The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-27


insanity. All infidels are cranks
Many of them talk brightly, but you
soon find that in their mental machinery
there is a screw loose. When they are not
Iecturing against Christianity they are
sitting in bar rooms squirting tobacco
juice, and when they get mad swear until
the place is sulphurous. They only talk
to keep their courage up, and at best will
feel like the infidel who begged to be
buried with his Christian wife and daugh-
ter, and when asked why he wanted such
burial, replied: ''If there be resurrec-
tion of the good, as some folks say there
will be, my Christian wife and daughter
will somehow get me up and take me
along with them"
Men may pretend TO despise religion,
but they are rank hopocrites. The sea
captain was right when he came up to the
viii age on the sea coast and insisted on
paying ten dollars to the church, although
he did not attend himself When asked
his reason, he said he had been in the
habit of carrying cargOes of oysters and
clans from that place, and he found since
that church was built the people were more
honest than they used to be, for before the
church was built he often found the load
when he came to count it a thousand CLAIMS
short. Y s, godliness is profitable for
both worlds. Most of the great, honest,
permanent worldly successes are by
those who reverence God and the Bible.
But what do say is that if a man have
nothing but social position and financial
resources, a woman who puts her happi-
ness by marriage in his hand, re -enacts
the folly of Abigail when she accepted
! disagreeable Nabal, t4whose possessions
were in Carmel, and the man was very
great, and he had three thousand sheep
and one thousand goats"
ha oh
companied by affiuent circumstances,
congratulate you. If not, let the morn
ing lark fly clear of the Rocky Mountain
eagle. The sacrifice of woman on the
altar of social and financial expectation
is cruel and stupendous. sketch you a
scene you have more than once wit
| messed:
A comfortable home. with nothing more
than ordinary surroundings but an at
tractive daughter carefully and Chris
/ tianly reared. From the out.
side world comes in man
with nothing but money-unless you
/ count profanity, and selfishness, and fond
ness for champagne. and general reckless
ness a part of his possessions. He has
| his coat collar turned up when there is no
/ chill in the air, but because it gives him
| an air of abandon; and eye-glass, not be-
couse he is near-sigkted, but because it
u
! an attire somewhat loud, a cane thick
| enough to be the club of Hercules
| and clutched at the middle, his converse
tion interlarded with French phrases in
/ accurately pronounced, and sweep of
manner indicating that he was not born
| like most folks, but terrestrially landed.
| By arts learned of the devil he insinuates
himself into the affections of the
| daughter of that Christian home.
I ~, -1.,A, /.
the almost supernatural prospects.
Reports come in that the young man is
fast in his habits; that he has broken
/ several young hearts, and thai he Is
mean and selfish and cruel. But all this
| is covered up with the fact that he has
several houses in his own name and has
! large deposits at the bank, and, more
! than all, has a father worth many
! hundred thousand dollars and very feeble
in health, and may any day drop off, and
| this is the only son, and a round dollar
! held close to ones eye is large enough tC
shut out great desert, and how much
more will several bushels of dollars shut
out2
! The marriage day comes and goes. The
| wedding ring was costly enough, and the
orange blossoms fragrant enough, and
the benedi ction solemn enough, and the
wedding march stirring enough And the
audience shed tears of sympathetic glad
ness, supposing that the craft containing
the two has sailed off on placid lake
although God knows that they are
launched on a dead sea, its waters brack.
ish with tears, and CHASTITY with
faces of despair hoa ting to the sur
face and then going down. There they
! are, the newly married pair in their new
| home. He turns out to be tyrant. Hei
! will is nothing, his will every thing
/ 7 I. e.. f. L,
| begrudges her the pennies he pinches out
into her trembling palm. Instead Of the
| kind words she left behind in her former
| home, now there are complaints, and
| fault-dndings and curses. He is the mas
| ter and she the slave. The worst villnir
on earth is the man who, having captured
| n woman from her fathers house, and
after the oath Of the marriage altar has
| been pronounced, says, by his manner, 1
not in words: 81 have you now in my
| power. What can you do? My arm il
stronger than yours. My voice is louder
| than yours. My fortune is greate
than yours. My nams Is mightiei
than yours. Now crouch be fore III,
like dog. Now crawl away from me lilct
a reptile. You are nothing but "A woman
anyhow. Down, you miserable wretch =
Can halls of mosaic, can long lines o
| l1truscan bronze. or statuary by Palmer
y
and Canova; can galleries rich from thu
pencil of Bierstadt, and Church. and Ken
set, and Cole, and Cropsey; could violin
played on by an Ole Bull or pianos fin
gered bY Gottschalk, or solos warbl eC
by Sontag; could wardrobes like that O
Marie Antoinette, could jewels lik'
those of Eugonie make a wife IN such a
companionship happyg
Imprisoned in castlel Her gold brace
] LOT hal of Il 4,
There is a sword over her every feast, no
like that Of Damocles sta ying suspended
bat dropping through her lacerated heart
Her wardrobe is full OF shroud
for deaths which she dies daily
and she is buried alive, though burie,
under gorgeous upholstery. There is on
word that sounds under the arches, and
rolls along the corridors, and weeps in tht
falling fountains, and echoes in the shut
ting of every door, and groans In every
note Of stringed and wind instrument
'tWoei Woep The oxen and sheep II
Olden time brought to tho temple Of Jupi
ter to be sacrificed used to he covered
with ribbons and flowers, ribbons on thu
horns and flowers On the neck But tn
floral and ribboned decorations did no
make the stab of the butchers knife les
deatbful, and all the chandeliers yo'
hang over such woman, and all the robe
with which you enwrap her, and ali tn
the ribbons with which you adOrn her
and all the bewitching charms with which
Won embank her footsteps, ara tho ribbons
and 65wers Of horrible butchery.
AS if to show how wretched a good WON
an may be in SPLENDID surroundings, we
have two recent Illustrations, two duca
palaces in Great Britain. They are tn
J focus of the best things that are possibl,
in art, in literature, in architecture, tn
accumulation of other estates until thei
wealth Is beyond calculation and tbei
grandeur beyond description. One o. tb
castles has cabinet set with gems tha
cost s.. 900. go. and tho walls OF - bioor
with Rem brandts and Claudss and Pous