The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-19
and lazy vehicle; and books of history

and lazy vehicle; and books of history
tl.at give you glimpse of all the past;
AID shelves of poetry to which you may
60 and ask Milton or Tennyson or Spen-
Ger or Tom Moore or Robert Burns to
stop now and spend an evening with
you, and other shelves to which you may
go while you feel disgusted with the
shame of the world, and ask Thackeray
to express yoer chagrin, or Charles
Dickens to express the Pecksniffianism,
or Thomas Carlyle to thunder your in
dignation; or the other shelves where
the old gospel writers stand ready to
warn and cheer us while they open doors
into that city which is so bright the
MONDAY sun is abolished. There
is no virtue in owning a horse
chat takes four minutes to go a
go in a little over two minutes and a
half; no virtue in running into the teeth
of a northeast wind with thin apparel, if
you can afford furs; no virtue in beng
poor when you can honestly be rich.
There are names of men and women
that have only to mention, and they
suggest not only wealth, but religion and
generosity and philanthropy, such as
Amos Lawrence, James Lennox, Peter
Cooper, William E. Dodge, Shaftesbury,
Miss Wolfe and Mrs. Astor. A recent
writer says that of fifty leading business
men in one of our Eastern cities, and of
the fifty leading business men of one of
our Western cities, three fourths of them
are Christians. The fact is, that about all
the brain and the business genius is on
the side of religion. Infidelity is incipient
insanity All infidels are cranks. Many
of them talk brightly, but you soon find
| that in their mental machinery there is a
| screw loose. When they are not lecturing
| against Christianity they are sitting in
barrooms squirting tobacco juice, and
when they get mad swear till 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 daughter,
and when asked why he wanted such
burial replied: ''If there be resurrec-
ton Of the good, as some folks say there
will be, my Christian wife and daughter
will somehow get me up and take me
along with them''
Man may pretend to despise religion,
but they are rank hyprocrites. The sea
| captain was right when he came up to
the village on the sea coast and insisted
ON paying $40 to the church, although he
did not attend himself. When asked his
reason, he said that he had been in the
habit of carrying cargoes of oysters and
CLAIMS 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 CLAIMS short. Yes. God
illness is profitable for both worlds. Most
of the great, honest, permanent worldly
successes are by those who reverence
God and the Bible. But what l do say
is, that if a man have nothing but social
position and financial resources, woman
who puts her happiness by marriage in
his hand re-enacts the folly of Abigail
when she accepted disagreeable Nabal,
''whose possessions were in Carmel, and
the man was very great, and he had
three thousand sheep and a thousand
goats"
II there be good moral character ac-
companied by affiuent circumstances 1
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 l sketch you a
scene you have more than once wit
messed. A comfortable home with moth
ing more than ordinary surroundings, but
an attractive daughter carefully and
Christianly reared. From the outside
world comes in a man with nothing but
money, unless you count profanity and
selfishneSs and fondness for champagne
and general recklessness as part of his
possession, 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 eyeglass, not because he is near
sighted, but because it gives classical ap-
pearance, and with an attire somewhat
loud, a cane thick enough to be the
club of Hercules and clutched at
the middle, his conversation interlarded
with French phrases inaccurately pro-
, nounced, and a sweep of manner indicat-
ing that lie was not born like most
folks, but terrestrially landed. By arts
learned of the devil he insinuates himself
, into the affections of the daughter of q
Christian home. All the kindred con
graduates her on the almost supeTnat
ural prospects. Reports come in that the
young man is fast in his habits, that he
! has broken several young hearts and tlls-
, he is mean and selfish and cruel. But
: all this is covered up with the fact thai
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 off, ant
this is the only son, and a round dollal
! held close to ones eye is large enough t.
! shut out great desert, and how much
more will several bushels of dollars shu
out.
The marriage day comes and goes
3 The wedding ring was costly enough anC
the orange blossoms fragrant enough anC
/ the benediction solemn enough and thu
/ | wedding march stirring enough. AnC
l | the audience shed tears of sympathetic
gladness, supposing that the craft con
q | tanning the two has sailed OFF on placit
q lake, although God knows that they ar
launched on Dead sea, its waters braclsisl
8 with tears and ghastly with ghastl.
{ faces of despair floating to the surfac
and then going down. There they are
a the newly married pair in their nev
q I1S IuIio OUb W OC d y ddts 1lS
o will is nothing, his will everything
( Lavish Of money for hi. own pleasure
d he begrudges her the pennies he pinche
S out into her trembling palm. Instead @
d the kind words she left behind i
V her former home, now there al
It complaints and fault findings an
). curses. He is the master and she th
Ii slave. The worst villain On earth is tn
IL man who, having captured a woma
r. from her fathers house and after th
10 oath of the marriage altar has been pre-
d nounced, says, by his manner if not i
ic words: II have you now in my power
s. What can you do2 My arm is stronge
10 than yours. My voice is louder tina
IS yours. My fortune is greater than your
My name is mightier than yours No
If crouch before me like a dog. No
el crawl away from me like reptile. Yo
lg are nothing but a woman, anyhow