The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-23

MN IMAM con1ugal quarrel. 1t does no
make any difference how long the mar
riage ring has been on the finger Of tn,
right hand he will try to pull Off the sig
net. He says to the husband: "What
plain wife you have compared with VIVA
she once was! Don't you see that the colol
has gone out of her cheek and there ars
several wrinkles about her temples and q
sprinkling Of frost on her locks? Beside.
that you have advanced in intelligence
while she has stood still or gone back
How hard it is that you should be chained
to such dizziness and imbecilityw Then hs
turns and says to the wife: "That man neg.
lects you; you have a right to be jealous
He likes his cigar and his club and any
thing and everv thing better than you
Why not get . divorce, Marriage is only
a civil contract anyhow and not divine
alliance. Let me have that ring. II
means nothing and you might as we'll give
1t to me-" The ring is handed over to
Satan and he losses it up and down like a
plaything over the mouth of perdition and
says: 81 will hand it back, only let me
have 1t little while" And he keeps
tossing that ring with all its sacred mem.
cries higher up and further out, tossing
and catching it until one day you clutch
for 1t. crying: "Give me back my ring"
but 10, it has dropped into the yawning
gulf, and you soon find out who has been
pitching and catching the ring, and you
cry out: "Whence CONTEST thou?" and he
answers: From going to and fro in the
domestic life of the city and from walking
up and down in it; that is ALL"
There are thousands of marriage rela-
tions strained almost to the breaking, and
l commend to all men and women who are
restless in the present marriage state that
they resume the old time courtship and
take as much pains to make themselves
agreeable as they did five or ten or twenty
years ago, before the wedding march an
nounced to the flushed and huttering
crowd that the bride and groom were
coming. According to the statistics of
Prof. Dilkes, in one year in moral New
Hampshire there were PAL divorces; in
temperate Maine. Ats divorces; in good old
Massachusetts, GOO divorces. and in New
England of STEADY habits" 2,113. In one
county of Illinois $50 divorce suits were
begun in one year, and in many places it
seems as if new arrangement had been
made of the commandments, and instead
OF ten there were only nine, the seventh
commandment having been left out.
When you see how many husbands and
wives are parted by law, and know of so
many who would like to dissolve conjugai
partnership, do you not come to the con.
clusion that Satan is engaged in mighty
industries?
Another route that Satan is apt to take
in his travels Is the factories and other
where capital sits in the
office or counting room and q good many
hands of laborers are busy among wheels
and spindles and fabrics. On this visit he
will first step into the manufacturers
office and finding the owner and proprietor
Of the great establishment all alone with
his correspondence and his account books,
says to him: "You are not making as
much money as you ought. You furnish
all the brains. We're it not for your enter.
prise this establishment would not be in
existence. These men and women in your
employ are Of very common mold. Their
appetite is coarser and they do not need
the luxuries you require. Their comfort
and happiness are of very little impor-
lance. Put them down on the verge of
and take all the profits into
your own possession and if they do not
like it tell them to 60 where they can do
better"
Having done this work in the counting
room. Satan steps right out among the
workmen. He says: "You work too many
hours and you do your work better than it
needs to be done. You are, serving q
bloated bondholder any how. He has no
right to have any more than you have.
Why should he ride and you walk? Why
should he have tenderloin steak and you
,alt pork! Capital is the enemy of labor.
Let labor be the sworn foe of capital.
Why don't you strike and bring him to
;erms? Wait until he has q large order to
Ill by contract and then he can not help
himself. Go all together, without mo-
nent's warning, and tell him you
Ire going to stop. II he has more
'esources than you know Of and
persists in going on and getting new
men, give them a volley of brickbats or
nut little dynamite in his Office and blow
linn and his factory all up with the same
explosion" Look out there on the night
ky! Great fire somewhere. What is it?
The night is cold and Satan has made
zig bonfire of that factory to warm him.
elf by. The capitalist has lost heavily
md the workmen and their families are
without bread and clothing. "Whence
omest thou, SatanT' "From going to and
70 among the employers and employees
md from walking up and down among
hem. Ha! Ha! was the only one who
made any thing out Of that strike. What
splendid fire and lots of smoke! Ha
Ia! l like smoke.n
Another route Satan is apt to take in his
ctive travels is through the mercantile
He steps in and says to
he clerks: "How much salary do you
et? Is that all: Why, you can't live on
hat! You have a right to enough for q |
livelihood. A few quarters out Of the |
money drawer will never be missed, or
ere and there is a remnant Of goods you |
ould take home without being found out. |
)r you could change those account books |
little and you could make that figure |
light a naught and that figure five q three,
nd if you do not feel exactly right about |
Ding that you can some day pay it back, !
'hich you can do perfectly easy. Don't |
eel like running the risk? Well, then you |
n that round with the boys and you will |
ave to wear that plain coat, whereas
on could have your overcoat fur.
ned, and take board at q tip.top |
lace and walk amid plush and tapestries |
Oriental. While you are max
,g up your mind will just 60 through
he different parts Of this great CONNER
ial establishment and try every one from
1e wealthy firm down to the errand
oys." The result Of that Satanic visit is
lat one Of the partners has drawn so
luch out Of the concern that the whole
usiness is crippled and q bright and
boy is sent home to his mother
! disgrace and q young man is in Jail for
Three lives ruined and
Tree eternities. Whence contest thou,
atan: "From going to and fro among
ercantile houses and from walking up