The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-11-11
HOME CIR LIE col UNIN
Crude thoughts as they Fail From
the Editorial Pen.
EVENING REvERIEs.
\ Column Dedicated to Tired
Mothers as They Join the
Home Circle ut Even.
ing Tide.


Home Circle Mt Even.
ing Tide.
YOU MIGHT HAVE THArD, or
WINS hnrd ut work in my study
Whence heard gentle tap,
"Come in!" and in came my Josie,
Tearful from some mishap.
And knew that she was lcnging
TO be cuddled in my lap.
IL bruithed my finger orful,
Ana papa, it doth ache SOP
we'll, well, run away to mamma,
For can't help it, Jo,"
She raised her tear-wet lashes-
Papa, you might have thaid 'O!"
The study-door closed softly
And was left alono
With nothing to hinder my writing
But tho thought of tender tone,
SO loving and so rcproachful
'Twould have touched II heart Of stone.
And sat and looked at my paper,
But some how could twrito
And there broke on me in slpnce
The dawn of n clearer light;
The touch of that aching finger
Had given me my sight.
Have n tender word, my brothers,
For the lite troubles and pains,
1t was not beneath our Muster,
1t is far above our gains;
Twill hasten the heavenly kingdom,
Where only lovo remains.
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The thief who steals your peace OF
mind Is meaner than the one who
steals your property.
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Teach your girl how to c1ok, and If
she does not thank you somebody's
son will thank you for her.
No one can so ins pire a man TO -O-
BILE purposes as noble woman, and no
one, so thoroughly degrade man as
wife OF unworthy tendencies.
eECRET SOCIETIES.
What is the moral effect of Free
Masonry. Odd Fellowship, Knights of
Labor and the numerous secret socie
ties upon the home? Solomon, the
wise man, said: Discover not secret
to another" and be had good reasons
Tor laying such an injunction, for in
his time, as at the present. there were
people too much disposed to tell all
they knew. One halt the trouble In
every community, cones from the fact
:haa sc many people have noj ii.e e i.
paci6y to keep their mouths shut. We
have two ears but only one tongue
which is suggestive OF the fact that
we should hear more than we tell. BY
the power OF secret divulged, !ami
lies, chu cheS, nsighborh0ods and even
nations fly apart. b tha p wer Of a
secret kept, great charities, refurnl.
tory movements and christian enter.
priSeS may be advanced. 1t is an otter
discussed question whether associa.
tions that do not have their work will,
closed do prs. aud admit tneir Members
with pas words, and greet each other
With secret grip are right or wrong.
Our answer is that it depend entirely
upon the object for which they meet.
If it Is to pass the hours in revelry
and obscene talk, or to plot trouble
to the state, then we say with an EN-.
pnasis that 1t Is wrong. But where the
object is the Improvement Of the
mind, the enlargement of the heart,
the defense OF the government, then
we say with just as much emphasis
that they are blessing There is nc
need That those who plan for right
over wrong should publish to the
world their intentions. Secretary OF
plot and execution are wrong onl,
when the object and ends are nefar-
lous Every family is secret society.
every business firm ard every bank.
ing institution. The men who have
no capacity to keep secret are un lit
lot positions of trusts anywhere. Sc.
cret societies have done incuculablc
good. One society gave for the relief
or their sick In 1873, in this couutry
l,49O, 274. Some Of the secret soci-
eties have poared very heaven of
sunshine and benediction into the
nome Of suffering. Some of them are
fourded in 8" 'lty to'good citizenship
and the bible. Christ has given us a
rule by which we may judge, not only
all individuals, but all secret societies.
by their fruits ye shall know them. I"
Bad societies make bad men. Good
societies make good men. A bad man
VIII not stay in a good society and Il
good man will not stay in a bad sOci
ETY.: Test these societies by two or
three rules. Their influence on home.
That wife soon loses her influence over
her husband WHO looks upon all even
Ing absence as an assault on domestic
ity. That wife who becomes Jealous
OF her husbands attention to art, or
literature, or religion, or charity /.
breaking her own scaptre OF conjugal
power. But let no man sacrifice home
life to secret society life, as some do
Some men are as genial as angels at
tile society room and as ugly as sin at
home.
JEALOUSLY.
How fortunate it is that there
not jealous person among Our large
family of readers. We do not know
If one; do you? Such b ing tile cas-.