Sharp County record., 1888-03-22

through wOman's vote, and as " un
s,-.+,,,7 a 10 rvnmanhood, women are far more
crueI and unforgiving than men arc.
After a woman has made shipwrech OIL
her character. men generally drop her'
hnt women do not so much drop her aS
hurl her with the force OF catapuIU CI'"'
ont. and off, and down, and under g.,
I Ibave not much faith that woman WIZ
ever get merciful consideration anu
inetice through woman suffrage, yet Ike
avneriments. and some of my frlendS, III
whose Judgment have confidence, are SO
certain that alienation would come Dy
such process that l would, II l had In0
mower put in every wOman's hani Ine
rota 7 can not see what right you nave
to make a woman pay taxes on her prop
ertv to help support city, state anu va
tional government and yet deny her 'uT
onnortnnity of helping decide who nan
ba ma vor Governor or President. But
Lot averv wife. not waiting for the vote
she NAV never get, or, getting 1t, ma IL
overbalanced by some other vote hoU HU
TO be cast. arise now in the might Oh Ino
aterDal God and WELD the power OF
SanClleu WiIelN LtllD' u'O'A
Droxi mating the infinite -,
No one can so inspire a man 20 hoOi0
| nurposes as a noble woman, and no one 50
! thoroughly degrades man as "iL9 VI
unworthy tendencies. While IN my IsN'
wa have illustration Of wifely ambition
emnloved in the wrong direction, society
and history are full of instances OF Wllety
ambition gloriously triumphant III rlgnI
directions. All that was worth admlra-
tion in the character of Henry vi. was
! roAaction of the herocs of his wife Mar
garet. William, Prince of Orange, was
restored to the right path by the granu
qualities of his wife Mary. Justinan, the
| Roman Emperor, confesses that MS wise
| laws were the suggestions OF MS
wife Theodore. Andrew Jackson, the
warrior and President, had MS
mightiest reinforcement in his plain
wife. whose inartistic attire was
tbe amusement OF the elegant circles IN
which she wa, invited. Washington, VINO
broke the chain that held America N tor'
eicn vassalage, wore for forty years
chain around his own neck, that chalh
holding the miniature likeness of her VINO
had been his greatest insDiration, whether
among the SHOWS at Valley Forge or
amid the honors Of the presidential char
PIinv,s pen was driven through all its
pOetic and historical dominiOn5 by his
wife. CaIpnrnia, who sang his stanzas to
tbe sound of flute and sat among audi
ences enraptured at her husbands genius,
herself the most enraptured. Particles Sald
! he gotalI his eloquence and NIP
from his wife. When the wife of GrOuus
rescued him from long imprisonment at
Lovesteiu by means Of bookcase that
went in and out, carrying his books to ana
| 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 so much of their valuable5 as they
could carry, under cover of the promise
shouldered and took with them as the
most important vauable1 their husbands
both achievements in literal way Illus
trated what thousands Of times has been
done in fiyurative way, that wifely am
bition has been the salvation Of men.
De Tocuusville, 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 all in my
ewes is to have lighted on Maria Motley"
Martin Luther says Of his wife:
al would not exchange my poverty
with her for all the riches Of CrB5 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.
vation of my country'S liberties"
Thomas Carlyle spent the last twenty
wears of his life in trying by his pen to
atone for the fact that during his wife
life he never appreciated her influence on
his career and destiny, Alas, that having
taken her from a beautiful home and q
| brilliant career, he should have buried
her in the home of a recIuse and scolded
her in such language as only a dyspeptic
genius could manage, until one day, while
in her invaIdism, riding in Hyde Park,
her pet dog got run over, and under the
excitement the coachman found her dead.
Then the literary giant woke from his con-
iugal Injustice, and wrote the lamen Ia
tions of Craigen- Puttock and Cheyne
Row. The elegant and fulsOme epitaphs
that usbands put upon their wives
tombstones are often an attempt to make
up for lack of appre eciative words that
should have been uttered in the ears of
the living. A whole Greenwood of mOnu.
mental inscrip tions will not do a 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 l knew
you"
o 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 levo', or in what
depth, or in what height he will after
awhile be found l can not even
guess. The contest for social pos tion is
the most unsatisfactory contest in all the
world, because it is so uncertain about
your getting it, and 50 insecure a posses
sion after you have obtained it, and so
unsatisfactory even if you keep it, The
whisk Of lady's fan may blow it out.
The growl of one bear or the believing OF
one bull on Wall street may scatter it.
Is the wife'S ambition the political pre-