The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27

insanity. All infdsls are cranks.
Many Of them talk brightly, but you
soon find that in their mental machinery
there IL q screw loose. When they are not
lecturing 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, end when asked why he wanted such
burial replied: ''If there be q resurrec-
ton of the coed, as some folks say there
will be. my Christian wife and daughter
will somehow get mo mp 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 cargces 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 thousand Cams
short Yes, 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 il 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 Nabai, ''whose possessions
were in Carmel, and the man was very
great, and he lad three thousand sheep
andJ one thousand goats.e
If there be good moral character, ac-
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. 1 sketch you a
scene you have moro 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 selfshness, and fond
ness for champagne. and general reckless
ness as q 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-sighted, but because it
gives a classical appearances; and with
an attire somewhat loud, cnne thick
enough to be the club OF Hercules
and clutched at the middle, his conversa-
tion interlaided with French phrases in
accurately pronounced, and a sweep of
manner indicating that he was not born
like most folks, but terrestrinlly landed.
By arts learned of the devil h. insinuatss
himself into the affections of the
daughter of that Christian home.
All the kindred congratulate her on
the almost supernatural prospects.
Reports come in that the young man is
fast N his habits; that he has broken
several Young hearts, and that 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 father worth many
hundred thousand dollars and very feeble
in health, and may any day drop of, and
this is the only son, and a round dollar
held close to ones eye is large enough to
shut out q great desert, and how much
more will several bushels of dollars shut
out!
The marriage day comes and goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough, and the
orange blossoms fragrant enough, and
the benedi cti0n solemn enough, and tho
wedding march stirring enough. And the
audience shed tears of sympathetic glad
ness, supposing that the craft containing
the two has sailed Off on q placid lake,
although God knows that they are
launched on dead sea, its waters brack-
ish with tears, and CHASTITY with
faces of despair floating 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. Her
will Is nothing. his will every thing.
Lavish of money for his own pleasure, he
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.findings and curses. He Is the mas.
ter and she the slave. The worst villain
on earth is the man who, having captured
q woman from her fathers house, and
after the oath Of the marriage altar has
been pronounced, says, BY his manner, if
not in words: 81 have you now in my
power. What can you do: Ny arm is
stronger than yours. My voice is louder
than yours. My fortune is greater
than yours. My nams is mightier
than yours. Now crouch before me
like dog. Now crawl away from me like
a reptile. You are nothing but a woman.
anyhow. Down, you miserable wretch"
Can halls of mosaic, can long lines OF
Etruscan bronze. or statuary by Palmer,
and Powers. and Craw ford, and Chantry.
and Canova; can galleries rich from the
pencil OF Bierstadt, and Church. and Ken
set, and Colo, and Crorsey; could violins
payed ON by an Ole Bull, or pianos fin
gered bv a GottschaIk. or solos warbled
by Sontng; could wardrobes like that of
q Marie Antoinette. could jewels like
those Of Euysnie make a wife In such q
happyi
Imprisoned in castle! Her gold Brace
lets are the chains of = lifelong servitude.
There is sword over her every feast, not
like that of Damocles sta wing suspended.
but dropping through her lacerated heart.
Her wardrobe is full Of shronds
for deaths which she dies daily.
and she is buried alive, though buried
under gorgeous upholstery. There IS one
word that sounds under the arches, and
rolls along the corridors, and weeps in the
falling fountains. and echoes in the shut.
ting Of every door, and groans in every
note of strinced and wind instrument:
"Woe! VICE." The oxen and sheep in
olden time brought to the temple Of Jupi-
ter to be sacrificed used to be covered
with ribbons and flowers, ribbons on the
horns and flowers on the neck. But tho
floral and ribboned decorations did not
make the stab Of the butchers knife less
and all the chandsliers YOU
hang over such woman, and oil the robes