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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27

Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR's will has
been probated. 1t is now in order for
the lawyers to take twist at it.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27

THE HERALD sympathizes with Mr..
Edwin Overall, of the Jefferson Iron
News. in the loss of his office by fire.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27

SOMEBODY ought to send "A marked
copy of the paper containing the
cars ukase against poker playing to
those temporary nimrods over in Van
Zandt. They might conclude to go to
Russia when they hear that Taylor is
nothing III ore than second edition OF
Clint.
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Take the
S m train Paso West Take the $3.50 6l5
Austin
seng and Steamship
Red Steamship
between New York; Philadelphia and Antwerp.
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TIE Houston Post thinks it does
not make any difference who is speak
err, if Will Lambert or George Finger
is clerk of the house. No, it wouldn't,
if the speaker would permit either of
those gentlemen to usurp his preroga-
tives and run the calendar. But man
who would do that is wholly unfit to
occupy the speakers chair, and the
legislature might as well elect one of
them speaker, and the members would
then know upon whose opinion to
rely in regard to the state of legisla-
ton and on points of order.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27

The Morning News advocates the
appointment of Commissioner Walsh
to the head of the proposed new land
bureau, provided the Legislature makes
it an independent branch of the gov
eminent. In view of the fact that the
people. through their representatives.
placed new man at the head of the
States land affairs, il would require
good deal of nerve on the part of the
incoming administration TO defy pub
lie opinion by appointing to that i'm
portant Office man whom the people
have rejected.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27

THE divorce laws of this country
are receiving a large share of public
attention now, and very properly SO,
too. The divorce laws of Texas are
entirely too slack, and good many
district judges, in whom the law al
WAYS lodges much discretionary
power, are a good deal Stacker than
the law upon the subject. Chicago is
noted for the facility with which the
courts can separate man and his
wife. but there are courts in Texas not
4 whit behind them.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27

THERE is talk of nominating Mr..
Powderly for president in 'SS. The
Democrats could stand nomination
of that sort very well. Powderly is a
protcctionist after Blainc's own heart,
and would divide the protectionist
vote of that gentleman in way that
would completely set aside st. Johns
claim of elccting Cleveland next time.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27

THE laws delays and the result of
litigation both are well illustrated in
the settlement of the estate of Alfred
Eubanks. of Madison, Ga, who died
thirty years ago leaving leaving farm
worth $4,000 to eight sons. The mat
has been in the courts ever since, and
the three surviving sons have just
been paid $4,000 each. The balance
having gone to the lawyers.
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Published every day in the year, except
sunday.
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Entered at the postonce ut Dallas as Second
Class mail matter
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Street Waits of a Great C;ty-Lenten
Season in New Ysrk-Fresh Air
Fund and the Children, &c.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
New YORK, March 29.-I have be-
fore me copy of the annual report
of the society for the prevention of
Cruelty to Children" 1t contains
a summary of few of the most ag
gravated cases that have come under
the notice of the society in the past
year. 1t is the most touching record
of infantile suffering and the most
vivid illustration of "man's inhuman-
ity,' not to man, but to babes, that
exists. Philanthropists sermonize on
the hard lot of the newsboy and the
boot-black and others of the great
army of gamins, peculiar to great
cities, but how few people know of
the real child-martyrs. How it is
possible for human beings TO starve,
beat, main, disligure, prostitute, and
not infrequently, as this record
shows, to kill outright by sayage
cruelty their own ff~prlng is a ques-
ton for psychologists. Thousand
of children in this city have had a
constant experience since the rais-
fortune of their birth that in month
would drive a strong man mad. Aside,
from actual physical torture, think
what it is to have ones vision bound
ed from the cradle to manhood, or the
grave, which to these comes oftenest
first, with brick walls, within which
boundary there is no single tender
touch of nature; no children's joys ;
no toys; no teaching either of hooks
or of God worst of all, no home,
but In the place Of home he'll that
to you or / would seem less to be
desired as an abiding place than the
one Bro. Talmage paints 50 exquisite
ly; partly, perhaps, because ltis is
| real and the other can only be con-
lecture at the worst. The society
referred to has rescued 1900 of these
unfortunatea this year from a life
worse than death, and good many
thousands have benefited by it since
its organisation.
There is nothing like an umbrella
for keeping lent, it is said, but New
York society of the upper crust
makes great pretense o. plating
the umbrella. No theatres. no bafis,
Except cod fish balls) no Germans,
Except the Teutonic fish merchants,
no worldly pleasures are supposed tc
occupy the minds OF good fashion
able christisas during the holy period
fof Lent The keeping of Lent is b,
no means confined to high church
Ipsopls or Catholics IN this city. Il
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01
SLEEPY HOLLOW ITEMS,
Correspondence of the Ledger.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
SLEEPY Hollow, March 80. The
farmers are up and doing. The pas
lures are putting on their green coats.
james Haley is living with John
Gamble.
1t is reported that Jack Woolery
and George Miller are getting rich
trading with each other.
j. H. Davis is living on the Gamble
farm.
The fishermen came back hungry.
d. K. Crockett has been obliged
to move his fence in and make the
road wider in order to give the
Atkins boys and their dogs room,
according to their strength. Now
boys, spread yourselves.
Daniel Armistead was In this vicin-
ity few days since hunting work.
He says he has walked all over Aud
rain, Boone and Galloway and can't
find any work to do and before be
will remain idle he will work for
nothing, clothe himself and pay SO O
week board. Almost every day we
see some person hunting work.
We would like to know:
If il was really the pure stuff that
Tom Crum had in his jug the even.
ing he drove into the ditch and came
so near overturning his wagon.
II the Jesse district correspondent
knows what made Miss Mattie's ten
Wills sweet. ELI PERKINS.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01
Organize.

Some few of our citizens contend
that it is carrying politics too far to
draw party lines in little town elec,
tion. Our complaining citizens
should remember that the mighty oak
sprang from n very small acorn; that
the tiny mustard seed produces a
pretty good sized bush. From small
beginnings the greatest results are
produced. The two g eat parties Of
the nation would not ilave an existence
were it not for the smaller organize
tions in the towns, townships, coob-
ties, cities and states. The great
national organizations are dependent
upon the local organizations for exls-
tence. Without them the two ma
tional parties would never had even
a beginning. Then, We say, hurrah
for Vandalia's Democratic organiza-
ton, and may she come out of the con.
test on the 9th with flying colors.--
Vandalia Leader.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01

though Peter was there and had the
keys of the Kingdom; but because
Peter demanded repentance and bap-
tism as conditions of entering the
Kingdom and 60" knows babies
can't have repentance, therefore he
passes over Pentecost. By-the-way,
reader, did you ever know one of
these fellows like go" that ever
had any use for Pentecost? They
hate it worse than Bob Ingersoli
does. Now he has jumped ana
lights down in the 10th chapter of
Acts on Lydia. What for, do you
ask? Why, to prove that the Apostles
baptized babies. You say that il
mighty funny, There IS nothing
said there about babies. No, that il
true. babies are not mentioned. l.
saws "and when she was baptized
and her household That's the
word - "household.' That means
babies, says Go" Not Bit OF 1t.
There are thousands of households
ali over the land without a baby in
them. Reader, you know that. How
then does $50" arrive at the conclu-
,, sion that Lydia had babies? will
tell you he imagines it. Go says
Lydia was married womsn. How
Dies he know this? In the same way
he imagines it. "Go" says "Gune
in Greek means married woman.
Hold on, ,'Go :" slick TO the truth
once. You know it means female,
a woman. a wife. You know it don't
necessarily mean a wife. 1t may
mean Lydia was woman, only a
maid, female. All women are not
married women, neither are all fe-
males married women. There Is
nothing in the context to show that
lydia was married woman. .'Go's'
conclusion then has no foundation III
fact. $50" assumes that Lydia was
a married woman. 2, that she had
childrea, 8, that one OF more OF them
was babe, 4, that she had babies
with her IS part Of her household
becaass you must remember that che
iigAd 1t the city Of Thyatyra when a
home and was down at Philippi u Y
The CT paci,y of haherdasher 70 -seil
her trinkets. Here then is infsn'
baptism standing on a four-footee
kbesst .naaesupof assumptions, nos
Ewsfd Of truth 10 support It: II is
Epure aud unadulterated Imagination
/ Let me imagine . iittls; ! have a
/ good right TO do so as any one.
Imagine Lydia was an old maid. 9;
or 20 years old; never was married
had no children. perhaps had !
poodle dog, likely 4 cat. as antiquaies
|,,nrnarritd sfemsics have strong at
/ tuchments for the feline tribe, ane
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01
RUSH HILL RACKET.

Correspondence Of the Ledger.
RUSH HILL, March 29.-E. Ruedey is
in Illinois on business.
Mr.. John Lane and wife came down
from Mexico on Sunday, and were visiting
Mrs. Lanes parents, three miles north OF
town. This is the first time Mrs. Lane
has been ont since her protracted illness.
1t is hard to keep track of our friend
Gus Reusch. He was i'm Wellsvilie FRI
day invoicing a stock of goods he had
bought; Saturday he was out In Illinois
to his farm; Sunday night he arrived
here; Monday morning he left for Mex
leo.
Mrs. DIR. Hill expected to have left for
Philadelphia last Saturday night; had aer
trunk checked and everything ready, but
finally declined going.
Laddonia is one of the best little towns
in the county and has splendid scope of
country from which she derives her grow
ing trade. But when seventy-fve of her
citizens declare over their own signatures
tfiiS tWo-biiiur va htt btSt tittsSuc at tt
regular attendants at the skating rink,
we think it slander on the town and IL
is hard to make any sane man believe 1t.
We do not say the editor of the Herald
falsifies or misrcpresents things inten-
| tionaily, but he has a peculiar way of
drawing on his imagination and publishes
his erroneous conclusions as facts. Re-
ferring to our letter In the LEDGER OF
| two weeks ago, he tries TO convey the
idea that certain lecturer originated
that letter We viii say for his benefit,
that neither the gentleman referred 10 or
anyone else suggested, dictated or wrote
single sentence In that letter, nor saw
/ 1t until it was sent to the LEDGER Office,
| Britton A. Hill came up from st. Louis,
| last Friday, on business and to make his
| son visit He returned Saturday after
noon. He says there Is coal here and the
sinking of the shaft must go on. Lott
has filed his contract, but is ready 70
| continue If the company wish 1t. We
/ suppose the work will be resumed as soon
as Mr.. Ruedey, the manager of the COM
paBy, returns from Illinois.
There will be Sabbath school organ
lied here the first Sunday in April al II
o'clock. MszPAH.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01

being in the saffron leaf of old
maidism her household was as far
from babies as mystic theology is
from gospel truth! Now are not my
suppositions as we'll founded as
.sGs's"? Have they not as much
truth to stand on as his? 1 think
they have, and, if that be admitted,
then I prove that the poodle dog was
sprinkled as a part of her household
in the same way that "Go" proves the
sprinkling. of babes. He next takes
the jailor in 16 of Acts-all of which
is as plain as the road to mill. Paul
and Silas had been whipped, handed
pver to the jailor. At midnight they
sang praises to God. An earthquake
shook the doors open; jailor was
thout to kill himself Paul forbade
MIN; jailor took light, sprang into
the prison, fell down before Paul and
Silas--breught them out of the Jail
and said, "What must I do to be
saved!" They said believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalL be
saved aud thy house, and they spoke
unto him the word of the lord and
to all that were in his house. Spoke
the word of the Lord TO all that were
in his housel What for2 To give
them evidence, testimony on which
to predicate faith. "These things are
written that ye might believe" If
there were any babes in that house
the record does not show it. go"
don't preach the word of the Lord
to babes, he only marks them for the
Lord. Kind souls! But Paul
preached the word of the. Lord to
all that were IN the house. Imagine
Paul standing over a cradle pouring
out his soul in logic to a babel Tell
ing il of the death burial. resurrec-
tion, ascension and coronation OF
Jesus in heaven. But the end is not
yet. Paul baptized them. They
are now out Of the house; for when
the jailor brought them into his
house he set meat before them. and
rejoiced, believing in God with all
his house. That ia, the jailor4 believed
and all his house believed. Then
there was no babe because q babe
can t believe, and all those did believe
because they rejoiced believing in
God. Babes could not-rdos that,
hence there were none there. Sos
position is imaginary, like the case oi
Lydia Verify, these infant sprink-
4 Isrs stretch the word of God like
India rubber to make it ft then
assumptions. ~
In order to make ou. this case as
authorizing infant baptism, you hays
| to assume three things. 1st. That
the jaiIor had wife. End. That she
~
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01
extends to all who have social /

extends to all who have social re-
cognition in the higher circles, re-
gardless of creed. In fact, one gets
the impression here that keeping
Lent is merely a matter of social
etiquette and that eating fish for
forty days has but little reference to
Christ and the Mount and the fellow
that set the original pattern Of offer
ing bribes. The newspapers do a
good deal toward fostering this i'm
preston by their treatment of the
subject, having nothing to say about
it except in Its bearing on society
and having great deal to say about
it in that connection.
If St. Louis were as progressive as
New York, the good people of Mex
leo would entertain more than one
little waif this summer who would
owe them and their city confederates
for the first glimpse of the country,
the first breath of pure cir, the first
scent of fresh earth aud tue first ex-
perIence of real happiness that ever
frightened It's young life. The
Fresh Air Fand sends hund.eds of
children to villages all over this state
every summer and there are plenty
of people glad to receive them al
though they must board them for
nothing and must not allow them to
work. They are sent out to play
and absorb all the pure air they can
get into their lungs. They have done
nothing but work since they could
toddle, breathing the seed of lifelong
physical suffering and in6rmity
while they worked, and there are
plenty of kind hearted people in the
country villages who remember what
makes Jack dull boy, and who are
determined that he shall not be dull
for that reason when they can help
it at next to no expense and not a
great deal of trouble. The Fund
people clothe them and pay their
fare to and fro, and the organization
acts as a kind OF supplement to the
S. P. c. G. which deyotes itself to
rescuring them from the lower depths.
f. E. S.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01
Keep out Of Debt.

From the 81. Louis Ropublcan.
II Americans could have rooted out
of them the ruinous and pernicious
habit Of living beyond their means,
one Of the active agencies in produc-
ing panics,. business collapses and
depression of trade would be re-
moved We never know howgeneral
this habit is till q crash like that Of
1873 comes on the country. These
crashes are sharp, peremptory notices
to pay up, addressed to every person
in debt. The demand has to be CON-
piled with, and the bankruptcies and
breakups in every community that
follow reveal the large number of
persons who have been living on
favor. 1t is easy enough to live be-
yond ones means when times are
pi ospesous. Credit is promptly cx-
tended to all who can make show OF
property, and not few make use OF
credit 10 secure show of wealth,
mortgage property which they do not
really own and the interest charge ON
which swallows up large fraction of
their income. Debts are inexorable
and sooner or later they must be paid,
eithel during life, by selling the an
fortunate debtors mortgaged pos
session aud leaving him bankrupt,
or at his death, by stripping his FAM
lily OF all their imagined wealth gnaa
leaving them destitute.
There is no class Of persons who
/, can less afford 10 go into debt than
farmers, and this because when once
in debt they rarely get out. In
many counties in Missouri the Amer
lican farmers are being gradually dis
placed by Germans, and the process
il so complete as to have entirely
transformed The eommanity from
what il was twenty years ago. The
Iexpianali9n Is simple: Germans do
not 60 in debt nor live beyond their
means, but they buy the farms Of the
Americans who do. Missouri farm
eFs should remember the lesson Of
1878 and profit By IT. That disas-
troas collapse, which involved SO
many persons in ruin, was brought
about by extravagance. aud the next
one that comes will be in very large
measure the product Of the same
cause. Tho only safety when it
comes will be In freedom from mort
gage-holders and money lenders.
Financial revulsions, panics. depss-
lsions and oil that sort Of things hsve
no effect npon the farmer who 10 out
Of debt. They pass over his un-
mortgsged roof without disturbing .
lshingle-
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T. GALLAHER.

This man has such a striking re-
semblance to his prototype, Goliah OF
Gath, that / now for convenience
change his name to Goliah, and to
save spelling will lop off the two
latter syllables and at once reduce
him to simple Go.
i am satisfied this arrangement will
be acceptable to the readers OF the
LEDGER. There is large amount OF
all that GO has written that is un-
worthy of notice. Last week, ana
indeed for two issues past, he having
asked for more space spread himself
out extensively occupying over TWO
columns each week, the greater part
Of which was braggadocio. de was
attempting to show some authority
for infant baptism. In this he made
the most signal failure that sensible
people ever beheld. l am really
sorry to see him IN such miserable
predicament. He says as mere ex-
cuse for sprinkling infants that "he
marks (by this means the lambs be-
cause they are the Lords and not to
make them his. Now what business
have you putting your mark on the
Lords lambs? Where Is your au-
thority to mark his sheep? Our
statute forbids you To mark property
belonging to another. But you just
put your mark on the Lords proper
ty. The Lord certainty knows as
much as you do. Don't you think he
could attend to his own business
quite as well as you can attend to 1t
for him? Ii putting your mark ON
them don't make them the Lord and
as you admit, they were the Lords
before, then in reasons name whai
good does your mark do? lou say
"we baptlze our infant children not
to save them but because We bei1eVe
they are all eady saved" Then what
good does it do? Reader, remember
"Go" undertakes to give chapter anu
verse where it was ever said Tue
Apostles baptized u baby. lie ciles
Matthew 70; Is 20. Go therefore
and teaci- aff nations, baptztng them
in the name OF the Father and OF ine
Sun and OF tue Holy Ghost. leach
ing them to observe all Things wnaIso-
ever have commanded yonY &sc.,
Teach habie-! Teach babies 70 Oh
serve all things II 1t don't so read.
You can teach olier persons You
don't admit babies into yeur pupile
schools. No, Mr.. $50, this don
call for babies. You will have to try
again. Watch .Go' as he jumps
He has the spring Of panther Ht
viii jump Clean over Pentecosh Al
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-04-01

had children. 3rd. That one or
more of her children was a babe.
Against this I will imagine that the
jailor was an old bachelor and rs
years old. Now one supposition is as
good as another, and l claim as much
for mine as you can for yours; just
that much, no more. But fortunately
the record settles the question and
leaves no room for guessing. They
all believed and rejoiced. But in the
face of the plain word of inspiration
go" says that whether there were
any babes there or not-says he
don't care, that all were baptized
were baptized not upon their own
faith but the faith of Lydia and the
jailor. He here admits that adults
were baptized without faith. 1t is
bad enough to sprinkle babes and
take them into the church without
faith but to conscript grown people
and take them into the church with
out faith is to make the temple Of
God den of thieves. Yet $50" is
SO far overcome by his failure to show
authority for infant baptism that he
charges Paul with doing the most
outrageous act of receiving adults
into the Kingdom of Christ without
faith, and that too in the face of the
declaration of Paul, "That without
faith it, impossible to please God. F"
Go makes Paul stultify himself.
go" says Z have nightmare and
want TO buy saddle. This is one
of his mistakes / don't want saddle.
have good one. However, l did
think of buying crupper for a
braying ass clad in lions skin, but
the loss of his tail ut the hands OF
"Disciple' made it unhandy. and,
aside from little bucking, he rides
very WE'LL Unless you canflnd some.
thing nearer the point in the New
Testament. to authorize infant bap-
tism NE can't accept it.
gGoliah still smarts under the lash
| gave. hin on ,church officers retsin.
ipg and renitting SINS md quotes from
s8th chapter u J John.. But This says
nothing abrutthe keyn Of the king
doms and your coefession predicate.
the authority on having the keys and
your officers don't happen to be sue.
cessers either to Peter or the othei
| Apostles. Besides the Apostles had
power 10 work miracles and you
haye not. They were ambassadors.
ministers plsnipotentiary, and youl
officers are not Your officers gel
their power from your poisieo
ecclesiastic body. The Apostles go
theirs from Jesus, the King OF Kings
and that Is the difference.
| n. 7. DussAS.