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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19


''I can't explain what good horse
is, - said welI-known dealer. ''They
are as different as men IN buying
horse you must first look at his head and
eyes for signs of intelligence, temper,
courage and honesty. Unless horse has
brains you can It teach him anything any
more than you can a halt-witted child.
See that tall bay there? A f1ne-looking
animal, fifteen hands high. You can't
teach that horse anything. Why? Well,
1 III show You a difference in heads, but
have a care of his heels. Look at the
brute's head, that rounding nose, that
tapering forehead, that broad, full place
below the eyes. You can't trust him
Kick? Well, 1 guess SOL Put him i'll a
ten acre lot where he's got plenty of
swing and he'll kick the horn off the
moon. - The world s treatment of man
and beast has the tendency to enlarge
and intensity bad qualities if they pre-
dominate. This gOod-natured phrenolO-
gist could not refrain from slapping in
the face the horse whose character had
been so cruelty delineated, while he had
nothing but the gentlest caresses for
tall, docile, sleek-iimbed sorrel that
pricked her ears forward and looked in
telligent enough to understand all that
was being said.
"That's an awful good mare, - he
added. ''She's as true as the sun. You
can see breadth and fullness between the
ears and eyes. You couldn Il hire that
mare to act mean or hurt anybody. The
eye should be full and hazel is good
color. like small, thin ear, and want
a horse to throw his ears well forward
Look out for the brute that wants to
listen to all the conversation going on be-
hind him. The hOr 9 that turns back his
ears till they almost meet at the points,
take my word for it, is sure to do some
thing wrong. See that straight, elegant
face. A horse with a dishing face
is cOwardly, and a cowardly brute
is usually vicious. Then / like a
square muzzle, with large nostrils, to
let in plenty of air to the lungs. For the
under side of the head, a good horse
should be well cut under the jowl, with
iawbones broad and wide apart under
the throttle.
$50 much for the head - he con-
tinued. "The next thing to consider is
the build of the animal. Never buy a
long-legged, stilty horse. Let him have
a short, straight back and a straight
rump, and you We got a gentleman S
horse. The witheTs should be high, and
the shoulders well set back ana broad;
but don t get them too deep in the chest.
The fore leg should be short. Give me a
pretty straight hind leg, with the hook
low down, short pastern joints and
mulish foot. There are all kinds of
horses, but the animal that has these
points is almost sure to be slightly, grace
full, good natured and serviceable As
to color, taste differs. Bays, browns
and chestnuts are the best. Roans are
very fashionable at present. A great
many grays and sorrels are bought here
for shipment to Mexico and Cuba. They
do well in a hot climate under tropical
sun, for the same reason that you find
light colored clothing the most service
able in summer. That circus horse be-
hind you is what many people call cal
leo horse; now 1 call him a genuine pie
bald It's freak of nature, and may
happen anywhere. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
GETTING READY FOR 4 FUxER4n.
4 HTId Tale Told by Co,rboy-A Big Sup
ply of Collins.


ply Of Collins.
Charlie Metcalf is cowboy who has re-
formed his habits and settled in New
York. 1t is only the reputation of reoti-
tude that he has built up for himself by
the exercise of diligence and the practice
of morality which allows him TO tell this
story and vet live.
"'SoIne years ago while I was at my
cousin 5 place in the West, his mother
in-law died. She had been n thorough
and able mother-in-law 60 him: but had:
it was generally conceded, attempted
too much in this direction when she
sought TO be mother-in-la w-at-Ia to
all the men around So the tears shed
for her death were limited by the relief
that always attends the cessation of
pernicious activity.
'Corpses were SO scarce at the time in
our nei@hb0rhood that no undertaken
could exist in It. So my cousin sent me
to the telegraph station-nine or ten miles
away-to wire 10 the nearest city for a
coffin. He gave me all the measurements
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
Back from Kiashinato,,.

bptClaI 20 IIlt VaLtIIs
SAN ANGELO, TEN. Jan. 18.-Capt.
William Black of Fort McKavitt, who at
the national wool growers convention
held in Washington on the 18th inst. was
appointed vice-president and also one of
the committee who conferred with the
senate finance committee, passed through
this place to-day and reports the results
of his trip as being very satisfactory.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
a Brakeman Seriously Cut.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
TYLER, TEX. Jan. 1S.-Caldwell Alex
ander, colored, was brought to the city
aud placed in jail last night charged with
seriously cutting James FuIcher, a white
brakeman. The difficulty occurred near
Lindal, this county, on an out going
freight train The wounded man was
carried to the Palestine hospital last
night. He received thirteen bad cuts on
the head and face.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
He Asked for a Chew of Tobacco and Got
Bullet-Lumber Business Booming.


Bullet-Lumber Business Booming.
Special to the Gazette.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEX, Jan. IS
Another case of didn't know it was
loaded occurred here late last night, in
which John Nolan received a very pain
full wound in the right leg. He was at
the house of G. Bailey. On asking
Bailey for a chew of tobacco, Bailey re-
piled by pulling his gun and remarking
take this, - at the same time discharg-
ing the innocent weapon. \ physician
was summoned and has not yet been able
to extricate the ball, which seems to be
lodged among the bones below the knee
The Sulphur lumber company of this
place are making extensive preparations
for big run, and claim they viii cut
80 900 ZOO feet during the present year.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

A special from Albuquerque, N. NJ. ),
says: The snow in the mountains and
on the plains is reported to be between
two and three feet deep, and the distress
among all kinds of cattle and sheep is
great and many are dying. From a
stockmaD it is learned that while he was
out hunting cattle he came upon a large
drove of antelopes frozen to death, per-
ishing for want of food. A heavy snow
storm is raging in the Sandies mountains.
Cattlemen fear that the loss will be i'm
mense before the snow melts
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
1T Hemp.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
KEMP, TEX. Jan. l6.-The winter in
here for years, a striking contrast to the
rigors of last winter The grass in the
bottoms is as green as summer, and cattle
and sheep are fat.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

The work of filling up the Cherokee
strip by the association that has recently
released it is going on, and the demand
for stock for that purpose is about the
only stir that can be found in North
Texas cattle circles now. The demand is
for steers, twos and threes, but there are
not being many sales made now.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

When Baby was sick, we gave her CastoTt&
When she was Child, she cried for Castorias
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoris,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

Parties in from the feeding sections in
the country round about Fort Worth,
speak in high terms of the condition of
stock and their prospects of coming
through the winter.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

Sales of fine cattle are frequent and
fairly heavy on this market now. Prices
are about the same as ruled a year ago
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

NERVOUS s g93fT ios sPeFTR i$St R%ia
sions, Loss of Vital Powers, Sleeplessness, De-
Epondency, Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas,
Lassitude, Gloominess, Depression of Spirits,
Aversion 10 Society, Easily Discouraged, Lack of
Confidence, Dull, ListleSs, Unfit for Study or
business, and finds life a burden, SAFELY,
PERMANENTLY and PRIVATELY CURED.
BLOOD AND SKIN Diseases }jis s d sygas
most horrible in its results completely eradicated
without the use of mercury. Scrofula, Erysipe
ia Fever soTg 6 ad ee F@Pgs GlesIs
Throat. Mouth and Tongue, Catarrh, Etc, PER-
MANENTLY CURED WHEN OTHERS HAVE
FAILED.
BRVN nv Kidney and Bladder Troubles,
Frequency of Urinating, Urine high colored or
milky with sediment on standing, Gonorrhde,
elect, Cystitis, Etc, promptly and safely cured.
Charges reasonable.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
ROUND-UPS.
The Demand for Steers to ELL Up the
Cherokee Outlet.
Condition of Feeding Cattle in the Vicinity Of
Fort worth-what Good Horse Looks
Like-Cattle Chatter.

d. F. White, a prominent Colorado
City stockman, was in Fort Worth yes
terday.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
Overcoats Made OF Paper.

eff tho clothmakers don't get that
man up in the Northwest who has in
vented paper clothing into trust by
next winter he'll make a big fortune,
and millions of overcoats will stay ir
the pawnshops, where they are now
sud Harry Parker. He hasn't got
the idea worked out yet as far as he
will probably go, but be made enough
vests and underclothes last winter te
create something of a panic among the
St. Paul elothiers, where he made his
first business experiment on big
scale. The paper is prepared so that
it is as soft as cloth, and the cold can
not penetrate it. My father is en-.
gagged in an open-air occupation, and
likes to experiment., so he got one O.
these vests and wore it with no over.
coat all last winter with great com.
fort. Next winter he says he intends
to come out On the streets in a full
suit of it."-St. Louis Globe Demo
erat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
OUR BABY KING.

benold our king! Observe his beauty royal;
see' on his high-chair throne he sits in state
surrounded by his subjects ever loyal
VINO lovingly upon his pleasure wait.
ALhouSh his scepter only is q rattle.
his crown OF glory but his golden hair,
III MS defense we to the death would battle,
ana FOR his Joy no trouble ever spare.
While other kings, so called, may rule Il nation,
And often are from pomp and power hurled.
Our household king. in homes Of his creation,
Lives undsputed ruler OF the world.
All other kings must humbly bow before him,
And yield at once to his despotic sway,
For when he smiles they helplessy adore HIM,
And when he cries they hastkn to obey.
Hail to our king. The angel hosts above him
Are guardn him by nighttime and by day,
And heaping blessings-iust because they love
On US who for his welfare ever pray.
While other Kingdoms are and must be bound
Our baby's kingdom is without an end,
It's name is Home, Sweet II lone, and it is
founded %
On purest love that can not break nor bend.
And there enthroned beside his joyful mother
He reigns complete with innocence and grace
Until in time a little stranger brother
Upon the high-chair throne usurps his place.
H. c. Dodge, in n. Y. World.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
One Hundred Years Ago.

Envelopes for letters were them I'M
known, and those bearing a postage
stamp and ready gummed did not come
into use until 1910. Postage was cal
culated, not by the weight of the letter,
but by the number of pieces of paper
of which it was composed, and if the
envelope had been known it's use would
have been made practically impossi-
BILE, because it would have doubled the
rate of postage, which was high. An
envelope would have made the postage
on a half-ounce letter between Chicago
and New York, for instance, half
dollar. Sheets of writing paper were
then of four pages, each being 81 by II
inches, which was doubled SO as to be
sent without an envelope and sealed
with wafer by the common people,
and with sealing-wax by the fashion
ables. It is related of Government
officer that once having received let
ter sealed with wafer he declined to
open it, because the sender had ''sealed
it with his spittle," the wafer common
ly being softened in the mouth. There
have been more than three hundred
patents issued on envelopes and en-
velope machinery in the United States
The daily consumption of envelopes
for letters alone in this country is now
estimated at IA, 600, 600, OR /, 252 900. :
900 annually, to say nothing of those
used for seed, samples, packets and
ashsr Purposes--Washington Critic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
PiTH AND POINT.

Carpets are made to cover the
floors and rugs to cover the flaws.
The greatest loss of time that ]
know OF is to count the hours.
lais.
Men say of women what they
pleases them.
We grow wise as we grow older,
but it is by forgetting what we thought
we knew.-Life.
they are opened. so is the frank man
taken in when he tells his plans to
rogues.
Nothing is earned without labor.
Hence, if any one obtains any thing
without labor, he is defrauding some
one else.
We can not be reminded too often
of the fact that brevity is the soul OF
wit, and tediousness the limbs and out
ward hourishes.
Solomon was esteemed wise man
in his day, but then in Solomon's day
no one had ever seen q Harvard Sopho-
understandable Journal.
If you have any faith, give me, for
Heavens sake. a share of it! Your
doubts you may keep to yourself, for
have plenty Of my own.-Goethe-
1t takes something else besides
'cuteness to make folks see whatu be
their interest in the long run. 1t
takes some conscience and belief in
right and wrong.-Eliot.
The good, old gentleman who is
fifteen Or twenty years behind tim IS
usually has son who is rapid enough
to make the average about right
Merchant Traveller
1t contributes greatly towards a
mans moral and intellectual health to
be brought into habits Of companion
ship with individuals unlike himself,
who care little for his pursuits, and
whose sphere and abilities he must go
out Of himself to appreciate. -Haw-
| thorne.
There is an ''aristocracy'' Of in
tellect as well as of birth, Or of money,
and highly-cultivated people are apt tc
be as disdainiul OF everyday thinkers
as rich people are Of the poor. Yet
lives are made noble, and the world is
made happier, very often, by simple
thinkers, to whom the re6neme OF
philosophy are unknown quantities.
Texas Siftings.
Happiness depends not on what
oae has, but on what one IS He who
is OF cheerful spirit will b. cheerful
in all his privations. He who is CT q
complaining spirit will never lack oc-
casions OF complaining. It is no. one :
possessions or ones surroundings, but
ones way of looking az his possessions
and surroundings, that settles the
question OF ones cheerfuIness, wherev-
er he is. Or whatever he has.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
Yes"
Alivew
YES
lis he all right now?'

mo"
And then Pete told how Chris hau,
on that Wednesday afternoon, started
for home; of his struggle with the
storm, how again and again he fell
from sheer weakness, and then rose
and fought his way on until he dropped
at Pete's door, too benumbed even to
knock. There Pete found him, took
him in, and had been caring for him
ever since, without assistance.
He is ferry weak STILL" said Pete,
''he can not sit up. And he did get a
letter on Wednesday from Minnesota.
Hllda says she shall be here to-day,
and tell Chris to meet her. So he hat
to send me-"
'4ou are not fit to walk there" !
said. I'm going down, you can ride
with me-"
So before long we were on our way.
We reached the station half hour be-
fore the train arrived, and it. was easy
to see that Pete was not sorry to know
that help was coming. He went over
to the house of the Norw egian mis-
sionary to see if he would 60 back to
marry Chris and Hildu, and then we
heard the shrek Of the engine, and the
long train rolled in.
Pete was standing on the platform,
his long fur-cap pulled down over his
ears, his hands thrust into the pockets
OF his coat that reached the ground.
He was as stiff as an image.
Several passenger alighted, and
was beginning to wonder which OF
them we were to carry back, when
suddenly Pete gave I; great shout,
dashed among them, and threw his
arms about a young girl.
ut are Ola,'' he cried. 1T ere my
own OLA"
And sure enough it was. The peo-
pie looked from the ca: windows and
smiled, as the train moved away, and
! Pete was too much excited to sav
any thing but 1T are Ola, it are
Ola"
And no one was more surprised than
Ola herself. Hilda had dreaded the
lonely journey, and had persuaded hel
friend Ola to come, TOO, and keep her
company, and make L visit.
We managed to tiud room for all il
the sleigh, and drove to Pete's dug
out, where Chris and Hilda were mar.
ried. And Oh; told how, on her pas
y o. hn 1rct L,a u,
had received from her father. and had
no means OF knowing his address, and
had come on to Minnesota and found
work there. And then she set herself
to putting two dug-outs to rights.
Chris and Pete are both to bui,l
neat little frame houses next year
and their farms are already in tiHa con.
dition.-I1ugh Mitchell. ia n. Y. Ex
! lminer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
HISTORIC FRENCH DUEL,
The Meeting Between Cazalis ant. Bar.
nave in 1890.


nave in 1890.
Rows in the French Chamber often
lead to duels, but the Ferry Boulanger
meeting was not a parliamentary
duel, since it did not grow out
of such a quarrel; still its motive
was so purely political that it
has right to be classed among those
that originated in words exchanged
during a heated debate. The first OF
this sort Of encounters in the chron-
icles Of French legislative bodies had
its origin in the meeting OF the Nation
al Assembly of August II, 1890. The
body was debating the responsibilities
Of the events of Octob Der ) and 6 OF the
previous year, and Oudard made a
speech repeling certain iusinuations
INDUCED in by Chatelet, which raised
veritable storm Of angry cries.
The "Blacks'' Git was the name
then given to the Royalists,
who are to-day called "Whites'O
behaved in such a manner that Ca
mile Desmoulins was led to exclaim
they 'seemed like so many devils on
whose bare heads bucket of holy
water had been suddenly dashed"
Cazalis retorted that all member of
the Left were brigands, and he looked
so fixcdly at Barnave that the latter
shouted:
''Are you speaking collectively? If
you are you are talking like fool and
shall not notice it, but if you wish
to insult me personally will not suf-
fer it,
What have just said," answered
Cazalis, ''was intended for you per-
sonally.'
Barnave replied with an Insulting
epithet. and the next morning they
went to the Bots de Boulogne with
their seconds. Barnave shot first and
missed, while Cazalis' pistol hung fire.
Upon my word / owe you every
sort of an apology said the latter, as
his second, St. Simon, was reloading
the weapon.
Say nothing about it. That's what
am here for" replied Barnave, and
they began conversing amicably. Il
will be sorry if kill you," said Ca
zalis, ''but really you are very much
in our way. What would like to do
would be to give you a wound which
would keep you away from the assem-
bly, for few weeks
Il am more generous replied
Barnave; "all I want is to Craze you,
for you are the only orator on your
side, while my absence would hardly
be noticed" His bullet struck Ca
zalis on the forehead, but, as it en-
countered the stiff brim of the hat he
was wearing, it only produced a
bruise, and ever after they were good
friends. memphis Avalanche.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
BUFFALO BILLS FATHER.
A Frontiers man Whom the Indians Looked
On as an Evil Spirit.


On rs Evil Spirit.
An old-time resident Of Denver, a
day or two since, related an incident
of the original ''C":cra.o BIZ Cody,
father Of the pres II famous Snowman.
which has never been in print. Old
man Cody was & prominent figure on
the plains in an early day. being the
owner of al extensive trading post on
the Arkansas, in the vicinity Of old
Fort Larned. Late in the '50s he re-
ceived Information that the Indians
proposed to clean out his ranch, which
was an extensive adobe building sur
rounded by d stockade. He did not
pay much attention to it, but the same
news continued to reach him, and was
at last confirmed oy the arrival of d
large band of Cheyenne and Arapahoes
and kiowas, who camped on the OPP
posite side OF a deep arroyo from the
trading post, across which the military
authorities had erected a bridge for
the passage of supply trains.
The savages pretended to be very
friendly and wanted to trade, swapping
furs and skins for ammunition. but
their real object was to burn the post
and carry away Cody's scalp as d
trophy-a fact Of which the old 'front.'
iersman was well informed through
the spies whom he had among them.
The place was well armed, but not suf-
tlciently manned to resist the attack of
so formidable a band OF red skins, and
Old Bill cast about to see what he
could do to protect himself In the
stock yard Of the fort was an old how
itzer which had been abandoned by
some of the plains military expedi-
tions, and this ne carried up to the top
Of the post and placed it so that it
would sweep the bridge. He had
plenty Of powder, but no other ammu-
milton fit to load it with, and so he
charged the gun with old mule shoes,
nails, bits OF iron and similar truck.
The cannon loaded, he awaited de-
velopments. Early one morning he
observed an unusual movement in the
camp Of his pretended friends, and
soon, fully armed. with war-paint on,
the savages made dash toward the
fort. Cody was at his howitzer, match
in hand. The painted devils crowded
the long but narrow bridge, and Just
as the foremost reached the nearest
bank he discharged his gun at clear
range of the bridge. There was q
wild howl of disappointed rage,
vision Of dead Indians tumbling in the
arroyo, OF. legs, and arms, and heads
lying around loose without claimants,
and fleeing and frightened savages es-
Gaping from the fatal bridge. Cody's
single shot had saved his post, and he
was always thereafter left in peaceful
possession OF his ranch. just what
struck them on the bridge the Indians
never knew, and the survivors of the
fatal charge always entertained the
firm belief that Buffalo Bill" was In
league with the evil spirit. and, as
such, a person to whom it was safe to
give wide berth.-Denver News
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19

One of the interesting relics sold
at the auction Of the furniture of Bar
NUNS Hotel, in Baltimore, few days
ago, was card table On which Henry
Clay once lost 81, 800 at poker to Geo.
Ackmun, of Massachusetts. ST. ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19

-Californis roofing slate is said t.
be the finest in the world.