The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-02-18

" that through some investment ell
these in few years may be gone. There
are some things, however, that are a per-
petual fortune-good manners, geniality
of soul, kindness, intelligence, sympathy,
courage perseverance, industry and whole
heartedness. Marry such one and you
have married fortune, whether he have
an income now of $1,000 year or an
income of $500. A bank is secure accord
ing to it's capital stock, and not to be
judged by the depo its for day or
week. A man is rich according to his
sterling qualities, and not according to the
vacillation of circumstances, which may
leave with him large amount OF re-
sources to-day, and withdraw them to-
morrow. If man is worth nothing but
money he is poor indeed. If 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 have more money one year than
another, but his better fortunes never
vacillate.
But do not become cynical on this sub
ject. Society has great multitude OF
grand men, who know how to make home
happy. When they come to be husbands
they evinee nobility of nature and
self-sacri6cing 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 OF Saratoga, Mount
Desert, or at the White Sulphur. These
are the men who, never having had much
education themselves, have their sons al
Yale and Harvard and Virginia Unver-
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. If 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 demolition. This
is what makes an army in defense of
country fight more desperately than
an army of conquest. 1t is not so much
wife and children at home that turns en-
thusiasm into fury. The world has such
men by the million, and the homuncul
that infest all our communities must not
hinder women from appreciating 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 amid the gay group, the young
mans eyes filed with tears of joy as he
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
was not as bright and smooth as it had been
years before, and a careworn look had made
its signature on her countonance. As
the husband looked at her he saw the diff
erence between this occasion and the for
mer, and he went over where she sat and
said: "You remember the time when we
were here before. You have the same
changed, but you look to me far more
beautiful than you did then" There is
such thing as conjugal fidelity, and
many of you know it in your own homes.
But, after all the advice we may give
you, we come back to the golden pillar
from which we started, the tremendous
truth that no one but God can guide you
in safety about this matter, that may de-
eide your happiness for two worlds, this
and the next. So, my sister, l put your
case where Naomi put that of Ruth and
Orpah when she said: "The Lord grant
that we may find rest, each of you in the
house of her husband"
Imagine the hour for which you pledg-
ed your troth has arrived. There is much
merrymaking among your Young friends,
but there is an undertone OF sadness in all
the house. Your choice may have been
the gladdest and the best, aud the joy of
the whole round of rela tives, but when
young eaglet is about TO leave the old nest
and is preparing to put out into sunshine
and storm for itself, it feels it's wings
tremble somewhat. She has a good cry
before leaving home, and at the marriage
anu hAOVACA "a VI LCCl like
it. Ii you think it is easy to give up
daughter in marriage, though it be with
brightest prospects, you viii think differ
emily when the day comes. To have all
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 your
home an ever increasing joy, and
then have her go away to some other
home-aye, all the redolence of orange
blossoms, and all the chime of marriage
bells, and all the rolling of wedding march
in full diapason, and all the hilarious con-
gratulations of your friends, can not make
yos forget that you are suffering loss ir-
reparable. But you know it is oil right,
and you have remembrance OF an en-
barkation just like it twenty five or thirty
years ago, in which you were one of the
parties, and, suppressing as far as possible
your sadness, you say: Goodbye"
hope that you, the departing daughter,
will not forget to write often home; for
whatever betide YOU the old folk will never