Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-05
msde to fire the northern hear,
and Il Mnuli hnya this mr.

authority Of Congress with reference to |
the internal Alters CT state. The sug-
gestion OF the Times, which is given in o /
friendly spirit, is not withou Ut force. The |
presence OF Senatorial investigating
committee Ia Texas might for the |
moment be distss.efhl to Te1sus,
yet 1t would reveal the fact |
that there are less election treables in J
Texas than in almost snv other stste in }
the Uaion, ard put the fncial stamp OF
fsisitv upon the ISLANDERS # the Chsnolers
snd Spooners. Colonel DtGress srd Mr.. !
RoseEthsl and Lock Mcdaniel and other
prominent Republicans m ght be induced
to sppesr before the committee, snd II Is
I OF likely thst their testimony would be
used by the Republican campaign com
mi.tee. 1t is noteworthy fact,
by the way, that every effort
which has been msde during this cam
paisa 70 reinssale the eusepgulned shirt
in public at Dtion has proved q l1dicrous
failure. Southern outrages have at last
rescued their proper pisces in literature
beside chest and snake stories. General
Harrison appreciates this, and is the
frst Of Republican Presidential candidates
since the war to subordinate sectional to
Gationsl issues. The Republican cam
ps;gn committee sees it, srd While the
bloody shirt is prt ciOus memento in
their eyes, they are kept too busy with
ether things 10 give IL 81 airing ABOUT
the orly nan IN the Uaion who doesn't
know positively that the war IS over lie
Joseph B Forsker Of Ohio, ard it IS tie
finn option Of . vast NJ jori'y CT AmGrl-
can people, including Republicans, that
Joseph B. Foraker IS az inexhsustiole
sss.
TEomss A. Ellison, the celebrated ia
veltCr, has bsen experime ming since the
outbreak Of the yellow fever st J.cEeon-
vile, TO discover 8 he hod to destroy
yellow fever germs, end after wrestling
Win the problem for seyeTsl weeks new
thinks he Is successful. His conclusion
is that the idea thst the germs OF the dis
ease are csrried In the sir is delusion,
and tina: On the contrary, the fever nj
crcbes are parasites which crawl along
the ground. His reason for this belief is
that in several instances the spread cfthe
disease has been stopped oy street pave
mems. MIR. L tison's plan is to put s
Gordon CT gasoline or csustic soda srould
the infected place, the latter to be used
only in damp placee. The cost would be
but little. 1924 being So H;ient to sprinkles
street $50 Get long by sixty feet broad With
gasoline OF course Edison had TO yell
low fever germs to experiment with, AMI
ne admits thst his conclusions are drawn
by analogy from experiments with mi
crobee, which EnsY or may not have
common origin with the germs Of
"Ys How Jack" Sill the importance OF
the end 10 be attained just;hes TIE trlsl
Of any plausible p.sn, and the repu ration
OF It's author insuces tbs. this one viii De
tested.
A rich m.n would hardly dare 10 die in
this age OF benevolepce without leaving
some evidence Of his regard for h1
manity. The aggregate CT the legsces
If this character within the las. dozen
years is startling, and afort the best Of
proof tlsE the CREST heart
Of the world beats just SIS
kindly es ever il did. TTenty-four
Americana, not ell Of them miliiopsirea,
have given $40. 707 900 TO educational Ell.
terprises, noe 10 seek OF their other
Gsnev licences. The rol. ot honor des5sves
to be perpe fustei. Here 1t is: Leland
S;sniord, $50, eco 900 to found ueivsrs
ity n California N memory of his de-
ceased sop; J5bEs Hopkins, S., l4S 900 10
the university which bears ais name; As.
Park r, S3 100000 to L high UNIVERSITY;
Gafrel!us Vanderbilt, 81 COO 600 to Vsu-
derbilt university, which b. a g MS name;
William II Vanderbilt, $50O,000 to tire
same Institution; Stephen Girard, So
1000 20 Girard college; John C. Green,
81. SOC, GOO to Princeton college; Ez;s
Cornell, 81 600, 000 to CorreI UDivers't,
,sac Rich, 81 700 900 10 Boston U1iver-
'sity; Ansss Stone, s6oO,OOO 70 A 'elbert
College,; W W. Corcorsn, $4,000 to
Columbian University; Benjamin Busy,
$500 coo to Harvard University; Samuel
Winston. william ]. Walker and Samuel
A. Hitchcock, between $lGO. 900 and
5000 600 each to Amherst Col
leee; Whitmer Pte1ix, 500 600
to Columbia College; J, b. Trevor, sl79,-
coo to R chester Theological Seminary;
Matthew Vssssr, $500. 900 TO Vasear Col
lege; Gardner Colo, $4,000 10 Colby
Univerlily, and sioO 600 to Newton
Tne' logical Seminary; j. B. Colgate,
$500, GOO to Madison University; George
L. Sene $3.50. o00 70 Wesleyan University;
the CrS yer family, $500 COO TO
Crozier Tneoloe ical Seminary; Mr.. Clsrk,
2 <BOOV,OVO W AOuuG 2 hSssaSuC5SttS I'LL
v~rs'tP to besr his name; Henry WiDkleY,
$500 600 to Williams, Amherst, Dart
mouth ard Bowdoin colleges. A notsole
fact is that OF these nearly
SAC 100000, bu. $4,000 have
eoae southward, that beng the endow
ment Of Vanderbilt University at Nash
VILE by the Vsnderbiits. The be
nevclances Of rich men are placing
university education within g reach o.
all IN the Iorlh; IN the south 1t is still
costly and therefore only accessi-
BILE to the few. If the south
is to regain the intellectual
prominence it held In ante bellum days
this STATE Of things must not be permitted
to continue. Enher its rich men, unfor-
tunstsly 100 few in number, must open
their treasures to the cause of higher ed
ucstiop, or the states must adopt Wig
orors and liberal N assures in behalf OF
pu1lic universities.
e.
The rodent is avenged. Trough on
Rats" hss bsnk.upted, the mar u.sc,urers
and proprietary, Ephraim S. Mills Of Jsr-
sey City. His liabilities sre about $50,
600 which he is trying to compromise by
the payment SO cents on the dollar
Nils :areer has ceen unique sad me GO
&c. He began to b3om "Ropgo OF
RsEsh liz 1881, with capital Of 5000.
Heayy advertising resulted In largs
s.les and his business advarc<
rapidly until his yearly expenditures f,r
advertising reached the sun'o1 $3.50 000