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!By A. H. TLllett.
Matrimonial Meditations.
ARRIAGE is ordained of God, but it
is possible for ofie to play the deVil by
adopting the ordinance.
“Whatsoever God hath joined to
gether, let not man put asunder,” has
always seemed to me an unnecessary
caution. I reckon no man could if he
tried. It’s the converse that demands
caution.
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I asked a friend of mine why lie didn’t marry.
He said there were reasons. I asked him if he did
not have a little “Turtle-dove.” He said he had.
But he said he had noticed that the ordinary
turtle-dove was able to make up he? otvn wardrobe,
whereas his wasn’t. He said his little bird was
good to wear feathers, and looked delightfully
pretty with them on, but that she had to depend
entirely upon the dressmaker to plume her in them.
In a passion of love one day he told me his
little “Dulciana” was good enough to eat; but he
admitted that he was hardly prepared to eat her
yet, and that she w r as not yet able to prepare any
thing to oat herself.
I asked him if she were not very entertaining.
He said she was —amply so —to him. The misgiv
ing he had in the matter arose from the fear that
she would not be able to entertain herself. He said
he had often longed for the moon, but that he sup
posed if he should come into possession of it, it
would be of doubtful value to him for lighting pur
poses unless he could buy the ?un to go along with
it.
I asked him if he hesitated to marry because his
“Jewel” was extravagant. He said he did not.
He said he hesitated because she thought she was
economical. 1 think, though, he Avas a little sore
on his “financial bump” anyway, because it fell
out incidentally in the conversation that he had
gone to her some time before, all flushed by reason
THE PR OHimTION TIGHT
Compiled by J. L. D. Hillyer
Some curious figures appear in the recent primar
ies. Joe Brown received 109,828 votes, Hoke
Smith received 98,445 votes. Brown majority was
11,383. The total vote polled this year Avas 208,-
273.
The total vote tAvo years ago Avas 163,901. The
increase in the vote Avas 44,312. That means that
44,312 more white men registered and voted this
year than voted that year. That increase in the
vote is unprecedented, except in the memorable
instance when Fulton County Avent ‘Gvet” in 1878.
These figures are the more remarkable Avlien it is
remembered that tAvo years ago there were four
strong and popular men in the race and for a part
of the time five. There Avas no third party to divide
the white vote. Each candidate actively canvassed
the State and exerted himself to get everyone of
his friends to the polls. The result of that campaign
brought out a very large vote, yet in the campaign
just closed (lie vote is 44,312 larger than it Avas
two years ago.
In this election Governor Smith received 3,948
more votes than he received two years ago. It
must seem therefore to be a rather hazardous state
ment to say that Governor Smith’s policies have
been defeated because of a revolution in public
sentiment. The people avlio were Avith him then,
and more besides, are with him now. His defeat
was accomplished by the miraculous performance
of inducing about fifty thousand men Avho had been
dodging their taxes, to pay up, and register. Some
of these paid back taxes for thirty years; very
many for five or ten years. Wliat a stupendous
amount of work it required! The increase in the
State revenues by reason of the settlement of these
faxes will probably be something like $250,000. The
The Golden Age for June 18, 1908.
of a rise ill his salary, and she told him of a younger
man than himself, with much less education, Avho
worked about half his time and made twice as
much money. He ventured the opinion that when
a mail caiinot will from his sweetheart her admira
tion for his financial proivess, lie would hardly
succeed in astonishing her thereby after she had
become his wife.
I asked him. if his little “Delilah” failed to ap
preciate his strong points generally. He said she
did not. “On the contrary,” said he, “she some
times nettles me a little by taking them as a
matter of course.” Said he believed if he should
go to her and tell her lioav he had borne away the
gates of Gaza on his shoulders, she would ask him
why he had not brought aAvay the posts in his
breeches pockets.
Knowing my friend to be specially fond of home
and home influences, I asked him if his little “ Sival
low” seemed inclined ahvays to fly in that direc
tion. He said “always” was a little too strong.
“When there is no special excitement abroad,”
he said, “I notice she is sometimes Avilling to re
main at home.” She looks upon home as a good
place to stint oneself byway of making up for
outside extravagance. He acknowledged that he
had at times been pained by being made to see that
she felt a little bit ashamed of her home. He said
he knew, of course, there would be less reason for
her to feel that Avay if she spent more of her time
and of herself in making the home what it should
be.
My friend’s a felloAV of good judgment. I think
lie’s in love with his little “Pandora.” I am sure
he is not opposed to matrimony per se; but his
notion is that marriage should mean the building
of a happy home, and the last word he said to
me as lie walked wistfully away was this: “I say,
old boy, Avhat would I do with a girl who gets
lonesome at home?” I told him that same ques
tion would paralyze me if I had her.
labor and expense of a house to house canvass of
the Avhole state, and a continuous looking after the
new-found voters must have absorbed something
like five hundred thousand dollars more. In Fulton
County the registration Avent to something like
four thousand more voters than any previous regis
tration. Thousands of names on the Joe Brown
club as first published were not registered, but they
registered afterward and voted.
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Our prohibition forces can Avin out by seeing
that the proper officers are elected. We will never
Avin so long as Ave talk for prohibition and send
men to the legislature avlio are opposed to pro
hibition. Some of the men who claim uoav that
they are in favor of local option, but oppose state-
Avide prohibition, are the men Avho, Avhen avc have
had local option campaigns in our counties, have
said that they Avould vote for state prohibition but
not for local option. We believe in prohibition,
and Avill A T ote for no man aa ho does not stand
unqualifiedly for prohibition and for the enforce
ment of laAV.
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The papers announce that Caleasien parish of
Louisiana has voted dry. It contains several toAvns
of considerable size and fifty thousand square miles
of territory. This completes a dry border on the
West and North from the Gulf of Mexico around
to the Mississippi River.
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Here are some good paragraphs from the Baptist
Visitor:
Personal liberty. When people Avant to do any
thing downright mean they generally get a good
name for it. Personal liberty without Ibav is anar
chy. Tn Mississippi two men settled in the cane
brakes. Neighbor B. lived off of the shotes of
neighbor A. Finally A. made this proposition to B.:
“You let my shotes alone, and I will give you all'
the meat you need.” “I will take it under advise
ment,’’ replied B. In a few days they met again,,
and B’s answer Avas, “I have concluded not to>
sign aAvay any of my liberty.” Liberty is limited by
law, and the place for law is Avliere personal liberty
comes in contact Avitli equal liberty of others.^ —-
Dr. Gambrell.
A current magazine has an interesting article on
The Temperance Movement in Europe. It is sur
prising to learn of the movement in the countries
of Europe leading to the suppression of the liquor
traffic. Finland already has prohibition. This may
be due partly to the fact that the Parliament is
composed partly of Avomen. Even in Germany,
Avliere there are more than half of the breweries
of the world, there is considerable talk of local
option. Carefully prepared statistics show that
forty thousand Germans die every year of alco
holism. Scotland has had Sunday closing for half a
century, writes Mr. Vance Thompson in the Cosmo
politan, and members pledged to Avork for local
option have been chosen for Parliament. The whole
of Europe is awaking to the enormity of the liquor
evil. Let the good work go on.
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Among the Workers .
In last Week’s issue of The Golden Age there Avas
a clipping from some exchange, an article that Ave
regarded of special merit. It appears the first
under the caption “Among the Workers.” By
some accident it Avas printed without credit. We
regret this, but have no Avay to make amends now
except bv this acknoAvledgment.
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A feAv months ago, we published in this column
an article criticising the careless use of the descrip
tive abbreviation “Rev.” Our article has been
copied entire and properly credited. Our ideas have
been appropriated Avithout credit, and iioav avc
find in an exchange the following Avhich is half a
copy of a version of our article that we saw in a
very prominent Northern paper:
A correspondent to the Nashville Daily American
sends to its editor these pungent paragraphs:
As concerns Protestant preachers this title is not
of their OAvn choosing. Most of them object to its
implication—namely, that a preacher is “to be re
vered.” They much prefer that he be thought of
merely as a man among men. But it has now crys
tallized into a sort of badge of the Christian min
istry and is commonly so accepted. Like other of
our arbitrary titles, it has acquired certain rules of
usage. “Mister” is a ridiculous Avord Avhen
spelled; “Missus” is worse; the lawyer would
certainly be ruffled if continually called “Squire,”
though he will allow you to indicate his calling by
Avriting the abbreviation “Esq.” after his*name.
Now, just as “Esq.” must not be put before a
name, nor “Mr.” nor “Mrs.” written out in full,
so “Rev.” cannot stand alone as a title. “Rev.
Black” is a barbarism. (Please note this, all
correspondents of The Evangel.) The editor of The
American ought not only not to use it himself, but
he ought to go after the scalp of every reporter,
Merganthaler man or headliner who will allow it
io creep into the paper. Call a preacher “Mr.”
if you don’t knoAv his initials; not “Dr.” which is
flattery, nor “Rev.” Avhich is, so used, an outrage.
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The only life Avortli living is one of employment.
We have no right to live unemployed Avhile Ave are
able to Avork, and besides this, there is no happiness
in idleness. God cursed the earth for man’s sake,
that is, for his good, and made it necessary for him
to eat bread by the sweat of his face. —Selected
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Dr. Geo. C. BroAvn of Georgetown, leaves his en
tire estate of about $28,000 to GeorgetoAvn College,
in Kentucky, making ample provision for his wife,
who approves his course. —Ex.
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