Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-28

of the marriage altarhasbcen pronounced
say. bv his manner if not in words: II
have YOU now IN my power. What can
YOU doY Ny ann is stronger than yours.
Ny voice is louder than yours. Ny FOR
tune is greater than yours. My
name is mighticr than yours. Now
crouch before me like q dog. Now crawl
away from me like "a reptile. You are
nothing but oma anyhow. Down, you
miserable wretch Can halls OF mosaic,
can long lines of Etruscan bronze, or
statuary by Palmer and Powers and
Crawford and Chantry and Ganova, can
gallc,ics rich from the pencil Of Bier
stadt and Church and Eensct and Cole
and Cropscy. could flutes played on 10y
an ole Ball or pianos fingered by a
Gottschalk. or stlos warblcdh Ivy "A SOnntag,
could WardrObcs like that of a Marie
Antoinette. could Jewels like those Of a
Eugene make a wife in such u compan-
ionship happy?
THE SWORD TOUCHED HEART.
Imprisoned in a CASTLE Her gold brace
let's are / G chains Of Il lifelong servitude.
There is "A sword over her every feast,
no: like that of DamoClcs staying sus-
pended bu. dropping through her LAGER.
atcd heart. Her wardrobe IS Iull OF
shrouds 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 wecps in the
Ealing fountains and echoes III the shut
ting Of every door and groans in every
note Of stringcd and wind instrument
Woo Woe The oxen and sheep in
olden times brought to the temple Of
Jupiter to be sacrificed used TO be covered
with ribbons and flowers, ribbons on the
horns and flowers on the neck. But the
floral and ribboned decoration did no,
make the stab Of the butchers knife less
deathful, and all the chandeliers you hang
over such n woman and all the robes with
which sou enwrap her and all the be
witching charms with which YOU cmbank
her footsteps are the ribbons and flowers
of a horrible butcherv.
RECEST ILLUSTRATIONS.
As if to show how wrctchcd a good
woman may be in splendid surroundings
we have two recent illustrations, two
ducal palaces in Great Britain. They are
the focus OF the best things that are posi-
bic in art, in literature, in architecture,
the accumulation Of other estates until
their wealth is beyond calculation and
their grandeur beyond description. One
Of the castles has IA cabinet set with gems
that cost two million five hundred thou.
sand dollars, and the walls OF IT bloom
with Rambanis and Claudcs and Pousins
and Guidos and ltaphaels, and there are
SOuthdown hocks in summer grazing on
its lawns and Arab stccds prancing at its
doorways on the first open day at the
kennels From The one castle the duchcss
has removed with her children because
she can no longer endure the orgies
of her husband, the duke, and in
the other castle the duchess remains con
fronted by insults and denominations in
the presence Of which | do not think God
or decent society requires a good woman
To remain. Alas for those ducal country
seats, They on a large scale illustrate,
what on smaller scale may be seen in
many places, that without moral charac-
ter in "A husband all the accessories Of
wealth are to a wife's soul rehabilitation
and mockcry. When
ABIGAIL FINDS NABAL,
her husband, bcastly drunk. as she comes
home from intcrceding for his fortune
and life. it was no alienation that the old
brute had possessionsin Carmel, and was
very great and had three thousand sheep
anG one thousand goats and he the
worst goat among. The animalin his ma
ture seized the soul in its mouth and rar
off with it.
Before things are right in this world
gcntecl villains are 10 be eXpurgatcd,
Instead of being welcomed into respect
able society because of the amount OF
stars and gartcrs and medals and estates
they represent, they ought TO be fumi-
gated two or three years before they are
allowed without peril to themselves 10
put their hand on the door
knob of a moral house. The time must
come wheG a masculine cstray will be rs
rcpugnant 20 goood society as a feminine
estrav, and no coat of arms or family
emblazonry orcpaulet can push Il Lothario
uuchallengcd among the sanctitics of
home life, BY what law Of God or com
mon sense is an Absalom better than a
Delilah. a Don Juan better than a Mas
salina? The brush that paints the one
Didth UuSG PANT INC OtHfl DIdch. Dul
what "A spectacle it was when last sum
mcr much Of watering place society
went wild with enthusiasm owe an
u~nclean foreign dignitary whose name in
both hemisphercs il a synonym for
protligacy, and
~PRISCEssEs OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
from all parts Of the land had him ride in
their carriages and sit at their tables,
though they knew him 10 be Il portable
lazaretto, a charEcl house Of putrefaction,
his breath typhoid, his foot that of a
satyr and his touch death. Here is an
evil that men canno stop bnt women
may. Keep oil such ont Of your parlors,
have no racognit ON for them in the street
and no nor think of allying your life
and destiny with theirs than gales from
Araby" would consent to pass the honey
moon with an Egyptian plague. All that
money or social position q bad man brings
to Il iona in marriage is u splendid de
spair, a gildcd horror. a brilliant agony, a
prolonged death, and Tie longer the mar
tial union lasts the more evident will he
the fact that she might never have been
born. Yet you and ! have been at bril-
liant weddings where before the feast was