The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-04-20

! n bookcase that went in and out, carrying
books 20 AMI fro, and he was transported,
hidden amid the folios: and the women OF
Q besiegeSs We.nsberg. getting permission from
Z the victorious army 10 take with them so
much of their vaiuahles as they could carry.
under cover OF the promise shouldered and
tsok with them as the most important valua-
7 bles their husAands-both achievements in
a literal way Illustrated what thousanaS OF
times has been done in figurative way, that
wifely ambition has been the salvation Of
men
De Toc1ueville whose writings will be po-
| tential and quoted while the world lasts.
Z ascribes his success to his wife, and says: "Of
| all the blessings which Col has given 20 me-
I the greatest of all in my eyes is to have
/ lighted on Maria Motley Martin Luther
saws OF his wife: 81 would not exchange my
poverty with her for all the riches of Crdsus
without herr Isabella Of Spain, by her su-
perior 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 salvation Of my cOuntrys liberties.
Thomas Carlyle spent the last twenty years
of his life in trying by his pen to atone
for the fact that during his wife's
life he never appreciated her intu-
{ ence on his career and destiny. Alas,
that having taken her from beautiful home
and brilliant career he should have buried
her in the home of recluse and scolded her
in such language as only dyspeptic genins
could manage, until one day, while in her in
validism riding in Hyde Park, her pet dog
got run over, and under the excitement the
coachman found her dead. Then the liter
airy giant woke from his conjugal injustice
and wrote the lamentations OF Craigen-Put-
took and Cheyne Row. The elegant and full
some epitaphs that husbands put upon their
wives tomhst0nes are often an attempt to
make up for lack of appreciative words that
should have been uttered in the ears of the
living. A whole Greenwood of monumental
inscriptions will not do a wife so much good
after she has quit the world. as one plain SEN
tence like that which Tom Hood wrote to his
living wife when he said: 81 never was any
thing till knew you.n
Oh. woman, what is your wifely ambition,
noble or ignoblei Is il high social positioni
That will then probably direct your husband,
and be will climb and scramble and slip and
fail and rise and tumble, and on what level
or in what depth or on what height he Will
after a while be found | cannot even guess.
The contest for social position is the most I'M
satisfactory contest in all the world, because
it is so uncertain about your getting it. and
so insecure u possession after you have OBJ
tanned it, and SO unsatisfactory even if you
keep it The whisk of a ladv's fan NAV blow
ing Of one bull on Wall street may scatter it.
Is the wife's ambition the political prefer
ment of her husbandt Then that will prob
ably direct him. What a God forsaken
realm IS American politics those best know
who have dabbled in them. After they have
assessed a man who is a candidate for office
which he does not get, or assessed him for
some Office attained, and he has been whirled
round and round and round and round among
the drinking. smoking, swearing crowd who
often get control of public affairs, all that is
left of his self-respect or moral stamina
would find plenty of room on a geometrical
point. which is said to have neither length,
breadth nor thickness. Many wife has not
been satisfied till her husband went into poll
tics, but would atterward have given all she
possessed to get him out
know highly moral man. useful in tl,e
church and possessor of bright home. He
had useful and prosperous business but his
wife did not think it genIeel enough. There
were odors about the business and sometimes
they would adhere to his garments when he
returned at night. She insisted on his do
ing something more elegant although he was
qualified for no business except that in which
he was engaged. To please her he changed
his business, and in order to get on faster
abandoned church attendance, saying that
after he had made a certain number of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars he would return
TO the church and its services. Where is
that family to-day, Obliterated. Although
succeeding in business for which he was
qualified, he undertook n style of merchan- /
disc for which he had no qualification and !
soon went into bankruptcy. His new style |
of bus ness put him into evil association de |
lost his morals as well as his money. He I
broke up not only his own home, but broke /
up another mans home, and from being a /
kind, pure. generous, moral man as anv OF |
you who sit here to-day, has become home |
for a more genteel business destroyed him |
and disgraced her and blighted their only |
child
But suppose now there be in our homes, as |
thank God there are in hundreds of homes /
here represented. on the wifelv throne one |
who says not only by her words but more
by her actions: M husband, our /
iestinies are united; let US see where indus
try. honesty, common sense and faith IN God |
will put us ! am with you in all your en-
terprises. IcanEot be with you in person as
you 20 to your daily business, but | will be /
with you in my prayers. Let US see what we 1
can achieve by having God in our hearts, and
God in our lives, and God in our homes. Be
on the side of everything good. Go ahead
and DO your best, and though everything
should turn out different from what we
have calculated, you may always count on
two who are going TO help YOU, and God is /
one and am the other.n That man may have
feeble health, and may meet with many
obstacles and business trials, but he is
coming gloriously through, for he is re-
and inspired. and spurred on by /
voice, much as was Barak by
when Sisera, with 200 iron chartots,
came on to crush him and his army, and
Deborah shouted in the ear of Barak: ''Upl |
for this is the day in which the Lord hath
delivered Sisera into thine hands. y And the
enemy fell back, and SiseFa's chariot not get
To- ssrrh eh.s r-atY. fha
general jumped out and took it afoot, and ran
till he came to place where woman first
gave him drink of milk and then sent a
spike through his skull, mailing him to the
floor.
Some Of us could tell of what influence
upon US has been a wifely ambition con
secrated to righteousness. As my wife IS out
Of town and viii not shake her head because
say It in public, Will state that in my own
professional life | have often been called of
God, as l thought. 10 run into the very teeth
Of public opinion. and all outsiders with
whom l advised told me | had better not it
would ruin me and ruin my church. and at
the same time l was receiving nice little let
ters threatening me with dirk and pistol and
poison if L persisted in attacking certain evils
Of the day, until the commissioner Of police
considered 1t his duty TO take his place
in our Sabbath services, with forty OIL
GERS scattered through the house for the
VI nbilit
has always been one voice to say: Go ahead
and diverge not an inch from the straight
line. Who cares, If only God is on Our slider
And though sometimes il seemed as if | was
going out against 100 iron chariots, | went
ahead cheered by the domestic voice: "Upl
for this is the day in which the Lord hath
delivered Ssera into thine hands,
A man is no better than his wife will let
him be. Oh, wives OF America, swing your
scepters Of wifelv influence for God and good
oomesl DO not urge your husbands TO an
mex Naboths vineyard to your palace of sue
,ess, whether right or wrong, lest the dogs
that come out to destroy Naboth come out
also to devour you. Righteousness will pay
best in life, will pay best in death, will pay
best in the Judgment, Will pay best through
all eternity.
In our effort to have the mother Of every
household appreciate her influence over her
children we are apt 10 forget the wifes influ-
hence over the husband. In many households
the influence upon the husband is the only
home influence. In great multitude OF the
best and most important and most tai
anted families Of the earth there have
oeen no descendants There IS not
child or 4 grandchild or any remote descend
ant OF Washington, or Charles Sumner, or
Shakespeare, or Edmund Burke. or Pitt, or
Lord Nelson, or Cowper. or Pope, or Addison,
81 johnson. or Lord Chatham, or swift, or
Locke,or Gibb0n or WaipOe. or Canning. or
Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucer, or Lord Byron.
Or Walter Scott, or Oliver Cromwell, or Gar
rick or Hogarth or Joshua REYNOLDS. or Spen- |