Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 1888

be. my Christian wife and daughter will
somehow get me up and take me along with
thcm.n
Man NAV pretend to despise religion, but
they are rank hypocrates. The sea captain
was right when he came up to the village on
the sea coast, and insisted on paying $40 to
Che church although he did not attend him
self. When asked his reason, lie said that
he had been in the habit Of carrying carsoes
of oysters and CLANS from that place, and he
found since that church was built the people
were more honest than they used to be, for
before tho church was built he often found the
load when he caine to count it thousand
clans short. Yes. Godiiness is profitable
for both worlds Most OF the great honest
permanent worldly successes are BY those
who reverence God and the Bible. But what
/ do say is that If man have nothing but
social position and financial resources, q
woman who puts her happiness by marriage
in his hand ro-onacts the folly Of Abigail
whom she accepted disagrceablc Nabai,
s'whose possessions were in Carmel; and the
man was very great, and he had three thou
sand sheep, and one thousand goats"
II there be good moral character accom-
panied by aiiiuent circumstances, L congratu-
late YOU. ii not, let the morning lark fly
clear Of the Rocky mountain eagle The sac.
riflce Of woman on the altar Of social and
financial expectation is cruel and stupendous,
I sketch you a scene you have moro than
once witnessed. A comfortable home with
nothing more than ordinary surroundings,
but an attractive daughter carefully and
Christianity reared. From the outside world
comes in q man with nothing but money, I'M
less you count profanity and selfishness and
fondness for champagne and general reck-
lessness as part of his possession. lie has his
coat collar turned up when there is no chill
in the air but because it gives him an air Of
abandon, and syeglass, not because ne IS near.
sighted but because it gives a classical ap-
pcarance, and with an attire somewhat loud,
a cane thick enough to be the club Of Hercules
and eiutched at the middle, his conversation
interlarded with French phrases inaccurately
pronounced, and sweep of manner indicating
that he was not born like most folks, but ter
restrially landed. By arts learned of the
devil he insinuates himself into the affections
Of the daughter Of that Christian home All
the kindred cOngratulabe her on the almost
supernatural prospects. Reports come in
that the young man is fast in his habits, that
he has broken several young hearts, and that
he is mean and selfish and cruel But all
this is covered un with the fact that he has
several houses in his own name, and has
large deposits at the bank, and more than
all. has father worth many hundred thou
sand dollars, and very feeble in health, and
may any day drop OF, ana this is the only
son. and a round dollar held close to ones eye
is large enough to shut out great desert,
and how much more will several bushels Of
dollars shut Out.
The marriage day comes and goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough, and the
orange blossoms fragrant enough, and the
benedicton solemn enough, and the wedding
march stirring enough. And the audience
shed tears Of sympathetic gladness, supposing
that the craft containing the two has sailed
of on placid lake, although Gods knows
that they are launched on a Dead sea, its
waters bracllish with tears and ghastly with
CHASTITY faces Of despair floating to the surface
and then going down, There they are, the
newly married pair IN their new home, He
turns out to be a tyrant. Her will is moth
ing, his will everything. Lavish Of money
for his own pleasure, he begrudges her the
pennies. he piuehes out into her trembling
palm. Instead 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
villain on earth is the man who, having
captured O. woman from her fathers housI
and after the oath OF the marriage altar hai
been pronounced, says, by his manner if moi
in words, Il have you now in my power
What can you do3 My arm is stronger than
yours. bIy voice Is louder than yours. Ny
fortune is greater than yours, My name i
miehtiar than yours, Now crouch before mt
like dor. Now crawl away from mo like ;
reptile. You are nothing but a woman, any
how. Down, you miserable wretch." Car
halls Of moasic, can long lines Of Etruscal
bronze, or statualy by Palmer and Power
and Crawford and Chantry and Canova, cal
galleries rich from the pencil of Bierstad
and Church and Kenset and Cole and Crop
sev: could flutes played on by an Ole Bul
or, pianos fingered by a Gottschalk, or solo
warbled by a Sonntag, could wardrobes h1
| that of a Marie AntQinctte, could jewels lk
those Of a Eugene make a vito in such
companionship happyf
Imprisoned in "a castlel Her gold bracelet
are the claims of a lifelong servitude Their
is a sword over her every feast, not like tina
/ Of Damacles, staying suspended, but droI
/ ping through her laccrated heart Her ward
/ role is fun Of shrouds for deaths which sh
/ dies daily, ard she is buried alive, thong
4 buried under gorgeous upholstery. There
4 one word that sounds under the arches an
rolls along the corridors ard weeps in tn
4 falling fountains, and echoes in the shuttin
/ of every door, and groans in every note
stringed and wind instrument: "Wol
1 Woew The oxen and sheep in oiden time
/ brought to the temple of Jupiter to be sacr
/ feed used 20 be covered with ribbons an
/ flowers, ribbons on the horns and flowers o
the neck. But the floral and ribholed decori
tons did not make the stab of the butcher
knife less deathful, and all the chandelier
yol hang over such q woman, AID all Oh
robes with which you enwrap her, and
the ribbons with which you adorn her, an
all the bcwitching charms with which 70
| embanl her footsteps are the ribbons an
flowers Of a horrible butchery.
ASH 20 show how wrctched a good woma
may be in splendid surroundings, VIC have tw
recent illustrations two ducIl palaces
Great Britain They are the focus Of IL
best things that are possible in art, in hter'
turc, in architccture-tne accumulation {
other estates, until their wealth is beyon
calculation ald their grandeur beyond de
criotion. One OF the castles has a cabini
set with gems that cost S3,5O0,o00, and Ii
walls Of it bloom with Rembrandts an
Glaudes and Poussins and Guidos and Rap
l@es, and there are Southdown focks
Summer grazing on its lawns and Arab stee'
prancing at the doorways on The ''first oPe
1av ct the kenneis.n From-the one castle Il
duchess has removed with her children b
cause she can no longer endure the or5i
Of her husband, the duke, and
the other castle the duchess remains co
frontod by insults ard denominations in Il
presence of which do not think God or d
cent society requires good woman to 7
main. Alas for those ducal country seat
They on a large scale illustrate, what on
smaller scale may be seen in many place
that without moral character in a husbai
all the accessories Of wealth are to a wifi
soul tanfaliation and mockery. When Al
gail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly drum
as she comes home from interceding for
fortune and life, it was no alienation th
the old brute had possessions in Carmel, a.
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