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TO MY SWEET MATTIE.
I mi»s thee! Oh, how much, dear
I miss thee! Oh, hom much, dear
one,
My lips can never tell;
For through all sorrow and all joy,
We loved each other Well!
I
One tender moon long years ago,
While walking by my side,
You gave a promise, sweet and true,
true,
That you would be my bride.
And ever since that blessed dawn,
That fair and cloudless day,
To this, that finds me by thy grave
That hold# thy precious clay,
Thou ’ast been to me, 0 darling one!
Through all the scenes of life,
The pleasant sunshine and the shade,'
A true and faithful wife,
Together hand in hand we strayed
Along earth’s borders fair;
Together drank the bitter cup
Os trials, pain and care.
I miss thee! Oh, how much, dear '
one,
My lips can never tell;
For through all sorrow and all joy,
We loved each other well.
A. E. S.
XS MAMIAGE A FAILURE?
Is the a failure because some
imprudent persons expose thefts
selves and experience “sunstroke?”
Is the ocean a failure be6av.se some
are so unfortunate as to sink ill
water? Is sweet, fresh water a fail
ure because some are drowned in it?
Is fire a failure because it sometimes
causes loss and suffering? la com
merce a failure because all do not
succeed in it? Are railroads a failure
because accidents occur? Is the at
mosphere a failure because of wind
storms? Is human society a failure
because of a few evils in it? Is ed
ucation a failure because some do not
turn knowledge .to good account 1
Are all human relations failures be
cause all find not perfect happiness
in them? Questions like the forego
ing could be continued indefinitely,
but is is very evident that marriage
is no more a failure than any of the
things above mentioned. What would
human beings become without the
homes that marriage brings? They
would sink far below the brutes. Un
worthy, bad people may themselves
be failures in marriage, or worse out
of marriage, but marriage itself is di
vine.—Ex.
A LOVE TRAGEDY.
Love and laughter, pain and sor
row, the abandon of gaiety and danc
ing for the public with the grip of a
heartache in her little body, is the
pathetic paradox presented in the
experience of Mabel Hite, a vaude
ville actress in Chicago, whose hus
band, Mike Donlin, the ball player,
has become a sot. Mabel has tried
faithfully to reform Donlin, paying
his fines from time to time, helping
him to sober up, and exacting prom
ise after promise from him to do bet
ter, so far without avail. The other
day she got him out of the police sta
tion, where a four days’ debauch had
landed him, gave him a Russian bath
to boil the alcohol out of him and
the© bought* Mto a railroad ticket
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and sent him away to remain six
months and gave him to understand
that at the end of that period if he
could not come back to be a perma
nently sober man she would secure
a divorce. Said * the little come
dienne: “I can’t stand it any long
er. Now, you don’t think it’s such a
dreadful thing for a woman’s hus
band to get drunk and in the news
papers, do you ? But it means so
much when you love a man and he’d
promised not to do it. And every
time it happens it’s so much worse
and it worries me so I can’t sleep
and I have to go out before that au
dience and act like a fool and make
them laugh, and sing my songs and
dance, and my heart is breaking. For
he’s good to me, except when he for
gets himself.”
There are only two kinds of fruit
growing in the executive office
grounds, plums and lemons, and poli
ticians readily know 'them by their
fruits. —The Examiner.
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WHEN PETTUS WENT WOOING.
Senator Pettus married a daughter
of Hon. Samuel Chapman, a promi
nent citizen of Sumter county. To
a Selma friend Senator Pettus in his
old age told a beautiful story of her,
who blessed his life for mere than
half a century.
“You see,” said Senator Pettus,
“as I was a boy I was inclined to
be wild and a little rough. When I
fell in love with her I went to her
and told her. She said:
“ ‘Why, you are only a rough boy,
You haven’t an idea of what life
means. You have not even taken
the trouble to get an education.’
“I knew she spoke the truth. When
I left her I formed a determination
I would get an education if it were
possible to get one. Without my
mother’s help and sacrifice it would
have been impossible, but she gladly
helped, and she gladly made the sac
rifice.
“By her sacrifices I went to Ten
nessee to school, and I studied as no
boy ever studied before. In time I
finished. I rode home from Tennes
see on a pony after that long ab
sence. As I drew near her house I
turned my pony and drove by her
door. She was at work among her
flowers. I hurried tn rough the gate
to where she was, and as I met her,.
I said: •
*
“ T am no longer a rough and un
educated boy. I have gotten my ed
ucation. What is your answer?’ ”
Her answer made possible that
beautiful wedded life that extended
over joys and* sorrows of more than
fifty years.—Nashville Tennesseean.
Suppose when John D. Rockefeller
goes across the dark river and comes
to St. Peter’s gate, he makes evasive
answers to the questions there pro
pounded, do you think he will get off
as easy as he did with Judge Landis?
If Peter doesn’t send the illustrious
old hypocrite to the smoke house it
will be because the devil is out of
cobs. —Bix, in State Journal.
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