The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-02-23

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vote. / can not see what right you have
to make a woman pay taxes on her prop
erty 60 help support city, State and Ma
! tional government and yet deny her the
| opportunity OF helping decide who shall
| be ma yof Governor or President. But
| let every wife, not waiting for the vote
| she may never get, or, getting 1t, ma IL
| over bal anced by some other vote not ut
| to be cast, arise now in the might OF the
| eternal God and WELD the power of
sancified wifely amb ton for a good APP
prox mating tho infinite.
| No one can so inspire a man to noble
| purposes as n noble woman, and no one so
| thoroughly degrades man as wife of
| unworthy tendencies. While in my text
we have illustration If wifely ambition
| employed in the wrong direction, society
| and history are full of instances of wifely
ambition gloriously triumphant in right
| directions. All that was worth admira-
| ton in the character of Henry vi was
reflection Of the heroics of his wife Mar
garet. William, Prince of Orange, was
| restored to the right path by the grand
| qualities of his wife Mary. Justnian, the
| Roman Emperor, confesses that his wise
laws were the suggestions of his
wife Theodore. Andrew Jackson, the
warrior and President, had his
mightiest reinforcement in his plain
wife, whose inartistic attire was
the amusement of the elegant circles in
| which she was invited. Washington, who
| broke the chain that held America in for
| eign yassalage, wore for forty years a
| chain around his own neck, that chain
| holding the miniature likeness of her who
| had been his greatest Inspiration. whether
among the SHOWS at Valley Forge or
| amid the honors Of the presiden tial chair.
! Pliny's pen was driven through all its
1 poetic and historical dominion3 by his
| wife, Ca purnia, who sang his stanzas to
the sound of flute and sat among audi
| ences euraptured at her husbands genius,
| herself the most enraptured. Pericles said
he got all his eloquence and statesmans hip
| from his wife. When the wife of Grotius
rescued him from long imprisonment at
Lovestein by means OF n bookcase that
went in and out, carrying his books to and
fro, he was one day transported, hidden
among the folios, and the women of be-
besieged Weinsberg, getting permission
from the victorious army to take with
them so much of their valuables as they
| could carry, under cover of the promise
| shouldered and took with them a the
| most important vauables their husbands
| both achievements in literal way illus
| trated what thousands of times has been
| done in igura tive way, thai wifely am
btion has been the salvation of men.
De Tocqueville, who3a writings will be
pc tent and quoted while the world
lasts, ascribed his successes to his wife,
| and says:
"Of all the blessings which God has
| given to me- the greatest of all in my
eyes is to have lighted on Maria Motley"
Martin Luther says of his wife:
Il would not exchange my poverty
| with her for all the riches of Cros us
without her."
Isabella of Spain, by her superior fpit.ll,,
in Columbus, put into the hand of
Ferdinand, her husband , America. John
Adams, President of the United States,
said of his wife:
''She never by word or look discouraged
me from running all hazards for the sal
walton of my country's liberties"
Thomas Carlyle spent the last twenty
years of his life in trying by his pen to
atone for the fact that during his wife's
life he never appreciated her Influence on
his career and destiny. Alas, that having
taken her from a beautiful home and a
bril- liant career, he should have buried
her in the home of recluse and scOlded
her in such language as only dyspeptic
genius could manage, until one day, while
in her invalidism, riding in Hyde Park,
her pet dog got run over, and under the
excitement the coachman found her dead.
Then the literary giant W oke from his con-
jugal injus tice, and wrote the lamen ta-
tions of Craigen- Puttock and Cheyne
Row. The elegant and fulsome epitaphs
that husbands pat upon their wives
tombstones are often an attempt to make
up for lack of appreciative words that
should have been uttered in the ears of
the living. whole Green wood of monu-
mental inscrip tions will not do wife so
much good after she has quit the world as
one rlain sentence like that which Tom
Hood wrote to his lv ng wife when he
said: ~ never was any thing till l knew
you"
Owoman, what IL your wfely ambi-
| ton, noble or ignoble? Is it high social
position3 Tha, will then probably direct
your husband and he will climb, and
scramble, and slip. and fall, and rise, and
tumble, and on what leve, or in what
| depth, or in what height he will after
awhile be found | can not even
guess. The contest for social position is
the most unsatisfactory contest in all the
world, because it is so uncertain about
sion after you have obtained it, and so
unsatisfactory even il you keep it. The
whisk of lady's fan may blow it out
The growl of one bear or the believing OF
one bull on Wall street may scatter IT,
Is the wife's ambition the political pre-
ferment of her husband? Then that will |
probably direct him. What a God-for- |
saken realm is Amer can politics those
best know who have dabbled in them. |
After they have assessed man who Is a |
candidate for office which he does not get, !
or assessed him for some Office attained, !
and he has been whirled round, and round, |
and round, and round among the drink
ing, smoking, swearing crowd who often
get control of public affairs, all that is
left of his self-respect or moral stamina
would find plenty of room ON a gsomet
rical point which Is said to have ne ther
length, breadth nor thickness. Many n
wife has not been satisfied till her hus-
band went into politics, but woul after
ward have given all she possessed TO get
him out.
knew a highly moral man, useful in
the church and possessor of bright
home. He had a useful and prosperous
business but his wife did not think it
genteel enough. There were odors about
the business and sometimes they would
adhere TO his garments whom he returned
at night She insisted on his doing some
thing more elegant, al Though he was
quali fed for no business except that in
which he was engaged. To please her he
changed has business, and, in order TO get
on faster, aban duned church attendance,
saying after he lad mate a certain num-
Dor OF hundreds OF thousands Of dollars
he would return 30 the church and It's serv.
ices. there is that family to-day?
Obitera ted. Although succeed ing in BUSH
ness for which he was qualified, he under
took a style of merchandise for which he
had no quail iication, and soon went into
bankruptcy. His new style Of business
put him into evil association. lie lost his
morals as we'll as his money. He b oke
up not only his own home, but broke up
| nnothe mnn's homo. and from h.ing a