The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-05-03
W. G. [. U. COLUMN.


Have smoldered in silence and shame.
Her feet have clumb up from the valleys,
They are climbing the mountains of light,
At her call the world rises and rallies,
To arms in the battle for right.
Now she treads on the serpent that stung
her,
She grinds out its life with her heel,
She grapples with sorrows that wrung her,
Converting her woe into veal.
Made strong through her slaughtered affec-
lions
She comes with her sons by her side,
An angel of power and protection
Their beacon light, leader and guide.
No longer timorous being
To cringe and to cry meath the rod,
But quick to divine and far-seeing
She hastens the purpose of God.
ROSE HARTwICK THORPE.
at is easy to know thoroughly stupid 1o-
men. Stupidity is much the same all the
world over. A commonplace woman has
only those notions and feelings which pre-
vail in the circle by which she is surround
ed. Not so with those whose opinions and
feelings are an emanaton from their own
nature and facilities, 1t is only man here
and there who has any tolerable knowledge
of the true character of the women of his
own family. 1 mean their actually existing
thoughts and feelings.
The most favorable case which man can
generally have for studying the character
of a woman is by studying that Of has own
life; for the opportunities are greater, and
the cases of full and complete sy mpathy not
so unspeakably rare.
And In fact this is the source from which
any knowledge worth having on the SUBJ
ject has, I believe, generally come. But
most men have not had the opportunity of
studying in this way more than single
case; accordingly one can, to an almost
laughable degree, infer what mans wife
is like, from his opinions about women in
general.
1t is quite certain that a woman can be a
Queen Elizabeth, or Deborah, a Joan of
Arc, Catherine the Great, or a Margaret of
Austria, one of the ablest politicians of her
age since this is not interference but fact.
Now it is a curious consideration that the
only things which existing laws exclude
wop.en from doing are the very things
which they have proved themselves able to
do. No law ever was in existence which
would have prevented woman from writ.
ing the plays of Shakespeare or composing
the operas of Mozart. But Queen Eliz beth
or queen Victoria, had they not inherited
the throne, would not have b zen permitted
to exercise the smallest of the political du-
ties, of which the former showed herself
equal to the greatest.-JoHN STUART MILL.
'Of all the foes to domestic peace and
prosperity, Kun. stands a; the head. 1t has
ruined more homes. scattered more fortunes,
blasted more lives, and damned more souls
IAlndreds of thousands of homes scattered
all over this free land in which women live
lives of torture, far exceeding those of any
heather of whom we have any account, 60
ing through all the extremes of fear and de-
spair, because those whom they love, love
wine better than the women whom they
have sworn to love and protect. There can
be no exaggeration in any statement made
in regard to this matter, because it is be-
You'd the power of any human imagination
to create anything worse than the truth.
The SORROWS of wife with drinking hus-
10, $ H.
are as near the realization of hell can be
reached in this ord. The shame, the in
dignaton, the sorrow, the sense of disgrace
for herself and children, the pinching pow
erty, often beggary-the fear aud fact of
violence, the lingering and lifelong strug-
giles and despair of countless women, are
enough to make all women curse this traffic
and unitedly engage to annihilate il as the
wost enemy of their sex"
CIV hat we want my friends, is your aid,
your influence, your cooperation in this
great work. And it is great work, the
great work of this age-and L doubt if any
age hath seen greater. II is going to be
hard fight long fight, a strong fight and
vigorous fight. But uictory at the end. 1t
,GtH come. By and by the heroes who have
fought shall come up over thousand bat
tletields, waving with bright grain that
shall never be crushed in the cursed dis
tIllery. By and by they shall come to the
last fire in the last distillery and shall put
out.
By and by they shall come to the last
stream of liquid death and shall seal it up
forever. By and by they shall come to the
last drunkard's wife, and wipe her tears
away. They shall come to the last beggared
child and lift him up to stand where God
meant he should stand. BY and by they
shall come to the last drunkard and nerve
him to burst his burning letters and make
a glorious accompaniment to the song of
freedom by the clanking of his broken
chains. And this great moral triumph
shall usher In the day of the final triumph
of the cross Of Christ. l believe this and
for this l work and pray. Aud when L die
pray God [ may die in the harness bat
Ting for victory, thus ever praying, ever
working till victory shall perch upon our
banner then we will lay our laurels at His
feet, and joining in the mighty anthem of
praise to Him who hath subdued all things
unto him self.-JoHN B. COUGH.
''The peace which passeth all (mere hui
MANI understanding, can only be attained
by humble, patient, prayerful waiting, to
be filled with the fulness of God; to the ut
ter exclusion of all worldly am bitions and
desires, for this is the state to which the
soul must be brought, before it is fitted to
enter into the Divine presence, and the joys
of heaven. IF. w. ROBERTSON.
Marion Crawl ford, the popular novelist, is
master of seventeen different languages; old
John Bunyan was master of but one, and
yet he wfote book which will line and
which will keep his name fresh when Craw.
ford and his works are shrouded in the
mists of oblivion.
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