Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-11

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 a resurrec-
tion of the good, as some folks say there will
be, my Christian wife and daughter will
them"
Men may pretend to despise religion, but
they are rank hypocrates. The sea captain
was right when he came up to the village on
he sea coast, and insisted on paying SO to
tie church although he did not attend him
self. When asked his reason, he said that
he had been in the habit of carrying cargoes
of oysters and clans from that place, and he
found since shat 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 q thousand
CLAIMS short. Yes. Goodness is profitable
for both worlds. Most of the great, honest,
permaRent worldly successes are by those
who reverence God and the Bible. But what
do say is that IL 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 tho
man was very great, and he had three thou
sand sheep, and one thousand goats"
If there be good moral character accom-
panied by atiiuent circumstances, l congratu-
late you If not, let the morning lark fly
clear of tho Rocky Mountain eagle. The sac
-11ce Of woman on the altar Of social and
financial expectation is cruel and stupendous
L sketch you a scene you have more than
once witnessed A comfortable home with
nothing more than ordinary surroundings,
but an attractive daughter carefully and
(lrigfiqnIU rQoSoI Ernt fl,o ID.
comes in man with nothing but money ,un-
less you count profanity and selflshness and
fondness for champagne and general Beck-
lessness 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 q classical an
pearance, and with an attire somewhat loud.
cane thick enough to be the club OF Hercules
and clutched at the middle, his conversation
interlarded with French phrases inaccuratelv
pronounced, and a sweep of manner indicaf-
ing that he was not horn lits ,sonst folLs h.S
terrestrially landed. By arts learned Of the
devil he insinnates himself into the affec-
tions of the daughter of that Christian home
All the kindred congratulate her on the al
mostsuspernaturalp prospects. Reports come in
thaCthe 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 up 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 Off and this is the only
son, and a round dollar held close to ones
eye is large enough to shut out a great desert,
and how much more will several bushels of
dollars shut out.
The marriage day comes and goes. The
uvQ1OinO TinO pOcfIu anofIUh mud bn
orange blossoms fragrant enough, and the
benediction solemn enough, and the wedding
march stirring enough. And the audience
shed tears of sympathetic gladness, supposing
that tlfe craft containing the two has sailed
off on a placid lake, although God knows
that they are launched on a Dead Sea, its
waters brackish with tears and CHASTITY with
ghastly faces of despair floating to the surface
and then going down. There they are, the
newlXmarried pair in their new home. He
turns out 10 be a tyrant. Her will is moth
ing, his will everything. Lavish Of money
for his own pleasure, he begrudges her the
pennie9 he pinehes out into her trembling
palm. S1nstead 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 woman from her fathers home
and after the oath of the marriage altar has
Deeil pfOnOuHceu, hdJS, ny nio HidilHeI IL uOb
in words: 81 have YOU now in my power.
What can you dos My arm is stronger than
yours. My voice is louder 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 a
reptile. You are nothing hut woman, any
how. Down, you miserable wretchw Can
halls of moasie, can long lines of Etruscan
bronze, or statuary by Palmer and Powers
and Crawford and Chantry and Canova, can
galleries rich from the pencil of Bierstadt
and Church AMI Kenset and Cole and Crop
sey, couh flutes played on by an Ole Bull
Or pianos fingered by Gottschalk, or solos
warbled by Sonntag, could wardrobes Ike
that of Marie Antoinette, could jewels like
those of Eugene make wife in such a
rompanionshiP happy!
Imprisoned in V-castlei Her gold bracelets
are the chains of lifelong servitude. There
is sword over her every feast, not like that
of Damocles, staying suspended, but drop
ping through her acerated heart. Her ward
robe 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 corridors and weeps in the
falling fountains, and echoes in the shutting
of every door, and groans in every note OF
ytringel and wind instrument: sWoei
Woe!n The oxen and sheep in olden times
brought TO the temple Of Jupiter TO be sacri-
feed usel to be covered with ribbons and
flowers ribbons on the horns and flowers on
the neck. But the floral aud ribboned decora-
tions did not make the stab of the butchers
knife less deathful, and all the chandeliers
you hang over sAch a woman, and all the
robes with which you enwrap her, and all
the ribbons with which you adorn her, AMI
all tho bewitchinS charms with which you
embank her footsteps are the ribbons and
flowers OF horrible butchery.
As to show how wretchel 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 " art in litera-
tire, in Hchitec.ure-the accumulation of
other estates. until their wealth is beyond
calculation and their grandeur beyond do
scription. One OF the castles has a cabinet
set with gems that cost s., 900, and the
walls of it bloom with Rembrandts and
ClatiIles and Poussins and Guidos and Raph-
aels, and there are SOuthdown ilocks in
summer grazing ON ITS lawns and Arab steeds
prancing ut the doorways on the first open
day at the kannels nFrom the one castle the
duchess has removed with her children be-
cause7sffe 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 do