Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20

| Ing morse teat taxes Tour minutes to &c
mile il you can own one that can go in
little over two minutes and half; no
virtue In running into the teeth Of q
northeast wind with thin apparel il you
can afford furs; no virtue in being poor
when you can honestly be rich. There
are names OF wen and women that | have
only TO mention and they suggest Tot
| only wealth but religion and generosity
and philanthropy, such as Amos Law
renee, James LeunCx, Peter Cooper, Viii
liam E. Dodge, Shsttesbury, Miss Wolfe
and Mrs. Aston. A recent writer SAYS
that of fifty leading business men in one
of our eastern cities and Of the fifty leading
business men OF one Of our western cities
three-fourths are Christians. The facI
is that about all the brain and the bust
ness genius is on the side OF religion
Infidelity is incipient insanity. All inf
dels ale cranks. Many of them talk
brightly, but you soon fad that in theil
mental machinery there is screw loose
When they are not occurring agains;
Christianity they are sitting in barrooms
squirting tobacco juice, and when they
| get mad swear till the place Is sulphur
| Gus. They only talk to keep their cour-
age up, and at best will feel like the inf
del who begged TO be buried with his
Christian wife and daughter, and wher
asked why he wanted such burial replied
"Ii there be resurrection OF the good SIS
some folks say there will be, my Christian
wife and daughter will somehow get me-
up and take me along with them"
Man may pretend to despise religion,
but they are.
RANK HYPOCRITEs
The sea captain WAS right when he came
up to the village On the SEES coast, and
insisted on paying $40 to the church
although he did not attend himself.
When asked his reason, he said that he
had been in the habit Of carrying cargoes
of oysters and clans from that place, and
he found since that church was built the
people were more honest than they used
TO be, for before the church was built he
often found the load when he csme TO
count it 6 thousand clans short. Yes.
Goodness is profitable for both
worlds. Most OF the great honest per-
m.nent worldly successes are by those
who reverence God and the Bible. But
what 90 say 10 that if man have moth
ing but social position aud financial re-
sources, woman who puts her happl-
ness by marriage in his hand re-enaets
the folly OF Abigail when she accepted
djsagreeabie Nabal, "whose DO sessions
were in Carmel; and the man was very
great, and he had 5000 sheep and 1000
goats"-
II there be good moral character &C
cOmpanied by affluent circumstances, l
congratulate you. II not, let the morn
ing lark fly clesr of the Rocky Mountain
eagle. The sacrifice OF woman on the
altar CT social and financial expectation is
cruel and stupendous. l sketch you 8
scene you have more than once witnessed.
comfortable home with nothing more
than ordinary surroundings, bur al at
trsctive daughter carefully end Christian
Iv reared. From the outside world comes
III man with nothing out money, unless
you count profanity and selfshness sad
tondnegs for champagne and general
recklessness as part Of his possession.
He has his coat collar turned up when
there is 70 chill in the air, but because it
gives him sn air OF ABANDON, and eYeglass,
not because he is near-5ighted, but be-
cause it gives classical appearance, and
Nth an attire somewhat loud, cane
thick enough to be the CLUB Of Hercules
and clutched st the middle, bis converse
ton iuterlarded with French phrases in
accurately pronounced and sweep OF
manner indicating that he was not born
like most folks but terrestriaiiy lsnded.
By arts learned of The devil he insinuates
himself into the affections OF the daughter
Of that Christian home. All the kindred
coGgra.uate her on the almost supernat-
ural prospects. Reports come in that the
young man is fast in his habits, that he
hes broken several young hearts, and that
he is mean and selfish a1d cruel. But all
this is covered up with the fact that he
mas several houses in his own name, and
has large deposits at the bank, and, more
than all, has father worth many hundred
thousand dollars and
VERY FEEBLE IN HEALTH
and msy any day drop Off, and this Is the
only SOD, and round dollar held close
to ones eye IS large enough to shuts out
q great desert, and how much more will
several bushels of dollsrs shut out.
The marriage day comes and goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough and the
orange blossoms fragrant enough and the
oene diction solemn enough and the we'd
ding march stirring enough. And the
audience shed tears Of sympathetic glad
ness, suppcsing that the craft containing
the two has sailed Of on a. plscid lake.
although God knows that they are
launched on Dead Sea, it's waters
brackish with tears and CHASTITY with
CHASTITY faces OF despair floating to the
surface and then going down, There
they are, the newly married pair, in theil
new home. He turns out to be tyrsut
Her will is nothing, his will everything
Lavish Of money for his own pleasure, ne
begrudges her the pennies he pinches out
into her trembling palm. IGsteGd Of the
kind words she left behind in her former
home, now there are complaints and
fault-fodings and curses. He is The
master and she the slave. The worst
villain on earth Is the man Who, having
captured D woman from her faith
er's house and sfser the
osth of the marriage altar has been pro-
nounced, seys, by his manner IL not II
words: 81 have you now in my power
What cal you do? My arm is stronger
than yours. My voice is louder thar
yours. MY fortune is greater than yours
My name is mightier than yours. Now
crouch before NE like dog Now craw
away from me like reptile. You arc
nothing but woman anyhow. DoWD
you miserable wretChn" Can balls Of
mosaic, Can long lines of Etruscar
bronze, or statusry by Palmer and Pow
ers snd Crawford and Chsntry and Can
ov8, can galleries rich from the pencil q
Bierstadt and Church and Keuset and
Cole snd Cropsey, could flutes played Oh
by sn Ole Bull or pianos fingered By 8
Gottschalk, or solos warbled by Som
! tag, could wsrd.cbes like that Of s Msrit