Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-23

npe. have the habit or strong drlhE
fixed on him. he is as certainly bound
for n drunkard's grave as that Il train
starting out from the Grand Centrai
depot ut S O'clock tomorrow morning
is bound for Albany. The train may
not reach Albany. for it may be thrown
from the track. The young man may
not reach drunkard's grave, Tor
something slny throw him off the iron
track of evil habit. But the proDa-
billty is that the train that starts to-
morrow morning ut s O'Clock Tor AL
bany will ret there, and the proba-
bility is that the young man who has
the habit of strong drink fixed Oh him
before % or 80 years Of age Will ar
rive at Il drllnkard's grave. She knows
he drinks, although he tries TO hide 1t
by chewing cloves. Everybody KNOWS
he drinks. Parents warn; neighDor5
and friends warn. She will marry him;
she will reform him. If she Is unsuc-
ccssful in the experiment, why, then,
the divorce law will cmanclpate her,
because habltual drunkenness IS j
cause for divorce in Indiana, Ken
tuckv. Florida Connecticut and nearly
all the states SO the poor thing goes
to tle altar OF sacrifice. If you Will
show me the poverty struck streets Ill
any city, I will show you the homes
of the women who married men to re-
form them. In one case out or ten
thousand it may be II successful expert
ment. never saw the successful ex-
perimcut. But have Il rigorous divorce
law. and that woman Will say, III
am atlianced TO that man, II Is for lire,
and If now, in the nrdOr of his young
love and [ the prize to be won, he VIII
not give up his cups, when he has won
the prize surely he will not give up his
CUBS" And SO that woman Will say 10
the man: NO, sir; you are already
married to the club, and you are mar
ried to that evil habit, and so you are
married twice, and you are bigamlst'
Coz
Hmsty Marriages..
A rigorous divorce law Will also uo
much to hinder nasty and inconsid-
crate marriages. Under the impress
sion that one can be easily released
people enter the relation without III
ouiry and without reflection. Romance
and impulse rule the day. Perhaps the
only ground for the marriage compact
is that she likes his looks and he al
mires the graceful way she passes
around the ice cream ut the picnic! IL
is all they know about each other. Ii
Is all the preparation for life. y man
not able to pay his own board DILL
with not dollar in his possession
will stand at the altar and take the
loving hand and say, With all my
worldly goods | thee endow." a wo
man that could not make loaf OF
bread TO save her life will swear to
love and keep him in sickness and in
health. \ Christian will marry III
atheist and that always makes con
Joined Indebtedness, for If man does
NOT believe there is Il God he Is neither
to be trusted with dollar nor with
your lifelong happiness. Having reac
much about love in cottage. people
brought up in ease will go and starvt
in howell. Runaway matches ant
elopcments. nine hundred and ninety
nine ont of Il thousand of which meal
death and hell, multiplying on al
hands. You see them in every days
newspapers.
Our ministers in some regions have
no defense such as they have in other
regions where the banns must be pre-
viously published and an officer Of the
law must give certificate that all i:
right. so clergymen are left defense
less and unite those who ought never
to he united. Perhaps they are too
Young. or perhaps they are standing
already in some domestic compact. by
the wreck of ten thousand homes, by
the holocaust Of ten thousand sacri
feed men and women, by the hearth
stone Of the family, which is the cor
nerstone of the state, and in the name
of that God who hath set up the fam
in institution and who hath made the
breaking of the marital oath the mos
appalling of all perjuries, implore th'
congress of the United States to make
some righteous, uniform law for al
the states and from ocean to ocean OF
this subject of marriage and divorce.
Warning to the Young.
Let me say to all young people, be
t.t a N
holy alliance. use all caution. Inquire
outside as to habits, explore the dispo
sition, scrutinize the taste, question
the ancestry and find out the ambl
lions. Do not take the heroes ant
The heroines of cheap novels for mol
ell. Do not put your lifetime happi
ness in the keeping Of man who ha
reputation of being little loose il
morals or in the keeping Of woman
who dresses immodestly. Remembe
that. while good looks are kindl.
Gift of God. wrinkles or accident ma.
dcspoil them. Remember that Byrol
WAS no more celebrated for his beaut.
than for his deprivity. Rcmembe
that Absalom's hair was not NOR
splendid than his habits were desplca
Bile. Hear it. Hear it. The only foun
ls,ion for happy marriage that eve
has been or ever will be is good chal
acter.
Ask the counsel of father and mott
or in this most important step of you
life. They are good advisers. The
are the best friends you ever ha(
They made more sacrifices for yo
than any one else ever did, and the
will do more today for your happ
ness than any other people. Ask then
and, above all, ask God. used
smile ut Joha Brown of Haddingto
because, wien he was about to offt
his hand and heart in marriage to on
who became his lifelong companion
he opened the conversation by sayin
, Let us pray" But l have seen
+ many shipwrecks on the sea OF ma
rimony 1 have made up my mind tn;
, John Brown of Haddington was RICH
= A union formed in prayer will be
happy union, though sickness pale II
: cheek and poverty empty the brea
- ,1oo-j, Oman tho small Urn W