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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
I1pres,msn,. Aid soo,.,y.

ST.. LOUIS, No, Feb. 22.-Aoout sixty
representatives Of the Expressmen's Aid
Society met in annual convention here
to-day, and after the transaction of some
preliminary and routine bus ness sd-
l0urDed till tomorrow. The sffairs OF
the society are.in q lurishing condition.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23

The St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas laid
track yesterday IL spite OF the rain.
John D Grant, travelling passenger
agent nj the Queen and Crescent, was in
Fort Worth yesterday.
J. Wsdleigh, travelling passenger and
freight sgent of the ST.. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas, was in Fort Worth yesterday.
There is some talk that cannon ball
trims on the Transcontinentsl will begin
Sunday, starting from WhItesboro, and
that Missouri Pacific trains from Fort
Worth will conDect with same. The
statement lacked confirmation up to last
night.
TIE GLzErTE received pleasant call
from Dr.. II. A LAWS of Grapevine, edi-
tor of the Ta1ranS County Banner who,
Ike 8 good ci.iztn WAS visiting Fort
Worth. DR.. LAWS reported the Cotton
Belt as being completed to his town and
It's arrival in Fort Worth can soon be
looked for.
A well known railroad man said yester-
day, "the interests OF Fort Worth AND
San Antonio are Identical 80 far as deep
water fs concerned and 1t surprises me
tbst the two cities are not working ener-
getically together for deep water as one
point. There will BE- railroad to deep
water from Fort Worth and railroad
that will not Conflict with those now Quilt
IS fsr aE Ioo4l business is coucerOed. L.
mas be an entirely new road or It may ba
built bY the Missouri Pacific.
-.
The Panhandle route, consisting Of the
For Worth and Denver, Denver, Texas
and Fort Worth Railroads., and the Den
yer, Texas sad Gulf Railroad will soon be
completed between Fort Worth and Den
yer, Col. TIE line runs up tue Rad River
valley and across the Panhandle
country of Texas, through millions
of scres OF Texas state lands
low open for settlement, snd 1t
ia the only great trunk line railroad con
Meeting the Rocky Mountain region with
the Gulf coast. RJund-trlp excursion
tickets are being sold on this line for l
cent per mile, aud each holder OF round
trip l4ud excursion ticket has the priv
ileae of purchasing an extension ticket
to shy point on this line IN Texas a.
the same rate. A unique design
that has never been used before
by a2y road. l, consists Of huge Try
iSg.pSu with long handle, and q large
letter ar" The letter rests behind the
body Of the pan, and on the latter is
printed "Denver TO Fort Worth and the
Cult" Ga the handle sppasrs the sig
nifcant phrAsa, "PanAAndle Route"
Behind all is is written "Texas, New
Mexico, Colersdo." Il ia very unique
and Significant trade mark.
& L. Bosz rct7rned yesterday from 9
visit TO Grapevine and says WHEN he left
there yesterday morning the smoke from
the OStton Belt locomotives could be seen
in Grapevine and the trackisyers
were ct work putting down
the rails to the city. The
coming OF the iron torse to Gcspsviae
means new ers for inst ciiy. SltusEed
Ia he center & IS nns eouury SIS can
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
Dallas ard Waco RAILWAY.

Special to the tzazette,
WAxAH4CHIE, TEX, Feb. % Colonel
Volney Hall has been in cur city for sew
erSl days in the interest Of the Dallas ARD
Waco Railway. 1t is nov thought thAt
this road will be completed by mid-sum-
mer, next,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
Pe,i,1on Tor eotinu.
espsndence of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
MIDLOTHIAN, TEX Feb. 2l.-Apetition
asking for an election to Incorporate the
town, has been forwarded to his honor
the County Judge.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
Youpx0atsn,

BeetF, rsdishes sEs csbb.ge, at the Fort
Worth Gfecer G9's. Trade where you
can getAlf tie earliest spring vegetables
ssfsst as they srriye on the market.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
Lauors,h,s aa,d IN sa.a,.

TIE Fort wotth Grocer Company haye
sfsrsiped very age supplYn ~ freshsgar-
den secs Tor sRssng plarsffg. Y0a can
get tim in aug yox desire either
at Wholesale or retail.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
Celery sn4 G.stfus,,e

Ard other spring vegeiab les are arriving in
regular intervals ct the ForE Worth Gro
Ger Cog. Order your daily supplies.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
Surveying CORPS at Burnet
lnN - 81. naznN4n

Special to she Gazette.
BURNETT, TEX, Fsb 22-The survey.
Jag corps OF the 81 Louis, Arkansas ard
Texas RAilwsy is here for the purpose q
surveying line from Llano to G2tesVille,
via LsmpSsss. The movement materially
affects certain railway prospects noW ou
foot here, and as consequence is Great
ing considerable comment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
SANTA Re ROUTE!
sUH, Colorado add Santa Fs Railway.
More Miles of Steel Rails than any
Other Line in the State.

Through sleepers on trafDG1 and between
GATeaton and Kansas city. No ohAnge Of care
Of any class. oa.chest route 70 Houston and
Galveston
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23

Rhe Fora Worth and Ounvsr Trade MRrk-
MRS Hetty Green aud tho Oen-
trAI-BOme HoTes.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
SoUTEWARD. MEOARD. GoRTHWARp
.e43Es In ofe1t Dec % 1897

JAMES s. Clark, Gent Pass. As't GsIyestou.
J. J huLLANE, Ticket Agent, City Ofice
q. D. LUsK, TicAeE Agent, Union Depot
FoTI Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
THR RAILROADS.

What the ~. Louis, arkansas and
Texas viii DO For GrgpeTIne
In he Near FBsure.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
Houston and Texas Central nv

THR ALL STEEL RAIL LIHB,
DOUBLE DAILY TRAINS EACH WAT.
No. z fact mail, DenloOn to Houston IN Iblr-
:een hoErs Through Buffet S!seDtrs ees
tween Galveston and st. Louis sn Corsi6sEE
and At Louis via Dallas, Denfsca ard
Sedaila: Pullman sleepeIs acd d<sutHg room
cars between Houston and Austin.
Steamship h'Ssts q or frcJr any poiHt n
K1roys.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23

The St. Louis, Arkansas snd Texas laid
track yesterday IL spite OF the rain.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23

4 Company that " ants TO Get Deep Water
Mt the Mor'h OF the BFRzoa.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
A COMPOSITION.
Charlie Greens Attempt, and the Lesson |
 He Received from His Uncle.

Charlie Greens Attempt, and the Lesson
 He Received from His Uncle.
 Charlie Green seated himself upon the porch to write composition about ears. He made very slow progress, because he did not concentrate his thoughts sufficiently, and because a bird that futtered about it's nest in the vines claimed too large a share of his attention.
 The subioined is his composition, and it wasn't worthy of him, for, though a small boy, he could have done much better had he put his heart in the work:
 Ears are given us to hear with We have external and internal ears. Moles have no ears, for they do not need them. Elephants have very large ears. I am glad am not an elephant"
 In a little while his uncle came upon the porch.
 ''What are you writing?" he asked.
 "A composition on ears," replied Charlie. 1.-The subject was given us at school to-day. This is all that I have written"
 His uncle read the meager effort, a smile overspreading his face. He wanted to laugh, but he was too polite.
 'It isn't much of a composition, is it, uncle?n Charlie asked. Anyhow, I'm ashamed of it.
 You are in error about the mole" remarked his uncle. ''It has ears, and it has need of them"
 "But, uncle," said Charlie, '' l caught a mole this summer, and saw no ears on it."
 Because you did not look sharply, my boy. The mole, while burrowing in the ground, has no need of keen sight, but, to warn him of approaching enemies, he possesses hearing of re- markable delicacy. In order that his ears may not be filled with dirt. the mole
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
THE GIGGLlNG GIRL.
Why She Is Looked Upon as Imbecile by
 the Average Mortal.

the Average Mortal.
 From boys in their boobyhood, and girls in their gigglehood, may the fates protect us. A laugh is a laugh the world over. It is a spasmodic, soul sneeze, and as contagious as measles. Whether it is the laugh of joyous youth or cackling age it delights or amuses. But giggle is worse than the parabled thorns under pot It is the echo of emptiness. As rule men do not gig gle. They would be worse than St. Bartholomew massacre if they did. It is the American girl who giggles, the ubiquitous American girl who defies all known laws, goes where sh will, does what she pleases and is law unto herself. Of course she is irresist- ible and loving, and some day makes a grand, good woman. She would not be the American girl otherwise. But she giggles and protests, protests and giggles. If she were the trained prod uct of a young ladies' seminary, we should say her giggles were hysteria of the imagination. But she is not a trained product of any school. She was a petted and spoiled child; she is petted and spoiled young woman. She giggles from habit. No one has ever undertaken to suppress her, so she goes on giggling. Here is a fair sam pie of the conversation of a group of the American girls:
 ''Oh, girls, you just ought to have been at Mrs. Stevens party. George Smith and Harry Jones were there, and-oh, te-he-he."
 ''Oh, te-he-te-he-he-he oh, he-he-he. "
 'I wore my pink silk and spilled coffee on the front breadth-te-he.'
 -he-te-he-he-how careless te-he-he-he-he."
 Nellie Brown couldn't go because she is wearing black for her"
 ''Oh te-he-he-how sad 'pOn Nellie e-really-te-he."
 Ibid you hear Kate White was en- gagged to John Simpkins? You know girls it is leap year-te-he-he!''
 es-te-he-te-he-he- funny oh -te-he-he-he-he-he-
 What do you chew, Susie? Tutti frutti or spruce? l like rubber gum best-te-he,"
 '.So do I, te-he-he-he-te-he." :"
 Perhaps this is the language that was invented to conceal thought Girls, don't giggle. Throw back your heads, expand your pretty threats and laugh till the weikin rings. It will do you good and make all who hear you happy.
 'Laugh, and the world will laugh with you"
 Giggle, and it won't give you credit for the sense you have, -letr0H Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
The letter was on his body when we found him.

*
 The day folio wing he had drawn his pay as a section man, and at evening had tried to get aboard the west-bound emigrant train as it left Rock Creek. In the uncertainty of night his foot had slipped, and when we found him the whole pitiful story was clear to us all The wheel had gone over his right arm and right leg, and then pushed him into culvert. Realizing that it was question of few agoniz- ing hours-hours which he could spare himself-he had reached around to his right hip pocket with his left hand, and with his English bulldog cut short the little tragedy.
 In his pocket we found the letters which neither the superintendent nor had cared to read, all strong and cor dial indorsement of brave and a mod est man, and in the bosom of his gray flannel shirt there was another letter of indorsement more powerful and more tender than all the rest. It came entirely unsought, from warm, true heart away in England. It did not state in formal terms that the bearer was a man of integrity and worth. It did not say that he was entitled to re- spect and esteem, but in every line, and between the lines, it said:
 "You are all 1 have in the world. Your life is my horizon. Should any thing befall you the sun will shine no more for me. Take care of yourself, not alone for yourself, but because if you were never, never to return, the daylight will come to me no more until we meet again beyond all this.
 Soiled with frequent handling and wder-burned on one corner, and with bright red stain on the envelope, lay his most powerful and most beautiful letter of indorsement, and in his pocket the little he had earned as a section man-too little to pay his fare to Green River-and that was all.
 In the shadow of the Snowy range, where the hoary heads of the Rocky mountains are on terms of eternal in- timacy with the blue sky, on the high plateau, near the shore of the water less sea, where the grass is greenest and the cactus blossoms through the snow, St. Aubrey is buried.
 That is all.
 In the little frontier graveyard, where most every body, according to the tomb-stOnes, seems to have been killed" and where very few have ''died," lies young St. Aubrey.
 A two-line cablegram in the English paper broke the heart that beat for him alone.
 There is no moral to this story. It is just plain tale, true as to every de- tail so near as I can recall it after ten years. There is no more to tell. The tragedy was brief one, and many a weather beaten cheek, Drowned by prospecting across dazzling snow and against keen mountain winds, was wet as the curtain went down, and the ghoulish undertaken jerked the leather lines from under the cheap coffin, and, kicking few yellow clods of mount ain soil into the shallow grave, drove away.
 But out of it all came the calm and unruf1ed railroad ''one trip-pass ahead. ."-Oace C Week.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
THE ELDER DUCK.
How the Icalanders Make the Poor Bird
 Strip Herself of Her PIumage.


 The cider duck constitutes the wealth and may be said to make the prosperi- ty of the Icelanders. The three islands, Videy, Engey and Ahrey, in front of the harbor not far from ReSkjavik, are the favorite haunts of the ducks. Here they pair and make their nests every year about the beginning of June.
 When the female has chosen the place where she wishes to lay her eggs she plucks from her plumage the feathers which she uses to line the bottom and sides of her nest; then she generally lays six eggs, rarely more.
 During this time drake, like the good father of family that he is, ceases not for a moment to keep a watchful eye on his consort and fetches her back h. stantly if she gives thc, slightest indi- cation of wishing to take walk.
 The next day the owner of the land comes and carries away at the same time both the down and the eggs.
 The unfortunate couple, which some times makes stout resistance, cling ing to the clothes of the robber with their peaks, go off short distance and begin again; but the bondi (armer) comes once more and takes the precious deposit. The indefatigable mother goes to work anew, and this time only a part of the eggs are taken; for, if all were removed from the nest the depre- dator, in desiring too mnch, would lose all.
 But this reserve is made solely as re- gards the eggs, for the down is re- moved once every week, and the poor mother continues too strip herself until she finds herself so bare that she has no longer wherewithal to line the moist hole that contains her eggs. The male, squatted near her, then comes to her assistance and he too strips him. self of his plumage, a quality of down that the Icelanders distinguish easily from that of the female, because it is white and taken from the creature's sides. Chicago Tunes.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
A Novel Swimming Dress.

A swimming dress, resembling % divers dress, and made of double India rubber, has, according to a foreign contemporary, been adopted in the German navy. On the chest is valve through which air is blown into the interior of the dress, which covers the whole body and leaves only the face free. To prevent the swimmer from being too much tossed about the sea, the space around the chest is especi- ally large. The swimmer wears belt, which divides the dress into two parts, to prevent too great loss of air If the dress should be torn about the legs, and consequent difficulty in swimming. The swimmer wears shoes with leaden solles to secure his equilibrium, and for his defense a dagger, which is fastened to the girdle. The swimmers are to be employed for the blowing up of mines and hostile craft, and are pro- vided with box containing an explos- i've charge, which they have to fasten to mine or craft, and ignite. Before the explosion occurs they are out of the reach of danger. The swimming dress has already been tried in Ger many. During the attack on the har- bor of Kiel on August %, swimmers were dispatched from the ironclads to destroy the mines closing the port Scientific American.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
PHYSICAL EXERCISE.
In Order to Be of Benefit It Must Be Taken
 In Moderation.

A. H. Brown, who has just been en- gagged by the New York Police Depart ment to introduce the Boston system into New York, says: ''The developed muscle is not so good as the normal muscle. Let the muscles remain soft. Exercise, not to abnormally increase the muscle, but merely to keep up the health. When you have succeeded through training and handling weights ill making the muscles hard, corded and knotted, you have injured your
 self. You. have, in a measure, de- stroyed the elasticity of the muscles. What a man requires is a symmetrical development, and that may be secured, not through gymnastic exercise, but through diet, gentle exercise and de- veloping the chest. 1 am more and more convinced every year of my life that all man needs in the way of ex- ercise to keep him in health is the use of calisthenics, two-pound dumb-bells and a good, stiff walk. Never eXer- else within an hour before or after meals and not sooner than three hours after a heavy dinner. Exercise outside if possible. After exercise take cold shower if the system will stand it; otherwise, a tepid sponge bath. In general the system is benefited after a cold shower if a reaction sets in within five or ten minutes after drying with a coarse towel. If, however. the shower is painful, and is followed by chill and feeling of lassitude, do not take it, as it is injurious to you. One should on no account exercise in his street garments. Nature gives the longest life to the sedentary animal. The man who vegetates, only doing a moderate amount of exercise, preserv- ing calm and even temperament, en- joys the longest span. ."-M J. Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
PITH AND POINT.

If you do not censure till you have heard both sides, you will have much less to regret, and your opinion will be worth more.
 The hospitality of some people has no roof to it. Ten people will give you dinner for one who will offer you bed and breakfast. George Aac- Donald.
 Events are often like chestnut burrs. If you give them little frost, the burrs will open and show the in- side to be a great deal better than the outside.-Beecher.
 A man who requires two columns of newspaper in which to decline a prospective nomination to office will evidently not refuse to listen to argu- ment. IndianapoHS Journal.
 Such is the infatuation of self-love, that, though in the general doctrine of the vanity of the world all men agree, yet almost every one fiatters himself that his own case is to be an exception from the common rule.-Blair.
 A flippant, frivolous man may rid icule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any re- spect for himself seems to have re- nounced the right of thinking meanIy of others. -GOetbe.
 The only great combination we can confidently approve is the Matri- monial Trust, an arrangement by which the good wife trusts to the hus- band the work of earning money, and he trusts to her good judgment in ex- pending it. Western PIOa0man.
 Happiness is like mamma It is to be gathered in the grains and enjoyed every day; it will not keep, it can not be accumulated; nor need we go out ourselves, nor into remote places, to gather it, since it has rained down from Heaven, at our very doors, or rather within them.
 Many men can easily be come prophets as to the curses that will fall upon the heads of others for their sins, while they seem almost totally blind as to what will be the end of their own sins. Somehow they do not reason in regard to themselves as they do in re- spect to others Here deceived heart hath turned them aside.-M. '. L'ade- pendent.
 Small talk is the small change of life; there is no getting on without it. There are times when little nonsense is very palatable, and gravity and se- dateness ought to be kicked down stairs. A philosopher cuts poor figure in the ballroom, unless he leaves his wisdom at home. We have mot with mon who waro too -1nfty for small talk. They were above such trifing; in other words, they were above making themselves agreeable, above pleasing, and above being pleased. The world is made up of trifes; and he who can trifle elegantly and gracefully is a valuable acquisition to mankind. He is a Corinthian col umn in the fabric of society y. Ledqer.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-29
WOMAN AND WORK.
Efforts Recently Made to Alleviate t
 Condition of Working Women.

Efforts Recently Made to Alleviate the
 Condition of Working Women.
 There are more American women studying art in Vienna and Paris than ever before. The former city is quite overrun with them, and one of the leading art clubs numbers twenty-five American lady students.
 One of the features of the education al system of Mexico is the introduction of schools of mechanical training for women. Girls are taught carpentry, weaving and carving just as they are instructed in drawing, painting and music. The theory of agriculture is an optional study.
 The WOman's Congress in Detroit devoted considerable attention to the absorbing question of woman's wages. The inferiority of the wages which women receive for doing the same work that men do has long been a sub ject of discussion, and the recent con- gress is by no means a pioneer in this matter. The general opinion expressed was that this inequality of wages was purely arbitrary and could be success fully met only by organization.
 New York philanthropists are turn ing their attention to the alleviation of the shop-girls' sufferings. There is also an effort to make the factory girl more independent and to this end large sums of money have been raised with a view to establishing schools for in struction in the different branches of mechanical labor. It is claimed that if girls and young women are taught good trade early in life they can be placed where they can make an hOnOr- able livelihood independent of brutal employers and sOrdid factory-owners.
 A Philadelphia physician, comment ing on the prevailing ill-health among working-women, says that every fac tory employe can do much to improve her physical condition in spite of baneful influences of factory air and sanitation if she will but prescribe for herself a code of exercises and habits. He recommends that as much as pos sible of her spare time be spent out of doors. When that is not practicable some light indoor exercise, like club swinging, fencing, or even boxing should be indulged in. She should al- ways sit in an upright position and in leisure moments should infate her lungs with long, deep breaths. ChicG- % NelOS.