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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
TEXAS IN TYPE.

Land in Clay county is advancing at g
rapid rate.
The contract has been let for new
brick bank building at Cooper.
The Sulphur springs Vindicator reports
acres of cotton in bloom in the vicinity
Camp meeting on the South Bosque
near Goshen, viii open on Friday night
before the third Sunday in July.
The farmers in Fisher county claim
that they will have wheat and corn to
sell. The crops are unusually fine.
The people of Santa Anna, Coleman
county, are making strenuous exertlons
to have the Baptist college located there.
Cattle and other stock in ShackelIord
county are said to be in excellent condi-
ton, and large shipments north are be-
ing made.
Cotton stalks three feet long and bear
ing twenty-five and thirty bolls have
been sent from Delta county to the Ban
ner office, Cooper.
The Wallace county watermelon asso-
citation has over three hundred acres in
cultivation, and have been shipping wa
termelons from Hampstead since the 10th
of June.
On Thursday June %, there was an
aeaaetien Of officers and directors for the
Flrsts national bank at McGregor A
charter will be fled ut once, and suit
ablebuilding arranged for
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
AN INTERESTING LETTER

Ed. Monitor-Replying to your recent
letter in which you ask for my experience
in the use of what is known as the cotton
lamp used for the destruction of the fly
or miller which produces the leaf and
boil worms so destructive to cotton, 1
have this to say: I am of the opinion
that If the lamps were used as they
should be the cotton crop would be fully
protected from the boil worm, as well as
from the leaf worm or caterpillar I
think the lamp ought to be put out about
June l and continued at intervals as long
as the fly can be seen coming to the
lamp. l think it necessary to keep
it out only on dark nights, as
the fly does not seem to notice the
light much when the moon is shining
brightly 1 have heard farmers object
TO the plan upon the ground that it
would not prove effectual for one farmer
unless all neighborS adopted il also
That5is q mistaken idea as has been
fully1demonstrated in the last crop. Mr..
Martin Lehin, who has little farm adj
joining mine, Gust fence between us)
had about five acres of cotton on which
he burned a lamp during the dark nights
IN July; he made two and half bales
of cotton on the five acres and / made
stalks, but he made the cotton. The
stalks on my place were much larger
than his. Mr.. Lehin says that he is
Satisfied, and so am L, that if he had
commenced sooner and burned the
lamps later his cotton would have been
much better. A lamp that will hold
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

three half pints of oil viii burn all
night with half-inch tube for a wick.
by opinion that if only one farmer burns
lamps he will only have TO use them lit
tie longer than if all used them in order
to fully protect his crop. think our
people are fully determined TO try the
experiment, as they have everything to
gain and nothing TO lose. l think one
lamp to four or FIVE acres would be suffl-
Client, commencing the first of June and
continuing to the last of August, burning
two weeks in each month. This would
be fair test and would not cost exceed
ing thirty-five or forty cents per acre. l
remain yours truly, d. I. LIPsCoMB.
QUIT3IAN, TEX.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

EVERYBODY 5 business is nobody's bus
ness. Fort Worth should organize for
the work it has to do, and pay some
man to give time and attention to the
promotion of projects for the good of
the city. Individuals have interest in
the town in proportion to their possess
sions, and the demand is upon one no
more than upon another to give his time
and thought and labor for the common
benefit. Fort Worth has great need 10
work at this time, and to work ener-
geticany and intelllgently and persist
ently-but everybody's business is
nobodzis business.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
THE COTTON WORM.

We have elsewhere taken occasion to
mention the fact that moths have already
appeared TO threaten the cotton crop of
our county. Specimens of the larva of
this insect were exhibited in the Gazette
News office yesterday by Mr.. J . A. Tip
petit of CAROLS Prairie. 1t goes through
a rapid metamorphosis from the egg to
the perfect butterfly. The little worm
that matches from the egg burrows in the
tender squares of the cotton, and after
making several mouths it is large worm
an inch and a half long and strong
enough to cut into the grown bolls. The
insects remain in the larva state about
sixteen days, and then go into the
purpa state, shortly bursting forth
as moth. These worms are
now found in the corn, and thousands of
the moths may be seen flying among the
young plants at night. When the cotton
has sufficient growth they will have in
creased and multiplied in the corn fields
until they VIII invade the cotton fields
with the strength of devastating army.
Mr.. Tippett urges the farmers to take
action at once. A tin lamp set in a pan.
the bottom of which is covered with mo-
lasses or soapsuds, will catch hundreds of
the moths if left out over night. Each
moth is capable of laying 5000 or 5000
eggs, which will hatch as many worms.
1t is the opinion of Mr.. Tippett that one
lamp is sufficient for four acres of cotton
land .-CSulphur Springs Gazette-News.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

sswhss BaDy was siclqs gave her castoria.
WI she W. q Chjsfsshe cried for CastoEe
~ ssses0esazls ssss siiil to sstoria.
When she bad Childreng She gave thenS tsstoris.
Look Before You Drink.

The shocking mistake made by Read
ing woman who swallowed crystallized
white vitriol under the impression that il
was a dose of epson salts has many
parallels. Hardly a week passes that
the newspapers do not chronicle some
blnnder of the kind, and yet people con-
tinue to do the very thing they know by
the experience of others TO be fatally
dangerous. To take medicine without
looking at the label on the bot
tie, or to drink from a bottle
or glass in dark room, is
like trifIng with death, and while some
are fortunate enough to avoid fatal er-
rori many become victims of their own
heedlessness. Unfortunately the suffer-
eFs fail to serve as a warning to their
careless fellow creatures. Like the
woman who continues to kindle her fire
with kerosene because nothing has yet
happened to her, the people who swal-
low supposed medicine blindly will not
be frightened by accidents to others, be-
cause they have never had anything hap
pen to them, and have an idea that es-
cape from the perils of the past furnishes
immunity from the dangers of the pres
ent
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
COTTON WORMS


A Rams county farmer had 150 acres
of sandy land in cotton last year. He
put oil lights IN his field at night and
made 40 bales of cotton. A neighbor
with about the same acreage had no
lamps and made seven bales. l think
every paper in the state should publish
this fact and comment on it. Lamps
cost about thirty-five cents and Will burn
about two cents worth of oil a night.
The following from the Paris News viii
be of interest IN this connection: The
BeckneiI Prairie agricultural society, or
ganIZed to protect our crops against the
ravages of the cotton worm and TO dis
cuss all matters pertaining to horticul-
ture and to the improvement of stock,
now boasts of g membership OF about
fifty of our best farmers All who have
put out lights report that they are de-
stroying the parsley worm millers by the
thousands Those that sting the young
squares are the most easily caught, and L
feel assured that have caught the most
of those on my cotton land. We are
catching some boil worm millers, and a
peep into our pans would lead one to be-
lieve that the whole miller family had
given up the ghost and yielded to the
Becknell prairie society. The present
indications are that we viii be able TO put
out lights on three-fourths of the prairie.
Observation convinces me that the mil Ter
does not fly a great distance from where
it is Matched unless carried by wind7and ,.
when once destroyed on a certain%5ield ),
the field is not much in dangFr form
neighboring lands. We are puskin s. one
light to five acres and regard tie expsEa4
ment, so far, as a success. - j ohm
Martin in Dallas News
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
UNDER WATER.
The Heaviest Rainfall for Years Visits Waco
and Does Much Damage.


and Does Much Damage.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, July 1.-The heaviest
and largest quantity of rain that has
visited co in years struck the city this
morning and fell for several hours in
torrents. Waco creek in the western
part of the city, was overhowed ana
caused the Abandonment, of houses along
its banks. Employees of the Stayden-
Kerksey wooden mills, living adjacent to
the mills, were forced to leave their
work so as to save their property. WoEk
was suspended at the mills for the 90
and the damage to that concern va
amount TO $500 or 5000. The cause 0s
this overflow Is partly attributed TO tff
failure offs the Missouri, Kansas aua
Texas and the Cotton Belt railroads q
properly grade and culvert their road :
bed. In the southern yart of the city ]
following the direction of the creek. Wa
ter is standing in large bodies several feet
deep Prominent attorneys here are
endeavoring to work up damage suits.
Cattle owners will suffer loss by this
ram, as in several instances stock were
Sk He'd
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

EX-MNIsTER PHELPS recently made a
speech in which he furnished some aphor-
isms for future public men. Among
other tn nSs he said: THAT the contests
of par must continue is inevitable.
Thy are the curse of free government,
but are part Of the price Of it, And
again: 1.-THE time has come when, as it
appears to me, we need to have estab-
lished a distinctive, definite, wise, firm
and, above all, a consistent American
policy in international relations.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

WHAT with lotteries and prize fights
the people of New Orleans must have a
hard time of it to be moral Jaw abiding,
very cheap in the Crescent City and its
value is not likely TO be appreciated as
long as its people are educated to depend
ion lotteries for money and on prize fights
for amnsen ents
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

FROM MR.. j d. CROMWELL OF AMBIA Z.
l have been trying lamps; 1 have 160
acres and am using 100 lamps. / find
them to be a success in catching the
''millers'' which deposit the egg produce
ing the web and boil worms. l have
been burning lamps now nearly four
weeks; they cost me 1921 cents each. I
also bought sixty-five gallons of oil, at
l6 cents per gallon 1t takes one gill of
oil to burn all night, but one-half gill
will burn till y o'clock, and that is,
think long enough. The lamps should
be lit by sun down; use about one table,
spoonful of oil in the pan, it will aid
greatly in holding the miller. l have
averaged 800 or 400 insects to each lamp,
not all, however, millers.
If find that the lamps have not de-
stroyed all the millers, and am bothered
by worms, shall use Paris green or
London purple on them. We are COM
PEELED to make q crop, or our merchants
and ourselves will all be broke.
have bought for our neighborhood
over 800 lamps.
Men who laughed at it at first, and
said they would not have them, are now
burning them right along.
Lamps which burn only till II seem to
catch as many as those which burn all
night.
Mr. David Tucker lit his first lamp at
the house, and when he reached his cot
ton he had fifteen millers caught, and
got 600 that night.
l shall keep my lamps burning as long
as they catch the millers, III it takes all
the summer. -
I lost $4,000 last year on the worms and
propose to fight them this year ID. D.
Conwill in Paris News
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

1t is, however, becoming question: and
a grave one, in the State, whether these
high schools are not a violation OF the
spirit and purpose found il the statutes,
which were intended to establish what
we understand by the words a "a COM
mon-school system. -
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

THE papers who viii denounce the peo-
pie of the state of Louisiana as brutal if
Sullivan and Kilrain are allowed to fight
there are making themselves very ridicu-
lous by making fun of Governor Nichols
determination not to allow the fight to
take place in that state.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

THE nigh school enrolment in this city
shows SO per cent. of the boys and 80
per cent. of the girls to be north of the
reservation. In all the schools SO per
cent. of the white children live north Of
the reservation. These figures are OBJ
tanned from one who knows.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
Church Divorces No Good.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July Judge Col
Inns, in the circuit court to-day, decided
that divorces in the Jewish church are
null, and on the strength of the decision
ordered that Joseph Berzofsky should
pay Esther Berzofsky 81 per wsek ali
mony and So solicitors fees The hus-
band had secured church divorce and
was seeking for confirmation of it in the
circuit court. In doing so he set up the
fact of the church divorce against any
sglaim for compensation by his wife.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

FoRT WORTH is drawing in the people
Men like TO live IN city of pluck and
enterprise. A town that spends cool
500, 900 on an ex hibit to advertise and
benefit the state is likely to attract pop
ulation, and Fort Worth is gathering
them III.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

CAPT MACARTHUR of the Thirteenth in
fantry has been made major. Near
thur is the man who, as commandant ar
Guthrie stood idle while TIM. CRYSTALS,
deputy marshals and Others : ere in
Oklahoma by special permo % led up
the best town lots early O. = : morning
of April 22.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

THE tariff on coal il 10 cents a ton,
''levied for the protection of the work.
'ne man, - hHt-the operators in the IN
ds are only offering 20 cents a
gging it, and the miners know
Awill starve if they work, prefer
Ar without work. Great is the
fotectlvt theory.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
BURN THE MILLER.
Attestation to the Efficacy of Burning
Lamps in the Cotton Fields of
the State.
a COLLATION. of Facts for the Information of the
Cotton Growers of Texas-Well
Worth Trying.

The Minneola Monitor has collated
some information of the efficacy of burn
ing lamps in the cotton fields of the
state, which are of interest to all grow
ers, and THE GAZETTE reproduces the
Monitors collation. for the benefit of its
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

"GET togetherl'' yells the New York
Sun to the Democrats. "Get club
when you see the Sun coming your way -
would be better advice.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
A Cave of Untold Wealth

CHICAGO, Ill, July IA sFispatcA
near the Hermosa mining eAhtps ksixtS
miles from Las Cruces. y n. thas' bess
opened up and its interior is lined 53ftFh
veins of almost pure silver. 1t had for
years escaped the eyes of old prospectors
because there was nothing about the cave
to indicate mineral. It Is now thought
the cave will exceed i'll richness the
bridal chamber cave at Snake valley
n. M, from which over five hundred
thousand dollars in silver was taken.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

JOHN wANAalAKER said in prohibi-
ton speech: ''God viii count the Pro-
hibition votes. - 1t didn't take Him
long to get through.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

THE trouble the government is now
having with the Flatheads is a small
thing compared to the trouble it is always
having with the Hardheads.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

You see the real trouble is that there
is no well-founded hope that either Sui
Ivan or Kilrain will be killed in the
coming battle. If there were we could
put up with it
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

THE Henry George party viii go down
the bay from New York in a small tug to
meet their leader and give him a proper
reception on his return from Europe.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

THE gentlemen who kicked at the cost
of improved streets in Fort Worth some
years ago no doubt confess the value of
the streets in such spells of weather as
the present.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

EDITOR CH1LDs of the Philadelphia
Ledger, a staunch Republican sheet, says
10 President Harrison: HMr. President,
either your attorney general has made
mistake OF You have been led into error
If The published correspondence between
the department Of justice and Justice
Sanford OF Utah be true. The judge
comes out OF that correspondence with
far the better credit, so that if there is
anything behind of a nature 10 help the
executive il had better be brought
promptly TO the front. - Nothing 10
''help The executive" has yet been
brought 10 the front.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

SECRETARY NOBLE says he has not
heard profane word in a cabinet meet
ing. OF course not. The cursing is be-
ing done on the outside.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

SPEAKING of high schools, Judge Miller
of the United States Supreme Court
seems 10 question their constit utionaIity
in the state of Iowa. In a magazine ar
ticls, the Judge says OF high schools in
Iowa: "Theso high schools in the larger
cities are to some extent the equivalents
OF lower grades OF colleges, and no
doubt better education is frequently OBJ
tanned in them than can be had in poorly
endowed AMI struggling colleges, which
perhaps should never have been started.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
a shrewd WIDOW.
Mount Desert Herald.

A veteran correspondent recalls an
amusing incident of his early years.
He remembers going to a man s funeral
with his grandfather. the parson. The
poor widow seemed TO mourn the loss Of
her husband very much, and the minis
ter vainly tried 10 comfort her. She
SAID she had ''got to live a poor Ions
widow all the days Of her life. The
boy cried to see her cry. After return
ing from the grave she called his grand
father aside and said: PEARSON Eaton
1 hope you won't say anything about
my telling you that should live a poor
lone widow ali the rest of my life, for I
may change my mind. - Like a shrewd
general, she left way open for Retreat,
and she soon found occasion to use it.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
THE BOOMING BRAzOS.
Out of It's Banks and Big Rise Reported Com
inc Down.

ing Down.
Special to the Gazette.
HEMPsTEAD, TEX, July 1.-The
Brazos river is on big rise, and has al
ready overfIowed the low lands, doing
much damage. Reports from higher up
the river are to the effect that it is rap
idly rising, and fears are entertained
that great damage will result. At CO.
lumbia the Brazos rose eight inches last
night, and it is still rising. A big flood
is expected unless the rains which have
been falling every day for a month
cease.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
s.I hot Is Ho,ne Witho q Ho,.seleeper., ,,

''I hat is Home Without H0tssekeepeP,''
is tt degraded view taken by gruff old batch
elor of the holy Office of wife and mother And
yet how many mothers and wives there are who
are simply 'hOus ekeepers, - household drudges
whose life il worked out whilesd disease is let in
during the 9eeaseiess rOUnktS of washing and
scTubbing az slusting and Baking and cooking.
The same CO b. and f4ers and furniture and
dishes are goHsssger aslt over until the heart Is
sick and the 6c1ytfs broken with worry and
disease. Amid tEfff toll nervousness begins,
bad digestion, irIef 4terties Of the reproductive
organs, prolapsseorS Der disbursements, Popu-
larry known as f$fems5 nv kness - sick head
ache and hosts6f femate complaints follow on.
For eli such take DR. PieEee' FayOrite Prescrip-
ton, the only ~Inedy soldSby druggists tlH1er q
positiUe eUdru bee from thernanufacturers that
it viii give satisfaction or money viii be re-
funded
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

Pennsylvania produced over sixteen
million barrels of petroleum last year
and Ohio 10 600 600. Five years ago
the production in Ohio wash t worth
noticing.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

81 Are you troubled with a Sluggish inactive
s3iver? Are you bilious? DokSou suffer from
Ssaundiesf Has your eomple&eh a sicklk, yellow
5fingeg Thetblood 81 its gMsage tlEzangh the
sshoqN resslt frogssl, The3n Tities are stopI9a
and efegefng up the atfef, dalse dfspfdered,
condfti6n. Which Will produce serious results tot
your health unless you take Brown S Iron Bitters
at once. 1t viii cure your biliOusness and jaun-
dice, and incite to healthy action the sluggish
liver
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
.Adrsee 20 zTotIlsr,.

.Si,Ers,s VI inslowss S5etbina Essfup Tor children
skeethfag, soctifes thsIER3fd, seftens Sthe gums,
'sallnys PAINS curessf5Sind cole asE is the best
remedy for diarrhqs& p censszsstie.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
as a DRINK i'm Eeyers

Use Horsford's Acid 8Eosphate.
cdr. EHA% H. s. EDAvIsx Meridee. Conn. 4
kaysax 4 1--we usedE as asaccess9s$ in cases
of melAneAeaia AIR fsssEvps he biI and Is 8
tpleassHt and 56SIng a4fnk is zessere and have
been very HiueE pleased with 1t. g
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-21

CONGEEssGAS BELENAP's life IS a
burden because Of the number of post
masters and railway mail clerks he Is
expected % look after. When I. VI.
Weston was chairman of the Demo
cratic state Central Committee, he
was gwen the honor and responsibility
OF nominating candidates for the postal
service for au Western Michigan, and
when Mr. Ford was elected these mat
ters We're turned over 20 him. Ford,
therefore, had larger patronage at
his disposal than strictly belonged TO
bis own district. This circumstance
afforded HIM aa opportunity 70 help
ms friends N th,s district and he APP
pointed considerably larger number
of them % clerSsh,ps in the railway
service than properly belonged TO this
district. Now az Mr.. Belknap's CON
shtuents IN th.s district ihink they are
entitled TO all the positions held by
Fifth District men. ButGen. Cutcheou
insists that The railway mail service
patronage must De distributed, and
his logic j. 50 hard that superintendent
Bell agrees with HIM. Mr.. Belknap
VII be listened to with reference TO
some Of the railway appointments, bat
not al.