Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-23
LEIGH.
Lecture engagements Of Henry Waiter.
son and Emery StOrrs--Ca.
ble's Readings.
Death Of Valuable Century Plant-The
Vcxed Question Of Capital
and Labor.
The Cattle Bill in Congress Mixed and
Miscellaneous Notes.
spec,a, correspondence OF the Gazette

the Michigan State University had en-.
gagged Emery a. Storrs to deliver a
lecture before the students in the law
department, but he had sent word that
he would have to cancel the engage.
ment to 30 TO Washington for the pur-
pose of lobbying to defeat the animal
industry bill. The letter, which was
a private one, stated that the next lee
turer in that course was Henry Wat
terson of Kentucky. Between the
professional and lecture engagements
of these two gentlemen, to say nothing
of their political dabbling, it would
seem that his Satanic majesty ought
not to find much for their hands to do.
but there are lots OF good people who
think he does all the same. By the
way, n good Judge has said of Emery
Storrs that he never knew man of
such fluent wit and so little brains.
Henry Watterson calls Morrison's
effort "a horizontal deception bill.n
He wants to work on the whole ami.
NAL or none" principle. He wants to
stand right up on his free-trade legs
and walk Off without ever crawling at
all, and seems to have no sympathy or
patience with the more polite methods
of Carlisle and Morrison. Henry is
also reported from Philadelphia as say
ing that he has as many personal
friends in one great party as the other.
At any rate he is q free-trader on prin-
ciple, because he thinks he 10 right and
not because somebody else is.
Mr.. George w. Gable, the famous
New Orleans novelist, has lately been
in Chicago giving readings from his
works. His audiences have been only
fair, but as they have been made up
chiefly of ardent admirers, they have
been appreciative. At the same time
a great fnany scholarly people have felt
themselves greatly bored. The read
ings were good enough, but long and
tedious. and beyond an excellent pres
entation contemplation of portions of
his novels, i. e., an accent that one can
not get by reading his works, there is
nothing particularly worth ones while
to hear. OF course those who have en-
joyed reading tO!d Creole Days" 1.-THE
Grandissimes, ETC., keenly relish the
authors Interpretation of the choicest
parts, but it makes an entertainment
that can only be enjoyed through q
familiarity and admiration for his
works.
A magnificent specimen of the agave
~ v
expected to bloom this summer, has
| lust died here for the want of little
attention The plant has quite n ro-
mantle history. 1t was brought from
Mexico TO Wisconsin by u gardener
who fondIy cherished it for forty years,
us long as he lived. AT death he left
ii as his only legacy to his daughter,
| but told her ii she would care for
| it that ii would one day he worth q
fortune to her. She fondly faithfully
cared for it through winter and sum
mer, for forty years. The plant was
supposed to be twenty years old when
brought North, and was therefore
thought to be on the verge of bloom
ing. The lady refused $4,000 for
it last summer, but made
a contract with q
manager, the man who put the some-
what notorious mammoth whale fraud
on the road, and the plant was remov.
ed to Chicago. a large glass tower
was erected in central place, and low
ers of the beautiful and rare in flowers
paid frequent visits to watch the first
bursting of the uncommon flower, but
as the months passed and no bloom
came, interest died, 1T was properly
cared for until about the first of Janu-
AIRY, when one cold night when the
coal was short the fire went down and
the mammoth rarity was frosted, and
now, after all of the tender care of the
father and daughter, all of the money
spent on it and refused for it, the great
| plant stands a frost-blighted fortune.
The time was when millionaires in
this country were easily counted upon
| the fingers of.one hand, but now there
are more than sixty in Chicago alone,
and about twenty in the national SEN
ate. Judge Booth of this city does not
! think there is any justice in these men
being allowed to amass-he.says they
cannot earn-that much money, while
there are so many poor laborers strug-
Cling along with hardly enough to
meet the common necessities. He
thinks that no one should be allowed
to inherit more than $1,000, 900, the
overplus to go into the common fund
of the nation; that there should be a
progressive tax on incomes and,a limit
alton of the amount of land owned by
one person. This is rather socialistic.
The vast money value controlled by
millionaires is not tied up in old socks,
but Is in active circulation, building
railroads, manufacturing, etc. Of
course, no man could earn the fortune
OF n Gould in the ordinary ways OF
working with brain and Drawn, and
the second million is easier gotten than
the first; this is perfectly reasonable,
and is no reason why smart man
should divide his efforts with an ordi-
nary one. AS for the ownership OF
land being limited to so many acres,
lhat would be absurd, because ten
thousand acres in many parts OF the
country would not be MS valuable us
ten hundred in many other parts.
Dan OLeary, the eX-champion pc,
tdestrlan, is arranging for horse ana
bicycle race here soon.
Peck's Bad Boy has been put on the
stage, and is about the --LATEST, emplti-
est thing that has been set up for de-
PRAYED people to laugh at.
Robert q. Ingersoll is delivering ms
new lecture on orthodoxy. Like me
others, IL is full OF smart, laughaoIe
points, which by most people are taken
us logical reasons. Bob's stronghold
Is In raising laugh.
Among the latest advertising
schemes is the engagement of inc
giant, Colonel Goshen, rs salesman by
u Chicago clothing house.
Matthew Arnold did dot cut qulee
as large a dash in this country US nc
expected to do, but he carried away
about fen fhnpsnnl nj nnr daddy lUl-