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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03


We are not much On Offering advice
ourself, but we cannot object to throw
ing in chunk or so of it, now and then,
as offered by others, the more especially
when those others are'such good author
tiles as the editors of the Manufacturer
and Builder. In a late Issue of their
paper those gentlemen say "there are
some things that must be done in
hurry-catching fleas, for instance.
But as rule, in most other perform
ances, it is safe to say, the man or wo-
man who works deliberately accomplishes
the most. The deliberate worker is the
thoughtful worker, with whom the habit
of system has become second nature.
Any one may cultivate it who will take
the trouble to try, and the most unsys-
tematic, spasmOdic worker will realize
with amaZement how easy it is TO get
through an allotted task in half the time
it formerly required, by planning il all
out before beginning the work.
The article from which is taken the
above extract, says the hurried worker,
whether mechanic or farmer, is one who
fancies he is an uncommonlY busy man.
True, he is, SO is the man who tries to
bale out leaky boat with crownless
hat, and in proportion to the energy eX-
pended, very often the one accomplishes
about as much as the other. The busiest
men known 10 the writer are those who
never seem to be in hurry. There are
no fits and spurts about them-a rush
here and rest to get breath there; but,
on the other hand, 1t Is q constant but
apparently not fast move "all along the
line" which invariably counts out
ahead in the end.
In no calling is this kind of thing more
clearly demonstrated than in farming.
One plowman slaps his horse up with
the line, and yells at him to move faster,
while the other moves quietly along pay
ing more attention to his work than to
what his animal Is doing. When the day 3
work is ended the rushing man is ex-
hausted, likewise his plow-h horse, but
the quiet man has nothing in particular
to complain of, and his horse seems little
if any the worse for wear. Then look at
the result of the day s performance-the
quiet man s work has almost invariably
been better done than has that of the
other and as prevailing rule 1T extends
over broader acreage.
The manufacturer and builder would
not have US understand that the fore
going Is OHeEeu us al argument III IhNOT
of slow and pottering operations. The
faster man can accomplish what he has
undertaken to do the better, provided he
works with system and thought. The
quiet plowman had his work planned in
his mind before he struck furrow, and
all through the day he worked up to those
plans, while the other man plowed one
furrow and then thought, for the first
~ ba
on regular schedule, as railroad people
say, while the other was going It wild
without any regard to where he ought to
be at a certain time. The point intended
to be made ia that there is nothing to be
gained by rushing ones work ahead of
ones plans or thoughts. Think of your
work before you begin it, and then go
at it deliberately. 1t will save wear and
tear of nerve and muscle, you will ao-
complish more, and what you do will be
better done.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03

wheaton flour, merely broken, as "hom-
my - Ground wholesomely course what
palataDle bread it makes; properly man.
ipulated what delightful flakes. Yet
with all this how many an unreasonable
American citizen prefers to irritate his
interior with indlgestlble ost meal, pro-
fesses liking for tastslsss rice and in the
place of the corn bread that mads his
pioneer ancestors robust and vigorous
chooses to consume the sticky and dainty
but less nourishing wheaton loaves.
Americans. it is true, are favored
above all other people of earth in having
q great variety of food to choose from i,
and therefore they cannot be expected to
favor an inferior article, even from pa
triotic motives, nor coufine themselves to
q single product, however excellent.
From q hygiene standpoint, however, if
for no other, il would be well for them
TO become acquainted with all the culin-
AIRY possibilities or Indian corn. No other
food product with which we are blessed
carries within IL greater wholesomeuess,
and, under proper manipulation, greater
deliciousness. For once, says the Jour
nal, is making wise choice the South
erner who fluids in the products of Indian
corn his leading articles of food.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
China Berry VS.. Corn weev,1s.

I enclose you a clipping from a newspaper,
all about how to keep weeyils out of corn-what
do you thin k of 1t? READING FARMER.
Tarrant County, Tex.
The clipping says the writer was told
by friend that china berries, together
with the leaves, lntermixed with corn
while putting it in the crib, would pro-
tect the corn from 1eevils. He tried
the experiment and found it effective.
He tried it only one time, and then going
into other business had no opportunity of
putting it to further test.
We think the gentleman ought to have
made further test before parading his
supposed-to-be good thing through
newspaper. That particular season
may not have been good weevil year at
his corn crib-things might have shown
up quite differently to the next expert
ment.
1t is just such publications as the one
under consideration that makes agri-
cultural literature unpopular with the
masses. A man jumps to a conclusion
and rushes it into print as a fact. A
practical man puts it to the test-it faila
and then he expresses himself In strong
language on the humbuggery of "book
farming
That ehinaberry remedy is an old
soldier. Long it has been popping up
before the public every now and then,
always coming out on what somebody
told somebody else, etc. We have
known people to put 1t to a thorough
test, and invariably with the same result
as they would have obtained by storing
away pair of old boots in the corn pile.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
Gen. Fremont's Will.

NEW YORK, Aug. L-Gen. Charles
Fremout's will was discovered yesterday
in the archives of Surrogate Ransom's
Office. 1t was executed on August 10,
1854, and was deposited in the surro-
gate office two days later in q sealed
envelope, which was Endorsed
as the last will and tesla
ment of Col. John C. Fremont,
in case of death to be delivered to either
of the following: Col. Thomas N. Ben
ton, Washington, D. c.; Mrs. Jessie A.
Benton Fremont, wife of the testator,
or Coles Morris, Esq, counselor at-law,
New York city. In his will the general de-
scribes himself as John Charles Fremont
of Marchiat, California. He gives his
entire estate to his widow land names her
as sole executrix. The subscribing wit
nesses were George W. McRae and Col.
E, s, Morris.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
How to Salt Butter.

A correspondent asks the Western Ru-
raj, Chicago, now much salt should be
used in butter to be in strict accordance
with correct principles. The editor,
who is first class authority in such mat
tiers, replies: "Just as much as your
customers want. But that is not the an
swer that our correspondent will expect,
yet it is the correct answer, provided you
have regular customers. Sailing depends
upon taste. Butter makers use from
just tritie to an ounce per pound. There
is not much preventative effect from salt
in butter. 1t is more a matter of
flavor. The salt that goes into butter
should be of the very highest quality.
No doubt one of the causes of inferior
butter is the character of the salt used
Hundreds go to the country store and
buy bag of salt. Salt is salt to them;
however impure it may be, it goes into
the butter. The butter may be so bad to
begin with that nothing can hurt it
much, but such salt will certainly not
improve 1t. Good butter salt should be
fine and dry, with crystals of uniform
size, so that they will dissolve quickly
and evenly. The imported salts enjoy a
high reputation for the dairy, because
they are of the character described. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03

have noticed in the Agricultural department
of THE GAZETTE a statement to the effect that
the fig can be made success in Northern Texas.
There is no possible good reason for doubling
and therefore more protected portions of the
upper regions of the state. Here IN sherman
many families have fair sized fig trees, and
some of the trees are now loaded with the deli
cious fruit, which seems to be frst-class IN
every respect. Having partaken OF the hgs
this light before me'' 1 declare emphatically
that Northern Texas can grow tgs. E. c. H.
Sherman. Tex.
alton. Since writing the note to which
you refer we ourself have had the pleas
ure of eating figs grown IN Northern
Texas. They were of the Celestia varie-
ty, and were in every way as fine as any
we have yet seen that we're produced on
the immediate gulf coast.
1t is not an unusual thing for people
to build conclusions upon what they zee
or what they don t see. The plan is de-
cidedly an unsafe one. Figs are not
much grown here, and therefore the i'm
preston takes shape that they cannot be
grown here. They are not grown for the
simple reason that our people have not
yet got at it.
Yes, Northern Texas can grow figs if
she wants to; indeed, any fruit she can
not grow, under proper management,
outside of the tropical and tenderest sub
tropical kinds, need not be regarded as
at all worth worrying over.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
The Boil Worm.

Your article on poisoning the cotton worm is
certainly very interesting reading for the Texas
cotton planter. Cannot you suppl rnent it with
an article setting forth how We msy cook ITS
goose for the boil worm, which, ct the two,
consider the worst pest? c. 5. C.
Dallas county, Tex.
A means of effectually destroying the
boil worm has not been discovered as yet.
Placing lights IN the field TO burn the fly
or moth producing it, which is might
flying" has been much recommended,
though really we cannot say that it does
any great amount of good. The
notion prevailing that the fly de-
posits her eggs in the night strictly,
is mistake. Some of the eggs
may be deposited in the night, but most
of them, as we have discovered, are de-
posted between shutdown and dark of an
evening or between dark and sunrise of q
morning. The fly does most of its NOV
ing III these times, remaining inactive
through the remainder of the night. On
this account there are no good grounds
for hoping to accomplish much with fires
in the field.
Some persons plant corn about or
through the cotton field to attract the
moth from the cotton. This might do
some good provided the boil worm was
only single brooded, or provided the corn
would remain in the roasting ear the
season through, all of which being other
wise we take it that the corn does more
harm than good. The brood of worms
bred and transformed in the corn patch
will start a new brood to work on the
cotton later when the corn has passed
into condition not suited to the wants
of the insect. We must confess that we
know Of no effectual means By which
cotton may be protected from boil worms.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
Fowls and Fruit.
That well Informed and deep tn

That well informed and deep thinking
Pilot Point. Tex. secretary of the Pilot
Point horticultural society says, through
the latest issue of the Horticulturist of
his city, that one of the most serious
troubles confronting the Texas fruit
grower lies in the ravages of injurious
insects. Something mus be done to
"kuock out' this trouble, he suggests.
Our feathered friends, the birds, have
been wont to do much work for us in
keeping these insect foes under subjec-
ton, but thoughtless boys and wicked
men have ruthlessly driven from our
gardens and orchards INTO distant woods,
or worse still, killed outright, those
friends that once filled the morning cir
with their delightful minstrelsy and their
craws with our insect enemies. They
call such wickedness sport-what a mis-
homer!
Now, we have left us two ways of
successfully coping with those insect
pests of the garden and orchard. First,
we must make friends with the birds and
protect them, allowing them in pay for
the services they Iender US the compare
lively small pittance they may demand
in the way of fruits consumed. The
laborer is worthy of his hire, certainly,
is the Doctors correct idea in the prem
Uses. Second, we must use the sprayer,
throwing over our trees such insecticides
(poisons) as Paris green and London
purple.
The doctor says he must confess to
something of squeamishness relative to
the use of strong poisons on fruits. He
would rather not do it if it can be
avoided, and a protection of the birds in
full is at present thing more easily
talked of than accomplished. But
in the mean time there is another
method chasing closely with the bird
proposition that the doctor would sug-
gest and recommend: Coujoin poultry
raising with fruit-growin9. Suppose,
for instance, you wish to put four acres
in plums, apricots and peaches, then To-
cate poultryhouse somewhere near the
center of the plat, fitting it up real neat
and tidy, and say TO the good woman,
"Let's raise 500 chickens for market
this year. III furnish feed, If you IL
tend to them, and you can have all the
money for pins and shoe strings"
Don t you reckon she would sGy, Gan
right, John; fix up the house and ooops
and IN try my hand.'' And without
her knowing it, she would play right
into your own hand and you would very
soon be shipping aprIcots, plums, etc.
right into the heart of Yankeedom and
getting their money, too.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03

waters of the area under consideration
traversed the surface instead OF taxing
an underground route, as they do, they
would reach the gulf in stream not
larger than the Trinity, whereas, We now
have every good reason for believing
that thev cross the state in volume fully
as large as that exhibited by the Ohio
river. Then, as a, surface river, it would
flow along through q deeply cut valley,
and thus be beyond the easy reach of man +,
particularly for purposes of irrigation,
but as an underground river it extends
forty or fifty miles In width under the
very best country we have, and lies there
ready to come to the surface at any point
within he area, in willing response to
the mere asking, Gs it were. Taking all
these things into consideration, one can
not easily clear his mind of the impress
sion that at the original planning of His
work the Creator must have had it in
mind to make something extra out of
that portion of the world now known as
the state of Texas.
The more we learn of this Fort Worth
Waco aTtesian area the deeper become
our convictions that the underlying wa
tiers are sufficiently abundant to irrigate
the entire region. a few days ago we
met Professor Hill, just returned from
study of Hood county, where he found
every farmer with his artesian well
pouring out an abundance of water from
a bore less than 100 feet in depth. They
turn the water into their horse troughs
and then let it flow off in creeks, never
seeming to think of making it useful for
watering their crops. But eventually
some ore will bore well and establish q
regular irrigation system, and then the
work will go bravely on to the Inaugural
tion of a new era for this portion of
Tayaa
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
Artesisn Water in Irrigation.

In your agricultural department for last week
you speak in glowing terms OF what may be
tesisn well water. If all the artesian water ex-
hibits the same character as does ours at Fort
Worth, l am not entirely sure that you are not
making a mistake. 1 have tried watering my
plants with it, ami find that it inclines to not
agree with them in some way. After thorough
sp rlnkling with it the leaves appear to cure and
not do as well as when sprinkled with river or
rain water LADY.
Fort Worth, Tex.
Our artesian water is to some extent
"mlneralized, - as biologists term it ),
but not in any degree sufficiently high to
set against it for use in irrigation +.
Thrown directly upon the plants, fresh
from the well the mineral elements in it
might be slightly detrimental, but al
lowed to run in open trenches between
the beds, and from these trenches to
soak into the soil without coming IN con-
tact with the plants Ghe regular way of
irrigating), there is nothing whatever
against it; indeed, scientists have de-
cided that the mineral matters in the
water would actually tend to an i'm
provement of the soil. Water direct
from the wells might not work advan-
tageously for surface irrigation, as on
meadows, for instance, but where irri-
cation of this character was desirable the
water could be run from the wells into
"tanks' (Open ponds) and left there q
few days exposed to the air and sunshine
before turning upon the grass. This ex-
posure would cause 1t to undergo such a
chemical change as would render it as
harmless TO vegetation as rainwater.
Large truck farms and orange groves
in Florida are now being irrigated from
artesian wells. The water of these wells
is more highly mineraliZed than is that of
ours, containing elements more Injurious
to plant life than is carried by the Fort
Worth-Waoo artesian water, yet no kind
of trouble is experienced. The water is
allowed to flow in trenches between the
rows or beds, and from these to soak off
under the beds without ever getting
atop of them. 1t proves everything ad-
vantageous that could be reasonably
a p6
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03

good deal of experience within the past
fifty years, TO say nothing of the fact
that we have large library that can be
referred to in the interest of inquiring
friends. Under these circumstances it
always affords US pleasure 70 hear from
patrons Of THE GAZETTE and TO sum up
for them as far as possible, such infor-
nation as they may feel themselves in
need of. And Furthermore, we are not
drawing the lines overly close relative 10
the themes suited for this oolumn-al-
most anything proper TO appear in
newspaper comes in our line here.
But with reference to your "star OF
Bethlehem, - now quits extensively
talked Of, we believe, It rather pains us
to be forced into dispelling the poetical
and pleasing illusion. The star of Beth
lehem-part of il is all nonsense. Your
beautiful star ia simply the planet Ju-
piter, always as much with US as at the
present time. True, as in the case of all
the other planets, there are times when
he appears with greater conspieuity than
at others, aud the present happens TO be
one of those times. His present rare
brIlliancy was what attracted attention
and stimulated some fellow into invent
ing the star of Bethlehem foolishness,
including the 100 years story.
We now have in the evening an IN
usually fine display of planets. If you
trace the heavens directly westward
from Jupiter, soon after he has arisen,
you will come to a beautiful reddish star
almost due south, and in the midst of
cluster of smaller stars known 10 astron-
omers as ''the Scorpion. - This is the
planet Mars. At the same time about
setting in the west will appear the planet
Venus, now our evening star. Not far
above Venus is the planet Saturn, but at
present so inconspicuous as not to be so
easily pointed out. The other bright
stars in sight are all fixed stars. We
may take it upon ourself 10 tell the young
folks something concerning these i'll the
near future.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
New Use for Milk.

The New York Times tells US that
chemistry has lately discovered a method
of converting milk into celluloid SO fine
and hard as to be, in almost every re-
speet, the entire equal of ivory. Made
into billiard balls, knife handles, door,
knobs and such useful matters, it has
met with general satisfaction. The en-
tire milk product, curd, whey and all,
Is evaporated and hardened into this
new substance; 1t is awakening a de-
cidedly new interest in milk. The Times
adds that "a food substance entirely in
destructlole by decomposition, possessing
highly nutritious properties, is thus in
troduced. and one may have the salts
faction of filling his home with orna-
mental work, that when the fashion
changes may be ground up and eaten in
various acceptable forms, as soups,
cakes, tarts, biscuits and other prepara-
tons which the cooks brain alone Is
capable of inventing.''
This discovery is a very important one,
no doubt. There is nothing st all I'M
reasonable about 1.-THE conversion of
milk into artificial ivory is thing no
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03

more surprising than that rice, another
food substance, should be converted into
buttons and other useful articles, as is
now well known fact. Doubtless we
have the milk TO spare; or, if we have
not we can soon work the supply up to
any demand entirely profitable to the
dairymsu. But is IT not just possible
that this suggestion of the Times, if we'll
founded, may not work against us in the
direction of soon retiring rice buttons
from general circulation by leading peo-
pie into eating them for the rice of which
they are composed? Who knows? It
strikes US that rice buttons would be
found as fair an article of diet, in every
respect, as celIuloid.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
Siberian Victim Lands at New York.

New YORK, Aug. 1.-Annie Rattman,
a twenty Russian, arrived
here yesterday on the steamship OLDHAM.
At the barge office she confessed to hav-
ing been sent some five years ago to
Siberia for political offense, from
which she was pardoned some five
months ago. During her exile
son was born to her and when
she landed yesterday the three-year-o
boy accompanied her. Her husband,
who was Imprisoned with her, will come
here in few months. In the story of
her life in Siberia she tells some terrible
tales. Her husband was young physi-
clan of fair wealth, but all his posses
sions were seized by the government.
She intends going to Wichita, Kan.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
Special Notice.
OFFICE OF ATLANTA NATIONAL
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION,
ATLANTA. GA. July. u. Isq0.


The public of Texas are hereby notified
that johnson s. McAndrew, CIV. W.
Johnson and A. G. McAndrew), with
headquarters at 1908 Main street Dallas
Tex. are no longer general agents, or
in any manner connected with the
ATLANTA NATIONAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION.
For reasons abundantly satisfactory +,
their commissions have been revoked.
In justice to Mr.. McAndrew it is stated
that it is only because he was associated
with Mr.. Johnson that his name is con-
neoted in this notice, our contract being
made with W. w. Johnson.
All special, travelling, and local
agents appointed by, or at the instance
of johnson s. McAndrew, or either Of
them, are hereby notified to report di-
rectly to this office.
E. G. ATKINS, President.
]. W. GOLDSMITH, Sec'y and Treas.
JOSEPH Il. JOHNSON, Man g. Agencies.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03

As editors are supposed to know everything,
and as You appear to be an editor writing
specially for the country people. wish, il it is
tell us something about the beautiful star of
Bethlehem that now blazes out SO grandly in tn
eastern sky Just after the sun has gone down.
Some OF the newspapers have published that it
appears but once in 100 years. and that, there
fore, no person now looking upon il will ever see
ested in the beautiful star, and, therefore, any-
thing appearing in THE GAzETTB with reference
TO it would be thankfully read. RuRALIsr.
Tarrant County. Tex.
We are not one of those claiming to
know everything, still We have had q
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03
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