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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
Growing Up with the Country.
New YORK Evening Post.

new 1OTh Evening fOSJ.
The question is often raised whether a
poor man can any longer make his way in
this country, and men of the Henry
George school are wont to champion the
negative with much earuestness. Most
of the talk is theoretical. Here is q
practical fact contributed by the AmeriS
can Grocer: Ten years ago Servian
landed at Castle Garden with 81 so in his
pocket. The first job he could get was in
the hot atmosphere of sugar refinery +,
which his freshness soon compelled him
to abandon, and he went to work for 50
a week and his board in New Jersey. AZ
ter six weeks as a man of all
work, he started to learn
the hat-making trade, aud soon
become expert as a finisher. He in
vested 50 in o book on hat making, and
spent his spare time studying the details
of manufacturing He soon became pro-
ficient as a workman, and upon the dis
charge of the foreman was placed in
charge of the shop. He gave position to
his wife, and the two, living upon So per
week, saved the balance of their united
salaries, and thus acquired sufficient
capital to start small grocery in small
manufacturing city in New Jersey where
there were many Germans. He had at
the start $500, and after seven years.
labor is now the owner of considerable
real estate and q well-stocked store,
doing business of about SIS ,00Q, per
annum. ,s,s.sss
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

nearly his last dollar to pay for his pat
ent, but the craze for skating that spread
over the country made him rich.
Senator Stanford of California pre-
sented each OF the fourteen boys en-
ployed as pages in the senate chamber at
Washington with crisp, new So bill,
with the wish that each boy might enjoy
d merry Christmas.
1t is asserted that Henry NJ. Flagler,
the Standard Oil mrgnate, not long ago
gave his check for $50 200 toward the
liquidation of a church debt. His gene
rosity is of the most transformations kind,
and the person who came to ask his as
sistance did not know that few weeks
before that he had given a large sum to
the church.
General Boulanger's one idol in life is
said to be his mother. She was with him
in 1859 during the ten months in which
he was in danger from a wound received
at Solferino, and which has never en-
tirely healed. He spends every Sunday
afternoon and evening with her, and if
away always sends her telegram.
Gilman, the proprietor of very valu-
able wash for horses, who has just died,
failed thirty years ago as linen draper,
and paid 10 shillings on the pound. He
left IN injunction upon his heirs that the
creditors should receive the other 10 shil-
lings due, with compound interest at 8
per cent. and his instructions have been
faithfully carried out.
Miss Mary Jones, daughter of Senator
Jones of Arkansas, left Christmas day
for New York, accompanied by her
brother James ZONES and Mr. Rob-
ert L. Owens. She sailed Wednes-
day, the 2Gth inst, in charge of
United States ConSol W. w. Lang
and wife, on the steamer Lain.
They go direct to Hamburg, and from
thence to Paris, where Miss Jones will
study music and French and afterward
make tour of Italy and Germany. Miss
J ones enjoys great popularity in Wash
ingron as was evidenced by the gathering
of loving schoolmates and friends who
assembled at the depot to bid her adieu,
and they all anxiously await tidings Of
her safe arrival.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THE GAZETTE offers no excuse for the
space taken up to-day by an article
copied from the San Antonio Express.
The certain, probable or possible success
of manufacturing sugar from sorghum
deserves the consideration of all Texas,
for the western half of this state is field
where sorghum is sure and bountiful
crop. This story of Colonel "Cunning-
ham grit is an interesting one.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
OHIO RO4DWAYS.

The Ohio papers are discussing better
roads. The laws of the state provide
for building free turnpikes as follows
GA majority of all the landholders re-
siding within the county, who own lands
lying within the bounds of any free turn
pike, shall present petition to the board
of county commissioners asking the ap-
pointment of commissioners TO Law out
and establish free turnpike road be-
tween any points within such county and
stating therein that they desire the county
commissioners to levy an extra tax, the
amount of which shall not exceed 10 mills
on the dollar valuation IN any year, on the
lands and taxable property within the
bounds of the road, and also the number
of years they desire the levy to continue,
not exceeding eight years; and they shall
satisfy the commissioners that public no.
tice has been given by advertisement in
some newspaper of general circulation in
such county of such intended applica-
ton, for at least four consecutive weeks
preceding the hearing Of the applica-
ton Thirty-three Scounties in Ohio
have 56lS miles of good pixies built at an
average cost of S2G5O per mile every
many of the pixies in the southern part of
the state are built of broken limestone
covered with gravel. In other parts they
are constructed of gravel placed on a
firmly built bed. Recourse has been had
to the most available material in the
several counties. The cost of construc-
ton depends largely upon the distance
the material used is hauled. - 1t is esti-
mated by experts that complete system
of leading roads in Ohio would cost $500
per mile. The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
in advocacy of better roads for the north
ern part of the state, says:
1t is conceded on all hands that improvement
is necessary to progress. There seems to be
little improvement and less progress in the max
ing and repairing of country roads, although
many plans have been formulated and new and
scientific systems proposed for the overseeing of
road construction and highway making. It is
not possible to jump at once from long estab-
lisEeu course " ohe WHICH l9VoiVes many con-
siderations, chief of which is the item OF cost.
OF all men who are compelled to pay taxes for
public improvements the farmers of the country
are the ones who look most closely to the COST and
many times their judgment is at fault. They
study over the question whether on the whole
the increased expenditure involved will produce
net returns and becoming convinced in their own
minds that it will not, they sturdily oppose
methods which would overturn long established
usage. The question of improvement in the
road system of the country is an ever open one.
1t requires much money to construct good,
permanent highways, yet when such highways
are constructed, not a taxpayer who has con-
tributed toward them begrudges the money it
has cost him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
WHAT WOMEN TALK ABOUT.

What do women talk about?
Weather, first, beyond 4 doubt;
Then their tongues begin 10 so
On the topics told below.
Ministers and church affairs;
Household worries; children's cares;
Aches and pains, and pains and aches,
New receipts for making cakes.
Servant girls with horrld ways;
Latest fashions; temperance craze;
How TO save the heather band;
Jars of fruit for winter canned.
Bonnets, dresses, ribbons, gloves;
Shopping fun, young maidens' loves:
Gossip, scandal quite intense
And religious arguments.
Babies, what to eat and wear;
How to hide the silvered hair;
How 10 keep youthful face
And preserve form of grace.
These and similar things, no doubt,
Do the women talk about;
Though the men suppose, ahem,
That they only talk of them,
III. C. Dodge
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THE man who has land ten or fifteen
miles from the city to sell at So to $40 an
acre, could safely raise the price from
200 to 800 per cent. with graveled road
"into town. And the man who has
farm produce to haul to market in bad
weather, when farm work is impossible,
would find improved roadways blessing
cheap at the price they would cost.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
GREER COUNTY.
Until the Ownership of the County
is Settled

MANGuM, GREER COUNTY, TEX, Dec. %, 1888.
To the Gazette.
l see in the Mangum Star quotations
from THE GAZETTE, from which 1 con-
clude that you are not correctly informed
in regard to the sentiments of the people
of Greer county on the question of the
land laws. You are very much mistaken
if You think that only few comparatively
want Texas TO hold Greer county, and
prefer that the United States should get
it. / know the views and the feelings of
the people, as l have canvassed the
county as candidate for county and dis
trict clerk in the recent election.
There has been great change within
the last few months. Two years ago
few people under the leadership of
'tBuckskin Joe'' of Navajoe, the editor
of the Nayajoe Guide, known as "Buck-
skin Joe s Colony - settled at and about
Navajoe mountains and around Hedquar-
tiers mountain and the Wichita noun
tains, taking only $50 acres, and hoping
that the United States would get Greer
county and they would have Il homestead
given them; but now "Buckskin Joe'
and his colony have ''plnyed out.'
They were not able to improve their claims
and live until they could make crop and
many of them went to Fort
Sill, Vernon and other places where they
could get work. Some have returned 3
others have sold their claims and the
number who want only 100 acres is de-
creaSing while those who want section
and are willing and able to pay for it on
the terms offered by Texas for school |
lands, viz: 81 per acre on forty years
- i1N,.r IN, T,f 7
would cite the fact that not more than
one in ten take quarter section, and
about one in five take half section. 1
write this in the interest
of truth. Your paper has a large
circulation and exerts a powerful influ-
ence in mOlding public opinion. The
true reason why Greer county is settling
so rapidly is that it is admirably adapted
to the use of labor saving machinery and |
the raising of wheat, oats, sorghum and |
such crops as cGn be made valuable in |
feeding stock. Water IS abundant, or |
can be easily obtained by digging wells |
from ten to thirty feet. Tanks or ponds |
are numerous, and can be easily made, |
as in many places there is n subsoil about |
twelve to eighteen inches under the sur
face that holds water like a jug. True ii
some of the water is gyppy, salty <or
hard, but good wells are numerous.
Unfortunately neither Dawson of the |
MGngun Star nor Works (Buckskin JOEY
of the Narajae Guide are i'll sympathy |
with the people of Greer county. Goth |
being from the North and prejudiced
against Texas, while at least three
fourths of the settlers in Greer are from
Texas and are i'll love with Texas, and if
Texas will sell them school lands at 81
per acre on forty years time and the I
alternate sections which were proposed to
be appropriated to the payment of the
state debt be opened to homestead as
provided in the constitution, and an act
of the first legislature after the adoption |
of the new constitution, it will meet the
views and wants of the Greer county
people. Yours, for the truth,
q TITTFv
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THE movement in behalf OF good roads
Is erystalizing. The Twenty first legisla-
ture should give Texas "local option -
road law, under which those counties that
are willing to pay for passable roads may
do so. Such law would be just to all
and unfair to none. Counties that cid
not want good roads would not be COM
PEELED to improve their roadways, while
those communities that did want good
roads could secure them. rss,N
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
Blooming Roses.
HAYS County Times.

The miIduess of the season is remark
grass green, while Hon. George T. Nc
Gehee showed us yesterday volunteer oats
with the straw nearly three feet long and
well headed with grain. Where is there
such another state in the Union that can
record such fact as the above. Echo
answers, where?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
DEEP WATER AND PREJUDIcES.

DEEP WATER AND PREJUDICES.
:, This deep water question is one which affects
tpe material interests of the whole people of
Texas, individually and collectively, and for
this reason is a question which should be settled
in the light Of reason, common sense and with
out prejudice. He who attempts to befog this
great movement with senseless prejudice not
only becomes an obstructionist, but is at once
guilty of trihing with the people in matter
where they have vital interests at stake. No
matter what has been the policy of Galveston in
the past, we considering the present and the
future. The people of Galveston only ask that
their port be considered with other Texas ports,
and that the merits of each be honestly and fair
ly measured and the most favorable one selected.
What more could be asked or expected of them?
Houston Post.
The News prints in another column an excel
lent article from the Houston Post on the ques-
ton of deep water for the Texas coast. The
article referred TO is fair minded and just; such
an article, in fact, demonstrates conclusively
that the Post comprehends the question treated
with the best lights OF state necessity before it.
There are few newspapers in the state that have
attempted to hefog this deep water question from
motives that have their origin in fossiized local
preludlces or Ia adventurous schemes of local
speculation. That the news iapers referred to
will be able TO influence anvil ing ANYBODY of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THE tariff fight goes marching on. The
extent that it is unnecessary to the sup
port of the government honestly and
economically administered.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THE GAZETTE has taken occasion in the
past to remark that "trunk lines will
VIM On this last day of the dying
year, it may not be amiss to recall the
remark Trunk lines brought the head
quarters of the Eleventh railway postal
division to this city, and now the head
quarters is bringing people to Fort Worth.
Ask Dallas. Once more THE GAZETTE
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

P. S.-There is another reason which 1
have not given that is exerting a power
full influence ill bringing people to Greer
county, and that is, that until the ques-
ton of title is settled they neither have
to pay interest nor taxes; and another is,
the land can be put into cultivation so
cheaply. A man with good pair of
horses breaks two acres of prairie sod a
day easily, and it produces fair crop
the first year.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

for them. The garden would make pota-
toes and cucumbeTs, but cotton field is
better, and pickles already made and po-
tatoes, at 40 cents peck, can be bought
with cotton. Then there is molasses
An acre of cane would make
200 gallons, but it is less trouble
to stint the molasses pitcher and
buy molasses with the proceeds of the
cotton. The farm grows grasses to per-
lection and cows thrive extra well and
yet but little butter to sell, and as for
cheese it is far more easy to buy it with
cotton money. Having but one crop
saves wear and tear of mind that results
from diversifying the products of the
farm.
So, how does the account stand? Gath
cred cotton-a bale to FIVE acres, and
sold at 8 so a pound. Bought, bacon 10
cents q pound. Irish potatoes 81 so
bushel, canned fruit and vegetables at
the rate of S. a bushel, molasses 80
cents a gallon, cheese 20 cents q pound.
The account balances the wrong way.
The dry goods are not yet paid for. The
dreamed of surplus is not i'll the treasury.
The croaker is right. Farming don't
pay.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THE Marlin Ball says: THE GAZETTE is
determined to inaugurate reform on the
road question +" THE GAZETTE is only
one of scores of papers In Texas that have
been urging the need of good roads. No
one man or newspaper is entitled to spe-
cial credit for this work, and THE Ga
zETTE has but tried to do its duty as SO
many others have done.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
II DOESN'T PAY"
Why it Doesn't Pay to Raise Cotton and Buy
Everything Else.
Cleburne Enterprise.

Cleburne Enterprise.
Well, the cotton crop is about picked
out and the year is about gone. 1t is a
good time to balance accounts. 1t was
expected at the beginning of the year to
pay the grocery and dry goods bills with
the cotton and have few dollars to spend
But how is it? The cotton did not turn
out as expected-it never does. The
grocery and dry goods bills are not paid
The time was spent in the cot
ton field and hogs were neglected
What's the use of raising hogs Tshe4t
northern bacon can be bought at l5tents
pound with cotton money? 1t Is true.
that hogs do extra well here, but cotta5
is the crop to grow rich on. This sazS5
a fine fruit and vegetable county, bHt it
is too much trouble to can fruit pdv veg
etables. 1t ia easier TO H6reanned
goods at the grocery store and
mortgage the cotton crop to pay
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
Salisbury.

correspondence q lnt NTstActtS'
SALISBURY, TEX Dec. 29.-The first
snow of the season fell here last night to
the depth of one inch, anu is melting
rapidly.
The ground is in fine condition for
breaking, and settlers are rapidly turn
ing over the sod preparatory for next
season IS CROP,
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REPUBLICAN newspapers go on de-
scrlbing the plans and preparations for
Harrison g inauguration, just as if Dem
ocrats had no sensibility.
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THE people of Texas want deep water
at that point on the coast where it can be
most speedily obtained.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

THAT Dallas convention on the 9Th
pro2., should number representatives
from every settled county in Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

TIE "altar and tomb" report of THE
GAZETTE proves that marriage is a success
in Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

The annual meeting of the stockh5fders of the
Merchants National Bank effort Worth will be
held at their banking room, corner of Main and
Sixth streets,s on sth day of January, 1889, for
the eectionof fifteen directors and for the trans
actieuof such other business may come be-
sfore it. A. B. SMITH, Cashier.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31

TEXAS county road bonds should sell at
par. They will constitute valuable secur-
ity for funds seeking interest.
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THE GAZETTE has the largest bona
fde Circulation of any Daily Newspaper
published in Texas.
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GAZETTE, trhether on business or for
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BRANCH OFFICES.

DALLAS.
G. NJ. BAILEY, Correspondent and Genera.
Agent, 725 Main Street.
r. GUNNER, Calculator and Subscription
Agent, 6l2 Elm street, where the paper can al
ways be found on sale, and where orders for Dali
las city delivery can be left.
WACO.
JOHN NJ. Common, Agent aud Correspondent.
WEATHERFORD.
n. B. DORSEY, Agent and Correspondent.
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Old Brains All Right.
Ball.

THE GAZETTE has interviewed the mem
bers of the Twenty first legislature on
the senatorial succession, and they are
sa+saast unanimous for Coke -. Old
Brs;ks'' is all right.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
The Finesf TssdsSfs n the West
At AndslsoH . gun store.

Every Cay of the special edition of
THE GAzETf yous send abroad is an
emigration agMt. A thousand such
agents will esR Wy but little.
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Real estate &Enersswfl be greatly ben
Gifted by THE GtsssfTE S special edition.
Order extra coRsss of it at once to send
abroad.
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THE GAZETTE 8, special edition will be
issued Tueaiag morning. If you have
not sent ID Your orders for advertising
and exttR copies ,rplease do SO as early on
Monday as possible y
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Observation-Disclosures, Meetine.oE

Observation-Disclosures Meeting,gS
By order of the board Of directozsy d meeting
of the stockholders Of the TeLase Northwestern
Railway Company is hereby called. and will be
held at the Office of the company in the city of
Fort Worth, Tex,ts6fi February q, A. D. 1889,
and at 10 clock m. of said day, for the purpose
OF authorizisxfh the board of directors proceed to
constructs and equip said railway. and to issue
the bonds of the company in aid thereof and for
5said meeting. G. B. EASTMAN
Fort Worth, Tex, Dec. 26, 1888. Secretary.
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This paper is kept On file, and ADVERTISING
RATES may be ascertained at the Office Of the
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS AS
its
EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE,
As Tribune Building, Netv York.
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ENTERED AT THE Fort WORTH, TEXAS, Posi-
OFFICE AS SEcoND-CLAss MAIL MATTER.
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WESTERN BUSINESS OFFICE,
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DOARD-with room futh}shed. at Mrs. NJ. E.
ID Holmes, eerHkf FonTth and Lamar streets,
50i. s.9Es&s
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MISCELLANEOUS.

OIsD {, A. efEfRS 5Ss Gazette saFa3 a
nee very cAaaisfP' fS, e
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ID ESIDE6CE FOR SALE-Splendid cottage oi
II six rooms, barn and necessary opt lsedses
Lot lOOx22O feet, fine view and otherwise well To-
Gated. j. r. Letter {. Coz, ifS Main street 81.
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Seal of ASfth car0ass ug Cut ia
% delicious coke. s@ses