Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-03-18

would be more slow to put his neck in
the woke. He would say to himself,
fsRather than Caribbean vhirlwind
with whole feet of shipping in its
arms give me zephyr off fields of sun
| shine and gardens of peace
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
| women from the fatal mistake of mar
/ irving men to reform them. If young
man by 25 years of age or 80 years of
age have the habit Of strong drink fixed
bn him, he is as certainly bound for a
| slrunkard's grave as that train starting
out from Grand Central depot at s
| o'clock tomorrow morning is bound for
ALBANY The train may not reach Albany,
for it may be thrown off the track. The
Young man may not reach a drunkards
grave, for something may throw him
off the iron track of evil habit but the
probability is that the train that starts
tomorrow morning at s O'Clock for AL
'bany will get there, and the probability
is that the young man who has the
habit Of strong drink fixed on him be-
fore rs or so years of age will arrive at
Ia drunkard's grave. She knows he
drinks, although he tries to hide it by
chewing cloves Everybody knows he
drinks Parents warn; neighbors and
friends warn. She will marry him; she
will reform him.
The Altar of Sacrifice.
II she is unsuccessful in the expert
ment, why, then the divorce law will
emancipate her because habitual drunk
Ienness is a cause for divorce in Indiana
Kentucky, Florida, Connecticut and
nearly all the states. So the poor thing
goes to the altar of sacrifice IF you will
show me the poverty struck streets in
any city, will show you the homes of
tho women who married men to reform
them. In one case out of 10, 600 it may
be a successful experiment. [ never saw
the successful experiment But have q
rigorous divorce law, and that woman
will say, eff am affianced to that man,
it is for life. -
A rigorous divorce law will also do
much to hinder hasty and inconsiderate
marriages. Under the impression that
one can be easily released people enter
the relation without inquiry and with
out reflection. Romance and impulse
rule the day. Perhaps the only ground
for the marriage compact is that she
likes his looks, and he admires the
graceful way she passes around the ice
cream at the picnic! 1t is all they know
about each other 1t is all the prepare
ton for life. A woman that could not
make a loaf of bread to save her life
will swear to cherish and obey. A
Christian will marry an atheist, and
that always makes conjoined wretched-
ness, for if man does not believe there
is God he is neither to be trusted with
a dollar nor with your lifelong happi-
ness Having read much about love in
"a cottage people brought up in ease
will go and starve in howell.
By the wreck of 10, 900 homes, by
the holocaust of 10, 200 sacsifced men
and women, by the hearthstone of the
family, which is the cornerstone of the
state, and in the name of that God who
hath set up the family institution, and
who hath made the breaking of the
marital oath the most appalling of all
Iperjuries. | implore tho congress of the
United States to make some righteous,
uniform law for all the states, and from
ocean to ocean, on this subject of mar
riage and divorce.
Character the One Essential.
Let me say to the hundreds of young
people in this house this afternoon, be-
fore you give your heart and hand in
holy alliance use all caution. Inquire
outside as to habits, explore the DISPOSE
ton, scrutinize the taste, question the
ancestry and find out the ambitions. Do
not take the heroes and the heroines of
fCr mn
your lifetime happiness in the keeping
of man who has a reputation for be-
ing a little loose in morals or in the
keeping of woman who dresses fast
Remember that, while good looks are a
kindly gift of God, wrinkles or acct
dent may despoi1 them. Remember that
Byron was no more celebrated for his
beauty than for his depravity. Remem-
Der that Absalom's hair was not more
splendid than his habits were despica-
BILE. Hear it, hear it'll The only founda-
ton for happy marriage that has ever
been or ever will be is good character.
Ask God whom you shall marry if
you marry at all. A union formed in
prayer will be happy union, though
sickness pale the cheek, and poverty
empty the bread tray, and death open
the small graves, and all the path of
life be strewn with thorns from the
marriage altar with it's wedding march
and orange blossoms clear on down to the
last farewell at that gate where Isaac
and Rebecca, A braham and Sarah,
Adam and Eve parted.
And let me say to you who are in
this relation, if you make one man or
woman happy, you have not lived in
vain. Christ says that what he is to the
church you ought to be to each other,
and if sometimes through difference of
opinion or difference of disposition you
make up your mind that your marriage
was mistake patiently bear and for
hear re1nenl herring that Life at the lon