Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 184, Ed. 1, Monday, April 14, 1890 Page: 2 of 8
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EAILWAT PROBLEM
Tariffs as Applied Both to Freight
and Passenger
Considerations that Enter Into tue
v Question of the Tariff Extremes
to Which One May Gq
There Can Be No Seduction In Freight ot
Passenger Bates Dntll the Volume
of Business Increases
BT AN OUTSIDEB
III
In previous papers the relation of the rail-
ways to the people has been referred to and the
proportion of cost of the roads to their
bonded indebtedness has received brief at-
tention It will be said in answer to
the proposition that the roads do hot
earn their fixed charges and that the
management is extravagant That salaries are
too high and other necessary expenditures are
made thus increasing the expense of operating
the road beyond a reasonablo sum Any one
acquainted with the details of railway manage-
ment or who has been in their employ will not
seriously make such an assertion There is
probably not a road in the state that pays as
good salaries for the service required as is
p3id in other lines of business
The main purpose of this paper will be to dis-
cuss briefly the question of tariffs as applied to
both Treight and passenger traffic There is no
question that gives a railway its officers and
agents so much solicitude and o much concern
as a just and equitable adjustment of their tariff
sheets to the great variety of products offered
them for transportation There are so many
conditions that enter into the consideration of
this question that the best talent that can be
employed in this service not infrequently disa-
gree as to the proper classification of article of
merchandise and the rate they should bear for a
given distance The cost of handling and tha
risk attending the transportation of a given ar-
ticle enters as much intc the question of the
tariff as the actual cost of hduling the freight
It would not do a some contend
to place a certain rte per hundred
pounds per mile on ev ery class of mer-
chandise It is asserted that a bill was before
the last legislature placing household furniture
and pig iron in the same class and providing
that both be transported at the same rate
It ought not to be necessary to use any argu-
ment to show the veriest novice in handling
freight that there is a wide discrepancy in the
cost of handling furniture which is bulky and
exceedingly liable to damage and pig iron that
can be thrown onto a flat car and be exposed
to the elements and which is attended with no
risk This may be an exceptional case and not
a good comparison by which to judge the carry-
ing business of a railroad but it shows to what
extremes one may go and how liable to err in
the discussion of a question surrounded by so
many difficulties
A moments reflectiononght to convince any
reasonable man that it i3 impossible to make a
fixed and inflexible tariff that will meet the
conditions upon the roads in any one state or
i > ecton There are so many questions that enter
into the cost of operating one road or a number
of roads that are not applicable to other roads
that it is beyond human wisdom to frame a
schedule that will fit them all The one item of
fuel alone and which is a large element in the
cost of operating a road and which varies so
greatly according to the contiguity of the source
of supply is sufficient to make a vast difference
in the cost of operation A road having a coal
mine on its line is in much better position to
do business cheaply than one remote from the
mines and which is compelled to transport its
fuel a long distance at great cost
The gradients of a road simple as it may
seem is another element that figures largely in
the cost of operation For instance the Texas
and Pacific owing to heavy grades on its line
wist of Fort Worth is able to pull not more
than fourteen loaded cars On its Louisiana
branch to New Orleans it can probably vdll
fifty Is it reasonable to expect the rate of freight
to be the sarnie on these two divisions of the
same road The comparison might be casricd
further On certain parts of the Tennsylvania
road seven loaded cars is the maximum load for
one engine The Mississippi Valley road is
credited with having hauled into New Orleans
a train of cotton more thai a milo in length
Will it be contended that the same rate per 100
pounds per 100 miles sLould apply to these two
roads Another important element in the cost
of transportation is the volume of business
And this applies with great force to the condi-
tion of things in Texas A road having a volume
of business which will load its cars both ways
has < a decided advantage over the one that has a
load one way and must bring its cars back
empty It is estimated that it costs as much to
pull three empties as two loads so that about 40
per cent of a roads expenses when the traffic
is all one way brings no revenue whatever How
manifestly absurd it > is then to compare
roads in Texas with tlse in Illinois Ohio or
Pennsylvania whose cars are constantly filled
going and coming every day of the year When
the roads in the Northern and Eastern states
were doing business in an undeveloped and
sparsely settled country as the roads in Texas
are now doing they experienced the same diffi-
culty that noiv confronts the Texas roads For-
tunately for the Northern roads at the time
they were struggling to make receipts and ex-
penditures meet there was not the same clamor
against railroads in particular and corporations
in pcneral that exists nowadays It must not
be jtorgottcn either that for the last quarter of a
cenuiry the railroad has become the pioneer
and that they are now extending their lines into
new and unsettled territory for the purpose of
opening it up and developing it and as a
consequence every road has a large mileage that
is absolutely nonproductive In that period
prior to ttie close of the civil war it would have
been a rare thing to see a railroad project its
line beyond the settlements or into a new un-
inhabited and uncultivated territory and wait
for the advent of business from which to earn
expenses of operation Nowadays it is not an
uncommon thing to see a road extending its
lines far beyond the border of the settlements
and depending entirely upon their ability to
bring farmers mechanics and merchants into
the new field to furnish them traffic and travel
It sometimes takes years to accomplish these
results and while the corporation is suffering
loss the country is receiving a benefit from an
addition to its population and wealth It is un-
necessary to enumerate the roads in Texas
in this attitude They are known to all men-
The sa eSs true in regard to passenger traffic
It costs ali st < as much to haul an empty train
as a loaded 6ne Tho expense ot the train crew
is the same The wear and tear is the
same The cost of superintendence nd
dispatching of lights and incidentals precisely
the same and the difference in the consumption
of fuel the only thing in which there is a differ-
ence is very little compared with tho gross ex
peases of the train Anyone can readily see the
difference in the revenue between a loaaed train
and one that is comparatively empty The
Texas and Pacific between Dallas and Fort
Worth is filled to its utmost capacity On the
Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe between
Brownwood and San Angelo for in-
stance the travel is very light yet
the passenger rate is fixed by law at the
same price per mile Nothing could be more
manifestly unjust As well make the price of
oranges the same In Florida and Dakota It
would not be more unreasonable In the full-
ness of time It will come to pass that the roads
of their own notion will reduce the cost of trans-
porting both freight and passengers That they
cannot afford to do this at the present time wiil
appear to anyone who will take the trouble to
Investigate the business of the roads in Texas
and compare their receipts and expenditures
The gross earnings of all the roads in Texas for
the fiscal year ending September 30 1SS9 was
S2S C380y85 The amount paid out for operat-
ing expenses was 12GC03CH7G Leaving
only 162519309 to meet other ob-
ligations such a loss and damage to
persons and property judgments of the
courts and interest on the bonded indebtedness
It must be manifest that there can be no mate-
rial reduction in the tariff on eitherfreight or
passengers until the volume of business in-
creases sufficiently to swell the gross earnings
far beyond their present figures This will
come when Texas has the same railroad mileage
in proportion to area and population that other
Etates have The state of Texas has one mile or
railroad to every fortyfive square miles of ter-
ritory while Massachusetts has one mile of rail-
road to every four square miles of territory
Massachusetts has 200 people to every square
mile while Texas has not more
than ten It should be apparent
to every unprejudiced mind that the
came passenger rate would not be inst to Texas
that prevails in Massachusetts The difference
in tho rate does not bear a reasonable proportion
to the source of revenue in the two states The
game ratio will hold good in regard to freight
Whether the roads will of their own volition
reduce he tariff on freights and passengers as
the volume of business justifies can onlv be
Judged by the action of roads in other states
in ISS7 the rale of freight on one of the Texas
roads was 334 cents per ton per mile The same
road now hauls freight at 2 cents per ton per
mile and this reduction has not beenbronght
about by competition or by statutory
enactment It is the natural result
of an increased volume of business
I have good authority for the statement that
the rate of freight on the New York Central h as
been reduced in less that twenty years from
three cents per ton per mile to
pightyrthreo onehundredths of a cent
per ton per nifle and this
tjpjgajlj
without any law regulating the freight charees
It has been brought about by the volume of
business which enables it to nil its cars and
coaches both ways every day in the year
Every business man knows from his own expe-
rience thai Iiia expenses are proportionately
higher in a season of stagnation of business
than when trade is brisk and the energy and
industry of > every employee taxed to
the utmost to trausact the business of the estab-
lishment How inconsistent it must appear to
one who takes a careful survey of tho situation
to sec the towns and counties in the sparsely
settled portions of the 6tate pleading for rail-
roads and even contributing of their means to
induce their construction regarding them as
great developers that are to bring prosperity in
their wake while in the older sections of the
state they are traduced and abused as unmixed
evils and oppressors of the rich and poor alike
The report of the comptroller of the state
shows that the amount of property in the state
in 18S0 was in round numbers 301470000 and
in 1889 729175000 an increase in nine years of
about 110 per cent What proportion of this in-
crease is due to the construction of railroads and
tho development of the country opened up by
them each individual may answer for himself
That a very large proportion of this is due to the
construction of railways and the capital brought
into the state by them the most inveterate and
uncompromising opponent of these soulless
corporations will hardly have thetemerity to
deny
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ALTAR AND TOMB
The Gazettes rally Compilation of Texas
Marriages and Deaths
MARRIAGES
Mr John Bernard Oleen and Miss Emma Mar-
tin San Antonio April
Mr J A Strange and Miss Alice Tandy Temi
April 9
pie
Mr Si Packard and Miss Lula Rowland Webb
Bryan April it
Mr Albert Kennedy and Miss Lillie Cherry
Bowie April 6
Thomas F Barnet and Miss Ida Black
Hallettsville April 8
Mr Will Fulton and Miss Lucv Hicks Paris
April 10
Professor T N Brown and Miss Elsie Ayhes
Jacksbord April 10
Mr J A Knox > and Mrs Sallie Bobbins
Tyler April 10
Mr John T Leeson and Miss Nellie Lathrop
Abilene April 9
Dr Alvis and Miss Annie Laura Burke near
Lancaster A iril 10
Mr A G Corley and Miss Fannie R Weaver
Clarksville April S
Mr W E Willey and Miss M T Spence
Henrietta Anril 7
Mr G W 1ense and Miss Madalene Williams
Bonham April G
Mr Able Pate and Miss Jennie Boyet Honey
Grove April 0
Mr T FV Hall and Miss Sallie Black Cass
county April G
Mr J J Meadows and Miss GensyXiHuff
near Bittie April 0
Mr H D Ramsey and Mrs Rosa De Verdie
Clarendon April 7
Mr A Lee Brown and Mi3sNena PickieTyler
April 10
Mr J J Arkinson and Miss L A Horton
Black Jdok April f
Mr C E Kaape and Miss Bertie Anderson
Cuero April J
Mr J P Uhlman and Miss Moodie Wright
Morgan April 10
Mr Hunter Williams and Miss Nettie Dunn
Stepheriville April t >
Mr F L Crouch and Miss Anna B Adcock
Pilot Point April 7
Mr M M Davis and Miss IssCbel Kisinger
April 6
DEATHS
Mrs Albert near Alvarado April 0
Mrs L J Mannerfng near Browns Fery
April 7
Mrs Elizabeth Leonard Gainesville pril 4
Mr Alonzo Owens near Gainesville April 5
Mr G W Stafford West Gaine sille April 4
Hon R L Hightower near lilysian JJtelds
April 5
Maj Ivcrson W Lane Georgetown April 5
Mr Sam Mobley nearTdo Vista April G
Mr G F M Davis near Cleburne Aprils
Mr I H Williams near Cleburne April 2
l SSttn < J
April 10
Mr Jack Beck College Mound April 7
Mrs McDowell near Yaxahachie April 2
Mrc J F Potterfield near Waxahachie
Arrilu
Mr C S Smith Waxahachie April 4
Mrs Oliver near Waxahachie April 8
Mrs Hubbard Bowie April 3
Mr John Itabbine near Winsboro April 8
Mrs TV F Emmons near Sulphur Springs
April 8
Mrs E P Waples Denison April 5
Mrs John C Moore Denison April 8
Mr John Piper Gainesville April 10
Mr J R Bass Yoakum April 1
Mrs August Glober Ballinger April 10
Mrs James Jones Blue Ridge April 5
Mr William J Watts Honey Grove April4
Mrs C P Knaur Honey Grove April 0
Mr L TV Ward Woodland April 5
Mrs Seva Orear near Emory April 9
Mr James Fitzgerald near Emory April 3
Mr
Mr
G H Peters near Zion Hill April 7
Jacob Schwietz Yorktown April 5
Proposition for
DEHTON
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sideratlon
Normal School Under Con
Teachers Institute
Special to the Gazette
Denton Tex April 12 Profes3or
J G Chilton of Detroit Mich ad-
dressed a large assembly of our citizens
at the courthouse last evening upon the
subject of the locating here by him of a
normal school Professor Chilton is a
gentleman of large experience in the line
of normal work and his plans as sug-
gested meet quite a hearty approval by
many of our best citizens and today the
propositions he has submitted are being
disoussed very favorably and the pro-
fessor is familiarizing himself with sur-
roundings here forming acquaintance
etc Prospects nre quite favorable just
now as to the securing of the normal
The Teachersinstitute ot the county
met this morning at 9 oclock in the city
school Duilding and after being called
to order by President P M Davidson a-
very interesting programme was ex-
ecuted as follows
1 Recitation illustrating principles of
teaching primary numbers Miss Etta
Jones
2 Model grammar recitation Miss
Ada Terrill
3 Paper on methods of teaobing pri-
mary reading J L MoReynoldB Ar-
gyle
4 Objeot of reviews examinations
etc a speech by Professor P P Ed-
wards
A vote of thanKft was tendered by the
institute tr Misses Etta Jones and Ada
Terrill for the admirable manner in
witich they had conduoted their model
recitations in primary numbers and that
of grammar these modelsbeing consid-
er ed by the Institute of ttae very best
type TheBe two young ladies are both
teachers in the oity school here and have
splendid records for proficiency as their
model reoitatlons have indicated Pro-
fessor J C Chilton of Detroit Mioh
being present at the meeting made quite
an interesting talk of several minutes
Interest in the institute continues to in-
crease Y
The meeting adjourned to meet second
Saturday in May
v N j i i
Floods in Australia
SanPjunCisco Cai April 12 Tho
steamer Mariposa whloh arrived today
twentyfour days from Sydney and seven
from Honolulu brings the following ad
vioes Extensive floods hare done great
damage in Nexr South Wales and at
Queensland A large part of Brisbane
was Inundated wharves submerged and
railroad traffio stopped Hundreds of
families are homeless and many fatalities
arte reported Grafton Singleton West
Martleland and other towns are flooded
Many losses of life and great destruction
of property are reported from the interior
points At last accounta the floods were
subsiding and communications between
the different distrlots are being restored
A railway collision occurred llaroli 1
on the Peuhurst and Korvitlui
seven men were killed
Wealc men and Tvon i ll find great advan
tages In using gtex Alfi s Germ Extermina
tor the fineiPfcJSiic ever produced
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THEUAZETTEf POUT WORTH TEXAS MONDAY APE1L 14
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is prepared from Sarsaparilla Dandelion
Mandrake Dock Pipslssewa Juniper Ber-
ries and other wellknown and valuable vege
table remedies The combination proportion
and preparation are peculiar to Hoods Sarsa-
parilla giving it curative powemot possessed
by other medicines It effects remarkable
cureswhere others fail
I consider Hoods Sarsaparilla the best
medicine I everused It gives roe an appetite
and refreshing sleep and kejjsthe cold out
J S Fogg 106 Spruce StreetPoitland Me
S3 Tillary Street Brooklyn
IfindHoods Sarsaparilla
for impure blood I ever used
ticket agent P R Ed Bon
When I bought Hoods Sarsapariip nn
for the first time It has driven off ri
tism and improved my appetite so m
my boarding mistress says I mus jfe J
locked up or she will be obliged
board with everyother boards
Hoods Sarsaparilla Taos
bestreniedy
H Baxter
Brook jj J
Hoods Sarsapariila
Bold by all druggists gl six for g5 Prepared
by C 1 HOOD Jc CO Apothecaries Lowell Mass
IOO Doses One Dollar
ON THE PLAINS
Gallant Custers Widow on the1
Heroines of the Frontier
Hardships Endured By Tliem Unknown
to Women in uify Homes What
Life on theFrontier Means
Floneer Mother Where Womans powers
Endurance Are Tested A Picture JDo
mestlc Life In a Tent Wapon
of
3fCopyrighted 1690 y the Author
For the Gazette
Philanthropists temperance crusaders
womens rights defenders professional women
trained nurses all who are foremost in uphold-
ing a principle the splendid mothers of our
nation so have had from Martha Washington
down some eloquent voice to praise them some
flowing pen to chronicle their successesbut
there remains a class of women who have been
but little sung in song or who neither had any-
one to tell their story in public nor would they
speak themselves of what share they had in
making complete tliis great country of ours
Fortunately the pioneers here and there have
not been allowed to sink into oblivion without ia
historian but mostly because of a life of sufc
romance or startling adventure or marvellous
escapes that the men of letters found them ad-
mirable heroes for poetry or for fiction How
seldom though was it that behind the ox team
that the Western settler drove there was not
the brave face of a woman looking out from
the semicircle of canvas that gathered the
wagon cover together in front Perhaps Bho
gazed onto a distant home nearer the
sunset over a little brood of tow
heads Perhaps a young face appeared
without the setting of childrens taces
Do you suppose the brave adventurer did not
gain courage from the eyes of his wife as lie
turned back to speak an occasional word Could
those men hare pushed forward so valiantly
have vanquished eachday ahorde of enemies m
the guise of heat drought poor and innutri-
tious food unsatisfactory water alkali dust
beating storms and worse than all the ever
present terror of the redmaii had not the wagon
held the faithful friond and wife who leffevery
thing in the way of home comfort recreation
sociallife to push on into the wilderness to
make a new hearthstone for the man she loved
The days of pioneering were too full to admit
of any one writing their history The Ahieri
cans who are such a nation of letter writers
could not take time or anyot tho hours for nec-
essary rest to send back a narrative of each
eventful day Besides the mail carried by the
overland coach was a slow medium for news
and indeed this mode of communication with the
outside world was often stopped by Indian diffi-
culties Consequently there are but meager
records of domestic life in a wagon the ad-
ventures by the way the final settling in tho
new home How full ot interest a minute apT
count of such a journey would be to the chil-
dren at present from whose atlases the great
American desert is now eliminated
I do not find any women in history wno era
Tjody tome the very quintessence of courage like
the resolute plainswomen The Joan of Arcs
tho Mollie Pitchers were examples surely of
courage that poet painter and historian have
honored but they wejre inspired by a grtat
courage by a tromendous sense of the right of
their cause They were fanatics in their way
The name fanatic is not one that any one likes
but I hardly think many of the great reforms of
the world could have been effected without
fanaticism It needed the absorbing enthu-
siasm of their cause to make suchheroines for-
get everything save the work they felt they wero
chosen to do Many martyrs have beenjsup
ported tin earth withr the belief and have go no
to heaven convinced that they were chosen
from on high to work and die for a cause
Our plainswomen werenot soinspired They
had ofttimes no choice in their lives The liege
said We go West and the wise wifeknew
usually that it wif best not to combat the resbV
lution but to enter into the scheme at once She
was of course ignorant of all the trials that sire
was to meet The successful man who returned
from the border dwelt on the rewards he was
then reaping rather than on the difficulties that
obstructed the way to success But from the
first announcemeptof the intention the womans
selfdenial was taxed She need not try to look
forward to deprivations on the way or at the
end of the journey for before she Btarted there
came necessity for the utmost courage as she
must forfeit so much that a woman holds dear
Her church and its Sabbath school for her
children the dear association of tho towns-
people who had been with her at the marriages
births and deathsof the family the excellent
school where she hoped to give her children all
the fortune she could ever expect to give them
athorough education f her physician dear to
48ler as her pastor in the sad or dangerous hours
of her life Perhaps aged parents clung to her
with the knowledge they would not see her
again She must face alife for years at least
without schools churches social village com
anunion physicians public library the old
fertile gardens and fruit trees and the peace and
protection of a comfortable home
As travelers climb the stairs of the national
capital many feet are arrested before the great
picture Westward the Star ofEmpire takes
Its Course The detail of that huge canvas
will rescue from oblivion theheroic struggles of
our plainsmen It is a peaceful scene but
could the artist for a moment veil the landscape
ina thick murky atmosphere of penetrating
dust or removing that replace it by hail and
introduce the sharpest lightning ever
known or transpose the sunshiny day into a
sirocco where the hotf wind scorches the skin
and parches the throat or even picture the
downpour of the clouds when week after week
the traveler journeys through the wet season
the story the canvas tells would be truer to the
reality
People would be made to know that when the
splendor of a Western sun in spring and the
soft cool air of a plains wind in early summer
disappears tho real fife of the pioneer begins
If women lived through those terrible days and
kept brave hearts nothing on earth could daunt
them Imagine one of them at night after the
bivouac was madeljeside a stream or at the dry
bed of what had been one where they had to
dig for water trying to get the evening meal
The rain descended though they were in a par-
tially sheltered spot among the sparse
timber and it was an effort to kindle
a fire with the wet sticks Possibly her frugal
habits have taught her to garner a few dry
billets from the previous camp The fire at
last begins to burn and fighting wind dust
rain she co oks the simplest fare for her little
family They huddle in the wagon for the
night but the mother must stop to put on a
button or hastily draw together a rent no mat
ter how the candle splutters inlJie dim lantern
nor how crowded and cramped she is sitting at-
one end of the wagon The pioneer mother
had no reserve clothing with which to dres3
theasturdy active little bodies next day The
necessary stitches had to be taken
Thus cooking washing mending
helping with the stock and
making
pmp she made her heroic path across the
trackless
waste that stretched on to the Bocky
Xnountains Tho worst of it aU there was little
or no childhood for the elder children They
had so soon to be given the care of the youngac
brothers and sisters to assist in makingsftas
driving the team carrying water that tha faces
of little shavers I have seen looked careworn at
ten while maternal solicitude andanxiety gazed
Is the best blood purifier before the public
It eradicates every impurity and cures Scrof-
ula Salt Bheum Boils Pimples all Humors
Dyspepsia Biliousness Sick Headache Indi-
gestion General Debility Catarrh Rheuma-
tism Kidney and Xiver Complaints It over-
comes that extreme tired feeling and builda
up the system
Hoods Sarsaparilla wa3 a Godsend totae
for it cured me of dyspepsia andiiver com-
plaint with which I had suffered 20 years
J B HoiUTBECivSouth Fallsburg N Y
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affected
where
greB8 4 Oats
now growing
made ffSbods Sarsaparilla takes less time and
a good investment of one dollar in rSpicin Quantity to show its effect than any other prep
juration Mrs C A Hubbakd N Chili NY
My wife had very poor health for a long-
time suffering from indigestion poor appe-
tite and constant headache She tried every
thing we could hear of but found no relief till
e tried Hoods Sarsaparilla She is now
king the third bottle and never felt better
er life We feel it our duty to recornrfcend
ft every one we know George Somer
Morelarid Cook County 111
s Sarsaparilla
Soldbyall druggists gl six for 5 Prepared
by CiKOQD CO Apothecaries LoTrellMase
jSOO Doses One Dollar
out of the eyes of a little girl whose slender
arms held the baby of the settlers
t Not long ago I had what was to me a most fas-
cinating description of a life that was intensely
interesting to me a gentleman was playing cow-
boy and afterinnumeiablevicissitudes he came
upon the stone hut of a Bhoep ranch on a New
Mexican plain A tenyearold boy was left in
charge He writes Its a marvel how effi-
cient youngsters become in this precocious
country Navajo boys care for a whole sheep
Jierd month after month when only sir years of
age He goes on to say of the
white boy who had charge of the
ranch And any youthful friend Filadel
Dhio is at present the sole executive of
this ranche Acebache cook vaquero and gen-
eral utility man He warmed us up after our
fieezing ride with a very passable dinner cared
for onr horses and acquitted himself manfully
all around Next day Flladelphio and I were
out all day rounding up a big herd of cattle and
driving them in The mothers of these pre
maturely old children feel the deprivation to
their little ones of joyous childhood that comes
but once but there is in the great struggle for
existence that the people af the border live no
other course than to set every available human
being at work
All these trials counted as nothing to the un-
complaining mothers if they were but spared an
attack from the redman Forhor niany years
though those slow oxen dragged the settler on-
to a frightful doom How many brave hearts
ceased to beat on that hotlycontested region be-
tween the Missouri river and ttie Rockies In the
city of IJenver which now lies in the nydst of
the irrigated plain smiling and prosperous
there are tongues if they could but be made to
speakj that would make clear how scorched and
blistered with suffering was the road which led
to the now flourishing city When I first went
there over twenty years ago the blockhouses
ib which the citizens had defended themselves
from Indians were standing the townspeople
still kept their firearms in readiness as they
had for years for the invasidh of the redman
The town was small but comfortable homes
had begun to appear and from these came
women to gaze with joy upon the first cars that
had entered theplace They had come into the
village years before behind an ox team and
helped to build the cabin that was their new
home Alas there wore others who could not
come to see what was to them a rare sight
Wrecked in body and some in mind they were
housed for the remainder of their days paying
the penalty of overstrained nerves The Indian
in attacking thooxtrain if ho failed to carry
away booty had taken alas the greatest pos-
session of all the health and sometimesthe
reason of the cowering woman hidden within fSe
wagon
There were warriors among them quiet and
modest but still ready to load and fire a rifle
while tho men of the party deployed themselves
as skirmishers and walked on either side of the
wagons that the women drove The most timid
woman was nerved to action by the sight of her
husband in peril and the danger that threatened
the little family hidden in tho wagon bed When
women stood the test of 6uch hardships perils
deprivations as was the lot of every one who
crossed the plains before the buildingof the rail-
roads what homes they must have made for
their husbandst What peace and comfort must
have sat down brithe h earth to remain forever
It would he difficult to move a woman to show
temper orto provoke her to murmering or to
induce an hours gloom with any of the ordinary
trials or a peaceful life if she had come off vic
torious under the test of an overland journey
And when sometimes see a plainswoman come
for an outing in the states a good deal be
decked and shining with jewels I do not blame
the frontier husband for his desire to hang a
few trophies of his success on the oldnpman
whom he courageously tells me druv the ox
team while Xfit Injuns on our way to the Rock
ies An hours talk with such people brings
me to the very core of patience fidelity and
courage Elizabeth Bacon Custee
CEOP PE0SPECTS
The rast Week the Mpst Favorable of the
Season Throughout the Country
Washington April 12 The weather
purine the past we ek has been the most
favorable of the season forV growing
crops and general farm work through-
out the central valleys and Northwest
the faVorablo conditions extending south-
ward to Texasfind the Gulf states and
seeding is progressing rapidly as far
north as Minnesqta and Dakpta where
the conditions have very unfavorably
the
corn
crops in that state
planting is in pro
wheat and grass are
rapidly Crop prospects
have improved in the South
planting of cotton and corn
Ice ere
Bead our offer to send
Dictionary to any o
subscriptions
cash
where the
is in
prog
and St John parish in Louisffeia
tfre suffering from overflow and
the uplandsIn Mississippi are too dry
and much in need of rain The light
frosts which oaourred in the South At
lanticspates on the 11th inst slightly in-
jured tender vegetables but caused no
damage to staple o r ops In Virginia the
weather wbb more favorable for wheat
and crass and the seeding of Gats
The season is reported unusually back-
ward in Oregon Rain and hail and
snow ocourred during the week Farm
work was retarded and the condition of
wheat is promising but slow in growth
frosts having caused no material dam-
age
JAvery Stable and Contents Burned
Leavenworth KaS April 12 The
livery stable of Crilly Cranston was
destroyed by Are this morning Firemen
returning from another fire discovered
the flames and barely rescued several
hostlers William Gilman Pbilllp iaoher
and James JTlynn were taken out in an
unconscious condition They had been
suffocated nearly to death Thirty horses
and all the contents of the stable were
destroyed Loss 20000
nabridged
tag twoannnal
Gazekte and20ia
The
DH EXJ Wj3S5 S p fB AND BBAINTeBAT
Mekt a guara cfic for Hysteria Dizzi-
ness Cp TOSionsV Fits Nervous Neuralgia
QJeacptsgrvoxi3 Prostration caused by tho
tsV Conol or tobacco Wakefulness Mental
ress while crops were generally improved 4fr 8 aion jSoftening of the Brain resulting in
in Louisiana Vq htj0 = i = i i os IX < Insanity and Icadingtomiserydecay and death
andMississippi Riohlajl immature Old Age Barrenness Loss o f Power
Charged With Criminal Malpractice
Wintiett > Kax April 12 Edward
L Peckham of the law firm of Peokhatn
Henderson of thisoity and Dr E B
Emory have been arrested for causing
the death by criminal malpraotioe of
Alpho Elljs of Sodan ICan Dr Emory
is held here without ball and Peokham is
under arrest at Kansas City
Stop thil
buy a bottle
Bub the SaLi
pain out
in either sex Involuntary Losses and Spermat
orrhoea caused by overeiertion of the brain Belf
obnseor overlndnlgence Each box contains
one months treatment 100 a box or six boxes
ar J500 sent by mail preapid on recept of price
WE GUARANTEE SJX BOXES
To cure any case With each order received by us
for six boxes accompanied with 500 we will
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re-
fund the money if the treatment does not effect
a cure Guarantees issued only by
153 2 E 7 7E1XJ31 S
DRUGGIST SOLE AGENT
509 Houston St Fort Worth Tex
Corner on Porlr
Chicago III April 12 The provis-
ion pit on the board of trade which has
been almosr deserted several vreeks owing
to dullness in hog produots has been
filled slnoe the opening of the
board this morning with a frantio
ordwd of yelling dealers As soon
as the board opened it was rumored
there was a corner on pork
in contemplation and a wild scramble
of shorts to cover followed while on the
other hand men supposed to represent a
syndicate engaged in running a corner
took all that was offered May pork
opened at 11 55 and by jumps of 25b
mounted rapidly to 15 25 July opened
at 11 75 and advanced to 15 15 June
went up to 15 10 A reac-
tion then followed and short-
ly after 11 oclock May stood at
14 with other options to correspond
Lard and short ribs were stronger n
sympathy but made no sensational
advances MoCormiok Co Bald-
win and Farnum Hutohlnson Poole
Sherman and brokers supposed to rep-
resent Armour Co were among the
ir buyers The supposition of the
a is that the corner is being worked
through Sawyer Wallace of IfewXork
Messrs Cudahy Eesm are supposed
e been among the heaviest shorts
e board here After 11 oclook the
excitement subsided eomawht and the
tendency of prices continued downward
May pork touched S1250V then strengt
j ened and 124o oclock stoodatJ
IN THIS COUNTRY IJST THE
JtUi u
LIES THE BEAUTIFUL
< S 3P A J X EC OI
NOS 1C9 AND 111 MAIN STJEj
BRANDS Jonsons Best Lpuis
If anytlcfcetdra
h are 6000
ch aro 5000
ch are 7500
ation Prizes
chare 8 5000
Sfceachnre 3000
aach are 2500
ilnal Prizes
1000 Priza of 820
811980
S10000 Prize of S10
5990
ngrto 125970
a undersillfcaerebr certify that the Banco
1 of MexidKv Cbihuahna has on deposit
Mexican liiTCfaatlonal Banking Campnr
funds to sruaranteethe payment of all
tii in the Grand Lottery or J narez
ftjrtify thatwowlll supervlsa all tbr
hcebiiatMmtvl In person manage and control all
rawrtifHf fllfeis Lottery and that the came aro
j > t fairness
stj t and in good faith
Mosbt Commissioner
Camilo Argiteliks
jfisor f or the Government
J prize Is ent to the under
signed its face value will be collected and remitted
to the owner thereof Xreo of change
Edgar B Bboksox
President M Paso National Bank El Paso Tex
AGENTS WASTED
For club rates or any other Information ifrite to
the undersigned statinc your address clearly with
State County Street and Number More rapid mail
deUveiy wlU be assured by your enclosing an envel
full address
ope bearing your
Mexican Ihteknationai Bakktsg Co
City of Juarez MexSfSSL
NOTICE
Send remittances tor tickets by ordinary letter
containing Money Order issuedT > y all Kxpress Com-
panies New Yorx Exchange Bank Draft or Postal
Note Address all registered letters to
City of Jrama Hojjjfffr
The cuirassrbodice with ho seams no visible
openlne is admired aad worm lay tne fizures
best watered of all Northwest Texas Counties being in the Red River
and Pease Riyer country Groesbeclv Wanderers Beavers and
Paradise Valleys are exceptionally fine Groesbeck Creek is
fed by over 100 bold never failing springs
The County Seatis Jocated on
be the Commercial
Pree Schoolsl
QUANAMi
invigorating atmospifere
QUjRAn isfgie tradti
S
r
Port Worth and Denver Railroad and bids fair to
fof Northwest Texas She has Churches and
litter with a lar e fund from the State
tenter for Hardeman
Counties equal in area tspany of the states of the union
above the malaria line with pure and
QUANAH has a jigging Mill a Roller Plour Mill under contract and a large Grain
Elevator proposed
It isthe LARGEST > TOCK SHIPPING POINT on the Denver Road except one
Puel is Cheap Water Abunt aist
Hardeman County grows Wheat averaging 26 Bushels to the acre Corn Oats Rye
Barley Millet Sorghuin Qastor Beans Hemp Plax Melons Pruit and all kinds of Vege-
tables Is a fine Cattle Horse and Hog raising country Gypsum Lime Magnesia Plaster
and Pine BuHiDiNGr Stoke near the City of Quanah
The rate of taxation is low and Homeseeeers and Capitalists will find Hardejiant
and QuANAn very attractive Write for information to the
Quanah Board of Trade or Quanali Publishing Co
Inquiries addressed to Gen G M Dodge No 1 Broadway New York Col Morgan Jones
president Port Worth and Denver at Port Worth to Col R E Montgomery or Judge
J C S Jierwin Denver Col will receive jrompt attention > 8
HEALTH IS WEALTH
E A O O 3E2 Y
FORT WOETH TEX
Flor De ifouche The Best Hand 21 Out iati
The Jpr TQjf Seirg Onr Cheroots aad various other brands
S3 ALSO SOLS p CTUSESS OF THE TEXAS SPBINO PALACE CIGAR S
1 Prize of 860
1 Prize of 101
1 Prize of 5
3 Prizes of li
10 Prizes of
60 Prizes of
100 Prizes of
250 Prizes ofA
100 Prizes of
100 Prizes of
100 Prizes of
599 Tei
ea <
599 T
ch are
191 Prlzes ai
fcto
cjorsrsoTNi
LOTTERY OF JlWEZ
lj Under tlio Management of tho
Mexican International Banking Co
Concessionaries Incorporated by the State ot Chi-
huahua Moxico
JFor C3a utrltal3lo I nrpoBOB
GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING
will take place 5n public at the City of Juarez for-
merly Paso dol Norte Mexico
WEDNESDAY APRIL 23RD 1890
under the personal snpervisionot General John S
Mosbv and Mr Caiulo ArguI
gentleman of such prominence i
that his fjMjWije alone is suffice
Public thaEfcdrawlnjrs will b
honesty andBteJrness to all aDd
pervisor ofaH 356xican Goverc
standing andMKtfejfrity
OAPlf PRIZE
Only 60000 Miktg Or
WholeTiekcts i JHFIk t
IZJZB
the former a
e Cnited States
uaranteetothe
2ld with strict
latter the Sa-
t la of equal
iOOOO
000 Tickets
Qturter Tickets 1
h are alobo
h are 2000
fe4
IAHDFFIAN IMPLEMENT CO
FORT WORTH TEX
ManufacturersAgents For s
Atlas Engines and Boilers Thomas SelfPncKlS
Cotton Presses Eagle QinsFecderairaLG
densersColemans Cotton r s4j 0 jtfs
MlllsVictor Cotton Scade gjrenWBIow
era Hercules Stea4r BMi Duplex
Corn CobJfdffii Snuck Mills
8haftin jKrifyo Boxes Hangers Bnbber
L
ner Belting Inspirators Pipe
iron and Brass Fittings etc
Tn Outfits a Specialty Send fop Cat
alogue and Prices
If yon are goin gto put np a gin or mill ontfit oi
need anything in that line write us for
prices We can save you money
All Machinery guaranteed of llrstclass
material and workmanship
C H EDWARDS
FAptffl WH
ABE
Or
ALSO
EL0GK
CH1CKERING
DECKER BROS
and MATHUSHEK
jfcSPianos for rent and amount paid allowed to
apply upon purchase it afterwards bought ij
fall line of sheet mnsic and small Instruments aJT
CTTagTcr a T = ra s
409 Hdnstonstrest Fort m Teias
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