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HOLY LIFE.

The beauty of holy life constitutes the
most eloquent persuasive to religion which
one human being can address to another.
We have many ways Of doing good to our
fellow-creatures, but none so good, so e6ica--
cious as leading virtuous upright and
well-ordered life. There is an energy OF
moral suasion in good mans life, passing
the highest efforts of the orators genius.
The seen but silent beauty Of holiness
speaks more eloquently of God and duty
than the tongues Of men and angels: Let
parents remember this. The best inheri-
lance parent can bequeath to child is q
virtuous example; legacy of hallowed re-
membranes. The beauty of holiness
beaming through the life of a loved
relative or friend is more effectHal
to strengthen such as do stand
in virtues ways, and raise up those that are
bowed down, than precept, command, en-
treaty, or warning. Christianity itself,
believe, owes by far the greater part OF its
moral power, not to the precept or parallels
of Christ, but to his own character. The
beauty of that holiness which is enshrined
in the four brief biographies of the man Of
Nazareth. has done more, and will do more
to regenerate the world and bring it to an
everlasting righteousness, than all other
agencies put together. It has done more TO
spread his religion in the world than all
that has ever been preached or written on
the evidences of Christianity.-Dr. Chalmers.
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OPENING THE HEART.

I knew a little boy whose heart was
touched by sermon on the words, BE
hold, stand at the door and knock" My
mother said to him when she noticed that
he was anxious:
''Robert, what would you cay to any one
who knocked at the door of yonr heart, if
you wished him to come in"'
He answered: "Id say, Come in"
She then said to him: Then say to the
Lord Jesus, Come in.
The next morning there was brightness
and joy about Roberts face that made his
father ask: :.
Robert, what makes you look so glad
and joyful today?'
He replied, joyfully: Il awoke in the
night, and felt that Jesus was will knock
ing at the door of my heart for admittance
into it. I said to Him, Lord Jesus, come
i'm think He has come into my heart.
I feel happier this morning than ever was
in all my life. How ungrateful and wicked
in me to keep Him waiting outside so longF'
-Se1erfe1
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RELIGIOUS READING.

SUFFICIENT Unto THE DAY.
Because in day Of my days to come
There waiteth grief to be,
Shall my heart grow faint, and my lips be
dumb,
In this day that Is bright for me'
Because of subtle sense of pain,
Like pulse-be threaded through
The bliss of my thought, shall l dare re-
From delight in the pure and true?
In the harvest-6elds shall I cease to CLEAN
Since the bloom of the spring has fed2
Shall veil mine eyes to the MONDAY
sheen,
Since the dew of the morn bath sped?
Nay, phantom i'll with the warning hand,
Nay, ghosts of the weary past;
Serene as in armor of faith stand
Ye may not hold me fest.
Your shadows across my sun may fall,
But as bright the sun shall shinei
For walk in light We cannot PAIL
The light of the King divine.
And whatever He sends from day to day,
am sure that His name is Love;
ASd He never will let me lose my way
10 my rest in His home above.
-JLaryuret E. Sus1ster. :
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His Mother-in Law is Welcomed.

Among the Piutes it is always the
fathcr-in-law that makes the trouble.
Every married Piute is always glad of a
visit from his mother-in law. He well
comes her with his broadest grin. The
arrival of the mother-in-law gives him
double team, where before he had only
one animal. He halls her appearance
with delight, and. piling a jackass:load
of wood upon her willing old back,
sends her into town with his wife
Similarly packed) to peddle out the fuel
and bring back to him asupply of money
for his favorite game of poker. The
Piute father-in-iaw is of no use as a
wood packer, nor will he gather grass
seeds or pine nuts. Virginia City Enter
prise.
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TEMPERANCE.
A SONG oE FREEDOM.

a SOS6 OF FREEDOM-
All things have a voice in this beautiful
world;
In music the earth through its orbit is hurled;
The sunshine, the dew, and the daisy are
heard
Singing praises to God, with the bee and the
bird;
And the anthem that floats DER the infinite
Is the chorus of earth: "We are free; we are
freer'
But what sayeth man. with his God-given
powers,
Whose sceptre Of thought buildeth cities and
towers?
What says the master of science and arts
Is freedom the song that pulsates at his
Alas! he hath learned not the lay of the
In sorrow he sighs, ''I'm a slave! I'm a
slayer
A slave to the wine.cup to passions that hold
His spirit in bondage to silver and gold;
A slave to the fashions, that live but day,
To honors and titles that vanish away,
Still paltry the glory, the wealth, that he
Graves;
Ah well may we sigh, we are slaves! we
are slavesr'
We are slaves but voice DER humanity's
sea
Is waiting to join in the hymn of the free:
'Tis rising and swelling in volume and
might,
Proclaiming the triumph Of freedom and
right!
Ere long we shall sing, with the bird and
bee,
In anthems of joy, "We are free! we are
freem
Belle Bush. in the Voice.
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PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD.

1t is not necessary to be wonderful in
order to be useful. "John did no miracle"
his mission was to 'cry in the wilderness,
prepare ye the way of the Lord He did
his work in common way and was sue
cessful. Had miracles been necessary, God
would Lave enabled John to perform them,
but he did not. Ifyou and were to be ex-
traordinary persons, God would have given
US extraordinary endowments, but He gave
us common endowments, hence we should
be willing to be common people. This is
the kind Of people that 90 most good.
Wonder-workers are not in demand today:
The Masters cause wants workers, not
wonders, nor cherubs, nor prodigies, but
common-sense men and women who will
go about their business silently proclaiming,
"Prepare We the way of the Lord" Alas,
that so many cut large figures in religious
circles who have 20 emphatic testimony tor
Christ as present Saviour Of sinners. s
he blessing to the world who by word or
walk bellies the character and power Of Je-
sus Christ?-Eyangelical Messenger.
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The Colossus OF Rhodes.

The Colossus of Rhodes was so called
to distinguish it from other colossal
figures, said by some writers to have
numbered over 100, which, during the
days of its prosperity, were set up in the
Getty of the Sun, as the capital of the
Island of Rhodes was POLITICALLY called.
The Colossus came third in the list of the
seven wonders of the world, and was
consecrated to the sun, the deity of
Rhodes. It was made of brass, cast in
sections and is said to have been the
work of Chares of Lindus, pupil of
the great Lysippus. 1t was twenty
cubits (supposed to have been $50 feet)
high, and cost the city about 300 talents,
or $3.50, 900 as We reckon money nova
days. Over twelve years work was spent
on this early monster, which with all its
grandeur, was destined to a very short
career. Fifty years after its completion,
in the year 224 B. c., according to
Pliny, this gigantic emblematic figure
was thrown down by an earthquake. The
Colossus stood at the entrance to the
harbor, with each of its mighty feet on
solid stone. foundations, ships in full
sail passing and repassing between the
gigantic legs. Delcpcrre, the historian,
says that it was not erected at the en-
trance to the harbor, as stated by Pliny,
but that it stood on an open space near
the Pacha's seraglio. Still another
writer says it was reconstructed during
the reign of the Emperor Vespasian, and
that after the Island of Rhodes had been
conquered by Caliph Othman, in the
seventh century of our era, it was taken
down and the metal sold to Jew, who
transported it to Syria, caravan of $50
camels being necessary to carry his
purchase. Louis Republic.
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A Gagged DEER.

There may be lesson in the following
narrative, given by lady few days ago, OF
value to some of our readers:
II was at one of New York's summer re-
sorts last year on its closing day for the
season. The workmen were engaged III
caging quite number Of animals that had
furnished Interest and amusement to the
children and grown people who had ire
auented the grounds during the summer.
Among these animals was a most graceful
and beautiful little creature-a deer..that
had been captured in its native woods Of
Virginia. The wooden box into which it
was to be put was placed near the door OF lts
cage, and The door partly opened: Ope of
the wolkpsn slipped a Io2s ai2pd t9s
the rope to draw the animal into
its box. The deer, feeling the rope
around its neck, ran frantically about
its cage, dashed itself against the bars,
threw itself down in mad attempts to rid
itself of the rope, and endangered life and
limb in trying to free itself from its captors::
After time it got into such position tnas
with little effort it was drawn and forced
into the box unharmed. The poor little
thing did not know that its captors were its
very best friends. Left in its cage it would
have perished miserably of cold during tina.
coming fall and winter. In its padded box
it was lifted gently into cart and borne to
the dock where q steamer waited to trans
port it with its companions in captivity to
warm structure, where it would be care.
fully taken care of during the winter, and
in the summer it would again be brought
back to its cage at the summer resort.
LAS l watched the agonized captive strug-
Cling to free itself from its rope, and re-
sistiTlg all attempts to remove it from the
cage, 1 thought when the rope Of circdm-
stance-of Providence is thrown around my
neck and am irresistibly drawn and tore q
into narrower and unwelcome places, l will
not beat my head against the bars that close
me round I will not strangle myself with
the rope about my neck; will not resist
the compelling forces that woald make me
60 where I do not choose to. will cheer
fully, obediently bow to the Divine WILL,
trusting that He who loved me and gave
Himself for me does even what seems hard
and cruel and intolerable for my good;
Were 1 to stay where chose to stay
might perish miserably. Following HIS
guidance l shall be borne gently to that
place He has prepared for me. I will not
fear the narrow box in which I must some.
time lie still and cold, for over the waters OF
death He will bear my soul to paradise"
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MONEY SPENT FOR INToXIcANTs.

The actual amount of malt liquors con.
sumed in 1883 was 767, ,5s7, ,056 gallons. This
includes not quite 3,OO0,0O gallons of i'm
ported beer and ole. The manufacturers
price to the retailer is above rather than be-
low twenty cents per gallon. At twenty
cents the cost to the dealer would be $751;
517,411. The retailers get an average of
sixty cents per gallon, which makes the cost
to the consumers s460, 522, 233, which the
American people spend annually for malt
liquor, principally beer. The most careful
estimate puts the cost of wine to the con.
sumer at S72, GO, 1876, and of distilled spirits
S379, 226, $50. This gives us grand total of
1912, 449, 129, nearly one billion dollars spent
annually for liquor by the people Of the
United States. How few people realize tue
enormous expense the use Of liquor entails
on the people. Aside from the tax imposed
by the General Government, the local tax on
the trade is not five per cent of the cost. The
cost to Ohio is about $50, 0OO, 900 per annum;
the local tax is g. 25O, 700, which is but tride
over four per cent-SandusEy (Ohto) Reg
lister.
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AN OBSTINATE OLD MAN.

An old man lived all alone all alone,
And jolly old man was he,
He was ruddy and fat and sleek as rat,
And his arm was good thing to see,
His chest was round, his liver was sound,
And his voice had chord Of giee
Az be sang to himself while he counted his
pelf
"Oh, no?
I'm hearty and hale old man.
All, ha.
Such sturdy and we'll old man"
Not chick nor child had he in the world,
Though his Golfers were full of gold;
He had money in chest, in trousers, in vest
From his pockets the big dollars rolled;
He owned miles of land and palaces grand,
And in bank had thousands untold.
So he sang all the while, with confident
smile:
"Oh, ho.
I'm likely and peart old man,
All, ha!
Such a merry AMI brisk old man"
His brothers waited and longed in vain,
And for years weeu a score
They would meet each day and pleasantly
say:
"rhe old man is right at Deaths door"
Then the first one slept and he never wept,
But he laughed and sang the more,
And he gayly cried when the last one died:
'Oh, ho!
I'm healthy and long-lived man,
All, ha!
Such vigorous sound old man"
Each night his nephews and nieces dreamt
Of how rich they were going to grow,
And they loved to hint 1--WE will never stint
When our ship comes in, you know"
But grieve to tell, he kept hale and we'll
While the years went dragging slow,
And he cackled loud DER the last ones
shroui:
s'Oh, ho
I'm hardy and stout old man,
All, ha!
Such lusty and tough old man"
And he's living yet all alone by himself,
This man am singing about,
Oh, his eye is bright, and his step is light,
And his voice is CHEEKY and stout:
His cheeks are red and he holds up his head
In way that puts death torout,
So can't see why he should ever die
Oh, dear!
Such healthy and we'll old man,
All, me,
Such an obstinate, tough old mani
George Horton, IN Chicago Herald.
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AT Bruenn, Austria, burglars nave
rircumvented the use of iron shutters
for store windows by cutting a hole in
the glass through the little round hole
left in the shutter for ventilation, and
then fishing for the valuables inside
with q hook and line.
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so suddenly. Least of all, darling, so
swee. treasure as you"
And neither of the two suspected what
poisoned dagger was that day ranking
in the breast of Mrs. Rosamond Blythe.
Saturday Night.
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PERHAPS the most powerful electric
light in the world is in use in the
Houstholm lighthouse on the coast of
Jutland. It is of 100000 candle
power, and is visible at distance d
forty milas- 49,
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A Christian may enjoy calm and inward
peace, while he sustains the storms Of out
ward trouble. If he ENJOYS the former he
may expect the latter; if he suffer the latter
he may expect the former. There IS no
spring without its fall; no summer without
its winter Seeker.
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A SAMOAN PROCLAMATION.

The King Of Samoa is prohibitionist, as
witness the following proclamation: NC
spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors or in'
toxicating drinks whatever shall be sold,
given or offered to or bought or bartered by
any native Samoan or Pacific Islander resi-
dent in Samoa to he taken as beverage
1oaton of this so proVson io I shall be- punhed %
by fine not exceeding 500, or by imprison'
ment not exceeding six months or by botl
fine and Imprisonment, aud the liquor moi
vet consumed shall be confiscated.n
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| ldueu OuG Ol LuC lanu. Inc OdTaIOSd
hotels were closed; gay Newport was de-
serted.
And Mrs. Blythe, sitting in the yellow
light of her jonquil silk curtains, was
smiling over a card which Matilda had
just brought in.
"Dear Algy!" she murmured. ''I
knew he would comet
She glided into the white and gold
drawing-room, all gracious cordiality.
"You recrcant cavalier!" she smiled.
''I've half a mind to scold you, and
yet"
"Do I deserve that title2" Mr.. Vane
asked. "For you are the first person to
whom have told the great happiness of
my life. Oh, I see you don't understand
mel Come out from behind the draper
les, Lydia, and help me to explain"
And Lydia, blue eyed and fair-tressed,
came.
s'We are married, mamma" said
Lydia, "Algy and 1. And we sail for
Europe in the Comandra, at noon.
Won't you kiss Inc, mamma, and wish
me joy2" .
Mrs. Blythe kissed Lydia-aud Algy,
too-and wished them joy.
But it was the scvercst ordeal to which
she ever had been put. A mother-in-law
instead OF bride! This was hardly what
she had looked forward to.
But even in that trying moment she
noticed the glittering pin which fastened
Lydia's lace bonnet-strings--a quaint de-
vice of tiny diamonds--and remembered
what the girl had once said about for
tunc-tellcr and horseshoe.
"Mamma didn't look quite pleased,
Algy," said the bride, when they were
back in the carriage, driving to the
steamers wharf. ''Do you suppose she
is vexed because we didn't take her into
our confdence2"
81 dare say remarked Mr.. Vane,
"that no mother likes to lose her child
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-26
ARKANSAS WANTS PEOPLE.
Less than One-Six of All the Lands in the
State Under Cultivation.

Less than One-sixth Of All the Lands in the
State Under Cultivation.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.-Mr. II. L.
Renoniel of Newport, Arkansas, ex-sec-
rotary Of immigration for that state, is
here. He says that Arkansas Is the first
state in the Union in the combined pro-
ductiou of hard woods and pine. In her
magnificent supply of timber she has
source of enormous wealth. The value
of yellow pine exported from the state
this year will equal S2S, 600, 900. She is
also third in the production of man
ganese. Less than one-sixth of her
80, 900, 900 acres OF land is under cultiva-
ton
Said Mr.. Renoniel: ''We are growing
fast, have the finest crops ever seen, and
If 1--WE could ouly elect Republican
state ticket the benefits that would follow
cannot be estimated. am straight
out Republican, and am as free to ex-
press my sentiments q d vote nv ticket
in Arkansas rs 1 would be in Massachu-
setts.p
The statement that the salvation of
Arkansas lies within the power of the
Republican party may well be doubted,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-26
Fresh car of Nudavene Flakes just re-
ceived. Ask your grocer for them.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVIUEs.

MILFORD Woodruff, president of the
Mormon church, has issued q manifesto
denying that polygamy is still taught by
the church.
Order has been restored at Goa. India.
The ring leaders IN the election riot have
fled.
Ben French, leader of the French fac
ton in the French Ebersole feud at
Hazard, Perry county, KY. has been
released on $40 200 bond, on the ground
that continuance in jail would endanger
his life.
Odessa, Ont. was visited by disas-
trous confiagration Wednesday night.
The Democrats of the Seventh South
Carolina district have renominated Will
liam Elliott who was expelled from his
seat in the house to make room for
Thomas E. Miller. The nomination was
by acclamation.
The suit brought by Baron Won Soudier
against the Vienna Vaderland for accus-
ing him of having accepted brides, ended
yesterday IN the conviction of the editor
of that paper who was sentenced to eight
months Imprisonment at hard labor
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-26

In the goods of Mary Elizabeth White, formerly
of Dublin and late OF the city of Fort Worth,
Texas. United States Of America, widow, de-
ceased:
Take notice that, pursuant to the 22d and 23d
Victoria, cap. 35, all persons claiming to be
creditors or otherwise to have any claim or de-
mand against the assets of the said Mary Eliza
beth White. deceased, who died or the 23d day
of May, 1886, are hereby required. on or before
the 18th day of October, 1880, to furnish lin
writing) the particulars Of such claims or de-
mands to the undersigned solicitor for Jane
Charlotte Whitfield, the admins ratrix, to
whom letters of administration Of the personal
estate and effects Of said deceased were granted
the 10th day OF July, 1890, forth of the princi
pal registry OF the probate and matrimonial
division of the high court of Justice in Ireland
And notice is hereby given that after the said
18th day of October, 1880. the said administra-
trix will proceed to distribute the assets of the
said deceased, having regard only TO the claims
of which notice and particulars shall have been
given as above required
Dated this 18th day of July. 1890.
ROBERT q. BEAUcHAMP,
Solicitor for the said Administrators, Foster
Place, Dublin. ireland.
K. L. CARLoCR,
Local Attorney, Fort Worth, Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-26
STATE GRANGE FAIR.
Many Attractive Features Promissd-A Great
Crowd from All Over the State Expected.
McGREGoR Tex. Sept. %. 1890.

Many Attractive Features Promissd-A Great
Crowd from All Over the State Expected.
McGREGoR, TEX, Sept. %. 1890.
To the Gazette.
In the interest of the Texas State
Grange Fair (Which opens at McGregor
October 7, next and for the information
of your many readers l wish to state that
l spent the night with the Superinten-
dent ] C. Isbell. l found him in a very
pleasant mood at the fiue prospects for
large attendance. He has twenty five
hands at work on the main building,
which is 100 feet square, and will be sew
enty-two feet high when completed.
There will be many attractive features
during the week. On Wednesday there
Is to be awarded a valuable premium
given by young lady to the best looking
drummer. This will give the people an
opportunity to witness what a fine look
ing set of men the business men of the
state have to extend their business.
There is an abundance of living water
near by, and also on the grounds four
cisterns will be kept filled by pumps.
While this is the Grange fair it is one for
all per sons, having stock holders in every
section of the state. 1t Is what its title
indicates, a state fair. All manufactures
of farm implements and machinery and
good stock for all purposes and all goods.
wares and merchandise should have eX-
hibts at the fair. People will be here.
from every section of the state looking
out for what they need. A. J ROSE,
President.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-26
4 Rsprsere for enc CONDEMNED.

Wretched men and women long condemned to
suffer the fortunes of dyspepsia, are filled with
new hope after few doses of Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters. This budding hope blossoms into
the fruition OF certainty. if the Bittrrs is per-
sisted in 1t brings a reprieve to all dyspeptics
who seek its aid. Flatulence. heartburn. sink
ing al the pit of the stomach between meals, the
nervous trem ors and insomnia of which chronic
indigestion is the parent, disappear with their
hateful progenitor- Most bene6cient of stom-
achicsi who can wonder that in so many in
stances ii awakens grateful eloquenee in those
who. benefited by it, speak voluntarily in its
the torments Of dyspepsia. but in many Of the
testimonials received by the proprietors of the
Bitters, these are portrayed with vivid truthful
bility, malsrial fevers and rheumatism re-
Heved by it,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-26
MISSOURI.


Carrcik Blythe had IS acres in corn and IS in
whoa in the eastern half OF the county. He
threshed 264 bushels of wheat. which cost him
over COO 4 bushel, the market price. His corn
cost him IS. &c bushel by close calculation. and
is worth 3Oc. He fed several steers. which
cost about Sl0 and sold at SIG to SIS.
c. B. Smith received Csc bushel for what
wheat he could spare and made 25c bushel
st. Corn cost Csc, and could be sold at 3Oc. On
such stock as he sold he .Lade 81 head, but
made little money. Land worth S25 an acre.