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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-17


II. G Douglass, Sherman,
Temple Houston Mo. etie
j. j Jarvis, For, ~ tn.
s. G. Upshaw '0i sboro.
Il. II. Harr a, Waco.
G. X. b Hamilton.
g. w ,asscock, Georgetown.
w Uurgess, Sepain.
" II. Woodward, Victoria.
A. L McManus, Corpus Christi.
IL. II. Burney, Kerrylle
j. II. Calhoun, Eastland.
l.. n Frank, Lewisville,
II. -. Mcdonald, Paris.
j M Claiborne, Galveston.
REPRESENTATIVES,
Hugh Jackson, Wallisville.
l.. S, McMicken, Cold Springs.
j. IL kirby, woodyille.
j, l.. Gilleland, Moet,
j. IL. Truitt, Timpson.
II, r. Mllner, Henderson.
j Ras. Jones, Pine Hill.
G A. Newton, Llrsse.
Bedford Parks, Palestine.
w. G. Larkin, Athens.
N. M, Harrison, Gilmer.
IL, L, Tate, Lindale.
w. b. Page, Crockett.
Alex Pope, Marshall
Tom c, Davis, Center.
l.. A Whatley, Atlanta.
w T. Hudgins, TeXarkana.
William Skinner, Daingerheld.
James CLARK, Walnut Grove.
j. Is. Stringer, Mt. Vernon.
j. G. Beard, Blardstown
A. j. Nicholson, Honey Grove.
j. T. Saddler, Dodd City.
G. w. Patterson, Casper.
w. IL. Nelson, Sulphur Sprinc
Il. p Alexander, Greenyille
j, T. Curry, Canton,
j. II. Talbert Fanninn N,
f A. Utiger, Pottsh 20,
j, b Wright, FaraersTiile.
G. S. Pdllen, ] lauon,
S G Hargis gainesville
X. V. Bell Denton.
j. M. Song, Dallas.
j. @. l.ugel, Mesquite,
Elihu Newton, Braosiord.
V G. Head, Rockwsll
$, j. Chapman, Grandylew.
w II. Wood, Bristol.
g. M. Christenberry, Hubbard City.
G, 6. Grace, Waxahachle.
w. l.. McGaughey, Cranberry.
W. NJ. Smith, Cran1ll's Gap.
T. A Fuller, Decatur.
A. II. Latimer, Mineral Wells.
j. N. Browning, Mobeetie,
f, G.. Bransford, Newport.
j. p. HUMPHREYS, Aurora.
j. w. Jarrett, Millsap.
W. A. Scanai Kaufman.
M. v Garner, Bremond.
G.. NJ. Richardson, Leona.
w, Il. Sharp, Dayilla.
II. A z. Bassett, Anderson.
j w Parker, Richmond.
j. A. Kirlicks, Houston.
Jesse McCsleb, Houston.
j, j. DAVIS, Kosse.
George @. Pendleton, Bolton.
j, M, Mckinney, Ma ysfield.
A. G. Camp, Groesheeck.
X II. Steele, Cotton Gin.
A. S. GIL, Purdrn.
S. p. Mills, Waco.
A. G. Prendereast, Waco.
A. G. Graves, Gatesville.
Il Il. Plumly, Galveston.
Walter Gresham, Galveston.
C, d. Battle, Matagorda.
j. Nj, Wooisey, Oakland.
j. II. Shelourne, BrIleville.
g z. Humphreys, Bowie.
]. f. Mcclure, Ledbetter.
W MalejowskY, Necchamtz.
Il j Moore, Washington.
II. NJ. Hunt, Caldwell
j. NJ. McLanahan, Lexington.
II. M. Garwood, Bastrop.
i Il Moore, Austin.
Il. ~. Smith, Merrilltown.
A. j.. NorlhDgtoD, Lampasss.
j. G. Baird, Brentwood.
j. II FGubion, Leander.
j. Frazier Brown, San Saba.
George w. Baylor, Ysleta.
j. IL. Clark, Uvalde.
James B. Cane, Rancho.
j. S. Penn, Laredo.
T. W, Kennedy, Rio Grande City.
A. G. Jones, Beeville.
ID. C. Robinson, San Antonio.
j. W. Light, Sayers.
Jonathan Payne, GoliAd.
George Staples, Edna.
L. w. Latham, Brownsville.
Carl Goeth, Cypress Mill.
j. II. Booth, Gonzales.
j. L. Ellison, Martindale.
George McGhee, San Marcos.
N. r. Dolen, Houston.
w. C. Johnson, TYLER.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-17

Take Rcd Star Cough Cure for colds
No oplstes Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-17

lic. and the belief il thar il Was polili- @
cal move on the part q District Master y
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
How a Farmer Slaves.

To witness a farmer shave is one of
the most painful operations ever wit
messed outside Ofdown-right butchery.
For some reason away beyond the
depth of present knowledge, the man
who breads the country always has a
beard like new hair brush, and he
never could learn how to sharpen a
razor.
He gets on the back stoop with his
seaving utensils, and after rubbing
the razor over the strap in an awk-
ward fashion, until whatever trace of
edge it may have had has been de-
stroyed, he hangs up his broken glass
and takes position alongside of the
kitchen door, where the old lady will
be sure to jostle his arm when she
goes out to empty her dish water.
With brush that has but little
handle remaining, he manages some
how to stir up a lot of lather from
soap that would raise blister on the
bottom of a boys foot in dog days,
with which he coats his face till moth
ing but his eyes and the back of his
head are visible. With cob dipped
in warm water he goes over the stub
BILE with vigor that makes the flesh
creep, until he feels that all the rea-
sonable precautions fOrcomfort in the
subsequent operations have been
taken.
Taking up the razor and looking at
it suspiciously over the top of his
glasses, he runs his thumb along the
edge, fails to draw blood as he had
hoped, and then with a sigh like
leaving town in a hurry, he grabs
himself by the nose, shuts his eyes
andgives scrape that makes his hail
stand on end as a bunch of beard
seems to come out by the roots.
But once at it a terrible desperation
seems to nerve him, and with teeth
set he goes right on with determi
nation to get the agony over as soon
as possible. Howls of woe break
from him now and then, as an ex
preston that pOisons life steals ovel
his face and stays there till the las
nerve has been pulled out of socke
by that terrible razor, and the last BIZ
of stubble has been laid low, wher
with sigh of relief, he strikes up :
hymn of thanksgiving, and joyfully
throws his shaving paper into thu
swill barrel near by.-Ex.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
Country Cured Hams.
Des AIoines Register.

Des Moines Register.
Who has not feasted with pleasure
on country cured hams? There is no
doubt Of their superiority over those
cured at the packing houses. And
why is it? Nearly all the hams we
get are hard, dry and tasteless. And
why is itthat our farmers have ceased
curing a few more hams each year
than what is needed for home con-
sumption? Or why have they ceased
the practice altogether, by selling all
their pork at low price and buying
their pork and hams the next sum-
mer at four prices of what they sold
for? Just before harvest any one
can see farmers at the provision stores
buying hams and smoked bacon for
use in harvest. They certainly do
not appreciate the tasteless hams over
those of their own curing.
Or is it another generation, which
is coming on, who are lodging more
of the domestic work than did the
former generation? Something is
evidently the matter. Last fall we
went to an old-fashioned homestead
where they had hams which tasted
Just as they did in our boyhood days,
which convinces us that it is not the
waning appetite of old age that is
causing us to cry out for the ham and
eggs of our youth. The fear is that
they are gone by the crowding pro-
cess of the age and increasing dispo-
sitien to dodge the drudgery of the
old-fashiOned home. But why is it
that pork houses cannot and do not
prepare hams in such way that they
will have all of the sweet flavor and
juiciness of the old-fashioned country
cured hams? They have just as good
hogs, as pure salt, land every surround
ing advantage that they can possibly
have at the farm house. And yet
they are lacking in flavor, are dry,
hard and insipid, so that when the
hens get in the right humor in the
spring no longer do we have the feast
of cham and eggs"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
Better Whistle than Whine.

Early Dew.
AS l was takinga walk, l noticed
two little boys on their way to school
The small one stumbled and fell, and
though he was not much hurt, he be-
gan to whine in babyish way, not
regular roaring boy cry, as though
he was half killed, but a little cross
whine.
The older boy took his hand in a
kind, fatherly way, and said:
ooh, never mind, Jimmy, don't
whine; it is great deal better to
whistle"
And he began in the merriest way
a cheerful boy whistle.
Jimmy tried to join the whistle.
81 can't whistle as nice as you,
Charlie" said he, "my lips won't
pucker up good"
ooh, that's because you have not
got all the whine out yet" said Char
lie; "but you try a minute, and the
whistle will drive the whine away"
Sob did and the last l saw or
heard of the little fellows they were
whistling away as earnestly as though
that was the chief end of life.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
Line of Cure for Suffering.

Suffering is a purely nervous diff
Guilty. The vocal muscles are able to do
perfect work, but, from deficient inner
walton the mind can not command them
fully, and the trouble Of speech COM
mences, and soon the habit is formed,
and generally grows worse and worse.
The mind fears that the words will fail,
and as the result they do fail. II the
fear could be removed, the trouble would
in large part cease. A cure can be &C
complished in NO way but by the per-
sistent and determined effort of the suf-
ferer himself. Others can accomplish
little for him. If his attention and his
fear can be removed from the muscles of
his throat while speaking, if he can for
get that any trouble is there, he will
soon improve in his power. This is the
one line in which his efforts must be
made, and with persistent patience it can
be successful.-Scientific American.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
Running Accounts.

The housewife should avoid this as
she would a serpent. She is not usu-
ally either the wage-earner or pay
master in the household. She gets
what she wants on credit, because
there is no particular trouble in get
ting it. She does not appreciate the
size of the bills thus contracted, which
grows with the phenomenal rapidity
of a snomball running down hill.
Spend only what money you have in
hand. Don't buy anything on a
credit. Don't begin the housekeeping
on a credit basis. The wife who buys
on the books is a continual drag on
the energies Of her husband. 1t +
damaging to the peace of mind to
both husband and wife when the
air is full of the constant echoes OF
little bills forever flying home to
roost. Under such a system of ex-
penditures neither can properly
understand or keep in mind the limi'
tatiOns of the provender fund, or how
much may have been paid out and
how much may have been laid up fol
emergencies.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
DR.. Gums Liver Pills

Removes Constipation, prevents Ma
laria, cures Dyspepsia, and gives new
life to the system. Only one for a
dose. Free samples at w. H. Flem-
ing'S 3
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
Manual Training.

Western Plowman.
tits coming. Common sense in
education is having a bearing, and
we are awaking to arealization of the
fact that an educational system which
consists in examining the mind with
facts which have no practical bearing
upon the real work Of life, is a hum
bug and a fraud. We give our sons
six years of hard training in the pub
lie schools, and when they get through
they cannot execute in proper form
promisory note; they cannot drive a
single nail straight; they cannot di-
agnose the case of common cold.
And yet we professedly educate them
as a preparation for life. Now it is
pretty well established fact that all
men cannot live by the exclusive eX-
ercise of brain power. A great ma
jority, in fact, have to use their mus
cles. Why then, devote all the edu-
cation to the head? Why cram the
mind with facts, which simply mean
knowledge without power, and allow
the hands which must probably feed
the brain to go without proper de-
velopment? Why compel our daugh-
ters to pore over ancient history and
graduate them without a knowledge
of the first principles of cooking?
Why assume that every boy and
girl that is sent to school is to be an
ornament rather than autility in life?
Why not educate with aview to work
rather than to genteel laziness? There
is a prodigal and shameful waste of
time, money and energy in our pres
ent educational methods. But there
is a rafting among the dry bones.
Manual training may be sneered at
by few educational dudes, but when
the hard, practical common sense of
the people is appealed to understand
ingly, the response will be not slow
in coming. Follow up the precept
that labor is honorable, by making
labor the corner stone of our educa-
tional system. The educator who is
ashamed of the word industrial
should be hooted and booted out of
the place he disgraces.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
A Victim Of BufyAlo Gns.s.

The buffalo gnats, the pest of the lower
Mississippi valley, have done work of
destruction among the stock of Tennes-
see. Reports of cattle, horses and mules
having been goaded to death by these
insects are received daily. A oolored
man named Sneiss was stung and choked
to death. He was fourd dead, evidently
a victim of the gnsts, which swarmed
about the corpse. Gnats crnwled in and
ont Of his ears and nose. His mouth
and nostrils were filed with them. This
is the second case on record where buf-
falo gpats have destroyed human lite.-
Chicago TImcA
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
Drinking roasts with Highland Honors.

Drinking Toasts with Highland Honors.
was once in Scotland at gathering
Of the clans, which dukes and earls, who
were also Highland chiefs, attended, as
in feudal times, at the head of their fol-
lowers. The duke Of Athole crossed the
Grsmpians afoot with his men, the young
and beautiful duchess riding by his side,
but the loyal clansmen had no thought
of equality because their master shared
the fatigues of the march. After the
sports there was dinner, at which 400
Highlanders sat down under one roof,
the magnates at the top of the table.
The toasts were drunk with Highland
honors, every man standing on his chair
with one foot on the table, the lords and
the gillies all in their kits, and the very
condescension Of the chiefs made the
followers more loyal. They were proud
to call themselves the duke of Athole's
men, the earl Of Flies men, the earl of
Airlie's men.-Adam Badeau's Letter.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
The Natural Sewers of plttsburg.

In addition to natural gas and other
modern wonders Pittsburg has had an
other added to her list in the way of
natural sewers. The hills around this
city are honeyoombed with abandoned
coal pits. There are miles and miles of
old entries, and thousands upon thou
sands of worked-out rooms under the
hills. The black wealth was turned out
years ago, and now big holes along the
bluff-sides mark the entrances to the cat
acombs.
The houses on Mount Washington, the
Thirty-second ward, are built on the
crust of earth above these tunnels. There
is no system of drainage up there for
population of 1000 or 5000 people. Re-
Gently they found way out of the diff
Guilty. An oil well driller who went
"broke" drilling in Washington county
came to town. He had a brilliant idea.
He struck bargain with resident
named Mccormick and in a few days
the drill was clinking merrily in his back
yard, and week later all the refuse,
sewage and waste water Of the neighbor-
hood goes pouring through six-inch
well into an old coal mine sixty feet be-
meath. The perpendicular sewer scheme
since then is taking, and where one man
can not afford to drill well, several
neighbors bear the expense and share
the benefit.
Fears have existed that this will create
a pestilence in years to come; that as
there is no outlet the coal pits will be-
come filled with the filth of the city and
through the natural openings and assures
in the everything rocks vapors and gases
will carry death and disease abroad
Pittsburg Letter.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
A pifficulty in Choosing speotaoles.

An old farmer at the opticians was in
a curious difficulty in choosing specta-
eles. II am far.sighted in one eye and
short-sighted in the other" he explained.
"Do you think you can fit me out? This
short-sighted eye has done all my hard
work for years, and I want to ease it a
spell. When I read l use that eye, but
it can't see anything in dropping corn.
Then have TO use my far-sighted eye,
and after planting for q time it gets SO
tired that have TO close my eyes oc-
casionally to rest them. But the most
uncomfortable part of the whole trouble
is seeing things half way between. II !
hold book half way, the short-sighted
eye can't see. and it amt far enough for
the far-sigheed eye. I'm afraid you'll
have an awful trouble in adjusting those
glasses. Exchange.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11

Early Rising in Turkish Bed Rooms.
The simplicity of domestic furniture
has its advantages. At the first alarm
of fire everything can be turned out of
the window without injury; but it is
very much opposed to our western ideas
of comfort, as the slave girls, unless care
fully barricaded out, make an inroad
into the sleeping-room in early morning.
They sweep up bed and bedding before
your eyes are fairly open; two or three
maidens pounce upon the mattresses, the
yorghans and the embroidered pillows
the instant they are unoccupied, and
rolling the whole into the wrapper, bear
it away to the vast cupboard constructed
for that purpose in most of the rooms.
The visitor is left stranded, and obliged
to proceed with the incongruous feeling
of dressing in a drawing-room. These
remarks apply to orthodox, old-fash-
Toned households. Young feminine
Turkey has its French or German bed
steads, its armoire glace, its wash
stand, all marble and fine porcelain a la
franca.-Eastern Life, Mrs. Walker.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
An End to Bone Scraping.

Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg,
ILL.,, says: Having received so much
benefit from Electric Bitters, l feel il
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had Il running sore
on my leg for eight years; my doctors
told me would have to have the
bone scraped or the leg amputated.
l used, instead, three bottles of Elec.
trio Bitters and seven boxes Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, and my leg is now
sound and we'll"
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty
cents a bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica
Salve at pc. per box at J. B. Ritchey':
Drug Store. >
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11

Birchbark handbags are coming
in, and very pretty they are for sum-
mer use, instead of the plush or ALL
gator-skin ones, of which everyone
is getting little tired. A Maine
woman has made, painted and sold
over thousand dollars worth of
these pretty sachels during the last
year and half. Here is a chance for
girls with talent for decorate work
to earn some pin-mOney during the
summer.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-11
PATENTS.
Franklin III. HOugh,
Solicitor Of American & Foreign Patents
925 F Street, N. w.
Near U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

Personal attention given to the prepare.
onand pro secution of applcatio ms for Let.
Peer. ttsnH All business before the U. s.
Patent Office attended to for moderate fees.
When patent is granted, drawing of your
invention, with claims, your name and ad.
dress, will be published in the United States
Patent Office Gazette, a paper of immense
circulation, and the only paper that pub
fishes this free.
Ga3-No agency in the United States pos
sesses superior facilities for obtaining Pat.
ents, or OF ascertaining the patentability Of
inventions,
Copies of patents furnished for % cents
each.
Correspondence invited.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-05
George L. Travis.
THE ROSS BARBER.

I9.AAhA9A13sf
announces to his friends
IN and the public that has removed to the
front upper room in the Gibson building, ad-
Joining the courthouse yard.
NV shop has been Thoroughly Furnished and
Improved, with the Best Patent Spring Chairs,
Sc. is large and roomy. and shall constantly
have the services of competent assistant
Promptness, neatness. and politeness, my mot
70. April 6, 1886.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-05
ATrick that Failed.

If the following story is not true
the responsibility rests with Mr.. Will
liam ii. Harley, the contractor who is
building the main editice of the new
Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy,
for he vouches for it's truth. Mr..
Kuhn, the proprietor of Kuhn's gar
den, was thrifty in money matters but
cared little for his own personal api
pearance. He had worn the same old
greasy overcoat until his sons were
ashamed of him and tried to Induce
him to buy new one.
"Oh nc" the old gentleman w6Hld
always say; 81 would rather have
the $50 dollars that it would cost"
One day the sons determined that
he should wear a new coat, and, be-
lieving that If he could get one at n
good bargain he would buy It, ar
ranged with tailor to sell him $50
onefor SO, they to pay the difference.
Then they went home and told their
father what handsome coat they had
seen and what a bargain it would be
to buy it. So the father went and
looked at it, and after beating the
tailor down TO SO took it and started
for home.
But when he reached home he had
no coat with him.
"Didn't you buy the coat, father?"
Yes; got it for &c." replied tho
old gentleman.
"wbere is it?' /.
&c oh, was showing il to a friend
in the street car and when he offered
me s15 for it / let him have it.
cleared Sc on that transaction"
Mr.. Harley assured US that the
young men never tried 10 play that
trick on the old father again.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-05
Book Notices.

The October HARPER's is unusually rich in
poetry. The most important poem is "The
Brahmah's Son." powerful picture of India
life. with four exquisite illustrations by Alfred
Fredericks. sonnet by Andrew Lang. en-
titled - Grass of Parnassus," !" IL illustrated by
Alfred Parsons. The other offerings to the
muses. are " A Band of Bluebirds." by William
H Hayne. "The Reapers," by VIII Wallace
Harvey. 80 Indian Summer" by Commander
William Gibson. and " The Quaker Lady, by
Margaret Delaud-
GopEY's LADr's BOOK for October is sea-
sonable autumn number. The fashion pages
are replete with pretty illustrations for differ
ent articles of costume. while an attractive
frontispiece illustration and cOlorcd and black
work designs win be eagerly welcomed by its
lady readers. The Fashion Notes give many
seasonable hints upon autumn styles, and also
treat upon different ways of decorating OuT
homes W. z. Striker. Philadelphia, publish
er. Price. S2.00 per year.
PETERsos's MAGAGTSE for October has g
fine steel-engraving, " Consider the Lilies" q
stylish double-sfxe colored steel fashion plate;
and some fifty wood-engTayings. The original
stories are even better than usual Two Dol
lars a year. with great deductions to cluhs.-
Charles J. Peterson, 3o6 Chestnut street, Phil
adelphia Pa