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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
CHAPTER XIV. a BIT OF TUssLE.

CHAPTER XV.-A BIT OF A TUSSLE.
1t was delightful evening. The soft,
silvery moonlight was flooding the wood
land glades; in the ripping shadows of
the laughing brook a restless image of
the moon was mirrored, and deliciously
cool wind was singing lowly among the
long grass , the tall bracken and the sap
less nosrs of dying and dead leaves.
1t was just the night to breed sweet
fancies in a lovers heart, and Walter
Mayhew's thoughts were pleasant enough
as he hurried along the shadowy avenues
and approached the bridge whereon he
expected to meet Nellie Pemberton.
1t wanted a few minutes yet to the
hour named, but Mayhem desired to be
there first. But there was one before
him. AS Walter paused upon the bridge
and drew a cigar and box of matches
from his pockets, with the intention of
having a quiet smoke, dark form
stepped from behind q tree and con-
fronted him.
elliott ne cried, dropping the match
he was about TO strike. Then he added
quickly, confusedly: "Good evening.
Having bit of stroll?'
"Yes!' was Mark IS quiet reply.
$50 am 1. just stopped to light my
weed. Good evening.
Marx never stirred from the otner's
path; ne spoke again, still very quietly,
saying:
''stop, Mr.. Mayhem, have something
to say to you.
The moonlight fell full on Mark Eliot IS
face, and Walter saw it was very pale,
with grim look about the mouth. His
heart gave a sudden throb of fear. His
RIVAL looked dangerous; what was he do
ing here? Had he heard of the appoint
ment Nellie had made with him-Meyhew?
Something to say TO me?'' he faltered
in as Indifferent a tone as he could as
sumo, and he tried to hide his agitation
under cover of lighting his cigar.
''Yes; You are here to meet Miss Penn
berton, l Supposed
Indeed! You seem to know my BUSH
ness better than myselfl' Mayhem
sneered. He saw that Mark knew Of the
appointment, and he resolved to brazen
1t out. The fellow would not dare to as
sault him, he thought.
81 asked you q question; will you
answer IT? You have come TO meet Miss
Pemberton?''
81 havel What of it? If she chooses
to meet me, have you right TO inter-
fere?"
"When she meets you knowingly, and
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26

Hannibal Price, Envoy and Minister from
Eayti to the United States.
Gen. Preston, who for the past twenty
years has been minister from Hayti to the
United States, has been recalled and
Hannibal Price appointed in his stead.
He is a very intelligent man, we'll in
formed on Haytian affairs, the Spanish
main and foreign affairs generally, with
a great and unboupded admiration for
Brother Jonathan. He is native of
the port of JOomel, and was born on
April "a, 1912. He received all his
schooling in the three RS
at Jocmel and had to leave school
at the early age of twelve, for a business
life. He took lively interest in politi-
cal affairs, and raised the revolt against
President Dominique and brought his
downfall to a successful and peaceful
termination. After the revolution he
was appointed secretary of finance and
foreign affairs, which position he re-
signed for seat in the house of repre-
sentatives, in order to become one of the
three leaders of the Liberal party Presi-
dent Solomon sent him into exile for
the benefit OF his health. He went to
Panama and remained on the isthmus
until 1888, when Gen. Hypolite recalled
him to Cape Haytien, which resulted
lately in his appointment by the presi-
dent as envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plen0potentlary to the United Stateas
Mr.. Price is also accredited as deIeaafe
TO the Pan-American conferences
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
F0R LOVE OF A LANCASHIRE LASS,
OR, THE QUEEN OF THE FACTORY.
By j. N1ONK FOSTER,

p OF "A LAssIE MYSTERY,
MILLION
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26


Social circles are in a furry over the an
nouncement that Miss winnie Davis, the
youngest daughter of Jefferson Davis, the late
president of the Southern Confederacy, is en-
gagged to be married to Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson of
Syracuse, the grandson Of Samuel
j. May, the great abolitionist leader
The life of Miss Davis is too well
known to be repeated here. but the story OF Mr.
Wilkinson's paFentage is comparatively I'M
known. He is son of John " ilkinson a very
prominent figure in the local history of SYRIA
cuse, and the grandson of Rev Samuel j. Nav
The name of the Rev Mr.. May is one of the
bright gems in the abolition sky, for he was the
pioneer, with Garrison, Emerson, Phillips and
Longfellow, in the great work for emancipation.
Miss Davis is about twenty-eight years old
Four years ago she visited Syracuse, an old
stron ghold of abolition, where she was received
into society, although two or three people
treated her with GOODNESS. Mr.. Alfred Wilkin-
son resented this, and thus became well ac-
quainted with the daug hter of the Confederacy
Acquaintance ripened into love and paved the
way for the wedding, the date OF which is not
vet fixed,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26

President Harrison formally presented
the gold medal voted by congress to
Joseph Francis, the inventor of the life
saving car, in Washington on Saturday E.
The medal is of pure gold, weighs over
three Troy pounds, contains S760 dollars
worth of gold, and cost, exclusive of the
design, over So 900. The aged recipient
of this honor is now about ninety years
old. He was born in Boston and in
childhood played around the boat
building establishment of a relative,
Seventy years ago young Francis first at
traoted public attention TO his boats by
building light fast going row boat and
exhibiting it at the Massachusetts, Me-
chanical Institute. 1t received favorable
mention, and that was the first leaf in
the international wreath of laurels with
which the inventor has since been
crowned. His unsuitable boat was
shown in New York in 1925 and its first
practical use was in saving the passen-
gers on the British ship Ayrshire, which
Yves wrecked on the Jersey coast in 1850.
This made Francis a hero. European
soverelgns showered honors upon him,
and only in America did he 60 unre-
warded. The cost of the medal, in
Guiding design, dies, ETC.. is $4,000. Mr..
Francis lived for many years in the
Stevens house, foot of Broadway, New
York
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26

The Texas Spring Palace is an original
conception for presenting to the public
the products and resources of the state
1t is not fair, in any sense of the term,
but Karporams "A picture of the
fruits of the soil, the orchard, the gar
den, the farm, the forest, the mines,
the streams-eaoh wrought into form
and shape with great ingenuity and ar
tistic skill. The visitor who attends the
Palace to see crazy quilts, lace handker-
chiefs, embroidery, threshing machines, ,
clothes wringers, etc., etc., will find
these articles conspicuous only by their
absence. The grains of the country he
will find represented by beautiful pic
ture of the goddess of the forest, con-
structed of cereals, and clad in raiment
made of the same material, the whole
presenting veritable picture, beautiful;
attractive and pleasing. Every prcdaoE
of the soil is treated IN the SANE biSnfier,
and when finished the whole Eafaoe pre-
sents more the Rapeefanoe of scene
from FairylaRH than a gathering of the
products Of tfe earth.
Ia addition to this the threshed grains
afsd other products are presented by
samples in show cases, on shelves and in
glass jars, neatly arranged for exhibit
ton.
The birds of the state are there treated
by the Taxidermist g art, and the fishes
swimming in their native element, in
glass squariums. There are also the
song birds by the hundreds, whose voices
fill the building with sweet notes, attest
ing their appreciation of the beautiful
scene that surrounds them. It were
futile to attempt description of this
wonderful work. A few have attempted
it, and we reproduce the efforts of some
of the more distinguished. The Fort
Collins (Col.) Courier condensed the
whole in single sentence, exolaiming:
est rivals all the visions of youthful
fancy.
The Buoyrus (ohiO) Telegraph, reoog-
nizing the poverty of the English Ian
guage to do the subject Justice, said:
"It is indescribable. The greatest ex-
position ever before the people. One Is
dazed by the splendor which greets the
eye"
The Evansville Qnd.) Courier said:
alt is a magnificent structure, built
entirely of products from Texas. It is a
grand object lesson. showing the world,
at glance, what Texas is, and what she
has to offer to capital and immigration -
The st. Louis Globe Democrat made an
effort to enlarge upon it to some extent,
but it found the task of minute descrip-
ton hopeless one, and after founder
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contents. He knew those delicately
| formed characters too we'll to be mis-
! taken.
He sat there in the chair for little
while with the unopened letter in his
| trembling fingers. Why had Nellie
! written to him? What had she to say?
Was it good news or bad she had to tell
him?
There were beads Of sweat on May
hew's brow and face as he put those
questions to himself Whatsoever his
faults were-and he had many-his pas
sionate love for the factory girl was deep
and strong; SO deep and strong, in fact,
that had he been less cunning and cruel
naturally it might have made a much
better man of him.
Suddenly he tore the cover away and
read the contents. The enclosed note
ran thus:
II Manchester Road.
'Dear Sir:-I fear that l made great
mistake the other night when 1 met you
in the wood. l was so taken by surprise
that l hardly knew what was doing. If
agreeable TO yourself l should like to see
you again, say tonight at eight 'clook,
on the bridge.
NELLIE PEMBERTON. -
A deep sigh of satisfaction welled from
the young fellows lips as the last word
of the note was read, and he kissed the
name at the end again and again.
Nellie desired to see him that very
night IN the wood. That could only
mean one thing. She was willing to &C
cept his offer now. The great mistake
she limited at having made most surely
meant her refusal of his proposal.
What had produced this change in her
he wondered? Was her love of social ele-
vatIon greater than her love for Mark
Eliot? Perhaps she had Quarrelled with
him-perhaps had never really loved him
at all.
MaYhew's egotism made him accept
the latter inference as the one most likely
TO be true, and with that letter Of Nell
lies in his hand there was some excuse
for his thinking so.
Turning to the desk beside the window
Mayhem set about writing a reply to
Nellie s note, pouring out upon the pa
per before him all the feelings that at
that moment filed his heart. He
thanked her warmly for writing to him
and admitting the mistake she had made;
he re-told his love-renewed his proposal
with many rhetorical flourishes, and
finally pledged himself to be at the spot
named TO meet her.
Then he slipped away to post the let
ter, not daring to entrust that missive to
anyone. He wanted the girl to know
that he had received her note and that
he would be at the bridge awaiting her.
By posting his note himself it would be
certain of reaching her the moment she
reached home.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
The Old, Old Reception.

It isn't her form,
1t can't be her face.
What catches and binds me in rapture estate;
Her gown S very plain,
Neither ribbon or lace,
And yet she possesses an attraction emphatic.
It ISN'T her face,
1t can't be her form
Nor powder, nor gewgaws, jewels and that,
Yet-Jove! why she's ugly.
Skipped now is the charm,
Why did she remove it-that Gainsnorough hat?
DRY Goods Chronicle.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
A Crnel Rshnn

Tailor-''I admire the persistence with which
you try 70 stand me OF for new spring suit,
Mr.. Lastcent. You deserve credit, sirl''
Young Lastcent-' Thanks T.
where for your deserts. Mr.. LastcentI'3-fDry
Goods Chronicle.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26

"IILIUuI NAC-AIetIJ hauudIIS PoSslbIe Sue
eessor
There will be bitter struggle among
the Quaker City Democratic leaders for
the control of the convention which will
name Randall's successor. The district
Is undoubtedly Democratic, but the fight
which is now in prospect may result in
the election Of a Republican. The only
svowed candidate as yet is State Senator
William McAleer, shrewd politician
who has been fighting Randall 8 friends
all his life. McA1esr's friends claim
that they can control the district, but
Esquire MoMullsn and others of Ram
dali s friends will be against him, as will
also ex-Postmaster Harrity, VINO is the
most potent factor in Democratic politics
in Philadelphia at present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26

| ing around in two or three columns OF
details it closed by saying that
| 1.-THE decorations Of the entire build
| ing are beautiful beyond description.
There are scenes OF Texas landscape,
| birds, flowers, musical instruments,
views of the Gulf of Mexico with a rail-
road trestle over real water, all wrought
! by skillful hands from the product Of the
soil. Without and within, both as a
whole and in minute detail, the decora-
tions are indesotibsbly beautiful and
wonderful in artistic conception and ex-
ecution -
Leaving the press and dsSeea or
ascending Gas the readsg Sss) to in
dividual opinion We s6ote from the
Hon. Jaass e'isIa6d, Mayor of Sioux
Cir Iowa. who says:
- IL would be impossible for me to in
dulgs in any extravaganza in saying, to
the people of this entire country, that
no more beautiful or more unique picture
was ever erected upon the face of the
globe. -
Hon. J. n. Thayer, of Nebraska, at
er viewing the Palace, said, it is az Pal
ace of marvellous beauty, rivaling in
grandeur temple lined with gold and
silver and studded with precious gems,
made of Gods handiwork, of the fruits
of the field. We see here an abundance
of what Texas can produce. Everything
is beautiful, and everyone will say:
'Wen done, Fort Worth; well done,
Texas. -
Gov. R. B. Hubbard, ex-minister to
Japan, who has visited oriental ooun--
tries, and seen the most skillfuI and
dextrous handiwork OF all nations,
said:
''This is q verltable wonderland.
Such artistic arrangements Of the cereals
such beautiful decorations, and such a
wonderful exhibit of marble, granite,
minerals and wood have never seen be-
fore -
This was was the verdict of last years's
Palace, the maiden effort on the part Of
the people of Texas.
The Palace this year will be much
larger, more comprehensive, and if skill
and experience can make It so, more
beautiful than that of last year. It is
well worth trip across the continents to
see.
The famous Elgin band VIII be present
in full force and will discourse the finest
music ever heard in Texas.
The Palace opens May 10th and will
continue twenty-five days.
All the railroads will make reduced
rates, good for thirty days, enabling you
to see t'Texas at q Glanee.''
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26

Read our otfer to send webstefss Unabridged
Dictionary to any one FORWARDING two annual
subscriptions to the Daily GAZETTE and $40 in
cash.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-12-19

sumci n Quo year wAs - "a 6: rounds
In 1854 The number or iaborcrs hooded
20 make shis quantity. on u. basis
which prevails IN Wales would b -
follows: q 354 men. 2 4Cs boys, S.l73
girls; total. -. SO II We average this
labor ~ $500 q year. which Is ccrtainly
= high figure considering tho large
number Of boys and girls In the total
the yearly wages paid in the entire rim
plate ind ustry would be s; 69G. BOO We
are thus asked BY our high tariff makers
20 tax ourselves 3iI. 056 900 4 year in or.
der that r.. 900 labofers may receive
8. c95, 900. Could human folly 60 fur
ther?
But we have ct present no lAboren
who arc trained in executing the
moro diflcult processes In tin-plste
making. In answer 70 this the pro-
tcctionists assure Us that tho Welsh
labosvrs are ready 70 flock 20 this
country 70 work in the Mckinley
~tln-plate mills This il but : further
step in human folly. We are = pay a.
most double price for our tin-p!htes in
order TO get Welshman 70 come here
and make them for u.s.! A . simp .
business question would II not be far
more sensible Il let these same men
MAKE them for Us in Wales At three
cen a pound rather than come 70
America and make them for us here at
fivc ccnts . pound?
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HIDING z o FATHER.


There is something peculiarly sor-
rowfu. 10 me In the way in which the
children Of some households slip quiet
IL out OF sight when they hear fathers
footsrcus outside the door. There must
be no noise or disorder. no laughing and
shouting when father comes home The
children must settle down then. for
father cant bear noise and disorder
sworries" him. Oh il does, does ii?
II makes him nervous TO hear the baby
cry or the children laugh. does il? lie
likes 70 have the house perfectly still.
does . Well. then. what under the
sun did he ever marry for? Why didn't
be remain in that state Of single bless
edness peculiarly appropriate 10 men
whom children worry" There are 50
many nice. quiet delightful boarding
houses in which the laugh Of q child is
never heard because children are mot
allowed" there.
Men whom children worry ought to
forever remain within the walls Of these
delightful abodes II would be better
Cor them and infinitely better for the
children that come 10 them when they
marry and establish homes Of their
own.
know a great. tall. robust husband
and father whose children have TO
quiet down" the momcn he comes
home because their noise makes him
nervous Poor man. ! could feel a
little sorry for him. perhaps, IL 4 bad
not seen him in the Board Of Trade
building enduring its bediamitc racket
With perfect self-composure- lie is a
stock broker and the noisiest. loud
est-mouihei one on the street. but
the moment he gets within the Of
his own home he becomes so nervous
that the laughter and childish prattle
OF his own children Is more than be can
hear. Sad. isn't il?
II Is sad for the children II cheats
them out OF so much Of the Joy Of child
hood that other children know-the
romrs with father. the rummaging Of
his pockets TO see II he has brought
them any thing. the climbing into his
lap 70 hug and kiss him, the going ITO
Boston town. on his foot. the ''trot
trot to Banbury Cross" and the feeling
icar and sweet 4 childhood that father
loves them and that they can come 70
him with all their little cares and sor
rows. 1t Is sorrowful to sec natural,
childish affection smothercd and reject
ed and At last killed BY > father whose
foctstcp Is : signal for his children 70
hide from the face that ought 70 Be the
dearest ore in the world . them. -De.
tsoit Free Press
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A CASE ~ POINT.


How American Nanuf s~tu Arc Able q
sstaugh and Grow tat.~
The New York Engineering News
says the Jcrusalem-Ja fYa railway has
Just been equ pped with three iocomo-
tiyes made 1t the Baldwin works IN
Philadelphia, which arrived at Jans
Septemb Der g. Thus the first locomo-
tivcs used n this ancient land are made
in the New World"
How does IL happen that Philadel.
phia, which lies 3. 1000 miles further
away from Palestine thai England is
can place locomotives upon this Jeru-
salcm-Jatfa railway in competition with
English builders? The American Econ
omist, the organ OF the American Pro-
:cctiyc Tariff League, has recently
printed a statement which Is . sud-
cicnt answer 70 that question The
Eronum 81 v
>Ir James X tson. the president Of the
Iron ana steel I~n-titufe. and the largest
manufactures of 10 nmotiv > In England
ne u AK : 10 a ye~ar-vi~itci the Ia dw \
locomotive works IN Pnliadeinhia which
viii try 10 NIKE 100 ior motives this
year. and exports moro Inn str James
makes. Iaer he saw ships strurg ing
~ith tHxei raw material AMI paying wofk-
men ,wic what he paw \. but full q thr best
machinery known. n he VII take hack .
snip loai Of American machinery and . few
Americans 20 IN ~ him h,wt 10 use it he can
undersrIi q | EngIaad
That Is to say, the organ Of high pro-
lection boasts Of the superiority d
American over English ingenuity and
yet that we necd the present duty IN
locomotives 70 protect US from EnglandI
Who says the age Of miracles IL past?
Let him study tho protecti onist brain
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~ mother, when she learned that tune which
father vhistlcd 50.
say. There's something wrong today
Win Ephraim. l know;
y never tries 10 make believe he's happy thai
err way
!. mat I'm certain as can be some trouble Is
topay'"
"a q. netimcs. quite natural like. 70 US o.
servant youth
mere So med suggestion In that tune OF deep
pathetic truth.
when Brother william joined the wars lot Of
us went down
~ sec The gallant soldier boys night gayly out
oftown;
.cOrin' home. poor mother cried as II her
heart would break
a,d ~ u children. too-for hrs. and not for
n4lIiam's sake.
"a, father. trudgin' on ahead. his hands behind
him 50.
Ike and low.
IA when my eldest sister, Sue. wns married
and went West
suea ike IL took the tuck right out OF
mother and the rest,
e. VA the sunlight IN our home-why, father
used 10 say
/. xouldn't seem like home At all II Sue should
" shen she went. a-leavin' Us all sorrow and
al tears,
n father whistled lonesome like-and went
20 fcedthe steers.
User crops we're bad. and other Ills befell our
homely lot.
Ia y, around and try 70 act as II he minded
not.
a,d when came death and bore away the one
be worshipcd so.
psu vanity did his lips belle the heart be-
nnmncd with woe.
Nm see the tellfale whistle told . mood he'd
bot admit
I'D always quit his whistlin' when he thought
We noticed II.
EaHke 10 see that STOPPING form and hoary
head again
n se tie honest. hearty smile that cheered
BIZ fellow men;
n. could ! kiss the kindly lips that spake no
creature wrong.
All share the rapture OF that heart that over
flowed with song.
b. could / hear the little tune he whistled long
Kaen b ala battle with the griefs he would
not have 70 know.
Eugene Field, in Chicago Ncws-