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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
Is Maternity FaiIing9
New Orleans Times-Democrat.


CTS maternity failing?'' is a question
the New York Herald asks, and with
some reason in the North for the birth
rate has been steadily decreas-
ing for years in the New
England and the Middle states as in
| France, until the native population bare
~ holds it own.
Attention has been frequently called to
this before, and to its effect on the popn-
lation of the country The New England
element is actually growing smaller in
New England every year. 1t is
probable that the Puritan stock consti-
tutes a minority of its population to-day :,
while the foreign element mainly Irish
and Canadian French are in the majority:
and as the birth rate of these latter races
is very high their majority, without even
immigration, must continue to grow I'M
til the Puritan stock becomes as rare in
Massachusetts as persons of Spanish de-
scent in Florida.
But if maternity is failing IN New
England and the North generally, this is
not so of the South, and as long as there
are several million Southern women, the
United States need be under no fear of
falling behind ID the race of nations
The comparison between the two sections
is startling, indeed. DR.. Billings Off
cial statistics show that the SIX states
with the highest birth rates are Arkan-
sas, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Alabama (all in the
South) while those with the
lowest birth rates are New
Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island and Vermont (all
in New England There are 1873 g chill
dren born annually to every 1000 women
between fifteen and forty mine in Arkan-
sas, and only II 6 in New Hampshire; in
other words, the birth rate is nearly
three times as great in the Southern as in
the Northern state. Texas and Arkansas
alone, with barely half the population of
New England, contribute more babies
annually to the country-99 1852, against
81 l34 IN the six Northern states
It is the same throughout the South.
OF the total births annually in the
country 7OS .061 are born this side Of the
line and only 500 ll2 in the North and
territories, a large proportion Of the
latter being born Of foreign mothers.
Maternity is not failing, at least not in
this section; and if the Herald wants to
continue its inquiries it should restrict
them to the North The decreasing
birth rate there is rapidly reaching the
extinguishing state, and compares as
follows with other sections and countries:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
III Paso a Center.


The Fort Worth GAZETTE says trunk lines win
win. The Post thinks, so, too. Houston is full
of them Houston Post.
Trunk lines will win. That is why THE GA
zETTE so long ago predicted that San Antonio,
Houston and Fort Worth were to be the three
great cities of Texas.-Fort Worth GAZETTE.
What is the matter with FL Paso?
Houston and Fort Worth appreciate in
fluences of trunk lines and Ell Paso knows
their true value. With the five lines we
have on hand, we will soon be supple
mented by the Rock Island, one; South
ern Kansas, two; Missouri Pacific. three;
Kansas Pacific, four; Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy, five; Denver and Rio
Grande, six; Sonora, Sinaloa and Chi
huahua, seven; FL Paso and Mazatlan,
eight; and three or four others we have
forgotten. Where shall FL Paso be
ranked among the great cities of Texas?
Put US down first, won't you? If not
now say in 1898.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
NEWS IND VOTES.

Over 20 900 900 pairs of suspenders
were made in the United States last year.
The largest peach orchard in California
is near Marysville. 1t contains 425 acres
An orchardist IN Ventura county, Cal. j,
claims that his walnut orchard of twenty
acres nets him $1,000 year, or $500 per
acre.
Gray hair for women is becoming such
such rage in Paris that locks which
until lately would have been dyed a
golden brown are now bleached white.
The Kansas senate has passed unani-
mously bill to restrict the ownership of
real estate in that state to American citi-
zens and those who have Ian fully de-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
UNNATURAL USES or PUBLIc
SYMPATHY.

Messrs. Powell and William Clayton Of
Arkansas, as the brothers of man who
was foully assassinated, have the sym
patty of all good people of all sections.
The public interest demands as strongly
as they can demand that the murderer of
their brother shall be discovered and
punished. It is very questionable, how
ever, whether the sober judgment of the
country win approve of their most re-
markable conduct in seeking to utilize an
occasion when passion would, ordin-
arily, give way to grief to skillfully
excite prejudices, which If were best for
ALL should not be disentombed to sub
serve party interests.
If the Messrs. Clayton should ask for
share of the political spoils in the name
of murdered brother, public disgust
would take the place of sympathy. It is
in but little better taste to send forth to
the American public an ex parte state
ment that virtually credits an assassina-
ton to the governor and congressman
VI OfAhSSiSs ~ ECH l4Cil 50 ASiA 1O4
the proprieties of an occasion like this as
to seek to make personal or party capital
out of the kindliness of the world it be-
comes matter of necessity to weigh their
utterances as the utterances of other
men are weighed. Judged in this
way, the reckless charges of the Claytons
appear to be of the same wool and warp
as the thousands of similar recitals of
Southern outrages which have preceded
this. The public is asked, without other
evidence than bare assertion, to believe
men of reputable character guilty of the
basest of crimes. Partisans may do so.
Those who stop to take the second thought
will not.
The grave should cover, not be used as
an agency to perpetuate filial bitterness.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
JACK THE RIPPER.
six Atroeious Murders Committed in a City Of
Nicaragua-Victims All Womenof
Loose AOrals.

MoNAGNA, NICARAGUA, Feb. either
''Jack the Ripper of White-chapel has
emigrated from the scene of his CHASTITY
murders or he has found one or more i'm
itators in this part of Central America.
The people have been greatly aroused by
six of the most atrociOus murders ever
committed within the limits of this city.
The assassin has vanished and left no
traces for Identification All the women
are victims of the character who met
their fate at the hands
of the London murderer They
were found murdered Just as mysteri-
ously and the evidence points to almost
the identical methods. Two were butch
cred out of all recognition. Even their
faces were most horribly slashed, and in
the cases of all the others their persons
were frightfully disigured. Like ''Jack
the Ripper 8 victims, they were found
in out-of-the-way places. Two of the
victims were possessed of CANDY jeWelry,
and from that it is urged the mysterious
murderer had not committed the crime
for robbery. In fact in almost every de-
tail the crimes are characteristic and
identical with the Whitechapel horrors
Take La-cu-pi-a for your chronic catarrh and
get rid of that offensive breath.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
Dir. and Mrs. Cleveland in New York.

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-President Cleye-
land and Mrs. Cleveland and Col. Dan
Lamont arrived here this morning and
are stopping at the Victoria hotel. It is
supposed Mr.. and Mrs Cleveland have
come to inspect their prospective apart
ments in the GerIack and to arrange for
their decoration. The manager of the
hotel is unable TO state how long his dis
tinguished guests viii remain here.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
A GREAT FAILURE.
The Tie-Up of the New York Surface Roads Re-
suits Disastrously to The Strikers.

suits D1saStrously 10 he Strikers
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-The great tie-up
is over. Some cars are running on
all the surface roads, and
on nearly all of them the
full number are running. Reserve po-
lice are still kept on duty and the patrol
wagons are still in readiness, but the Of i.
ficers have been Withdrawn from most of
the cars. The strikers are pouring back TO
the depOts in search of work. Generally
speaking, the roads are glad to have
their old hands if they come as individu-
ais, but are unanimous in refusing
to employ any man who
comes as representative
of an organization. On all the lines the
men who are given work have to sign a
paper to the effect that they are not and
will not be subject to the order of any
labor organization. The result is there
will not be union car line in New York.
The knights of Labor appear to be fully
conscious of the disastrous defeat they
have sustained.
Charles Walker, the Belt line con-
ductor who yesterday shot and killed
James MCGOWAN, a striker who assaulted
him, was arraigned in court to-day and
held to await the result of the inquest
The president and another officer of the
road were in court and offered to go on
Walker s bond, stating he was justified
in the shooting.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
Fai1ure Of the Window g. -

PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. G.-The window
glass trust has fallen through. The i'm
porters of Belgian window glass will not
join any association of the kind proposed.
One-half Of the window glass now used
IN this country is imported from Belgium.
Another serious objection is that the in
terests OF eastern and western window
glass manufacturers are too conflicting.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

THE collapse of the great street car
strike in New York and Brooklyn is an
other costly lesson for those who have
thought to settle all labor troubles by the
law of force. As civilization progresses
the strike viii go, because it involves loss
to all concerned, and effects, at best, but
4 temporary adjustment of disputes.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

Ey%AR letters or communications for THE
GILLETTE, aghether on business or for
publication, should be addressed to THE
GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT PUBLISH
ING CO., Fort Worth, Tex, and NO7
TO Any LADLVIDUAL.
All communications intended for pabEtca
ton must be accompanied By the e0ritel' 8
name and Gddress-not for palblteattOa---5ut
as an eridence Of good faith.
Parties a1rttfRg 10 THE GAZETTE on
business personal to themselves e1iyI please
incLose stamp fo7, replH.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
A Boom
no3gos Jo.,-D3l

With ''spring Palace'' at Fort
Worth in the summer, and colossal fair
and exposition of the state IS products and
manufactures at Dallas in the fail,
at which all Texas will be
represented, there should be q
boom from Denison to Galveston and
from Jefferson to FL Paso, the like of
which was never seen or experienced in
all the Lone Star states history.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

Mr.. DUDLEY escaped indietme nt by the
Federal grand jury at Indianapolis by a
vote of eleven favoring Indictment and
four against. Twelve are required to in
dict In other words the gap between
Dudley and the penitsntiary was mar
Towed down TO man. The moral diff
ference between the Indiana vote solicitor
and many of the criminals less fortunate
than himself is even smaller than that.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

IT Is possible that the attorney general
Of Ohio may bring suit for the revoca-
ton Of the charter of the Standard oil
company, Its basis would doubtless be
an alleged combination against the inter-
ests of commerce, which under the COM
mon law is indictable. The public has
heard Of a great many attacks upon the
Standard oil monopoly, but their COM
mon fate has been to 20 up in smoke.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

MINISTER PHELPS is on the deep blue
sea with his face toward his native land
The Salisbury snub having been met by
the Bayard snub, diplomatic relations
between England and her saucy daughter
will not be fully re-established until the
Harrison administration is installed. If
Mr.. Reid of the New York Tribune wants
Mr.. Phelps place it is probable that he
will get il.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

THERE is some talk of Evarts as a COM
promise New York man for Harrison s
cabinet. The suggestion may be induced
by the desire to limit Mr.. Blaine's say in
the councils of the new administration.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
Sewer Pine Trusts.

PrTTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 6.-Nineteen OF
the largest sewer pipe firms IN the United
States have formed a combination at
WeIlsville, Ohio, after weeks of effort.
Nine factions will remain out, bHt the
organization hopes to have them in be-
fore long
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
Prouaest and Most Enterprising.

Fort Worth raised $40, 900 last week
for another railroad TO be built-the
Observation-Disclosures win give them their
thirteenth outlet. Hurrah for the Fort,
the proudest and most enterprising city
in the United States
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

THE Universal peace society of America
has appointed Belva Lockwood delegate
TO the Paris exposition. II is an even
wager that Mr.. Lockwood is a member of
the Peace society.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
THE POEM oF SWEETNESS.
Chicago Herald.

Editor of the Herald notice that
''Trauts' asks the name of the author
of the poem beginning:
''You kissed me;
My head dropped low on your breast.''
Miss Josephine S. Hunt is the author,
and the title of the poem is g You Kissed
Me- - H l.. BURGESS
Editor of the Herald-The poem 6. You
Kissed Me- was written in 1867 by q
young lady under twenty years of age.
James Redpath, the historian, thought
so much of the poem that he had an
edition printed on white satin. John G i.
Whittier, the Quaker poet, wrote of it
and its young author that she had truly
mastered the secret of English verse.
This is the way 1 have it. 1t is pasted in
my scrap book, so l copied the words for
the Herald. RS.
''You kissed mel My head
Dropped low on your breast
With feeling of shelter
And infinite rest,
While the holy emotions
Ny tongue dared not speak
Flashed up in fame
From my heart to my cheek.
Your arms held me fast;
Oh your arms were so bold;
Heart beat against heart
In their passionate fold.
Your chances seemed drawing
My soul through my eyes
As the sun draws the mist
From the sea to the skies.
Your lips chung to mine
Till prayed In my bliss
They might never unclasp
From the rapturouS kiss.
You kissed me! My heart
And my breath and my viii
In deliTious joy
For a moment stood still.
Life had for me then
No temptations, no charms
No visions of happiness
Outside of your arms.
AMI were this instant
An angel possessed
OF the peace and (the) Joy
That art given the blest
would fling my white robes
Unrepiningly down;
would tear from my forehead
Its beautiful crown
To nestle once more
In that haven of rest
Your lips upon mine,
My head on your breast
You kissed me! My soul
In bliss so divine
Reeled and Swooned like drunken man
Foolish with wine
And thought 'tweTe delicious
To die there, if death
Would outcome while my lips
We're yet moist with your breath;
If might grow cold
While your arms clasped me round
In their passionate fold.
And these are the questions
l ask day and night:
Must lips taste no more
Such equisite delight?
Would you care if your breast
Were my shelter as then,
And if you were here
Would you kiss me again?''
Editor of the Herald-''A Poem of
Sweetness, - inquired for by 'sTrauts,
can be found in full in Stolen Waters -
page So, by Celia E. Gardner
CROPSEY.
Editor of the Herald beg leave to
give your correspondent, ''Trauts, -
some information regarding the poem
{ You Kissed Me, - as desired by him in
the Herald. have the Brooklyn Maya
zine.of March, 1885, and in it 1 find the
poem and the following mention: ''The
poem was written by young lady of
nineteen. It was addressed to a young
gentleman friend of the author, the hero
of the occasion portrayed. Whittier
wrote of the poem and its young author
as one of the most beautiful poems ne
had ever read, and that its author had
truly mastered the secret of the English
verse. V.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

PENNSYLVANIA is in the throes of a pro-
hibltion campaign. We have seen what
a state with 100 600 Democratic majority
did for prohibition, it VIII be interesting
TO rote its fate III the Republican Glib
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
BRANCH OFFICES.


DALLAS.
G.. N. BAILEY. Correspondent and General
Agent. 725 Main Street.
r, GUNNER, Calculator ana Subscription
Agent, 6l2 Elm street, where the paper can al
ways be found on sale, and where orders Tor Dali
Las city delivery can be left.
WACO.
JOHN NJ CoNNoR, Agent and Correspondent.
WEATHERFORD.
H B. DORSEY, Agent and Correspondent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
CLEANED OUT BY THE WOMEN.
Crusade on Saloon and Gambling House In
Nebraska.

NeDraska.
LINCOLN, NEB., Feb. 6.-word has
been received from Prosser, Adams
county, that a band of fifty prominent
ladies of that county made a crusade on
a saloon and gambling house at that
place Monday night, demoIishing the en-
tire establishment. The ladies attacked
the building when it was crowded with
their aprons full of Jumps Of coal, break
ing every window glass and cleaning out
the establishment. The inmates scattered
in every direction, some of the Ioungers
being husbands OF the women Whisky
and beer flowed freeTy into the gutter.
The place has had a hard reputation for
selling liquor without license.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

Mr.. KENNA 5 race for senator in West
Virginia is similar to the last contest of
of Mr.. Logan for reelection. That it
may terminate as successfully is the
hearty prayer of the Democracy of the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

something there for an article 1 IN going
to send down about the Emperor William
and his wife. l guess that old cut we
run few weeks ago of Coquelin and
Jane Hading viii do. -
"All right. sir; Hading and Coquelin
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

PoPE LEO XIII is in delicate health,
and his death may be expected at any
moment. Unless his successor should
prove TO be as moderate and conservative
as himself it is not improbable that he
may be the last of the popes to end a
churchly reign in Rome.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
To Show Them on.
Cnmanchie Chiaf

Fort Worth people are wide awake
agitating the subject of having Texas
Spring Palace. - It's design is to show
off the numerous products of our great
state
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

Mrs. HARRISON is anti and Mrs. Nor
ton pro-decollette. Thus do signs of
violent dissension in the new administra-
ton begin to multiply already.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
On to Eagle Pass.
Eagle Pass Guide

The Fort Worth GAZETTE says: On to
Kerrville.
And what on earth viii you do when
you get there2 On TO Eagle Pass, with
its coal fields and Mexican trade. you
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

THE G. o. p begins to look a little
more natural with the same old CORY gar
ment for an ensign.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

ILLINOIS is talking of adopting the
electrical railway for the shipment of
murderers to the Great Beyond
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

Get Maddox s. EllisOn's prices on fur
niture before you buy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

Take La-cu-pi-a for your chronic catarrh and
get rid of that offensive breath.
All druggists keep Pe-ru-na, the great blood
purifier. The demand for it compels them to.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
HOrsford's Acid Phosphate

For Impaired Vitality
and weakened energy, is wonderfully successful.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

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SPOFFORD, Correspondent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

Editor of the Herald notice that
''Trauts'' asks the name of the author
of the poem beginning:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-26
SEVENTIBTH BIRTHDAY
OF the Independent Order Of
Odd Fellows To-day
HOW 1T WILL BE OBSERVED.
\ Street Parade, Secret Meeting,
Banquet and Entertainments
The Arrangements Complete
and Prospects Bright,

The Odd Fellows OF Wheeling, assist
ed by those of Bellaire, Martins Ferry,
Benwood and Tria6elphia, will celebrate
the foundation OF their order this after
noon and evening. The features OF the
celebration will be a street parade, n
meeting for the exemplihcation Of team
work, banquet and an entertainment.
The parade will take place at . o'clock
p. IN, Capt, Henry Seamon has been
chosen Chief Marshal, and has named
as assistants, Messrs. Godfry Schul, l..
Hoffman, G, II, Copp, Reyman Bauer,
l.. Garlic, NJ, b, Horkheimer and John
Bachelor,
The procession will form at Odd Fell
lows hall, on Chapline street, right
resting on Twelfth, and move down
Twelfth to Market, on Market to Ninth,
to Main, on Main to Twenty-third, to
Chapline, to Twentieth, to Market, on
Market to Twelfth, and thence to the
hall and disband,
The BelIaire brass band will head the
procession, followed by the Bellaire
lodge, Martins Ferry lodge and Tria'
delphia lodge; the Etnayille band, fol.
lowed by Excelsior lodge No. 40, Pamela
lodge No. IL, Wheeling lodge No. .,
Franklin lodge No. 3, and Nirginius
No. 9.
The Marshals will meet at 0. 0. +.
hall mt | o'clock, The members will
meet at 80, and the parade will move
at promptly,
After the paradethe Bellaire team will
confer the three degrees on candidate,
At 7 o'clock banquet will be given
to the members, their families and in.
vitcd guests, in the old court house,
The court rooms were yesterday fitted
up in elegant shape for this purpose,
Following the banquet, the visitors will
be entertained in the Odd Fellows hall
with a fine musical and literary pro.
gramme.