The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

o business life augmented by the
eXasperations of domestic life. Such
men are laughed at, but they have a
heartbreaking trouble, and they
would have long ago gone into APP
palling dissipation but for the grace
of GCd.
Society to-day is strewn with the
wrecks of men who, under the north
east storm of domestic infelicity, have
been driven on the rocks. There are
tens of thousands of drunkards to-
day, made such by their wives. That
is not poetry; that is prose. But the
wrong is generally in the opposite di-
rection. You would not have to go
far to find a wife whose life is a per-
petual Notwithstanding heav
Ter than the stroke of fist unkind
words; staggering home at midnight
and constant maltreatment, which
have left her only a wreck of what
she was on that day when i'm the
midst of u brilliant assembage the
vows were taken. and full organ played
the wedding march, and the carriage
rolled away with the benediction of
the people What was the burning
of Latimer and Ridley at the stake
compared with this? Those men soon
became unconscious in the fire, but
there is 30 years martyrdom, so
years putting to death. yet uncom-
planning. No bitter words when the
rollicking companions at two o'clock
IN the morning pitch the husband
dead drunk INTO the front entry. No
bitter words when wiping from the
swollen brow the blood struck out in
midnight carousal. lending over
the battered ana bruised form or him
VINO Wheh ne tc'F her from her
Iather nome Pr"N'"'d love ana KIND
ness ana prote'' ''. yet nolhIp" buf
sympathy ana ~ N'iS ana forgive
ness oeiore th'' ire asked Tor. NO
pltter words N4' '' f''"'.' J Ible
goes lor rum aA. '..r J. "nn 'ers
snoP ge's ,ne laSu "'ceh' 1885, some
uoS' ucs''I's 10 evoke 'he Story OF
"er 9o'r""s' you say wen, now
are you gel'I"@ along now ana,
raIIN ing her 'remohhg voice ana
qu'eting her qui'trlhg mp she says
rely we'll ! 'hdhk N0u' pretty
wen She never VIII '.u YOU in the
oelirlum ol her lasi sickness she may
zen an the oiher secrets OF her lie
tIIhe' mn shf Will not tel that. Not
until the DOCKS OF eternity are opened
on the throne OF Judgment VIII ever
ne known what she has suffered, On,
We who are twisting garland for the
victor put 1t on that pale brow!
when she is dead the neighbors will
beg linen to make her shroud, and
she VIII be carried out in plain box,
with no silver plate to tell her years,
Tor she mas llVed thousand years Of
trlal ana anguish. The gamblers and
swindlers who destroyed her husband
Will not come to the funeral. One car
riage Will be enough for that funeral
one carriage to carry the orphans
and the two Christian women who
presided over the obsequies.
But there is fash, and the opening
of Celestial door and shout: "bift
up your head, ye everlasting gate, and
let her come in!" And Christ will
suffered for me on earth; be gloriiied
with me in Heaven What is the
highest throne in Heaven? You say:
"Ihe throne of the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb No doubt about it,.
What is the next highest throne in
Heaven? While | speak it seems to
me il will be the throne of the drunk
ards wife, if she with cheerful pa
thence endured all her earthly torture
Heroes and heroines!
find also in this roll the heroes of
Christian charity. We all admire the
George Peabodys and the James Len
oNes Of the earth, who give tens and
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
good objects. But | am speaking now
of those who out of their pinched pow
erty help others-of such men as those
Christian missionaries at the west
who proclaim Christ TO the people, one
of thpm WritinU IN tho spcrntorv In,