National Republican., 1888-01-16

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 round dollar held close to ones eye
Is large enough TO shut out great deseIL and
how much more will several bushels OF dollars
shut cut
1he marriage day comes and goes, The
orange blossoms fragrant enough, and the
benediction solemn enough, and the wedding
march stirring enough. And the audience
that the craft containing the two has sailed
of on placid lake, although God knows that
they are launched on dead sea, It's waters
faces of despair floating to the surface, and
then going down. There they are, the newly
married pair in their new home. He turns
will everything. Lavish of money for
his own pleasure. he begrudges her the pom
pies he pinches out into her trembling palm,
and fault findings and curses. He is the mas.
ter and snc the slave The worst villan n, on
soman Sah Il ae hen SSaG ssSsF sss ana SdHPsed, tho
oath Of the marriage altar has been pro.
noupced says, by hls manner If not words:
have you now In my power; What can
Ny voice is louder than yours MY fortune
is greater than yours. Ny name is mightier
than yours. Now crouch before me like dog.
you miserable wretch" Can halls of mosaic,
can long lines of Etruscan bronze or
% Crawford and f cSantry a ana n4"'re canovS sna
can galleries rich from the pencil OF
Bierstadt and Church and Kenset and Cole
and Cropsey, could violins played on by an Ole
Bull, or pianos fingered by Gottschalk, or
solos waib!ed by q Sohniag, could wardr)bes
Ike that OF Marie Antoinnetto, could jewels
like those Of a Eugenie make n wife in such a
companionship happy?
Imprisoned In a castle. Her GOLD bracelets
are the chains Of llfe,ong serritudo. There
isa sword over her every & ast, not liyc that
OF DemOcles staying suspended, but drOppiug
through her lncerated heart. Her wardrobe is
full OF shrouds for deaths which she dies
daily and she is buried alive though buried
.II under GORGEOUS upholstery; There is one one word
the corridors and weeps In the falliug fountains
and echoes IN the shutting of every door aud
sTonns IN every Tyv note Of s,FinSed aud wind
sheep. in the oidcu times brought to the tenn
pie of Jupiter to be sacrificed used to DO COW
cred with ribbons and flowers, ribbons on the
horrs ard flowers on the neck. But the floral
ana rlbboned decoration did not make the
stab Of the butchers knife less death ful, aud
all The chandeliers you hang over such Il wo.
man and all the robes with which you en-
wrap her ard all the ribbons with which you
ad0fn her and all the bcwitching charms with
which you omhauk her footsteps are the rib.
bons ard flowers OF a horrible bGtchery.
AS ITO show how wretChel good won IN
may be in splendid surroundings We have two
recent illustrations two ducal palaces in Great
britain They are the focus % Of the 6e; things
lecture, the accumulation OF other estates,
until their wealth is beyond calculation and
their grandeur beyond descriptiou, one of
the castles has cabinet set with gems
that cost two million five hundred thousand
dollars, and the walls of II bloom with
RemDrandts and Claudes and Poussins and
GuidOs and Raphaels, and there are South.
down ilocks In summer grazing on its lawns
and Arab steeds prancing at the doorways on
the "hrtt open day at the Kennels" From the
one castle ihe duchess 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 confronted
by Insults and denominations, in the presence
OF which / DO not think God or decent society
requires good woman to remain. Alas
for those ducGl country seats! They
on larger scale Illustrate what on
smaller scale NAV be seen in many places
that, without moral character in II husband,
all the accessories OF wealth are to awfe's
soul tantalization and mockery When Abb
gail finds Nabal. her husband, beastly drunk,
as she comes home from interceding for his
fortune and life, II was no alleviation that
the old brute had possessions in Carmel, and
twas very great, and had three thousand
sheep, and one thousand goats" and he the
worst goat among them. The snimai in his
nature seized the soul in its mouth and ran
ofwith II.
Before things are right in this world gen.
teel villains are TO be expurgated. Instead of
| being welcomed into respectable society be-
cause OF the amount OF stars and garters and
to be fumisated two or three years before they
are allowed, without peril to themselves, to
put their hand on the door-knoh Of a moral
line estray will be rs repugnant to good
society as feminine estray, aud no
coatof arms or family em6lsaSSN,nry y sr Spnie!
fSa tSa pas sunes hGih'0 of n'hS hons nsf among ~
| what law Of God or common sense /, an Absa-
lon better than DslIlah, Don Juan better
one black must paint the Other black, Bnt
what tpectacle !, was when last sun. mery
much of watering place" society went wild
with. enthusiasm over an unciean foreign
synonym for PtehEacy, aud prineessss, Of
laad had him ride in thsr sa,an GnarriaHges ,HHs
| knew him to be portable lazaretto, a charnel
house of moral putreiaction. his breath Il ty.
| phOid, his foot that Of a Satyr, aud his touch
but, women msy. Keep all such ont OF your
parlors, have no recognition for them IN the
| street and no more think of nllying yorr life
ard destiny with theirs than gales from
with an Egyptian plague. All that money or
social position bal man brings to woman
In marriage Is a splendid DESPAIR, gllded
and the longer the martial union lasts the
more evident will be the fact that She might
better, never have been horn; Yet yon and
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the feast was over the bridegrooms tongue
was thick and his eye CLASSY aud his step Il
stagger as he clicked glasses with jolly CON.
rades, all going with lightning limited express
train 10 the fatal crash over the ombankmeni
| of ruined life and los. eternity.
Woman, join not your right hand with such
a right hand. Accept from such an one NO
jewel for finger or ear lest that sparkle oi
| precious stone turn out to be the eye OF a
baslisk. and let not the ring come, on the
finger of your right hand lest that ring turn
nttf In hA n ~ n
you in never ending captivity. In the name
OF God and heaven and home, in the name Of
all time and all eternity. forbid the banns
Consent not to Join one of the many regi
ments OF women who have married Tor worldly
success without regard to moral character
lfyou are ambitious, D woman, for noble
that horor yOn are invited by the Monarch OF
| heaven and earth, aud this day voice from
The SHES. sounds forth "is the bride
eos over qee no Let DH Him 50 put snn s
thee the ring OF this royal marriage Here l.
an honor worth reaching atter By repentance
aLd nith you may come int3 & IIa marriage Win YIN
ma, be an empress unto God forever and
re'' with him in palaces that the centuries
CO. Ot crumble or cnnnonades demolish.
liish worldly marriage is no I necessary fol
woman or marriage Of any kind in ordertc
your happiness. Ceiibacy has been honored
by the best being that ever lived and III,
greatest spestle. Christ and Paul, What higher
honor could single life on earth have2 But
what you need, o woman, is to be atiHncet
forever and forever aud the banns OF that
marriage am this moment here and nov
ready to publish. Let the angels of HEAVIER
bend f1om their galleries OF light to witne, i
while pronounce you onc-a loving God anC
forgiven snnl. one of the most stirrinl
passages N history with which ! am &C
quaintcd tells us how Cleopatra, tho eXllet
queen OF Egypt, won the symoaJAieS Of Juins
| Cesar. the conQueror, unit ne became tn,
bridegroom aud She the bride Driven from
her throne, she sailed away on the hedster
raneHn sea IN u storm, aud when the larlI
ship M Gho oTd she rut ont win Ong womauly
friend IL u small boat until She arrived n
Alexandria, where was Cesar, the grca
ger cTal, Knowing that She Won q not
permitted to land or pass the g'llrds on th,
| way 10 CuSgI's p0Lncp She lnil ugDu Tin