Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-11

| WVhiN '"thVi NC III uitScnief or luleup
than to engage in anything pleasar
and useful, but such people constltn,
o very small share ofthe whole. nm
the majority of those who do the mo,
mischief are those whose time hane
heavily ON their hands, and who i
many improper things simply 10 hi
time. For the most part tbey ar
willing and anxious TO do what
right IL they have little assistance
The public Libraries In our large citle
are the largest boon imaginable TO IN
working class. Every evening III
rooms are thronged, with young mo,
principally, who would otherwise hs
forced to other and pcrhans IL
wholesome influences.
In England learned ministerial mud
scientific congresses have been trvinr
to solve the question of how hest 10
suppress crime. The leading tbon,l,,
on the subject is that there 4 20 wa ~
in which the best interests of the ~
pie ut lurge can he 50 well subseryed sc
by having music in the public mark
and having the libraries and a,t chi,
lertes open on Sunday. The ar,,u-
ment has been advanced that sueh n
move II made general would alienote
the working people from the sanctn-
airy, but there is not much in the nrgn.
ment, fro.h the fact that statistics show
that only one in fifty working men M :.
tend the services in England anv wsw
libraries or no libraries, so the state oil
AFFAIRS IN tnat respect could not be
worse IMAM II is already. The people
50 somewhere, and occupy Themselves
IN some way, II only with idleness
and had they not better be reading. or
looking at works OF art, or inhaIing
the fresh air of the parks, listening to
music Of high order?
This Sunday question is hard one
to decide. II Is hard because we make
II hard. People who understand and
know rest To be not idleness. but
change of employment for day, have
no trouble IN finding pleasant, proiita-
BILE and restfui employment for their
Sunday hours. We owe the Church
and Sunday-school duty on the first
day of the week, and It is u day for
seli-eXamination. The eccentric w.
II. Prescott, who wrote the conquest
OF Mexico" Conquest of Peru. -
Ferdinand and Isabella" etc, was
IN the habit of keeping an envelope in
which he kept a record of his faults.
Whenever he detected anything that
he considered flaw in his character
he made note of it and placed il in
his envelope. Every Sunday il was
his custom to look over these Sins, and
If he thought he had corrected q fault
he destroyed the slip calling attention
TO IL, and Ii he had contracted any
more, he carefully made q note of it.
sometimes putting in as many as he
took out. Something of this kind is
good; but for anybody tobe sostraight.
laced us TO forbid the reading of any
but religious matter, and place an en-
barge on all secular music, for instance
is far from making proper observance
of the Sabbath. Find a man that
makes such Pharisalcal pretensions OF
piety, and nine times out of ZEN there
will he something wrong with him; he
is unkind TO his family, is more or less
hypocritical, and is often the kind OF n
person who makes of his religion n
Sunday garment, TO be laid aside on
Monday morning, and not to be taken
up again till the following Sunday.
Lytton SUthern has made very ia
vorabie impression in his impersona-
lion of Lord Dundreary.n Dion
Boueicault appears in his own play,
1.-THE Shaughraun," which is one of
the best Irish plays that has ever been
ON the boards. Denman Thonlpson's
Josh Whtcombn did not meet with
as much patronage Us usual. 1t was
just as good, and even better than
usual, but there are only 100000 peo-
pie in Chicago, and Mr.. Thompson
must remember that about all Of them
who 90 to theaters have seen the play
from one to half dozen times. He
must give us little rest. Modicska
was here Sunday. She says she is
going to follow the stage two years
more, and then Withdraw, while yet
in full possession OF all her powers.
She shows her good sense. Janau-
schek, who will be here next week,
ought to have done the same thing.
She would not stop in her prime when
she had plenty of money, and was ut
the zenith of her power rs an actress,
because she loved the stage, and now
she does not quit il because she has to
follow ii for support.
DR.. Carver's combination of cow
boys, buffalo and Indians went from
here to Louisville to give u weeks
exhibition of their performances. AT
the Chicago stock yards he purchased
one f0ur-months-old and n yearing
elk that were sent in from Wyoming,
at 500, aud also four wild Texas
steers. Let the people of Louisville
be edited at any cost.
The country may now breathe
easier since the discovery of the st.
Louis girl, Mary Churchill. Her
father was at one time well-known
Chicago man. Nothing very roman
tic about girl working her way TO
the stage through an insane asylum,
without man mixed up with her dis
from home. Too bad TO
the scandal-mongers.
There is sad sequel to the elope-
ment several months ago of Carrie
Van Hoesen of Brooklyn and Gen.
Alfred Awkward, who was in the bat
tie of the Beers against the British
and who is said to have gotten into
numerous bad scrapes in Ireland and
Australia. She is only is and he is 90.
He pretended to have the warmest
kind of affection for her heart, but IL
turns out that the pocket-book was the
greater attraction. Instead Of going
to Hong Kong, where he claimed to
have a brother in business, they came
TO Chicago. They did not get along
well and frequently changed boarding
places. He pawned everything that
was OF value, and after she went home,
oslensibly TO take possession of some
property left her the gallant leader OF
The Boers addressed himself to the task
of getting away with Chicago whisky;
Perhaps he was like the man VINO qua