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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17


railroad traffic. thai. the roads are
expressing the people, and that
no other method of relief is offered; on
the other, 1t is charged that the bill
lodges autocratic powers in three men,
who viii be equally powerful to ruin the
railroads or betray the people; that it
violates the fundamental principles of
law and Justice in its methods, and that
in no event VIII it prove of any public
| benefit. It is no doubt true that much
might be justly and truly said both for
and against the scheme The question is
one of various phases and attitudes. That
just grounds exist for complaint against
the railroads none but a special pleader
viii deny; thai the present measure is
harsh, and that its wisdom and expe-
diency are at least doubtful must be
apparent to all who have thoughtfuliy
| followed the discussion in the legislature
If the proposed measure becomes a law
it VIII be confessed1y an experiment, and
an experiment fraught with more or less
of danger TO the interests of the state.
This being true the question VIII oc-
cur to conservative minds whether it
would not be better for the state to make
careful inquiry into the merits of the
question before exposing itself to the
hazard of serious loss as the penalty of
rash and inconsiderate action. 1t is Gus
tomary for the Federal congress, before
venturing into new fields of 1egis-
latien, to send out its scouts to
fully investigate the nature and condi-
tions of the unexplored territory. Would
it not be well for the state legislature to
emulate this conservative policy in this
instance by appointing commission
to carefully and thoroughly in-
vestigate the railroad question
before starting upon course from
which the state may find it advantageous
to recede? A committee or commission
of inquiry clothed with the proper powers
could do for Texas what politi-
cal agitation can never do: Sc
cure a deliberate, conservative adj
justment of the railroad problem. 1t
would consider the question in all its
phases, and in the light of the testimony
OF al parties, and the experience of other
states. To this end it should be its duty
to investigate the results of railroad COM
missions elsewhere, and the railroad prob
lem, as it affects both state and Interstate
interests. To make an inquiry SO COM
prehensiye would require all the time
that viii intervene between the present
and the next regular session OF the state
legislature. Upon report of such
character, prepared by men possessing the
confidence and trust Of all parties
the Twenty legislature might
safely venture to act But without such
an investigation legislation of so grave
Importance is, at best, experimenting
with the interests of 600 900 of people.
The blind lead the blind and who can
predict that they will not fall, and with
them the state, into the ditch?
Those who clamer most loudly now for
the creation of railway commission
would be the first to condemn its authors
if it should fail to meet their expecta-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
Corn Makes wholesome Food.
Philadelnilia Reehra-


The reason corn is not more largely
used in foreign countries for human food
is because foreigners do not know how to
cook it. With a hundred years expe-
rience in this country there is stiu amaz-
ing ignorance as to the best methods Of
preparing it for edible purposes. In Eu-
rope, where corn has been introduced as
a cheap substitute for wheat, rye and
oats, the method of preparing It makes it
only fit for pigs. In making the pro-
posed corn exhibit at the Paris lRteTna-
tional exposition care should
be taken to spread the kaOwI-
edge of proper ways of preparing 1t fer
the table. The Record some time since
published fifty different methods of max
ing palatable bread cakes, pudding etc
This information should be carefully
translated into the French, German,
Italian and Spanish languages, so that,
seeing the corn exhibit, foreigners maF
know its value as healthy substitute for
dearer food.
There is no need for people anywhere in
the world 10 starve as long as We raise
two thousand million bushels of corn in
the United States at an average price of
% cents per bushel.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
ALTAR AND TOMB.
The Gazette's Semi-Weekly Record OF Marriages
and Deaths in Texas, as Compiled IRON
the Newspapers Of the state.
MARRIAGES.


B. ID. Malone and Miss Alice G. Cha.
ney Gainesville, February :.
Richard jarrett and Miss Cora Lang
ham, Beaumont, February
NJ. W. Croker and Miss Eula McKin-
ney, Gainesville, February 3.
{. IL. Bateman and Miss Lille Hill
dreth, Usage, February 6
c.. ". Harris and Miss Betty Slaught-
er, kaufman, February 8
W. T. Quinn, and Miss Molle Prick
EFT, Lampasas, February 6.
Eli HarralsOn and Miss Cora Brock,
St. 10, February 4
Scott Jones and Miss Ella Mays, Sher-
man, FEBRUARY 8
Fl. b. Cline and Miss Edna Mckinney,
Houston, February 10.
]. II. Upton and Miss Grace D. Davis,
Wichita, February s.
F. s. Smith and Miss SaIlie Samuels,
Gainesville, February H.
10 Hardin and Miss Olivia Grace, Hill
county February 10
j ID. Mcmahon and Mrs. Annie f Iy-
ell, PendIetonyilIe, February -.
J 7. Fenner and Miss BERTHE Sowders,
KOsse, February g.
Z. ]. ByTne and Miss Ellen Sneed,
Austin, February IS.
LIT. y. " @ AIlllaTnS ana Hiss FlOIln6
Binford, AIadisenville, February 10.
DEATHS.
7. P. Hawley, Marshall, February 9.
Mrs. James Coleman, Ellis county,
February y.
T. L. Legrand, Camp county, Febru-
airy 3.
1. n. Desmukes, Gonzales, February
?.
Judge sylvester Adams, Runnels, Feb
ruary 8.
Mrs. W. C. Jones, Laredo, February
s.
Capt. W. L. Edwards. Freestons
county, February .
Mrs. Ray Whipple, Kyle, February Z.
II. G. Ames, Sherman, February 10.
Mrs. J. R. Taylor, Temple, February
10.
Nicholas wolfin, Gainesville, Febru-
airy IL.
J. L. Sears, Valley Mills, February 8.
Rev. II. Nabrihg, Brennan, February
u.
George Bags, FL Paso, February 70.
Col. w. N. Pardue, Kaufman, Febru-
airy l3.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
GRAVE CHARGES.
Result of the Investigation 81 the state Insur-
anee Department Of Missouri.

Result of the Investigation Of the State Insur-
anee Department OF Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Feb. I6.-The Re-
public this morning says it TRANSFERRED
late last night that the legislative com
mittee which has been here several days
investigating the state insurance depart
ment has discovered that the department
not only under the present commissioner,
Waiter Carr, but also under his prede-
eessor, MIR. Williams, has been admins
tered in very extravagant, if not cor
rupt manner; that unduly high salaries
and exoTbitant attorneys feeds have been
paid, and that insOlvent insurance com
panies, where their affairs were in charge
of the department, have actually
been looted. Commissioner Carr iudig-
nantly denies these charges and main
tains that the department under his adj
ministratiOn has been conducted in a
businesslike way, and as to the insolvent
companies he says their affairs were in
the hands OF the court and he simply
obeyed the order of the court. The com
mittee Will present its report to the leg
islature next week. 1t is also stated that
the committee will probably recommend
the adjustment of the board of UNDER
writers in this city as being against the
interest of insurers.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

THE adoption 10y congress Of the COM
mittee amendments TO the CoBleS bill
would doubtless prove the entering
wedge to the abolition of the internal
revenue system with the exception OF the
tax on liquors. The large majority by
which Mr. Randall 5 proposal to abolish
the tax on tobacco was endorsed in the
committee indicates that IT viii soon be-
come a law. Many of the supporters of
the Mills bill do not conceive that party
fealty requires them to uphold tax
which originated against the protest of
Democracy and has been constantly
fought By it.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
The Libel Law.

The amendment to the libel law offered
by Senator johnson yesterday, aud which
is published in full this morning, is in its
main features a most excellent instru-
ment. 1t is just and fair to the press,
while at the same time it preserves TO the
citizen his every right, and guarantees
him against defamation by any response
bic journal. Newspapers with nothing
to lose, nothing at stake, cannot be
reached even under the existing most m
just law; and their condition cannot be
affected by the proposed change. The
responsible and influential journals of the
state, however, have a right TO expect
this consideration at the hands of the
legislature, and, in the name of every
thing that is far and equitable, some
such bill as this fathered by Senator
Jones should at once become law.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

THE Bolton Reporter comes to us in
mourning Tor its editor and proprietor
Mai. E. L. Denison, who died on the 18th
instant Maj. Denison was born in Con-
necticut, and at eighteen years of age
moved to Aberdeen, Miss. from which
place he moved to Texas in 1854. OF
him the Reporter says:
Mai. Denison welded courteous and facile
pen. He seemed to think often ard seriously be-
fore trusting it. he was exceedingly cireum-
spect and conservative in all of his editorials.
lie studiously avoided giving offense to any hE-
man being, while at the same time he ives Tot
afraid TO give expression to ais conviction of
right and wrong. He uRhesitatingly denounced
what he conceived immoral or unsound. he was
not deferred, through fear, from condemning
improper measures and false principles. he
could always do so in smooth. elegant and chaste
language without necessarily giving offe1se to the
originatOrs OF such principles and measures.
Nothing ever occurred in his editorials that was
intended to offend. No language was ever en-
ployed that was at all calculated to cause the
cheeks of the most modest maiden to blush. He
was choice and guarded in the selection of his
words and his language. No pprer journalist
ever wrote for the public than the subject Of
these lines. If there was ever an editor who was
true and faithful to the motto of his paper,
Mai. Denison was that editor, peace on earth
and good wiz toward all men, . was IL deed and
in truth his motto, and to this motto he ever
proved faithful. IftAere was ever a man who
was in favor of ''peaoe on earth, - that man was
Hal Denison. If there was ever man who
most heartily desired to bear good will toward
all men, - Mai. Denison was that man.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
THE RoSENBAUM KILLING.
Smelser Released on Three Thousand Dollars
Bail.

Smelser Released on Three Thousand Dollars
Bail.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
KEMP, TEX. Feb. I5.-Yesterday was
the day set for the examining trial of J d.
H. Smelser of Lawndale IN the southern
part of the county for the killing of Ed
r. RosenbSum. Smelser waived ex-
animation. His bond was fixed at $4,000
which his friends in Canton, where he
formerly lived, gave for him,
and he was released from Gus
tody. Most Of Lawndale citizens con-
denim the killing as willful murder.
The facts briefly are as follows: Rosen-
baum was a lawyer and. real estate agent
having formerly been county attorney
of Van Zandt county, and hav-
ing been in Lawndale little over a
year. Smelser is a saloon keeper, hav-
ing also moved to Lawndale from Can
ton. The parties had not liked each
other fer quite while. The day before
the killing, Rosenbaum went into the sa-
loon, when a row occurred between him
and Smelser, in which Smelser beat
Rosenbaum pretty badly The next
morning he went into the saloon when
Smelser shot him dead with shotgun
loaded with buekshot. The gun was car
ried to the saloon unseen by anyone be-
tween the first quarrel and the killing.
Smelser was heard to say he didn Il care;
the whisky association, of which he was
a member, would pay his expenses.
Smelser ran over to a store Immediately
after the event and said he had it to do,
mat Rosenbaum had pistol drawn on
him; but on examination no weapon
whatever was found on him Rosenbanm
leaves a wife and three small children in
very poor circumstance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

IL A recent interview with the Nash
vile Americas, Eli Perkins said:
Texas has improved faster daring the hast
FIVE years than any Southern state. She raised
loo go bales OF cotton last year. Sugar estates
line tie Southern Pacific railroad from Houston
to San Antonio. She VIII soon make more sugar
chan Louisiana
There are millions CT acres that can still be
bought al from 81 % $ per acre. There are black
lands capable Of raising q bale OF c5tton to the
acre for sale al 81 per This is the place for
the emigrant to 90 to. -
''Texasis too busy to talk about politics. The
colored man votes there and his vote is counted
the same as IN Tennessee -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
OUR BOOK TABLE.
ECentury.

''PLUTOCRACY; OR, AMERICAN WHITE
SLAVERY - By Ex-senator Norwood of
Georgia. Published by the Metropolitan Pub
fishing Company, 81 Vesey street, New York
1t has been recently said that the indi-
cations are, that to works of fiction COM
ing generations VIII look for their
theology. 1t may be that Senator Nor
wood has caught the hint and deems that
through the same medium questions in
volving weighty economic problems can
be best presented. However that may
be, the grave senator in the
role of a novelist, confronts the
reader with all the elements of the stripe
between capital and labor, and those ar
guments urged with so much pertinacity
by advocates Of high tariff and the pro-
lection theorists.
Mr.. Norwood s reputation as a humor-
ist, gained by his witty reply to one of
his associates in congress, prepared his
readers for the brightness found in this
work, but they were hardly expecfant of
the tender vein of pathos that, like sill
yer thread, binds the story together. Of
this book it may be said what has been
charged deficient in American fiction, it
is written with purpose, and the evils to
which it would direct attention cannot be
too soon checked. True knowledge of
existent weakness in the body polite viii
of necessity work for restoration OF
soundness and increase of strength.
Alden & Faxon, newspaper advertising
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
Huntsville.

Special to the Gazette.
HUNTSVILLE, TEX, Feb. 16-At the
November election in this county, Mr.. J
H. Garrett of Goshen, was elected county
commissioner on the Union Labor ticket
but his bond was rejected by the court
and he having failed to qualify Within
thirty days, the Office was declared va
cant and another party appointed. The
gentleman laid the matter before Attor-
ney-GeneraI HOgg, who ruled that there
was no time specified regarding COM
missioner S qualifying, and accordingly
a new bond was made and Mr.. Garrett
formally installed in the Offices The only
trouble about the bond being given in the
first place was because Mr.. Garrett was
elected over the Democratic candidate,
and at thar time there was a great preju-
dice against his party in this county.
HUNTSVILLE, TEX. Feb. IS During
this week the state penitentiary force at
this place has received the following ac-
QUESTIONS. Messrs. George Price, as
foreman of the cabinet shop, to succeed
Mr.. WineinFead, deceased; George H.
Racket, furniture and wagon depart
ment, and A. j. Jacobs, assistant ma
chinist in the machine department.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
Needs a Morning Newspaper.
Dallas journal.

Our esteemed contemporary published
an interesting sketch this morning of two
or three of the prominent industrial en-
terpTises of Dallas. The Journal is not
aware whether the effort was due TO so
much a line or to a patriotic attempt to
advertise the thrift and progress of our
enterprising city. If to the latter, it
warmly welcomes it as an evidence of the
first unselfish demonstration of what con-
Germs Dallas. Galveston should keep an
eye to windward. She may vet lose the
influence of her most potential ally.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
Lo Must Go.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

OInCInHdII LnqUIItT.
If the Oklahoma bill becomes a law it
viii take from the heart of the Indian Ter
ritory % ,0O0, 0oo acres of the finest land
in the West-an area nearly as large as
the state OF Ohio. The white man wants
it and the Indian must go. A companion
measure is to take from the Sioux In
dams their great reservation in Dakota,
west Of the Missouri river-probably the
best land in the whole Territory, and
containing % 600 900 acres. The Indian
mTst oO
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
THE LOVE THAT IS GOD.

There lies in the center of each mans heart
A longing and love for the good and pure,
And if but an atom or larger part,
I tell you this shall endure, endure,
After the body has gone to decay,
Yea, after the world has passed away.
The longer live and the more see
OF the struggle of souls toward the heights
above.
The stronger this truth comes home to me:
That the universe rests on the shoulders of
love;
A love so limitless deep and broad,
That men have renamed it and called it God.
= Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
HO,c,S This

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of Catarrh that cannot e cured by taking
Hall S CataTTh Cure.
F.J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned, have known +. J.
Cheney for the last 10 years. and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able 10 carry out any obligation
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Tole-
do, o.
WALDINe, KINSAS & MARVIN. Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, o.
Z. II. VAN HGsEN. Cashier Toledo National
Bank, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces OK
the system. Price l5c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
CONSUMPTION, Wasting Dsseasss.

AID General Debility. Doctors disagree as to
the relative value of Cod Liver Oil and Hypo-
phosphites; the one supplying strength and
flesh, the other giving nerve power, and acting as
a tonic 10 the digestive and entire system. But
IN SeOtt's Emulsion OF Cod Liver OIL with Hypo-
phosphites the two are combined, and the effect
is wonderful. Thousands who have derived no
permanent benefit from other preparations have
been cured by this. SCOTS Emulsion is per-
fectly palatable and il easily Gigested by those
who cannot tolerate plain Cod LIVER Cll.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
MY LITTLE SWEETHEART.

Across the pew, with complaisance
And eyes that with Loves sunshine dance,
My little sweetheart smiles at me
She is the only saint ] see;
The sermon passes in a trance.
The painted figures gaze askance,
Down from their CLASSY vigilance
On this, our tender heresy
Across the pew.
All! little sweetheart, the romance
OF life, with all its change and chance,
Is but sealed book to thee
When opened may its pages be
AS fair and sweet as thy bright glance
Across the pew.
Il Arthur G. Wright.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

Mrs. j, W. W. writes THE GAZETTE
from Galveston under date Of February 9:
st have tried to get copy of THE
GAZETTE in every book store in town and
of every newsdealer, but they don t
seem to know what good paper is.
Galveston aud her people may want the
Newses, but viii take THE GAZETTE
every time.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

IN VIEW OF much that is now being
written and spoken with reference to the
farmer, TIE GAZETTE is constrained 10
cry ont: "Oh, farmers, what crimes of
denagogy are committed in thy name. -
The tariff robs the farmer, and yet it
was the farmer that defeated tariff re-
form last year. Good permanent road
ways would do more for the farm than
Tor the town with its streets and railways,
and yet the farmer is being urged to de-
feat projects for raising the money with
out which good permanent roadways will
meyer be built. That man VINO advocates
policies that win overcome the isolation
of the farm is-the farmer s best friend
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

II the Gazette.
BY the aztec waters
Renowned in glorious war,
Waves r fag unriyalled,
The gallant single star.
To that fold of glory
Fair freedom points with pride:
Among the best and braeest
They fought for it-and died.
There, where waved triumphant
DER wilds, the Mexic bird,
And the savage war-wboop
Was erst IN terror heard
Lies mighty empire
In wealth and beauty blest,
Great in proud achievements
The day-star of the Westl
Over the hills of Texas
Are cities famed and fair,
Broad free rivers flowing
Through plains and valleys rare
Through forests, wide, primeval,
Past mountains gray ana old,
Down in whose deep bosoms
Lies wealth untouched or told.
Over the hills of Texas,
So soft the sky and air;
Rich the fields with haryests
The plains with flowers fair,
Seems it beauty love realm
Aworld of bloom and bliss.
o, there's IN poets dreaming
No fairer land than thisl
No land of richer beauty,
No land of grander fame;
Deeds of valorous heroes
Make hers a glorious name.
One that song and story
Will sound through endless time,
Numbering with earth proudest,
Her memories sublime.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

misconstrued as austerity She has ten
der affections, and Is much beloved by
those who know her as she is and not as
she may appear in the fermalities Of con-
Fentional social life The children of
Mrs. Blaine are Walker, ERmens, Alice
(Afrs. COppinger) ,Margueretta Isabelle,
James @ and Harriet Stanwood.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
oatas.yh Cured.

A clergyman, after years of suffering from that
loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainIy trying
every known remedy, at last found a recipe
which completely cured and saved him from
death. ANY sufferer from this dreadful disease
sending q self-addressed stamped envelope to
Professor J. A. Lawrence, IS Warren street, New
York, viii receive the recipe free Of charge.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

WHY not substitute railroad COM
mlttee for railroad commission, with
power and authority to investigate the
railroad business and recommend the
proper legislation to the next legislature?
No man can question the right of the
state TO regulate railroads, and the ques-
>tTon lssone OF eXpediency and method.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

A delightful beverage either hot or cold The
best known tonic. Restores lost vitality, viii
cure dyspepsia; settle disordered stomach and
induces sleep when everything else fails. Full
of punishment aud easily digested, il is in
nerves find in this their quickest restOrer. For
sale by A. &. Rintleman & Co., 1874 Main, corner
fef-ts