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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

oil is made, and cotton; the imports ere
general merchandise and provisions, and
some lumber from California and Ore
gon.
The chief Importance of this Island,
however, as far as the United States is
concerned, is derived from its position
and the future relations with the growing
American commerce on the Pacific ocean
The whole trouble with Germany may
be gwen in nut shell: Germany wants
the island for co.onlzatiOn as well as COM
mercial purposes. and, to insure her pre-
dominance, has taken active part in the
war raging between the two great native
factions. This has involved her in such
straits that, in desperation with design
beneath it, she has infringed the neutral
rights of United States citizens, and
grossly insulted the American flag.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
$2536 90
2.S28 50

To summarize: The settler pays, as
principal, on such a purchase $3.50, in
interest SI256. Total actual outlay
S2536. If the state is entitled to per
cent. interest, money is certainly worth
that much to him. Reckoning interest
section of land which he supposed he
was buying for $3.50 costs him in
the end S5364 so, or over four times its
estimated value at the time of the pur-
chase. This sum, S5364 80, represents
precisely the amount of the original in
vestment in section of school land
bought at the minimum price and paid
for in forty years. Nearly One-half
of it comes out of the set
TIERS pocket. The other half
is a smaller sum than can be accumulated
by loaning the amount of the annual
payments instead of investing the money
in the development of Texas.
There are comparatively few farmers
in Texas, whose farms are fully de-
veIoped that could out of their
earnings contribute to the state of Texas
from year to year the amount of the an
nual installments of interest and princi-
pal required of the school land settlers.
1t will be observed that beginning
with S94 40, with the first pay
ment of interest, the aggregate
amount of the payments decreased grad
ually to S33 so, averaging S63 40. The
hardest feature of the matter is that for
the first five years the annual payments
fall but little below 500 each.
1t is susceptible of proof that
the average annual clearances of
the farmers of the so-called ag-
riculturaI belt of Texas falls much
below the sum that the actual settlers
upon the wild and untr1ed lands of the
west is expected to save above the or
binary expenses of maintenance. He
has the varied and burdensome expendi-
lures of development to bear; their dis
bursements upon their farms are limited
mainly to repairs.
The school-land policy of Texas is
failure; and, as it stands, will continue
to be failure, because it requires the
impossible
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

AN INDIANA minister who received an
Governor Hovey replied with a quotation
from Daniel iii, Is: "Be it known unto
thee, o king, that we will not serve thy
gods, nor worship the golden image
which thou hast set up" 1t is some
consolation to know that the Republican
gods have not yet been introduced into
the household of faith, but there is too
much reason, alas! to fear that the be-
levers are in minority of some five or
six thousand in Indiana.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

THE GAZETTE has received sample
copy of The Stroud, the "oficial organ
of the Funeral Directors association of
THE GAZETTE doesn It wish to subscribe
or even exchange. - The GAZETTE is
live paper and is printed for people
who now live on the earth, and takes no
interest in The Stroud IS questions:
''How many undertakers die young?"
and 'fWhen will an undertaken be elected
president of the United states?''
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

THE Itasca AIliance-Mail has faith in
the Texas Spring Palace project. That
paper says: EFFORT Worth is to have a
Spring Palace in which every character
of products will be exhibited. Space
win be allowed counties and towns to
make exhibits. Nothing has ever been
proposed in that live city that has met
with more favor among the people.
Fort Worth's railroad advantages are
unsurpassed in the state. No city in the
country has more enterprise than the
Fort, and the success of the great move
ment is assured from the beginning.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
THE DECISIONS or TIE LAND


The land policy Of Texas is declared by
its defenders TO be liberal enough to the
actual settler because it gives him forty
years time in which to paw for his home
and charges him but per cent. interest
on the deferred payments. Few of these
apologists stop to consider what the set
tier really pays and the state receives
under such a contract. The table below
shows the amount of the several annual
payments of principal and interest on a
purchase of one section of GAO acres at
the minimum price of 81, and the inter-
est value of such payments at per cent.
at the time the purchaser is entitled to
receive patent to the land;
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
MINNEAPOLIS Tribune.

The United States has territory enough
on this continent and its ap-
pendices, but if we propose to get our
fair share of the commerce of the world &,
we must be III position to control the
leading ocean routes. The control of the
entrances to the guls and Caribbean sea
naturally belong to us, and we cannot
permit the principal routes of the Pacific
to be placed at the mercy of European
powers. When our government realizes
the approaching revolution in the mari
time commerce of the worle we may hope
for the adoption of q broader, more far
sighted and aggressive foreign policy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
ArbOr Day.
AurtiD Sta%as,nau

A petition has been introduced in the
senate asking that Washington IS birth
Dor Day. for Texas. The move is a
good one. Texas, and especially Cen
trial, Western and Southern Texas, needs
trees, and needs them badly With 4
generally observed Arbor Day all over
the state, observed conscientiousiy each
year, much could be done to remedy this
noted defect, from which emanates lack
of moisture, rain, shade and climatic
comforts dependent upon the existence of
plentiful shade trees and forests. An
:, Arbor Day is a Texas desideratum.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
. 4 LTVELY EILlLlEER

The extension of the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande railway to the Southwest will
be equivalent to building another rail-
road in its effect on Fort Worth's trade
and progress. A busy summer is prom
ised to this city in the extension of the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande, in the con-
struction of the Fort Worth and North
western, in the operation of big Union
stock yards and in the state exhibits of
its products through a grand Spring
Palace.
If to all these, Fort Worth could add
the construction of that road to the
northeast the coming summer would in
deed be lively season in this city's on
ward march
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Columbus Dispatch .

1t has become customary to speak
Of the Island of Samoa. There is
no such island. There is, however,
the Samoan group of islands, in
Guiding nine inhabited islands and five
uninhabited islets. They are also called
the Navigators islands, and are situated
in the South Pacific, in the great Poly
nesian aggregation, and lie on the direct
steamship route between San Francisco
and Australia.
The island which is the scene of the
present trouble With the Germans, and
which is 50 commonly called Samoa, is
Upolu, the most important island of the
group. It's principal town is Apia, on the
north side. Apia has magnificent har-
Dor, sheltered by breakwater. The en-
tire population of the island is probably
Is 900 or 20, 900; that of Apia is perhaps
400 or 500. Apia is the official residence
of the European and American consuls
The climate of the island is equable, the
soil very rich. The chief exports are the
dried meat Of the eocoanut. from which
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
ARoUr ZEN IND WoMEM:

Howard Meyer, son of a New Bruins
wick millionaire, is the richest patient in
the Bloomingdale lunatic asylum. He
has an income OF $40, 900 year.
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich islands
has reduced his army to brass band of
sixty-five pieces. Such force might be
instrumental in repelling an enemy.
William Johnson, aged twenty five,
died near PIummer's Landing, Ky, on
the 2Ist inst, under rather peculiar cir
eumstances. He had taken deep cold,
and. thinking be had consumption. he
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

1.-THE scheme OF having Texas Spring
Palace at Fort Worth next June to ex-
hibit the production of the state, says
the Bolton Reporter, lis meeting ap-
prevail from all portions of the state. This
enterprise would attract visitors from 9TH
er states, and would do more to advertise
Texas and her wonderful resources than
any plan heretofore devised to make
known to the world her greatness.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

THE Nebraska legislature is consider
ing the question of submitting prohibit
ory amendment TO the people and with it
a compromise measure that would have
the people of each county to vote on
license every two years. Prohibition
win be an issue in several states this
ranr
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

THE Chicago Herald reviews a Chicago
citizen after the fashion of the Arizona
Kicker. ''The malicious old liar and
blackguard, - "this miserable old
wretch, - this contemplate old liar, -
''this pitiful old bulldozer, - "a con-
scienceless slanderer, and an irresponsi-
bic libeler, signify breeze, but then
CHICAGO always was a breezy place.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Samoa and War.

The question before the country is not
just now how naval preparations can be
made, but whether we are to set to work
to make them. If it should prove to be
necessary to yindicate our flag by force
of arms, we will find the means of doing
it with miraculous rapidity and thor
oughness that will astonish not only the
phlegmatical and systematic Germans :,
but all the world and the rest of man
kind -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

WHILE the young emperor of Germany
is Commanding his empire America should
Americanize America, and teach English
only in its public schools and print its
public documents in English only Be-
tween its cemplaceucy and demagogism
this country has fallen into the habit of
pandering 10 un-American influences
and the time has come to set about Amer
icanizing America.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

THE maidens of Utica have entered into
a compact to let no man pass by them at
the theater between acts who is going out
after drink. The question is, how are
those fair reformers to determine the
innocence or iniquity of man s intent
when he sidles toward the theater en-
trance?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Columbus fohiol Journal.

And would this make war? Fudge and
nonsense! The idea that Germany, with
France on one side ready to spring at her
throat, and Russia on the other ready to
stab her in the back, would care to en-
broil herself in war with the United
States for the sake of backing up what
she and all the world knows was an ut
terly understandable Outrage, is too
absurd to be entertained for moment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

TIE farmers Of Texas will understand,
if the politicians cannot, why it is that
She actual settler upon school lands must
inevitably fail in the attempt to contribute
nearly 800 year to the Golfers of the
state out of his surplus earnings.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

No sIIRIvELED localism 4" controls the
Dallas News. That paper knew
its readers were not interested
in knowing that Fort Worth
had raised the bonus TO secure the
building of the Fort Worth and North
western railroad-henee its oppressive
silence on the subject yesterday morn
ing. "Shriveled localisml'' Oh, no,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

IN SOLICITING settlement of the school
lands under the present sales system the
state simply repeats the episode of the
spider and the fly. It deludes the settler
with the idea that he is getting a cheap
home, and after his labor and money are
secured dispels the delusion by confis-
eating his property.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

If THE Texas Spring Palace is opened
outside viii look upon the products of
Texas and gather faint idea of the pos
sibilities of the state during that month.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

indeed! The CD. News fayors fan
even symmetrical development of
Texas towns, always provided they do
no develop into rivalry with that papers
domicjle
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

A NEWSPAPER, the columns of which are the
avenues of honest opinion, is society's strongest
bulwark.-I Memphis Appeal.
And society should protect its bulwark
from shysters and adventures.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Fiye years in the Fen.

CINCINNATI, ONO, Jan. 24.-CriminaI
Bailiff Joseph Moses viii tomorrow take
Charles Tinker, the young forger, to the
Ohio penitentiary at Columbus TO serve q
term Of 1--WE years.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

Miss RosE, CLEVELAND is said to be
writing political novel. 1t is suspected
that she cherishes an ambition TO become
the Gail Hamilton of the Democratic par
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

VI. CoQUILM declares that he cannot
stand the rarified air of Mexico. Ameri-
can ministers and French actors seem to
have one weakness in common.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
rarors onening OIzlnhorna,

TOPEKA, KAN, Jan. 24--Tne house
to-day passed the senate resolution favor
ing the opening of Oklahoma for settle
ment
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

TIE Texas Spring Palace will prove to
be a splendid investment for Fort Worth
ana the state.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

The Finest Razors ia the Eress
At Anderson s gun store.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
OK TO Kerrville .
On TO Mckinney .

Ok TO the northwest.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-15
NOTEWORTHY NAMES.

The Due d'Aumale's health is
alarmingly poor.
The Prince of Wales intends to
make tour of Egypt.
Jules Verne is said to be trying
his hand on a dramatic production"
David Christie Murray has been
enthusiastically received in Austria
liza.
Buffalo Bill has received tempting
offers to take his show to st. Peters
burg.
"Ben Hur" has been translated re-
Gently into Dutch, as has also John
Ward, Preacher"
The uncollected writings of De
Quincy are soon to be brought to.
gether in book form.
1t is said Senator Sherman has
adopted Emerson's rule ofnot reading
books until they are year old.
The attempt to popularize George
Eliot's works in France has failed,
her novels remaining on the publish
er's hands.
Stepniak has written novel. 1t is
called 1.-THE Career of Nihilist" and
deals with modern revolutionary Rus
STA.
Miss Braddon's new novel, 1.-The
Day Will Come" will be issued in
London in book form this week. 1t is
her fifty-first novel.
The richest heiress in Mexico is
Senorita ISABEL Echequeren, her
father having fortune of 10000, 900,
of which she will inherit one-tnird.
Mr.. Joseph Wharton has given
S25, 900 more to the Wharton school of
the University of Pennsylvania, the
interest of it to be used for the pur-
chase of books,
The third and fourth volumes OF
the biography of William Lloyd Gar
rison written by his children, and
which completes the work, are about
ready for publication.
Mrs. Cleveland, who has a robust
weakness for antique furniture, is said
to have acquired a great deal of ele-
| CANT old mahogany lately for the dec
Grafton of the eX-president's new
! home.
The late Wilkie Collins was a vic.
tim Of the opium habit, and his friend
Edmund Yates, says, took more pure
laudanum than would have sufticed
to Kill ships crew or a company Of
soldiers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-15
PAT TENTS

Caveats and Reissues secured, Trade Mark
registered, and all other patent causes in the
Patent Office and before the Courts promptly
and carefully prosecuted.
Upon receipt of model or sketch of inven.
tion, make careful examination, and advise
as to patentability free of charge.
With my Offices directly across from
the Patent Office, and being in personal at.
tendance there, it is apparent that have su.
perior facilities for making prompt prelib.i.
nary searches, for the more vigorous and sue.
cessful prosecution of applications for patent
and for attending to all business entrusted To
my care, in the shortest possible time
Fees Moderate, and exclusive attention
given to patent business. Information, az
vice and special references sent on reques
j. X. LITTELL,
Solicitor and Attorney in Patent Causes
Washington, d. c.
Mention this paper. Op's'te U. S. Pint Off
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-15
Ripe California Wines.

FL Meyer returned from California on the
18th inst where he laid in his annually sup
ply of California wines. He has received four
carloads since his return. and had on hand
about 5000 gallons of his old stock. His
stock includes for California-White Wine,
Zinfandel, Riesling, Gutedel, Berger, Port,
Sherry, Angelica. Muscatel, Malaga, Madeira
and Grape Brandy. These wines are three
years old and run from SI00 per gallon up
His imported wines are Stenberg, Rauentha-
Ter, Gursenheimer and French Claret of the
vintages of 1862, 1865, 1868. The old reliable
wine merchants can hangs out at IS Alamo
plaza, and all wines will be found as repre-
scented. t|I-lm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-15
Dwyer Bros,
Law and Land Office, and Live
Stock Exchange.
Dwyer Building. San Antonio

$500 to $780, Aad M0 RHrEiHr f ssp u BE-
Agents preferred who can furnish horse
and give their whole time to the business.
Spare moments may be profitably employed
also. A few vacancies in towns and cities.
B. F. JOHNSON & CO.. 1909 Main St., Rich.
mond, Va.
N. R.-Please state age and business expe.
Renee. Never mind about sending stamp foI
foply B +. J. & Co. 4-40-6n
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-15
BOOTY.

over 1000 tons of raisins have al
ready been shipped east from Fresno,
Cal.
A Pennsylvania exchange speaks
of the organization of a "vocal singing
class"
Mrs. Grundy says that big hats and
| tIny bonnets are to be the rule III
fashionable headgear.
| An eagle that measured eight feet
| with its wings spread out was shot
the other day at Rutledge, Ga.
A Toledo manufacturer exhibited at
the Detroit exposition cake of silver
soap weighing S94 pounds.
An order for the purchase of $4,000
| horses for the imperial cavalry is said
to have been given lately at st. Peters
burg.
At Bethel, Me-, last week large
bear attacked a COW, but the latter
fought with all her might and main,
and finally drove bruin OIL.
Most of the canary birds in America
are imported from Germany. In Ham,
burg there are several large concerns
that do nothing but raise canaries for
export.
An obituary in Georgia contempt
rary closes with this sentence: "Mr.
F., though disslpated, was an hon
est man and we'll thought of in his
neighborhood."
1t has been demonstrated that the
arsenites are effective against the cod
ling moth, that in their use there Is
no danger to the fruit of the tree upon
which they are used.
Good news for the bald and gray
heads comes from Indianapolis. The
water from a new artesian well there
abouts produces new crops Of hair
and turns gray boards black.
1t is said that at dinner Of GER
tain martial body in suburb of Bos-
ton this startling toast was proposed
Here's to the -compa ny: Git
zens in war, soldiers at home"
The largest sailing ship in the
world, the Palgrave, left Sandy Hook
recently for Java with a cargo of
1872, 900 cases of refined petroleum or
about about 100000 gallons. 1t is
the largest cargo ever exported in
any one vessel,
At the recent sale of seats for the
symphony concerts in Boston, a line |
was formed in front of the box-otfice |
hundred hours before the sale be-
gan, end seats which ought to have
sold for $3.50 readily brought as
much as sos.
The annual cost per man in some of
the armies of Europe is: e64 in Great
Britain, &52 in Austro-Hungary, G46 |
in Germany, G22.16 in Russia. Swift
zerland comes at the bottom of the |
list, with an annual cost of e. per
man.
Members of the Iowa tribe of Indi- |
ans are very we'll off. They have been |
reduced in numbers to eighty-three
persons, and have 200, 900 acres of rich
farming land, which they are to sell
to the goyernment-an average of
over 2, 400 acres each.
The First Unitarian church, of
Quincy, Mass, celebrated its 250th |
anniversary last Sunday. John Han
cock, father of the signer of the Declar-
alton of Independence, was ordained
as it's pastor in 1926, and preached |
there for eighteen years.