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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17

The autumn of - which practically put
an end 10 il. Far ont among the Colorado
mountains little battalion of white cav
airy lay behind breastworks of their dead
horses surrounded by q horde Of we'll
armed sayages. The major was killed;
The three troop commanders wounded;
many of the men shot dead; all of them
worn with anxiety, thirst and constant
batting, and all praying for the coming
OF suecoT. Scouting through the beauti-
lUl park country the captain Of COIored
troop Of this same Ninth regiment caught
sight of little scrap of paper in the
FORK Of q stick planted by the side of the
trail. 1t told the news of the
desperate plight Of the white SOL
ciers, and though he had barely fifty
men, what did the captain do but ride
al that day and night with his buffalo
soldiers, SIS the Indians called them,
gathering after. and at daybreak he and
taeE were lighting side by side with the
be>.eEed. Capt. Dodge had all his beau
N'ul horses killed, but he helped his
comrades 10 hold ont against the mob of
A0roerous ties until Gen. Merritt with
me best troops of the Third and Fifth at
his heels came trottlug down to the res
cue thTee days after, Just in the nick of
l.lAe. A wonderful march he made OF
IT, 100, night and day, TO get from the
runway 10 that beleaguered band. One
hundred and seventy miles in sixty-nine
hours Is pretty fast travelling for cavalry,
il You have never tried it,
>lIe oy side with the daTkies at Leav-
7-NoEtn rode troop of the Fifth cavalry
on beautiful bay horses-aud in our regi-
"ents horses are assigned TO companies
according TO color. They looked in the
fV'.Vct.ol Of condition, so shiny and
seek ana wholesome. The men, too,
-ooAeo oFonzed and hearty and well fed,
- 'uey certainly are, but ] could not
-7'P thinking Of the appearance of that
s,e troop Is Il came dripping from the
- .g.G Of the Belle Fourche on the last of
M eleven days Of the CHASTITY march
- C@- the mead waters Of the Heart river.
- 4. ..1lu rainea piteouSly all the time. We
--a1 ueltheF tents nor wagons. Rstions
"9'e ali gone by the time we reached the
Sl11a-the Palanata Wakpa, as the
.-o1A called It-and everybody had been
Va na!I ratlons for DAYS before-every-
11 Uut the horses, and they, poor
s'.-'es' mad only the scant grass the In
a1s hao not succeeded in burning off
Us. Some men, when they rescued
'ord OF Belle Fourche, were too faint
s'agger through Only half the
1oIses ever reached the Hills at all.
,,-.l gu VET with all the hardships and
ia "a 'lohs OF those campaigns 1 doubt if
-s hVes man who served with the
VINO does not recall them with
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17

pattern and traced around in fine silken
cord. When of cheViot these suits are
to be made quite plain, with a hem
turned in around and simply stitched +,
the corsage having velvet or armure
sleeves. When large check materials
are used the sleeves are to correspond
with the rest of the dress.
The last illustration in this article
represents another combinatiOn-beige
cloth and bronze velvet, trimmed with
bronze silk grelots. The sleeves are
more than skin tight from the elbow
down and must be buttoned after the
dress is on. l never use the expression
''skin tight, - that 1 don't think of the
dude who ordered pair of unmentiOn
ables to be made "skin tight. a." Alas, he
couldn't sit down in them, and so in
formed his tailor.
6 But you ordered them skin tight. -
$50 l did, but l can sit down in my
skin. -
The hat worn by this lady in the last
mentioned cut, is scoop-shaped and
made of black lace trimmed with roses.
All in all, this is very pretty makeup
and well qualified to show of a neat
trim figure. These silk grelots used to
trim this costume are much affected just
at present.
A pretty toilet for young miss is of
delicate lead color, the bottom of the
skirt being trimmed with three rows of
passementerie with willow green grelots.
The oorsage is made en- fichu over a vest
of willow green velvet, the sleeves, very
bouffant at the shoulders, run down to
nothing at the wrists.
Sleeves nowadays demand and get q
great deal of attention. Our grand
mothers studied this sleeve question.
Look at some of your old portraits for
sleeve effects.
But l saw a ball costume the other
day, which. in the matter of sleeves,
was as full of thought as one of Brown
ings poems and of grace as Tennysonian
idyI. They consisted OF tulle, be-
spangled with jet, were of the so-called
angel pattern and were thrown back
and fastened 90 the waist whence they
spread over the train. The inside sleeve
was made up entirely Of chaplets of jet
which were joined in one place only on
the outside of the arm and fell in a
shower to the elbow. All, it was real
poem and its author is as much entitled
to Immortality as these makers OF word
chaplets.
By the way, did it never occur to you
how greatly indebted these versifers are
to designers and inventors Of artistic
costumes? But have they ever aokuOwl-
edged it? Take every mention OF wO-
man g dress out Of Tennyson and what
sieve you would create. True, there is
one allusion to dress by Lord Alfred
which l must admit would have to stand.
Which one? Why his description Of
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pride and pleasure, or who would have
missed them for many months pay
except, Of course, those poor fellows
whose health were permanently shattered
by the severity of the ordeal.
Until very lately the sight of cavalry
troops east of the Missouri has been con-
fined to a peep at the little battalion at
Washington. The Fifth, Seventh and
couple of troops of the Sixth were on
duty in the Southern states for a while
after the civil war, but since 1872 or 1878
our guidOns never fluttered further East
than Jefferson barracks, Missouri, until
Gen. Sheridan decided on bringing two
companies to the Potomac. Cavalry
officers in uniform were very rare sight
in our Eastern cities as q consequence,
and the nature of their real services is
very little understood. II has happened
within the past ten years that two or
three of sheir number have been ordered
to the East on staff duty and have ap-
peaTed on state occasions in the fulI-dTess
uniform of their rank. Now, there are
some of our people to whom the sight of
a regular officer in uniform is something
like the traditional ''red rag to bull, -
and there are always newspapers ready
to sheer at the soldiers for the benefit of
this particular class. AS an instance, a
Washington correspondent referred some
little time ago to the ''carpet knight
of a cavalry officer present at a social
gathering. The gentleman so disdain-
fully spoken of happened to be tall and
most distinguished looking trooper, who
had fought with Gen. Thomas from Mill
Spring to Nashville in every one of his
great battles; had been perforated by
ho5 6
ted for gallantry IN action during that
great war; had led his troop and fought
every tribe of Indians from the ella TO
the Upper Missouri had starved or frozen
with his men (having to surrender sew
eral fingers TO the surgeons knife or
loose an entire haud) who had been
thankful time and again for bit of
! hOrsefesh on which to sustain life, and
finally after years of service over the
plains and mountains, had been ordered
East on staff duty to be sneered at by
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light the hearts of all beholders-an ex-
tremely stylish jacket. l once heard of
a man who, on yachting party, fell in
love with jacket-eXcuse me, girl in
jacket. That jacket haunted him, pur-
sued him, fitted before him in his dreams
until at length he betook himself TO the
dwelling place of the jacket aforesaid,
with intent to tell his love. But he
changed his mind when he saw the girl
minus Jacket
This jacket before us is very original
and becoming, being made in a combi-
nation of pale cachau cloth with rows Of
grelots in the same shade and black vel
vet. The plastron is in old silver en-
broidery. The skirt is of soft white
wool made plainly While on the sub
ject Of jackets let me say word about
wraps. These are not only very dressy
but very modish. They are slightly
gathered in an original way and have
MedIcis collars. They must not go be-
low the waist and must harmonEe with
the color OF the costume, no matter of
what material they may be made. The
funnel-shaped Medicis collar still re-
mains great fayorite but it produces a
ridiculous effect on ghort-uecked,
dumpy figure, altogether too realistic
that, placing funnel in the spigot of a
barrel.
At the seaside, or in the mountains, a
white cloth jacket, striped with chestnut
brown and trimmed with white fur, will
be very dressy next summer for a young
person, or even one little older. Such
a jacket may be seen hanging on the arm
of the next figure. The night air gets
pretty chilly at some of the watering
places, and while it may be romantic to
be wrapped up in half of Tom 3 overcoat,
yet in such a "divide'' the girl always
gets the most and Tom might catch his
death, the dear boy.
The costume of the lady with the
jacket on her arm is very pretty ar
Tangement in two blues. being a combi-
nation OF sky-blue suTah and dark blue
cloth embroidered with white and pale
blue designs and bordered with gray fur.
The. hat is of dark blue silk crepe with q
ribbon Of pale blue silk laid upon il all
around and trimmed with a bunch of
narcissus. This is very stylish costume
and would look well on hotel veranda,
especially if there was pretty woman
inside of it. These arrangements in two
shades are likely to continue to be fash
ionable. Only l must sound q note of
warning anent the velvet sleeve. Its
days are numbered. A witty friend of
mine, to whom made this announce
ment, replied that he was sorry to hear
it, as he had four unmarried daughters.
and the velvet sleeves had been an agree
able change from the scratchy stuff
heretofore entwined about his neck when
favors were to be asked.
The new sleeve in wool dresses will be
of different color and entirely covered
with guipure Of the same shade as the
material. The effect Of this new coneeit
is rich and stylish.
Summer viii soon be upon Us, and it is
high time TO give it thought. CoIors
are to be light and stuffs gauzy-chaIets,
zephyrs and organizes, symphonies in
delicate shades;' but the natty, per-
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17
THE FIRST HARB0R.
Two Leaders in the Refrigerator Movement
Tell About the Improvements
at the BrazOs.

Yesterday a GAZETTE man sought an
expression from Messrs Charles Good
night and II. B Stoddard regarding the
progress being made in the direction OF
deep water on the Texas coast, those
gentlemen having recently visited the
coast in the interest of the refrigerator
movement which they met in Fort Worth
yesterday to consult about. Said they:
1.-THE question of deep water on the
Texas coast is one that will be settled in
a very short time AT the mouth of the
Brazos we found the work in condition
well advanced toward completion. The
work is being pushed rapidly, and is
having its natural effect. The depth of
water has been increased ten feet during
the time since the work was commenced
until when we went there; and most of
the material for the completion Of
the work is on hand there.
Thirty or forty more good working days
will enable them to cross the bar with the
line of their jetties. The work of man
is being aided by nature, and together
they are forming there barbor Of great
capacity that will compare with any in the
world; at least so we are reliably in
formed by those who know the capacity
and dimensions of other famous harbors
There is no question that there Is safe
and secure anchorage them for all the
vessels that will be brought in during our
generation The indications now are and
we firmly believe this will be the first
deep water port procured on the Texas
coast. The advantage of the oonsum-
nation of that measure is known TO all
people, and its advantage to the particu-
lar industry which we have met in the
city to-day to advance is too patent to
need comment. -
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oe5 now. Everywhere over the pralries,
,rbere we secuted and fought when our
how readers of to-day were babies, the
ron horse goes snorting on his way.
Vast fields of grain, countless head Of
beef cattle cover the slopes and fbot-
,ons - where the buffalo herded by
tbonsands in the early seventies. Town,
y-flIages. even large and thriving cities
have sprung up like magic over the GAGE
IF the earth. In 1876 no white s1an
conIi ride alone from the Platte TO the
powder river, or beyond. Now, only on
tbe reservation will an Indian face be
seen. And all that vast vast eXpanse of
rich and beautiful and productive coun-
try was opened to the settler and immi-
rraut by the little army of United States
recplars. horse and foot, and not one of
those fertile valleys is unmarked by the
graves Of their fallen.
II was a duty full OF vivid interest and
excitement, boys; it was a service that
kent Us in the mountains or over the
7r6ad praIries from the moment the grass
began 10 spout in the early spring until
late in the bitter cold of a Western win
fer. some times we had 10 send eXpedi-
rf9us out in the dead of winter, when the
mercury stood st thirty degrees below
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some whippeTsnapper Of newsb0y who
was in swGddling clothes when the OBJ
ject of his derision was fighting like a
lion at CLickamauga. These sings Of
the press at our sOldierY are by no means
as frequent now as they were ten years
ago before the wonderful pencils of Rem
ington and Zogbaum had taught
our people through the Illustrated
papers something of the real life
our troopers lead, but once in a whlle
they still appear, and when you see
them, boys, just stop and think mo-
ment. The chances are ten TO one that
they are hitting at some officer who has
done years of hard and peTilous service
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17
WAS IT MURDER?
". S. Carothers Killed in the Office OF Dr..
Bibb of SaltIllO Aezico-BOth Form
eTlY of Austin.
Special to the Gazette.


LAREDO, TEX. April l0.-From pas
sengers just in from the city of SaltlllO.
Mexico, it is learned that w. 5. Caroth-
ers, formerly of Austin, Tex. was killed
in that city last night in the office of DR..
Bib, also formerly of the same point.
There were no other parties present when
the killing occurred. Carothers was
shot through the heart. DR.. Bib was at
once arrested and protested his innocence.
claiming that the shooting was purely
accidental. The general supposition pre-
walls that the killing of CarrotheTs, how
ever, was a murder, as there had been
some previous professional rivalry be-
tween the two men, and Bibb, when in
anger, is known to have an uncontrOi-
able temper. CarrOthers passed through
this city few days ago and was TO have
removed to the City of Mexico next
week. In fact, he was IN SaltillO on this
occasion to remove his furniture, etc.
having left his wife in the CITY of Mexico
awaiating him there. IL is supposed his
body will be brought TO Texas for burial.
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HOW TO DESERVE NATURE.
By John Burroughs, Author of ''wake Rob
in,'' "Pepacoin,'' and Other Books
Of Outdoor Lie.

By John Burroughs, Author of F'Wake Rob
in "Pepacoin,'' and Other Books
OF Outdoor Life.
To teach young people or old people
how to observe nature is a good deal like
trying to teach them how to eat their
dinner. The first thing necessary in the
latter case is g good appetite; this given
the rest follows very easily.
And in observing nature IN
less you have the appetite.
the love, the spontaneous desire, you will
get little satisfaction. It is the heart
that sees more than the mind. To love
nature is the first step in observing her
II boy had TO learn fishing as a task,
what slow progress he would make; but
as his heart is in il how soon he becomes
an adept.
The eye sees quickly and easily those
things in which We are interested. a
man interested in horses sees every fine
horse IN the country he passes through;
the dairymen notes the cattle; the bee
culturist counts the skips of bees; the
sheep-grower notes the fiocks, etc Is it
any effort for the ladies TO note the new
oonnetss new cloaks upon the street? We
all see and observe easily in the life of
our business, our tasks, our desires.
If one is q lover OF the birds he sees
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DEEP WAFER.

Hon. S. ". Houston Talks About the Prospects
for Harbor on the Texas Coast.
Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, April 10.-Hon.
A. w. Houston, who has been in Wash
ington City for the past few months in
the interest of q deep harbor on the
Texas coast, has returned. Mr. Hous-
ton expresses himself as very much
pleased with the prospects Of the project
He says he is informed on entirely trust
worthy authority that the Coke bill max
ing an appropriation of Sc 200, 900 for
Galveston, will pass The house as easily
as it got through the senate, and he is
further satisfied that the bill of private
parties asking permission to deepen the
harbor at Arkansas Pass at their own ex-
pense will pass both houses OK congress.
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public to dress well - But are we not
all artists? Have we not all our pub
lies, large or small, to which we owe al
Iegiance-a usband or a sweetheart, a
circle or coterie? 1 think SO. A mar
ried woman of my acquaintance, now
sixty-five, for over forty years has worn
a ceinture as part of her night dress,
in order that she might keep intact the
beauty of her figure which her husband
had always raved over.
Well, glance at the turbap worn by
the dainty miss at the head of this artl-
Gle turns my thoughts to hats. very
pretty toque of white French crepe has
made it's appearance. The brim is Dor
dered with a narrow band of maize col
oTed ostrich feathers, gold bullion passe-
menterie passing across the head, with
additional trimmings of bows of inch
wide velvet ribbons in white and maize
color and strings of the maize colored
ribbon.
Lace and velvet flowers enter largely
into the construction of the headgear at
high prices.
In the second picture there appears
another very stunning hat in Tuscan
straw, trimmed with gold edged white
gauze and branches of mimosa. But
now l come to something which will de-
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feotly- fitting, built on form, tailor
made costume holds its own right val
iantly. And 80 it should, for it's the
very perfection of street dress and often
has a heap of style about it, too-its
very simplicity giving it tone of high
breeding and culture. The material for
these tailor made suits will be lady 8
cloth in fawn, gray, stone and drab,
trimmed with applique bands of a lighter
or darker tone of cloth or kid cut out in
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and many a poor fellow, officer and pTi-
vate alike, had to suffer amputatiOnF Of
feet or fingers that were frozen too badly
To save. on the other hand, in the Ari-
iona deserts, men died of thirst and eX-
halstion from exposure to the rays of
blazing sun. In 1916, when chasing the
Sioux after the tragic battle summer in
which Custer and so many of the Seventh
were killed, one big column got en-
tirely out OF Tations and would
have starved but for their poor
half starved horses. Think OF living
week on horse meat or nothing at all.
You never saw such a set of scarecrows in
all your life as we fellows were when we
rode into the Black Hills after Gen.
Crook 5 great campaign, that resulted in
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Sioux nation
Indeed more than half the command
came feebly trudging in afoot, some tow
ing q worn old skeleton of horse behind
them, some having no horses to tow
they had been eaten on the way.
II was not so long ago that l stood one
day on the parade OF Fort Leavenworth
and saw the cavalry battalion drawn up
I0r review. The "schoOl of applica-
tom is held here and this battalion is
made mp Of troops (cOmpanies) from sew
eral different regiments. Among them
rode the daTkies Of ''L'' troop of the
Ninth cavalry, sitting their horses just
IS we'll as and keeping their alignment
even better than some of their white COM
rades. The time was when there existed
q prejudice against the cOlored trooper,
but the sentiment got setback - il
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Lady Godi7a "clothed in her hair. "
That brings me exactly where I wanted
to be. There is one thing certain-Lady
Godiva was not Boston woman.
OF all skinny growths of hair com
mend me to the Boston girl. May there
not be a mysterious bond Of sympathy
between the development Of the bram
and the loss Of the hair? Who knows
There is one consolation for the Boston
woman, however. Should she ever be
called upon to enact the role Of Lady
GodiYa, she may wear her glasses.
All ornaments for the hair, even for
full dress, must be simple and refined
Two butterflies with gold wings set
lightly upon the fluffy couture was
deemed sufficient even for q ball costume
or q pink Marie Antoiuette puff with a
silver aigrette. When flowers are used !,
strip them Of their leaves and use them
only in one place. If you have plenty Of
hair the epaulet twist low on the neck
with the rest of the hair continued over
the top CT the head, still continues 70 be
a favorite style. The Greek coiffure is
also deseryedly popular, setting of as it
does the shapely head and classic fea-
lures. But, after all, only the artists
eye can determine whether the hair
should be worn high or low, whether
close to the head or raised in pufs auSs
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frizzes, used alone by itself or pieced out
by artificial means. 1t is matter worthy
of deep study and the term ''arlists in
hair' is not such q terrible mIsnomer
after all
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When Baby was sick. we gave her Castoriass-
EhsesAswas cand. scrisd fqseastof
sswhsn shsaecaass silss3she cluns s. cszsssa.
HAsn IS had szAlsssa. Sc szss ezslsria
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Q + L f B r A TED
German in g g r,
Nine. NJ q t ernR ,
whose marvellous
voice has b g g u
heard in this coun-
try, has just won q
brilliant success in
Paris. l mention
this in q fashion
article because the
French papers are
unusually enthusi-
astic over her, but
add with a sigh
''Ohl If Madam
Materna wOul d
only dress better
/ think | hear some
fair reader say,
with a ssucv toss
o ( t h g h Q q d :
sfMadam Materna
is an artist, and
she owes 1t to the
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FASHIONA,
Hats and Jackets that viii Give the
Wearer Conquest Over Bachelors.
Days of Velvet Sleeves Numbered Combina
tion Cloth Dresses Still in Style-Lady
GodiYa not Boston Woman.
copyrighted, $780,
For the Gazette.

NRw YORK. ApriI :. 1890.