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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-26
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Dallas News: To recte ones sermon
before the mirror is one way to practice
what one breaches.
Chicago Tribune: 1T turns out that
DIR. Ialmage went to Washington to en-
gage in the business of saving souls on
commission. 1t is not surprising. there
fore, to learn that he is now trying to
get a salary.
Chicago Post Rev. Sam Jones is
preaching on How to Get There and
How to Stay There" Mr.. Jones preach
ing does not much resemble the speci.
mems of oratory that have come down
to lis from st. Paul, but Mr.. Jones has
had advantages and opportunities that
We're not open 10 ST. Paul
Brooklyn Eagle: There are Just few
cllergymen who have not awakened 10
tho fact that this is the nineteenth cen
ury and that it is healthy and growing
practice to use plain United States Ian.
guage to express ideas. These worthy
pastors have fallen into the habit Of
using shibholeth that sounds well IN
their own ears and of continuing forms
OF English that became obsolete centuries
ago, Symholry is poetic and beautiful
when 1t is fitting and obvious, but when
Il is strained and artificial it is renel.
liant.
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BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

An enemy treated as a friend will soon
become friend. ct,
has 10 fight for all he gets.
The value of the diamond is not in
what II does, hut in what 1t is.
1t is not the clock that strikes the
loudest which keeps the best time.
II piling up dollars is ell that man
lives for, his soul shrnks with every
dollar he makes.
Going two miles with the man who
compels us to go with him one viii make
him very tired.
Umbrellas should be made in dry
wea ther. and corn should be ground be-
fore the children begin TO cry with hun
ger.
The preacher who puts thought in his
sermons will, sooner or later, find himself
preaching to people who think.
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II we have plenty Of bread and meat
clothes and shelter, what Is the use in
falling out and flghting7 Better had
we be like Saint Paul when he said: Il
have learned in whatsoever state am
Herewith 20 be content" Discomfort
Is the ruin Of a man or nation. A dis
cortented spirit brings on war and de-
vastation. Imaginary insults, and then
injured innocence, and then comes the
declaration that we will die for our
honor. A man or nation don't get
honor by dying for it, and they can't
keep it by dying for it. Honor comes
to him and them of whom it may be
said: "Well done, thou good and faith
full servant. Thou hast been faithful
over few things. l will make thee
ruler over many things"
Somehow OF other my patriotism, II
l have any, is the patriotism that stands
up for and champions the rights OF
women and children and of the home.
MY patriotism has all it can do in
denouncing the evils that blight home
and crush the lives of women and
children. The saloons, the gambling
bells, the bawdy houses. the race
tracks. the dishonest deeds and bad
examples of men furnish targets for
all of my guns, and amid the wants
and needs of women and children
find the task of ministering to them
greater than can perform.
Let's not fight England. Let's fight
the devil and wickedness, and gambling
hells and shamely houses and every
thing that ever wrung a tear from a
mothers eye or broke good wife's
heart. SAM T. JONES.
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SEED THOUGHTS.

No man ever became extremely wicked
at once.--Juvenal.
The young Christian uncared for, like
the town clock not looked alter. is apt
to so wrong.-The Christian Work.
That which is often asked of God is
not so much His will and way as His
approval of our ways. f. Smiley.
Today is like ferry boat and carries
us across the stream of time, from the
shore of yesterday to the shore of to-
morrow.-Carlos Martyr.
Life is not MS idle ore
But iron dug from central gloom.
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipped in baths of kissing tears,
And bathed with the shocks of doom,
10 shape and use.
Tennyson.
In the hour of adversely be hot with
out hope, for crystal rain falls from
black clouds.-Nezzoumee
A man may lose the good things of this
life against his will, but If he loses eter-
nal blessings, he does so with his own
consent.-Augustine.
When a man measures the Bible by
himself the book is sure to be wrong. but
when he measures himself by the Bible
he is sure to be wrong.-Anon.
None are known to be good till they
have had opportunity to be bad.-Mi-
chote's Aphorisms.
IT'S said that one pound of gold may
be hammered and drawn out into wire
that would reach round the globe. One
promise of God is piece of gold, and
the Christian is the gold beater. and
he can draw that promise out so that it
will be felt through all time and grh the
last hours of a long life.-Ferrer Mar
tyn.
God grants no overplus of power; It's
shed like morning mama. Yet we dare
10 bow and ask: Give us today cur NOR
rows bread. Anon.
1t is not necessary for all men to be
great in action The greatest ard sub
finest power is often simple patience
Horace Bushnell.
Why comes temptation but fer man to
meet and master, and make crouch be-
meath his feet?-Robert Browning.
The influences that go ito us in 10y
hood fashion the experiences that Te 90
into in manhood.-Carlos Ma,iyn.
would give nothing for that mans
religion whose very dog and eat are not
the better for it.-Rowland Hin.
Society rests upon conscience, not upon
science. Civilization is first and fore
most a moral thing.-,Amiers Journal.
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sEBAsToPoL WAS NOT 1Mpprc
MARBLE

TOT u was taken by assault, but phy-
siaue nuilt up constitution fortified by
iios'e''ers stomach Bittcrs, may bid de-
hance to the assaults of malarlous dis
ease even In localities where It is most
prevalent and malignant. Emigrants 10
the ague-breeding sections OF the West
should bear this In mind, and start with
supply. The Bitters promptly subdues
dyspepsia, rheumatic and kidney com.
plants nervousness, constipation and
biliousness.
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tHuIa ID fucreaclhG at Inc fdte OF ZV,UOU
year.
Archbishop Corrigan Of New York Is
said TO hold more than $50, 600. 900 worth
oil real estate in his nwn name, all of
which Is exempt from taxation.
II is stated that the reports are untrue
that any sort or sum of admission is
charged or will be charged to Dr. Tai
images Sunday evening services in Wash
ngton,
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Edited Br VIII NJ. Clemens J

Following is a summary of the principal
sermons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada by the beading clergy
men, priests, prelntes, religious teachers
and professors OF the Christian taith.
In every instance the full text has been
carefully read and abbreviated:
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Thousands OF cases OF rheumatism have
been cured 10y Elmer & Amends "Pte
scrtption No 9s5l." All sufferers should
try a bottle of same. w. Preston 4. ca
GalN eston, Texas. agents. w.
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ATONEMENT-Th essence Of the
atonement II a fathomless plan worthy Of
a loving God whereby he is able to for
give his penitent creatures aud DO no in
justice.-Rev. +. W. Luce, Methodist,
Davenport, Iowa.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is the
worm that eats tho divine life out of the
heart of man. Selfishness is the giant
that battles with Christ for the souls of
men.-Rev. G.. S. Sargent, Congrega
tionahsf St. Io1lis. No.
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FUTURE PUNISHMENr-It matters
not whether there is an extraneous tor
ment in the future life or not. The suf-
fering of the unrepentant soul for sin
will be infinite and terrible.-Rev. u, II.
Dornflasher, Lutheran, Springfield,
Ohio
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PROSECUTED CATHOLICs-The
history Of the Catholic church from the
beginning OF tho Christian era down to
the present time shows that she has been
prosecuted the same as the Saviour was.
Rev. L. j. Melley, Catholic, Scranton,
Pa.
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HEAVEN-Tbe Scriptures teach US
that heaven is cond zion rather than
a locality. Heaven is brought to US he
fore We GO - her ven. Apart from this
thore can be no heaven'-Rey. X. y.
SaWyer. Springfield. Mass.
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LABOR STRIKES-I do not believe in
strikes. II is not the way to settle diff
ficulgies between employer and en-
p,oye A strike does harm 10 both parties.
and ihen il gives chance 70 lawlc%s peo-
PIE 70 do evil.-Rcy. !. w. sullivan,
Baptist Philadelphia. Pa.
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EDUCATION-No country is saved
by multitude OF books or school houses
A man q in danger OF being roasted alive
who at Tins time of day viii dare to utter
such hcrcsv, but it needs TO be uttered
knowledge Is power indeed, and so is
dynamite but you need To be careful as
20 the hands To which you intrust it,
And education needs 20 he sanctified by
eligion to make it safe.--Rev. Z. ).
Henson, Baptist, Chicago, Ill.
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Re4!s!ous MQE1p

SEARCHING the present and scanning. the
future. Not looking back only, not look.
ing up only. but looking up and down and
back and forward. looking all around.
That is what circumspection is.-Rev.
e. b. Rogers, Baptist. Springfield, III.
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TURKEY-If ever there WIS a putre-
flying carcass in the shape of n nation it
IS the so-calicd Turkish government over
which ! hope. at this moment, hover the
cngles OF Gods avensing judgments; not
that | mean to Ne merciless to the indi-
y:!ual man. blackhearted and brutal as
he may be, but the instinc, OF humanity
does eecm to call for the wipiug out of
the very name of Turkey from the reg
ster Of nations Rev, n. @. Fettcr, Bap-
t.st, Doyestown, Pa.
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nsters Clara Barton has rendered aid
Now at the time of life when most peo-
pie are seeking rest and ease, she is 10
cross the ocean on the most periious mis-
sion Of her life. A soul like Clara Bar
toms belongs TO no nation, no sect, no re-
ligion. She is greater than any nationality
or human institution. Her heart Id as
large as the world her spirit as broad as
the univcrSe.-Rev. b. l., Eaton, Wor-
ces ter, Mass.
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HAPPINFSS-The true escret Of hap
piness is giving what costs US something
what We sacrifice something for. 1t
makes no difference 90 TO the value Of the
pift-it Is giving with love in the heart
which makes tba TN" recompensc Rev .
Joseph Rennie, Presbyterian, Coyington,
XIV
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CIRCUMSPECTON-To walk cir.
inspect is 10 walk with head up and
es open. Legs and head and eyes and
art all at work examining the past,
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THE FIRST Mantle first man
Of whom science has any knowledge was
4 Juil-witted earthy-mindcd creature, in
tent upon something TO eat or kill. blind
70 beauty in flowers or sublimity in
landscape. with small power Of sent
ment or faith.-Rev. George a. Thayer,
Unitarian, Cincinnati Ohio.
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LUCK AND PLUCK-There is nc
such thing as luck. Luck is pluck. Lucb
S a foolish doctrine of fate; it is the sill
ness of superstition; il is the cynicism OF
fools, incompetents and failures. You
never hear real sensible man talking
about luck; he knows the philosophy OF
success too we'll; he knows the meaning
of patience and painstaking care, OF
energy and economy j. q. Rust
Baptist, Nashville, Conn.
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NAPOLEON AND LINCOLN-For
some purpose or other the magazines have
given US great deal of Napoleon. They
have now started us ON Abraham Lin
coin. That is more cheerful. They would
not do that unless the people we're found
to be more in love with mercy and Justice
than with force-hcayy artillery.-Rev
w. Reed, Independent, Denver, Colo.
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FAITH AND DOuBT-Faith is the
natural attitude toward truth and our
fehowmen. Doubt ia bcgotten of eX-
pcrience. Trusting God is not stranger
than trusting our dearest friend Faith is
the root. II is not believing set of prop
ositions about God that makes the Christ
ian. but il Ia believing in God himself.
Faith in God is trusting him, just MS you
would trust Il surgeon with your life,
only in higher degree. When one be-
ievcs in the things in the Bible. whom
one trusts his life and eternity in Gods
hands. then il faith true. The object of
faith il not doctrine or creed, hut be-
heying, Rev. DIR. McClintock, Prsby-
terrain, Burlington, Iowa,
SPEECH-The mystery of speech is
very great. To set a thought afloat on n
breath is greater than launching n ship
on the sea. To coin a feeling and give it
wings 10 fly ON q word framed by the
lips II as il you you mined and minted
gold and breathed into the image a
spark of your own souls life by a single
act of will. IL is the wonder Of Gods
creating man out of the dust of the
ground when you utter, not the cry of n
beast, but II thought that brcathes, n
word that burns. Speech is the mystery of
| life, the deeper mystery of the life of
| the soul. Speech Is creation greater
than that of man himself Rev. Il. a.
Sawyer, Springfield, Mass.
| THE PREACHER INCAPACITAT-
| ED-'l'hc Drsaclpr is incanacitatcu for
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CAPITAL AND IABOR-With pas
sion on the one side and capital on the
other. with nation in danger of being
cut in TWAIN hy these battles between
the upper and lower classes, the only
way TO settle these quarrcls is 10y the IN
teryention Of law and justice Rev. Ly.
man Abbott, Brooklyn, y. Y.
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UNlTY-The peoples of the earth are
coming closer and closer together. The
standards of citizenship and character
ire universally rising. We are coming 10
/ common tongue, or else to common
understanding Of all tongues. The ele-
nents of religion are coming 10 be recog-
lied as universal, and the old religious
atreds are dying out.-Rev. y. Il.
tewart, Unitarian. Lynn, Mass.
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''a'kesidtnt Notice

'"'kesident Notice.,
To JEFFERSON Brown.
Fo' is unknown:
= 'y'eoy =, commanded to ap-
|, 'sae .t Hon. Chancery Cour
|. county, Miss, on the "a
A,prll, 1896, to ans ~er the
is,,fEill Ella Brown, wherein you
j. c. PERRY,
3, Chancery Clerk.
lo' Plaintiff.
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Communicated
A PLEA FOR.G0OD sIDEwAIKs.

Editor Standardization me space in
your paper to congratulate the city on
the change In regard to some of the
sidewalks, which think is a vast i'm
provement, and to mention ather
changes that think would save the
city money. ! hope, after the city
election, the incoming officers, old or
new, will turn over new leaf and get
out Of the street ruts that Grenada has
been travelling in 10 long, adopt some
method by which we may get rid Of
this constant and endless plank walk
expense and relieve the marshal or
street commissioner Of great annoyance
and trouble. Employ some one who
understands making brick, would say;
give or sell them to the people at =
reasonable cost, and force every one to
put down their own walks. But II this
would not proportion the expense (for
some who are most able would have
but very little walk to make), my
idea would b. for the city to have the
work done and raise street taxes to
two or three times the present amount,
force every one who is liable to said
tax to pay the money, or be sub
ject to a fine. To see those trifling
street loafers killing time, pretending
to work out their taxes. makes me, and
should make every other enterpris-
ing citizen opposed to accepting work
for street tax; but if you are going to
accept uork, turn extra street hands
and city prisoners over to some one
who will make them work on the brick
kiln, which I have mentioned. Have
street crossings of rock, or something
Of the kind, steps apart so a wagon or
carriage wheel can pass between with
some pleasure to the passengers and
safety to the springs. With cinders
and gravel that may be obtained, it
seems to me our principal streets at
least might he fixed in few years, so
as to get rid Of so much mud in the
winter and dust in the summer. After
once getting the streets and sidewalks
fixed as they should be, the street Tax
might be reduced. The mule and cart
that has been serving the city 80 long
land can't serve much longer), it's
board and two or three hands who gen.
orally 60 with 1t, might be disposed Of
to very great extent by getting some
one 10 take up waste paper etc, every
morning, which would consume very
little time. r.
Don't understand me as making com.
plants against our officers, for l am
satisfied they have been doing what
they think best for the city. But
every one is liable TO make mistakes
and I think the city has been making
one for years by putting down plank
instead of brick.
Thanking YOU for your space, re-
main, to the city's interest, W. P. F.
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Planting Preparations.

The husbaudman and the market
gardener are now upturning the soil
preparatory to spring planting We
daily notice plows and other agricul-
tural implements going ruralward:
We fear King Cotton will still hold
czal~like prominence in Southern fields.
The fair prices Of the passing season
will lure tho planters to continued a..
legiance to the monarch. and hold
them as serfs to what in many instan-
ces is crushing tyrant. 1t will take
long time for the farmer to. come
from under the thraldom, but he and
all Others who think must come 70
know that ultimate large prosperity
must have basis on diversified crops.
Cotton exclusively is the bane OF the
struggling Southern farmer.--Natchez
DemOcras. MI
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have published appropriate memorials
and tributes Of respect to his memory.
Mr.. Nye was general fav0rite among
all classes at Washington, whom he
has made merry with his humorous
lectures every season for many years.
1t is said that Bill Nye has caused
more people to smile than any writer
or lecturer that ever lived. But for
such men as Bill Nye, gifted with the
mower of humor, whose pleasant say
ings come to US like the genial rays Of
sunshine bursting forth from behind
the dark clouds Of life to cheer our Oft
dropping spirits with mirth, this would
indeed be q serious and solemn old
world. May his happiness in heaven
be in proportion to the joy he has made
on earth for mankind.
Learning that quite number Of ex-
changes still go to the Clarksdale post
office for the Clarksdale Advance,
which paper was destroyed by fire last
November, after thanking the press
brethren for frequent and numerous
kindnesses and courtesies in the past,
for which wish to express gratitude
and appreciation, would suggest that
they can curtail expenses to the aktent
of the number Of papers which now GO
there to only heap of ashes and few
old irons, being all that remains OF the
old paper that was my pride and JOY
for so many long years, and which
will not be able to re-establish for at
least another year.
Yours with appreciation,
PERCY L. MOORE.
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Threw Away His Canes.

Mr.. D. Wiley, ex-postmsster, Black
Creek. N. Y, was 50 badly afflicted
with rheumatism that he was only
able to hobble around with canes, and
even them it caused him great pain.
After using Chamberlaln's Pain Balm
he was so much improved that he
threw away his canes. He says this
liniment did him more good than all
other medicines and treatment put to-
gether. For sale at so cents per bot
tie by J. E. HUGHES.
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CRIsPY CHATTINGs
From our Capital Correspondent
The Woman's Congerss. Washington's
birthday. The Two Josiahs, etc.

WASHINGTON, D. G. Feb. rs, 1896.
Editor Sentinel Washington is y
great city for Congresses. We have
them here Of all kinds, creeds, classes,
conditions, ages. sex and color, but
perhaps In point Of interest few equal
the congress Of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution, which was in
session In this city last week. We
have for long time labored under the
delusion that women could not properly
conduct public meeting. It is a de-
lusion Of the most delusive nature,
which was demonstrated by these
women Of affairs" just mentioned.
Men were never known to handle q
convention with such skill and grace.
One would imagine that each Of those
angelic stateswomen was an instructor
in the school Of parliamentary tactics.
Why, they could actually give old man
Gushing several laps and then beat
him out. The congress was in ses.
sion eight hours day, for six days,
which time was consumed in the cleo.
tion Of officers, there being but one
candidate for each office. There were
two hundred delegates, all Of whom
were on their feet at the same time
and all the time, clamoring for recog-
milton, and finally, near the close Of
the second day, Madame Chairman"
decided which one was entitled to the
floor, to the entire disgust Of the one
hundred and ninety-nine other dele
gates. The favored lady proceeded in
a very eulogistic manner to place Mrs.
Adlai Stevenson in nomination for
President General, which was sec
onded by at least one hundred delegates
all in the same breath, when one del
egate rushed frantically up to the
Secretary's table, shouting in q hys-
terical nonpareil tone Of voice: MAD.
anne Chairman Madame Chairman I
seconded Mrs. Stevenson's nomination
first, and I want the Secretary to put
it in the minutes that way. I am a
cousin Of the Stevensons and l have a
right to demand that my name shall
appear first Us seconding her nomina-
tion, for did it first, and can prove it.
Mrs. Blank, didn't I tell you last week
that was going to second the nomina.
tion OF Mrs. Stevenson?" At this
juncture little lean woman with an
italic face shook her index finger indig-
nantly at MADAME Chairman" and
running her voice up to c sharp, de-
clared that she had been trying for
two days to secure recognition, ''and
now, by George. you shall recognize
me-" she shouted. For six days these
heroic "women Of affairs" showed their
poor, weak husbands how conventions
should be conducled. They elected a
President General, 4 Vice President
General, Secretary General, n Treas
urer General, II Chaplain General, q
Sergeant General, Doorkeeper Gen.
era, and several other Generals. In
fact, there seemed to be about as many
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THIS is the season Of year when Il
good medicine should be kept in every
well-regulated family. Chilton's Pleas
ant Chill and Fever Tonic is a house
hold necessity. and many II doctors
hill has been averted and many u life
saved by its use. 1t is safe and relia-
ble. To he had only At Semmes' Drug
Store n2tf
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B1ay For Sale.

have 500 bales Of nice hay, IS to
100 pounds in bale. Peavines, Grab
Grass, Japan and Red Clover, with
Orchard and Herds Grass mixed. Four
different kinds-$l2.0O per ton fob,
Hardy, Miss. If you are needing any
hay will be glad to sell you.
Respectfully,
r. p. COLLINS.
Hardy, Miss.
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Now is the time to order your brick.
have the best and sell them the
cbeapes; Of any dealer in this section.
d 7-tf j. A. CARL.