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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
The Uniform Text Law.
Editor OF the Gazette.

| Editor Of the Gazette.
| | have noticed several articles in different
! newspapers on the uniform text book bill.
| ! have just carefully read the bill.
| think 1t very conservative and proper bill
| 1t limits the uniformity to spoilers, readers
| arithmetics, grammars, histories and
| physiologies. 1t gives the state board lati
| tude enough perhaps. Much will depend or
| the action of that board. No doubt they
| win do their whole duty to the people
1t is just about what is needed in most OF
| the country schools and in villages. II need
| not work any special hardship, if the board
| arrangeS for liberal exchange rate. ! dc
| not see how this board, with its chances OF
knowing. can 90 amisS.
II viii work a temporary hardship on all
schools that have well selected and well
defined course of text books. But those
cities and towns which have taken charge
OF their own schools are given year to get
ready.
ANY series of readers, spoilers or arith-
metics, revised, or published in the last
dozen years, that have seen, will satisfy
me and ought to satisfy all concerned. I
predict there viii be wrangling over the
grammars. And yet I think the board is
likely to adopt suitable book. A gram
mar suited to the large, strictly graded
eight and ten month schools may not work
so well IN the three and four month schools.
Any good work on physiology is likely to
give satisfaction;
We're on the board would object to any
OLD geography or history merely revised.
want i geography or United States history
based on tine census of 1890, and not written
exclusively for New England. My expe-
Renee IS That the errors OF a first edition of
any work incline to creep into the revised
edltlons, nave been using text book on
history founded on the census OF 1870.
Some copies OF our geography men
ton Galveston, Houston, San An
tonic and Austin, but do not
mention Dallas, Fort Worth or I'll PaSo.
do not thinklt IS at all likely that the
board VIII make the condition OF the coun-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
A Bishop Who Skates.

Bishop Ellicott, although ~ years of age.
is a great lover of skating. Many years
ago his lordship, in the course of a severe
winter, was staying for some days at a
house several miles from the church where
he was to preach. The roads were in such
a state one morning that it was difficult to
ride or drive. Fortunately the bishop had
brought his skates as well as his sermon,
and very soon he was making good progress
over the ice of neighboring canal. His
lordship reached the church among the
first of the worshipers, preached Al excel
lent sermon and afterwara skated back TO
an excellent dinner.-London Tit-Bits.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
Wanted 1t Over as Soon as Possible.

Miss Laura (yho has been listening to
the conversation of her learned caller for
about two hours)-Yes, the English Ian
guage is indeed a wonderful thing. By
the way, professor, how many words are
there in it?
The Professor - About 100000, Miss
Laura.
of them are in common use?"
Perhaps 10000"
And how many are technical or scien-
tifici''
Estimates differ, Miss Laura. should
say there may be 100000 Surprising, is IL
not.''
with a glance at the clock sit seems
almost appalling. But go on, professor"
Chicago Tribune.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
been in so much sin and trouble will ever
YES, IT MAY BET WILL BE-

been in so much sin and trouble will ever
come to those cTyStals2"
YES, IT MAY Bet WILL BE.
Heaven we must have, whatever else we
have or have not, and we come here 10 get
II. How much must l pay for it'' you
say. You will pay for it Just as much as
the coal pays 10 become the diamond. In
other words. nothing. The same Almighty
power that makes the crystal in the mount
ain will change your heart which is harder
than stone, for the promise is i will take
away your stony heart and will give you
heart of flesh"
oh" says someone, ''it is Just the doc
trine l want; God is to do everything and
l am to do nothing" Ny brother, it is
not the doctrine YOU want. The coal
makes no resistance. It hears the resur-
rection voice in the mountain. and it comes
TO crystallization, but your heart resists.
The trouble with you, my brother, is the
coal wants to stay coal. | do not ask you
to throw open the door and let Christ in.
| only ask that You stop boiling it and
barring il. O, my friends, we will have
TO get rid of our sins. will have to get
r!d OF my sins, and you will have to get
rid of Your sins. What will we do with
our sins among the three crystals The
crystal atmosphere would display our pol
luton. The crystal river would be be-
fouled with our touch. The crystal sea
would whelm US with its glistening surge.
Transformation now or no transformation
at all.
GIVE SIN FULL CHANCE
in Your heart and the transformation will
be downward instead OF upward. Instead
OF crystal it will be cinder In the days
of Carthage a Christian girl was con-
demned TO die for her faith. and i boat was
bedaubed with tar and pitch and filed with
cOmbustibleS and set on fire and the Christ
ian girl was placed in the boat and the
wind was off shore and the boat fiOatcd
away with its precious treasure. No one
can doubt that boat landed at the share of
heaven. Sin wants TO put you in a fiery
boat and shove You off i'll an opposite direc-
tlon-off from peace, off from God, off from
heaven, everlaStingly of; and the port
toward which you would sail would be Il
port of darkness, and the guns that would
greet you would be the guns OF despair, and
the flags that would wave at your arrival
would be the black flags of death. o, my
brother, you must either kill sin or sin will
kill you. 1t is no wild exaggeration when
say that any man or woman who wants TO
be saved may be saved. Tremendous
choice. a thousand people are choosing
this moment between salvation ana de
struction, between light and darkness, be-
tween heaven and hell, between chalred
ruin and glorious disqualification.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

THE BEST SAIvE in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Corns. and all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t is guaran-
teed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re-
funded Price % cents per box. For sale by
Browning & Nicks.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

al from Parker l. Failing or insolvent
debtors have the right TO prefer creditors
> The instrument was I transfer or bill of
sale of the goods and the parties went into
possession. There was no fraud shown in
the transaction. Affirmed. Per CUrian.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

George A. Eddy ct NJ vs.. City Bank of
Sherman; from GraySou. Motion 70 affirm
on certificate. l. The motion TO affirm IS in
due form and will be granted. Affirmed on
certificate. Per curtain.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the postoftcc At Fort Worth.
Tex, Monday. April 20 1872 To obtain any o.
these letters the applicant must call for 'ad-
vertlsed letters and give the GATE the lis.
Also. all letters advertised shall ue Char-Ca
with cent in add ltlcD To- TIE regular Postage,
10 be accounted Tor aS part Of Tie postal g-.-
enue. as per section 80, page S4s, United States
postal laws
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
LUMBER AND SALT MEN.
The Right Men with Capital Are Offered
Inducements Worth Considering by
Mineola's People.

MrNEoLA, TEX, April l9.-Our city needs
lumber and salt men, men who are well
supplied with capital, to build extensive
lumber and salt mills here. We are within
a few miles of vast forests of the very finest
kind of pine. and if mills were erected
here salt could also be manufactured by the
same power and wit9A very moderate ex
pense, as pc slabssetc., from the saw mills
would saw 81 gN16expense in fuel. There
is salt in gfAf abundance under our city
and within sbnes throw of our corporate
limits. are acres Of ground within
quarter q Ne of the corporate limits of
our cts stFHgly inpregnated with salt
that lining grow on it, and some OF
our zens havS taken the surface out
crop 4gs and ma4e salt of il. This would
make a fine distributing point for the out
put of both mills, as we have unexcelled
shipping facilities north, south, east and
west. and events have recently TRANSFERRED
which almost assures US OF another railway
and possibly two, which would give US six
outlets.
These mills can be located sufficiently
near TO the railways to ship directly from
the mills, and there would be no doubt
about there being ready market for every
thing the two mills could manufacture.
Our people Will donate the lands for fac
tory purposes and aid the enterprise IL
various other subStantialsways.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

in the simple fact thar spiritual accuracy IS
more beautiful than material accuracy
Cod attributes are exact Gods law cX-
act. Gods DEGREES exact. Gods manage
mcut OF the world exact. Never counting
wrong. though he counts the grass blades
and he stars and the sands and the cycles.
His providenccS never dealing with US per-
pendicUarly when those proyidences ought
10 be oblique, nor lateral when they ought
10 be vertical. Everything in our life AZ
ranged without any possibility Of mistake.
Each life is a siX-sided prism. Born at the
right time; dying al the right time. There
are no 'happen-so'S" in our theology If
thought this WAS u slipshod universe l
would 20 crazy. God is not an anarchist.
Law. order. symmetry, precision, a perfect
square. perfect rectangle, perfect rhom
bold 4 perfect circle. The edge of Gods
robe of government never trays out.
There are no loose screws in the worlds
machinery II did not just happen that
Napoleon was attacked with Indigestion 1T
sBorodiuO so that he became incompetent for
the day II did not just happen that John
Thomas. the missionary. on a heather
island. waiting for an outfit and orders for
another missionary tour, received that out
TT and those orders in 4 box that tloated
ashore, while the snip and the crew that
carried the box
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

s. cent discount on all shoes At
y eAIonday.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
WERE NEVER HEARD OF


The barking of f. W. Robertson's dog, he
tells us. led to a line of events which
brought MIN from the army into the Chris
tan ministry, where he served God with
world-renowned usefulness. 1t did not
merely happen so. l believe in particular
providence. ! believe Gods geometry may
be seen in all our life more beautifully than
il autobiography. Job was right. The
crystal cannot equal il"
Again ! remark that religion Is superior
to the crystal in transparency. We know
not when or by whom glass was first dis
covered Beads OF it have been found in
the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases OF it
are brought up from the ruins of Hercula-
ncum There were female adornments
made out Of il 5000 years ago-those adorn-
merts found now attached TO the nummies
of Egypt. y great many commentators be
lieye that my text means glass. What
would we DO without the crystaI2 The
crystal in the window to keep out the storm
and let in the day-the crystal over the
watch defending its delicate machinery,
vet allowing us to see the hour-the crystal
of the telescope by which the astronomer
brings distant worlds SO near he can in
spect them, Oh, the triumphhsof the crys-
tails in the celebrated windows of Rouen
and Salisbury, But there IS nothing so
transparent in Il crystal rs
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
N OUR HOLY RELIGION


Il IS a Transparent religion. You put it
to your eye and you see man-hiS sin, his
soul. his destiny You look at God and YOU
see something of the grandeur of his char
acter 1t Is a transparent religion. Inti-
delS tell Us Il Is Opaque. DO you know why
they tell Us il IS Opaque? 1t is because they
are blind. The natural man receiveth not
the things of God because they are spiritu-
ally discerned. There is no trouble with
the crystal: the trouble is with the eyes
which try 10 look through il. We pray for
vision Lord. that our eyes might be opened.
When the eye-salve cures our blindness
then we find that religion is transparent
II is transparent Bible. All the noun
tains Of the Bible comes out: Sinai, the
mountain of the law; Pisgah, the mountain
of prospect Olivet, the mountain Of in
structiOn: Calvary, the mountain of Sacri-
flee All the rivers of the Bible come
out: Hideiiel. or the river of paradiSaical
beauty: Jordan. or the river of holy chriSm;
Cherith, or the river of prophetic supply;
Nile, or the river of palaces: and the pure
river of life from under the throne, clear as
crystal While reading this bible after our
eyes have been touched by grace, we find il
all transparent, and the earth rocks, now
with crucitiXion agony and now with judg
ment terror. and Christ appears in some of
his 256 titles, as far as | can count them
the bread. the rock, the captain, the COM
and beyond any capacity of mine to re-
hearse them.
TRANSPARENT RELIGION
The providence that seemed dark before
becoming pellucid. Now you find God is not
trying to put you down. Now you under
stand why you lost that child and why you
lost your property; it was to prepare you
for eternal treasures. And why sickness
came; it being the precursor of immortal
juyenescence. And now you understand
why they lied about you and tried to drive
you hither and thither. Ii was to put you
III the glorious company of such men as
Ignatius, who, when he went out to be de-
stroyed by the lions, said: II am the wheat
and the teeth of the wild beasts must first
grind me before can become pure bread
.tag. Jesus Christi or the company of such
zhish as Polycarp, who, when standing in
the midst of the amphitheater waiting for
the lions to come out of their cave and de-
stroy him, and the people in the galleries
jeeriRg and shouting, 1.-THE lions for Poly
carp,'' replied: Let them come on,' and
then STOPPING down toward the cave
where the wild beasts were roaring
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
LIE CNYsTAL CANNOT EQrAL Ia. 2

Now. II IS not i part OF my Scrmonlc
design 10 depreciatc the crystal, whether
it be found in Cornish mine or Hartz
mountain or Mammoth cave or tinkling
among the pendants Of The chandeliers Of
Z palace The crystal : the star of the
mountain; ii IS the queen of the cave; it
is the eardrop CT the hills; ii finds its
heaven III the diamond Among all the
pages Of natural history there is no page
more interesting 70 me than the page
clystallographc But | want 10 show
You that Job was right when
taking religion in one hand and the crystal
in the other he declared that the former is
OF far more value and beauty than the lat
ter. recommending il to all the people and
to all the ages, declaring: The crystal
cannot equal it, IN the first place | re-
mark that religion is superior to the crystal
in eIartuess. The shapeless mass Of crystal
against which You accidentally dashed
your foot is laid out with more exact
ness than any earthly city. There are six
styles of crystaization and all Of them di-
whey ordained. Every crystal has mathe
NAUTICAL precision. Gods geometry reaches
through L. and it IS square or it IS i rec
tang!c or ii Is Il rhomboid or in some way il
hath a mathematical figure.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

;, page S4s, United States
es' List.
Kline. Miss Emma L
Moore, Mrs Mary
MOrtS, Mrs " =
2 Mabry. Mrs : "
NaysUu. I-~~ Lew
Marshall. Miss u 3
Mltnev. Miss Nora
MAIDEN. Miss Matte
Morgan, Miss Wray
Moore, Paurrla
McClelland. Mrs ! d
McCabs. Mrs Su.iir
Norris. Mrs Allie K
O Brian. Mrs John
Perkins. Mrs lren3
Patterson. VI IS Annie
Pool. Miss Susan
Prickett. Miss Mary
Reed. Mrs Mary
Randls. Mrs 7 c
Roberts. Mrs G. r
Robert. Miss Mary =
Robson, Miss Mary
Rice. Mis- Celia
kichSun. Miss Fannie
Rcighney, Miss { \
RI!iey, Miss Sary
ScHirU- Nlr- IL
SuiOcr. Mrs Matte
Suidrr. Mrs Harriet
Snyder. Mrs " +
T.Wplrton. Mrs Y w
lHyur. Miss PSrthinA
NalSc. Madame
Warren, Mrs Pat
Warner, Mrs Annie
Wheeler, Mrs Is y
WuUG>un. Mrs Martha
Williams. Mss
Woods, Miss Annie L
WEltmure, Miss Lizzie
Walstou, Miss AniSe
Wright, Z Lizzie j
ZOUh, AIr~ Hattie
mis-
lNi4dh. y y
LANCE Dan II
L-allGh1nler, Ealc
Lawrence. } W
Lee u VI -
Leach Johnnie
L!cht"Estsia, =
Lott. KN
Long. j L
l.Ettic. George W
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AIath, NJ \
NJ N@theAA W 1T
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Maddox. Eyde
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20
JOBS COMPARISON.
Rev. DR.. TaImage's Sunday
Evening Sermon.
"CRYSTAl CANNOT EQUAL IT,"
job's Exclamation Upon Comparing Religion
and Crystal His Text.
He Takes Occasion to Remark That the
Number of Pockets You Picked or
Chickens Stole Makes Poor
Prayer Meeting Rhetoric.
"CRYSTAL CANNOT EQUAL IT,"
A BRILLIANT RELIGION.

Special to the Gazette.
New York, April 19-The eagerness to
hear DR.. TalmageS sermons at the Christ
ian Herald services on Sunday evenings in
this city continues undated. As usual
there was this evening dense mass of peo-
pie waiting outside the Academy of Music
long before the hour for commencement,
and every seat in the huge building was oc
cupied IN few minutes after the doors
were opened. DR.. Talmage had preached
70 an immense audience in the morning in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His
text was: The crystal cannot equal il, ="
Job xviii, :.
Many of the precious stones of the Bible
.lave come to prompt recognition. But for
The present l take up the less valuable crys-
tai. job. in my text, compares saving wis
dom with i specimen of topaz. An intidel
chemist or mineralOgist would pronounce
the latter worth more than the former but
JOB makes an intelligent comparison, looks
at religion and then looks at the crystal and
prOnOuuces the former rs Of far superior
value to the latter, eXclaiming in the words
OF NV text.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

Coleman s. Lysaght VS. Nettie Henry ct
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

Jim Norris vs. the1State; from Haskell.
Theft of cattle. l. The charge was suffi-
Gent and there was no error in refusing de-
PENDANTS requested instructions. 2. The
evidence complained of was clearly admis-
sible. The court did not err in refusing to
require the state to elect upon which count
it would seek or ask conviction. Affirmed.
Per curiam.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

L. Holmes vs.. the State; from Grayson.
l. 1t being shown TO the court that appel
liant has settled and paid of the fine ana
costs herein adjudged against him, on his
motion the appeal will be dismissed. 50
ordered. Per curiam.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-06-10
STMR. CLAUDINE.
DAVIES. Commander.

Will leave Honolulu every Tuesday
ut D o'clock p. NJ, touching at Kahu-
lui, Huelo, Hama, Hamoa and Kipa-
hulu. Returning will arrive at Homo
lulu every Sunday morning.
H No Freight will be received
after p. NJ. on day OF sailing.
Consignees must be at the landings
to receive their freight, as we will not
hold ourselves responsible after such
freight has been landed. While the
Company will use due diligence in
handling live stock, we decline to as
sumo any responsibility in case Of the
loss of same, and will not be responsible
for money or jewelry unless placed in
the care of Pursers.
w. G. WILDER, President.
S. B. ROSE, Secretary.
CAPT. J. A. KING, Port Supt
l-9l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
A FEASIBLE REFORM.

The Presidential order directing that
promotions in the civil service shall be
governed by daily ratings of the efficiency
and faithfulness of clerks will be, if faith
fully carried out, step in the application
of civil service reform principles even more
important than the establishment of COM
petitive examinations for initial appoint
mentS
This method of governing promotion by
the record of ascertained fitness in actual
service is what has been urged by THE
DISPATCH for some time. In the selection
of men to be appointed to vacant clerk
ships competitive examination affords the
best method so far devised of determin-
ing their intellectual qualifications. But
after clerk has entered the Government
service the correct and impartial record of
the way he does his work, his application,
industry and ability, afford the clearest
evidence of his fitness for promotion.
1t is, moreover, clear that such a sys-
TEN, kept up in good faith, will exercise
far greater influence on the civil service
than the filling of vacancies by the meth
DDS heretofore adopted. The appointment
VI ulcu W uuS lOWOSt SiduCo - uOU 81 I'LL
portant as the knowledge that promotion
will depend ON application and zeal Even
if mistakes should occur in the earlier ap-
pointments, the fact that each clerk
knows that every case of absence, neglect
or inattention will damage his chances for
promotion, and each days work faithfully
and intelligently rendered will improve
them, will be the greatest incentive for
activity and efficiency in the public serv-
ice. Together the competitive examina-
ton for early promotions and promotion
by the records of efficiency and fidelity
afford the means of removing the public
service entirely from the curse and degra-
dation of political favoritism.
The question is whether the desire for
reform is strong enough to overcome this
pressure for political patronage. Unless
an administration is deadly in earnest the
ease with which the ratings can be made
to conform to the influence of the clerk
rather than his efficiency will make the re-
form little, if any, better, than the system
of awarding Office as political prizes But
if there is disposition to make an ex-
ample of every official who perverts the
records to suit the purposes of favoritism,
there is no reason why the civil service of
the Government should not be permanent
ly and satisfactorily removed from pol
ificS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
THE BOND ELECTION.

Popular interest in the bond question
was not great enough to bring out more
than light vote yesterday. But the BOND
proposition was ratified by considerable
majority. 1t is to beregretted that the in
terest in matter affecting taxation Was
not active enough to secure full vote. A
manifestation that the people are closely
watching the conduct of municipal
finances is the hest possible guarantee that
their management will be careful and
honest. But while voters were so scarce
that sundrv election boards are reported
TO have whiled away the leaden-footed
hours with games of enchre and seyen-up,
the decision arrived at was the wisest one
THE DISPATCH has repeatedly held that,
if the majority of the people preferred to
have whatever the city has TO pay on
street contracts in single year raised by
The tax levy for that year, that is the right
policv to adopt. But it was too evident
that such policy would impose heavy
burden of taxation on the mass of tax
payers: and the other policy is shown to
be preferred by the vote.
The approval of the bond issue makes
the course of the city clear 1t can meet
the payments to contractors as they be-
come due. and in the meantime proceed to
test the constitutionality of the curative
act. If there is any danger of issuing
bonds not needed, or paving for contracts
where work is not properly done, as has
heen alleged, the courts are open to any
citizen to stop such betrayals of public
4rirc