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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
THE GAME OF LIFE.


There's game much 81 fashion, think it's
called Euchre,
Though never have played it for pleasure or
lucre.)
In which when the cards are in certain condi-
The players appear to have changed their posi-
And one of them cries in confident tone,
= think may venture to go it alone.'
While Watching the game, tits whin of the
bard's,
A moral to draw from that sRirmish of cards,
And to fancy he finds in the trivial strife
Some excellent hints for the battle of Life;
Where-whether the prize be ribbon or throne
The winner is he who can golt alone!
The great Calico proclaimed that the world
In regular orbit was ceaselessly whiTled,
And got-not conversion all OF has pains,
But only derision and prison and chains,
1T moves. for all that!' was his answering
tone,
When Kepler, with intellect piercing afar,
Discovered the laws of each planet and star,
And doctors who ought to have landed his name,
DeTided his learning; and blackened his fame.
Il can waltz he replied, still the truth you
shall oWn:''
And he felt in his heart he could go it alone!
AlasI for the player who idly depends,
In the struggle Of life. upon kindred or friends;
Whatever the value the blessings like these,
They can never atone for inglorious ease,
Nor comfort the coward who finds, with groan,
mat MS cfutcneS nave lefC MIN 10 go u aIone!
There's something, no doubt, in the hand you
may hold,
Health, family, culture, wit, beauty and gold,
The fortunate owner may fairly regard
As, each in its way, a most excellent card;
Yetthe game may be lost, with all these for your
own,
Unless you've the courage to go it alone!
In battle or business, whatever the game,
In law or in love, it is ever the same;
In the struggle for power, or the scramble for
peJf,
Let this be your motto: Rely on yourself!
For whether the prize be a ribbon or throne,
The victor is he who can go it alone!
John G. SAKE.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22


Assassinations as bad as that of the base
ball catcher have goue nnDunished in
Dallas and the state at large, and this
Angus knew when he fired the cowardly
and fatal shot. And shall it be deter
mined he placed the proper estimate
upon his chances of escape with his prede-
cessors IN crime? As the criminal laws of
our state are now administered, not only
IN Dallas but elsewhere, there are ten
chances of Augas going half punished
for his infamous crime TO one of his pay
ing the Mosaic penalty of his own life for
the one he has so deliberately taken
Right here is the key to the big criminal
statistics in the recent report of Attor-
ney-General Hogg.
We don t punish the high erimes-mur-
der and assassination-with the certainty
and severity with which they ought TO be
treated. The criminal classes for this
cause do not fear the law as they should,
and crime fiourishes
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
The Australian voting ssssem.


The new voting system, which goes into
effect in Massachusetts next year, and
which is copy of the Australian ballot
system, is causing much interest all over
the country and requests for copies of the
law have been received by Secretary of
the Commonwealth Pierce from legisla-
tors in every state of the Union. Efforts
viii probably be made to have the same
law adopted by many other states this
year. The state prints all the
ballots for state offices and the cities and
towns for municipal anG town offices
and the names of all candidates are on
one ballot. The ballots are given to
voters by the precinct officers. The vo-
ter takes his ballot INTO q private room
and marks the names which he wants to
vote for. He will be fined for showing
his marked ballot to anyone and a fine
is levied on person who attempts to f1ud
out for whom he votes. Thus a deadly
blow is struck at the political heeler and
ballot distributor at the polls, consum-
nation devOutly to be wished The prin-
tiers viii lose very large and profta-
BILE business in the printing of the regu-
lar ballots for political parties and of split
tickets for independent candidates, and
also the ever-prevalent stickers which
have shown increasing popularity each
year The printers selected by the state
and cities and towns will be the gamers.
However, anxious candidates viii proba-
bly, want posters, flyers and circulars as
of yore, and the printers will probably
find the proverbial half loaf better than
no bread.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
NEWS AND NOTES.


There are two Episcopal ministers j,
missionaries, on the Yukon river
Alaska. They are 5000 miles from the
southeastern line of the territory.
Partisan women have carried the watch
| wearing mania to the point of wearing
time pieces as ornaments for the hair and
instead of rosettes on their ball slippers
The latest estimate of the coal supply
of the world gives us fuel for the next
500 years, by which time some genius will
have Invented a way to make one corncob
heat big house for week.
In answer to the question: s'What
becomes of all the cracked and used up
billiard balls?' a New York con-
temporary says that those of real ivory
are bought up and cut into dice and other
small articles.
A French inventor has perfected new
form of registering log, which records on
paper the speed of q vessel The log
proper is suspended permanently along
side the vessel at mid-length, and is con-
nected by flexible tube with regis
tered apparatus placed in any part of the
vessel that may be convenient.
The movement to put women on an
equality with men before the law appears
to be gathering strength i'll Pennsylvania
The governor of that state has appointed
day for the execution Of woman MIR
derer just the same as If she was man.
Let there be no distinction on account of
sex.
Mr.. Edison says: Undoubtedly the
next great discovery viii be some method
Of getting electricity from coal direct
without the Intervention of boilers TO
make steam, steam-driven engines to run
dynamoS, which in their turn, with the
intervention Of magnetism, do work,
whether in operating motors or in making
light. -
South Carolina is the easiest state in
the Union TO get married in. All q couple
desiring to get united have TO do is TO
ask a preacher or a trial justice to tie the
knot, or if there be great haste they can
Join hands in the presence of two wit
nesses, say they are married, and the
bond of union is legal. 4 couple might
almost as well ''jump over stick,
some say.
In some parts of Africa man S wealth
is judged by the number of his wives. A
man with sixty wives is looked upon as
sort of bonanza king. His wives proba-
bly, go out washing at fifty cents day,
or make shirts at forty cents a dozen. In
this country man 5 wealth is judged by
the number of dogs he owns. The pos
SCISSOR of eight dogs is generally too poor
to pay school tax, and his wife takes in
washing.
The Jewish Messenger rebukes q rabbi
for speaking of Christ as IAN amiable
young enthusiast Of moderate educa-
ton. - s'Whiie themes of this charac-
ter, - ii says, care out of place in the
synagogue, no Jewish preacher has a
right to refer contemptuously to Christi
anity's founder. We resent prejudice
against judaism; let us be careful lest
we show the same spirit of prejudice to-
ward other reGgions
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
Blsmarek,s Hatred OF EngIand.
Sew York MINES. london eable.


OF far more present Importance is the
statement that Prince Bismarck next
week will make n speech in which he viii
bitterly attack Sir Robert Morier as one
of the men who wrote to Professor
Geffcken urging him to publish the En-
peror Frederick IS diary in order to break
down the chancellor position. Bis
marck came TO Berlin yesterday, lean
ing on stout stick, but look
ing more Saturnine than ever. accom-
panied by two huge bloodhounds instead
of his usual one. Within an hour after
his arrival everybody got hold of the idea
that he was looking for gore, and there
is a nervous expectation both in Berlin
and London that he will say something
which will strain the Anglo-German re-
lations seriously. Bismarck 8 dislike of
England has long been known, and now
that he has got an emperor at his back
who fully shares this dislike he will De
strangely unlike himself if he does not
take such good chance to free his mind.
1t is now openly said here that the new
generation of German officers are taking
their cue from these maguates. They
talk more of an invasion of Engldnd than
OF a war with France. The new kaiser s
excited interest in the navy, which has
been so much talked about, is believed to
be the practical outcoms of this feeling,
and the English papers discuss the report
that the keels of twenty-four new Ger
man war ships will be laid during the
present year, with a conviction that this
activity is all directed against their eoun-
try Very possibly another week will
raise all this to worldwide Importance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
LIBEL LAw.

Private advices from Austin do not
represent the chances of libel law as
very fiattering. THE GAZETTE appeals
to the legislature to enact some sort of a
law, even if it is designed to still further
restrict publications in newspapers. The
crying need is for something definite to
take the place of the criminal code, COM
mon law and supreme court opinion COM
bination that now leaves the field
open to the shvster and adj
venturer and blackmaller. Give the
press something clear and explicit gentle
men, even if it be a law that will force
every newspaper to employ lawyer to
supervise all matter published.
Anything would be preferable to moth
ing. As the situation now is, daily news
papers are liable any day TO convert
a 10 cent reputation into a SO 900
character by simply telling the truth pro
bono publico. Frame law that viii put
a stop to truth telling in the public in
terest, if you will; but give us libel law
that viii clearly define the freedom the
public desire to accord to the press
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
The Dallas Tragedy.
Austin Statesman.

An unarmed man, totally unapprehen-
sive of danger, is walking the street in
one of tie most public and populeus parts
of Dallas.
He is approached from behind and de-
liberately shot dead without moment s
warning These are the facts in the
Bradley-Angus assassination, for it was
nothing else, and that of the basest, most
cowardly description. Not the shadow
OF an excuse has been urged in behalf of
the murderer, except that of jealousy for
one of the Jezebels of the town.
The assassination OF a prominent base
ball player and stranger from distant
state may not be regarded by some peo-
pie as surprising in atrocitY some other
murders that have disgTaced our state.
But If does indicate an alarming con-
tempt OF law. Is it not true that had
the hack driv II Angus really feared the
consequences OF his crime and
believed that it would have positively
endangered his neck the crime
would scarcely have been committed and
Bradley to-day would have been alive?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
Dismayed the Drummer.


A Boston cigar drummer, whose resi-
dence is in Taunton, tells story on him.
self with great glee. He was in Hart
ford, Conn, one evening and after
loungipg about the hotel in disconsolate
loneliness for an hour or two he asked the
clerk if there was anything going on in
town. The clerk suggested taking in a
masquerade ball that was in progress.
The drummer thought the idea was s
good one, but he hadn't any costume.
The clerk suggested that he should
borrow the colored porter :
overaIls and jumper, black his
face and hands and go. The
suggestion was promptly acted upon, and
for an hour the bogus colored man talked
African English and had high old time
among the masked bellies. Finally the
signal to unmaSk was given, and when
the masks came off great wave of dark
ness swept over the hall Every blessed
man, woman ana child in the place was
full blooded negro. The drummer cast
one panic-stricke look at the crowd and
then made for the dqRr. When he reached
the hotel he resumed his old time person.
atty and set up the wine.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
DUFFAU.
A Mill Owner Makes an Assignment-A Flowing

Well.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
DUFFAU, Tex. Jan. ID. NJ. Ell
kins, owner of the Duffau mills and gin
at this place, assigned to J NJ. Fain last
night. The assets as sworn to by J. N.
Elkins are $4,000 and the liabilities $500
The creditors are A. W. Minis of Wichita
Falls, W. A. Huffman implement COM
pany of Fort Worth, Fain s. Hellums of
Alexander and Joel Fisher of Hico. The
reasons given for the assignment are:
''Creditors were pushing and the mill was
not paying expenses.
The Messer hotel at Duffau Wells was
sold on the 18th inst. to n. B Chumbley
and 1. L. Collins.
a few days ago Capt. T. WilkersOn was
boring an artesian well at his residence
near Paluxy creek. At depth of about
200 feet the water rose to within thirty
feet of the surface, and very soon
strong spring broke out at the foot of the
hill below. He then let a pipe down
short distance into the water and tight
ened collar at the lower end, leaving
an elbow on the pipe eight feet above the
surface In moment the water began
70 pour out on the captain g head before
he thought the pipe was frightened below.
He now has a three-inch stream Of water,
and it viii run off into his farm where he
viii use it for irrigating.
Petitions are now being circulated in
this (Erath) county asking the commits
sioners' court to consider the question of
building bridges over the principal
streams.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
About Deep Water.


s'fhe demand for deep water on the
Texas coast, says the Fort Worth Ca
zETTE. SIS extending far beyond the
confines of the state, nd without such
extension of the demand deep water at
government expense would never be at
tanned. But this demand outside of
Texas enforces this condition, viz: deep
water for Texas at that point where it
can be soonest and most cheaply obtained
and maintained. - In this connection the
Post begs to refer THE GAZETTE to some
information contained in these columns
yesterday. The contract TO secure deep
water at the mouth of the Brazos has
been let; Mr.. Gus Wilke of Texas capt.
toll fame is the contractor; the work Is TO
be completed within thirteen months and
will be paid for by private capital. Two
years ago the Post said that the first deep
water port on the Texas coast would be
obtained through private enterprise and
private capital. The Post has never
changed its mind on this subject, not
withstanding the Fort Worth and Dem
yer conventions, and the letting of
this Brazos contract seems to
bear out the opinion entertained We
are going to have deep water at the
mouth of the Brazos, and the govern
ment will not be asked for a dollar.
Other ports viii, however, follow in good
timeFpossiblv by government aid .IOne port
will not accommodate the vast commerce
which will find entrance and exit here.
Galveston Sabine and AransasPass viii all
be able to float big ships to their wharves
before many years have passed. Mean
whileHouston is happy. The present and
prospective situations cause it to as com
Portable as bug in rug.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
THE rorYG couYTY NoB

Late advices correct some inaccuracies
in the first report of the results of the
Young county mob s attack on officers of
the law. Only one of the guards was
killed and Deputy Marshal Johnson was
badly shot and may be for life anarmless
man. Two of the mob were killed out
right and another was dangerously
wounded, and if all of them had been
killed it would have been better for law
and society. Deputy johnson did his
duty and for it is perhaps made help
less man; Sam Cresswen did his duty and
gave his life for the laws supremacy.
The murderers who made this assault
on the officers and prisoners should be
hunted, caught, tried and punished.
The law can do no less if it would main
tain itself.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

vate and to perpetuate the popular feel
ing. OF late years a growing disposition
has been shown on both sides 30 reunite
churches which are divided by a shadow
In the North few of this political
preachers remain TO prevent the adoption
of such terms of settlement as are likely
to be adopted by the Southern church.
In the South the most formidable imped-
iment to reunion passed on the stage of
human action few months ago.
DR.. Peck is right; the graveyard is
one Of Gods greatest humanizing and
civilizing agencies. =
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
ABoUr MEN AND WosrEM.

Erastus Wiman owns all the American
patents for the slot device for nickeis.
Jim Grow, New York murderer, will
probably be the first man executed by
electricity under the provisions of the
new law regulating executions in that
state.
Barney Barnato Is the diamond
king OF South Africa. Sixteen years
ago he was penniless boy of nineteen
years. Three years later he had SI5,-
00G. Then he bought four claims at
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

MIR. PLUMB's bin for tariff commits
sion does not meet with favor from the
apostles of the tribute tariff. Mr.. Plumb
is-sharply reminded that the late election
decided that the manufacturers should
get whatever they want from the govern
ment, and is charged with going over to
the free trade enemy. 1t looks as if the
manufacturers had concluded that their
day had come to utilize the Republican
patent fat frying process.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
THE GRAKEEARD As Il HUlLANIzING
AGENT.

AGENT.
The renaissance of sectionalism which
has followed the presidential contest hap
PLY does not seem TO have reached the
religious world. 1t is significant that
while the embers of old animosities are
being so vigorously stirred by politicians,
on both sides of Mason and Dixon IS line,
the leaders of religious thought in the
great organizations that were torn asund-
er by the issues of civil strife are heading
movements looking to reunion.
In an address 10 the con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church
in session in this city, delivered at the
Southern Methodist church Sunday night
Rev. DR.. Peck, the missionary secre-
tarY, prefaced his remarks about mis-
sionary work with some striking COM
ments npon the relations between the
churches, North and South. DR.. Peck
predicted that the time was coming, and
near, when the churches would cease TO
perpenate through their titles the memo
RES of civil discord. Said he:
There are men in the North and men in the
South who stand in the way of such eonsumma-
ton, but the graveyard is one of Gods greatest
humanizing and eiviiizing agencies.
The speaker declared that in heathen-
dom an important step toward reconeilia-
ton had been taken, and told of the con-
cert of missionary effort by the agents of
the great Methodistic bodies in Japan.
Coming from such source
these expressions are notable. The
schism in fne Methodist body as
snmed violent shape before soldiers
resorted to arms. 1t did much TO aggra-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

a LADY residing at Cincinnati, writing
to a friend, has these kind words to say
of TIE GAZETTE:
We were so much pleased with the special
edition. Fort Worth must be a prosper
Gus place with such nice dwellings, business
houses and beautiful churches. THE GAZETTE
has a fine building, and I do think the paper is
splendid 1t surpasseS any of ours. Our En-
Quirer is perfectly awful; it is vile but yet it is
our newsiest paper. The tone OF your paper is so
pure; like 1t, and so do we all.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

THE story that Harrison IS descend
ant OF Thomas Harrison, the parliament
airy soldier and patriot of 1860. turns out
TO be fiction, as well as that which
made him lineal descendant of Poca-
hontas. If it should finally be developed
that he is not even the grandson of his
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22
THE RANGER SERKICE.

The Austin correspondent of the Hous-
ton Post reports that an effort win be
made TO abolish the state ranger service
by emitting it from the appropriations to
be made by the Twenty-first legislature.
For several terms of the legislature this
method of attack upon the ranger force
has been resorted to fortunately, in each
instance, without success. The wisdom
of retaining the system has been dem
onstrated after each assault upon it, be-
fore the meeting of the succeeding legis-
lature. On several occasions during the
last year the rangers have been called
into requisitIon to preserve order and en-
force the law in various parts of the
state. Without their assistance the local
and state officers would have been seriously
embarrassed in several instances because
of the lack of vigilant agents to enforce
the laws demands. To-day i'll one
county in Texas the protection of per-
sonal and property rights is dependent
upon the presence of the rangers, the
local officials having avowed their inca
pacity to check the vandalism of organ
ICED disorder.
There is no assurance of continued
peace in the black belt. Race troubles
have occurred before and may occur
again. In such emergencies the governor
must rely upon local military organiza-
tions, without any practical knowledge of
police duties, or upon the rangers,
who have never failed TO
accomplish fully and promptly
every duty assigned to them. Their
presence ana reputation operates as a
most wholesome restraint upon crime.
There is not criminal in Texas who has
not been taught to fear the rangers. TO
disband them would be virtually to grant
a license to crime in the sparsely settled
districts where the state maintains
on an average but one police
officer for sections equivalent in
size to states In helping to break up
gangs of cattle thieves in the
northwest, which, but for them, would
be III bold operation to-day, the rangers
have returned to the state compound in
terest on many times their cost.
In the interest of the law, OF settle
ment, and for The protection of the fame
of the state abroad, the ranger service |
should be retained. When it is disbanded |
the most efficient police agency in the |
civilized world will have been wantonly |
and unwisely sacrificed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

THE German newspapers are said to be
astonished that this country win take care
OF its own in Samoa. Their establishment
viii be greater if they push the matter to
Il war. When Bismarck strikes Uncle
Sam he viii find that he has hit man of
his own size, and our Uncle Sam is a
fighter from away back-on sea or land.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

Ba4H letters or communications for THE
GAZETTE, lchether on business or for
publication, shoa7d be addressed to THE
GAZETTE, oy DEMOCRAT PUBLISH
ING CO., Fort Worth, Ter, and NOT
TO ANY EDIVIDUAL.
al communications intended for pubiica-
ton must be accompanied By the arrfter's
name and oddress--not for pu5JfcQtion-5ut
as an eridence Of good faitA
Parties srrittag to THE GAZETTE on
business personal to themselves lciH please
f1aelose stamp for reply.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

ESTEEMED contemporaries that are
anxious TO give their readers accounts of
the Graham tragedy are invited to pillow
the ir shears through the columns of THE
GAZETTE. THE GAZETTE is not copy
rightea
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

Mrs. POTTER is reported TO have paid
$4,000 for one of the dresses she wore as
"Cleopatra. - She ought to have been
allowed 4 ventilation discount on it of
15 per cent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22

THE best and most liberal proposition
ever made to Fort Worth by any railroad
is that of the Fort Worth and Northwest
ern. A prompt acceptance of it, THE
GAZETTE believes, will result in trains to
the coal fields of Jack county within the
coming twelve-month.