The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-16

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 aud daugh-
| ter, and when asked why he wanted such
burial, replied: ''If there be q resurrec.
ton 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
village 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 CLANS
short. Yes, godliness is profitable fol-
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 fnanci al
resources, woman who puts her happi.
ness by marriage i'll his hand, re -enacts
| the folly of Abigail when she accepted
disagreeable Nabal, 'whose possessions
were in Carmel, and the man was very
great, and he had three thousand sheep
and one thousand goats"
! If there be good moral character, ac-
| companied by affiuent circumstances,
onr LOTT lat
| 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. l sketch you q
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
moss as a part of his possessions. He has
his coat collar turned up when there is nc
chill in the air, but because it gives hin
an air of abandon; and e-glass, not be.
couse he is near-sighted, but because il
| gives a classical appearance; and with
an attire somewhat loud, a cane thicl
enough to be the club of Hercules
and clutched at the middle, his converse a.
| ton interlarded with French phrases in
accurately pronounced, and a sweep oil
manner indicating that he was not born
like most folks, but terrestrially landed
By arts learned of the devil hs insinuates
himself into the affections of the
daughter of that Christian home
All the kindred congratulate her OF
| the almost supernatural prospects
Reports come in that the young man i:
fast in his habits; that he has broker
several young hearts, and that he j.
mean and selfish and cruel. But all thi:
| is covered up with the fact that he ha.
| several houses in his own name, and ha!
large deposits at the bank, and, NOR,
than all, has father worth man,
hundred thousand dollars and very feeble
in health, and may any day drop off, anG
this is the only son, and round dolla
held close to ones eye is large enough t,
| shut out great desert, and how mucl
more will several bushels of dollars shu
out?
The marriage day comes and goes. TIL,
wedding ring was costly enough, and TIN
orange blossoms fragrant enough, ant
the benediction solemn enough, and tn
wedding march stirring enough. And tn
audience shed tears of sympathetic ga
ness, supposing that the craft containin,
the two has sailed off on placid lake
although God knows that thew ar
launched on dead sea, it's waters brack
ish with tears, and CHASTITY will
faces of despair floating to ths sur.
face and then going down. There the,
are, the newly married pair in their new
home. He turns out to be tyrant. He
will is nothing, his will every thing
Lavish of money for his own pleasure, h
begrudges her the pennies he pinches GU
into her trembling palm. Instead of tn
kind words she left behind in her forme
home, now there are complaints, an,
fault-fndings and curses. He is the mas
ter and she the slave. The worst villai
on earth is the man who, having capture,
a woman from her fathers house, an,
after the oath of the marriage altar ha
been pronounced, says, by his manner,
not in words: II have you now in m,
power. What can you dos NV arm
stronger than yours. My voice is loude
than yours. My fortune is create
| 'ASsu Soui ]hy udIl3 Is III HHGle
than you's. Now crouch before m
like dog. Now crawl away from me lik
a reptile. You are nothing but woman
anyhow. Down, you miserable wretch !,
Can halls of mosaic, can long lines O
Etruscan bronze. or statuary by Palmer
and Powers, and Crawford, and Chantry
and Canova; can galleries rich from tn
pencil of Bierstadt, and Church. and Ken
set and Cole, and Cropsey; could violin
pr aged on by an De Bull, or pianos fin
gered by Gottschalk, or solos MARBLE e,
by Sontag; could wardrobes like that O
a Marie Antoinette could jewels Hk
those of Eugenie make wife in such a
companionship happy?
Imprisoned in castle! Her gold brace
lets are the chains of lifelong servitude
There is sword over her every feast, no
like that of Damocles staying suspended
bat dropping through her lacerated heart
| Her wardrobe is full of stroud
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, aud weeps in the
falling fountains, and echoes in the shut
ting of every door, and groans in every
note of string ed and wind instrument
"Woe! Woew The oxen and Sheep i,
olden time brought to the temple of Jupi
| ter tn hn -