The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-10
Tom Hood sympathizes with the

But a'as-alas for woman's fate,
Who has from mob to choose mate,
| 'ris 4 strange and painful mystery!
But the more the eggs the more the
hatch,
The more the fish the more the catch,
The more the sparks the worse the
match,
Is fact in woman's history"
Emerson, the man who never smiled,
was & cold, calculating philosopher,
and was welded to his own thoughts
rather than to woman. He said:
rs not marriage an open question,
for such as are in the institution wish
to get out, and such as are out wish to
get in?'
4 poet cannot disguise his heart and
it is comfort for woman to know that
the greatest and purest and best Of
them have paid homage to the married
relation. But the man and the woman
must be mated as we'll as married. It
is the mismating that brings so much
discredit upon the institution and
keeps the young men from proposing.
. They are afraid to venture-more afraid
than the women.
! have known many girl to keep
her lover in tow, but at a respectful dis
tance, hoping for better catch. After
awhile she accepted him as a last re-
sort. Colonel Stansell told me to-day
OF a young married woman who some
years ago came to him to procure q
divorce. AS she was very reticent
about stating her grounds for asking to
be separated, he encouraged her by
| reading over the various things that
the law expressed, but she said no to
all Of them.
When he pressed her for a reason,
she flushed and said she had married
him for fifty, but had found out he was
seventy.four. The poor thing had been
tempted by his property to throw her.
self away, but be tightened his grip,
and she was neither an old mans dar-
ling nor young mans slave. How
sadly romantic was Sam Houston's
marriage. He was great man, a grand
man; the governor of Tennessee, the
friend of Andrew Jackson. He married
beautiful and lovely woman, and they
had apparently every reason in the
world to be happy, but shortly after
their union he observed that she was
unhappy, and on pressing her gently
for the cause, she told him frankly that
she married him through pique-that
she had another lover whom she dis
carded without just cause and her heart
was breaking. Houston never up
braided her, but in few days kissed
her an affeationate farewell, and left
her forever. ...... 80.
He wrote her from the Cherokee na-
ton to sue for q divorce, as he had
abandoned her. She did so, and was
married to her lover the day the d.
vorce was granted. Houston married
Miss Lee, of Alabama, afterwards, with
wEom he lived most happily, and they
were blessed with flock of good chill
| dren.
But tieing and untieing are very diff
ferent things. The one is glad and the
other is sad-very sad. There is no
gloom upon earth as dark as that which
hangs over broken vows. II brings q
cankering, corroding sorrow that preys
upon the heart and ends only with
death. Our people have long been
blest with comparative freedom from
the flood of divorces that overrun the
North. Illinois has only twice our
population, but twelve times our num-
Der of divorces, and itlis nearly as bad
in all the Northern States. They tie
and unite at their pleasure, but still
they are unhappy because the negro
can't vote. May the good Lord deliver
US from their miserable condition.
BILL ARP.