Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23

you want 10 near beating down OF pFlses
and wages In perfection, listen how some
women treat washerwomen and dress
makers and servants. Mrs. Shylock Is
more mere;less than Mr.. Shylock. Women,
l fear. will never get righteous wages
through woman's vote, and as to un'
fortunate womanhood, women are far more
sruel and tnforgiving than men are.
After q woman has made shipwreck OF
her character, men gefierally drop her.
but women do not 50 much drop ker as
hurl her with the force Of a catapult clear
out; and of, and down, and under.
have not much faith that woman will
ever got merciful Consideration and
Justice through woman Suffrage, yet like
experiments, and some Of my friends, in
whose judgment have confidence. are so
certain that alienation would come by
such process that I would, if l had the
power. pvt in every woman's hand the
vote. can not sec what right you have
to make q woman pay taxes sn her prop
erty to help support city, State add Ma
tional government and yet deny her the
opportunity Of helping decide who shall
be ma yor, Governor or President. But
let every wife, not waiting for the vote
she may never get, or, gstting it, find it
oVerbal anced by some other vote not fit
to be cast, &rise how in the might OF the
eternal God and WELD the power of q
sancified wifely amb ton for 4 good ap-
prcx mating the infinite.
No one car so inspire d man to noble
purposes as a noble Woman. and no one so
thoroughly degrades a man as wife OF
unworthy tendencies. While in my text
we hare illustration of wifely ambition
employed in the storg direction, society
and history are full of instances 6f wifely
ambition gloriously triumphant in fight
directions. All that was worth admira-
ton in the character of Hurry 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. Justinian, 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 .hAt held America in for.
eign vassalage, wore for tcrty years a
Cudin His O"h AOShy 0hoO SAGtAs
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 presidential chair.
Pliny's pen was driven through all its
poetic and historical dominions by his
wife, Calpnrnia. who sang his stanx1s to
the sound of flute and sat among audi.
ences enraptured at her husbands genius,
herself the most enraptured. Pericles said
he got all his eloqueace and statesmans hip
from his wife. When the wife Of Grotits
rescued him from long imprisonment at
Lovestein by means Of bookcase that
" emit 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 80 much Of their valuables as they
could carry, under cover OF the promise
shouldered and took with them as the
most important valuables their husbands
both achievements in q literal way illus.
trated what thousands of times has been
done in a fgurative way, that w;fely am
bition has been the salvation of men.
De Tocquevlle, whose writings will be
DO tential 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 oil in my
eyes is to have lighted On Maria Motley"
Martin Luther says Of his wife:
II would not exchange my poverty
with her for all the riches Of Cres us
without her"
isabella of Spain, by her superior faith
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
brilliant career, he should have buried
her in the home of q recluse and scolded
her in such language as only a dyspeptiC
genius could manage, until one day, while
in her invalidism, riding in Hyde Park,
her pet dog got run over, and under the
01ClLSIUcut tu0 COdCuHuu IOuUu u0T u0dVs
Then the literary giant woke from his con-
jugal injus tice, and wrote the lamen ia
lions of Craigen- Puttock and Cheyne
Row. The elegant and fulsome epitaphs
that hus bands put 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. A whole Green wood of monu-
mental inscriptions will not do wife so
much good after she has quit the world as
one plain sentence like that which Tom
Hood wrote to his living wife when he
said: II never was any thing till knew
YOU"
woman, what is your wifely ambi-
ton, noble or ignoble? Is it high social
position? That will then probably direct
your husband, and he will climb, and
scramble, and slip. and fall, and rise, and
tumble and on what level, or in what
depth, or in what height he will after
awhile lie 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
your getting it, and so insecure q posses .
sion after you have btained it, and so
unsatisfactory even il you keep it. The
whisk of a lady's fan may blow it out.
The growl of one bear or the believing of
one bull on Wall street may scatter it
knew a highly moral man, useful in
the church and possess0f of q bright
home. He had a useful and prosperous
business, but bis wife lid not think it
genteel enough. There were odors about
the business and sometimes they would
adhere to his garments when he returned
at night. She insisted ON his doing some
thing more elegant, although he was
qualified for no business except that in
which he was engaged. To please her he