The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-16

are Southdown f1ocks in summer grazing
on its lawns and Arab steeds prancng at
the,doorways on the ''frst open day at the
Kennels" From the one castle the
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 con-
fronted by insults and denominations in
the presence of which do not think God
| or decent society requires good woman
to remain. Alas for these 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 husband all the accessories of
| wealth are to wife's soul rehabilitation
and mockery. When Abigail finds Nabal,
her husband, beastly drunk as she comes
home from interceding for his fortune and
life it was no alienation that the old
brute had possessions in Carmel, and
"was very great, and had three thousand
sheep and thousand goats" and he the
| worst goat among them. The animal in
his nature seized the soul in it's mouth.and
ian off with it. So
Before things are right in this world
genteel villains are to be expurgated. In
stead of being welcomed into respectable
| society because of the amount Of stars
| and carriers, and medals, and estates they
represent, they ought to be fumigated
two or three years before they are allowed
| without peril to themselves to put their
| hand on the door knob of a moral house.
| The time must come when a masculine
estray will be as repugnant to good society
as feminine estray, and no coat-of-arms
or family emblaZonry or epaulet can
| pass Lotnario unchalenged among the
sanctities of home life. By what law of
| God or common sense is an Absalom
| better than a Delilah, Don Juan
| better than a Messalina? The brush
| that paints the one black must paint
| the other black. But what a spec.
| tacle it was when last summer much OF
| watering place society went wild with
enthusiasm over an uncean foreign dig
nitary whose name in both hemispheres
| is synonym for profligacy, and prin-
cesses Of American society from all parts
of the land had him ride in their car
| riages and sit at their table, though they
know him to be portable lazeratto, a
| charnel house of moral putrefaction, his
| breath a typhoid, his foot that of a satyr,
| and his touch death. Here is an evil that
men can not stop, but women may. Keep
all 8 UGH out of your parlors, have no rec
ognition for them in the street, and no
more think of allying your life and des-
tiny with theirs than "gales from
| Araby" would consent to pass the
honeymoon with an Egyptian plague.
Woman, join not your right hand with
such right hand. Accept from such an
one no jewel for finger Or ear, lest that
| "a of turp fr, hn
the eye of basilisk; and let not the ring
come on the finger of your right hand,
| lest that ring turn out to be one link OF q
chain that shall bind 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! Con.
sent not to join one of the many regi-
ments of women who have married fof
worldly success, without regard to moral
| character
If you are ambitious, o woman, TO,
noble affiancing, why not marry king:
And to that honor you are invited by the
monarch of Heaven and earth. And this
| day a voice from the skies sounds forth
"As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the
bride so shall thy God re joice over thee
Let him put upon thee the ring of this
|
reaching after. By repentance and fai ii
you may come into marriage with the
Emperor of universal dominion, and yor
may be an empress unto God forever, and
reign with him in palaces that the cent
| ures can not crumble or cannonadas de
| moIish.
High worldly marriage is not necessary
for women, or marriage of any kind, il
order to your happiness. Celibacy ha.
been honored by the best being that ever
lived and his greatest apostie-Christ ant
Paul. What higher honor could sin gle life
on earth have? But what you need, {
| woman, is to be affianced forever an6
forever, and the banns of that marriage
am at this moment here and now ready
to publish. Let the angels of HEAVIER
bend from their galleries of Ii ht to wit
ness while [ pronounce you one;
loving God and a forgiven soul
One of the most stirring passage
in history with which [ am acquainted
tells us how Cleopatra, the exilet
Queen of Egypt, won the sympathy o
Julius CR sar, the conqueror, until he be
came the bridegroom and she the bride
Driven from her throne, she sailed ava,
on the Mediterranean sea in storm, ant
when the large ship anchored she put on
with one womanly friend in small boa
until she arrived at Alexandria, wher,
was Caesar, the great General. Knowins
that she would not be permitted to lane
or pass the guards on the way to Cesar
palace, she laid upon the bottom of tn,
boat some shawls and scarfs and richI,
dyed upholstery, and then lay dow
upon them, and her friend wrapped
her in them, and she wa.
admitted ashore in this wrap
ping of goods, which was announced as 6
present for Caesar. This bundle was per
mitted to pass the guards of the gates O
the palace. and was put down at the fee
of the Roman General. When the bundl.
was unrolled there rose before Caesar on,
whose courage, and beauty, and brill fancy
are the astonishment of the ages. Thi
exiled Queen of Egypt told the story O
her sorrows, and he promised her that sh.
should get back her throne in Egypt ane
take the throne of wifely dominion in hi
own heart. Afterward they made {
triumphal tour in barge that the pict
ures of many art galleries have called
"Cieopatra's Barge" and that barge wa
covered with silken awning, and its decl
was soft with luxuriant carpets, and th,
oars were silver tipped, and the prov wa
gold mounted, and the air was redolen