Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13

Roman and Ritualistic churches, but con-
template the tragedies implied under such
civil and ecclesiastical laws. It makes the
blood run cold to think of the cruelties that
can be perpetrated under such system OF
laws. and to contemplate the martyrdom
comprehended in such a creed. Men in the
South, as in the North, are better than their
laws would imply, but that does not make
them any the less responsible for the evils
that may be practiced under them by brutal
and unscrupulous men. When a woman in
South Carolina marries shesurrenders every
dollar of her property, d0ery idea of con-
trolling her own money, every right save
that of food and clothes, and these are to be
regulated by her lord and master.
NO RECOURSE TO LAW.
fhe should prove to be a cruel tyrant
she has no recourse in law of divorce.
When we think of such condition of
things we wonder what has become of the
revolutionary blood of their patriotic sires;
what has become of the spirit of resistance
to tyranny that animated her heroes of rs;
what has become of the fiery heroism that
made the name of South Carolina famous
throughout the world. 1t is only to be un-
derstood by the thought that women have
always excelled in the line of martyrdom,
and have had the doctrine of submission so
sedulously ground into them by the Church
that they look to heaven only for re-
lief or release instead of to any ex-
erc1se OF their own powers or efforts
But the women of this State will some day
wake up, and then Wade Hampton and
Butler and the rest of them will sing diff
ferent song in the Senate. To hold their
own in the race problem, an educational
test is the project most favored by Southern
politicians, but if they would double the
white vote of intelligence they would reach
the solution much more readily and reason
ably.
. To those of the North this beautiful State
is but little known-little as its beautiful
climate-its great resources, its genial and
hospitable people. Judging by the rant,
and roar, and fre-breathing speeches of
some Southern politicians it might be sup
posed that its people were almost ready for
another war. But no such feeling is mani
tested. Warm hearts, hospitable welcome
and kindly attention have been our
experience. The people of the town, both
white and colored, are polite and pleasant
with strangers. There are a number of
Northern people who have settled here for
the advantages of the climate. One young
man came here from the Northwest for his
health. He recovered and went home again,
he live, so he came back here and went into
the dairy business. He purchased the
finest cattle, secured the best machinery and
the latest methods, and now makes as fine
butter as was ever seen, which is retailed
every pound of it, at 40 cents pound, and
the supply is less than the demand. Many
people from the North have their cottages
for the winter, and almost every house is a
boarding house. 1t is a beautiful little
town and in the future, when all of the
parks recently laid out are grown, it will
be one of the most charming winter resorts
on the continent.
GO NORTH IN WINTER.
Another reason given us this morning by
an intelligent young colored man for the
numbers OF idle men constantly standing
about the corners is that they 90 North in
the summer and earn lot of money, and
then come down home to spend the winter
in elegant leisure and in dazzling the eyes
of their neighbors. This is not as bad as
the previous reason, but it shows that they
are improvident and are not laying up for a
rainy day, or providing for luxurious old
age. 1t is quite evident, however, that they
are literally and lessurely obeying the
scriptural injunction to take no thought for
or, as the revised version has it,
BE not anxious for your life, what ye shall
eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your
body what ye shall put on" They behold
the birds of heaven which SOW not, nor
reap, nor gather into barns, and they con-
,ider the lilies of the field, which toll not
md neither do they spin.
They are not anxious for the morrow, but |
,tand around in the sun or sit upon fence
and let tomorrow take care Of itself. No
pbere ia this philosoDhy more in nractice
han in this sunny Southland, where it is |
.estful to see how easily the people here take |
life and how free they are from the restless |
.ush and constant toll and struggle of life at |
he North.
Nervous prostration here finds cure not so
much from climatic balm perhaps, as from !
he absence of distracting care, the contem- |
,lation of calmness and the indulgence of |
laziness a-sitting in the sun |
lnder a tree in the middle of January.
BESSIE BRAMBLE.