Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-26

enough leu TO die. They fade away.
some call h consumption; some call Il
nervous rrdstration; some call IL inter-
/ mittent or pialarial disposition, but call
I Vt maryrdbm OF the domestic circle.
Life for litG. BLOOD Tor blood Substi-
tuition
ANOTHER FORM
OR perhaps she fingers long enough to
see n son ret on the wrong roat, and his
Z former kindness becomes rough reply
when She expresses anxiety about him.
( llut She gOes nght on, looking carefully
after ms apparel, remembering his
every birthday with some mcmcnto, and.
whom he is brought home worn ont with
( dissipation, nurses him till he gets we'll,
and starts him again aud hopes and eN-
poets, and prays, and counsels. and sui-
Z iers until her strength gives out and She
fails She is going, and attendants bend
/ ing over her pillow ask her II she has any
I message to leave, aud She makes great
effort TO say something. but out of three
or four minutes of indiStlnct utterance
they catch but three words; My poor
boy,n The simple fact is, She died for
HIN
/ LIFE rnB LIFE. SUBSTITUTION.
About tWcnty-l0ur years ago there
went forth from our homes hundreds of
1 thousands Of men 10 do battle Tor their
country. All the poetry of war
soon vanished and left them nothing but
the terrible prose. They wddcd knee
deep In mud, They slept In snow banks,
They marched lill their cut feet tracked
the earth. They were Swlndlcd out of
their honest rationS and lived on meat
not lit for dog. They had Jaws all lrac-
mrcd, and ewes cNtinguiShcd, and limbs
shot away. Thousands of them cried Tor
water rs they lay dying ON the field the
night after the battle, and got II not
They were homcsick and received no
message from their loved ones They
died in barns, IN bushes, Ia ditches--the
buzzardS OF the summer heat the only
attendants on their ohScquics No one
but the infinite God who knows every
thing, knows the ten-thousanllh part OF
the length and breadth and depth and
height OF anguish of Northern aud South
ern battle6elds. Why did these fathers
leave their children and 20 to the front,
and why did these young men, post
poning the marriage day, start out into
the probabilities OF never coming back a:
For the country they died, Life for lie.
MOOD ron MOOD. SUBSTITUTION.
But we need not 70 SO fur What i
that monument In Greenwood 1t is to
the doctors who fell in the Southern cpl.
denies Why 20 Were there moi
enough sick TO be attended IN these
Northern attitudes Oh, yes; but the
doctor puts few medical books IN his
yalise, and some Walls of medicine. aud
leaves his patients here Ia the hands OF
other physicians, and takes the rail- train
Before he gets to the Infected regions be-
passes crowded rail trains, regular anc
extra, taking the flying and alright.
ed populations lie arrives in
city over which a great
horror Is brooding. He nov.
from couch 20 couch, feeling OF pulse ant
Z studying symptoms aud prescribing, du,
after day, night after night, until fcl
loW-physiCiun says: 'tDoctOr yuu hut
{ better 20 homo and rest; you look miscr
, able But he cannot rest while so man,
J are suffering. ON aud on until som,
morning finds him in n delrium in which
he talks OF home, and then rises and SAYS
= he must 80 and look after those patients
5 lie Is told to lie down, but hc fights hi,
attendants until he falls back, and 4
= weaker and weaker, and dies for peopl,
with whom he had no kinshp and IN
, away from his family, aud is hastily pu
( away
! ~ 4 STRANGERS TuMH,
{ and only the ifth part of ucwspapc
= line tells us of his sacrifice, his nam
: Just mentioned among five. Yet he ha
e touched the furthcresi height of sub
r Unity in that three weeks OF humnnita
q rian service. lie goes straight as an M
+ row TO the bosom of Him who said "
/, was sick and We visited me.n Life TO
5 life. Blood for blood Substitution.
r. In the legal profession see the sam
principle of self-sacrhce. In 1916
William Freeman, pauperized an
Y idlotic negro, was at Auburn, N. v, o
i, trial for murder. He had slain the entir
Van Nest family. The foamine wrath o
n the community could be kept off him onl
v by armed constabcs. Who would voim
+ tecr to be his counsel? No attone
+ wanted to sacrifice his popularity by sue
n an ungrateful task. All were silent say
+ one a young lawyer with feeble voic
l. that could hardly be heard outside Tn
n bar, pale and thin and awkward. II wa
t William II. Seward, who saw that tn
d prisoner was idiotic and irresponsible
+ and ought to be put in an asylum
# RATHER THAN PUT 10 DEATH,
d the heroic counsel tutoring these beautifr
WORDS; - speak HOW IN IN
I. hearing of people who hay
c preiudged the prisoner and condemne,
n me for pleading m his behalf lie Is
= convict, pauper, a negro, without IN
:, tcllect, sense or emotion. My child wit
an uffectionate smile disarns my care
worn face Of it's frown whenever I eros
e my threshold. The bcggar IN the stree
d obliges me TO give because hc says 'Gol
C bless you'll as pass. My dog caressc
q me with fondness if ] will but smile 81
It him My horse recognizes me when ~
J. his mangcr. What reward, what graft
c tude, what sympathy or affection can
IS cxpcct heref There the prisoner sits
IS Look at him. Look at the assembling
e around you. Listen 10 their ill-sup
II pressed ccnsures and their excited fears
II and tell me where among my nelghbor
II or my fellow-men, where even in hi
C heart, / can expect TO find d sentiment,
e thought, not TO say OF reward or Of &C
h acknowledgement or even Of recognition
II Gentlemeni you may thin
IT Of this evidence what you please, brin
a In what verdict you can, but asseyerat