Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-09

The Lecture Platform AMI Lecturers
In Chicago and the West.
other Snatches OF News From the
Great City OF the Lakes.

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
Chicago, December 5.---Is lcctpring
as a means OF entertainment on the
mover IL does not seem TO he, yet
the lecture platform is being lively
talked 10y foreign talent and home tai
cnt of indifferent kind. Mr.. George
Mead OF Boston Is here lecturiug ON
the Puritan Fathers aud the Now
England poets, Longfcllow, Whittier,
Emerson and Lowell. He IL not
very we'll known here, and
Is meeting with but indin-
erent success. though his lectures
are ola very high and entertaining
order John l.. Stoddard, who Is xiv.
Ing Illustrated lectures OH foreign
countries, IL meeting audiences that
would he nearly double as great II that
many could be accommodated. This
shows that all depends ON the lecturer
and what he lectures about Prof.
David Swing has Just returned from u
short lecture tour in Massu-
chuseits and says Il would he
astonishing TO Western people TO see
how literally lecture courses are patron-
iged In the East. Thousands of
course tickets are sold there where
hundreds find buyers here. One OF
the chief causes of this IS the fact that
people farther west neither have nor
pretend 10 have 20 much culture, aud
they have decidedly more business.
A lecturer or a lecture must either be
very good OF very ridiculous to take
wen in the West We don't take the
medium kind.
A DUNN ALDERMAN.
Commenting on the election by
Buffalo Of n dumb alderman n Chicago
paper declares that Il would Ice worth
n million n year IL Chlcago's aldermen
were all deaf and dumb.
TuE CABLE CARS,
The trains OF cable cars which glldo
through the streets of Chicago wi bout
Nislhle means of locomotion ~ n never
ending source OF interest for visitors.
Eastern experts nre here making n
study of the system.
A WANT.
Chicago wants the national Ropub-
lican convention next year, aud wants
IL bad,
THE CRouci MURDER,
The Crouch murder In Michigan IL
one OF the most aicltening things OF
the times. The amount OF niyatorious
crime OF the deepest dye has been
alnrmiugly great this year.
JOE JEFFEHsoN,
Chicago people rejoice that Joe JEFF
ierson has found his voice. That
grand old favorite always receives n
hearty reception here, and his engage
a
enough here to enable everybody who
wanted 20, tosec him,
UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH LINES.
The recent oonilugratlons In this
city which were found harder TO con-
trol on account OF the great net work
Of telegraph wires, raises once more
the question of underground tclo-
grapy and the edict of the press goes
forth against the uuHightly, danger.
Gus overground wires. However, II
we are ~ Judge from pAgt experience,
III mlA die out aga,n MS II died out Il
score OF times, only 10 lie revived when
some frlghlful lossof NE and property
results from the continuance Of wires
above ground,
BLAINE o. MAINE.
Whatever else MI james G.. Blaine
will accomplish or fail To accomplish
10y his whisky scheme, he h getting
himself talked about. Doubtless that
Is one of the things which he desires
to do His policy is lop-Aidcd most
asauredly, but the more unpretlcahle
the scheme OF n man so prominent,
the mare discussion II VIII naturally
bring forth. A "ainnller mani iath-
or such plan aud Il would not re-
celve my attention, because II would
be left largely on its own merits.
Prof Swing OF Chicago names Mr.
Blaine the next president.
THERESA srUnLA.
Thercen tsturla, who went TO Joliet
lor year for shooting ChuH. stiles in
August 1882, Mt the Palmer house, has
served out her time aud returned To
Chicago on Thanksgiving, Her Inn
prisonment was something OF II farce,
for .ylilu ahe was confined she was
really living about AS well ns If she
had been out leading her old life OF u
high woman OF the town. Ia the first
place she should either have been fic'
quilted on sent to prison for u much
longer time. and secondly, when
she was sent into confinement rlie
should have fired as other criminals
did. II she needed punishment she
should have had the full measure; II
not ale should have gone seott-free.
There can be no halfway ground IA n
case OF Tint kind, Nov copes The
question: VIII she redeem hcrpropiis-
O. and hereafter live an upright lie,
In spite Of the cold shoulder Of society?
III will be hard for her 10 do There
afo good and earnest people who are eli
couragigg and aiding her, but
they will find that our uarrow-nindvd
society which opens It's arms TO the
f0ulest Of male creation, but forever
refuses TO forgive or believe u fallen
woman, struggling To rise again, VIII
he harder 10 tame than the Mngdalen.
Christianity? Humanity? There IL
none, when fallen man Is embraced
aud fallen woman beaten down and
pushed into the gutter. There cannot
be two codes OF Inorals.in heaven.
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