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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

Bob Burdette says: You don't
make man any better by destroying
him. You can cut d rattlesnalzc into
fifty pieces and the venom in his fanss
will be just as deadly as ever. He
isn't able himself to apply It; that is
all. Yet there are men rs wise as
men go-who believe that men can
live the life Of the devil all the days
he has to live, hating good and de
spising virtue. and then after seventy
or eighty years Of this, by simply ly-
ing down and dying, become sudden-
Iy transformed into an angel OF Light
and purity, with holy aspirations,
cody and heavenly minded just
ponder over this, my son: it won't
hurt you to turn it over in your
mind
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

The laws of Kansas forbid the mar
riage Of a divorced person within SIX
months from the time that the decree
of divorce is entered of record. Very
few people seem to understand this,
but it ought to be generally known.
A marriage contracted by a divorced
person within the period mentioned,
is Illegal Champion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

No Kansan who has once used the
homestead right can get government
land by migrating to Oklahoma. This
fact should be remembered by all,
even down to the old periodical home
stead tourist, who is always looking
for a chance to use the entry right
from one to ten times.-Atchisoa
ChnlMniou.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

There are too many men who ex-
pect an editor to advocate the adyant-
ages Of his town, boom their respec-
tive business, and yet coolly withhold
their patronage, by which alone the
country newspaper can live. Talk
about a paper having a public duty
to perform, and an editor having to
labor for his principles, is cheap when
others stand back and while extend
ing a lukewarm neutrality with one
hand, are filing their pockets with
the other hand as the result Of the
editors labors for his principles, which
they admire, but do not support Os-
born Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

The man who is often times sup
posed to be a crank, turns out to bea
genius, whose brain is teeming with
thought. OberLia HecaLE.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

Cottonwood Falls follows the ex-
ample of Osl1aloosa and elects an en-
tire city ticket composed OF repre-
sentative women, including mayor,
CONDITIONER and police Judge.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

Prof. Blake predicts wet weather
for the middle Of April and advises
the farmers to get their work in
shape to start the lister as soon as it
is over, AtcbisoI Champion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

A year ago women were elected
city officers in Oskaloosa, Kansas.
They administered the city govern
ment so we'll that they were reelected
at the annual election, April 1st, by
forty majority.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12
$3.50 IN ADVANCE

The Northwest Kansas Editorial
Association meets at Minneapolis.
Kansas, May sd.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

Kafir corn will be given a thorough
trial in Smith, Mitchell, Rocks, Os-
borne, Graham, Thomas, Phillips,
Rawlins, Decatur. Norton and SheYi-
dan counties this year. -Afcbisou
Ctunl2jO3l.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12

The supreme court OF Missouri has
decided that the crime of rape is a
capital Ofense, and is punishable by
death.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-12
Cortland Register:

Cortland Register We predict
that within five years Kansas viii
make a tonnage of sugar equal to her
consumption so far that her crop viii
be a prominent factor in deciding the
market price of that article.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
GIVE Us GOOD ROADS.
The Most Important Question for Fort Worth
People TO Consider To-Day.
MADISON, IND, Aug. I, 1889.

MADISON, IND, Aug. l, 1889.
To the Gazette
In your valuable paper Saturday, July
81, saw piece on the advantages and
benefits to the city and county of good
roads. [ agree with B fully in every
thing he said on the subject of good
county roads reaching out in every direc-
ton from the city. If there is one thing
that Tarrant county and the city needs
more than another it is good public high
ways, Neither county nor city can al
ford to go any longer with the present
bad and often impossible roads. The
loss to the farmer and interests of the
city is too great to plod along through
muddy roads, often in so wretched q
condition that an empty wagon is q heavy
load for horses. l have no doubt 3 is
perfectly correct when he says we are
losing a great amount of trade that would
gladly come to Fort Worth were it not
for the bad condition OF our roads. This
trade rightfully belongs to Fort Worth
and would certainly come to us, all
things being equal Mr. Editor, in the
last two or three years you have called
the attention of the people to the great
Importance of this matter, and I hope
lost Is hard to regain. know of no
place where good roads can be built at
less cost per mile than in TarTant county
or where they are needed more. Every
man in the county, l care not what his
business is, be it great or small, would
be greatly benefited by the building of
good county roads. Especially this is
true of the merchant and farmer. Had
we good roads running in every direction
from the city as this place has every
road leading out of Madison is a No. l
pike) the population IN short time in
Tarrant county would be double or three
times what it is to-day, and land that is
now selling at ten to twenty dollars per
acre, would find ready sale and plenty
of buyers at double that price, and at
double the present price it would be
cheaper, had we good roads, than it is
now. You take good farmer from any
section where he has the advantages of
good roads and show him as good land as
he ever saw, say ten miles from Fort
Worth, and let it be at time when our
roads are nearly impossible, and they
are often in this condition, and he would
scarcely take it as a gift and be COM
PEELED TO live on it. The most important
thing for the people of Fort Worth to
consider tO-dayis countyroads Good roads
will bring good farmers and plenty of
them. We have a splendid farming
country, good market for everything
raised on a farm, a good climate, and
good, enterprising people ought to have
good roads J G. WRIGHT
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
TIE WORDS OF 4 PROPHET.

Wendell Phillips, the great New Eng
land orator, not long before his death
spoke SIS follows:
''The handwriting is 50 plain on the wall tha
none but fool need mistake it. New ENGLAND is
doomed just as sure as natural laws VIII produce
fixed results. New England has no soil worth
mentioning, and her wealth has all been de-
rived from her manufactures. These are grad
UaiIy leaving her, and eventually they
VIII ali so: some to the West, the most
to the South, where the advantages for profta-
bic manufacturing are all located The
coal and IRON in the South are easily gotten at
and inezhaustible in amount, and the iron mills.
the foundries and machine shops can go to them
better than they can be carried to the shops.
Then the cotton and wooden mills must &c there.
for the raw materials are, and are to be. pro
duced there most cheaply, uniformly and better.
Then look at the advantages of the extra hours
OF daylight in years run. This of itself is no
small matter. As the South grows stronger and
stronger, the wealth, culture and power of the
country win be conferred there until she viii be-
come not alone the mistress of America, but the
central empire of the world
How prophetic those words sound now.
When spoken the Southern people had
scarcely begun TO realize what immense
stores of wealth the lavish hand of nature
had bestowed upon their section. But
the last few years have accomplished
wonders in the land of the sun. The
immense mineral deposits IN the two
Virginias, Tennessee and Alabama, are
being rapidly developed; Birmingham
and Admission and Chattanooga have
sprung up like magic from unimportaut
villages to cities that are known the
world over; the cotton mills of Georgia
are sending their fabrics into every
market. and Southern iron is overthrow
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
ALTAR AND TOMB.
The Gazette's Semi Weekly Record of Marriages
and Deaths in Texas, as Compiled from
the Newspapers of the State.

MARRIAGES.
Charles Arnim anq Miss Katie Smith 4,
Kerrville, July "a.
3. w. Cullom and Mrs. J. B. Brady,
Texarkana, July 81.
r. L. Pool and Miss Matte Robertson,
Weatherford, July IS.
T. s. Wiley and Miss d. E. II Bryan
Erath county, July 81.
@. c. Share and Miss Lizzie Pierson !,
Hansford county, July II.
Albert Edmiston and Miss Susan CAL
houn, Gainesville, August l.
J. 0. Jeanes and Miss D. A. Welding
ton, GatesvIlle, August /.
S. A. Brown and Miss B. A Bishearz,
Gatesville, July 80.
f. NJ. Buford and Mrs. Matte L.
Britt, TeXarkana, August /.
g. p. Cook and Miss Eula L. Bryan,
Queen City, July 80.
W. L. Scott and Miss Bealah Lee, Hen
rietta, July %.
Nola Oliver and Miss Rose Carroll, Mo-
beetle, July 23.
Col. r. z. Crockett and Mrs. Lydia A.
Corley, Hood county, July %.
Parker Carpenter and Mrs. E. J.
Franklin, Lorena, July 25.
A. J. Lingo and Miss Beulah Bishop,
Tyler, July %.
H. w. Bush and Miss Alice Carter,
Ellis county, July %.
Edgar Odam and Miss Tessie Bunton,
Garrett, July %.
w. '. Hunt aud Miss Jane Pearse,
Cedar Hill, July rs.
W. II. Davis and Miss Lula Hunter,
Glen Rose, July II.
A. d. Williams and Miss L. NJ. How
ard Austin, July 30.
W. Il. Atkinson and Miss Cynthia a
Germany, Gainesville, July 30.
DEATHS.
jeff McCutcheon, near Hutto, July 10.
Mrs. Francis A. Van Ness, Brennan,
July IS.
william McCuuOm, Santa Anna, July
"a.
George W. Raines, Houston, July %.
Mrs. John Crocker, Shelby county,
July 81.
Mrs Anna r. Herrin, Tyler, July 90.
Thomas L. Thrasher, Paris, July %.
Mrs. e. Hughes, Paris, July %.
Eugene Vance, Paris, July 20.
Miss A. L. Wallace, near Brennan,
July %.
Warren P. Randlett, Corsicana, July
90.
w. P. Anderson, Dallas, July %.
Mrs. NJ. W. Dubose, CorsIcana, July
30.
Mrs. Hettio Carr, Hnlsboro, July "a.
Mrs. T. r. Robey, Houston, July %.
Mrs. 7. W. Moon, DaingerfieId, July
2G
Mrs. H. c. Stephenson, Daingerfeld,
July %.
4. T. Hogan, Houston, August l.
Miss Lula Whitfield, Weatherford,
July 81.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
PEU0S.
Facts that Point to the Early SettIa.
ment Of a Fine Section OF Texas
Permanent immigration Organization af,s,
Utmost Importance TO the Whole Of
Northwestern Texas.

PEcos, TEX, Aug. ., Iss9
To the Gazette.
1t is with much pleasure that no.cs
in TIE GAZETTE an effort to iuaugu-a,s
an immigration movement for the bepas.
of Northwestern Texas.
This is step in the right direction and
feel sure the people of the ives, AMI
northwest win heartily cooperate in fs,
move. Everyone realizes the failure of+s
state immigration effort in Texas. car.s5
by diversified interests-each one pur.7,
for his own particular locality, ana zrtsT
things did not favor his section. bai----
and Withdrawing. This was demon
strated by san Antonio in the state r,r
VentiOu.
Now the move suggested by THE Ca
ZETTE will be Invested of any suca dis
Guilty, as there is no diversity of .ntq-..t,
in the northwest and harmony and uri.g
of action would insure success.
The people Of the west are proud ~
Fort Worth and her people, and M. can
cede THE GAZETTE to be the best paD--
in the state, always ready 20 ala In f5,
development of what we believe win
soon be one OF the finest sections Of tina
South.
Heretofore the opinion has prevailed
that the plains OF West Texas were dss.
ert-flt only for stockraising. It bs,
been demonstrated beyond doubt how.
ever, that this was Il common prr7-
The means are at hand for opening mn
and developing the west, which will
make it one of the most fertile secti0r;
of the state. Could you now visit tina
plains of Western Texas on the line M
the Texas and Pacific railway You would
see grapes, peaches and plums equal to
any i'll the state; also pears, apples
ounces and 8pTicOts all growing luyu.
riantly, though not vet in bearin,
There is an abundant water supply for
400 miles west of Abilene East of bs
PecOs river irrigation can be extensfrsfg
carried on by the use Of WiudmiIls: vestot
the PecOs the Pecos irrigating canal will
soon be completed to Pecos Citv. AZ
ready upon this canal severa! farms have
been opened up and can show growing
crops which viii compare favorablv WITH
any country. In addition TO this artasial
wells can DE had anywhere within twenty
miles west of PacOs These facts
point to the early settlement of oar
section and in view Of them it is Of the
utmost Importance that we should move
at once to establish a permanent im-
migration organization for the north
west. Tou may rest assured Of tbs
hearty cooperation of the people of our
section, and we will send q Representative
to the convention, whenever it may ba
called.
l could say more upon this subject, but
my letter is already too long, for which
/ must crave your Indulgence,
J j INGE.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08

A FOBT WORTH man driving out in the
country some time since, and speaking
Of matters concerning the welfare of the
people, remarked upon the fact that so
few Texas farmers raised their own ba-
con, and said he HAD thought of Offering
a considerable prize for the Tarrant eOun-
most meat. There is a good suggestion
in this. Farmers should not need a prize
to stir them to proper efforts for their
own good, but encouragement of that or
some other kind might be used as start
er. If the Texas farmer once begins
raising hogs he wiz never stop it.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
FIFTY DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.
Muscles of the Throat Paralyzed and the Pa
tient Slowly Starving to Death.
Cincinnafi Ennuirer


INDIANAPOLIS, md, Aug. Robert
Marvel of Pike township, an aged
farmer, is entering upon the fftieth day
of his enforced fast, within which time
he has not eaten an ounce of solid food,
but has taken all told several pints of
milk. He is bed-Tidden. and the fasting
has changed his nature so that he is
pugilistie and he is ready to fight anyone
coming near his bed. Whenever the at
tendant physician Gttemps to feel his
pulse he resists all he can and is as stub
born as mule.
Some DAYS ago he attempted TO swallow
a mouthful OF pie, but the muscles of his
throat are paralyzed, and he would have
ehOked TO death had he not been re-
lieVed. He Is suffering with disease of
the arteries, as round, bony accumula-
tions can be felt in the artery AT the
wrist, and are probably present through
out the system. This causes throat
paralysis, and he viii gradually die Of
starvation, although the physicians will
not be surprised if ne lives 100 days.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
Gigantic Industrial Projects.

Baltimore Manufacturers Record
An examination of the list of new en-
terprises in the South as reported in this
issue of the Manufacturers Record
shows that the past week has been
marked by the organization of many en-
teTprises, large and small, of widely
diversified character, but standing out in
overshadOwing Importance have been a
number Of gigantic projects successfully
cOnsummated looking to the develop
ment of many schemes of great
extent. Prominent capitalists of
New York and Virginia organized
into q So 900 900 company have COM
pleted the purchase Of immense iron ore
properties i'll Southwest Virginia, and
operations on very large scale for min
ing and iron making will be carried out
Philadelphia bankers. including such as
the Drexels and others of that standing,
have paid $500 900 in cash for about one
thousand five hundred acres OF land near
Dallas, Tex, and organized an $500 900
company, which viii build up some
very extensive Industrial enterprises
at that city. The sales of real
estate at Dallas for the week were
over one million two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars. Minnesota capitalists
interested il the Lake Superior Bessemer
ore regions, having carefully investigated
the Bessemer ore districts of Llano and
Mason counties, Texas, have bought
large interests there for over nine
hundred and twenty thousand dollars,
and this purchase viii doubtless be fol-
lowed by heavy developments. Near
Fort Worth 5000 acres Of land have been
sold to Denver people for over
i've hundred thousand dollars,
and other heavy transactions have also
been made. At Chattanooga an extern
sive street railway system has been
bought for $500 900 and electric
itY viii supplant horses as motive
power; Virginia has organized
$500, 900 mining company; Kentucky a
$500 600 coal mining and coke making
company, and also $500, 600 coal min
ing company; West Virginia $500, 900
electric company; MARYLAND a $50 900
mining enterprise; Dallas 500, 900 brick
works, and Chattanooga $40, 900 brick
works. AT Birmingham the contract has
been closed for building steel works;
Florence, Ala, has secured wrought
iron works and foundry and a bagging
factory. At MiddIesborough, the
new Kentucky town which English |
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08

when Invested of oratorical flourish, is,
How can the South allow the negro the
full enjoyment of the right of suffrage,
and vet keep him from running riot with
the government and with society, and
from pulling down the civilization that it
has taken centuries to build up?''
That is the whole question, as every
thinking man must see it.
Mr.. Warner offers a solution which is
as follows:
I cannot but regard it as hlunder in states
manship to give suffrage without an educational
qualification, and to deem it possible to put ig-
norance over intelligence. You are not respon-
sible for the situation but you are none the less
in an illogical position before the law. Now,
would you not gain more in rectifcation of your
position than you would lose in other ways, by
making suffrage depend upon an educational
qualification? I do not mean gain partywise,
but III political morals and general prosperity
Time would certainly be gained by this, and it
is possible in this shifting world, in the growth
of Industries and in the flow Of populations, that
before the question Of supremacy was again upon
you, foreign and industrial immigration would
restore the race balance.
Mr.. Warner has studied the situation
to little purpose if he does not see that
the acknowledgements OF the negro, and
that is what an educational qualification
means, would raise a storm of vitupera-
ton in the North that would make exist
ence in tins countryaalmost unbearabie.
wiser man than Mr.. Warner is
needed
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08

IT Is hard to believe that in a state so
young as Illinois, and so progressive,
there should be statute in force that
allows Imprisonment tor debt. Yet such
seems 10 be the case. Last week Chi
cago woman named Miss Josie Walters
was locked up in the Cook county jail for
debt. She had bought clock on the in
stallmeut plan, and, her husband losing
his position soon after, was unable to
make the payments. She owed SIS and
her creditors mad her thrown into prison,
they paying her beard. What an inter-
estiug relic that old debtors imprison-
ment law would be to show at the Co
lumbus celebration
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
lg every rival at every point of competl-

ing every rival at every point of competI-
ton.
Like a giant just awakened from slum-
Der, the South has shaken off its drowsi-
ness, and is beginning to realize and
utilize its hitherto untried strength.
While the sterile soil of New England is
being deserted by the best intellect and
the best muscle that it produces, the
South Is being rapidly filed up with ac-
tive and enterprising men of every sec
ton, and is advancing in population and
wealth and commercial Importance be-
yond the expectations of her most en-
thusiastic lovers.
The old abolition orators words of
prophecy are being rapidly verified.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08

! WARNER ON THE RACE QUESTION.
Charles Dudley Warner made speech
on the race question at the university of
| the South, Sewanee, Tenn. the other
! day in which he used the following Ian
| guage:
On the other hand, there rests upon you the
responsibility of maintaining civil cation, the
civilization of America, not of Hayti or Guate-
mala which we have so hardly won. 1t is
neither to be expected nor TO be desired that you
should be ruled by an undeveloped race, ieno-
rant of law letters, history, politics and politi-
cal economy. There is no right anywhere of
uninteligence to rule intelligence. It is a
travesty of civilization. No Northern state
that I know Of would submit to be ruled
by an undeveloped race, and human ma
ture in the South is exactly what it is in
the North. That is impregnabIe fact to be
taken as the basis Of all our calculations The
whites of the South viii not, cannot, be domi-
mated as matters now stand, by the colored race.
But then there is the suffrage. the unreversible,
unqualified suffrage. Suffrage once given can
not be suppressed or denied, perverted by Chi
canery or bribery without incalculable damage
to the whole political body. Irregular methods
once INDUCED in for one purpose and towards
one class so sap the moral sense that they come
to be used for all purposes. The damage is III
tinlately as greatt those who suppress or per
vert as It IS to the suppressed and corrupted. It
is the Generalization of all sound political ac-
ton and life. know whereof speak IN the
orth bribery in elections and intimidations are
fatal 10 public morality.
Mr.. Warner is right. The Anglo
Saxon race, whether in Maine or South
Carolina, win not submit to the DONNA
ton of an inferior race, and the party
that tries to force it TO do so but gnaws a
file. lie is also correct in what he
SAYS of suffrage. No matter how great
the crime of enfranchising the negro was,
since the right of suffrage has been given
HIM he should be protected in its enjoy
ments.
These two things together make the
race question the difficult thing that it Is.
Left to themselves the whites and the
negroes of the South would live peacea-
bly, and happily together. The negro
recognizes the superiority of the white,
and acknowledges it. He is willing to
accept thS "A4tO nan ds HIS 4II6Hu, anu
has learned to look to him for council and
guidance, TO take his advice and act upon
his suggestions. But this desirable state
Of things may not be. The professional
Northern man, - the man who has
proven his devotion to office and the
negro by the sweat of his Jaw,
must come in and stir up strife and dis
cord and dissatisfaction. and question
that would easily solve itself is made one
of national moment, demanding the best
thought of the best minds of the country.
The question rs stated by Mr. Warner.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
Forward or Backward.
Santa Anna News.

Fort Worth rejoices in the coHsumn',
ton of real estate deals to the amount %
$500 900 in the last few days. The nle'''
feature in these transactions is that ~
purchasers do not propose to wait for ~. II.
natural advance in land values to D-.l1
them profit on their Investment, bit ~
proceed at once to pay out HUNDREDS z
thousands Of dollars in improvement o.
development of their property, thus I ",
ming its value up into millions. -
persistent, sledge-hammer blows OF - ~.
GAZETTE, backed by 4 united, VIZ
awake, public spirited communii! r..
constantly bringing forth fruit. -
Fort Worth people realize the fact ~
there is no such thing as stand SUI,
a town must either 20 forward or 0s'1
ward, and they choose the former.