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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24
An Editors Ingenious Scheme.

In recent issue of one Of the leading
newspapers of Pesth the enterprising
editor informs his readers that every
announcement of betrothal or marrl-
age will be inserted gratuitously, pro-
vIding the happy couples will buy their
wedding outfits of the tradesmen adver-
Using in his columns. Births are treated
in a similar fashion, and although no
special mention is made thereof, it is
evident that the system admits OF ex-
tension to persons contemplating their
final departure. The editor acts as
kind of benevolent middle man-with-
out, of course, neglecting his own in
terests. He gratihes that desire for
publicity from which few aspirants for
matrimonial or parental honors are ex-
empt, and at the same time encourages
local industry. OF course there are
certain difficulties for which prepare
ton will have to be made; such as, for
instance, the case of person who has
been Tilted after having had her be-
trothal announced in the paper. Will
she in that event be freed from the ne
cessity of buying rousseau This,
however, is mere question OF detail,
comparatively easy of solution. The
scheme as whole Is ingenious. Y.
Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24
POOR eATrENeERe.
The welded Woes of victoria's Youngest
Son-in-Law.

The welded Woes of Victoria's Youngest
Son-in- Law.
What has become of Prince Beatrice?
Did Battenberg strike and was he threat
ened? The other day 1 met a relative
of his sister-iu-law, the Countess Alex
ander Won Hartenau (you see what bad
company sometimes keep. who told
me that 1.-The poor fellows To- is not to
be enyied." The Queen, on whose favor
he depends, being now seventy, few
about the court take the trouble to be
civil to him. Military men don't at all
relish being told off to ATTEND" this
curious Royal Highness Though the
Queen is exacting OF respect for him,
she treats him herself with curt dry
ness. and she expects him to be always
hanging about the Princess Beatrice,
who since her marriage keeps as close
to her Majesty as her shadow, and is
constantly getting up entertainments
for her roval mothers delectation, which
Prince B. thinks awful bores. He would
infinitely prefer friendly pipe and
fIacon of beer and war of words at
KneiDe to her tableaux vivants, private
theatricals and concerts. The concerts
are the most doleful things imaginable
The Princess performs on the piano and
gets herself accompanied by other in
str-lments. She is particularly fond of
the violin, and has always some first
rate violinist to play with her. Prince
B. used to turn the leaves of her music
book when they were freshly married,
but he has since allowed a lady or gen.
tleman in waiting to do that honorable
service. and sits near the musicians
seeming to listen. but more often than
not in brown study. If it were not Tor
the pleasures of memory these concerts
would be uncomfortable. The Queen, who
loves music, is nearly always present
and sits by herself, with a dusky per-
sonal attendant standing behind her
chair She, too, is wrapped up, and no
doubt also passing mentally in review
her bygone pleasures. Whenever she
makes a SIGN to Prince B., he is on his
feet in an instant, walks over to her,
and stands before her in an atti tude of
submission. She would not put up with
any other. There never was more
despotic sovereign in the precincts of
her court than our constitutional mon
arch. and her mind is so full of the be-
lief in her prerogatives, in all that re-
CARDS etiquette and the department OF
her family and household, that her will
overbears every other. One feels that
it is imperious as fate. Prince B. new
er attempts to dispute it until he gets
beyond its range. He then tries to make
new conditions and thus improve his
position. At Gratz he thoroughly en-
joyed himself. There was smoking,
beer-drinking, capital music, in an I'M
affected way. guard-room talk with Count
Won Hartenau and Austrian officers and
no etiquette. London Truth.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24

Not only may a woman buy gloves
with a pocket in the Left band one
sufficiently large to hold few coins 'os
car fare, but if she is mother she may
buy six-button kids for stI-months'.
old baby. A young woman who hao
never heard of such styles 'o' mere
babies. saw long pair Of gloves being
fitted to the tiny fingers of - pretty girl
baby in a Broadway store a 'e" aaSs
ago and asked the clerk II th"y we're
cloves made to order. The clerk aA:a
no that they kept six-butson Sid
gloves for children only fs" Icains
eId and that recently there nal .een
ouite a sale. Their size, she sai0 lie
marked % ON. Y. Sun
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24
AFRICAN SPIRITUALISTS.
A Strange Belief Existing In the Western
Part of the Dark Continent.

A Strange Belief Existing In the Western
Part of the Dark Continent.
By all the tribes of these three lingual
groups the indwelling spirit is believed
to afford some protection to man. 1t
receives occasional thank-offerings, and
the anniversary of each individuals
day of birth is held as dav sacred to
the spiritual tenant On this account
the IRA may be regarded in some re-
spects as a guardian spirit, dwelling in
the body of the man; but 1t is more
than that. Its close connection with
the man himself is indicated by the fact
of its nocturnal adventures during its
absence from the body being remem-
bered by the man when he awakes
The latter even feels physically the eff
fects of his kra'S actions; and when the
negro awakes from sleep feeling stitf
and unrefreshed, or with limbs aching
from muscular rheumatism he in
yariably attributes these symptoms TO
the fact of his IRA having been engaged
in some struggle or some severe toll
II, moreover, a man dreams of other
men, he believes that his kra has met
theirs; consequently, the krd is held to
have the outward appearance of the
man whose body he tenants. Hence the
krd is more than a mere tenanting or
guardian spirit. He has, though doubt
less only in shadowy form, the very
shape and appearance of the man; and
both the mind and body Of the latter
are affected by and register the result
of the kra's actions. Major A. B. Ellis,
in Popular Science Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24
Two to one on WiIlie.

''It's very puzzling," said a worried
looking woman to ore of her neigbors.
What is that?"
II can't tell whether Willie is cor
rupting the parrot or whether the par
rot is corrupting Willie. Washington
Post
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24

1t is curious fact that the Curragh
of Kildare, which is common just out
side of the village, is the only piece OF
real estate in Ireland for which no rent
is paid 1t is used by all the residents
of the locality as feeding ground for
cattle and goats. At the present time
scarcely blade of grass can be found
on the Curragh. The goats and cattle
eat it as fast as it grows.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24

A church choir in a nelghborlng
town a few Sundays ago we're singing
"A Charge TO Keep Have" to the music
of the ''Prima Donna Waltz" A lady,
observing that stranger in her pew
had no hymn-book, politely handed him
one. Thanks" said the gentleman
with great suavity, 81 seldom use Ii
bretto!'-B Boston Saturday Evening Ga
Zette
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24

Two beggars, aged ffty-eight and
sixty, were recently married at Louis
Vile, KY. When the magistrate asked
the groom how they would get Their
support, he answered: Hustle around
and live some way"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
Chr Heating by steau,.

Statistics of the progress made in heat
ing passenger cars by steam from the
locomotive are published, showing that
1891 cars, or about one-fourth of the en-
tire passenger rolling stock in the ooun-
try, including baggage and sleeping
cars, are now equipped for steam
heat. On railways aggregating S465
miles all passenger trains run
last winter we're warmed by
storm. Companies controlling total of
50 1913 miles have begun the equipment
of their cars. OF the total mum Der of
cars equipped, the lines west of Chicago
and north of the VIrginia-North Caro-
lima line own 6447, and of this number
the New Yorks roads, or roads having a
portion of their mileage in that state and
thus affected by the law in relation to
car heating in force, own 1886 cars. The
reports from eighty-six companies show
that steam heating has been, OF the
whole, very successful, and that many
difficulties feared when the system was
FIRST introduced have not proved serious
In practice.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
THE RAILROADS.
Railroads Should be Protected When
They Give the Public Low Rates.
Fast Passenger Service is Demanded and is Be-
ing Giyen-Track Laying for 1890-Gen-
eral,Railroad Items

Municipal and state authorities cannot
give too much attention to the matter of
giving railroads what protection they are
I justly entitled to as against that class of
ticket scalpers who, taking advantage of
every low rate put on, to benefit them
solved, by their action and peculiar bust
| ness methods, do more to make it diff
cult for states and cities to get low pas
seDger rates than al other causes COM
bined. As general thing railroads do
not object to putting on low round-trip
rate, when they have an assurance that
the return trip tickets will not
be SO handled as to cut down
the revenues that would be de-
rived from legitimate business,
but when the return trip tickets are dis
posed of to a class of scalpers Who hawk
them about the streets as peanut
vendor does his goods and get them OF
on persons who would go over the line
that issued them anyway, thus outing
the railroads out of one straight fare for
every ticket so sold, then railroads hesi-
tate to give the rates that the public ask
for.
1t has been suggested as remedy for
this evil that law be enacted prohibit
lug the handling of railroad tickets by
any person except the regular author
ICED agent of a railroad company.
How such law would suit, The GA
ZETTE is not able to state, and the sug-
gestIon is only mentioned because it was
made in the discussion of this question by
a prominent business man of the city
with GAZETTE reporter yesterday. IT
such law could be passed, there is no
doubt that it would give the railroads all
the protection they could ask for, and
they would have no excuse whatever for
refusing low rates to the state or city
that gave them this protection.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
Tracklaying in 1890.


The total mileage of track laid on new
railroads in the United States up to May
l of this year Is reported by the Railway
Age at 1884 miles. The early part of the
year was unusually favorable for track
laying, owing to the absence of severe
cold and snow over a great part of the
country and this may possibly have had
some effect upon the extent of the new
mileage. 1t is nevertheless true that the
first part of the year Is that in which the
least trackiaying is done, and an addi-
ton of 100 miles during one-third of the
year may be taken to indicate that the
railroad building of 1890 will. be at least
equal to that of last year, when 5000
miles we're built, and may possibly ex-
coed it.
AS was the case last year, large pro-
portion of the new track was in the
Southern states, Georgia leading with
170 miles and North Carolina coming
next with 1876 miles; no other state re-
ports over 100 miles. In New England
and the middle states the mileage was
small and no large increase is reported
in the West or Northwest, while on the
Pacific Coast railroad building seems to
have come TO stand-still for the present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

R. n. Carter, travelling passenger
agent of tn Cotton Belt, Is in the city.
Col. John Peter Moore, general live
stock agent of the Texas and Pacific has
gone East and will be absent several
days.
The Chicago and Alton road lost moth
ing by putting down cattle rates. The
cattlemen are apprecis ting that act and
are giving the Alton their business.
Bissel Wilson of the Texas and Pacific
advertising department, who was so bad
ly hurt during the Spring Palace fire, is
getting along very nicely, and his friends
feel rejoiced thereat.
A bill is before the Louisiana legisla1,
ture to require railways to furnish sepaE
rate cars for white and colored persons.
Another bill fixes the maximum passen-
ger tariff at three cents a mile.
George Francis Train completed his
trip around the world May "a, arriving
at Tacoma, Wash, at p. m. on that
date. The time from start to finish was
81 days, 13 hours, 8 minutes aud
seconds. Nellie Bly's time was 70 days,
6 hours, II minutes and IA seconds.
The United States circuit court at At
lanta, Ga. Judges Pardee and Newman,
has rendered decision declaring the
Georgia state law for the taxation of
sleeping and pal zoe car companies unoon-
stitutionsl, and a perpetual injunction
has been granted restraining the comp
troller general of the state from collect
ing the tax.
If Fort Worth would cut a canal from
Red river across TO the head waters of
the West Fork and thereby cause the
waters of old Red to run down by Fort
Worth, this city could then be able to
get low rates from the railroads on the
ground that it would be on a navigable
stream. This scheme would be about as
plausible as some others now on foot.
The Railway Gazette of New York puts
forward the growing necessity for the
employment of pilot on passenger loco
motives. The demand of the Gazette is
based upon two or three accidents which
have recently occurred on Eastern roads
though the failure of the engineer to see
signals. and the demonstration in two of
these cases that the engineers had tainted
from the terror of the danger or had
fallen dead from heart disease at the
critical moment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
Cut Rates on Kansns Corn.

Special TO the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, June 7.AGrain rates
from Kansas to Texas points are badly
demorslized. The rate until the cutting
began was IS. The present demoraliza-
ton had its origin in this way: Shippers
of corn from Kansas City to Texas points
would claim that the shipment was fro N
some interior point in Kansas, at say
sixteen cents per 100 pounds. Surprising
the corn would be billed. from Kansas
City to Dallas, they would claim this
sixteen cents as part OF through rate,
thus making the rate thirty cents to
Dallas from Kansas City. The Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas is the road
accused of making this cut. Shippers on
that line in Kansas south Of Kansas. City
were placed at the disadvantage of pay
ing the full through rate of forty-six
cents, while Kansas City shippers were
ENJOYING a thirty cent rate. The next
move of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
was to make thirty cent rate FROM Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas points in Kansas
to Missouri. Kansas and Texas Joints in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
FAST PASSENGER SERVICE.

Railroads Are Beginning to Recognize What
the Business Public Need.
The day is not far distant when "slow
coaches'' on railroads will be non est
The business public demands rapid tran
sit and the more rapid it is, whe con-
sistent with safety, the better the BUSH
ness public is satisfied. The time when
railroads can give satisfaction by run
ming passenger trains at the rate of
fifteen and twenty-five miles an hour has
passed, and like all other by-gone days
It never Will return. The people want
fast service, and the railroads are be-
ginning to appreciate that fact. The
road that furnishes the quickest transit
between two points is the road that is
going to get the business. Mr.. Gould
arrived at this conclusion while he was
in Texas, and before he left the state he
had put on the Transcoutlnental branch
of the Texas and Pacific road fast train
starting from Fort Worth and running
through to St. Louis. The business of
this train has been increasing ever since
it was put on and now it is the popular
train leaving this city. 1t was not ex-
peoted that the Texas and Pacific would
be allowed q monopoly in the fast train
service, nor is it, for the Santa Fe, since
its absorption of the Frisco line,
has inaugurated q fast service be-
tween st. Louis and Mexico and
Fort Worth gets fast trains on two roads.
1t will not end here, for other roads will
fall into the procession and keep up with
it, until every road in Texas will have
its "cannon ball" or "lightning ex-
press" and as time rolls on. road beds
will be improved and the time made by
trains will be made better. new era
is dawning, and no one need expect
from now on that train will stop while
he picks mess of ckberries, as the
Central road used TO do on the Austin
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
A Great Bridge scheme.

The last great bridge proposed is one 10
cross the Mississippi at New Orleans, and
plans have beer, prepared for this bridge
by T. c. Clarke, the well-known engin-
eer. His design is for a main bridge of
three spans, the. central one to be 1900
feet with clear height of $50 feet above
the water, while the. shore spans would
be 500 feet each. --on account oFthe low
level of the banks on either side of the
river very sharp grade viii be neces-
sary to raise to the height required to
avoid interference with navigation, and
it Is proposed TO operate the railroad line
over the bridge of the Abt rack-rail sys-
tenn. The great difficulty at New Or
leans probably will be IL hnding proper
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
Good Business.

Railroad men in Texas are not heard
complaining of dull times this spring-in
fact, all the roads are in the swim, 30 to
speak, and are doing good business. The
passenger, dead and live freight business
is ahead OF any spring business ever ex-
perienced by roads in Texas, and it looks
as If there was going to be no let-up
soon. When railroads are doing a big
business it is pretty good sign that
commercial affairs are prosperous.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
The Fecos River Road.

The building of a road from Pecos
City, Tex, up the Peeos valley to Ros-
well and Eddy, n. NJ, is going to add
materially to the wealth of West Texas
and open up country that has for years
been regarded as an arid waste, but
which in reality is one of the most fertile
sections of the country. This road will
also be splendid feeder for the Texas
and Pacific, and the latter is said to be
giving it "aid ami comfort" on the
quiet.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

Texas. The rate was run on the quiet
for week or more before the other
roads caught on. The Santa Fe then an
nounced thirty cent rate.
The " Frisco, - the f'Cotton Belt, -
the "Iron Mountain and the 'sTexas
and Pacific" are all in the fight, and a
twenty-five cent rate it is said will be
adopted by all OF the lines carrying Kan
sas corn to Texas points.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
The Atcnlson's April Earnings.

BosroS, MASS, June THE April
official statement OF the Atchison, in
GLIDING the Frisco system and one-half
of the Atlantic aud Pacific, shows gross
earnings of So, 261 1892; increase, S423, :
5S7; net earnings, 1884 Az; increase,
202 $40; approximate estimate for May,
So .5s7 .036: increase. $3.50. AIS.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
Awarded $40. 900 .Damage..

1l7eNlNI % tIlc NfaLSltts
TExARkANA. TEX, June III. NJ.
Boyd, brakeman on the Texas and
Pacific railway who now lives here re-
ceived permanent iniuriesk in a wreck
rear Jefferson, Tex, several years
since. Yesterday after prolonged suit
the United states court at Jefferson
awarded him $40, 600 damages.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

bTtNIEI 70 tne 6dLStLes
DALLAS, TEX, June w. A. Mast
ers, general freight agent, and J. NJ
Steere, assistant general freight agent of
the Santa Fe, left to-day for North
ern trip. Mr.. Masters will visit Chicago
and New York.
Jake Wadleigh of the "Cotton Belt"
is back from trip TO Western Texas,
over the Texas and Pacific.
Mr.. James L. McCarty and wife of
Taylor, and Mrs. R. S. Vance, are in
the city, the guests of Mr.. j. T. Nc
Carly of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
general freight office, and brother of
Mr.. james L. McCarty.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

foundations for the piers, and long spans
would be advisable not only on account
of navigation, but also of the expense OF
foundations. A draw bridge is not admis-
sible at New Orleans, and indeed there
is great opposition from the local and
river interests to bridge of any kind at
that point.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
tOIt Worth and Denver City R'y.
Denver, Texes & Fort Worth R.RJ
leXaS Panhandle Route

ch.. = 4AaAAaAtbAbSs IA ONA : =
p sT1i'e1t line, quickest time from the GuRD
geIss.11, Eort Worth and all principal points in
49,. a.S 10 Rocky Mountain resorts and Pacido
ColoT,5lo.' 'tgud!ng Trinidad, Pueblo, Manitou.
I.sS Nv springs. Denver, COL Salt Lake
loTt oo,'lahd, Oregon, Tacoma, Seattle and
Is m . nseAo, Daily trains leaving Fort Worth
psnr-..,. comprising new and elegantly eausaSsa
w. imam nan Palace Sleeping Cars tiroscis l5s1-
4 = SSel 4 at Colorado Junecte poiilts with
Mas :; r. Z. +. ID. & R,eI9ffs ~ Colorado
tsyir-O bhalWay and g1td6 Pscifc Railway,
Angeles 80 Is n cars 1ssssn Francisco. LoI
all Perfl and Oregon.
Tn to-, ~ SoE ESkE PROM FORT WORTH.
sprirsSlays 81 WIS; &c Pueblo to Colo RADIO
tpsgsssto Denver, sis. So,
osss2SSSo .tlP tourist rates from Fort Worth to
.sCoIorsJo solnss; Fort Worth to Denver. $50;
81 no Springs SEQ; Pueblo. SEQ: trinidad
a., ne above tickets hear anal limit tn
DAYS. o ~ ~. transit limit on going trip 80
tIo1lls VIZ: Trinidad
hnitel5I !, and M salt Lake City and return, SIS;
otN DAYS ~ w days. with transit limit
Rates - ~ IN each direction. Cheap tourist
OregorS az ~ points in Montana. Idaho. California
The sh,all all points North and Northwest
toenerv 49, Prise more noted and magnidceut
The kno,rr MS : comprised IN any other routes in
ftngements ~ DO not complete your ar
Piled to me Garlst trip until you have ap-
G.P.A - Wv. NEwLIN.
a. f. W. D. @. Ry. Fort worth, Tex.
n G.pA,D.T GEO. ADY,
RS. DIvtAst General Agent, Dallas, Tex.
Tkis5 az IS, City Passenger and Tiefet Aneatss
- an streets. Fort Wort A,qfp ~ :
Desc Hstd our oter To ssssts Trr.,r,d.sd
tsbserfpi;os !. apF cne forwardins two annuaI
slt. me Daily 6AzETTH and S2s in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
Two Damage Suits Against the t. and P
Special to the Gazette.

JEFFERSON, TEX, June s.-Inthe dis
trlct court yesterday Mrs. Robinson re-
ceived a verdict OF $40 200 against the
Texas and Pacific railroad as damages
for the killing of her husband; also
Henry Thnyer received O verdict OF
SI2 800 against the same road for per-
sonal damages.