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THE PALO PINTO STAR
Established Judo 1876.
"Lot Justice-bo'doncffhoUgh tho 'Heavens Fall."
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR
VOL. 111. - PALO PINTO, PALO PINTO COUNTY, TEXAS, SATUEDAY, APRIL 9, 1887. NO, 44
' Ca.pt. Eads leaves an ostato worth
fully 100.000
Man. OxrEL is traveling and lectur-
ing in southern California.
Ex-Vice PncsipKiVnEELitK is re-
ported 111 at MaloheN. Y.
Caiu. Scnuitz is still suffering con-
siderably from his rucont accident.
Since' tho adjournment of congress a
marble bust of John C. Calhoun has
been placed in tho sonato gallery.
King Humbeiit of Italy novor dances.
Queen Margaret always takes part in
two or three quadrilles at coUrt balls.
Miss Sonne Bakunin, tho daughter
of the Russian agitator, is a studont of
medicino at tho University of Naplos.
Loud Tennyson has written a morn-
ing and evening hymn for tho boys of
tho Gordom home, Portsmouth. Tho
boys actually refused to stand ono at
midday.
Pbof. Haeckle has gono to Asia Min-
or, where ho will spend sorau months
In studying the lower ordors of marine
animals along tho coast of tho Medi-
terranean. Mn. Beecoer belonged to an un-
counted number of clubs of various
sorts. Tho New York Pross club, of
which ho was a member, is in mourn-
ing for him.
A son of Senator Patterson, tho
famous carpet-bagger of South Caro-
lina, is an inmato of the Tombs prison,
Now Yorlr, awaiting trlai, for having
swindled a man out of tho enormous
sum of $5.
Mns. Clkvland's mourning cos-
tume, worn in moinory of hor mater-
nal grandmother, includes a tall
black hat not unliUo a gentleman's silk
boavor, without llbbons or feathors of
any 'kind. Her gloves and dross aro
black.
Miss Alice Longfellow is regard-
ed with a degroo of lovo amounting al-
most to revorenco by tho students of
tho Halyard, annex,, Sho is ono of tho
ofllccrs of the Society for tho Col-
leglato Instruction of Women, and Is
often at tho annox building in Cam-
bridge J A. Bkonson Alcott passes most of
his time sittlngby tho window. Ho
lias a habit of waving his hands to all
whopass. Ho cannot seo to distin-
guish "persons in tho street, and ho
probably makes a friendly signal to
all in' order that no acquaintance may
pass unrecognized.
Col. Frank James, tho noted Mis-
souri ox-bandit, is in Dallas, Tex.,
whoro ho went for tho purposo of in-
vesting his money in roal estate. Ho
is 40, 'slopder built, with pale bluo oyes,
blonde complexion, nnd rather boyish
In general- looks. Ho is as polito as
Chesterfield, and without a particlo of
bluster or broggadocio.
Earnest L. Caldwell, the Yalo sen-
ior who was stroko of tho winning
crow at New London last July, has de-
cided tp tow again this year unless his
iamlly objects loo strongly. Ho took
his Irs t pull with tho candidates for tho
crow on Thursday, and- as soon as his
physical condition will'lvflrrant it ho
will tako his old claco in ttio boat
Ex-Senator Dbrsey gave" a magnificent
dinner at his hotel in London nt which
covers were laid for forty-four guests.
The tables, which wero sixty feet long
and six leot wido, wero decorated lav-
ishly, with raro flowers and fruits.
Tho menu cards wero painted with a,
separate design, that of Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris having a, very correctly
painted portrato of her father.
They toll In Phllu,dqlpbia that years
ago a boy namod Edwin H. Fitlorolimb-
od upon tho roof of tho old Brldesburg
rope-walk, to shoot a crow, Ho ohdt
tho, crow, hut tho vatohman of tho
building pnllod him down from tho roof
nnd1 gavq him- a flogging. Edwin IL
Fitter, the same pnp, is nowMaypr-oloot
of the city and ownor-ottha't ropo-wnlk,
and that samo watchman is now ono
'of his employestoo old to work, but
tanstoncd hands onolr,
CONTROL OK THE EYES
Somothlnc "Hint Is Particularly Nec-
essary In tho City of Now Yorlc.
Tho greatest secret of enjoying exis-
tence J11 Now York is that one must bo
absolutely tho masler of h's own eyes.
Hungry Joo. theurcliconlidocco opera-
tor, used to say that ho could distin-
guish a strangor by Ills hat qr shoes'.
The idoa that thoso betray men is so
dcop-robtcd Unit many stufrgors always
buy Now York hats and shoes as soon
as they arrive, whilo others who ex-
pect to como often 10 town order these
woarablcs from city shops. But you
can got correct hats and shoes in any
largo city, and off styles in tho Bow-
ery. But whatever ono looks llko ho musi
control his oyes or life will be a por-
potual torment to him. Our dudes and
Anglomaniao society carry tho tiling
too far. Thoy go about forovor looking
over overy ono's head, or olso staring
with a dead and livo glassy look, insult-
ing alike to whomsoever tliuy glance
at and to their own intelligence. This
they think "tho grand nlr" and their
admirers dub it aristocratic. A ward
politician tho ether day said to mo that
tho loader of a certain political faction
was" "gltting 'rlstocratic" I asked
him how ho was showing this.
"Oh," said tho heeler, "ho has a
tired look, and he don't seem to seo you
'less ho wants."
But by oyo control I moan tho sooing
of everything without being scon to do
so. This necessity is brod by tho liorde
of streot bandits that prey upon ovory
man out of doors. Tliolr numbors aro
legion nnd their ways aro tho ways of
brigands. If a man lots his oyes fall
on a boy who uttors a poculiar street
cry ho is apt to liavo from two to six
newsboys leap for him like so many
human catapults. As ho stops from a
hotel, theatre, dopot or club, if ho al-
lows his oyes to wandor an instant ho
will bo at onco surrounded and hem-
mod in by cabmen, each seeking his
custom, oven by violence. If ho turns
his hoad to look at tho mendicant who
addresses him ho may not bo able to
got rid of tho follow for a block. Rest-
ing tho oyo for an instant on a group
of well dressed men (who may bo in-
terested in a "quiet gamo"), or on a
volublo crank, may prove to havo very
annoying results. I was talking tho
other day to a lady whose receptions
aro very popular, and I remarked that
people commented vory ouriously on tho
difference between her manner in doors
and her caniago on the street. lu
doors sho was all affability and uncon-
scious easo, and out of doors sho was a
poker.
, "It's all put on out of doors," sho
said; "It goes on with my bonnot and
wrap. 1 was in endless troublo as long
as I yioldod to my inclinations to bo
natural and careless. Some adventures
that I had wore qulto alarming, I can
tell you. But now I am on my guard
as long oS I am out of doors. Minne-
apolis Trtbune.
A Texas Editor Rises to Explain.
The Standard wlshos to correct a
falsa impression in referonce to tho
"firing" of the editor's wlfa and rooth-er-in-law
from tho Methodist church.
They wero not put out of tho building,
as somo supposo, but nioroly had their
names erased from tho roll of member-
ship. Tho editor is not tho kind of a
man to quietly submit to having his
wlfo and her mother "fired" bodily
from n church orelsowhero. Ho is not
built that way; neither is his mother-in-law.
Belleville Standard.
A Phase of Dementia.
"Prisoner, do you admit that you
stolo-thls purse of diamonds!" '
"Yes, your Honor, but I do not be-
lieve I was thon in my right mind. I
know npw that thoy aro only imita-
tion." New York Graphic.
It Was Simply an Oversight
Tho horologlst who discovers that tho
earth is slowing up lives In North Car-
olina. Notboltig a crank or parrot-
like paragrapher, ho has not yet declar-
ed that tho planet stopped to lot I'liHu.-
dolphla catoh up. Philadelphia News.
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A. G. Vining, of Rufledgo, Vt., has
kept a bar for sixteen yours, aud has
novov drank a drop of liquor or taken a
oliew of tobftcoo.
THOUGHTS FROM BEECHER.
Typical Kxprcesloni Culled From
Ills l'ulillsliod Utterances.
Mr. Beccher never delivered a dis-
course, says The Xcu? York World, in
which thoro wero not many goms. A
hasty glance through a fow of his pub-
lished utterances discloses theso epi-
grammatic thoughts upon overy page.
A fow of them nru culled and present-
ed boloW, biit thoy of necessity lack
completeness, and servo better to show
Mr. Beechor's originality of expression
than tho breadth of , his mind. Tho mis-
conceptions of religion aud tho quairol-
ing of tho sects wero frequent topics
with him:
Religion is a vory slim, loan, gaunt,
poor, ill-fed thing as it is oulinarlly
conceived of In this world.
Men sit around a tool-chest quarrel-
ing nbout saws and planes and chisels.
Thoy aro not building anything. They
aro dobating about tools. Thoy aro fit
to bo in a theological seminary.
That kind of revival preaching which
seeks to drlvo men into hoaven by tho
fear of hell is not Christianity. It is
tho worst form of paganism.
Sects aro candI6sticks, and a man or
woman that is big enough to bo good
for anything Is too large for any sect.
Why is it that men think it incumbent
upon them to bo cats and dogs in lelig-
lon and gontlomon In everything out-
aido of it?
Sunday with him was not a day of
gloom, and he took frequent occasion
to show tho neodlcssness of bolngsom-
bor on that day:
I esteem tho awfulncss that Is attach-
ed to Sunday and church and pulpit the
grcatost mistnko of Christendom.
Tho provalont idoa of keeping the
Sabbatli is th.U it is a day on which
certain things mint not bo done. To
tho mnjority of pepplo Snndayjs.a day
full of nols.
I am in favor of any movement that
liolps any body to appreciate Sunday
as a day of rest, of healthful and puro
pleasure, and that will gently lead men,
women, and children from tho things
of low cstato up to tho higher.
Somp of his utterances on tho ques-
tion of death mid the futuro Jlfo nro
peculiarly appropriate at this time:
To ono who is living aright, no death
can bo sudden anil no placo unfavora-
ble. One'stop and all roads meet.
Dying is tho best part of life to ono
who knows how to livo worthily.
If tho llfo that has gone out has been
liko music, full of concords, full of
sweetness, richness, delicacy, truth,
thon thero aro two ways to look at it
Ono is to say, "1 havo not lost It!" An-
other to say, "Blessed be God that I
havo had it so long!"
When wo comproliond tho fullness of
what death will do for us, in all our
outlook and forolook, dying is triumph-
ing. Nowhero is thoro so fair a sight,
so sweet a prospect, as when a young
soul is passing away out of lifo and
timo through tho gate of death tho
rosy, tho royal, tho golden, tho pearly
gate of death.
Doath is as sweet as flowors arc. It
is as blessed as bird-singing in spring.
I novor hoar of tho death of anyone
who is ready to dlo that my heart docs
not sing llko a harp. I am sorry for
those left behind, but not for those
gono before.
As I grow oldor and como nigher to
death, I look upon it moro and more
with complacent joy, and out of overy
longing I hear God say; "O, trust-
ing, hungering ono, como to Mo."
What tho other lifo will bring I know
not, only thai I shall awako in God's
likeness aud seo Him as Ho u.
Beat on, thon, O heart, and yearn
for dying. I havo drank at many n
fountain, but thirst came again; I have
fed at many a bountebu tablo, but
hunger roturnod; I havo scon many
bright aud lovely things, but while I
gazed their lustor faded. There Js
nothing hero that can give mo lest, but
whon I bohold thoo, O God, I shall bo
satisfied. ,$
Ills over exuberant and joyous na-
I turo was a constant prolcst against the
ascotiqin lollglon, or In daily life.
Don't mopo. Bo young as long as
you live. Laugh a good deal. Frollo
every day. A low tono of mind Is un-
healthy. A lawyer who wOrkd ton months in
tho yoar and thon for twosoljd, months
amuses himself will Inst twloa as long
W if ho took no roorcntlpn.
Mon havo como to think that tears
are more sacred than smllos. No!
Laughing Is as dlvino as crying.
Humor usually tends toward good
nature, and everything that tends to-
ward good nature tends toward good
grace.
If laughing is a sin, I don't seo what
the Lord lets so many funny things hap-
pen for. '
Having n&anil buoyancy of spirite,
lot thorn flaslfbut In bervicos cf reli-
gion. Don't consider it nocossary to
rako thorn up and hide them.
Humor Is tho ntmosphore in which
gaco most nourishes.
I say whon a person becomes a
Cliiisttan that ho loses nothing that ho
should not bo afraid to keep. If over
you are going to bo a Christian, don't
set out to bo a gloomy-eyed, twilight-
faced, bat-like Christian.
His struggle for the abolition of sla-
very provoked him to many beautiful
nnd stirring utterances, of which tho
following nro not the bost typos:
That gospel which sanctions ignor-
ance and oppress'on for threo millions
of mon, what fruit or flower has it to
shako down for tho hoaling of the na-
tions? It is cuiscd in its own loots,
and blasted in its own boughs.
Whether tho Africans nro an inferior
raco or not, it is evident that our desti-
ny in somo respects is bound up with
them, nnd tho study of their Inteicsts is
tho study of our salvation. Tho Afri-
can race, in tho Omnipotent hand, nfny
bo tho instrument for our destruction if
wo ato to bo dtstiocd. Thoy may
cling to our feet nnd entangle in in
thoir final miseries.
Love, motherhood, and the family
wero favorito themes with him:
Oh, that men could bo kept courting
all tho days of their life! 'What a school
tho school of lovo is!
A. mother and a dog aro tho only two
things in the world that seem to havo
absolutely disinterested lovo.
A mothor's heart does moro in tho
bringing up of child ten, a million
time", than a mother's hand, though tiie
hand is sometimes qulto busy.
I think lovo grows between husband
and wlfo by expression of affection. I
know thero is a stately dignity in vogue.
Husband and wlfo sit over against each
other llko thuso great statues of Mem-
non in Egypt; there thoy are, vast,
stony, ami hard
You that livo long enough will seo
women voto. and when you seo womon
voting j ou will sob less lying, less bru-
tality, and moro public spirit, heroism
and romance in publio aflalrs.
Robcil Burns A true poet, madonoc
by tho schools, brought up with no ex-
ternal culture or assistance. Ho came
as a Uowor comes in spring. Wo say
that ho was a man of tho people. No;
he was far ubovo the pooplo. He w.is
ordalnea to bo an interpreter of God to
his kind, thon and for evermore.
Of all tho American novelists who
havo passed away tho author of "Tho
House of tho Sjven Gables" seems to
me tho greatest.
Grant had tho patience of fato ana
tho f orco of Thor. Ha lias loft to mem-
ory only such weaknesses as connect
him with humanity and such virtues as
will rank him among heroes.
Jonn Brown's name will trarel
through the ages as an illustrious exam-
ple of what a man may do who is willing-
to sudor for n groat principle.
Emerson, tho calm, tho observation
al, not nn enthusiast in religion, but
with patriotism and humanity to raako
htm a brave witness. It took seven
generations of ministers to make ono
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
It is A noble thing to sc5 a man so iu
sympathy with his timo and work, as
Tennyson is, that ovon with expiring
strength he still tries to chant the truth
of God to tho age in which he lives.
Peter Cooper a manly man, who
livc.d fgr' his fcllow-mon. May God
increnso tho procession of such men!
He will increnso it. It is a tondenoy.
Though slow, Abraham Llnooln was
sure. A thousand men could not mako
him plant his foot beforo ho was ready;
ten thousand could not move It after
he had set it down. i
Grovor Cleveland, llko Washington,
has tho groat faculty of maintaining
his own personality and enlarging his
Own knowledge.
I would not weaken ono single slnow
in tho sturdy arm of Bismarck
God raisod up a Cromwell to wrtt
liberty from the king's hands and set it
firmly Upon Its feet buforu the nation)
of the earth.
Charles Sumner was a republicat
statesman becauso ho sought the well
faro of all, nnd not of a privileged class
Spencer will bo found to have givoi
to-tho world moro truths in ono lifo
timo than any other man that has lived
In thpacbools of philosophy.
Mr. Beccher was a champion of torn-
ooranco upon occasion, but novor mad
hobby of it.
Wo drink not to gratify tho palate,
but for a business purpose. That being
tho aiso. we may begin with the mlldci
bovcrages, just as we begin our fin
with plno shavings, not only becaust -wo
can light them so easily, but alsc
becauso wo waut tliom to set on fire
something solldcr. And wino is step
stono to brandy. Beer is stepstono th
other way. ' It docs not lead up tc
.brandy, but it leads down to drunk and
beastly drunk.
Intcmner.inco is the fertile source ol
crime. Havo you done anything about
h;
Must Have Faith to Fast
Tlieic is a certain Mr. John Grlsoora
in'Now Yoik who has. according toth
Medical Record of that city, a theory
of his own to account for the success
of the number of persons who aro now
fasting for four or ftvo wcoks at timo.
According to him, it is all a matter ol
faith, and any person who will begin
to fast witli a full belief that it can bo
dono without harm, will succeed.
"With tho prejudice against fasti nj
wholly lomoved," ho says, "anyone
iu the enjoyment of perfect healtb
could fast two or three weeks without
inconveniouco; but if a man should fast
simply as nn oxperimont, without a full
belief that he could doTit, ho would kill
himself." Tho uso of Succl's red li-
quid, thcieforc, becomes plain it :a
modicino for tho mind, nnd gives to thi"
faster tho necessary confidence. Gris-
cojn.fciMS that ho has fasted for more
than thrco weeks at a time, and bti
statement that tho craving for fooA
passes oft' at tho end of forly-olght
hours is confirmed by the evidence ol
involuntary fasters. Hunger is a much
less imperious craving than thirst,
which grows stronger with every hour
of abstention from fluids. Tho organ-
ism of a healthy man has extensive
reserves in tho fat which is stored Id
the layers of adlposo tissuo beneath the
skin and in other situations; when the
habit of drawing upon tho food for tho
energy nocossary for maintaining the
physiological procosscs is brokon dur-
ing tho first forty-eight hours, the sub-
sequent drafts on tho rosorvo aro not
attended by so much discomfort as dur-
tho period of transition. Halifax Crilit.
Children at the Drug Store.
Tho danger of sending chlldien tc
drugstores for tho simplest remedies ia
found in tho log of a West Madison
street apothecary's clerk, who has been
keeping tab of the truancy of infantile
minds. Among many fuuny "slips"
aro the following:
Mamma wants 10 cents worth o!
pneumonia (ammonia.)
Bottle of cod-llsh (liver) oil.
Twenty cents' worth of baaswa
(borax), please.
Pa wants n horse (porus) piaster for
pain in his back.
Ma Wants au .ounce of your best go- -long
go-long (Ylang-YIang) porfume.
Chicago Herald.
"Warranted to Cure,
Dogs naturally havo a great doal oi
curiosity, but a dog who has happened
to wonder onco how a bite of porcu-
pine would taste seldom feels the same
sort of curiosity another time. Jour-
nal of Education.
Not Bo Bad As That
First Young Boston Blood Say,"
Dnxloy, did jou oversee the sun rise?
Second Young Boston Blood No,
Sam, I don't think I uver did I don't
romember' that I over staid up so late
as that. Journal of Education.
Photographic experiments flow tsj.
veal extraordinary chomicai nroperir.es
in tho sun's rays, vrnile, str.anjp to say,
some of tho rays ar ontlrch'Wfistltuia
of this peculiar poorer. It has also
boon dlsopverod that thoro aro rays of
light outside of tho solar spectrum, and
Which aro Invisible to tho hawas eye.
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