Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

men OF one OF our Western cities tbroo-
| !our'hs OF them are Christians. I,be Foot
Is, That about all the brain aud thu bnsi'
ness genus is on the side of religion. In
i a is lnclpient insanity. All infidels
i are cranks. Many of them talk brightly,
~. you soon lind that in their mental mn.
chlnery there Is a screw loose wha,
they are not lecturing against Cbristian ruu
,hey are sitting in bar rooms sonirtinn 10.
. nacc 80 Juice, and when they get mad swear
tlii the place is sulphurous. They onI,
.alS TO keep their courage up, and ut hest
VIII feel like the intidel who begged to be
buried with his Christian wife and dauoh-
ter ana when asked why he wanted snch
ont II, replied: eff there be resurrection
Oh tne good, as some folks say there will
De, my Christian wife and daughter will
with them.' Ns'
but they are rank hypocrltes. The san
captain was right when he came nm to the
village on the sea coast and insisted on
paying $40 to tho church, although he did
not attend himself. When asked his reo.
son. 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,
thousand clans short. Yes, q eod]ia
ness is. profitable for both worlds.
Most of the great, honest, per
manent worldly successes are by those
who reverence God and the Bible. Bnt
what do say is, that if man have moth
ing but social position and financial re-
sources, 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 thousand
goats" q
The marriage day comes and goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough and the
orange blossoms fragrant enough and the
benedlction solemn enough and the we'd
ding march stirring enough. And the au-
dlence shed tears of sympathetic gladness,
| supposing that the craft containing the two
has sailed off on placid lake, although
God knows that they are launched on
Dead sea, Its waters bracllish with tears
ard CHASTITY with CHASTITY faces of despair
floating to the surface and then going down.
There they are, the newly married pair in
i their new home. He turns out to be q
tyrant. Her will is nothing, his will every
thing. Lavish of money for his own pleas
ure, he begrudges her the pennies he
pinches out into her trembling palm. H.
stead of the kind words she left behind in
her former home, now there are complaints
and fault findings and curses. He is the
master and she the slave. The worst VIII
lain on earth is the man who, having, cap
tured q woman from her fathers house and
after the oath Of the marriage altar has been
words: ~ have you now in my power.
What can you do? My arm is stronger
than yours. My voice is loRder than yours.
| My fortune is greater than yours. My name
is mightier than yours. Now crouch before
me like dog. Now crawl away from me
like reptile. You are nothing but wo-
man, anyhow. Down, you miserable
wretch!" Can halls of mosaic, can long
lines of Etruscan bronze, or statuary by
Palmers and Powers and Crawford and
Chantry and Canova, can galleries rich
from the pencil of Bierstadt and Church
and Kenset and Cole and Cropsey, could
flutes played on by an Ole Bull, or pianos
fingered by Gottschalll, or solos warbled
by q Sonntag, could wardrobes like that Of
a Marie Antoinette, could Jewels like those
of a Eugene make q wife in such u COM
panionship happy?
Imprisoned in castle! Her gold brace
lets are the chains of lifelong servitude.
There is sword over her every feast, not
like that of Damocles, staying suspended,
but dropping through her lacerated heart.
Her wardrobe is full of shrouds for deaths
which she dies daily, and she is buried
alive though buried under gorgeous
upholstery. There is one word that sounds
under the arches and rolls along the cor
ridors and weeps in the falling fountains
and echoes in the shutting of every door
and groans in every note of stringed and
wind instrument: "Woe! Wool" The oxen
and sheep in olden times brought to the
temple Of Jupiter to be sacrificed used to be
covered with ribbons and tlowers-ribbons
on the horns ard flowers on the neck. But
the floral and ribboned decorations did not
make the stab Of the butchers knife less
beautiful, and all the chandeliers you hang
over such q woman, and all the robes with
which you enwrap her, and all the ribbons
with which you atloln her, and all the be-
witchihg charms with which you embank
her footsteps are the ribbons and flowers
of horrible butchery.
AS it to show how wretched good
woman may be in splendid surroundings
We have two recent Illustrations, two ducal
palaces in Great Britain. They are the
focus Of the best things that are possible
/, in art, in literature, in architecture, the
accumulation of other estates until their
wealth is beyond calculation and their
| grandeur beyond description. One of the
castles has cabinet set with gems that
cost 50, 500, 900, and the wal of it bloom
with Rembrandts and Claudes and Poussins
and Guides and Raphaels, and there are
i Southdown focks III summer grazing on
it's lawns, and Arab steeds prancng at the
doorways on the "frst open day at the ken
nels." 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 confronted by insults
and abominations in the presence of which
l do not think God or decent society re-
quires good woman to remain. Alas for
those ducal country seats! They on a
large scale illustrate what OH smaller
scale may be seen in many places-that
without moral character in husband all
the accessories of wealth are to wife's
soul tantalization and mockery. When
Abigail finds Nabal. her husband, beastly
drunk, as she comes home from inter-
ceding for his fortune and life, it was no
alienation that the old brute had possess
sions in Carmel, and "was very great
and had three thousand sheep and a thou
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