The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-09-04

BY MEMO. -

BY ssNEMo.r
To YOUNG MEN IN LOVE (3rd Ar
ticle):-Some day when you have toll
ed for her awhile longer, and gathered
a reasonable amount Of worldly goods
for her protection and comfort, she
will place her hand confidingly in
yours in the presence Of witnesses.
With her 81 willf' she will forswear
liberty. Her wistful eyes will be
raised in tender love toward yours as
she makes the greatest sacrifice Of her
life; for that is what it is, as you will
appreciate If you stop to think. What
will those eyes see in you? A hero.
She thinks you are one, II she is low
ing you for yourself alone; and l am
presuming she is. You are to her a
knight, cavalier, hero bold; she
glories In your strength or your kind
ness, or some quality that makes her
esteem you above all others. Though
a hundred men pass before her in re-
view, they are waived aside to their
own disparagement, when she COM
pares them with you. just as ardent
ly as you admire her does she admire
youl But is she only dreaming OF your
heroism and goodness? The dream is
one so beautiful for you to consider,
that to awaken her to different real
ity will be cruel pain. II you are
shrouding your real character and de-
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to open your soul wide to the quail
ties she loves. Let them rush In un-
til you are possessed by them, SO that
she may never have before her eyes
the sorrow and distress of an illusion.
Be what she thinks you are; and while
she will still remain the more power
full to mould and. the greater in heart
chow truer she will nevertheless look
up to you as though she were the les
SER What sweet Offering OF incense
to your proud and happy spirit that
will be! Deception as to goodness and
nobility until both become habits OF
the soul, is worth the effort of carrying
on, and when fully attained will make
the life together growth in the sweet
est graces Of humanity.
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MY KNIGHT.
Why do love him, my noble KNIGHT?
Is il because his visage bright
Or his strong right hand and his bound
ing health
Or his costly garb and his worldly
wealth?
Is it because of his wooing sweet
Or the gifts that he filings at my favored
feet?
Is it because Of the noble race, .
Whence he boasts his lineage proud to
trace?
All no tbs because, fer the love OF me
He has cheerfully donned his panoply :
Stalwart and brave beyond compare,
But gentle and kind to his lady fair.
Clad in an armor OF truth is he,
With the stainless shield of purity,
And a sword unsheathed to uphold the
right,
That's why love him. my Knight, my
Knight
You smile at the old fable about
the greedy dog that dropped bone in
order to snatch at its reflection in the
water below. Beware of similar fool
ishness! In the present state OF your
feeling you admire the beauty, the
good-sense, the modesty, the attrac-
tive ways of the woman fyour choice.
You look up to her and she can raise
you in all that is worthy. The prog
ress of 1900 years is being enjoyed by
you; the ages during which woman
has grown, under the influence of a
virgins son, from a creature of utility
to the Jew and a creature of pleasure
to the GENTLE, into radiant help
meet that draws out Of man more
fully the divine possibilities OF his ma
ture; these ages are epitomised in your
love. The gain to you from her de-
votion is, in measure, like the gain
Of the world from her dear sex since
the Christian Era. Just as we expect
her influence to keep the world con-
tinuously progressing, so may your
gain keep on growing as you come to
fuller knowledge of her. o. greedy
one! Is this not enough? You are
a better man because she loves you be-
fore marriage. This is the substance
now in your possession. Will you for
get it all and rush through the gates
of love as though the Creator had
from all time planned to form this
particular woman for your particular
pleasure? If you do, the shadoao alone
will be yours. The Substance of love
is her entire nature and its effects on
you; the shadow is physical pleasure
INDUCED in for your own sake. Here
is the wrecking point of many fair
ship of marriage that has started joy
ously over the sea Of life. The polar
star of united helpfulness is forgotten
in the presence Of passions Pickering
light. The joyousness comes to an
end, the act of love now lowered to
mere instinct rounds out the full
desire, increased indulgence calls for
further indulgence, sense becomes the
all-in-all, and then-last and worst
stage of all-the heart goes wandering
anywhere and everywhere seeking
physical pleasure and it becomes al
most matter of indifference whether
it be one woman or another that fur
nishes the pleasure. The fruits OF
Paradise will then have changed in
your grasp to the ashiness OF Dead Sea
apples. Evil within you will have
triumphed over good and the corpse
of love be gibed at by the demon of
lust.
zee the young life as stately ship riding
Over the sea like a water-bird gliding.
Will she wait till the levin Of passion is
shed,
Or follow loves pole star SO pure over
head?
Carelessly trimmed, a light hand on the
tiller,
The pillows and surges of evil days fill
her.
She drifts to the depths that are dulled
by the dead
Though the pole star of love shines sc
pure overhead.
The helmsman, half blinded, his fears
ever Tightening,
Is waiting the flash OF the furcated
lightning.
vainly he trusts by its fire to be led,
When the pole star of love shines &C
pure overhead.
Shattered and scorched by the guide he
awaited
The helmsman lies dead on the vesse
Inflated.
Alas for the victim by passion misled,
Who trusts not loves pole star SO pure