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His Endowment Interfered With.

"That sermon was the finest effort I
ever heard" said a man on his way home
from church. 81 wouldn't have missed
it for $40"
"I'm glad you enjoyed, it John," said
his wife.
eyes, I enjoyed it; but there was one
thing that annoyed me-"
"What was that, John2"
81 had no change in my pocket less
than half a dollar for the contribution
box. ."-NeU York Sun.
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Mrs. Laura E. Howey is lecturing il the
principal towns of Montana in the interests
of the w. C. T. U. Of which she is territorial
president Her addresses are highly COM
mended.
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i
will save many from disease, insanity and
perdition. Ibelieve these are the days OF
which the apostle spake when he said: In
the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits"
think my audieuce, as we'll as other audiences
in this day, need to have reiterated in their
hearing the passages quoted some minutes
ago: ''There shall not be among you con-
sulter of familiar spirits, or wizard. or nee
romancer; for they that do these things are
an abomination unto the Lord" and "The
spirits, I will set myself against them, and
they shall be cut off from their people"
But invite you this morning to Christian
seance, noonday seance. This congregation
is only one great family. Here is the church
table. Come around the church table. take
your seats for this great Christian seance,
put your Bible on the table, put your hands on
the top of the Bible, and then listen, and hear
if there are any voices coming from the
eternal world. think there are: Listen
sSecret things belong unto the Lord our
God, but things that are revealed belong
unto us and our children" Surely that is q
voice from the spirit world! But before you
rise from this Christian seance, 1 want
you to promise me you will be satlsned
with the divine revelation until the
light Of the eternal throne breaks upon
your NlSloI- Do aoo 81 oAtot eo "N.H v
En-dor. Do not sit down at table rappiings,
either in sport or in dead earnest. Have
your tables so we'll made, and their legs SO
even, that they will not tip and rattle II
the table must move, let it be under the
Offices of industrious housewifery. Teach
your children there are no ghosts to be seen
or heard in this world save those who walk
on two feet or four, human or bestlal. he
member that Spiritualsm at the best Is q
useless thing; for if it tells what the Bible
reveals it IS a superauity, and if it tells
what the Bible does not reveal it IS a lie.
Instead of going out to get other people to
tell your fortune, tell your own fortune ny
putting your own trust in God ana DONG
the best you can I will tell your fortune:
"All things work together for good to them
who love God.n Insult not your departed
friends by asking them to come down ana
scrabble under an extension table. Remem-
ber that there is only one Spirit whose dlcta-
ton you have right to invoke, and that Is
the holy, blessed and omnipotent Spirit OF
God, Harkl He is rapping now, not on o
table or the floor, but rapping on the door OF
your heart, and every rap is an invitation TO
Christ and warning Of Judgment to come
Oh, grieve him not away. Quench MIN not.
He has been all around you this morning.
He was all around you last night ne mas
been around you all your lives. HarK!
There comes a voice dropping through, the
roof, breaking through the window, Mum
all this house with tender and overmasterlng
intonation, saying: my spirit shall not
always strive.
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the bedsteads raised, and the chairs upset,
and it seemed as if the spirits everywhere
had gone into the furniture business. We'll" !"
the people said, "we have got something
new in this country: it is new religion" !"
Oh no. my friends. Thousands OF years ago
we find in our text sp!ritualistic seance.
Nothing in the spiritualistic circles OF our
day has been more strange, mysterious and
wonderful than things which have been seen
in the past centuries OF the world. In all the
ages there have been necromancers, those
who consult with the spirits of the departed; ;
oharmers those who put their subjects in a
mesmeric state; sorcerers, those who by tax
ing poisonous drugs see everything and hear
everything and tell everything; dreamers,
people who in their sleeping moments can see
the future world and hold consultation with
spirits; aStrologers, who could read a new
dispensation in the stars; experts in palmis.
try, who can tell by the lines in the palm OF
your hand your origin and your history.
From a cave on Mount Parnassus, we are
told, there was an exhalation that intoxicated
the sheep and goats that came anywhere
near it, and shepherd approaching
it was thrown by that exhalation
into an excitement in which he could foretell
future events and hold consultation with the
spiritual world. Yes, before the time OF
Christ the Brahmins went through all the
table moving, all the furniture excitement,
which the spirits hsve exploited in our day;
precisely the same thing over and over
again, under the manipulations of the Brah-
rnins. Now do you say that Spir.tualism is
different from these' answer, all those
delusions I have mentioned belong to the
same family. They are exhumations from
the unseen world. What does God think of
all these decisions? He thinks so severely OF
them that he never speaks Of them but with
iivid thunders Of Indignation. He says:
81 will be swift witness against
fuffer witch to live" And lest you might
make some important distinction between
Spiritualism and witchcraft, God says, in so
many words: "There shall not be among
you consulter of familiar spirits. or
wizard, or necromancer; for they that do
these things arean abomination to the Lord"
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that people who are hearing raps from the
future world have but little strength left to
bear the hard raps Of this world. 1t is an
awful thing to trifie with ones nervous
system. It Is so delicate-it is so far reach
ing-!ts arrangements are so terrible. Get
the nervous system jangle, and so far as
your body and soul are concerned, the whole
universe Is jangle. Better in our ignorance
experiment with chemists retort that may
smite us dead, or with an engineers steam
boiler that may blow us to atoms, than e1-
pertinent with the nervous system. A man
can live with only one lung or with no eyes
and be happy, as men have been under such
Affections; but woe to the man whose nerves
are shattered! Spritualism smites first OF
all, and nightly, against the nervous sys-
tenn, and 80 makes life miserable.
indict spiritualism also, because 1t Is q
social and marital curse. The worst deeds OF
ity have been enacted under its patronage
The story is too vile for me to tell. will
not pollute my tongue nor your ears with the
recital. Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked to stop the outrage. Families innu-
merable have been broken up by it. 1t has
pushed off hundreds Of young women into
life Of profigacy. 1t talks about elective
affinities," and "aflnital relations" and
spiritual matches" and adopts the whole
vocabulary or Tree lovelsm. In one VI us
public journals it declares marriage is the
monster curse Of civilization" 1t Is a
source of debauchery and intempe:ance. II
Spiritualism could have it's full swing, it
would turn this world into a pandemonium
Of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous,
damnable religion, and the sooner it drops
into the hell from which it rose, the better
both for earth and heaven. For the sake OF
mans honor and woman's purity, say let
k1,o1 1nc -
I could gather up ali the raps it has over
heard from spirits blest or damned. and
gather them all on its own head in one
laundering rap of annihilation!
I further indict Spiritualisn for the fact
that it Is tbs cause of much insanity. There Is
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07
CORSICANA.
Preparations for the Grand Lodge L. o. O.
F.-A Runaway Team.

Preparations for the Grand Lodge 1. o. o.
F.-A Runaway Team.
Special to the Gazette.
CoRsICANA, TRx, Feb. IT is morn
ing the stores were opened st the break
of day with the sun shining bright, and
all the business men were busy decorat-
ing their business houses with flags and
sundry articles, viii n added much to the
appearance of thu city. To-day the grand
lodge, 1. o o f. of the state goes in ses-
sion, and all are doing their best to make
the members and all visitors comfortab BILE
and at home. Those who have arrived
have been assigned homes. This sf-
ternoon the Grand Enc.mpment went
into session, and tonight at 1880 the
Grand Lodge meets in full blast. This
week promises to be one of the most
Pr0minept in the history of the city for
many years. The excessive bad weather
OF late caused 8 great deal Of mud ano
slusb, but this morning the police force
were out early constructing sidewalks
snd ny noon to-day the pedestrian could
locomose over the city without being
biocbsded by mud.
District court adjourned Saturday, ard
but little is going on in that line.
The County Clerk and his deputies are
busy preparing documents for the Com
missioners' court, which meets on the
18th inst, and the County court which
convenes on the 20ih.
Yesterday gentleman by the name of
Jones was driving pair of horses about
six miles south of the city when his team
became frightened, ran away, threw
Jones out Of the wagon breaking his left
arm between the wrist and elbow.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07
France.

WHAT THR PAPERS sly OF THE TREATY
PARIS, Feb. 6 Most of the Paris ps-
pers welcome the publication OF the Aus
tro- German treaty as likely to further es.
TRANCE Germany and Russia, and to bind
Russia and Frsrc e. Some PAGERS sdvo
Gated an alliance of England, France and
Russia against the triple alliance.
lie Temps says that there will be no Sc
curity in Europe until it is known wheth-
er Austris would regard Russian inter-
vention in Bulgsris as. casui belli, and
whether G many would permit Austr s
to tile such quarrel single hand d.
LIE Paris says that neither Russia nor
France Will ever declare wGr.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07
Boor md shoe men Faii

DAEvERs, MASS, Feb. &C. c. Far
well & Co, manufacturers OF boots and
shoes Of this place, have failed and made
an assignment 10 c. 81. Gould of Boston
Their liabilities are estimated at 5000, 000
and they msy be higher. The money is
mostly due to the banks.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07
Wichita Fails Court Notes

Special 70 the Gazette.
WICHITA FALLS, TEX, Feb. 6-The
regular term OF County court convened
this morning, with quits full dochet,
both civil and criminal. Tee case OF
McCutc1en vs.. the Fort Worth and Dem
yer City Railway Company, for killing s
bull, "b1os up serenely" again for The
fifth time, and seems liable to become d
celebrated case.
There are several cases on the criminal
docket sgsinst cattlemen for Illegally
fencing lands belonging to others, which
will be watched with considerable inter
est, as there will no doubt be strong
fight on both sides.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07
SPECULATED TOO MUCH.
A Cincinnati Banker Forced to Retire fc
the Good of the Bank.

the Good of the Bank.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Feb. 6 There was
more than the usual demand upon the
Metropolitan Bsak I'll day, but at the
clearing house it was only $4,000 be-
hind. The directors held another session
at O'Clock. While bankers agree that
the Metropolitan is solvent they recog-
nize the fact that it could not meet every
possible demand in day, so eight of the
banks loaned it S25, 600 each. 0sher of
fers were declined. The objection made
to Mr. DeCamp, the retiring vice-presi-
dent, was that he had oeen specializing
too much in Finclsy and other real es-
tale,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07

HOW GERMANY's TREATY IS REGARDED
VIENNA, Feb. ct 10 stated in diplo-
matte circles that GermsnY's treaty with
Italy is analogous 20 sn Austro German
treaty, the name of France being substi-
tuted for that of Russia.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07
KILLING NEAR WACO.
George BIankenship shoots 8 Man Named
Andrews,

Andrews,
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, Tx, Feo. George Blaaken-
ship shot and killed Burd Andrews this
morning. The killing was the result Of
an old quarrel. Blaukenship waylsid
Andrews and killed him with shotgun.
The murder occurred about FIVE miles
east of Waco. The particulars have not
yet been obtained. The murder is con-
sidered cold-blooded, aud if B'ankenship
is caught be will no doubt be lynched.
Officers are now ont in pursuit with
Oloodhounds. Blankenship belongs to
sn old and influential family here. His
victim WAS stranger here and compare
lively unknown.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07

opeCIAI 70 INC UhLotI6.
WASHINGTON, Feb. c. Mr.. Grain In
troduced in the House to-day the petition
OF Richard GailAwsy OF Galveston, for
pension by spe cial act Of Congress; also
for the relief of Wilbur Cogs well, assist
ant engineer in the United States navy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
FlFTlETH CONGRESS.

In the Senate on the ath. the committee bill
for the regulation OF telegraphy was discussed
at length. and temporarily laia on the table
The Urgency Deficiency bill was then taken
up. but without action on it, the Senate went
into executive s ion, and soon after adjourn
3D. In the House resolution was intro
duced and referred looking TO the appointment
of committee to investigate the Chicago,
Burlington &Quincy railroad strike.
In the Senate on the 9th Joint resolution
directing the geological survey to investigate
the practcability of constructing reservoirs for
lrrlgating purposes in the arid regions of the
West was passed. Consideration of the Depend
ent Pension bill was resumed, and Senator In
gals took the floor in set speech IN favor of the
am endment to insert the words from infirma-
ties of age in which he made a vigorous reply
to the structures and statistics of Senator Vest.
Mr.. Blackburn, in the absence of Mr.. Vest, re-
piled to the Senator from Kansas. In the
House, the contested election case of McDuffie
VS.. Davidson, from Alabama, was decided in
favor OF the setting member, MIR. McDufne.
IN the Senate, on the 9TH, Mr.. Beck gave no.
tice that he would on next Tuesday call up his
bill to substitute coin certerhcates for gold
and silver certificates, and would reply to
Senator Sherman's remarks of yesterday. The
House provision in the Urgency Deficiency
bill, requiring the public printer to rigidly
enforce the provisions of the Eight
hour law was stricken out. In the
House the bill appropriating $4,000 for pub
lie building at Sedalia, Mo-, was passed. The
bill to divide the Great Sioux Indian Reserva-
ton and for allotment to Indians in severalty
was agreed to.
In the Senate on the Sth q petition bearing one
hundred and twenty thousand signatures from
thirty-three States and Territories against the
admission of Utah to Statehood SO long as it's
people are under Mormon rule was received
and referred. The Dependent Pension
bill was taken up and after sew
eral amendments had been discussed
and rejected, the bill was passed.
yeas IA; nays, 16 In the House the bill
appropriating $4,000 for the purchase of the
swords of the late General Shields was passed.
Several bills of no general interest were called
up and referred. and the House adjourned.
THE Senate was not in session on the 9th ....
In the House the amendment to the War
Claim bill appropriating $4,000 for the relief
of the Protestant Episcopal Theological
Seminary and High School of Virginia,
was passed. The remainder of the day
was consumed in the consideration of private
bills. A night session was held, at which
thlrty-four private pension bills were passed,
including increasing the pension of the
widow of General Robert Anderson, the hero OF
Fort Sumter, to 500 a month.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Senate was not in session on the
| 10th.......In the House the Dependent
Pension bill was received from the Sem
! ate and referred to the committee on in
valid pensions. Bills were passed ex.
| tending for two years the time of pay
| ment by settlers for lands on the Omaha
| Indian Reservation in Nebraska, and to
restore to the public domain part of the
| Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah, and
| prescribing a penalty of fine and i'm
/ prisonment for the unlawful cutting of
timber on Indian reservations.
| THE long -talked-of prize fight between
John L. Sullivan. of Boston, champion of
the world, and Charles Mitchell, cham
pion of England, took place on the grounds
of Baron Rothschild, near Creil, France,
on the 10th. 1t proved a bitter disap-
pointment to the friends and hackers of
Sullivan and a surprise to every body.
The big mans brute force proved ineffec-
tual to "knock out" his plucky little an
agonist, and he lost heart and after
the first few rounds fought
defeat by Mitchell's allowing him to
choose draw at the end of the thirty
ninth round. After the fight prin cipals
and spectators were arrested, but were
afterwards released.
LATE advices from China give a de-
scription of awful earthquakes in the
Province of Younan on December 10 and
is. In some places the entire topography
of the country was changed, large tracts
of land being swallowed up and the
surface converted into lake.
In the departmental city of Ching Chan
over five thousand persons were killed by
falling buildings, while the numb Der in jured
was beyond computation. In Lochan
more than ten thousand souls are said to
have persisted.
JERE DUNN will back Dempsey against
Mitchell for $40, 900 side.
The jury in the Schell murder case at
Burlington, Conn.,, brought in a verdict
of guilty on the 10th.
The Emperor and Empress of Germany
arrived in Berlin about midnight on the
10th.
many was laid in state in the Berlin
Cathedral on the 18th.
THE soldiers of the German army took
the oath of allegiance to the new Emper-
or on the 11th.
THE collapse of the strike of the miners
in the Lehigh Valley has resulted in q
resumption of work by many idle indus
tries in that region.
Mr. RANDALL's Tariff bill was intro
duced in the House on the 18th. 1t is
measure in the preparation of which I'M.
usual care has been employed.
IMPRESSIVE memorial services for
Henry Ward Beecher were held in Ply.
m outh church on the night of the nth.
1T is said that Mr.. Depew has promised
to assist the Burlington strikers If the
New York Central engineers will NOT
strike.
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style while they were walking across a fiowerv
heather in Scotland The marriage was
OF course. heartily sanctioned by the two
Nations, but yet primarily was the result of
a genuine love affair between its prinei-
pals. They were married in St James,
Chapel, London. and after spending few
weeks at Windsor proceeded to Berlin. The
Princess is one of the most gifted of the
English royal family, and was early trained
in political measures by the Prince Con.
sort, who allowed her to read much of his
diplomatic correspondence. Apart from II she
had the services of the most thorough masters
the whole making her education even more
complete than would be supposed But. anart
from her political knowledge, she has decided
~ domestic character, and her house is one of
unity and happiness.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
THE KING Is DEAD.
Wilhelm, King of Prussia and EN-
peror of Germany, is No More.
The Last Hours of the Great Hohen xoIIern
death Finds Him Surrounded by
All His Family Except Fritz,
who is Now Emperor.

BERLIN, March 9.-The Emperor is dead.
The time at which he died is nnan-
nounced yet.
Emperor William passed away at $3.50
a. m. The end had been momentarily ex-
pected since yesterday morning, and
around the bedside of the venerable dy-
ing monarch were assembled all the
members of his family, except the Crown
Prince, with Bismarck, the court chaplain
and the physicians of the EN-
peror. Without was multitude
standing in the avenues leading
through the grounds to s'Unter Den Lin
den',' mighty crowd. but silent, ex-
pectant, fearful for the worst, all eager
for the news of the climax in the great
crisis which should decide between life or
death for their beloved Kaiser, all breath
less in the dread that the first news ght
be the news that they least wished
to hear. Never in this century
has multitude SO great and
speil-bound with emotions, so deep and
profound, stood in the thoroughfares of
the German capital. A platoon of cav
airy was guard about the place; but
their task was light-no rush of the anx-
ious watchers called for check or him
drance, no disorderly or unseemly out
burst had to be repressed. Many of the
vast throng had been there since mid
night, some since yesterday and nearly
all since long before dawn to-day. A thin
drizzle fell for hours early in the day, the
wind twas sharp and bitter, yet the great
crowd stood their vigil through, some of
them bareheaded, some shivering with the
ague of long standing, all speaking, when
they spoke at all, in tones subdued, and
with their faces drawn behind their hands.
This was the scence without Within, no
chrar, iolar how TO Jro boy Mo
a monarch's deathbed At the bedside,
however, were Prince William and the
Princess, his wife, the Crown Prince of
Sweden, DR.. Koegei, the court chaplain,
the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden
and all the other members of the royal
family now in Berlin.
BERLIN, March S.-Before the news Of
the Emperor's death had been received
to-day many churches at which special
services had been announced we're crowd
ed with people anxious to offer prayers
for the recovery of the Emperor. The
vast congregations Joined fervently in
the prayer, and at ali times sobblng could
be heard on every side.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Wilhelm Frederick Ludwig. King of Prussia
and the first Emperor of the new Germany, was
born March %, 1897, and his death closes the
career of one of the most prominent characters
of European history.
He was the son of William the Third, his
mother being the celebrated Queen Louisa. In
January, 1907, and before he yet ten years
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
ChivaIrous France.

PARIS, March 9.-The Ltberte. tbis
morning, says: at may be said to the
honor of France that her old chiyalrous
spirit has, on this occasion. sill enced the
voice of national passion. Among ALI
classes of society the fate of Emperor
William and his son is the subject of
most sympathetic concern. We can no
longer regard as enemies that vener-
able monarch sinking into the grave,
or the Prince, in the prime of life, whose
existence, is ebbing away. We are ir.
resistibly touched at their fate, and. with
the sacred volume. wereverently excfaim:
How are the mighty falien.'"
Other papers comment at great length
on the result of the succession.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
The Excitement in London.

LONDON, March 9.-The excitement ot
yesterday has been renewed. and the
German Embassy has been beseiped
with callers. In consequences of yester-
day evenings conflicting rumors the
definite news of the Emperor's de ath wa a
at first received credulously. The flags
on the public buildings were placed at
half-mast, and the notice of the Emperor,s
decease was posted on the bulletin
boards OF the newspapers. Large crowds
ga thered about the newspaper offices and
and many expressions of sorrow and re-.
greet were heard, mingled with sympa.
thetfc remarks as to how the death OF the
Emperor would affect the new Emperor.