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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
Household.

Late in the Fifteenth century there was
born near the CITY of Florence q man who
achieved greatness and whose works
to-day are the glory of Rome. the Won
der and admiration of all who see them q,
and models in art shat none have been
able 10 excel. Michael Angelo was not
only architect, painter ana sculptor, but
poet and philosopher, man whose
works and words were in accord. To a
pupil he gave this lesson: ''Tlifles make
perfection, and perfection is not q
trife. - 1t is the little things omitted or
the little things done, that affect the
balance in the summing of happiness,
and although some may despise the
household as too contracted an arena for
the display of magnanimity in charactsI,
or grandeur in action, yet here are
some of the trifies which %ASs
great man said . made pegecti6s
1T is little thing to say5sfp ons2s Wife
zr'my dear, how tteUEAffu IN. ybtE are, -
when some little attention is shown, vet
that little morning com pliment is 4 song
in her heart all the day through. At
evening she knows you are tired and VIII
in wifely way excuse what to others
seems neglect, but watch her eye kindle
and the slight flush creep over throat ana
cheek if in lover-like way you greet her
and speak of the rose on her breast or the
neat fitting gown in which she has ar
rayed herself to meet her beloved. A
smile, a gentle tone, word of encour-
agement are little things, trifies all, but
n heart strengthened, dropping courage
revived, darkness lifted, are results that
are not trIfies.
The child chidden and blamed, dis
couraged and sulleu is often won by
word, or melted by a smile. These are
trifies that make perfection and are ly-
ing thick in the pathway, perfection in
character, perfection in work come from
a care of these.
The little woman at her play of house
keeping, the boy at his work bench, the
student at his desk, the housewife in the
pantry and the good man ut his work
each, all, have trifies in their grasp that
must be regarded or the work win be
failure.
When a boy or girl says. "oh! that
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
WANAMAKER'S WAR
The Western Union viii Meet
Him in the Court of Claims.
United States Too Big a Concern to
Inaugurate Niggardly Policy.
Johns BlUnder.
Plans for Tower for the Great Worlds Fair
Which will far Surpass the Famous
Eiffel Tower at Paris.
HE ovERsTEPs HIMSELF i.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Aug. lit is war to the
knife between Postmaster General Wan
amaker and the Western Union telegraph
company The former will not Tecede
from the stand he recently took, making
the rate of payment for government SER
vice at l mill per word. The telegraph
company, through its president,
declared such rate I'M
reasonably and ridiculously low and de-
MED the authority of the postmaster
general to fix the compensation at such
figure. a good deal of correspondence
ensued without any compromise on either
side, but to-day the head of the postOffice
department fired a heavy broadside at
the enemy in a communication to the
secretary of the treasury asking him
not to pay any more bills of the
Western Union against the government
until the matter at issue was settled.
From this it would seem that Wanna
maker is resoIute in his determination
not TO pay over tenth of cent per
word, and evidently thinks he has the
authority to force the company to accept
that rate. On the other hand the com
pany will go right ahead charging Uncle
Sam l cent per word, and will try
conclusions with the general in the court
of claims. The Western Union people
say that the United States is too big
concern to inaugurate Il niggardly pol
icy, and that the courts will never sus-
tain Wanamaker in his misery effort to
cut down rates below the cost of service.
The controversy has EXCITED great deal
of interest, and il seems to be
the general opinion that WanamakeF,
shrewd business man that he. Is, has
Numbered. No doubt some reduction
might have beenL insisted on, bat there
are abundant rehsons Tor believing that
tel reduce. rates TO t9s ,prios mentioned
i@ds a very ek4relhs Iieasur954 -,
- TO Guido THE FRENCHMEN.
A Washington architect, anticipating
the great world s fair to be held here in
1892 in honor of the 400th anniversary
of the discovery of America, and wishing
to lay the Frenchman who conceived and
built the Eifel tower completely in the
shade. has submitted plans for tower
to astOnish the thousands who VIII gather
here at the great exposition. 1t is to be
1900 high or 500 feet more than the Won
derful tower in Paris.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
ing out en- masse.

HENRY GEORGE, BACK FROM ENGLAND
AND 4 ''BIGGER MANI THAN EVER.
The author of Progress and Poverty"
has been received in New York with
remarkable demonstrations of his popu-
larity, after making a lecturing tour IN
the United Kingdom. 1t appears that
abroad as in this country his single tax
theory is received with increasing favor.
:, MI. George was born at Philadelphia,
In 1899. After leaving school he learned
to.set type. At sixteen he went to sea
but5 soon returned to Philadelphia and
the mysteries of typesetling. When
he was twenty years of age he
left his native city for California. Fail
ing to make money with prospecting
party in British Columbia with whom he
left San Francisco, Mr.. George returned
to that city and worked at his trade.
subsequently he graduated as reporter
and editorial writer and became a news
paper proprietor. He sold his
weekly sheet in 1875. The next
year he worked en- the Democratic side in
the presidentia campaign. He held Of
fee under to city government, San
Francisco, fNr a period beginning in
1877. In 1879 he finished % Progress and
Poverty - He has resided in New
York since 1880. He was correspond
ent in Ireland of an Irish American
Newspaper in 1872. In 1888, 1885 aud
1889 he lectured in Great Britain. He
has written several other works than the
one named, including an argument for
free trade Mr.. George was a Cleveland
man last fall. He has a wife and four
children
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08

them, public opinion has deceived
itself. The country has a
cause, and just and glorious
cause to defend from this time forward
Those who are not for the cause ought to
be treated as enemies-there is no middle
ground, no neutralitv-those who are not
for us are against US, and are, therefore,
enemies.
The first blood that is shed seals the
freedom of Texas. l believe it is already
sealed. A report has just reached here
that the Mexican troops at Gonzales have
been defeated by the army OF the
people, with a loss of forty Mex
leans killed-no loss on our side.
Bexar must be taken before the cam
paign closes. Every man is wanted.
We expect aid from Trinity and Bevils
settlement. All Texas ought to meet
in one body and drive the invaders from
our SOIL Now is the time. Texas
must be free and establish a government
before this campaign closes. Every man
is wanted Send on all you can. Yours
respectfully, s. r. AUSTIN.
p. S.-This part of the country is turn
ing out en- masse.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
TEXAS TIMBER.
Ohio and Massachusetts Manufacturers Recog-
nize Its Value.

nize Its Value.
B. F. Giltner who has been in Fort
Worth several days, brings information
that on the Sabine river are 800 men at
work getting out white oak and hickory
for carriage and wagon factories
in Ohio and Massachusetts. He says the
men getting out this timber pronounce it
superior to any found in other states, the
hickory especially being very fine. The
wagons, buggies and carriages made out
of this timber are shipped to Texas, and
the people here pay tribute to
Eastern. factories and the railroads
on what could be made at home
as well if not better than elsewhere. Be-
sides the wagon timber shipped, a large
amount of wood is shipped TO Germany to
be made into slaves and then into beer
barrels. The force al work is to be in
creased in a short time. Fort Worth Is
a fine location for wagon factory and if
a man like 2. H. Keller would take hold
of it he could easily form a company for
their manufacture in this city.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
THE GRAPE INDUSTRY.
a Company Formed for the Purpose of Dis
filling CALIFORNIA; Surplus Grapes.


filling CALIFORNIA; Surplus Grapes.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Aug. 3.-At
Viticultural hall, yesterday, a number
of prominent capitalists met a commit
tee consisting of Messrs. Detulk, West
and Harrassethy of the Grape Growers
association, and discussed the plan for
relieving the wine industry of the state
by distilling the surplus wines into a
GOOD, uniform, quality of brandy.
1t was agreed to organize a company
with a capital stock of 81 900 900 divided
into 10, 900 shares of 500 each.
One thousand shares were subscribed
for at the meeting. The company is to
be known as the California brandy union.
Distilleries will be leased and constructed
in those parts of the state where cheap
grapes and wines are found in excess.
The central warehouse Will be estab-
lished in San Francisco. Agencies win
located in all the large Eastern cities and
in Hamburg and London. This year s
surplus of the company will be , 800 900
gallons which it will distill into 500 900
gallons of brandy. A meeting will soon
be held at which a board of directors viii
be- elected.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
TEXAS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
Election OF Officers and Reports OF Com
mittees.

mittees.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Ten. Aug. The Texas
cooperative association met at Turner
hall this morning. The first business in
order was the election of a board of thir-
teen directors, as follows: R. E.
Steele, A. J. Rose, A M Kellar. w.
H. Harris, J . B. Long, J. w. Walt
man, J. w. Page. j. C. Isbell. G. B.
Lundy, c. J. Stock, H. D. Niblo, w.
p. Miles and s. NJ. Earns.
Resolutions Of respect were adopted to
the memory of J. w. Clark and E. w.
Smith, previous presidents of the associ-
alton.
The following officers were elected: r.
e. Steele, president; A. j Rose, secre-
tary: J W. Waltman, treasurer; j. s.
Rogers, general manager.
Reports were received from the various
committees Three thousand dollars was
appropriated for lecture purposes. The
association invested $500 III the Grange
fair.
The following resolution of cOngratula-
ton to the state press was adopted:
Whereas, having learned with pride
that the IeXaS press ASSOCIATION nave
devised methods to establish a co-Opera-
tive printing house on the ROckdale plan
and thus have struck the key note of
business success as adopted;
Resolved. THAT we5!hail with pleasure
this determination oeSethe Texas press to
enter the great fei4tbf cooperative edu-
cation and hereby 8Stend our hearty
congratulations.
Resolutions of thanks were adopted to
Col. A. NJ. Shannon for an excursion to
the jetties, and Rev. DR.. Spaulding for
courteses, after which the association
adjourned to meet next year in Calves
ton the last Wednesday in July. Quite
number of the association attended the
pyrotecnic display at the beach tonight.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
FATHER OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE.
The Copy OF an autograph Letter which Set
ties Question OF Texas History.

The Copy Of an Autograph Letter which Set
ties Question OF Texas History.
Special to the Gazette.
CLEBURNE, TEX, Aug. IAN article
appeared in the Dallas News last Sunday
morning from Col. John Henry Brown,
attempting to prove that Stephen F.
Austin, the father of Texas independ-
ence, advocated the forming of Texas
separate Mexican state under and subject
to the control OF the republic of Mexico.
The following autograph letter, which is
unquestiOnably genuine, has just been
brought to light d an old Texas veteran
of this county, Mr.. William Harden, and
viii appear in the Chronicle tomorrow.
This letter settles an important question
of Texas history:
COPY OF 4 I rrEB1gRosfEHH FATHER OF
= FE x4asINDg sEExESe.R IS +. AUSTIN, TO
WILLIAM HARDEN 6 BROS, TRINITY.
SAN FELIPE, Oct. 5, 1885.
Messrs. William Harden & Bros.
GENTLEMEN-Th enclosed paper Will
inform you of the progress of the glorious
cause Of Texas. Everything goes well,
it could not be better. There is but one.
peace now, that 1 know of, in all this
feogntry. All, have studied for them
sE.iFesA all DOUBTS are removed. All are
satisfe44 that re must fight for our fights
or leaveSSbe cEantry, or become AFFECT
slaves an6S" q ). disgrace to the nhme
of an American. No one here
hesitates a moment which of these alter
mates TO adopt-all say fight. I have no
doubt it is or win be the same on the
Trinity. I cannot believe that anyone
can be so blind and infatuated as to be-
lieye in the promises of the military party
who are in power in Mexico, nor in Gen.
Santa Anna 5 profession Of friendship
for Texas, am just from Mexico,
know them well. There is no faith IN
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
THE LIGHTNING'S WRATH.
The Forked Fury Playing Havoc Among the
Senegambians-A Preachers Mishap.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
HONEY GROVE. Tex, Aug. 2.-Parson Gordon.
"a Lamar county preacher, while on his way to
holds meeting on Sulphur, had the misfortune
of having one OF his legs broken by falling from
his buggy, his horse running away being the
cause. sThe limb was set by a Honey Grove sur
geon and the gentleman sent home.
The force of nature known lightning seems
TO be making an attempt of colonizing the negro
in this country. Il has claimed several for vic
Tins lately. This morning Jim Arbuckle, col
oTed boy of eighteen years, working on Mr..
Barton's farm one mile north Of town, while
sitting in a doorway during the storm of this
morning was struck and killed by lightning.
Lightning also struck the building occupied
by Mac Edwards, colored, as a tailor shop
but did no more damage than knocking off q few
first floor and burning hole through the floor
Edwards was in the room at the time but was
only shocked Quite number Of persons in the
vicinity ~ The time were more or less sh0ezs1.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
COMING TO THE HUB.
The Assessors and Collectors of Texas to Meet
in Fort Worth


All the county assessors and tax co.'s
lectors in the state of Texas have de-
cided TO meet at Fort Worth on the ,sec-
ond Tuesday IN September TO discuss 1sse
most approved methods OF con-
Quoting their work and also to
interchange ideas on assessing and tax
collecting. Tax Collector Murrey has
taken considerable interest in the coming
meeting and has done some hard work
with the railroads to get them to bring
his brethren to this city at reduced
rates. He says the Fort Worth
and Denver, st. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas and Fort Worth and Rio Grande
have been especially kind, having agreed
to bring the assessors and collectors of
every county on their lines to Fort
Worth free of charge and to
carry them back home at the same rate.
Other roads except the Texas Central
have agreed to give reduced rates The
meeting promises to be largely ATTENDED.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08

There were numerous casualties during
the erection of the Paris exposition build
ings. 1t is estimated that 800 wOrkmen
hurt their legs, 2G0 received severe in
juries in the eyes from projecting TIM
bers or bars OF iron, ia were scaIded or
severely burned and fifty had their fin
gers cut off. The deaths from falls are
put down at twenty-foUr.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
A GIGANTIC SCHEME.
Advances Made to Purchase All Cotton
Factory Interests in Fall River.
1t viii NOtI Stop There, but ian English Syndi-
cate Proposes to Buy Up All the Fac
tories in the United States.

FALL RIVER, MASS. Aug. 3.-The Fall
River News publishes this afternoon a
circular letter which is to be mailed in
New York to-day addressed to the presi-
dent and board of directors of every cot
ton mill in Fall River. The letter says:
"GENTLENIEN-It IS our desire to Sc
cure control of the entire cotton manu-
featuring property of Fall River and
elsewhere, and we address you for the
purpose of obtaining your views as to the
probability of your shareholders, or a
majority, being willing to sell OF
pool their stock on a basis of mutual
advantage. 1t is of course useless
for us at this time to set forth our plans
III detail. We are pleased to inform you
that the Central trust company of New
York has consented TO act as trustee IN
behalf of both parties. Should the mat
ter meet with your favorable cOnSidera-
ton we would thank you TO advise us at
an early date, and we viii then confer
with you personally in regard to details.
Very respectfully,
GEO. f. MELLON.
EMERSON G.. MCMILLAN.
II. b WILSON.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
Committee .


Mr.. Mellon says the syndicate which
has been formed represent principaliy
foreign capital, and that already the
amount subscribed is more than sufficient
to buy the cotton industry of Americsss
This really Is what is aimed at, and
operations will not be confined to FAN
River but extended to Lowell, Lawrence,
New Bedford and the best mills in the
country. The Fall River mills have
capital exceeding twenty million dollars
and an investment probably of thirty
million dc. ars or more. Just how
negotiations viii be instituted will
interest outsiders as these mills are owned
by thousands OF stockholders. The di-
rectOrs have no power to sell the mills,
and beyond few hundred shares proba-
bly, little stock could be bought at any
thing like prevailing prices. Mellon is
at Alexandria Bay in consultation with
parties interested in the syndicate, and
in September goes abroad to complete
arrangements.
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
THE CREDIT SYSTEM.
Responsibilities Of Hank aIanage to tht
 Public at Large.

There are times when it is we'll for the managers of banking institutions to realize their responsibilities toward the public as well as to their stockholders. 1t Is particularly so when Il general scrutiny of credits is going onand when q widespread feeling of measiness prevails. The banks have it in their power to force d general liquidation upon the community at any time when it may seem good to them to do so but in so doing they would themselves be the first to suffer, for their only hope of profit lies in the retention of GUS toners who are doing profitable busi- ness and. therefore, able to pay for the use of money. The vast development of commerce in the latter years of this century has been largely due to an in teAigeHt use of the credit system. If every transaction was compelled to be an actual transfer Of cash from hand to hand, the condition of the civilized portion of the world would be pitiful in the extreme. All the fine tools which commerce now uses would be reduced to worthless heaps of junk, and the inhabitants of the large cities would De compelled to rush to the country for food, each family becom- ing self-supporting atom in the mass of humanity. Money is merely meth cd for facilitating exchanges between men and communities, and it must be employed according to certain we'll known rules or it ceases to have any value. The mere possession of wealth without knowing how to use it rem ders any one an absurd figure. and a bank which has million gold dollars in it's vaults without the managers to direct its scattering abroad in the shape of loans, might just as we'll have it's safe full of pebbles Loan the bank must, and loan to the uttermost the duty of the directors consists simply in passing on the merits Of individual credits. \ borrower who is conduct ing an honorable and profitable busi- ness is not merely entitled to credit, he must be encouraged in its legitimate use if the community would prosper; he must earn to extend it in every di- rection that is open to its products.- Providence Journal.
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
UNIQUE COMPARISONS.
The Number of Vibrations Made by Watcf
 in the Course of a Year.

The balance wheel of quick train watch makes five excursions (yibra- tions) every second 300 per minute, 180, 000pcr hour. 432 600 per day, which givesus the enormous sum of 157, ,6S0, TO per year. Each vibration of the balance of properly constructed watch consists of II revolutions. If bicycle with d 60-inch wheel was propelled at this rate the rider would cover mile in 533 seconds, nearly 67 miles per hour, more than 1,604 miles per day, or 5SG, 1l6! miles per year.
 Now, pause moment and think what condition your wheel would be in if you attempted to ride it 5S6, 716! miles without occasional repairs or even fresh oil, Yet this is precisely what is expected Of a watch. It is to be hoped that wheelmen will have more respect for their watches after reading this
 The smallest screw in watch has 220 threads to the inch and is so minute that the threads arc not visible to the naked eye. Indeed, one can hardly be distinguished from speck of dirt, except by using a powerful magnify ing glass.
 If we convert our 60-inch wheel into these tiny screws, of which it takes 253, 1f0 to weigh pound, we shall have l3, 939, 200 screws. worth about $l30,0o Let wheelmen not complain of the cost of machines hereafter
 But the above is a mere trine when compared to what the value would be if made up into hair-springs, which, when of the best quality, are worth, when fitted to watches, S29. 46l per pound. In this ease your wheel would become worth the snug little sum of $1.555. 20, and if the wire used to make these springs was drawn out into one continuous piece it would take a pretty good rider to travel from end to end in a day. for the distance would be 116 miles.-Wheelman Gazette.
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
A Mississippi Girls Revenge.

A young lady of Mississippi was visiting the bluegrass region of Ken lucky, and was entertained at q dinner party at the Governor mansion. Dur ing the course of the dinner degener- ate son of the Governor talked loosely about things in general, and among them of visit to Mississippi, remark ing that he had not seen pretty woman in his tour through the State. The girl from Mississippi awaited her opportunity, and during lull in the conversation turned and asked the Governor if what she had heard of the gentlemen of Kentucky WAS true. The Governor wanted to know what it was, and the attention of the whole company was directed to the lady's re- sponse: Well" said she. Il heard that Kentucky gentlemen educate their horses and turn their sons out to grass. ' San Francisco Arqouaut
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
Millinery for Early Winter.

A pretty and becoming medication of that old prime favorite the English wallling-hat has appeared. less narrow on the brim front. and not rolled so closely to the crown on the sides, making it more than ever becoming to slender-faced women, to whom the shape, like the French turban, is al- ways a boon. The new felt bonnets are beautifully soft aud fine, and dyed in all the autumn shades. both dark, pale and neutral, to match street cos tunes. Some are in princess shape others with small coronets. OF in the flat style of the new English capote which reveals all of the waved or fluffy mass of hair over the forehead
 Some of the crowns. low at the back, are pinched into few soft folds. thus taking away the plain, straight look usual to these shapes. Fancy figured, mottl q, heather-miXed and checked felts are shown, to Dc worn with tailor suits of similar pattern. N. |. Post.