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12 THK BURLINGTON FREE PRESS; THCTUSfiAV, JUNE 9, 1004. NAPOLEON , As Seen by Mis Associates NAPOLEON AND THE WOMEN t Copyrlgbt, 1604, V. n chat one day nt St. Helena ftj with the Knghsh lirrd physician ' j? who attended him In exile, Pr. j O'Mcara. Napoleon spoke- of tho custom among Englishmen of nllowing the ladies to fro nwny from tho table and remaining Tor hours to drink and Intoxicate themselves. O'Mcarn pro tested that the men remained more for the sake of conversation than for wino. Napoleon professed to doubt this. "It appeals to me," said he, "that you do not pay repaid enough to the ladles. If your object Is to converse Instead of to drink, why not allow them to be present? Surely conversation Is never to lively or so witty as when ladles take a p.'Vtt In It. If I were an Kuullsh womnn I should feel very discontented nt belli; turned out by the men to wait for two or three hours while they were U77,ltng their wine. Now, In Prance society is nothing unless Indies are pres ent. They nre the life of conversation." Another view of Napoleon's as to woman's proper sphere is reported by Jioederor, who served the empire as ad ministrator: "Women hud far better work with Ihclr needles than with their tongue, especially If they nre going to mix In politics. A stnte is lost when a woman manages its public affairs. Franco per ished throuch a queen. Looknt Spain -tho queen Kirverns there. For my part. Jf my wlfo wishes n thine it is :i rea son for mo to do the contrary." Tho wife referred to was Josephine - NAPOLEON, FIEST CONSUL OF FKANCE. CPalnied ln S0O by Masquerlcr. First authentic portrait of Napaleon exhibited i,ngiari ) These two utterances murk the ex tremes in Napoleon's Gwiernl attitude with regard to woman on the social fide Ho bad strong likes and dis likes, .which he expressed with bis usn nl ouidor. To Josephine lie wrote, In 1S08, ten years after marriage: "My Josephine--1 have received your letter in which you seem vexed with me for the misty things which I say nhout women. It is true that I hale IntrfiOJlnR women more than anything. I am iiccustotued to women who aro pood. Hweot, conciliating the sort of . women Unit I like. It is not my fault If they have spoiled me. It is your fnnVt. And, besides, you will see that I have acted very kindly toward one who showed herself serjible ami good, you hee that I nm fond of good, naive nnd fjentli! women. Hut it is true that those nre the only women who are like you." Tho Thichcsse d'Abrnntcs. who knew Napoleon intimately nil Ids life, gives testimony as to the manner of women whojileaKcd him offhand. She says: "I huvo known women, and I havo n right 1o place myself among the num ber, who preserved in his p.-ience a dignity of manner which pleased him bitter than silly fear or base llattery. "When he made an unpleasant speech to a lady and It was received wllh re fpeet nnd spirit, he never returned to the charge. For myself, when I have rffended him, he has ollen passed me fit two or three successive court circles without speaking, but he never said a word which could wound my feelings." And the gre-u emperor would stoop to conquer when one of the fair sex was coy and yet attracted him. Says Mme. de Mettcniicli, w ife of the Aus trian minister, in a letter to her hus band . "At the last reception I played caids with the emperor. lie begun by prais ing my diamonds and my everlasting ' gold gown." i liirardln, the soldier and statesman, tells in his ".Inurual" that he had been present at a supper after which "tho emperor said something pretty to each of the women present. 1'nder such clr-, cuiiisliiin es bis smile Is charming." Hearing upon this phase of Napo leon's d"meanor, Mme. de Itemusat. who was 'near him In the suit of Jo sephine, tells of an episode which cuinu under her observation. She nays: '"During the emperor's stay at Mil nidi he took It Into his head, by way of recreation afler his labors of the past month", t'i Indulge a fancy, partly po litical, partly social, for the queen of' llnvarla. That princess, who was the i king's second wife, without being very i beautiful, was of nn elegant figure nr.d pleasing though dignified manners. I think the emperor pretended to be in love wlUi hi r Tho lookers on said It was amusing to wntch the btnifcijle be- by O. L. Kilmer. tween his imperious temper nnd rude manners and the desire to please a princess accustomed to that kind of etiquette which Is never relaxed In Hormany on nny occasion whatever. The queen of llnvarla contrived to ox nct respect from her strange admirer and yet seemed to be nmused with his devotion." Yet at tliniis Napoleon was the re verse of gallafit, according to this s-nmo authority, from whose memoirs the above extract and the one following are taken: "The emperor, who was convinced that the intluence of women had bann ed the kings of France, was Irrevocably resolved that they should never be more than an ornament to his court, and he kept bis resolution. He hnd per suaded himself, I know not how, that In Franco women are cleverer than men, or nt any rate he often said so. and tJuit the education they receive de velops n certain kind of ability ngnlnst which one must be on one's guard. Ho felt, therefore, n slight fear of them nnd kept them at a distance on this nc ount." In his oilltSal relations Napoleon bo trajed his general antipathy to wom en's Influcuic in public affairs. In a bulletin of LSI )( be wrote: "The paper., discovered nt Charlotton burg would prove, wen; proof neces sary, how unhappy are princes who al low women any lnlliicnco In political matters." The ink was barely dry upon this la when he wrote Josephine In praise of "good, naive and gentle women." And yet, both as a tyro and as nn adept In governing, be called to his aid tlie Influence of women, in ism n hap pened that Marshal Augereau showed some weakness In his commnnd. The emperor wrote to King Joseph: "I have written to the Imke of Cas tisllono (Augereaul. I have tnld tlv empress to speak to his wife. I think you had better speak to him also and make the ladies in waiting speak to him. He must do as I do and main tain his reputation." At the height of his splendor, in isn.l. the year of Auterlltz, he condescended to ask for the intervention of the wife of an ollleer in the Interests of tho serv ice. "I believe." he wrote to the minister of marine, "that Mme. Misslessy Is a sensible woman, with some ambition. Ask her to start Tor ltoohofort. It Is right that Admiral Misslessy should see ids wife, and let her make him un derstand that It Is his duty to go through, the campaign." Count Las Casea, another chronicler or the exile nt St. Helena, states that one day Nnjxileon spoke of the caprices of women In the presence of the Indies nf his little court. "Nothing," said he, "more clearly In dicates rani:, education and good breed ing among them than evenness of tem per and the constant desire to please." lie added that they were bound by cir cumstances to show themselves at all times mistresses of themselves nnd to be always attending to their part nn the stage. GKonc.R Ia kit.meh. Visitors tti Mrecii. A recent writer on Arabia gives quite a list of adventurous travelers who have visited the holy city of Mecca, which id not open to any but true Ixf Hovers in Mohammed. He says: "Wo can naino Italians, A'arthemn nnd Flnati; Germans, Wild, Seetzen and Yon Mnltv.cn; Hnglishmeii, Pitts, Hur ton, Keane; a Swiss, liurckhnrdt; a Spaniard, Iliidia; a Swede, Wnllln; n l.'utchuinii, Hurgronje; a Frenchman, Cntirtellcm'oiit. Niebiihr heard of n French surgeon and two Englishmen: liurtou quotes an unnamed pilgrim; Jtoughty heard of more than one Flunk and himself met an Italian, calling himself Ferrari, who was on his way to Moccu with the Persian hajj; Pitts found an Irishman in the town; Malt zan says that .eon lioches, French consul In Tunis, had made tho pilgrim age, nn had also an English sailor, Vartheina, Wllil. Pitts, Seetze-, H'tirck hardt, Wnllln. Iturton and Keane vis ited Medina also," Tho Dutch Arahlst, Snoiick Hurgronje, spent flvo months In tho holy city as Into as 18SG CELESTIAL REFRESHMENTS I'onny MHIo llrntnnrnntx In Ihn rlitnrnp Kmplre, Places of rest nnd refreshment nre comnionlj to be found In China at the halting stations on the highways In the Interior or nt the villages on the bunks of the great rivers of China, Tlicy frequently take the form of a small mud hut, having a dark Interior filled with smoke, tea tables, forms and an oven, where n cool; Is kept bu-y baking tea blend and frying puddings for the entertainment of the customer.. Whose favorite beverage Is tea, al though when times are good and the weather cold they Indulge In something stronger, which often Inebriates and that a.-n very cheap rate. In the dark est corner there are a row of glazed earthenware Jars containing a kind of Chinese whisky, of which a thirst.l carter may have a skin full for some thing considerably under a penny, when he will go quietly to sleep on the shaft of his cart, and his pony or mule, being used to It. will take him home. In addition to these convenlencc-i thcte Is an Ingenious little furnace in front, having n long Hue, through which the tlame Is driven by an nJr pump, and a row of hot water kettles, gradual ly Increasing in sbe to suit the heat of the tongue of tlame that passes up the Hue beneath, so that they may all be kept boiling. The hot water l sold to passcrsby. who usually carry will' them their teapot and tea, so that they may have a cup at every station. Thi cnstoin of carrying one's own tea is so common that it Is ditliciilt to procuie a cup of tea in any of the restaurant-, as they do not keep It and do not cine to go out of their way to buy It for you. Although the plant may be growing all round and at one's very feel. It is net to impossible to get a cup that a for eigner would consider worth drinking, and as to using milk and sugar, the Chinese look upon the pnictbe as a barbarous device of the "foreign devil." (iolden Penny. ANIMAL ODDITIES. The fiercest of all animals is the black panther. The lion is the only wild animal that Is capable of Direction. Statistics show that serpents kill more person:. In India than In any oth er country. Most reptilr.-s are notoriously dear, ex cept ayinans and 'roiodllos. The boa sccins absolutely so. The sense of smell in the snail has boon found to In- limited, as a rule, to a distance of abont an inch. The Wom Indian crab is a remark able creature. Although born in the sea. it matures in fresh water and passes Its adult life on land. Shepherds allow their collies one me.il a day, and on this allowance health and elliciency are secured. La dies who are "good" to their pet dogs are rewarded by seeing their pets sink ing rapidly into decrepitude. A Out- sIiIimI Olehrtii Ion. Fncle Kph'm had put on a clean col lar and his best coat and was walk ing majestically up and down the street. "Aren't you working today, uncle':' asked one of his Caucasian acquaint ances. "No. sub. Ps celebratin' my golden weddin'. sub." "You were married fifty years agr; today':" "Yes, sub." "Well, why Isn't your wife helping you to celebtate il'.'V "My present wife, sub," replied Fn cle Ppb'm, with dignity, "ain't got iiothin' to do with It. She's de 'lev cith." 'hicago Tribune, Stic Helped Him Out. 1 He was quoting Tennyson's "Ring, I happy belK across the snow." "What's that line, Molly," he asked, 'about 'King in the new':' I've forgot ten it." "So have I," she replied, "but hovt will this do: "This dress I wear Will ne it do; King i-.ih i ho old. King In tin- new !" , - Atlanta Constitution. Clntm "Where Mciuher.t TnlU MiipIi. Clubs where the members talk much are generally to be avoided. Talk makes mischief. Tueie are one or two rat hoi well known literary and professioi.nl ci'iiis in London, where member., arc freely introduced and personal gossip the fashion, wiiiih have h-eii pronoune ed loo dangerous to be Used by ssome ot those who. for old association's sake, still keep their names upon the books, English Country lientleimln. tier llmeruciiey 1'iiniS. "I put Sb'i iii the luMik today ( I'enig"." "You'll have a tidy little sum then If you ke 'p on. filing to buy some thing nice with It':" "Mercy, tad Thai's my divorce sur pills In can' I need It," Cleveland Plain I ton lor. Mil ' 's ( liult'f , "Farmer Sawyer, what Is your daughter Maiy going to lie when she llliislies at college':" "Waal, I kinder reckon she'll teach school. She thinks she'd like the va cations." Harper's Kazan Trie Delieiile Vclliml. "Let us ic Ik of something we don't know illl.l tiling l liollt." lie suggested. "Sinh as what'.'" she asked. "Marriage," he replied, after which they went Into executive session. - Chi cago Post. Piscontent Is the want of self reli ance. H Is Infirmity of will.- Enter son. UAH MAfiF. A .M 1ST A Kli. n American gentleman was recent I v Pojilll; With Ills Wife at tile Hotel I i i ll In London. Hi tllcll' lll sl even-i-! thole he lnqiieneil In lotile Mine -what I'.uhir thin his spoiiKC Aiuvlng .it ih- dour oi' what he liniighiiil w.ix Ills own loom, ami Hailing il Im-kiil, lie l.iin.il ami e.ill. ,1 "I Innev!" No answer i.iine. unit he ag.iln evlieil nloli' loudly "Honey!" Sllll Ik gol no lepty. ,in, I n.lng sollicwh.il lllli.lsl, lie shollleil the oml,i,l' ing I' I 'll wllh I, Is full hum i,m, r Tills tele ,i iiph i inn. . n-1 in ,i i.i.dc vni e tin aw n v on llithiing all ii i til ls ,i bill in not I blooininc In' ''i C'lPitl.ind 1 I. Ha lif..Ier Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmase, D. D. Los Angeles, C'nl., Juno C In these days of widespread separation nnd di vorce, nnd when the ltiteRrity of tho homo Is .assailed from without nnd within, the advice of the preacher who takes love for his theme may help to dis pel the clouds that now overhang many a household. The text Is Epheslnns v. ",), "Husbands, love your wives." Two startling facts about Paul's per sonality have always vividly impressed me. The ono Is the estimate of his physical personality formed by his en emies In the Corinthian church who bad sat under his ministry and there fore know him well. Paul himself tells us that they said, "His bodily presence Ls weak and his speech con temptible." Chrysostom, according to Albert Karnes, declared that "Paul's stature was low, his hack crooked and his head bald." According to Nlce pliorus, Paul was a little man with curvature of tho spine and n pale countenance, long and wrinkled, and with a head like Julius Caesar, noted for Its scarcity of hair. Whether these descriptions are true, we know not; but it is little likely that the Corin thians would have spoken of him as they did, nnd that writers so near his own time as Chrysostom and Nlcepho rus would have so described him, If this Intellectual and spiritual giant hnd possessed an Imposing personality. And yet, all through tho Pnullne writings, tlgures of speech bristle with the symbols of the nthlete's arena. The runner, the fighter, the gladiator, tho struggle with the beasts of Ephesus, all have their inspirations and gospel teachings. The second fact, which stands side by side with the first, about the per sonality eif Paul Is this; Paul was a bachelor. It has been contended that he was a member of the sanhediin and. If so, must have been married, but the expression In Acts xxvl, 10, on which the theory of his membership Is based. Is vague and may have amounted to no more than the testi mony of a witness. On the other band, his argument in I Corinthians Ix, f, clearly Implies that both he and Kar nahas were unmarried. This condi tion, however, by no means Indicates that he was dPtlclent In the affection ate side of his nature. His letters show that he lavished on bis children in the faith the love that other men give to their offspring and that he was an exceedingly affectionate, warm hearted man. He taught parents that they should love their children and children that they should care for their parents, wives that they should honor their husbands and husbands that they s-liould love their wives. It is in refer ence to this last commandment that I would speak today. .Muritnl AfTf-rtlnn, There is a special reason at this time for showing the need of a husband being truly devoted nnd loving to his wife, because there seems to be a pop ular theory i broad that the old fash ioned Idea of a family home Is gone and gone forever. Kut. Instead of be lieving that the old fashioned idea of love should be done away with. I be lieve that, like the garden beds which used to be planted in our ancestors' front yards, they should be cultivat ed more and more. Marital affection may he old fashioned, but I believe it Is one of the noblest, tlnest, most beau tiful things In life. What could be more tender, more pathetic, than the words utteted by the great Dr. Thomas lie Witt when, struggling with un trollable grief, he stood by the open grave in which he had just laid the mortal remains of his beloved wife? He said: "Farewell, my beloved and honored ami faithful wife. Tin- tie that united lis Is severed. Thou art with Jesus In .glory, and he Is with me by his grace. I shall soon be with oit. Farewell." The Holy Kook de i lares, 'Whoso tlndetb a wife llndeth a piod thing." It Is no part of my pur pose to tell young men how they should proceed in trying to win the affections of the girls they desire to marry. My design rather Is to urge married men to show their wives t lie same deference, the same love and de votion, that characterized them before the twain stood at the marriage altar, hearing anil saying the solemn woix'.i which made them one flesh. Why Is the, true wife's value abovo the price of rubles, as King Solomon deeland? She IS her husband's busi ness partnnr; her husband's equal in brain as well as in heart power, she lights with him, in a tlnanchil way, Jhe great battle of life; therefore, like her husband, she has a right to expect the same rewards for her labors that he has for his. It has been the habit nt some cynics to represent a wife as l mere parasite, a hanger on, a cling ing vine, a barnacle or a human leech nicking nut tint life's blood of her mas inline partner. Polygnotus, the great Grecian artist, painted her 4ii K, C, us a four Jegged beast In "The Hope of Dciius," devouring all the labors of her husband, while he works on and on, Iveaviir; out his life work In a rope Jf straw. Hut that Is not my Idea of Ihe true wife. The true wife Is a con sumer as man Is a consumer, but she Is also a llnancial producer as man Is a producer. Like man, she produces far more than she consumes. As the book of PrnTerbs pictures: "She Is like the merchant ships'; she hrlngeth her food from afar. Hho rousldereth a field and liuyeth If, with the fruit of her lutm! (ho phiuteth n vineyard. She makcth herself coverings of tapestry; her cloth ing U silk and purple." Mark well these words; A true wife "percelveth that her merchandise is good;" not a slattern, not a female doll, not a paint ed millinery establishment. ' ""i hpeaklng of such a wife as the book of Proverbs describes. It Is a faithful portrait, the fidelity of which many a man In this church could attest by his own experience, l'OTTcr richlnd lir Tlironp. "Oh, no," snyii tho masculine egotist, "woman is not tho breadwinner of the family. It In the husband, who, as a lawyer, wins fees In tho courtrewm; as a physician, gains money from pa tients; as a soldier, lights his country's battles; as a legislator, enacts laws, which the main exeeutlvo enforces; bo Is tho merchantman, who sells tho Roods; ho Is tho fouudrynian, who manufactures tho steed rails. Man, man, everywhere Is man the bread winner. We find that man tills the fields, nnd man rules the money mnr kets, nnd man sits upon the Judicial bench nnd the professional chairs." Is that a tar my brother? 'Tin tme, innn Is the visible breadwinner. But when you nre looking for the drrvlng force which produces results In society do not make the mistake of supposing that there Is no power but what you see. The power behind the throne Is some times greater than the throne Itself. If this be not true, how can you nc oount for the wonderful results which come Into many men's lives nt the marriage nltar and end with the denths of or the separations from their female silent partners. Who was Napoleon Konaparte? The greatest military strategist of the ages? Yes. Hut aft er all you can find his wonderful suc cess flanked by two Incidents In his life. They started with his marriage to Josephine. They ended with his divorce. Had Josephine's partnership nothing to do with Napoleon's success? Who was Wllllnm E. Gladstone? That statesman whoso energy and com manding genius were the wonder of his countrymen, acknowledged that the reverence and trust, of his devoted wife had been a source of Inspiration nml stimulus to him ait through his long career, and that to have her sit ting by him on tin- political rostrum or looking down nt him from tho gallery or the houso of commons quickened nil his powers. Who was John Kright, the great commoner? He also was the husband of a woma:, his equal In per sonality. On the day of their mar riage she turned and said to him, "John, attend to thy business and thy public affairs, nnd I will provide for the home and relieve thee from all cares at home." And so great Is the value of a true wife In relation to her husband's success that nearly all print men are re-ady to testify to this fact and declare that they can never repay the obligations which their wives havo placed upon them. I was taught the obligation which a true husband owes to a true wife some years ago by an eastern minister whom I consider one of the : en test pulpit genlues of his age. I - about to bis married, and was talking with him, when he gave to me this characteristic advice: "Always lo'-e your wife Kut more than that, always learn to respect and follow her judgment, because she can be your best adviser. When I was a young man I started out with some success. I knew I could speak, and I could also write. And often when I would write something I thought very line I would take it down to my wife and read It. Sometimes she would look up from her sewing and say, 'John, don't say that.' With that I would throw down my manuscript and stalk I up and down the room in disgust. 'Why do you say that':' I would ask. 'Ho you know how to preach? Are you a better Judge of preaching than my self? 'Haven't I spent four years In college nnd three years In the semi nary? What business have you to tell me what to do? You are nothing but a woman anyway Kut after a long ex perience I found that my wife's judg ment could always be depended upon. When I followed her Judgment I al ways came out right, and when I fol- 1 lowed my own against hers I always came out wrong. And, though I am now nn old man and one of much ex perience, yet whenever I am in doubt about anything I have ever written I always go to her. And when she says, 'John, don't say, that.' I take my pen and scratch out the whole page. My success Is due In a great measure to my wife's judgment and not to my own." Stinn TnlnmRp' Inf1tiiire. I know that the world honors my father's memory- Hut personally I know T. He Witt Talmage's success was due to a great extent to Susan Talmage, who was his wife and my mother. What most of us can say in reference to our fathers' sue esses we can say In reference to our own. It is to the good advice, the loving Intuition, the sound Judgment of the wife, whom ! we have taken as a partner, that we owe in great measure all that we have gained In life. I Men, husbands, friends, how are we going to repay our wives for all the ' sacrifices they have made for us? "Oh," some husband says, "I do my full duty to my wife. I provide for her a good home. 1 give her all tlm money she needs." You do? Oh, that is very kind. As far as I can mako out you give your wife nothing but her own property. She earns her support, Ju.-t as you do. and sh' has a rlsbt to at least one-hnlf of your income. If from a mere cold blooded standpoint you hnd to hire a housekeeper to do the work she does, you would have to pay far more for her wages than your wife ever spends for clothes and u tertalnment. "Then If that be tho case, nnd It Is the ease," some man says, "how nm I to pay my wife un less I pay her In money?" Why. tive her the same rewards the apostle has commanded in the words of my text, Pld Paul ever speak of money In ref erence to tho buslwand's duty to his wiftit No, he takes that for granted. He says, "Husbands, love your wives." Kut that Is not all. He gives his com mandment In tne superlative sense, "Husbands, love your wives even as ( 'hrlst also loved the church and gave himself for it." Ah, could there be any sweeter or more devoted or more Intense measure for a husband's af fections than that? It Is love tho true wife longs for, as It is love the truti husband in the home should long for. Not money so much as love. Intense, devoted, loyal, self sacritbing love, Husbands, pay your wives for their sai'iillces of life In the golden coin of minted love. .tlnrrluKt-'a Prninlxory Vote, Hut there Is a promissory note con nected with every marriage (crtitleato which should compel a husband to give his love to his wife as well as his grati tude for what she docs. It was on ac count of this loving promise which he made to her that she, a young girl, was persuaded to leave her father's home and turn her back upon her school friends and, like lUtth, who followed Naomi, go with her husband where ho went nnd lodo with him whom he lived nnd mako his people her people nnd his God her God, Then-fom If a man who has won his bride upon the promissory noto of love docs not fulfill his contract ho is a swiudlcr us well as an Ingrnto; a deceiver, a falsllier, a per jurer, as well ns one whose ideas of gratitude arc ns monstrous nnd dis torted ns that of the wayward sou, who would trample upon a mother's bleeding heart and turn upon his fa ther's love. You believe a merchant la dishonest who through the bankruptcy court would repudiate a debt he could pay. Why will you not say a husband In dishonest and contemptible who would repudiate the obligation of a lifetime love, which he accepted when he pledged himself to the young ffirl by his side on his wedding dny, when they stood ntnld embowered orange blossoms? This swindle In reference to prom ised affections which a husband some times practices upon a wife Is tho moro contemptible because In one sense the wife Is absolutely helpless after the perpetration of the fraud. Kay whet you will, argue as you may, talk glow ingly and poetically nnd grandiloquent ly about woman's opportunities, a wife's opportunities have alwnys been and nearly nhvays will be circiun Eoribcd by the four walls of her home. Tho husband has his outside business relationships, lie has his tarrfjmt1K friends as well ah his store friends. H meets men on the street, in the cars, In the office, behind the counter. He can pet away nnd does get away from the homo. Kut for the most part the wife ir, anchored to the kitchen, tho bed room nnd the nursery of home by the chlldre-n. Therefeire If lie fails her and defrnnds her of his promised love sho is nbsolutely helpless and must suffer more than he can realize. She bns practlcnlly no redress, for she has giv en up her nil Vr him. If, however, on account of her husband's neglect a wife turns her back upon him nnd goes forth to meet the world as an in dependent woman, then the world If pelf will turn Its hack upon her. Just before I began my Chicago pastorate a very prominent Pittsburg lady who was divorced paid to me: "On account of the neglect nnd the inhumanities of' n brutal husband, for the protection of j myself and children, I got n legal sepn- j ration. Kut if I bad If nil to do over I again I would bear nny Inlust.Ice and tuff or every brutality rather than get n dlver-oo. The outside world does not i look Into the causes of a family dis ruption, but heartless people will al ways lrxik upon a divorced wife as on one who has a black murk upon her brow." Oh, ye faithless, unloving hus bands, will you not be honest to your selves and honest to your wives and pay the promissory note of love which you made when the minister pro nounced you and your wife one "until death do you part?" Flrokon llenrted Wlri-. Can you not hear the wallings nnd sobs of broken hearted wives in the words of the poet of old: IWoro I trust my f.ite to thee Or place m: ham! In thine. Before I let thy future rIvb Color and form to mine, Before I peril all to thee. Question thy soul tonlsht for mo. Does thero within thy dimmest dreams A possible future chine. Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe. Untouched, unshared by mine? If sn, at nnv pain or cost. Oh. tell me before all Is lost. In the death knell of a husband's love I also bear the sobs of the broken heart of a mother as well ns of a wife. The great dramatist wrote, "Oh, shsrp cr than a serpent's tooth It Is to have a tnankless child!" Many a mother has learned this by bitter experience, through her husband's conduct. The love that the child naturally feels for the mother withers nnd dies under tho poison that comes from witnessing the father's contempt for the mother. Ut tie likely Is a child to reverence tho mother after hearing the blame and vituperation hurled at her by her hus band. In the Venetian museum is a fatal Instrument, Invented by Tlbaldo, called "the key of death." It was a key having In its handle a small bid den spring, which Inclosed a needle filled with deadly poison. When this key was pressed by the hand the nee dle would spring forth, inject tho poi son into the hand of the holder, and death would always follow the touch. 111 Ilj;iu( II liOIIie IllL'ln IS II uvy UL j death." It is nearly always fatal to a child's love. It Is the key which opens the "ehambfir of horrors," In which rattles the grinning, hideous skeleton of a husband's dead love. If a brutal fstlnr systematically continues to find fault Mlth his wife, if he neglects her and ridicules her and sneers at her, he sits an example which his children are only ton prime to follow. His esti mate of their mother, often coarsely and bluntly expressed, Is likely to be come theirs, nnd their natural affection for her turns to Indifference and in gratitude. Oh, my friends, who r.ro husbands nnd fathers, you know how sanctifying and purifying Is the Influ ence thut has come to yoii from your mothers' graves. Yotl'' love and rever ence for your mother have kept you iu many an hour of temptation. l.et your children have the same beneficent Influ ence. Never by look or thought or word wenken the Influence your wlfo may haie over your children. When you are untruo to your wives, you aro untrue to your children. 'I.ovr Your WI.o:." Hut there Is still another and a more far reaching reason why American men should love their whes, "even ns Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it." Not only Is tho home, but the community and the nation, bulldcd upon the cornerstone: of tho love which a husband should bear to his wife. I am not stating this fact too emphatically. 1 will go further and say the salvation of the world Itself Is dependent upon that purified love. What does the Hlble say, "God settetll the solitary in families." The unit of society Is not the man who casts as a vote Hie white slip of paper Into the ballot box. It Is the man and the wo man joined together nt the marriage altar as one. If that union Is not main tained in the spiritual sense, then there Is no union, and there is no stable com muiilty Why was the first settlement nt Jamestown, Va a failure nud the first settlement i.t Plymouth lock a I c(.-ss? Were the old plirlrn falh ' any braver men than the Vlrglt plnuters? Was not John Smith of as heroic mold as Miles Stnndlsh? 'I'ho reason for tho fnllur- of the James town colony was due to the fact that those southern colonizers did not bring their wives alone with them, wh.ie the Plymouth fathers stuck to Plymouth rock because they were anchored there by the Plymouth nmthers Why eU men herding together as a class degeii ernto morally, mentally and pbynlcnl. ly? Ileeause they lack the mora' rind spiritual leaven which comes from a noblo wife's love. Therefore, bretliret t if as men you would be true to yo r country, true to your city, true to yo e children, true to yourself nnd triie your Christ you will be true to your wives. Husbands, bear ye pot the far reaching commandment. Love jour wives?" Hcapf-el nntl Drfrrenre, How shall we love our wlvr-s? "Iy giving them a few silly cotr pilmorit";? Oh, no! Not that. A wire .inkk fo detect Insincerity in such n'tlest Kut you can show her your re n t and. deference. You can prove u, h. r ' y your pleasure In her society, Pv u tie attentions that when you were t lover came iii.turally to yon i, ; , , your preference for her over w -u-e women that your heart Is still t keeping. The little presents, t'.e t .t slderatlon of her tastes and the dr. n to gi'o her pleasure which n-M o claracterl"' your treatment of hee would delight l.er hotter now tt a'' before and would bring to her we.iry face the glad smile of tender affeei Husbands, love your wives We sho' love them In making them one with i- In all our thoughts anil hopes and joys We should love them so that tle bdgi est hope of our love would be to lfgli'f. their burdens and to nhvays Imvp thet , by our ii'1" W" s'eiiiM "mv nnd eo tlnue to ne ;he,:i e , i e'hr'.st loiea the church, v,i en. in the cnnticies, wn read his be'inCfnl blessing upon I' "As the i;iv anion- the thorns, so Is rr love nmoni t!.e d.vigM"t-s .s the a, pie tree among the trees of the wood.-, so is my belo'. ed " u husband, do ye.-, love your w ''e as f'hrist loves 1 s church bride'. The pur. th t.-'cl.t the befi'.t'f-l, That itlrr. .! -t . rts In vr.us, Th imp' ;- f , -a t-lss pr.iv. , The dr r . ! 1 . I truth TIk l.e i ..tH- ' t. The .r , ,r- T Th" s ' 1 1 v . hl., Th tt ,rn : ! - rr The metre-.!- ' i 1 h i . Ard it i ' t e i r That If with . '" r . And te 'r 1 Those h.i-.d- i . The5i t')'.'.-.- r '1 K 1' T1, d'e Let nothing Must fir 1 f-. Los-- net a li lie firm rtnl . So Sh'lll t Beam ' tl. . And .hut Is ' "These t 't Copyrlcrht : i f re-, tv hand - tf d. - w then 1 v., ' . 1 nie. ' ' ' are t id r... nirl - i I. t i. e. , ' H e- ', " I K'. ;seh fI l'li'lon. The Kev. V. It. i .! nil. a southern clergyman, tills the following steri "We were driving out one Sunday from Iiecatur when we eame npnn .-. negro with a club in his hand and a freshly killed po-i.inn on lis shoulder stopped to examine his prize, and tho colonel said: " 'My friend, do you know It Is Sun. day?' " 'Sartin. bo ' "'Are you a re'g,o'is n.an?" " 'I are. 1' j.-t e.i mj wij hi.rm from ehun h ' "'And wi.it sent of re i ,n got that permits you o go l.,in'. , ,n Sundi.y ':' "iteligion? Hi li .''"ti'-' qui il ' mun as I held p..sin. i. w t one hand and mt tebeii his leid t, t the other. ioes , ,ort an- man in Alab'tna is gv. ne pi i.,- ' sse.f up to any religion dat lews , , ,, r,j to walk right across the road ahetnl of him an' git away free' n.,, si'- v r-llgion which won't 'end a ' fie t'.eti a fat possum heads ynu off ,,,U t be 'stablislied r..":id jf by ', tho preachers In u'live'-sc-' " M'nniHIl slon of it I riui'irr., Another Meriilcn unman l.i- ' -ci a position unusual : the f s, t Mrs. Annie (iibsou I bei u i p by the selectmen a- seven ' 'ue Last cemetery, which i ..wned 1 i t t..wp. Her properly adjoins ie e, , -, rv in i for m.rii lears sh, I s I . d s , i tract for caring fo v i.ml T'u ji . tion has no salari. 1 : ir eve- gi i.i that Is ope-ieil s i i 1 to the , ' and out of ibis tp , she w 1 to pay about l.i.i ' t e pra r P Many peop'e c. ; - . ois i i o i the sexton to keep the pl.,.s in r.-1-and from t'.i- i ; s . v.-il p i fair Inen ' T . s 111! lll.AK r I I 1 1 II S S'.l When . v t ,h M m.l 1 ! K. I .- . Bi ' i . Ilei r, ,,. n t.e-, J. the tl' 'Sht 1 m in i -I. That nil'ht I ilk bed 1 w IV, 1 Willi I I fni-iKe the I'PBt ' l:eepl. I I 11 ip weet 1 ' he p. It' .cr to e her M'.irl'.lti linllls has fin h a r' aim s t- 1 Hi e Thai of all oil-. ' - V1 ) 1 : ven e StLlnue thtills nf rip' ie I'lien'i i ing triKn 1 le.illy e,,n I ep i n It. 1 1 t f I ilud s mil, I t ike 'ii I p illllti - N'o in in iiiind In Ip but v ii 1 i i Fit;ht! She's not a flevrr ,e-. -he- innjit ' There MntKii.t ,pe en it , r SMCf t dlSil I 111 Of comtllen. '1-1' v is, ee epi - you To tie.iil. nt li a-t In thoi.' t 1 i loftiest plane And yet, I iu -1 1- t if 1 . 1 in k, i As happy as iveui i l.nml.ier lev i , Ni Hear Nan Is lights 'ire itm i's south Onr sniilii seem so -ittuned Ir ,1 key I've le.illy June i ha- s fi It fhe i) truth, The male ni d eenu ute Nit; i t fur me: Put these, ntel ' ke r. itcctinii t i late, r-ClllKC I've J st br " e c r I i N.ite! Tou'i 1 I (tuples Hel.br i e .ill niv pi.i- I OIlKli" ite euri'd l" H " I j-,i- ,r i the noft efte'tive ..t ,iii Mri1R n i unci,