Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-25

our parts manfully in the battle of this life.
1 mean Of course lie as it is now ordered
bv the hopeless laws of hate and envy and
malice and meapness that have come down
to us from all the years that have been.
For turn your back in the hattie, if only for
a little time as things now are in the outer
world, and you will be stabbed to the heart.
And so took the first occasion now to
talk of my return to the elders. They did
not say stay. Least of all they did not say
90. They seemed to desire the largest lib
erty for others, as we'll as for themselves.
All this time my mind, my heart my
whole soul kept turning back to her; to her
and to her continually; to what she had
said. had spoken to her of marriage. l
had spoken in a general way; and she had
made very general application of my in
terrogatory in these words:
'sThere are and have been priests" she
said, there also are and have been priest
esses. The woman who has taken the place
of her mother at the head of halt grown
family, the woman who has been true from
girlhood on to her high ideal, the faithful
girl whose lover faded from her sight and
went to another world; the girl who espoused
the cause of all mankind, and SO could not
betray all men ior the love Of one man, ah,
if the world would only understand the full
maid it would be coupled with halo of
reverential love and be uttered only with
bowed head and hands upon the breast"
had uncovered my head as she spoke.
for we had been slowly walking under the
great pine trees BY the tombs of her dead;
and held nv head low and was still.
She saw, felt, knew, understood all. She
was not willing that | should be for mo-
ment sad, even though that sadness may
have been born OF my own selfishness.
And raising her lead she said half laugh
ing: "But there shall be no old maids here.
And such happy marriages.
:'May know why SO especially happy?''
sighed.
why, only think and you will see.
Take money and property out of the ques-
this as in all other things. AS things stand
now in the outer world a man of noble men,
tai attainments will, for money, marry the
very grossest OF women oftentimes, or re-
main single to the end. And again, girl
of the very noblest type ever born may 60 to
| her grave unsought and unloved merely be-
| cause she has no money. But see how it is
here. There is no danger no fear of want;
everyone is equally wealthy. The last
foot of ground is pledged to the
prosperity and happiness OF every new
born babe. Aye, this world is beautiful,
beautiful. And now man and woman shall
for the first time since the expulsion be
surely happy. But the pitiful part of it all
is man is as truly good or trying to be good
as this world is beautiful or trying TO be
beautiful; yet preacher, priest, poets, edi-
| tors, reporters all, everything and every
body is and ever has been trying to make
him believe that he is bad; till he has come
to half believe it; bad past redemption save
by some strange and mysterious priestly
| repentance or contrivance, which only the
preachers and the priests and even God
himself is supposed to half understand. Yet
here shall man be told and be taught, il
need be, that he is at heart good ana true
and himself the savior of the world"
I bowed still more humbly and in silence
as she went on:
EARLY marriages are encouraged; because
here with us. they mean content, happiness
health. The women weave their own fabric.
| of silk or wool or cotton, for we must have
employment lor our hands even though
| like Penelope, we should weave by day only
to unweave by night. And you should see
the new nests they build and decorate for the
reception of the new bride of the happy com.
munity. Care? Care, indeedl Why these
newly married children will be happy here
as never were newly married people in the
history of this beautiful world
All, me, beautiful, dreamful, delightful
I sighed to myself, as we passed on around
the tombs, while she kept on in the same
strain about the happiness of Others. Not q
word, not thought for herself. Aud I wa
glad of that. If she could so entirely forge
herself, why let her forget me also, let me
forget myself, and like her think only Of tbt
betterment Of the unhappy human race.
And so, with this higher thought in my
heart, after time said in q very cold ani
business fashion:
'There are more than 10000 miles O