Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-27
HERE AND THERE.

william Hazlitt the English essayist and
critic, who lived twenty years in London
house that John Milton once made his habl-
tation, like the great epic poet, hadn't an al
together lovely time Of II In his matrimonial
relations. lie WAS disappointed In his sweet
ness for Salie Shepperd, aud was induced to
marry Miss Stoddari, ~ he intiipates, by
the very fear oi the event, by repugpance
and a sort Of fatal fascination" She was
more given TO iinery and to books than to
domestic economy or wifely interest In him,
and 30 we find him writing, after they had
been married thirteen years al want an
eye TO cheer me, hand % guide me, a
breast to lean on all OF which I shall never
have, but shall stagger into my grave with
out them, old before my time, unloved and
uplovely y--unless---," and then there IL
long dash which we may suppose stood for
"unless my wife dies aud get another one"
lie couldn't wait Tor death, however they
agreed upon a separation and having been
rejected by Sarah Taylor, with whom he
had pressed his suit before the divorce, he
married a widow who righteously left him
within year.
A butcher, who lay upon his death-bed,
Eald to his vile "My dear, I am not a man
for this world, therefore advise you, after |
ara gone To marry our man, John. lie is
strong, honest fellow, fit to carry on this
business" "Dear dying husband" said the
gentle widow, soon to he, DO not let that
trouble your last moments, John and have
agreed on that long ago."
imagine that DIR. Abernethy had logua-
clo,is wife. For 1t Is related that one morning
a woman was shown into his office and before
he could speak she barred her arm, saying,
"Burn." "A poultice," said the doctor
Next day she called again, showed her
arm, and said Better" "Continue the
poultice," the response. A few days after
ward she came again then she said: "Well,
Your foe" "Nothing,' said the great physi-
clan; lyon are the most sensible woman
ever saw"
Napoleon was awkward in society, and
though he proclaimed himself severe
Judge OF women's dress, he never uttered a
graceful speech to one of the gentler sex.
lie loved his first wife and only out of the
pride Oi imperial succession put her away
for Marie Louise, who learned to make him
afraid of her and who was talented woman,
given to amusing the ladies OF her court by
turning her ears almost completely around,
and, in a manner, closing them up, by
peculiar motion OF the jaw. The whirligig
OF time brought its revenges for Josephine's
wrongs Napoleon saw the Austrian line
perish in the bloom of manhood and only
through the children of the rejected wife
was the BOnaparte dynasty perpetuated. In
turn, Eugenie, "the mould OF fashion and
tho glass of FORM" makes sad pilgrimage in
widows weeds to where the last hope of her
heart fell battling in the ranks of the great
Napoleon's direst foe.
They have a story that Marshall Ney's
real name was Michael Rudolph, and that
before the beginning of his eventiul career
he was a resident OF this country; that at
the time of his marriage his wife lived in
Savannah, Georgia; their union was not
feicitous and they lived so unhapply that
he adopted seataring lite and drifted into
that wonderful career which flashed before
history like meteor and went ont like one.
The widow of MaNimillian, wringing her
hands in wild despair, in madhouse OF
Europe, echoes the mourniul cry which was
the last upon her slaughtered husbands lips,
Poor Carlotta."
Apropos OF the subject of postal savings
banks, distinguished Democrat OF Penn
sylvania-albeit no holds no oflice-writes
me: "Postal savings bank may be in the
nature OF parental government, but if the
Democratic party wish to govern this people,
they must assist the people in taking care OF
themselves. Nothing helps people more
than TO instill IN them ideas of thrift and
economy. If the government carries out the
proposed system OF postal savings banks,
it will enable the poor in every part OF the
country tolay aside their earnings i'll sale
spot, which will prevent much distress when
they are in need, and will also help materially
in making them interested in the welfare of
the government, and in uphOlding it against
all antagonists. All that is reasonable aud
right in socialism the Democratic party
should boldly support and enforce. Govern
ment was not made 10 let people starve and
keep them degraded. 1t should protect
them against their own weaknesses and
ignorance, and help them to greater happi-
ness
The natural result of the Edmunds bill
and other irrational and unnatural legisla-
ton against the Mormons, under the pre-
tense of assailing and eradicatiug their obi
ous social customs, is To raise questions ol
constitutional law and religious freedom
upon which the Mormons will seem 10 be
right AMI their antagonists wrong. The re-
suit of this will he to strengthen the polyga-
mists rather than to weaken them, to help
more than hurt 1t is a sad mistake TO try
to do even tho right thing in the wrong way.
So | find the New York katOlischs IOlkS-
bldtt an organ of the German Catholics OF
the country, keenly appreciative OF some
phases of the Mormon question, which So
seem able to comprehend. Nobody, | sus-
pect, will accuse Il Catholic newspaper of
sympathy with polygamy." This journal
says, in better German than the English of
this translation
az The Mormon question Is Enthusiastically
one of the leading questions Of the day in the
United States, and in religious sense natur-
ally attracts the special attention of Catholics,
because II concerns persons who maintain
that their religion orders and justiles polyg
amy. We have, therefore, carefully exam
ined the bill which has already been adopted
by the Senate and now lies before the House
OF Representatives, where il will in all prob
ability be shortly taken up, and we have
come 10 the conviction that ii is 10y no means
| so praiseworthy aS it would seem on "A hur-
ried perusal. Should this bill De adopted by
| the House Of Representatives, aud then be-
come a law through the signature OF the pres
| ident, there would be created a most danger
| Gus precedent which, remembering the ia
| natcism and influence of bigots, could pOss i
| bly, at some time he turned against the Gath
| Ole church ITSELF for the old proyerb to-
| day and thou Tomorrow which has held
| good in times numbeTleSs, will always
| anew prove itself true.
" In so far as the proposal recommends le-
| gally and constituuonally allowable means
| Tor the suppression of pOlygamy, II naturally
| has our full approval, Tor 1t goes without say
| ing that We thoroughly dislike the Mormon
| sect on account OF its immoral character, and
| earnestly approve OF the strict enforcement
| OF all measures tending to a radical disposi-
tion oi the system oi many wives. But this