Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-26

load when he came 20 count Il q thousand
clans short Yes GodIiness il 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 IL a man have nothing but
social position and financial resources, a
woman who puts her happiness by marriage
In his hand re-enacts the folly Of Abigail
when she accepted disagreeable Nabal.
Swhose possessions were in Carmel; and the
man was very great, and he had three thou
sand sheep, and one thousand goats.n
II there be good moral character accom-
panied by affiuent circumstances, congratu-
late you II not, let the morning lark fly
clear Of the Rocky Mountain eagle The sac
rilce Of woman on the altar of social and
financial expectation Is cruel and stupendous.
! 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
Christianly reared From the outside world
comes in a man with nothing but money, ,un-
less you count profanity and selfshness and
fondness for champagne and general reck-
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 classical ap-
pearance, and with an attire somewhat loud,
q cane thick enough to be the club OF Hercules
and clutched at the middle, his conversation
interlarded with French phrases inaccurately
pronounced, and sweep OF manner indicat-
ing that he was not born like most folks, bus
terrestrially landed. By arts learned Of the
devil he insinuates himself into the affec-
tions of the daughter of that Christian home.
All the kindred congratulate her on the al
most ostsuspernatural 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 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 a 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 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
benediction 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
off ON a placid lake, although God knows
that they are launched on Dead Sea, its
waters brackish with tears and CHASTITY 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 tyrant. Her will Is moth
ing, his will everything. Lavish Of money
for his own pleasure, he begrudges her the
pennies he pinches 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
woman from her fathers home
and after the oath of the marriage altar has
been pronounced, says, by his manner il not
in words: 81 have you now in my power.
What can you do9 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
reptile. You are nothing but woman, any
how. Down, you miserable wretchl" Can
halls of moasic 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 and Kenset and Cole and Crop
sey, could flutes played on by an Ole Bull
or pianos fingered by Gottschalk, or solos
warbled by Sonntag, could wardrobes like
those of a Eugenie make a wife in such
companionship happy?
Imprisoned in castle Her gold bracelets
are the chains of lifelong servitude. There
Is a sword over her every feast, not like that
Of Damocles, staying suspended, but drop
ping through her lacerated heart. Her ward
robe is full of shrouds for deaths which she
lies daily, and she is buried alive, though
buried under gorgeous upholstery. There is
S,r.d hot dc no
rolls along the corridors, and weeps in the
falling fountains, and echoes in the shutting
Of every door, and groans in every note OF
stringed and wind instrument: "Woel
Woep The oxen and sheep in Olden times
brought to the temple OF Jupiter to be sacri-
feed used to be covered with ribbons and
flowers, ribbons on the horns and flowers on
the neck. But the floral and ribboned decora-
tions did not make the stab of the butchers
knife less deathful, and all the chandeliers
you hang over such woman, and all the
robes with which you enwrap her, and all
the ribbons with which you adorn her, and
all the bewitching charms with which you
embank her footsteps are the ribbons and
flowers of horrible butchery.
As to show how wretched good woman
mag 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 htera-
ture, in architecture-the accumulation OF
other estates, until their wealth is beyond
calculation and their grandeur beyond de-
scription. One of the castles has cabinet
set with gems that cost so, SOC, 900, and the
walls of it bloom with Rembrandts and
Claudes and Poussins and Guidos and Raph-
aels, and there are Southdown flocks in
summer grazing on its lawns and Arab steeds
prancing at the doorways on the ''frst open
day at the kennels. nFrom the one castle the
duchess has removed with her children be-
cause 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 de-
cent society requires good woman to re-
main. Alas for those ducai country seatsl
They ON large scale illustrate what on
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 Abb
gail 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
twas 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 its mouth and ran
of with it.
Before things are right in this world gem
teel villains are to be expurgated. Instead
of being welcomed into respectable society
because of the amount of stars and garters
and medals and estates they represent, they
ought to be fumigated two or three years be-
fore they are allowed without peril to them
selves to put their hand on the door knob Of
moral house. The time has come when q
masculine estray will be as repugnant to good
society as feminine estray and no coat OF
arms OF family emblazonry or epaulet can
pass Lothario unchallenged among the
sanctities of home life. By what Law of God