Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-18
LEIGH.
The World Moves Henry Ward
Beechcr on Evolution.
Herosies Of To-day The 0rthodoxies
OF the Future.
Compulsory Education - Growth OF
Business Advertising.
A Thug Shot Insanity of a Chicago
Millionaire.


Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
Chicago, February I3.-~-Becchor was
with Is last week and lectlircd at Cen,
trial Music Hall 10 full houses
His lecture on evolution IL q
cbaracteristitec effect and cmbodie-
many apt proofs that 'the world
novel, He was introduced by bis
elder brother as my young brother,
the most eminent hereto of the age"
Beecher IL what some folks call u
sensational preacher and u Is true
that his love Of notoriety bump seems
30 be freely developed, but after all "
IL not perfectly legitimate for him to
attract as much attention as he can ?
Tru o ministers and women are not
generally supposed 10 know anything
about political economy and
the truly great affairs OF life, but per-
haps when they do enter II little more
into the practical the world Of progress
will move more rapidly.
But aim drifting from Mr Beech
cr's lecture. Among the first things
he said wns that many folks seemed Ia
grenny ablior the idea that they ever
descended from the monkey but the
same persons would talk about being
made Of dust For his part lac deemed
II more respectable Ia have descended
from live monkey than troin pile
Of mud, He had much 10 say Of the
preludices and superstitiona which
arise and form stumbling blocks To
the progress OF Thought and declared
that, the habit OF liring the Bible ut
everything new ~ wrong and ought
10 STOP aud cited numerous CasrR
where that much abused and noble
old book had been In vnin used To de-
feat the advance of the sciences. Con-
cerning advanced religious thought
the eminent Brooklyn divine de.
cIarcd that 'the hereSies of to-day, II
properly placed, will be the ortho-
doxics of the future" and from
the attitude Of the christian church to-
day IL would seem that his statement
will prove 10 be not far wrong.
In days when people were weaker,
were more AuperstitiOus, narrow mind
cd and did not think for themselves 10
was probably necessary for the people
10 be controlled and have their ideas Of
right aud wrong shaped by the doe
trinal dogmas of the times. ] make a
distinction between mana hide-bound
doctrines and Gods perfect re-
ligion, but the time Is fast
ooming ifnot already here, when The
church must. In order to stand be more
for tho people. The Sabbath was
made for man and not man for the
Sabbath, and 80 with the church.
codruiSoRy EDUCATION
IN u question receiving considerable
attention lust now Mt the hands Of the
Illinois Legislators and educational
g. A. L.. A
measure oftho kind viii bc adopted. II
is said there are more than 10 600 cllil.
dren OF school age In Chicago
who are out of school. II parents can,
and will not send their children To
school there should be some law To
compel them to do 80, and If they are
too poor to support their children aud
send them to school then the state
should lend u helping hand.
1t IL said that for libcrality of
ADVERTISERS
Chicago standa only second 10 New
York. " indeed she does not
stand equal, Business advertisers
aro liberal because they find IL prniita-
Bile, Puzzles are advertised, balloons
are fitted out and sent on supplied
with thousands OF dodgers 60 .dver-
tise, g0uvcrnlra OF various kinds are
given and overconts arc thrown from
the tops of u building Go ho scrambled
for hy the crowds below. one enter.
prlsing clothing establishment, Nab.
ley of New York, which opened
procession with several brass
bands. The outfit was very attractive,
but the procession had not been on the
streets long before there was nh nd.
dition TO u, There sonn appeared
following closely after the band
wagons, n pair of large trucks drawn
by handsome stpods, with banners
and flags tying, They each carried
large signs which rcnd "rhis ~
Wllloughby, Hin 81 Co. 1.-The other
fellow pays the iiddlor,n
sensational advertising IL popular
here but not 80 iRuch SO, nor does
IL pay 0s well a. newspaper
advertisement. our advertisers ~
rule cannot bc surpassed for shrewd-
ness.
SPEEDY JUSTICE
baRger Sunday night, lie attacked
nm old soldier, stirling him on the
hnck OF the head and then fired II wild
shot nc him, but tho victim promptly
shot the scoundrely ruiiian, the ball
passing through the OPEN
mouth into the head, killing Him
almost instantly, A littIe more
Of such work viii materially check the
Iawleasncss which has prevailed 80 cN-
tonslvcly for several months.
Perry H. smith one OF Chlcago's
miilionaircs snd leading democrat
has inst been adIudgoh Insane rhoro
are 4 great many things which money
cannot buy. liElun.