Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 15, Ed. 1, Friday, April 1, 1887 Page: 2 of 8
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BT THE
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lass Mail Matter
it Fort Worth as
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addres3 as well as th > nxnv or the chengc
Lnnot be made
Advertising Furnished on Appli
cation
fttanccs by draft postoffice money order or
ftered tetter at risl of office
csnondcncc is solicited upon all news sub
fnpt information of events aid news happen
Y general interest solicited
J communication intended for publication
be accompanied by the icriters name and ad
I not for publication but as an evidence of
tfaith
liicti writing to The Gazette on business
nalfo themselves will please inclose stamp for
letters or communications for Tub Gazette
< er orv business or for publication should be
cssedtoTuE azkttk or hemoChAI Puk
ing Co Fort Worth Tex and NOT TO
JfiDlALS
checks money orders postal notes etc
Id be made payable to the DEMOCRAT PUIJ
1INO CO
ml thing that puzzles Da las and Fort
usC now is how to meet the water de
ithc prohibition amendment carrie
pa Courier
is sorely puzzled over the prob
providing its people with pure
Fg water but the artesian wells of
orth long ago settled the question
founda t supply of the purest water
city of the largest size Fort
has all the water it needs
New York World continues its
ifeland The editor of the
o have forgotten the mug
ilLandJoein Missouri
ansferring the state
the Radical to the
Mr Cleveland is
hst was done in
Lveland leaves the
Kie CIVR will Afc Demo
Tet him alone
an 00000
near 4J0O000
In the territory tributary by
jort Worth there were in
little more than
000
rail to
16C0 a
people
in ls70 very in 1880
there were 67157S and today not
less than 1000000 la that terri-
tory last year there were 1G0759S
head of cattle in that territory there
were ever 700000 bales of cotton raised
last year and the assessed values for
lSSG were over 240000000
In 1876 Fort Worth secured its llrst
railroad Today it has six railroads in
operation which afford nine outlets The
steel rails are laid for twelve mile3 on
the seventh road and tenth outlet The
eighth road and eleventh outlet is being
locatet The ninth road and twelfth
outlet ba < been located The work of
locating the tent1 oad and thirteenth
outlet will begin within four weeks And
the eleventh road and fourteenth outlet
will be here within one year from this
date
Fort Wortii might find a useful hint
in the statement that in many parts of
France heavy machinery is run by ar-
tesian well power The deeper the well
the greater the pressure A well at
Grenelle has a pressure of sixty pounds
tkthe square inch end the water is so
hotthat it is used for heating the hospi-
tals in the vicinity This city has over
one hundred artesian wells and seems
scarcely conscious of the great advantage
such bountiful supply of pure soft water
gives it over al neighboring towns and
cities
Nashville Tknn is a lively partici-
pant in the real estate boom thaVhas
struck the south and west The Ameri
can Af e 23d irist has a long article
showing the rapid advances made in
Values of which the following are speci
mens k 4
In West Nashvillc a party bought a picco of <
proQctvfor 53200 eighteen months ago Lately
bc was tjred 330i0 for it and refused the
jffer In the same part of the city three days
ago a man who iiad speculated in Birmingham
Jreal estate invested in West NasliYllle lie
fpald SS000 for a lot and before ihe deed was
made he had a profit of 5M00 offered which he
refused Last week he sold at a prcflt of tS00
l over 50 per cent profit in thirty days La6t
November a lot on Lamar street sold at auction
Pi or315 A few days ago the same lot sold for
53500
The advance Iies been as great in East Nash-
ville as any other part of the city Fiftyseven
acres there sold a year ago lor 560 0 About a
week ago the same property sold for 52400J an
advance of 518000 la one year
In North Nashville property has advanced 100
per cent lately The first ol the year the Wil-
liam Harding farm was sold for 5l2t00 The
purchasers have been offered double that
amount for it time and again which they re
fu ed and hold it at a much higher figure A
block of lots in the same section were pur
chased sixty days ago for 5S 00 were sold in
thirty days for 512000 and again in ten days at
19000 and are now hrld for 3700
About one year ago a lot la North Nashvl 1c
sold for 5175 a foot It was sod two weeks ago
lor 57 a foot again for 510 ano again at 513
Mr J L Valentino two years ano paid 5100 for
a lot which five weoks ago he cold for 55000 The
purchaser subsequently sold It for 5C500 and it
Is now held at 5700
Three young men two of whom were news
paper men last month purchased fiftyseven
fiftyfoot lots on the Hydes Ferry p ke from
J L Valentino fcnd J M Williams for 512 SCO
and the next day sold them to a syndicate com-
posed of Volncv James and Harvey Neal and
others for 519000
Mr Bell of Cooke daring the discussion of
the bill for the appointment of a state geol
ogist stated that It wanted no better evidence
that there was a job In a measure than when he
saw the press of the state especially the press
of this city advocating it and this was ap-
pended by a few Galveston News Austin
Keport
What warrant has Mr Bell of Cook or
any other man for sucli statement as
the above There are three hundred
ewspapsrs in the state of Texas 3
Ln ver yet happened that they ha
agreed upon any measure
b ZEinErtl
of thebJ
of the press of the state simply from
the facts in the case and presuming
nothing in its favor how can all the
newspapers of the state be convicted of
dishonesty when they do not all unite on
public measures Mr Bell of Cooke is a
lawyer ana he ought to be able to easily
convict himself of illiberality and injus-
tice on the above testimony from his own
mouth Suppose even one Texas news-
paper were reckless enough to
declare that it wanted no bet-
ter evidence that there was
merit in a measure than when it saw the
Twentieth Legislature especially the ma-
jority of the Lower House oppose such
measure what would be thought and
said of that paper Mr Eell of Cooke has
done the press of the state a great in-
justice and himself discredit in making a
statement for which there Is no more
foundation than there is for the assertion
that all lawyers are liars
Mr Powdhrlys latest decision that
the Knights of Lr or organizition is not
to be used for political purpose is in
keepiEg with previous declarations made
by him and eminently wise and patriotic
He was plucky too in selecting Chicago
where the socialistic element seems to
have succeeded in using the organization
rather freely at times as the spot to
apply the corrective A sensible man is
Fowderly and when the order gets
thoroughly en rapport with his views and
aspirations it will be equipped for a long
career of practical usefulness
NO TEWKSBUEY IN TEXAS
We have never had Tewksbury methods
in Texas in the management of the state
institutions which are sustained for the
naturally unfortunate or the vicious clas-
ses Our system despte tile lack
of facilities for confining prisoners where
they can be worked within walls thus
blending refoimatory with punitive
features has been m the main humane
aud creditable far more creditable than
the contractlease system that is in vogue
in Georgia Alabama Tennessee and
other states Our institutions for the
blind the insane and deaf mutes have all
been operated efficiently and humanely
and of late years the care of the insane
has received an increased degree of at-
tention coupled with a more liberal out-
lay of money that is indicative of a high
state of progress It can be imagined
then how reputable people will
regret to hear that
the state institutions
Wivts
Chi
any one of
and especially
that for the care of the insane should
come under suspicion as to the manage-
ment thereof to a degree warranting leg-
islative investigation The resolution
offered by Mr Jones of Panola county
and which was promptly adopted by the
House will be a genuine surprise to the
people of the whole state and nothing
short of the most thorough Impartial in-
vestigation wili satisfy the public Turn
on the calcium light and let nothing be
kept back At this stage of the matter
The Gazette cannot venture surmises
or speculations There may be grounds
for the suspicions and on the other hand
it may be that the management of the
Austin Asylum for the North Texas in-
stitution was not mentioned in Mr
Jones resolution will be able
to demonstrate that its operations have
been above reproach For humanitys
sake as well as for the credit of the state
it is to be hoped that the latter supposi-
tion may prove to be the case Tub Ga
zktuk is loth to believe that any impro-
per or inhuman methods could be carried
on in tie Austin institution with the sanc-
tion or Vnowledge of the superintendent
and prefers to believe until absolute
proof to the contrary is adduced that the
charges apd allegations will be met and
refuted But let the investigation be
opened and conducted so thoroughly and
impartially that all the truth will come
out and be laid before the people Then
it will be possible to arrive at a fair and
intelligent judgnaent of all the questions
involved in the caarges Those who are
most affacted by these charges will we
imagine court such scrutiny and not rest
content
eluded
V
until it is instituted and con
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Dont take that cocktail in the morn-
ing If you have swelled head
nauseated stomach a oil Anstrung nerves
resulting fromthe Convivial ifarty ls t
nfght TheJstire ad safe way to clSfr
bwGbBfronv hex brulh est
ejtC recovBr
for food and tone up the nervous sysf m
is to use Dr Pierces MPleasant Purgative
Pellets Sold by all i
A MODEL M
Ho Has Seven
Jruggists
OBUON
TtsjP
dr i
and Over Forty
Malad I T Eterprise
Allen Hunsucker the polyg who was
captured by the DeputyT United States
Marshals last week after shooting at him
and cdusiug him to swim he Malad river
during the recent cold spelf from reliable
reports is a rooster of the flrat cross so to
speak Several years ago Me took an
elevenyearold daughter Vif Bishop
Jensen at BrighamCity as a polygamous
wife She at empted to go howje one day
and he overtook her and like a fiend
grabbed her by the hair of th head and
draaged her one tenacreblock length
al jng the street cursing hef at the same
time for leaving him He Aow has seven
women it is said and has upward of forty
children He was a capttftiu in the Mor
mon Battalion and a Lofnanite too we
are told
s >
The Iron 7radH
Pittsburg Pa Mslch 28 The Pitts
burg iron manufacturers say the card
rate of iron will haufdly go any higher
than it is at
tlves of Swedish
present as the representa
and English 11 ms have
invaded Pittsburg pnd are making despe
rate efforts to plale orders for foreign
iron Manufacturers fear that another
advance will let iia foreign producers
They also say the eisstern men now admit
they made a mistakf in declaring the last
advance The iroili business is not as
good as it was a fevlv weeks ago pig iron
having declined 50 cents a ton during the
past month and mt4ck bars 150
Thj Life of
thereof p rp hn
tional activity afid
certainteof quicf
nes u ccidentn
he flesh is the blood
od ineans healthy f anc
tfifs bears with it the
restoration from sick
PX J H McLeans
d Blood Purifier
d vitalizes and
1 Per
THE EELY GAZETTE FORT WOETH TEXAS FRIDAY APRIL 1
KEWS AND SO IES
The Chinese alphabet contains 30000
characters
Rub write is the latest explosive and is
workiDg wonders in English coal mines
A crack base ball player gets from two
to Hires times as much salary as a United
States Senator
Geronimo is employed in making gar-
dens at Fort Pickens He expects to raise cab-
bage this year
Governor Fitzhugh Le5 of Virginia
thlnss Grovrr Cleveland wll bo renominated
by the Democ ats
W H Price a poor writing teacher of
X niaOhlo has fallen hoir to 557500 In En-
gland He used to be a bootblack
A thirtytwofoot spruce log was re-
cently sawed Into boards in a Prget Sound mill
and made 6400 feet of lumber wl hout a knot
It Is estimated that the beggars of
Rome receive 5 000OOC a yvar In alms acd that
50 of them are worth from 5150C0 to 525000
each
Th Ohio Legislature has passed a bill
Increasing the Governor s salary to 3r00 It
i 1 not go into effect until the next adminis-
tration
Recent estimates place the total amount
paid bv the Unit d States In soldiers pension
sincp the close of the war of the rebellion at
ssesoojooo
In boring a well near Pine Gmve EJ
iner ° lda c untyNev stf am of a t < mperauiro
hot enough to cook potatoes was struck at a
depth of bixty feet below the surface
James II Marr eighyoue years of ace
and Inez L wreuson eightyfour arc the olde t
emplojesnc the tostal Department Washing-
ton They wero appointed by Andrew Jackson
in 1531
Fotirtyfour whiskev flasks were found
in ihehah ater < hc adj mrnment of the Id ho
Legislature One of them was nut quite empty
and is supposed to have been Qiopped by sume
stranger
In view of the recent decision of the
Supreme court tax col cctors In Mississippi
have b < en n tilled to btop collecting a tax on
commercial travelrs and whisky drummers
The annua1 revenue from those sources was
540C0O in that 6taie
The Russian army is said to be honey-
combed with a revolutionary element and pre
oictin aie maoe thai ilure will b a military
rising un ess the country very soon employs
the lsalf > trd troops In a campaign at a dls
tance from the sccie of agitation
Mrs Sarah Bland of Worthington
Ird claims to be the jldest perso in the state
Hi was born in Virginia in 17S2 has b ino
eleven en idren ten of whom a e Ilvl g and
a cording to tin Worthington Times has never
be n si ii enough to call physb Ian
The discovery ol rich gold deposits in
British Columbiaclose othe Imaginary bound-
ary line between that province and Alaska it s
te red may tea l to si rious trim le if t e tual
boundary 1a not refined lief re nuy attempt is
made to dcvciop thebe valuable fi us
Mrs Iltln Gousar has sent an open
letter to the women of Kansas who arc to vote
in the n unlcipal tleetlo s saying You wib
be required to gl fe yonr name Do not give
iourniibba dsnt e or your pt name but the
olo by which you were christened
A man in Kansas City has a fan owned
and ueed by Martha Washington On it s
painted tin only portrait extent ot Wshineion
in his youtn it re resents nlm at th i ge or
beventeen ciad in a captilus uniform About
lilm ro angels goddeases ana Indians
When cottonseed oil in a solidified
form was offered to housekeepers as a clean
and hea thful substitute for animal fats f ir
c oklug i urpohes it proved to be unsaleable
Made into bugus lard it sills readily and i3
greatly liked though It Is twice as costly as in
Us purer and better form
The Assistant United States Treasurer
at Cincinnati began redeeming trade dollars on
March 11 and hashen redeeming them up to
his limit which Is f 10000 per day ever since
Applications for 515o000 are already filed with
the Asslsant TrMSiire ior redemttion end
they will receive attention according to prece-
dence
The other day Professor James G May
of falcm Ind concluded that ha had taught
long eiiough and rlosed his scIiojI lie chose
a the day tne fifty eighth am lversary of his
mariage He had been teaching lor sixty five
year uaving spent 1 192 dayB lnthesihool
room and still at the age oi eightytwo was
an energetic and tuccessful tcaoher
A year ago at New Bedford Mass the
tendons in one of Etward K Russells It gs
were severed by accident Two tendons from
a dog were plnccd In Itussells limb and united
with tne severed tendon For ten months the
patient was not permitted to use the injured
mcti bcr but has now resumed w rfi the per
atlon having proved a complete success
Two veterans of the war of 1S12 have
died recently Oni was Joseph A Lloyd of
Louisville Mio was born in Virginia Inl7b6 and
who not onlv pervert In the Virginia militia in
1812 but In a Kentucky retiment In 861 The
other was Felix filbert Cochran who for over
forj years was a cotton ouyer in West brif
fin a and who was eightytight years old
when he died
The bounty of 5 cents placed on each
jackrabbit scalp is resulting in great slaughter
of the pests in Ca lfornla ThsElko Indcp n
dent says that on a recent nay certifies es for
bounty on 20000 Bca p3 w re pressmen to the
Hoad of County Commisslone s and the Ilarny
Valley Item teiH of a wagon load of 7000 scales
starting for the county seat
The mica mines of North Carolina pro-
duce abont a ton per month of the mineral
w ich is used by the stove manrfa turers of-
t e north The recent discovery of mica mlne3
in Washington tf rlt ry of a fa sus erlor qual-
ity of mica Mil reduce > hc values of the North
Carolina mines The blocus or the metai In
the western mines are much larger and the
1 mlna clearer and supetlor in all repects to
any before discovered
A wine factorv has been built at Are
dondo Alachua county Fla by several Eng
llshmen of c pita it being the lhtontlon of this
concern o manufacture orans wine and bring
it to a i igh Btate of perfection This will be
exuorte to EngUnd tclnslvely as the firm
finds that it pays better than In tellt g it in the
United state alihough the indnstrv has only
been very recently established Alreaay the
firm have been de ugeo wit orders and thcy
will have to enlarge the lr establlchment
Further developments in the expose of
the Republican c rrupton In the recent Con
nectut st te campaign have added fuel to
tho sonsatioiiil political lire and social as wrll
jas politlal circles ae astounded It Ij staed
that the corruption fend cquaed if it did not
exceed 10i00 a large sum lor so small a
stat = nd aca ipaign b odlc onlv equaled by
that of 1SS0 when Blgrlow of New Haven rin
for Governor and when Marshall J < well then
at the head of the ttipublan National Com
mlttee poured tho money into his own state
with slavish hand
ift utfiulge W L Ezzard who died in At
lanta on the 24th inet in his nlntt oth year
after a weeks lllieFc was the oldest citizen of
At anta Whfn hP wont io ttianm In 1824 there
was a se tlementot sixty ve famliie where
the city uow stands When Atlanta was mcor
i ora ea as a vll ve Judge Efzardthen a young
lawyer was ciiO en lntendent When the cl y
was Incorporated h was elected Mayor and
served five term Then ic was sent to Con-
gress and stayed In Wash niton tfl o years
When in Consrrcs ho appeared b fore the Su-
preme court of the United Mmc in several im-
portant salts being associated wth Diulel
Webster and Henry Ciaj He wa re-
garded bv them as one of tuonostpr nihing
lawyers 1h th < country He returned to Ati nta
and was ele ted Judge of tnn Superior court
which position he held tenyeais Then he was
a member of the State Senate where his abi 1
ties were recos lzd and his influence was
greaer than any ot er six teen that c uld be
found After that he practiced law with great
Buccess a < d accumu a ed a fortune Judije
Ezzard w s birn In AbbevI lo Cnnty S 0
next door to tne h > use in whlh John O al
houn was bo n Aout ten vc ars ago the de-
c aed retired from public lite His fuueral
was attended by the judges of the supreme
court United States and Circuit courts and ihe
members of the bar in a body governor Gor-
don being 0e of tne pall bearers
The succes of the proposed national
drill from My 23 to 30 including a combination
parade of the Natlon l Guards > e i and he
Grand Army oi the Republic Is already sssured
Tho cash pi hea will aggregate 526 00 besides
which there will be stands of colors gold
siiver and bronze mtdaln and plate trophies
Thirty six states a > e represented In the appli-
cations already received The grounds for the
cam j are the monument grmnds lying
around the Washington monumen and
the drill ground Is the beautiful level
eclipse 1ing just south of tho Presidents
mansion known as the White lot I his ievel
plain onehalf a m e in circumference wilt be
fenced in and stands frufliclent to seat fora
30000 to 35000 persons will be erected Here
dallv during tne time of the drill will be held
contests to prove the excel ence of the citizen
soldiery m infantry artillery cavalry and zoa
av tctics Among the champion crack com-
panies so far formally entered are the
Montgomery Greys Vlcksbu g Southerns
St Paul Company D Indlanapiils
Light Infantry San Antonio Itifles
Bichmond Grays Milwaukee Light Horse At-
lanta Rifles Company B Twenty tbi d New
York regiment Lom x Rifles theMus atineB
or Iowa tno famous Houstons fl Chicka
sawa Louisville Legion Mo y v
Blues the Lynchburg Home
Troy N Yt Citizen Qorps
Virginia regiments and battalioi
a OhioMichigan Iowa JJ
i n immi innllj entered
WASHINGTON LETTEE
Some Idea of the Work a Real LIT8
Congressman Has to Do A
Tolnminous Correspondence
How IJnslneKB Is Conducted in tho Otlico
Room for the Use of the United
States Treasurer
Correspondence of the Gazette
Washington March 20 Tiiere are
still in the city a number of congressmen
who have work to do in tho departments
Almost every day in the week they are
met in the corridors of the public build-
ings with a bundle of papers and inemo
rarda under their arms One of these
gentlemen was seen by your correspond-
ent this morning as he came from the
Treasury department and knowing that
he had an extensive business interest to
auend to at home I asked him why he
didnt pack up hisjbelongings and leave as
so many of the others has done Iu
reply he Invited me to his room at
the hotel When we entered the room
he pointed to a pile of letters on the table
in the center There said he is my
mornings mail I want you to count the
letters and look over their contents I
did so There were fiftythree letters
every one of which called for a direct an-
swer as well as for a visit to one or the
other of the departments Of the tif ty
three only one contained a stamp for the
reply Mv congressional friend re-
marked That is the second stamp I
have had this winter I use on an aver-
age fifty a day and of course pay for
them out of my own funds although in
not one case in twenty have I ever
seen or heard of my correspond-
ent before One of these letters was
from a young man who desired
a place in the printing office lie sent
the indorsement of the ward committee
a3 well as that of the president of a-
social club Another came from a widow
whose son had enlisted in the regular
army and who was very anxious to
secure his discharge as she had no other
means of Mipport than his earnings The
fourth asked the member to see the Secre-
tary of the Navy and induce him to com-
mute the sentence of Imprisonment for
four mouths which an intoxicated sailor
had Drought up n himself Twentyseven
of the fiftythree were requests for infor-
mation touching certain pension claims
Five correspondents desired packages of
seeds from the Agricultural department
One man gave a list of a f w of ihe gov-
ernment publications which he was anx-
ious to secure The li3t eraoractd nearly
every work of value which the govern
ment has ever published and to have
supplied even half the wants of this man
would have taken 50 per cent of my con
eressional friends salary for the year
A school teacher desired a map of the
United States A somewhat prominent
politician from this gentlemans state de-
sired his strvue in securing the pardon
of a cousin of the aforesaid poli-
tician who had during a moment of
temporary indiscretion broken into the
house of another constituent of the c > n
grpssman and had packed up and carried
off all he could find of value therein The
other letters all asked for congressional
document anl were more easily an-
swered than any others LTow do you
rid yourself of this correspondence I
asked It must take a great deal of your
time to simply reply to these letters I
have adopted a plan of mv own was the
reply When I llrst came here I used
to dictate an answer to each one to my
stenographer he used to write the letters
and I would sign them Now I do not
dictate mure than two or three a day
My clerk is a very valuable young
man and he reads all these letters
before I look at them lie answers every-
thing out those which relate to matters of
which he has no knowledge These he
turns over to me and I dictate my answer
back to him By this means I am relieved
of a great deal of labor Tne only in-
structions I give him are that he answer
everything as briefly as possible and never
commit me in anything But still I work
steadily from 9 in the morning until 2 in
the afternoon in the departments and
until I leave here I shall have to continue
to do so
The office of the United States Treasu-
rer is now practically vacant although
Mr Jordans resignation does not take
effect until April 1 Mr Jordans office
however is occupied People who have
business with that department of tne
government and who do not know that
Mr Whelpley is Acing Treasurer open
the door of the room formerly occupied
by Mr Jordan and riaturaily inquire
where they shall be directed
to the Treasurers office Just
inside the door is a screen cov-
ered with brown cloth which is very
similar to those sometimes placed within
the door of a barroom Behind this and
a little to the right a comfortable look-
ing sofa is set against the wall On this
sofa during the past few days a younc
man has been stretched who kindly
answers questions relating to the office
Ho has a very peculiar drawl and an air
of great resignation He invariably
tquint3 at the visitor then removes a
binocular 4 from the hook on
which it hangs inserts it iu his
right eye and after gazing
for a moment at his questioner answers
the question in as few words as possible
and removes the eye gass again covers
his face with a newspaper and settles
himself once more for a nap This is not
a very buinessliKe method but it is the
way in which business is conducted In the
officeroom devoted to the use of the
United States Treasurer
PALO PINTO CODSTY
The Drouth Sufferers Acctptiug Under
Oath all tho Aid Offered by the State
Palo Pinto Tex March 251SJ7
To the Editor of the Gazette
I noticed in a late issue of The Ga-
zette a letter from Mr A S Logan of
Saleville Palo Pinto county commenting
on the action of the Legislature in mak-
ing the oath for relief of those in destitute
circumstances so harsh that our people
could not take the same without being
Insulted Mr Logan says the legisla-
tor thBt proscribed that oath did nut
know our people and did not know when
the same was offered to them
to subscribe to it that it was
an insult to their pride and beneath the
dignity of our citizens to subscribe to the
same He seems to intimate that the
people will not accept the relief on the
terms Your correspondent after read-
ing Mr Logans letter went over to oar
County Judges office to gain information
from the record There he found that
395 persons had subscribed to the oath
named by Mr Logan and that relief
had been granted out of the
state donati n just that many
times This looks more as if Mr Logan
did not know his people than anything
else Your correspondent did not hear
Colonel Ferguson when here4 but the
look of intelligence about this gentleman
does not show that he misconstrued the
law for onr people No one need take the
opinion of any one unless theyjjwant to
The law is plain and reads thusS
Art 4 The commissioners of jny coun-
ty receiving said money shall immediately
urchase corn fl ur or meal vjt such
ies and in such manner as saiu court
iaem properand shall distiib e the
same as a donation to the destitute citi-
zens of their several counties as their im-
mediate necessities may demand
Art 5 The commissioners court pur-
chasing provisions under the preceding
article shall give orders on the county
for money to pay for the same And in
distributing said provisions shall give no
aid to any persons who have or are able
to buy bread for themselves and shall
require affidavits to be made by two
credible persons one of whom shall
be the person for whom the
aid is sought showing such inability to
purchase said food and further showing
such persons for whom aid is solicited to
have been bona fide citizens of the county
in which they then reside for more than
three months next preceeding the time of
making such applications
Now then this language is plain and
our Commissioners court prescribed the
oath accordingly which cannot be misun
derstoodaud 395 persons have swallowed
the oath Mr Logan ought to come over
to Palo Pinto and get acquainted with the
people During our District court held
first week in March Mr Logan was in
Palo Pmto and your correspondent saw
him in Judge Henrvs office Mr L gan
had a copy of the oath and was
getting the Judges opinion as well
as giving his He concluded at astthathe
would taee the oath and gnt relief Your
correbpondent told him that he could not
take the oath and if he subscribed to
same your correspondent reminded him
that the grand jurj being in session might
investgate same Mr Logan did not
take the oath did not get relief but we
suppose he took an intuit went off and
told Thk Gazette that tne oath was con-
temptible Let Mr Logan keep quiet and
say no more J L Cunningham
FEMALE VOTERS
The Registration of Women In Kansas
Preparatory to Casting tho Unllot
Kansas City Times
KANSAS CITY KAN
The women who have registered in
Kansas City Ivan are generally of the
best families and include the strong
minded women who act and think for
themselves A small per cent from the
more modest walks of life have found
their way to the cty clerks r ffice Over
100 colored women have registered On
atveral occasions female applicants ol
foreign birth have been disappointed and
in two instances so strong was the de re
to vote Umtthey took out regular papers
of naturalization
Tne great ambition on the part of the
women who propose to exercise their vot-
ing privileges seems to be to enforce the
prohibitory mws of the state and to se-
cure good raanugers of the educational
interests of the city
Tht re are many hundred ladies in the
city who obstinately refuse to register
and could not by any means be induced to-
go to the polls on election day but the
new law will increase the vote of the city
between 400 and 500 but will have no de-
cided influence otherwise than as indi-
cated
NO EXCITEMENT IN BURLINGTON
Burling ion Kan March 15 Up to
date only nine women have registered in
this cityand from the present indications
the whole number will not exceed
twentyfive Most of the ladies here do
not care to get down into the dirty pool
of politics und the wives of the leading
citizens of Burlington will have nothing
to do with the regi > tering or voting busi-
ness All the ladies registering will do
so at the earnest solicitations of prospect-
ive candidates for city offices
THREE HUNDRED IN WINFIELD
Winiield Kan March 18 Two
hundred women In this city have rois-
tered and it is the general feeling that
about 100 more will do so There will
be about 1600 males registered It is fair
to presume that something over 200
women will vote The first who regis-
tered were of the short hair and hard
faced element but it is safe to say that a
majority of those who vote are of the
more respectable element
GREAT INTEREST IN STOCKTON
Stockton Kan March 15 Great in-
terest is being manifested by the women
of this city in the municipal suffrage law-
giving them the right to vote They are
holding weekly meetings for the purpose
of deciding what candidacy to support in
the spring election They will poll about
100 votes
A BLACK AND WHITE BABE
Exhibition of a Startling Monstrosity from
Arkansas
St Louis GlobeDemocrat
There is on exhibition in North St
Louis the greatest living curiosity ot the
nineteenth century It is a child five
months old the daughter of full blooded
Ethiopians but so peculiarly marked as
to excite the wonder of all who visit the
place The feet and ankles of the little
girl are a dark copper color the remain-
der of tne lower limbs are as white as the
skin of any child born of white parents
Around the upper part of the abdomen is
a peculiarly shaped white belt while all
the rest of the body as well as the face
is of the same color as the feet In the
center of the forehead and extending
a little way on the scalp is a white maik
resembling an inverted Lt At the up-
per end of the L is a portion of the
head covered with hair very much in tex-
ture ana color like very fine wool The
rest of the head has for its covering the
ordinary black wool of the negro The
child is perfectly formed healthy and
active and in its general features shows
the African blood which courses through
its veins It was born October 9 last at
Alma Ark and is the youngest of three
children born to Isaac and Mary Holib
well The parents are each about thiity
years of age black and ignorant Th ay
have for the past two months trayel 2d
from place to place exhibiting their lit le-
one to the gsze of the curious and receiv-
ing in return whatever the visitors desire
to give Mr Hollowell when asked
what significance was attached to the
peculiar marks on the child indicated by
his reply that he thought they indicated
that the little one bore the imprints of the
Almightys hand and was destinedlto have
a wonderful career He explainejd them
as follows
Well de brown stocklns is d
on de Lawds feet de white legs
marble pillahs de belt means de
up de loins an de white har is t
wool on de Lawds head
Some time before the child wfas born
Mr Hollowell said the parents hi
to refer one day to the subject of pij
children and wondered what they
do should one be born to them s
they had heard about The mothe
ward dreamed that she had given
a child of uncommon appearan
which grew np and was transposed
Heaven and enrolled among the
hosts The dream made a strong
s brass
is de-
g rdin
e white
angelic
impres
sion on her and she is strongly Tin belief
that a brief sojourn on earth Jwill be
accorded the little one sne has nw with
her
Evidently they are bound to r ake the
most of it while it remains wiJk them
Countless visitors go to see the cluriosity
and both the parents are careful to re-
mind them to leave a dimtfl for the
mother The negroes who vitit it are
greatly impressed with the appearance of
the child and seem hardly j ow
whether to pity or envy the pare
THE BABI
A Series of Letters from Marion Har
land to Those Who are the Mothers
of Immortal Beings
papa as a BabyTender Mr Tetterbja
Definition Some Fathers and Some
Other Fathers
BV MARION HARLAND
fCopyrlghted 1SS7 by the Author J
You know Dolphus my dear
Mrs Tetterby I might have given
self away in several directions At
said
my
one
time four were after meat once two of
them were sons of Mars
We are all sons of Mas my dear
said Mr Tetterby jointly with pas
Tne uamythologlcal husbands amend-
ment to his spouses statement was per
tiuenr according to his comprenension of
her boast Because her baby is herself
bone of her bone flesh of her Iksb heart
of her heart mamma overlooks the fact
that the treasure is neld in copartner
ship Some fathers good naturedly let the
j case go by detault others maintain a
sort of propriety right by stated visits to
j the nursery early in the tenants life and
i by giving a casting vote afterward when
an important issue arises The mate can
handle the craft in fair weather but when
the barometer falls fast the captain ap-
pears on the bidge More freque tly
the duty of discipline n relegated to the
mother and we may remark very sensi-
bly A mans hand is heavy and ne sel-
dom has the patience with infantile misdt
meauors that his wife used to such
learns to exercise in the management of
her brood
By the time a child Is seven years old
he should have outgrown the need of
corporeal punishment if it ever existed
j Up to that age his mother is more cap-
able of judging and correcting him
than the sterner parent who brings to
bear on the case the semimartial law by
which countingroom office and ware-
house arc governed Moreover men
seldom have their tempers under
perfect control and as they con-
fess find it difficult to punish
in cold blood They do not chastise con
araore but with vi or disproportionate to
the offense and suoj ct Whatsoever
thy hand finds to do do it with thy
might is an excellent rule in general
practice When the abstract case is a
naughty baoy the executioner a muscular
fatner humanity pleads for an exception
The mother shuddering as if every stripe
fell on her naked heart tempers justice
with mercy as she should Better spoil
a child a little than to write undue sever-
ity ot treatment upon his memory in let-
ters of blood that can never be erased
The business of dressing feeding and
otherwise caring for babys personal
needs devolves of course upon the
mother There are men of womanly
sympathies and deft fingers who not only
lend a hand iu domestic emergencies
but acquire kill and dexterity In the dis-
charge of the duty The majority leave
the performance of it where it belongs
classing babytending with the essentially
feminine occupations in which the other
sex may not dabble without incurring the
imputation of Old Bettyism and
Molly codling When essayed bv
masculine inexperience the results are
occasionally disastrousu ually ludicrous
The young wife of a country clergyman
left her sleeping child in her hm bands
care while the went to a neighboring vil-
lage on an errand In her absence a
party of old friends called and
see the baby The proud papa ran up-
stairs dug the sleeping cherub out of the
blankets and bassintt and deciding that
the slip it wore was hardly presentable
sought in the bureau drawers for another
selecting as fittest the christening robe
laid away in lavender by the mother
This the amateur tiring man dragged on
broke the midnight hash
Between the curtains dra
mit the air we could p
mother a sickly baby
baby1
th b
on one arm a well
on the other pacing
She was wan large eyH
over the soiled frock hind side before
fastened it front with large safetypins
tied on a lace cap upside down bound a-
broad ribbon sash about the waist of the
infant who was too much astonished to
whimper and bore it in triumph htlf
effaced and wholly disfigured to the ex-
pectant visitors Such a monument to
zeal without knowledge would be con-
vulsively funny but for the inseparable
pathetic touch
Yet more absurd was the spectacle pre-
sented by a twoyearold girl whom ler
father dressi d unaided when her motier
was ill He brought her to the breakhst
table her frock wrong side out andthe
upper part of her body indescribably muf-
fled in a pair of drawers he had mistaken
for an apron Her arms were lost in tie
legs one band was made fast about Lr
neck the other secured as a toobrief bdt
at the waist It did not look quite riht
to me the poor fellow responded to lae
roar oi laughter which greeted him lut
h iv was I to know How indeedin
the steady grind of the mill that may tirn
oat fortune and must give out daily bisad
for the wife and the bairns
If the elective principle holds good aiy
where it should In the appointment of
work all of which cannot be done by < ne
person Osly do not let the man of m3iy
cares and affairs make the Sindford aid
Merton Tommys mistake in fancybg
that the short end of the pole on whbh
the burden hangs is the lighter or tie
bearer His wfe may appreciate the
chafe t > d weight A his load In Hs most
considerate mood he cannot overrate the
neverendingne3S incident upon the
mothers ofllce the persistency of her
responsibilities
At the risk of wearying you with
sketches from life by our own artist
let me illustrate this point When a
school girl I attendil the marriage of the
prettiest woman I kiew to the man of
her choice Shehadbeena petted belle
from childhood and 1 had won her from
a host of competitors Three years after
the wedding day a pvty of us young
people strolling home g summer night
after a moonlight sail p sed a fashionable
cafe Pour or Ave ipn were seated
within smoking and Vhatting among
them the husband of th while m belle
handsome gay and cthfortable with
cigar inv mouth and a glass of
golden sherrycobbler ntering with
icebeside him Ten mi
us by his tasteful cottage
per windows were openv
tes walk took
ome The up
Idish wailiogs
f the street
Vtback to ad
be wife and
iiteen months
three months
hamber floor
haggard her
slender form bent unde ner load but as j
she tottered back and fdth she tried to
sing a nurserv ditty The old old
story said our chaptone a blunt I
tongued spinster I
Grateful variations of tjii old story
goodly contrasts to the pitnre are given
by fathers young and m dle aged who
cheerfully share the mothirs vigils oT
backs that neyer ache anc stalwart arms
for the dear burdens in thich they are
equally interested Men ho do not for-
get that tired as they ma be at night-
fall women who have not v asted the tree
air all day or escaped It lone minute
from the nursery toil aVd nursery
atmosphere are weary uto heart
andsnnl sickness and cantot
forward to respite and slumh
that night has come M
put the broad shoulder
clogged wheel bring th
lovinjr spirit to the rescue of he
is ready to perish accounting the
anceasdutyand privilege Babv
very human ingratitude
prefers vi
beiier to the
a feebler mother T
voice tnrills him with pleasure
IeanJ against pep breast the
tickfs his nose but he looks ur
watf tng eyes and a delighted
for pother kiss The
support qi
armis
strong and steady the even
neve wavers
Weakness rec n
insect might that flows around
coroleteness
protection tnat tc
is Omnipotence
POVTDERLYS KCLIXG
PoUcal
not in
AcccJ
With the Lfiws of the OrderJ
Gicago III March 25 An imj
decjion by the General Exe
of he Knights
of Lsb r prl
brashes of the order from voirj
focolitical purposes was nnc
her today Robert Nelso j
Wrnian of District Assembly
Vad Labor partys candi
Mpr of Chicago
in the cam
oping Two weeks ago apri
mpa test case Nso s Fl
Mly or rather the exttutivj
lhJI tnct voed the Unit
pF o0 out of tne general f u
Am iy No 400 which forrn
I net No 24
sen a ij
to
o General Muster Worl
dy against the action of
ainbly The protest has r
aling which is beim
ilas follows
I IHILADELIHIA P >
S
lie crrtaty ot Local
JCugo III
he appeal of Local Assenj
j laid before i o
frd and my decision to i
taction taken by Distri
124 in voting S50 to
or party or any othi
orly in violation i f t
iblished precedent was v
sxoved by a majority of
j money can be v
s assembly district o
ptical purposes The me
lrd present when my
jid on were all of my
re Messrs Bailey B irry
lyes and Cirltton T e
remanGr flith was prtse
lembly 4C0 will pay no i
litlcal purposes With ij
piain fraternahy ycurs
Signed T V
General Misl
The District Asliu j y d
JMaster Workman has a
tout 25000 including pij
all parties At present
finery of the disrict orga
e hands of a radical factit
Nelson The imnndiate
tling is to prevent NVlsonJ
oiii levjlng an assessment
tical antagonists or usirgl
ation as a political colli
applica
i is in its general
hat the ruling is most iri
recident establishtd de
f the Knights of Label
rganization exists
IT WON1
Thats a Married aianj
Can Kead tlitj
Cincinnati
I see by the papers
the east are catching cii
asked to reading business for all
marked a wellknown rl
nut Hills as he was e
toddy in a Vine street
evening This wcnti
Think of it
Women as mindread
Wives reading ther i
books
Thereby getting onto
schemes
If we allow this to go
end
endThe
The wife a mindread
The innocent husbani
plan between his jart
make the most of anevtj
the supper table he say
Business at my
pretty late wife detj
for me but go to btd j
angel
Only to have her ccj
That story misht
day my hubby butll
now You are as traj
me You have no inj
your desk nothing
contrary you have tA 3
meet your chums r
indulge in the fetfci
hour
Or she will gK
Work at your dlsS
night Tpoor overwoj
many times you hare jj
my eyes by this niglj
nave been just chu
it all But lamuptt
I can read you nt
glasses lou are rjl
job type You are j
theater tonight anf
ments to meet one el
enjoy a wine supper
is over No woil
Hadnt you better ij
it It will save yej
ing home and me t
disturbed
But hubbybej
dealings with a
terest you 11 > f-
in he past Col
acknowledge lik
bad y stuck on
of her marvelo
a fool acd ws
well as to the
life Say yot
story and anj
stuffed caives
in you and i
that ought
bright
Now wh
kind of a rs < J
It wont i
This mirj
of womenj
is we me
Do vox
If a D
Up
the ch
the ye j
almos j
dyspej
thatf
ma CJ
when
Liver j
juriarj
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andj
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