Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-26

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| and mockery. When Abigail finds NAbal.
her husband, beastly drunk as she Gomez
home from interceding for his fortune and
life, it was no alienation that tho old
brute had possessions in Carmel, and
twas very great, and had three thousand
sheep and q thousand goats" and he the
worst goat among them. The animal in
his nature seized the soul in its mouth and
ian of with it.
| Before things are right in this world
genteel villains arc to be expurgated. In
stead Of being welcomed into respectable
society because Of the amount of stars
and garters, and medals, and estates they
represent they ought to b fumigated
two or three years before they are allowed
| without peril to themselves to put their
hand on the door knob Of q moral house
| The time must come when . masculine
estray will be as repugnant to good society
as feminine estray, and no cOat-of-arms
or family emblaZonry or epaulet can
pass Lothario unchallenged among the
sanctities of home life. By what law OF
God or common sense is an Absalom
I better than a Delilah, Don Juan
better than a Messalna: The brush
that paints the one black must paint
the other black. But what q spec
tacle it was when last summer much OF
watering-place society went wild with
enthusiasm over an unc!ean foreign dig
nitary whose name in both hemispheres
is synonym for prof1igacy, and prin-
cesses Of American society from all parts
| of the land had him ride in their car
riages and sit at their table, though they
know him to be a portable lazeratto, a
charnel house of moral putrefac.ion, his
breath a typhoid, his foot that of q satyr,
and his touch death. Here is an evil that
men can not stop, but women may. Keep
all UGH out of your parlors, have no rec
ognition for them in the street, and no
more think of allying your life and des-
tiny with theirs than "gales from
Araby" would consent to pass the
honey moon with an Egyptian plague.
All that money or social position bad
man brings to woman in marriage is a
| splend did despair, a gilded horror, a bril-.
liant agony, a prolonged death. and the
longer THE martial union lasts the more
evident will be the fact that she might
better never have been born. Yet you
and have been ut brilliant weddings
where, before the feast was over, the
bridegroom's tongue was thick and his
eye CLASSY and his step a stagger. as he
clicked glasses with jolly comrades, all
going with lightning limited express train
to the fatal crash over the embankmentc Of
a ruined life and a lost eternity.
Woman, join not your right hand with
| such right hand. Accept from such an
one no jewel for finger Or ear, lest that
! sparkle Of precious stone turn out to be
| the eye Of basilisk; and let noa the ring
| come on the finger of your tight hand.
| lest that ring turn out to be one link Of a
chain that shall bind you in newer ending
captivity. In the name of God and
Heaven and home, in the name of all time
and all eternity, forbid the banns! Con-
sent not to join one of the many regi-
ments of women who have married fc-
| worldly success, without regard to moral
| character.
If you are ambitious. o woman, TO
| noble affiancing, why not marry a king?
And to that honor you are invited bv tn,
monarch of Heaven and earth. And this
| day a voice from the skies sounds forth:
| GAS the bridegroom rejoiceth over the
bride so shall thy God joice over thes."
| Let him put upon thee the ring Of this
royal marriage. Here is an honor worth
reaching after. BY repentance and faith
| you may come into a marriage with the
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| may be an empress unto God forever, and
reign with him in palaces that the cent
uries can not crumble or cannonades de
| molish.
| High worldly marriage IS not necessary
for women, or marriage Of any kind, in
order to your happiness. Celibacy has
been honored by the best being that ever
lived and his greatest apostle-Christ and
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on earth have: But what you need, q
woman. is to be aflapced forever and
forever, and the banns of that marriage
am at this moment here and now ready
to publish. Let the angels OF Heaven
bend from their galleries of light to wit
ness while I pronounce you one-a
One of the most stirring passages
in history with which / am acquainted
| tells US how Cleopatra, the exiled
| Queen of Egypt, won the sympathy Of
julius Caesar, the conqueror, until he be-
| came the bridegroom and she the bride.
| Driven from her throne, she sailed away
| on the Mediterranean sea in a storm, and
when the large ship anchored she pat out
| with one womanly friend in a small boat
| until she arrived at Alexandria, where
was Caesar, the great General. Knowing
| that she would not be permitted to land
| or pass the guards on the way to Cesar's
| palace, she laid upon the bottom of the
boat some shnwls and scarfs and richly
dyed upholstery, and then lay down
upon them, and her friend wrapped
her in them, and she was
admitted ashore in this wrap
ping of goods. which was announced as q
present for Cesar. This bundle was per-
mittsd to pass the guards Of the gates Of
the palace. and was put down at the feet
of the Roman General. When the bundle
was unroiled there rose before Caesar one
whose courage, and Beauty, and illiancy
are the establishment Of the ages. This
exilei Queen of Egypt told the story Of
her sorrows, and he promised her that she
should get back her throne in Egypt and
take the throne OF wifely dominion in his
own heart. Afterward they made a
triumphal tour in a barge that the pict-
ures OF many art galleries have called
"Cieopatra's Barge" and that barge was
covered witt siflSen awning, and its deck
was soft with 1uxli liant carpets, and the
oars were silver tipped. and the Prov was
gold mounted, and the air was redo!eDt
with the spicery of tropical gardens and
resonant with the music that made the
night glad as the day. lou may rejoice.
o woman, that you are not n Cleopatra,
and that the one to wnom you NAV be
affianced had none of the sins Of Caesar.
the conqueror. But it suggests to ma
how you, a soal exiled from happiness and
peace. may find your way to the feet Of
the conqueror Of the earth and sky.
Though it NAV be dark night Of spiri tual
agitation in which you put out into tbs har.
Dor OF ponce. you may sail. and when all
the wrappings OF fear and doubt and sin