The Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1887 Page: 5 of 8
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tower or castlo looking
tmt that it not the kind
enthusiasm among hi
Garibaldi or Napoleon
MU *
home. Let the wife crouch in the corner,
and tho children hide under tho bed. They
are going home! What Is the history of that
young man! He began his dissipation at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, and completed the dam-
nation in the worst grog shop in Navy
street
Cut sin even does not stop here. It comes
to the door of the drawing room. There are
men of leprous hearts that go into the very
best classes of society. They lire so fasci-
nating—they have such a bewitching way of
offering their arm. Yet tho poison of asps is
under tho tongue and their heart is hell. At
first thoir sinful devices aro hidden, but after
a while they begin to put forth their talons
of death. Now they begin to show really
what they are. Suddenly, although you
could not have expected it, they were so
charming in their manner, so fascinating in
their address, suddenly a cloud, blacker than
was over woven of midnight or hurricane,
drops upon some domestic circle. Tkero
is agony in tho parental bosom that none but
the Lord God Almighty can measure—an ag-
ony that wishes that the children of the
household had been swallowed by the grave,
when it would bo only a loss of body instead
of a los3 of soul. What is the matter with
that household? They have not had tho front
windows open in six months or a year. Tho
mother’s hair suddenly turned white; father,
hollow Cheeked and bent over prematurely,
goes down the street. There has been no
death in that family—no loss of property.
Has madness seized upon them ? No 1 no I A
villain, kid gloved, patent leathered, with
gold chain and graceful manner, took that
cup of domestic bliss, elevated it high in tho
dr until tho sunlight struck it, and all tho
rainbows danced about the brim, and then
: dashed it down in tho desolation and woe,
until all tho harpies of darkness clapped their I sharp, plain lino, between innocent hilarity
never, mako tho curl to a *y’ In that way. It
is not my check; that’s a forgery. Send for
the police.” “AJi,” says the cashier, “don’t
bo so quick; your son did that.” Tho fact
Come, let us Join our friend*above
Who hart obtained the prise;
And on the eagle wings of lovs
To Joys celestial rise.
After expounding from Genesis JtHx. ^
Jacob’s wonderful discrimination of the char- i was that the boy had been out in dissipating
acteristics’of his sons, the preacher took for drcles, and $10 and $60 went in that direo
his text Genesis xliv, 80: “Seeing that his | lion; and ho had been treated and ho had to
life is bound up in the lad’s life,” and deliv- . treat others; and the boy felt he must have
ered tho following discourse: { gsoo to keep himself in that circle. That
These words were spoken by Judah as de- night tho father sits up for the son to come
scriptive of the tenderness and affection homo. It is 1 o’clock before he comes into
which Jacob felt toward Benjamin, the tho hall. He comes in very much flushed,
youngest ton of that patriarchal family; but his eyes glaring and his breath offensive,
they are words just as appropriate to many a Father says: “My son, how can you do so? I
parent in this house—since “his life is bound have given you everything you wanted and
up in the lad’s life.” I have known parents everything to make you comfortable and
that seemed to have but little interest in their happy, and now I find, in my old age, .that
children. A father sayB: "My son must look you are a spendthrift, a libertine and a
out for himself. If he comes up well, all drunkard.” The son says: “Now, father,
right; if ho turns out badly I cannot help it. what’s the use of your talking in that way?
I am not responsible for his behavior. He You told mo I might have a good time and
must take the same risk in life that I took.” to go it. I have been acting on your sug-
As well might the shepherd throw a lamb gestlon, that’s all.” And so ono parent errs
into a den of lions and then say: “Little on ono side, and another parent errs on the
lamb, look out for yourself 1” other, and how to strike a happy medium be-
lt is generally the case that even the beast tween severity and too great lenioncy, and
looks after its yoqng. I have gone through train our sons and daughters for usefulness
tho woods on a summer’s day, and I have on earth and bliss hi heaven, is a question
heard a great outcry in a bird’s nest, and I which agitates every Christian household in
have climbed up to see what was the matter, my congregation. Where so many good men
I found out that the birds were starving and and women have failed, it is strange that we
that the mother bird had gone off not to should sometimes doubt the propriety of our
come back aga n. But that is an exception, thoory and the accuracy of our kind of gov-
It is generally the case that the old bird will eminent.
pick your eyes out rather than let you come Again, parental anxiety often arises from
nigh its brood. The lion will rend you in an early exhibition of sinfulness in the child,
twain if you approach top nearly tho whelps; Tho morning glories bloom for a little while
tho fowl in the barnyard, clumsy footed and under the sun, and then they shut up ns the
heavy winged, flies fiercely at you if you heat comes on; butthcronro flowers along
come too near the little, group, and God in- tho Amazon that blazo thoir beauty for weeks
tended every father and mother to be tho nt a time; but the short lived morning glory
protection and tho help of the child. Josus fulfills its mission as well as tho Victoria
conies into every dwelling and says to tho ltegia. There are somo people who tako forty,
father or mother:- “You have been looking fifty or sixty years to develop. Then them
after this child’s body and mind; the time are little children who fling.their beauty on
has come when you ought to bo looking after the vision and vanish. They are morning
its immortal souL” I stand before hundreds glories that cannot stand the glare of the hot
of people with whom tho question morning, noon sun of trial. You have all known such
noon and night is: “What is to become of little children. They were pale; they were
the Child? What will be its history? Will it ethereal; there was something very wonder-
choose paths of virtue or vice? Will it ac- fully deep in tho eye; thoy had a gentle foot
cept Christ or reject him? Where will it and soft hand, and something almost super-
spend eternity?” natural in their behavior—ready to be wafted
I read of a vessel that foundered. The away. You had such a one in your house-
boats were launched; many of tho passengers hold. Gone now 1 It was too delicate a plant
were struggling in the water. A mother for this rough world. The heavenlygardener
with one hand boat the waves, and with the saw it and took it in. We make splendid
other hand lifted up the little child toward Sunday school books out of such children,
the lifeboat, crying: “Save my child! Save but they almost always die. I have noticed
my child!” The impassioned outcry of that that, for the most part, tho children that livo
mother is the prayer of hundreds of Christian sometimes get cross, and pick up bad words
people who sit listening this morning while I in the street, and quarrel with brother and
speak. I propose to show some of the causes sister, and prove unmistakably that they are
of parental anxiety, and then how that aux- wicked—as tho Bible says, going astray from
iety may be alleviated. the womb, speaking - lies. Bee the little ones
• I find the first cause of parental anxiety in In tho Sabbath class, so sunshifty and beauti-
the inefficiency and imperfection of parents ful, you would think they were always so,
themselves. Wo have a slight hope, all of but mother, seated a .littlo way off, looks
ns, that our children may escape our faults, over at theso children and thinks of the awf nl
We hide our imperfections, and think they time she had to get them ready,
will steer clear of them. Alas, there is a poor After the boy or girl comes a little further
prospect of that! There is more probability on in life the mark of sin upon them is still
that they will choose our vices than choose more evident. Tho son comes in from a
our virtues. There is something like sacred- pugilistic encounter in the streets, bearing
ness in parental imperfections when the child the marks of a defeat. The daughter prac-
looks upon them. The folly of tho parents rices positive deception, and the parent says:
is not so repulsive when tho child looks at it. “What shall I do? I can’t always be -cor-
Ho says: “Father indulges in it; mother in- recting and scolding, and yet these things
dulges in it; it can’t be so bad.” Your boy, must be stopped.” It is especially sad if the
10 years of age, goes up a back street smok- parent sees his own faults copied by tho
ing his cigar—an old stump that he found in child. It is very hard work to pull up a
the street—and a neighbor uecosts him and nettle that wo ourselves planted. We re-
says: “What are you doing this, for? What member that tho greatest frauds that over
would your father say if he knew it?” Tho shook tho banking houses of the country
boy says: “Qh. father does that himself!” started from a boy’s deception a good many
There is not one of us this morning that years ago; and the gleaming blade of the
would deliberately choose that his children murderer is only another blado of the knife
should in all things follow his example, and with which tho boy struck at his comrade,
it is the consciousness of imperfection of our The cedar of Lobanon, that wrestles with the
part as parents that makes us most anxious blast, started from seed lodged in the side of
for our children. the mountain, and tho most tremendous dis-
Wo are also distressed on account of tho honesties of the world once toddled out from
unwisdom of our discipline and instruction the cradle. All these things make parents
It requires a great deal of ingenuity to build anxious.
a house or fashion a ship, but more ingenu- Anxiety on tho part of parents also arises
ity to build the temple of a child’s character from the consciousness that there • are so
and launch it on tho great ocean of time and many temptations thrown nil around our
Wise county permanent school
ftand'cm hand, $276.
Alexander land school fund on
hand, $214. Total $490.
COUNTY TREASURER'S REPORT.
The county treasurer’s report
was as follows;
Common county..........$1,246 77
Pauper 400 05
Court house and jail 295 42
Road and bridge...... ....i C22 12
Special court house and jail 2,45117
Tola!.................$4,715 53
BEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
M, P. Matheaey to G. Capps, 1o<
3, block 6, Moore's addition to Temple
900,
J. B. Wilfonl toN. E. Wilfiml 132
acres. J. W. Weldon survey, $300.
O'wen » Carpenter to M. E Norris
anrl A. H. Cut ii-, 79 lie •««< T, Hughes
survey, §550.
' .T. M. Baggeit to E. S. Flint, 11 acres
Daniel Meadow survey, §24.
J. F. Morgan, Sr, to J. F. Morgan
Jr. 177 acres, F. Davis survey, $2000.
J W Potter and wife to J H
Blair, part of F W Thornton sur-
vey, for $1200,
J T Muckleroy and wife to J M
Muckleroy, 540 acres out of tho
Jatncs H Clark survoy, for $100.
Wm Kendrick and wife to G F
Giles. for $900, 200 acres oat ol
Reddin Roberts survey,
W L McFarland to J D Nor-
wood, for $217 50, 19 1-3 m:ros.
Leon & H Blum Land rompany,
for $500, to Martin Robinson, 1620
square feet adjoining college
block. i
J W Pace for $164, to Mrs Lucy
B Brown, 65 acres.
W T Adams and wife to J B F
Adams, for $750.102 acres.
Alice Eugene Roberts to S M
Ray and Joel F Elliott, of the firm
of Ray and Elliott, $150, two blocks
in Belton.
G W Walton to Robt L Walton,
for $550, 142.1-2 acres.
B F Busby and wife to S3 Ab-
ernathy, for $800, 60 acres.
edand so recorded
e of the state vs.
r for theft the jury
They did agree,
Irluegar was sent up
takes a copybook, writes a specimen of good
writing across the top of the page, but he
makes a mistake in ono letter of tho copy.
Tho boy comos along on the next line, copies
tho top lino and makes the mistake, and if
there be fifteen lines on that page they will
have the mistake, there was in the copy on
tho top. The father has an error in this life
—a very great error. The son comes
along and copies it now, to-morrow, next
year, copies it to the day of his death. It is -
what you. are, not so much whattjrou teach.
Havo a family altar. Let it be a cheerful
place, tho brightest room in your house. Do
not wear your children’s knees out with long
prayers. Have tho whole exercise spirited.
If you have a melodeon, or an organ, or a
piano, in the house, havo it open. Thou lead
in prayer. If you cannot make a prayer of
your own, take Matthew Henry’s prayors or
tho Episcopal prayer book. Nono better
than that. Kneel down with your littlo ones
morning and night; commend them to wftr*'
Do you think they will get ovor it? Npfarl
After you are under tho sod a good •any
years there will lie some powerful rijifiipta-
tion around that son, but tho memory of
father and lfiothor at morning anrl'Ovening
prayers will havo its effect upon him; it will
bring him back from tho path' of sin and
death.
But I want you to make a strict mark, a
sFarland, Esq., left yes-
t trip to Burleson county
absent several days,
(iebanges brass daily in
market for silver and
is the most benevolent
}ver saw. For a very
*s lie mak,es everyone
uysof him. Hundreds
jaded down with riches,
i on this will be the rich-
' in the state, and the
ouldassess this “jewel-
it it < ost, whenever he
v opera house is nearly
use. In it can be seated
)0, aboye'and below,
imber ofreal estate t mfera in
of mar.
e 1844. The number
>nses 358.
MCDlCAP ASSOCIATION.
uupty Medical Association met
atte’s office with the following
j present: f)rs. Ghent, Alien,
udson. Hector, Talley, Russel,
enheimer, Euoch, of War-
Flint, of Howard. Tho fol-
i president; Enoch, vice presi-
riiut. second vice president; Huti-
liid vice president; Tolley, sec
j Batte. corresponding secretary;
jhent, Russel and Talley, were
d as delegates to State Medica
iatiou and Dr. Russel as delegate
l Atnericuo Medical Association.
Ssociation will meet in the future
cWliiter’s building. A circnlu-
aedical library will be attachec
Association in the future.
) total receipts of the Belton p<*st
for the year' 1886, amounts to
7 16. The recent reduction in
postage very materially affectei
!ary of die post master, as before
eduction the salary of tho Belton
mister was $3000 per year, with
irk hire paid; and it has since
J W Embroe and Ben D Lee to
E F Lde, for $86, 4 3-10 acres.
Joseph L Wallace to Johu A
Wallace, tor $1500, 31 1-2 acres.
W F Douthit to L A Taylor, fo:
$103.35. 50 acres.
L A Simpson,agent,to B H Simp-
son, for $800,100 acres.
GR Freeman to Edward M Ca-
sey, for $1500, 100 acres.
Allen Duncan and wife to M A
Goode, for $4025, 20 1-4 acres.
A. E. Hutchins to Ciay May, for
$2,500, 73 acres.
S. E. Harper to S. A. Speer, for
$100, a portion of the D. H. Vanvie
tor third league.
J. Z. Miller and wife to T. K. El-
liott, for $45, five acres out of the
Silas Knight 640 tract.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
R. Y. Ea.mnn and Miss’ S. A.
Gregory.
James Hind and Emma Jones.
J. T. Cogburn and Miss S. E.
Hindman.
H. J. Rogers and Miss Mary L.
Patton.
G. W. Sharp and Mrs. H. J.
Kattes.
Alfred Ciisby and-Alice Daniel,
(colored.)
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
J. D. Hooks and Mrs. J. Loatbov-
man.
J. W. Posey and Miss Amanda
L. Richardson.
It is the prevailing opinion here
that Nelson will appeal his case.
The scales of justice above tho
court house, aro not evenly .bal-
anced. Thore is a variat ion of not
less than ten degrees. If justice
never varies more than this, it will
be much above the average.
Belton bas two hose and one
ho;>k and ladder company. When
there is a fire and a member does
not go to it he is fined $2.50, and
when the foreman does not re-
sdond ho is fined $5, yet there is
no fire alarm; and frequently all
the member do not know there is a
fire until it is too late to go to it.
For some time these eompanios
have been calling on the city au-
thorities to establish an alarm—
which can he readily done, but
they have turned a deaf ear to their
roque8t.vAt lait the three com-
panies, to-day, brought their
truck to the courthouse with
a view of disbanding. A council
of war was had and resulted in the
companies giving tho city one
week to establish the required al-
arm. If thi& is uot done they will
disband a leave tho city to run its
i reduced to $1700 wjth only $500
This is very
tired for clerk hire.
11 pay for the large volume o’
mess transacted, with office hours
11 times of night uud day.—News,
icensed to marry, Alfred Ciisby to
e Daniels.
i tho case of the state vs. Ed. 8.
ton for murder, which lias been on
i sinc&last Monday, the jury re-
led a verdict of guilty and assesset
punishment at two yeais in the
itentiary.
'rade is somewhat dull, which
Iways the case for about two
sks immediately succeeding the
eternity. Where there is ono parent that
seems qualified for the work there seem to bo
twenty parents who miserably fail. Here is
a father who says: “My child shall know
nothing but religion; ho shall hear nothing
but religion; he shall see nothing but
religion." The boy is aroused at 0 o'clock in
the morning to recite tho Ten Command-
ments. He is awakened off the sofa on Sun-
day night to see how much he knows of the
Westminster catechism. It is religion morn-
ing, noon and night Passages of Scripture
are plastered on the bedroom wail. He looks
for'the day of the month in a religious alma-
nac. Every minister that comes to tho house
Is told to take the boy aside and talk to
him and tell _ him what a great sin
ner he is. After a while the boy
come* to that period of life when he is
too old for chastisement, and too young to
know and feel the force of moral principle.
Father and mother are sitting up for the
boy to come home. 7 It is nino o’clock nt
night—ten o’clock—it is twelve o'clock—it is
half past twelvo, and they hear tho night key
jingle in the door. They sny he is coming.
George goes very softly through the hall,
hoping to got up stairs before he is accosted.
The father says, “George, where havo you
been?” “Been out!" Yes, ho has been out,
«nd ho has been down, and he is on the broad
road to destruction, for this life and the lifo
to come. Father says: “There is no use in
the Ten Commandments; the catechism seems
to me to bo an utter failure. ” Ah, my friend,
you make a very great mistake. You stuffed
that child with religion until he could not
digest it; you made that which is a joy in
many households an abhorrence in yours. A
man in midlife said to me: “I can’t become
* Christian. In my father’s house I got such
a prejudice against religion I don’t want
any of it. My father was ono of the best
men that ever livod, but he had such severe
notions about things, and bo jammed re-
ligion down my throat, until I don’t want
any of it, sir.” Thore havo been somo who
have erred in that direction.
There are households where mother pulls
ono Way and father pulls the other. Father
says: “My son, I told you the first time I
caught you in a falsehood I would chastise
you, aid now I am going to do it.” Mother
says: “Don’t, let him off this time.” In some
families it is all scolding and fretfulness with
tho child; from Monday morning to Satur-
day night it is that style of culture. Tho boy
is picked at, and picked at, and picked at
Now you might better give one sound chas-
tisement and havtf dono with it, than to in-
dulge in the fierpetual scolding and fretfbl-
wm. There Is more health Jju one good
jlid&ys.
r 'pIBTBICT court decisions.
Henry McKenney for theft—mis-
W. L. Jones, for rape, 4 years.
unsound foot: “Get out of my way, you
lame brat!” Whot chance for a boy like
that?
Two young men como to 1 ho door of sin.
Thoy consult whether they will go in. Tho
ono young man goes in and tho other retreats.
Oh, you say, tho last hud better resolution.
No, that was not it. The first young man
had no early good influence; tho last had been
piously trained, and whou ho stood nt the
door of sin discussing tho matter ho looked
around as if to see somo one, and ho felt an
invisible hand on his shoulder saying: “Don’t
go ini Don’t go in! Whoso hand wns it? A
mother's hand, fifteen years ago gono to
dust. A gentleman was telling mu of the
fact that some years ago there wore two
young men who stopped at tbo door of tho
Park theatre In Now York. The question
was whether they should go ly. That night
there was to bo a very immoral play enacted
in tho Park theatre. Ono man went in; the
other stayed out. Tho young man who went
in went on from sin to siu and through
a crowd of iniquities, and. died in the
hospital of delirium tremens The other
young man, who retreated, chose Christ,
went into the Gospel, and is now ono of the
moat eminent ministers of Christ in this coun-
try. the man who retreated gave os his
reason for turning buck from tho Park the
atrothat night that there was a voico
within him saying: “Don’t go in; don’t go
In." And for that reason, my friends, I be-
lieve so much in Bible classes. But there is
something better than the Bible class, and
that is the Sunday school class. I like it be-
cause it takes children at an earlior point;
and tho infant class I like still better, because
It takes children before they begin to walk or
to talk straight, and puts thorn on the road to
heaven. You cannot begin too early. You
stand on tho bank of a river flowing by. You
cannot stop that river, but you/ travel days
and days toward tho sourco o£ it, and you
find after a while where it conies down drop-
ping from tho rock, and with vour knife you
make a courso in this or that direction for the
dropping to take, and you deefldo the course
of the river. You stand and see your chil-
dren’s character rolling on with great impet-
uosity and passion, and you cannot affect
them. Go up toward the souroo where the
character first starts and decide that it shall
and It will follow tho
Milton Brinegar, for thelt, mis-
I ( marriage licenses.
W. F. Haglor and Miss Lena
Martin.
/Walter B. Hull and Rhoda E.
Hubert.
J. L. Flaniken & Sallie Thomp-
son.
h M. S. Ward and Mattie Paulus.
J-J\ H. Osburn and Lizzie Vau-
A New Jersey Mudstone.
Benjamin Titus, of Trenton, N. J., has
somowhat of a mania for collecting curiosi-
ties. Among bin latest acquisitions is quite a
large specimen of what is commonly known
as tho madstono. Beforo it was accidentally
brokon by a fall on a stone floor it was about
soven inches long and an inch thick and
shaped liko a calf’s tongue. On wetting the
finger and applying it to the stone tho latter
will adhere to tho skin and cun only bo pulled
off with considerable exertion. Should there
lm a cut on the finger Mr. Titus says that, this
application will*cause pains to ^hoot up the
arm as far ns tho shoulder, According to the
popular belief umdstoueaaro supposed to cure
rattlesnake bites and to preclude all liecesaity
for sending u dog bitten mortal across to M.
Pasteur. Tbo stone is extremely hal'd, al-
though very liglrt in weight, and it is of a
dull gray color. The present owner hiur
never had a chance to test its virtues.—Cbi-
chgo Herald.
1&. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
i- The county commissions met last
Saturday, Hon. J. M. Roseborough
presiding The >ther commission-
s ere present were, Joe Miller, G. P.
Hodges, S. N. Strange and Spencer
The Leon bridge was received
* from the Kansas Bridge company
and the balance due said company,
W$898, allowed, as follows: Cash $200
Nj$td warrant on the county treas-
urer for $698, payable March 1,
f Mrs. S. A.- Love allowed $5 per
/month for support, payable from
1 pauper fund.
, Mrs. S. A. Cate allowed $5 per
"month for support, till further
The county attorney ordered to
^ bring suit immediately against T.
10. Williamson, of Wise county, for
amount due on his note of $360 for
lot 38 of Bell county school lands
yiR Wise county.
fe. The following accounts were al-
; S. A. Sparks for feeding prison-
fere up to December 31, 1886, out of
ieodrt house and jail fund.
Pedestrian Tours by an Empress.
Though tho oinpress of Austria is no Ion
allowed to tako horse exercise, she is ui
her returning strength to make extensive
dostrhm excursions in tho neighborhood
Ischl. Her household find it difficult, in fi
to fall In with their imperial mistress' i
ways, for sho not only walks long diatom
but gets up at abnormal hours in tbo oh
ing to start on her journeys. Last Mom
she was up just after 4 a. in. in order to ct
for the Loo de Grundl, and only got back
Ischl about 8 hi thoovening. if monarch
the period mean to go in this way intend
courtiers will soon hove to pass on examl
tion in athletics, including the walking o
measured rnilo.— London Figaro.
A PlagM of FUoa.
Tho toi« oud villages in South
bearable in connection
and mouth. The air wr
tafc>tho right direction,
path you give It.
own machine.
O father I O
But I want you to
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