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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
TO MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY.

To marry or not to marry; that is the question;
Whether It's wiser in the man to suffer
The jeers and taunts OF outrageous relatives,
Or to eschcw the sea of troubles,
And by SO doing 'scape them? To love; Il
marry;
All me! and by ones marriage to say he weds
The healtache and the thousand awful woes
A Benedicts heir to, It's a consummatioI
'twould seem
One should avoid. To love; to marry;
To marry, perchance to rue it. aye, there's tn:
rub;
For in that marriage, hate may come.
When one has taken on this fatal moose,
He cannot hope escape from, save through thu
door
That makes calamity of all ones life;
For who would bear the stigma of the divorce
court.
The uplifted brow. the ill-concealed scorn,
The pangs of despised love, the laws delay,
The insolence of wife. perchance-of child,
That all too quickly nom its mother learn,
Wheu he himself Il life OF peace may take
With briar pipe? Who'wQGid the fires make
To grunt and sweat with furlace CRATE,
But that the dread of thousan,ts OF tongues,
BY which the Bay States men ohtnumbered ore,
RebulieS us, puzzles thdwil, -.
And makes us leave the ills we hate
To fly to others that we know not OF?
Shall sensitive souls be thus made towards all?
And shall our peace of mind
Be shaken-mayhap broken,
And single blcssedness-happy state
With this regard be ever turned awry
And lost in bliss OF living? Soft you now:
On, critics, scribblers, in Your comments
Be all pros and cons remembered.
Boston Transcript.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

AN EXCHANGE printed i'll Hunt county
this state, the name of which has escaped
THE GAZETTE, prints this paragraph:
We have in our mind q young man
who owns $50 acres Of improved land
near here, who has cleared, above all ex-
penses, $3.50 from this years crops pro-
duced on his farm. 1t wasn't done by loafng
around town talking politics and crying hard
times, but was the result of hard work and intel
hgent management. From his farm of $50 acres
he took this year $500 bushels of oats, 900 bushels
Of wheat, 800 bushels of corn 10 bushels of alfalfa
seed, 500 bushels of potatoes, and s. tons of hay.
One mau besides himself did all the work except
at harvest and threshing time, when he had to
have extra help, of course. This is but an in
stance of what any thoroughgoing, intelligent
farmer can do under ordinary circumstances
every year in Texas.
Now, we would like to ask Editor Shep-
ard of the New York Mail and Express
how people as busy as we Texans are can
take time to center upon war?'
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
NEVIS IND NOTES.
A meteoric stone which lately fell in
Russia contained several diamonds.

A meteoric stone which lately fell in
Russia contained several diamonds.
The Turks regularly cut open the outer
corner of the eyelids, if the eyes of Il girl
are not large enough for their ideas of
beauty.
Jerusalem, it is said, is fast becoming
the city of the Jews. In 1880 there were
not more than 5000 Jews there; now there
are more than 80 900.
The largest and finest specimens of
maIachite come from Russia. In YER
sailles there is room entirely furnished
with articles of malachite.
The number of muscles in an elephant s
trunk, according to London medical
authorities, is SO ,l22, and he has use for
each and every one of them.
In Lapland the test of oratory is seeing
who rattles off the most words without
stopping to draw a breath, and the
women generally come out ahead.
\ London paper says there are still
twenty-three islands i'll the Pacific ocean
which no nation has set up claim to +,
and it advises John Bull TO lose no time
i'll taking them in and filing his claim.
It is said that Saxony furnishes the
largest percentage of suicides of any
civilized state. The number last year
was 11O4, or one TO about every 5000 of
the population. In 1881 the total number
was 1913.
Not long ago 5000 tons of pig-iron were
sent from Birmingham, Ala, to Pitts
burg. Since 1879 the iron production of
Alabama has increased from 40 200 tons
to 2S3 500 tons a year. Alabama is
fourth in rank-after Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Illinois-as an iron producing
state. Tennessee holds the fifth place.
An Albany physician says that the most
curious prescription he ever gave to a pa
tent was one that he prepared for lady.
1t was 'Stop walking up and down
stairs The only way this prescription
could be taken was by changing her
house, as she lived in one of the three
story -and- basement houses so peculiar to
Albany architecture. Her husband Sc
cured a roomy cottage of two stories, and
within year the invalid IS health was al
most completely restored.
The people of Great Britain are grow
ing more temperate. III the last ten
wears the annual revenue from the con-
sumption of spirits has declined from
f2l ,l02 GIL to less than Els 600 900.
The consumption of tea, on the other
hand. grows steadily. In this latter ar
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
Xl[dS.
A4HiS.
BALLINGER, TEX, Dec. 20, 1888.


Editor Gazette.
DEAR SIR am ten years old and attend the
Baptist Sabbath-school regularly; besides, 1
read your valuable paper every day and notice
every curious word. 1 notice the word Christ
mas is often spelled ''Emas.' Now, will you
please tell me why is ..|X'' placed before mas
instead of Christi" OF course 1 know that
Xmas means ''Christmas,' ~ but why is it so
written, and when and where did it receive its
origin? Please answer and oblige your little
reader, HERNIA SMITH.
TIE GAZETTE has not been inattentive
TO the interrogatory of the young lady
who desires to know why Christmas is
written Xmas. By some, the use of X
before mas is supposed to be a popular
corruption OF the sign of the cross, and
by others that it finds its origin in the
Greek text, our b being, in that Ian
guage, written thus. In the catacombs
at Rome the monogram of Christ is often
seen thus: X 7. The mas is doubtless a
corruption of mass, similar to candlemas
and other words where the final is
dropped. The writings of the early
fathers were all the work of hand, and
authorizations similar to shorthand, where
the consonants only are used, prevailed
to a considerable extent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

IT is to be noted that the Southern press sus-
tains Sheriff Smith of Birmingham in his recent
bloody suppression of the riot there. The bloody
part of it of to be greatly regretted but
is worth even that-this great lesson in law and
order. Sheriff Smith is apostle of civilization.
1t cauuot be forgotten that just after this attempt
another body was discovered near Birmingham,
the result Of another murder. The account of it
added: There is no excitement the mob spirit
is absolutely dead in Birmingham. So it will
be anywhere with such resolute action that of
Birmiugham's sheriff. Every state in the South
needs a few Sheriff Smiths. Indiana needs one
occasionally. indianapolis News.
There Is no justification for the state
ment that "every state in the South
needs few Sheriff Smiths,'' howeve,
much the White Cap reign of Indiana
Illinois and Ohio may need them. The
South never saw such riots of pure law
lessness as have been seen in Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and Chicago.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
ABOUT MEN md TOMEN.

! Colonel Ingersoll's wife has persuad ID
| him to stop writing attacks on religion
| for the magazines.
Senior Romero, the Mexican minister,
| has one of the show houses in Washing
/ ton. 1t cost SO 900.
Queen Victoria took the first prize in
one of the classes in recent dairy show
with beautiful shOrthon.
Anna Smith, whom Chicagoans call
"the Norwegian Nightingale, - will
make the Windy City her American
home.
Miss lie Row, the author of "English
as She is Taught is II plump, dark
skinned little lady with dimples in her
cheeks.
Mary Anderson is said to have dis
carded high heels forever. She wears
English shoes not because they are En-
glish, but because they are sensible.
Victoria Woodruff is said to have taken
mp her abode ut Paris, where she has
bought a house for ? goo 200 francs, in
which She hopes to Sound an institution
for the free education of women.
Governor Thomas W. Dorr of Rhode
Island was once tried for treason and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. Now it is
proposed to erect IL monument to his
memory. The whirligig OF time brings
in curious reyenges.
A remarkable instance showing how a
person of advanced years may be able to
retain the interest of young people comes
from Taunton, Mass. Mrs. Mary G..
Patten, ninety-three years old, has had
charge of the infant class in Il Methodist
Sabbath school in that city during the
past fOrty-eight years. She never misses
a session of the school ana the children
almost worship her. Here is youthful
heart and head despite the lapse of al
most century of years.
All Chicago is laughing at "Private
Joe'' Fifer, the governor elect. He was
a guest at the recent wedding of Senator
Farweil S daughter, the society event of
the season, at which every gentleman
was in full dress except the new eXecu-
tive. Chicago papers assert that the
ogling he received because of his peculiar
attire forced him to hide in an ante room,
from which he did not emerge until the
last guest had departed.
Adelina Patti IS remarkable preserva-
ton of her beauty is leading the gOssipers
20 compare her with NinOn de l 'Enclos,
the famous beauty of the last century,
who at sixty enslaved the grands0ns of
the men who loved her i'll her youth.
One who saw Patti the other day in Paris
could see no visible change, no mark of
the past ten or fifteen years upon her.
She was still as slim and rounded, still
without a gray hair in her head or
wrinkle upon her. There had not come
under her chin that small break in the
contour of the throat, which is the first
knell of dead usefulness. Her hair lay in
rich, plentiful black locks about brow
where not one line was to be seen. Her
eyes were clear and bright as a child's
her cheeks smooth and pink, her teeth
5 Owy and faultless, and the delicate
lines of her figure just what they were
score of years back.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

necessary to burden himself with mort
gage in order to erect farm houses, build
fences and buy machinery, how can the
actual settler upon the school land
do all these things with but little
if any capital to start upon, with not
furrow turned upon his location, and
without a dollars worth of collateral,
and III addition to these necessary expen-
ditures support his family, and pay the
state an interest tribute of S64 year?
He cannot do it, and failure is the iney-
table result of the attempt. 1t is duty
to tell him so, and gross dishonesty to
encourage him i'll the effort, and then
confiscate all his earthly effects because
he fails
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
Denison Gazettee

Mr.. A. w. Hopkins, who resides
southeast of the city one mile, placed
upon our table two boxes of as fine
strawberries as we have seen this year,
the fruit being of the Phelps variety, and
having been picked from vines in Mr.
Hopkins patch that morning. How is
this, We that live in frozen zones and
SILVER in your buffalo overcOats? Five
days from Christmas and strawberries
ripening in the fields. Let the FROST
bitten denizens of the ice-bound North
take cogniZance of the fact that while
they are wearing ear mufTs and eating
snow-balls we are going about in our
shirt sleeves and dining on strawberries
and cream, freshly picked from our
kitchen garden.
Note-We do not wish to mislead our
Northern neighbors, and lest they might
infer from that last sentence that cream
in the South grows on trees, we viii eX-
plain that we do not get the cream in the
garden. It is only the strawberries that
we get there.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
One and Indiyisible.
Philadelphia Record.

The position and the experience of the
people of Texas, who have had over
forty years of statehood, and who have
grappled with all the difficulties of an ex-
tended area made more perplexing by the
long line of Mexican frontier, ought not
TO be without due weight in determining
the choice of the people of Dakota. To
have four men in the United States sem
ate, instead of two, would be an excel
lent thing for the two extra senators; but
the advantage would extend no further.
The maintenance of two state govern
rnents, instead of one, would be per-
petual tax on the resources of the people
gained Mt the expense of a diminished
representation in the lower house of con-
gress. Dakota, undivided, is the last
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
A BAPTIST LEADER DEAD.
Rev. James P. Boyce, President OF the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, Dies
in France.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. Pa cable
gram received this morning announces
the death at Pan, France, of Rev. James
Petigrue Boyce, D. D., president of the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
of this city. He was paralyzed and left
here last August for a two years trip to
recruit his shattered health. He was the
founder of the seminary and one of the
greatest leaders of American Baptists :.
He was president of the Southern Baptist
convention, trustee of the state flfRa
and held many important private and,
public trusts. -
He was born at Greenville, S. Cs5sdsd
had wife and three daughters asf5 ac-
companied him on his travels RHfs re-
mains will be brought here for Mterment
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
MIDLAND.
A Christmas Night Hop-The Scorched SAINTS
Claus in Critical Condition.

Christmas Night HOp-The Scorched Santa
Claus in & Critical Condition.
Correspondence of the Gazette
MIDLAND, Ten. Dec. 26.-Last night
very enjoyable hop was had at the hall
over the Cornell bank under the
auspices of the Masonic fraternity. The
light fantastic toe continued to trip until
the wee hours of this morning, and but
little before Old Sol made his appearance
one could see various couples vending
their way breakfastward 1 suppose, fast
in the modern Sam Jones clutch.
While the jolly and portly proprietor of
the Rio Grande hotel was vending his
way to the above hop, some dastardly
coward hurled large stone at him,
which, missing its aim, broke $50 glass
window and various glass jars, in DR. =.
Taylor's drug store.
While the above was transpiring Mr..
L. d. Kimberly, the accomplished gen.
tleman and salesman of the Cornell dry
goods house, was joined in the holy bonds
of matrimony with the beautiful and
accomplished daughter, Mamie, of Mr.
j. NJ. Pitzen, q railroad man of the
Texas and Pacific residing here.
Young Bartlett, burned night before
last at the Christmas tree, is in critical
condition.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

THE GAZETTE would rather have the con-
fidence and the appreciation of the news
paper men than of any other class, for
they judge critically yet sympathetically
and understandingly. THE GAZETTE
loves its work and its fellow-laborers
and their good will is cordial and strength
to WEAKNESS. For one and all of them
THE GAZETTE wishes merry Christmas
and new year of profit commensurate
with their labors for Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
A STEAMER LOST.
The SANTANA Which Left New York November
% for Haytian Ports Relieved tn be Lost

The SANTANA Which Left New York November
% for Haytian Ports Believed to be Lost.
NEW YORK, Dec. Speculation was
rife on the floor of the Maritime
Exchange this morning over
the possible fate of the steamship
SANTANA which left here for Haytian
and San Domingo ports November %
last. Nothing has been heard of the yes
sci since. 1t will be recalled that the
SANTANA s departure was signaled by a
heated controversy between the Cat that
time) Haytian consul, E. d. Bassett,
and the custom house officials. Mr.. Bas-
sett claimed the vessel carried arms and
ammunition for the insurgents, and
made strenuous efforts to have the vessel
delayed until her cargo could be in
spected. Collector Magondon refused to
interfere. On November 20 the eastern
coast of the United States was visited by
one of the most severe storms ever ex-
perienced by seafaring men, and it is now
nearly forty days since the SANTANA has
been reported. 1t is the opinion of sea-
faring men III general that the steamer
is lost
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
In Accord With the Gazette.

10 Iue SdZSIle.
AMARILLO, Tex, Dec. Is, 1888.
Our people are almost to a man in
hearty accord with the grand fight THE
GAZETTE is making on the land question,
and it is sincerely hoped that our law
makers may have their eyes opened to
the interest of the whole state in this
matter and that liberal laws affecting the
settler may be passed at the coming ses-
sion. Somehow our lawmakers cannot
understand that whatever tends to build
up the great Panhandle and the west will
benefit all Texas. Keep on with your
sledge-hammer arguments educate
them. Surely it cannot be that East and
South Texas are Jealous of our section.
They have given away one-half of this,
the best part of Texas, to corporations to
induce railroad companies to build them
railroads, and now i'll the name of justice
and right we beg them not to further
hamper the settlement of the undeveloped
other half.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
4 New Phrase.


The man who gives us a new phrase
should have monument of enduring
marble.
A gentleman and a scholar-he must
be both, for he lives in Chicago--was ar
rested for drunkenness. When asked by
the judge to plead guilty or not guilty, he
drew his hand across his dome-like fore
head, threw a couple of disdainful
chances round the court room and re-
marked that he had simply been in the
condition technically known as calico
holic trance
Of course the judge apologized and the
gentleman and scholar hustled to the
street corner, where he obtained the raw
material for another "trance.
But the phrase is delicious. What a
Christmas mouthful it makes! Calico
holic trancel' Superb.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
THE MOST RELIABLE

GAZETTE came out in its promised new
dress last Saturday. THE GAZETTE is
one of the ablest Democratic papers in
Texas, and it might be added the most
reliable. The Times tips its Derby to
congratulate its highly priced contempo-
rary and to offer a bunch of chrysanthe-
NUNS to pin on the front of the gay and
stylish dress which shows off THE GA
ZETTE as young blushing bride.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
BE JUST TO THE SETTLER.

Ten thousand farm mortgages i'll Texas
aggregating $40 200 900, are a forceful
demonstration of the difficulties in the
way of agricultural development. They
are on the farms of men who have fee
simple title to their property, and who
own homesteads exclusive of the land on
which the mortgages are planted. If the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
Needs Revision.

The Fort Worth GAZETTE is clamoring
for Il revision of the Texas land law. 1t
needs it. Forty years time is long
enough, and the interest is low enough,
but in the course OF forty years there are
likely to be several crop failures, and Il
failure to pay one yearly interest INSTALL
ment forfeits, according to the present
law, all payments and improvements.
Let the settler have the benefit of what
soever he may have paid.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
Dumau.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

correspondence OI INE OaZtIIt.
DUgBAU, TEX, Dec. married.
William II. Hyde to Miss Ida Hester,
December 10; william D. helms to Miss
Melissa Rupe, December 10; William
Koonsman to Miss Lizzie Hawkins, De-
cember 90; william G.. Burnett to Miss
Susie Hall, December %.
Our town has a population of about
200. It is local option town. We have
one of the best schools that can be found
in Texas, and great many of the young
people are being well educated.
There were three head of horses and
one mule stolen q few days ago from
James Ramsay, Scotchman living five
miles north of Duffah. No traces of the
horses or thieves has been found.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

THE present land law viii. not settle
the Panhandle and Northwest Ts8as. If
the object of Texas land laws is met 10
promote immigration - no amendment
of the law is needed. 1t does not pro-
mote immigration.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
The Settlers Work.

Every actual settler who locates on
Texas school land puts more OF less per-
sonal property on the tax rolls. Every
acre of ground plowed up increases its
actual value. Every tree set out, that
lives, and in fact every act performed
that assists in the development of the
public domain, adds so much to the
wealth of the state and increases the vol
ume of revenue to the state treasury and
educational funds. The Twenty first
legislature can enact land laws, or 81
amend the present laws, that all tie
above will be accomplished. VIII it he
done? u -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

THE GAZETTE desires to return its
thanks TO contemporaries of Texas for
the good words spoken Of, this paper. .
For nineteen days THE GAZETTE has been
printing nearly column day of these
good words, and we can find no adequate
expression of our appreciation of these
unsolicited testimonials of good will.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

A STREET commissioner for Fort Worth
has long been public want, and the
want has been filled by the city council at
last. 1t is much cheaper to keep good
constructing them.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

WHEN Secretary. Early makes that re-
port on the waterworks, he should bear
in mind the popular desire to, know the
profits or losses of the works under each
of the three different administrations to
which they have been subjected by the
oity since the purchase.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

been appointed by the commissioners
court and has qualified as such. Mr..
Cooper has not been in the county many
years, and it will be no disparagement to
him, a worthy young man, TO say that he
was in no way related to the family of
Judge L. w. Cooper-any member of
whom could give bead for any purpose
and in any amount. F.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
On an Extended Visit.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
WHITEsBoRo, TEX. Dec. 27.-Coionel
J. NJ. Robinson and lady, accompanied
by their son, Professor Robinson and wife,
passed to-day going on an extended visit
to Tennessee and Virginia. Pro lessor
Robinson will return from Little Rock :,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

TENIR&ANA is to have fine union de-
pot, and Fort Agarth suffers all the in
convenience of the lack of one in city
having more railroad outlets than any
town in all the Southwest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

THE county road convention to-day
should send strong delegation to the
Dallas state convention which meets on
the 9TH prox. The delegation should not
only be strong in numbers but in ability
to deal with the great question.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

THE county road convention meets at
the courthouse this morning at II o. clock.
Every merchant and property owner of
Fort'W6yth has an interest in the pro-
ceedings of the meeting, and should at
fond
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

THE people of Fort Worth will CON-
mend the mayor of the city for fnahy
concluding to permit the council to do as
it pleases. The aldermen were elected to
legislate for Fort Worth