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W,. D. B- CHAMBERS, Proprietor.
VOL X
FALLACY
—OF—
to Gtam
Wc occupy the position that th e term
‘•cheap,” as implied by pretending to
, offer any article of goods tor less than
its real value is, to deai mildly, mis
leading upon its face, and should be
shunned by se.tsibie, thinking people.
“No shoddy’* ts our motto for all the
term implies..
To those. expecting something for
nothing we cannot supply your wants;
on th-M other hand, if you desire full
value for your money you afle the clasq
#f custom we are hustling for.
Sloes! Sloes! Sloes!
We have tbe best shoes that money
ani experience can produce.
Heyvood shoes for men, every pair
w*r r anted, “no shoddy,” $3.50.
Custom made Shoes for ladies at
$2.00 to $3.00.
Our “Vicious” shoes for ladies at,
$1.50 to $1.05, are the best in the city.
Oxfords for ladies from SI.OO to $2.00.
Our Godman line of Kangaroo Ca'f
women’s shoes at $1.50 are the best
made for great wearers.
Our “Cannon Ball” shoes for men
;ar,d hoys at $1 25 and $2.00 cannot be
excelled; made of home-tanned leather,
full stock calf.
“Battle Axe Shoes!” Yes, we have
a full line of women’s Kangaroo shoes
of that make at $1.35.
Men's “Battle Axe" Brogans at $1.35.
Boys’ “Battle Axe” shoes, $1 00 to
$1.15.
tafli-Mear Mil.
Meal's All-Wool Suits, $6.00 to $7.00.
Jfase been reduced from SIO.OO.
Our SB.OO to $12.00 suits are elegant
ly made and excellent values.
We have recently purchased about
300 suits for men and boys at a sacri
fice price, and are in position to sell
good all-wool suits from that lot at less
than first cost.
“Nox All” Hats.
Latest styles for men at $2.00. The
greatest hat to be had at that price.
We have “No Name” hats at $2.50
to $4 50; none better made.
Straw hats, up-to-date styles, at 50c,
75c and SI.OO.
Dry Goods Depart
ment Complete,
4x4 Brown Domestic, standard, 5c
yard.
Best Cotton Checks at 5 and 6 cents
a yard.
American Indigo Blue Prints, 5c yd.
Standard Fancy Prints, 5c yard.
Shirting Prints, percale styles, 5c yd.
Dress Ginghams, good, at 10c yard.
French Ginghams, at 15c yard.
Lawns from 5c to 20c yard.
Best feather-proof ticking at 15c yd.
4x4 Bleached Domestic, 5c yard.
Better grade Bleaching, 7 to 10c yd.
Ladies’ Shirtwaist, the 75c grade, re
duced to 50c. The SI.OO and $1.25 qual
ities reduced to 75c. These prices are
not profitable to us. but an actual loss;
desire to close the line out.
Men’s Elastic Seam drawers, 50c
Pair.
Men's Balbriggan Undershirts, 25c to
50c.
Ladies’ Cause Vests, 10c, 15c and
25c each.
We have an almost innumerable
number of good values that we cannot,
for want of space, call attention.
Hope to have the pleasure cf seeing
our friends and demonstrate our grati
tude for past favors. We remain
Yours respectfully,
Garmany Bros.
DADE COUNTY SENTINEL.
BILL ARPS LETTER
Tries Old-Fashioned Plan to An*
nihilata Potato Eu js.
CHILDREN ARE PAID TO GATHER LI EM
Nickel a Dozen is the Price, and the
Little Ones Surprise Him.—-Col
onel Redding’s Suggestion.
t
I am trying Colonel Redding’s plan
to exterminate the potato bugs. He
says begin early and watch, for the
first ones that cßie. Make an inspec
tion every morning and kill the large
striped ones before tney ley tueir eggs.
My crop is about six inches high. I
have six lohg rows in the garden and
the other morning I found the pesky
things nad come. 1 Wiled about thirty
and then told tho Children—the grand
ctodren 1 mean—that I would pay
them a nickel for every dozen bugs
they found. That evening they killed
sixty and the next morning forty, and
this morning fifteen, and this evenitig
ten. So the three little glris brought
me lu debt sixty Writs and feel rich.
1 he bargain Is that they are to pay me
hack for all I find and I have not found
but five yet, though 1 don’t look very
carefully. Children like to work for
money just like grown folks. I re
member well the first half dollar 1
ever earned. My father was clearing
'and and told me I might have the
saplings if I would trim them, up and
pile the brush and I might have the
wagon and team to haul them to town
and sell them. I had the evenings
Rfter school and Saturdays to work
and soon had a load ready and sold it
to pur school teacher for a silver half
dollar. I was rich, and as I drove home
I felt of it in my pocket every little
while to be sure it was there. I like
to reward these little chaps, for it does
them so much good and makes them
love me. The love of an ipnocent
child Is the purest on earth except the
love of a mother. I have no greater
comfort now than the glad smile of a
little one that jumps into my arms
whenever I come. It flatters my van
ity, for though I am old and ugly the
little ones will hug me and pat my
wrinkled cheeks and turn away from
those who are young and handsome.
The greatest inducement for a parent
to be .a Christian Is to secure the sal
vation of their children and meet them
in heaven, for it is said in the scrip
tures in three places, “Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shait be
saved —thou and thine house.” Se let
the good mother not despair of her
wicked son who went unrepentant to
his death and may these words always
comfort her, “thou and thine house.”
For the sake of ten good- people the
Lord would have saved Sodom, and for
the sake of good parents He will save
the children.
Last year my potato crop was seri
ously damaged by these bugs, and by
the paris green, too. for I used too
much of it, and so I am taking Colonel
Redding’s advice and killing off the
big striped beetles before they lay
thpir patches of yellow eggs on the un
der side of the leaves. I instructed
the children to look for eggs and
they found only two leaves with eggs
on them. With a little sharpened
stick they dug. around the base of ev
ery plant, and there found most of the
beetles, but I am already satisfied with
the experiment, and hope that I will
not have to use paris green at all.
I shall continue my bargain with the
children, even if it is expensive. I
overheard them plotting this evening
about going to the drug store tomor
row and buying some ice cream, and
they agreed to take two saucers
apiece. These little girls are great in
ventions, and I love to watch them and
ruminate and Donder why it was that
children, especially boys, get more self
ish and deceitful as they grow older.
The devil seems to let them alone until
they get weaned from their mother.
The good and the bad are strangely
mixed in this world. New plagues and
pestilences keep on coming, both on
animal and vegetable life, but a kind
Providence has provided remedies and
given us minds to find them. But I
have found no way to keep the pig
eons from preying on my young peas
as they peep from the ground. They
utterly destroyed my first planting
and bave begun on the second. We
have had a flock for many years, and 1
never knew them to trouble the garden
before. I say, Colonel Redding, what
must Ido about it? My wife says cov
er them with brush, and I will if I
•can find the brush. The English spar
rows do leave us most cf the crop, but
the pigeons don't’leave us anything.
Reckon I will have to turn the boys
loose on them. The beans, onions and
early corn are all right yet, and the
strawberries seem to have no enemies.
They make a beautiful show, and give
as great comfort.
In a week or two we will have ripe
fruit in abundance, and shall send
some to the preachers. Brother Y’ar
breugh says he does not think it any
harm to send good things to a preach
er even on Sunday. Strawberry cul
ture is spreading rapidly in our town
and some of the'neighbors are trying it
as a business for profit. Dr. Felton.
Jr., has put out thirty thousand plants
the last season. It was Isaac Walton,
the great fisherman, who wrote in his
book on angling, “Dr. Butler says that
‘doubtless God could have made ft bet
ter berry than the strawberry, hut
doubtless God Srvtf hid,’ and so I say
that never made a more calm,
quiet, innocent recreation than ang
ling.” My friends, Dr. Ben ham and
Coloner Murphy heartily endorse Wal
ton on fishing, and will sit in a boat
h&lf a day in a cummer’s sun and
watch the corks and ruminate and
not catch enough fish for Silptieh If
I was as fond of it fcs fey are I think
I Vitmld moYo to Florida and stay
there, 1 have caught more fish there
in one claY than in all lhy life up here
in North Georgia.
,i did hot go to Dallas, the long spell
of grippe left me too dilapidated to
travel that far and give up my home
haWts and comforts, but I read all
the great, reunion with keen sat
isfaction. There is life in the old land
yet and love for the ’’Lost cause” in
the hearts of the people, the confeder
ates and their children and children's
children. May it never be extinguish
ed.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
a big railroad sensation.
Ttvs Common People Are Guessing at
to Who Now Owns the Louis
ville and Nashville.
A New York special says: One of
the biggest railroad deals affecting the
south, and one which has had the most
sensational and mysterious inception,
Is believed in the most conservative
banking circles here to be on the
eve of completion.
The absorption of the Louisville and
Nashville railway,which in the stock
manipulations of the past few days
has passed from the control of the Bel
mont interests to either the Southern
railway or the Rock Island road, and
then.a vast “community of interests”
is the outlook.
It was an acknowledged fact at. the
close of business in Wall street Satur
day that the control of the Louisville
and Nashville had already passed, or
is in proedks of passing, to some other
large railway system or group of bank
ers. The most solid indications are
that either the Southern railway or
Rock Island will ultimately prove to he
the power m control. In either event,
it is as firmly understood that all of
these roads will be finally operated
for mutual benefit.
Another dispatch says: Doepite de
nials from J. P. Morgan & Cos., the
financial agents, and Samuel Spencer,
the president, of tbe Southern railway,
and from August Belmont, the chair
man of the board of directors of the
Louisville and Nashville- railroad, in
siders realize that the flurry in L. and
N. stock is due to no skillful “coruefi”
engineered by John W. Gates and his
western boomer3.
It simply means that the Southern
railway, or to speak more definitely,
that the J. Pierpont Morgan group of
capitalists has acquired control of the
Louisville and Nashville railway.
BRITISH HOPE FOR PEACE.
Cessation of Hostilities Depend on
Klerksdorp Negotiations.
A London special says: “Peace is
within measurable distance.” That
probably sums up tbe present crop of
rumors, conjectures and deductions
which has Great Britain by the ears.
“Is It peace?” meets the eye in flar
ing posters of afternoon newspapers,
and the question Is echoed throughout
the United Kingdom.
The Associated Press has good Tea
sons to believe that the sudden sum
moning of the cabinet members Satur
day was due to a desire to decide
whether the presenting of the budget
could bo postponed until tire Klerks
dorp negotiations are settled, one way
or the other.
INADEQUATE TO BRUTAL CRIME.
Murderer of Miss Jennett Gets Off
With Only a Life Sentence.
At midnight Saturday night, seven
ty-two hours after Professor Joseph
M. Miller murdered Miss Carrie M.
Jennett with a hatchet at Detroit, he
was in Jackson prison, sentenced to
spend the rest of his life there at bard
labor.
He was arraigned in the recorder’s
court Saturday morning on the charge
of murder, and the trial was quickly
concluded.
In sentencing Miller Judge Murphy
called him a demon, and said, he con
sidered that the sentence he was
about to impose on him was inade
quate to his horrible crime.
MISS DAVIS SPONSOR IN CHIEF.
General Gordon Names Grandniece of
Jefferson Davis For Highest Honor.
General John B. Gordon, command
er in ehief of the United Confederate
Veterans, has appointed Miss Varina
Davis, of New Orleans, sponsor in
chief for the forthcoming reunion at
Dallas, Texas. The appointment is one
that will prove popular with the veter
ans of the south, for she is one of‘the
few remaining representatrves of the
family of tbe confederacy’s dead presi
dent. Miss Varina Davis is the daugh
ter of Mr. Joseph Davis, of New Or
leans, and a grandniece of Jefferson
Davis.
“Out of sight, out of minu” can not
always apply to the blind.
Official Organ of Dado COunty
TRENTON. GA. FRIDAY, MAY 2,1902,
DEATH OF DR. TALMAGE
Makes Appropriate Reprinting
HIS PIOUS SERMON
Considered by Many the Mas
terpiece of the Great
Pulpit Orator
“Oh the Choice of a Wife.”
Marriage TQot For All—Mullittuleft Who
Nevor Will Marry* Who Are Not Fit
tb Marry— Some Eminent Blunderers—
-4 Avoid Matchmakers—Essential Quali
ties— lteauty a Benediction.
Washington, D. C.—The following
discourse is one of a series of sermons on
domestic life delivered several years ago
by the late Rev, Dr. TANARUS, Da Wi*t Talmn.ee,
and by many admirers is considered his
i>.ulpit masterpiece. lri commemoration
cf hi? de.itH it is now republished! ,Jt was
founded on the text. Judges kiv; 3: “Is
there never a woman among the daugli- j
ters of thy brethren, or among all my j
people, that thou goest to take a wife of
the uncircumcised Philistines':”
Samson, the giant, is here asking con
sent of his father and mother to mar
riage with one whom they thought unfit
for him. He was wise in asking their
counsel, but not wise in rejecting it. Cap;
tivated with her looks, the big son wanted
to marry a daughter of one of the hostile
families, a deceitful, hypocritical, whining
and saturnine creature,, who afterward
made for him a world of trouble till she
quit him forever, lri my test his parents
forbade the banns* practically sa.Ving:
“When there are so many honest and
beautiful maidens of your own country;
are you so hard put to for a lifetime part
ner that you propose conjugality with this
foreign flirt? Is there such a dearth of
lilies in our Israeiitish, gardens that you
must Wear on your heart a Philistine
thistle? Do you take a crahapplc because
there are no pomegranates? Is there never
a woman among the daughters of thy
brethren, or among all my people, that
thou goest to take a wife of the uneircum
cised Philistines?”
. Excuseless was he ach
land and amid a
male loveliness and moral
and a race of which
and heroic Pehorali. a > Miriam,
and pious Esther Ruth, ana
Mary, who heart the blessed
Lord, were ijfn.™ magnificent specimens.
The midnight folded in their hair, the
lakes of liquid beauty in their eye, the
gracefulness of spting morning in their
posture and gait, were only typical of the
greater brilliance and gjory of their soul.
Likewise excuseless i any man in our
time who makes lifelong alliance with any
one who, because of her disposition, or
heredity, or habits, or intellectual vanity,
or moral twistification, may be said to b
of the Philistines. a‘
The worTd rtever 'LVhecl *ufh 'BJttfltffce'
of womanly character or such splendor of
womanly manners or multitudinous in
sUhces of wifely, motherly, daughterly,
sisterly devotion, asjdt owns to-day. I
have not words to express my admiration ;
for good womanhood. Woman is not
only man’s equal, hut in affeetional and re- I
ligious nature, which is the best part of
us, she is seventy-five per cent, nis su- i
perior. Yea, during the last twenty years, j
through the increased opportunity opened
for female education, the women of the
country are better educated than the ma- j
jority of men: and if they continue to j
advance mentally at the present ratio, be
fore long the majority of men wilt have!
difficulty in finding in the opposite se|#
enough ignorance to make approprk-jjf
consort. Tf I am under a delusion, jliXr
the abundance of good womanhood altfjjsfd,
consequent upon my surround!ngsj^inee
the hour I entered this life until now, 1
hope the delusion will last until I embark
from this planet. So you will understand,
if I say in this course of sermons some
thing that seems severe, I am neither
cynical nor disgruntled.
There are in almost every farmhouse in
the country, in almost every home of the
great town, conscientious women, worship
ful women, self-sacrificing women, holy
womcp, innumerable Marys, sitting at the
feet of Christ: innumerable mothers, help
ing to feed Christ in the person of His
SMfering disciples; a thousand capped and
spectacled grandmothers Lois, bending
over Bibles whose precepts they have fol
lowed from early girlhood; and tens of
thousands of young women that are dawn
ing upon us from school and seminary,
that are going to bless the world with
good and happy homes, that shall eclipse
all their predecessors, a fact that will he
acknowledged by all men except those fifbo
are struck through with moral decay from
toe to cranium; and more inexcusable
than the Samson of the text is that man
who, amid all this unparalleled munifi
cence of womanhood, marries a fool. But
some of you are abroad suffering from
such disaster, and to halt others of you
from going over the same precipice, I cry
out in the words of my text: “Is there
never a woman among the daughters of
thy brethren, or among all my people, that
thou goest to take a wife of the uncir.
cumcised Philistines?”
That marriage is the destination of the
human race is a mistake that I want to
correct before I go further. There are
multitudes who never will marry, and still
greater multitudes who are not fit to
marry. In Great Britain to-day there are
nine hundred and forty-eight thousand
more women than men, and that, I un
derstand, is about the ratio in America.
By mathematical and inexorable law, you
see, millions of women will never marry.
The supply for matrimony greater than
the demand, the first lesson of which is
that every woman ought to prepare to
take care of herself if need be. Then there
are thousands of men who have no right
to marry, because they have become so
corrupt of character that their offy of
marriage is an insult to any good woman.
Society will have to be toned up and cor
rected on this subject, so that it shall
realize that if a woman who has sacrificed
her honor is unfitted for marriage, so is
any map who has ever sacrificed his pur
ity. What right have you. O maseultne
beast! whose life has been loose, to take
under your care the spotlessness of a vir
gin reared in the sanctity of a respectable
home? Will a buzzard dare to court a
dove ?
But the majority of you will marry, and
have a right to marry, and as your re
ligious teacher I wish to say to these men,
in the choice of a wife first of all seek
divine direction About thirty-five years
ago, when Martin Farquhar Tupper. the
English poet, urged men to prayer befo -e
they decided upon matrimonial association,
people laughed. And some of them have
lived to laugh on the other side of their
mouth.
The need of divine direction I argue
from the fact that so many men, and
some of them strong and wise, have
wrecked their lives at this juncture. Wit
i ness Samson and this woman of Timnath!
Witness Socrates, peeked of the historical
Xantippe! Witner.. Job, whose wife had
noth.vg to prescribe for his carbuncles
but allopathic doses of profanity! Witness
Ananias, n liar, who might perhaps have
been cured by a truthful spouse, yet mar
| lying as great a bar as himself—Sapphira!
Witness John Wesley, one of the best
then that ttpited to one of the
most tiutragebus find fFSijdalous Of women,
I who sat in, City Road CHSpcl making
mouths at him while he preached! Wit
ness the once connubial wretchedness of
Jsllrt Ruskin, the great art essayist, and
(Frederick W. Robertson, the great preach
er. Witness a thousand hell* on earth
kindled by unworthy wives, termagants
that scold like ,a March northeaster, fe l
male spendthrifts,.. that put their lius-
Biiiii itW fiaudtiU-tit Schemes td get
money enough to meet the iavishment of
domestic expenditure; opium-using wo
men—aoout four thousand of them in the
United States—w!io will have the drug,
though it should cause the eternal damna
tion rif the whole Household; heartless and
bverheijrißg,., and uftipbjr-patnby dud dm
reasonable wonieni yet married—married
pciliSpd to good men! LneSc are trie wo
men who build the low ciiiU-fiddses; wlyeve
the husbands and sons go because ttiej?
can’t stand it at home. On this sea of
matrimony, where so many have wrecked,
am I not right in advising divine pilotage?
Especially is devout supplication needed,
because kf thfc Met that society, is. so fit!;
ot artificialities that men ate deceived tt
to whom they are marrying, and no one
but the Lord knows. After the dress
maker. and the milliner, and the jeweler,
and the hair-adjuster, and the dancing
roaster, and the cosmetic art have com
pleted their work, how is an unsophisti
cated man to decipher the physiological
hieroglyphics, and make accurate judg
ment of who it is to whom he offers hand
arid heaft? That is What Makes so many
Fedreant htisbandi: Tnrifr ffirike Vrt honor
able mintage fcontrrict; but the godaif de
livered are so different from the . sample
by which they bargained. They were
swindled, and rigdiey backed out. They
mistook Jezebel wLLongfellow’s Evange
line, and Lucre for Martha
Washington. '.wjy
Aye, as the Indian cniemteasts of the
scalps he has taken, so there society
to-day many coquettes who
masculine hearts they have
these women, though they may live
richest Upholstery, are iidt so honorable
as the cyprians of the street, for these
advertise tlieir infamy, while the former
prbfess heaven while they mean hell.
There is sd fnucK counterfeit woman
hood abroad it is no .wonder thill somt
cannot tell the genuine coin from the base.
Do you not realize you need divine guid
ance when I remind you that mistake is
possible in this important affair, and, if
made, ii irrevocable ? .
The worst predicament possible is td 1)6
unhappily yoked together. You see it is
impossible to break the yoke. The more
you pull apart, the more galling the yoke.
The minister might bring you up again,
and and in your presence read trie mar-
might put you
•■UyHlHWffllWWWWies of the altar from
JgSmre you were when you were united,
might take the ring off of the finger, might
rend the wedding veil asunder, might tear
out the marriage leaf from the family Bible
record, but that would fail to unmarry
you. It is better not to make the mis
take than to attempt its correction. But
men and women do not reveal all their*
characteristics till aftef marriage, and
how are you to avoid committing the fatal
blunder? There is only ona Being in the
universe who can tell you whom to choose,
and thaw is the Lord of l’aradise. He
made Eve for Adam, and Adam for Eve,
and both for each other. Adam had riot
a large group of women from whom to
select his wife, buU* is fortunate, judg
ing from some mi;, ,4 s which she after
ward made, that Eve or nothing.’
There is in all! Ljsnvorld some one who
was made for ycnffjK certainly as Eye was
made for Adajjvr All sorts of mistakes
occur because Sxf Was made out of a rib
• from Nobody knows which
of his twem/wMir ribs was taken for the
nucleus. depend entirely upon
yourself i "mM selection of a wife, there
are twer&i*Mee possibilities to one that
you vii• jWthe wrong rib. By tbe fate
of AhMtty, le wife induced bini to steal;
by tkJrJE’/wMacbcth, w hese wife pushed
hiqrksJW^ifcfiacre; by the fate of James
FjHwwpnJaSTe philosopher, whose wife
WRroom while he was lecturing
rflcl willfßSa upset his astronomical ’ap
paratus, 4*S*at he turned to the audience
and and gentlemen, I have
the • uCyMKne to be married to this
woirwtaLgp the fate of Bulwer, the
wife’s temper was so in
’ ■"* vY' fthat he furnished her a beau
tiful h(|QI near London and withdrew
from hjJßompany, leaving her with the
dozen (Kg whom she entertained as pets;
by the Jjfle of John Milton, who married
a termaSrit after he was blind, and when
some oS*Xcalled her a rose, the poet said:
“I am mq judge of flowers, but it may be
so, forvi feel the thorns daily;” by the
fate of an Englishman whose wife was so
determined to dance on his grave that he
| was buried in the sea; by the fate of a
village minister whom 1 knew, whose wife
threw a cup of hot tea across the table
: because they differed in sentiment—by all
I these scenes of disquietude aud domestic
j calamity, we implore you to be cautious
j and prayerful before you enter upon the
i connubial state, which decides whether a
• man shall have two heavens or two hells,
a heaven here and heaven forever, or a
| hell now and a hell hereafter.
By the bliss of Pliny, whose wife, when
her husband was pleading in court, had
messengers coming and going to inform
her what impression he was making; by
the joy of Grotius, whose wife delivered
him from prison under the pretence of
having books carried out lest they be in
jurious to his health, she sending out her
husband unobserved in one of the book
cases; by the good fortune of Roland, in
Louis’ time, whose wife translated and
composed for her husband while Secretary
of the Interior —talented, heroic, won
derful Madame Roland; by the happiness
of many a man who has made intelligent
choice of one capable being prime coun
selor and companion in brightness and in
grief—pray to Almighty God, morning,
noon, and night, that at the right time
and in the right way He will send you a
good, honest, loving, sympathetic wire; or
>f she is not sent to you, that you may be
sent to her.
At this point let me warn you not to
! let a question of thi- importance be set
-1 tied by the celebrated matchmakers flour
ishing in almost every community. De
pend upon your own judgment divinely
I illumined. These brokers in matrimony
*• ever planning how they can unite >"-
necunious innocence to an heiress, or celi
bate woman to millionaire or marquis, and
that in many cases makes life an unhappi
ness. How can any human being, who
knows neither of the two parties as God
knows them, and who is ignorant of the
future, give such directions as you re
quire at such a crisis?
Take the advice of the earthly match
maker instead of the divine guidance, and
you may some day be led to use the words
of Solomon, whose experience in home life
was as melancholy as it was multitudinous.
One day his palace, with its great wide
rooms and great wide doors and great
wide hall, was too small for him and the
loud tongue of a woman belaboring him
about some of his neglects, and he re- :
treated to the housetop to get relief from
the fungal bombardment. And while there
he saw a poor man on one corner of the
roof with a mattress for his only furni
ture, and the open sky his only covering.
And Solomon envies him and cries out:
“It is beter to dwell in the corner of the
housetop than with a brawling woman in
a wide house.” And one day during the
rainy season the water leaked through
1 the roof of the palace and began to drop
in a pail or pan set there to catch it. And
at one side of him all day long the water
went drop! drop! drop! while on the
other side a female companion quarreling
about this, and quarreling about that; the
acrimonious and petulant words falling on
nis ear in ceaseless pelting—drop! drop!
i drop! and he seized his pen aud wrote:
“A coptinual dropping in a very rainy
d,i* rind * contentions woman are alike.”
If Solomo'fi Had been as prayerful at the
beginning Of his Inc as he was at his
ittSt; how much domestic Infelicity he
would have Avoided ?
Ilut prayer about this Will amount, to
nothing unless you pray soon enough.
Wait until you are fascinated find the
equilibrium of your soul is disturbed by ft
ihflgnotis arid exquisite presence, and then
you will answer your own prayers, and
you will mistake yotfr own infatuation for
ilift tflie* Of God. {
If you have tiiie prayerful spirit yotl will
surely avoid all female staffers at. the
Christian religion; and there are quite a
number of them in all communities. It
must be told that, though the only in
fluence that keeps woman from being
estimated and treated as a slave—aye. as
a brute itltd beast of burden—is Christi
anity, since where It i* i>M, dominant she
is s(t Geated: yet there art? WOfnen who
will so far ftfrget themselves and forget
their God that they (till go and hear lec
turers malign Christianity alia scoff at the
most sacred things of the soul. A good
Woman, over-persuaded by her husband,
hi&f go Once to hear such a tirade against
the Christian religion, not fully knowing
what she is going iff hear; but she will
not go twice. ,
A woman, not a Christian, but a re
specter nf religion, said to me: "I was
persuaded id mv husband to go and hear
an infidel lerturO but going home
I said to him: “My iletfi’ husband, I
would not go again though my declination
should insult ill our divorcement forever.”
the woman was right. If after all
(.lift Christ and Christianity have done
for a woiiiitri, =fliO .cftn go again and again
to hear such assaults, n*t is SU awful crea
te*" and you had better HOt coYne near
such a icCking lepress. She needs to be
washed, and for v’irfe wrecks to be soaked
in carbolic acid, and nil' * whole year
fumigated, before she is fit rdf decent
society. While it is not demanded that
woman be a Christian before marriage,
must have regard for the Christian re
ligion or she is a bad woman and un
worthy of being your companion in a life
thilrged with, ouch stupendous solemnity I
and vicissitudes.
What you want. O mati! in, ft wife, is
not a butterfly of the sunshine, not a
giggling nonentity, not a painted doll,
not a gossiping gadabout, not a mixture of
artificialities which fe.fr you in doubt as
to where the humbug ends and the woman
begins, but an earnest soul, one that CRH
not only laugh when you laugh, but weep
when you weep. There will he wide, deen i
graves iii your path, of life, and you will j
both want steadying when you come to :
the verge of them, 1 tell you. When your I
fortune fails you will want sortie one to j
talk of treasures in heaven, and not charge
upon you with a bitter. “I told you so.”
As far as I can analyze it. sincerity and
earnestness are the foundation of all
worthv wifehood, Get that, and you get
all. Fail to get that, and you get noth
ing but what you will wish you never bad
got.
Don’t make the mistake that the man ,
of the text made in letting his eve settle I
the question irl which coolest judgment |
directed bv divine wisdom are all-im
portant, He who baa no reason for his
wifely choice except a pretty face is like
a man who should buy a farm because of
the dahlias in the front doorvard. Beauty
is a talent, and when God gives it He in
tends it fts a benediction upon a woman’s
face. When the good Princess of Wales I
dismounted from tig rail, train last sum
m i an I Ii her rndmnt face. 1 could
understand what they told me the day
before, that, tvlien at the great military
Inuaital where tire now the wounded and
tl'Vhick from the Egyptian and other
wars, the Drinoess passed through, all the
sick were cheered at her coming, and those j
who could be roused neither bv doctor nor
nurse from their stupor, would get up on
their elbow’s to look at her, and wan and
wasted lips prayed an audible prayer:
‘‘God bless the Princess of Wales. Doesn’t
she look beautiful?”
But how uncertain is the tarrying of
bautv in a human countenance! Explosion
of a kerosene lamp turns it into sacrifica- j
tion. and a scoundrel with one dash of
vitriol may dispel it, or Time will drive
his chariot wheels across that bright face. |
cutting it up in deep ruts and gullies. But j
there is an eternal beauty on the face of
some women, whom a rough and ungal
lant world inav criticise as homely: and
though their features mav contradict all 1
the laws of Lava ter on physiognomy, yet
they have graces of soul that will keep
them attractive for time and glorious
through all eternity.
There are two or three circumstances
in which the plainest wife is a queen of
beauty to her husband, whatever her
stature or profile. By financial panic or
betrayal of business partner, the man goes
down, and returning to his home that
evening, he says: “I am ruined; I am
in disgrace forever: I care not whether
I live or die. ’ It is an agitated storv he
is telling in the household that winter
night. He says: “The furniture must
go, the house must sgo, the social
position must go.” apd from being
sought for obsequiously they must be
cold-shouldered everywhere. After he
ceases talking, and the wife has heard all
in silence, she says: “Is that all? Why.
you bad nothing when T married you, and.
you have only come hack to where you
started. If voil think that my happiness
and that of the children depend on these
trappings, you do not know’ me, though
we have lived together thirty years. God
is not dead, and the National Bank of
Heaven has not suspended payment, ami
if you don’t mind. I don’t care a cent.’
What little we need of food and raiment
the rest of our lives we can get. and 1
don’t propose to sit down and mope and
groan. Mary, hand me that darning
needle. 1 declare! I have forgotten to
set the rising for those cakes! And while
she is busy "at. it he hears her humming
Newton’s old hymn, “To-morrow.
The husband looks up in amazement,
and says- “Well, well, you are the great
est woman I ever saw. I thought you
would faint dead away when l told you.”
And as be looks at her all the nf
physiognomy in the Court of Louis XV.
on the modern fashion plates, are tame as
compared with the superhuman splendors
of that woman’s face. Joan of Arc. Mary
Antoinette, and La Belle Hamilton, the
enchantment of the Court of Charles 11,
are now here.
There is another time when the plainest
wife is a queen of beauty to Iter husband.
She has done the work of life. She has
reared her children for God and heaven,
and though some of them may be a little
wild they will yet come back, for God has
promised. She is dying, and her husband
stands by. They think over all the years
of their companionship, the w’eddings and
the burials, the ups and the down, the
successes and the failures. They talk
over the goodness of God and His faith
fulness to children's children. She has no
fear about going. The Lord has sustained
her so many years she would not dare to
distrust Him now. The lips of both of
them tremble as they say good-by and en
courage each other about an early meeting
in a better world. The breath is feebler
and feebler, and stops. Are you sure of it?
Just hold that mirror at the mouth, and
see if there is any vapor gathering on the
surface. Gone! As one of the neighbors
takes the old man by the arm gently and
says: “Come, you had better go into tbe
next room and rest.” lie says: “Wait a
moment; I must take one more look at
that face and at those hands!” Beautiful!
I Beautiful!
Mv friends, I hope you do not rail that
i death. That is an autumnal sunset. That
j ts a crystalline riier pouring into a ervs
! tal sea. That is the solo of human life
j overpowered by hallelujah chorus. That is
;a_ queen’s coronation. That is heaven.
That is the v.ay my father stood at eighty
two, seeing my mother depart at seventy
nine. Perhaps so vour father and mother
went. I wonder it we will die as well. _
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