you for get
ting goods under false pretenses, and
then you ought to be mulcted in large
amount OF damages. Review now all the
fine, beautiful, complimentary, gracious
and glorious things you promised her be-
fore marriage, and reflect whether you
have kept your faith. Do you say, "Oh,
that was all sentimentalism and romance
and a joke" and that ''they all talk that
wayl"
Well, let that plan be tried on yourself!
Suppose / am interested in Western
iuludg anu Il AlA lUuI nllUu WIN IObOhbt
speculation, and tell you that q city is
already laid out on the farm that pro-
pose to sell you, Asa that a new railroad
will run close by and have q depot for
easy transportation OF the crops, and that
eight or ten capitalists are going to put
up fine residences close bv, 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
INF n for f1-4 4rvH o1
and my speech glows with enthusiasm
until you rush off with me TO an attorney
to have the deed drawn and the money
paid down and the bargain completed.
You can hardly sleep nights because OF
the FL Dorado, the Elysium, 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
quiet depot from which you take wagon
so miles through the wilderness and reach
your new place. You see a man seated
on wet log in swamp and shaking with
the fifteenth attack Of chills and fever,
and ask him who he is. he says: IL am
a real estate agent, having in charge the
property around here" You ask him
where the new depot 10. He tells you that
it has not yet been built, but no doubt Will
" Al bh1 OplA p6hy kOb tACA wa wi NAN
track through the next Legislature. You
ask him where the new city is laid out.
He says, with chattering teeth: "If you
will wait till this chill is off, l will show
IL to you on the map have in my pocket"
You ask him where the capitalists are
going TO build their fine houses, and he
says: somewhere along those lOwlands
out there by those woods, when
the water has been drained off,"
That NIGHT Qlpnn in tho
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 90 out ia such circum-
stances, you have money enough to get
back, and you come 70 me, and out of
breath Ia your indignation, you say
''YOu have swindled mo out of every thing.
What do you mean in deceiYing me about
that Western propertyY "Oh," / reply,
''that was all right, that was sentimental
ism and romance and a joke. That's the
way they all talk
But more excusable would be In such
deception than you, . man, who by glow
Of words aud personal magnetism, in
duced "A wOmanly soul into surroundings
which you have taken no care TO make at
tractiye, so that she exchanged her
fathers house for the dismal swamp OF
married xperience-treeless, lowerless,
'snelterless, comiOrtless and goddess. !
would not be half so much 10 blame in
cheating you out OF q farm as you in cheat
ing woman out Of the happiness OF
lifetime.
My brother, do not get mad at what
say. but honestly compare the promises
you made and see whether you have kept
them. some Of you spent every evening
OF the week with your botr0thed before
marriage, and since then you spend
every evening away, except you have
influenza or some sickness on account Of
which the doctor says you must not 90
out. You used 10 M your conversation
with interjectiOns Of aduatOn, and now
you think 10 sounds silly 70 praise the one
who ought to be more attractive 20 you as
the years 80 by, and life grows IN severity
OF struggle and becomes more sacred by
the baptism OF tears-tears over losses,
tears over graves. Compare the way some
OF you used 70 come 20 the house In the
evening, when you were attempting the
capture OF her affections, aud the way
some OF you come into the house In the
evening now. Then what pOliteness, what
distillatlon of smiles, what graclOusness,
sweet AS the peach orchard In blossom
week.
Now some Of you come Ia and put your
hat on the rack and SEQ vi, and say: Lost
money to-dayw and you sit down a. the
table aud criticise the way the food is
cooked. You shove back before the others
are done eating, and snatch up the eve