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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01
General and ParsonaI.

w. B. Waits, travelling auditor of the
Texas Pacific, was in ths city yester-
day.
Colonel John P. Moore, livestock aren,
OF the Texas & Pacific, has returned to
the city.
NJ. Nj. Jewett, livestock agent of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas, came in from
up the Denver road yesterday.
The half-paRe advertisement OF the
| Cotton Belt road, which appeared III THE
GAZETTE Yesterday, was the biggest
straight railroad advertisement ever
published in Texas. 1t showed sense
aud enterprise.
me Union Pacific statement for July,
90 Sooommlnary, shows gross earnings,
SSo'o3I 1862; increase, S2G3 1874; net,
"i'6I2 '772; I'crease, Sll ,42l. For seven
.nohthe to July 81: Gross, S23, 739. IL;
increase, So, POI ,l37i net, 81, 5Il ,34S;
increase, SG9. $50.
The consolidation OF the Pecos Valley
and the Pecos Northern roads, both
under construction, gives addition i'm
portauce TO the line. II will be grand
feeder for the Texas and Pacific and Will
open up valuable territory in both
Texas aud New Mexico.
Beginning yesterday a daily through
train service was established on the Mis-
souri, Pacific between Kansas ty and
Little Rock with through sleeping cars,
which will make the entire run between
knnsas City, Mo. and Memphis, Tenn.
This will connect The important center5
OF Kansas City, Fort Smith, Little Rock
and Memphis by direo. through car serv-
ice.
The liabilities of the railroad system of
this country are $40, 900, 900 900 They
paid out in dividends 81 900 200, 600 last
year. They carry annually $40 ZOO. 900
passengers with very small percentage
Of accidents. They have increased their
facilities at ratio one third greater
than the increase in population. More
than One-teuth of the entire population
of the country live directly by railroads. |
The Cotton Belt, in addition 10 its |
new through train services between !
Memphis and Fort Worth, via TexHrk-
ana, which went into effect yesterday, |
will run new train daily both ways, be-
tween Delta and JOnesboro, in con-
neCtlOu with the Columbus acCOmmo-
datiOu trains of the Iron Mountain lIue.
This will give people i'll the whole delta
section an opportunity OF reurhiug ST
Louis by daylight travel.
The returns of actual gross earnings of
the Missouri, KauSHs and Texas railway
for the first six months of 1890 are US
compared with the correspond
ng period of 1889: Gross earnings 1890,
%, $50, $50; 1889, IS. 2G7 ,OGO; increase,
'5G9 AGO. This is S2l3, $40 in excess OF
approximate or estimated earnings pre-
'iously reported. Gross earnings from
uiy l to August Il, 1880, show an III
rease OF S2I 200 over the corresponding
,eriol last year.
Investigating Railway Ticket brokerage.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 30.-The
abroad commissioners of Missouri and
,ansas today began joint investigation
lto the business of railway ticket broker
ge. Ii is said this action is taken by
uggestiOns of the interstate commerce :
which definitely outlined the I
guilty OF the scalpers business. |
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01

Mr.. c. L. Ware. livestock agent OF
the Fort Worth and Denver, WAS ia the
city last night, having just came down
from the Panhandle country. He reports
fine rains along the line, aud everything
looking well. The cattle movement, he
SAYS, is beginning to improve, aud the
Denver expects IL good business In that
line during the fall. Saturday there
was l40 carloads of tnck moved from
Ruthtord and other points GU the line,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01
Fort Worth and Denver City R'y.
Denver, Tsxes & Fort Worth R.s.'
Texas Panhandle Route

shcrtsst line, quickest time from I'll, euliof
Mexico, Fort Worth and all principal points 4
te1as 10 Rocky Mountain resorts and Pscldo
asf. inc: uding Trinidad, Pueblo, Manitou
ES Ic! spTings. Denver, COL, Salt Lats.
Stah; Portl nd, Oregon, Tacoma, sesttls and
PORT townsend. Daily trains leaving Fort Worth
1eomprlsipg new ana elegantly equipped
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars through to Deu-
vei, connecting a. Colorado Jupction points With
A.. T. & 5. F. +. r. ID. &R.G. r R., Colorado
Midland Railway and Union Pacific Railway
having through cars for San FrancIsco Los
Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
Rounu trip tourist rates from Fort Worth to
Colorado points: Fort Worth to Denver. so:
Colorado Springs, $40; Pueblo. $50; Trinidad,
SO. The above tickets bear q final limit Is
October sist. Transit limit on going tTio 50
days; on return trip five days from last tours:
point, viz: Trinidad
Ogden and Salt Lake City and return. $50. 81.
limited to ninety (.tD days, with 3 transit limit
of 30 days in each direction Cheap touri,k
rates to all points in Montana, idaho. California
Oregon and all points North and NorthyeIt
The above comprise more noted and maguiacens
scenery than is compassed in any other routes in
the known world. Do not complete your Ar.
rsngements for a tourist trip until you have an.
piled to the undersigned.
Wv. NEwLIN,
u. p. A. F. w. & D. O. Ry. Fort Worth, Tag
GEO. ADY,
G. P. A, D. T. & F. w. Ry., Denver. Dol.
81. NJ DFHART, General Agent, Dallas, CeS
n. :. DAVIS, City Passenger and Ticket Agent
Third and Main streets. Fort WORTH. Tex.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01
Pro.peetirs Railroad nnilh,nr.

In Texas the year 1890 has not done as
much in the way of railroad construction
rs was ut one time promised, stil there
Is time yet for a good showing 70 be
made. aud there are prospects that il will
be. II is probable that the extension OF
The Rio Grande road will be continued
beyond Comanche; that work will start
up again on the Albuquerque; that the
Austin aud Northwestern Will DO ex-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01

tended TO Llano from Burnet; that work
will begin on the Lsmpasas ana South
western and that the extension OF the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas from Deni-
son NAV he continued south OF sherman
ns far Us Fort Worth. There Is nothing
crrGain about any OF these projects but
the Indications are quite favorable at
present
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01

All grades, all sizes, ali prices of chill
dren s school shoes at Harry Meyers
l4l2 Main.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01

For $40 the Daily GAZETTE viii bs sent orc
year and also copy OF tie original Webster;s
unabridged dictionary, 1881 pages, express
subscriber. - -" -
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02

bathing in its pools and wallowing in
the shady recesses of its forest banks.
Slaves, he asserted, in that paradise
of the man-catcher could be purchased
for two mitdkos each 1.-TWO brass rods.
worth about two cents each), so valu-
able was metal there and so plentiful
the supply of human flesh.
Any exhibition of disgust on our part
was out of place here; and we felt that
to argue with a blood-thirsty old can
nibal, and have our arguments met by
supercilious lifting of pair of an
thropophagous eyebrows was more than
either we could stand, or Elenge Mimic
find suitable words to express; so by
way of inflicting as much torture as pos
sible ere we shot out from the bank,
we gave the steam-whistle string such
tug that the shrek which burst from
the Florida nearly deafened ourselves
as we enjoyed the spectacle of it's hu-
initiating effect on the line of grinning
savages along the muddy shore.
Our last view Of that village was
somewhat obscured by the hopeless
tumble of arms, legs, monkeys tails,
knotted thighs and bursting banana
fiber waist thongs, which heaved and
throbbed on the muddy beach-as old
chief and young warrior, wife, hus-
band and babe struggled and painted to
escape from the piercing screams of the
iron monster which was now gaily dash
ing aside the current of the river on its
way to renowned Malinga.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
BLOWN INTO ETERNITY.
POOR Abe Kills Himself by Irving IN
Maintain the Eamilx Dirni4x

foor Abe Kills Himself by Irving In
Maintain the Family Dignity.
we were riding along a Kentucky
highway when we came to a mule and
cart backed up to farmhouse gate. and
one OF the two men with it halted us and
said:
strangers, reckon you'll be willing
to stop and give us lift on this thing
in the Cart
we expressed our willingness. and
were shocked to discover that "this
thing was the dead body of a Young
man.
Its my son Abe" explained the man.
who was typical Kentuckian about
sixty years old.
"But is he really dead?"
Dead as crowbar, gentlemen.
KILLED by some accident?''
mo, sir; busted to death by his own
burned foolishness. Let's git the BODY
into the house and then I'll explain
We carried it in and laid it on a bed
OH the sitting room. The wife and
mother wasn't home and as soon as the
body was decently cared for the man &C.
companied us to the door and said:
The undertaken will be along purity
soon, and I've sent for the old woman,
who is seven miles away. Now, then,
as to how he died. It's market day in
town, you know, and me an Abe wens
up. There was Teller there with one
OF them blowing machines, and the
mint Abe saw it he was dead gone"
do you mean lung tester?"
Reckon it was. You blow into it and
a pinter flies round dial to tell how
many pounds you blow"
EYES,"
well, Abe was gone on it, and was
holding him back, when one of the
Stevenses stepped up and blew. tt
was Budd Stevens, and Budd and Abe
didn't hitch, you know. They was alters
like two dogs, ready tofight, but waitin'
for the hat to drop. Budd made that
pinter hump for dear life, and the crowd
yelled and applauded. Then Abe SAYS
to me:
Dad, 1t won't never do to back
down for Stevens. I've got to beat
that blow or we'll lose our respectable
ity.'"
"'Abe, you let it Alone says I.
We've got mo- doggoned responsibility
in five minits than he Stevenses have
in hull var"
But can beat it, dad"
"'Sposing ye kin? What's blowin'
a pinter around amount to? That
hain't jumpin', or shootin', or fghtin',
is it?'''
''But, gentlemen, that ERE Abe felt
sore to see that ere Budd struttin'
around, and he took advantage of my
goin' into a saloon after a drink. He
stepped up, laid down his nickel, and he
told the boys he'd beat Budd all boiler
or bust. He sucked in enough wind to
blow barn over, got purchase in the
gravel with his feet, and then let her
CO."
''And he died!"
''Died! Why, dog-gone him, he bust
ed hisself all apart in five or six places,
and he couldn't help but die! There
was ripping and tearing, and Abe
cried out: ooh! Lord!" and fell back as
dead as June bug in January. That's
the story gentlemen, and I'm much
obliged for the lift. Good day to you. "
IN, Y, Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
A NOVEL INDUSTRY.
A Woman's Scheme for Spreading Usefr
KnOMledge in Society.

A Woman's Scheme for Spreading Useful
knowledge in Society.
A comparatively new avenue of en-
plOyment for women, particularly for
intelligent and educated women, is that
of purveyor of information on topics of
the day. The plan originated with a
bright woman who, at a dinner some
months ago, when the Samoan matter
was first prominent, beheld the con-
Sternation into which the entire COM
pany was thrown by the innocent ques-
ton of one of them: 'Where is Samoa,
by the way?" None of them, including
herself, knew for certainty, although
several more or less hazily correct sur
misses were given. The bright woman,
whose resources needed eking out, saw
her opportunity. Within week she had
sent out to various ladies of her acquaint-
ance little written notices that on the
following Tuesday afternoon an informal
stalk" upon ''Samoa and the Samoan
matter" would be delivered at the resi-
dence of Mrs -, West Seventeen
street, somewhat prominent society
woman who lent her this aid. 1t was
talk was to present in a concise and
portable way the salient features of
subject at the moment on the popular
tongue. Fully score of ladies were
present from which number a class of
ten for a course of talks was evolved.
The terms were dollar apiece from
every member for a lecture, and one
lecture per week was given during the
following three months, the class in
creasing to twenty in very short time.
Before she had conducted the enter
prise month the fair lecturer had Sc
cured classes in both Brooklyn and Jer-
sey City, and this year her scheme has
so enlarged upon her hands that four
days in the week she is at work morn
ing and afternoon, for, in addition to
the three cities, she has classes in
several suburban communities One
lecture, of course, serves for weeks
work, and as she will take no class of
less than ten paying members, it may
be readily seen that the work is profit
able. 1t is also pleasant and not
difficult. The newspapers furnish her
with topics and an afternoon at public
library affords the information needed.
Occasionally, though not often, a fashion
able book is the subject of talk; the gist
of such, however, is usually SO readily
obtained through any one of the innum-
cradle newspapers and periodical re-
views that the value of comment is not
so obvious as in the case of other popu-
lar topics. The success of the pioneer in
the work has been of nature to attract
others to non-competitive fields. Two
charming women in Seneca Falls have
taken to the parlor platform, joining
forces in the undertaking, and have
fourishing classes, not only in the viii
lage named. but in Waterloo and SYRIA
cuse, with designs upon adjacent neigh
borhoods. All of the takers made a
speciality of complete and accurate in
formation upon the topic discussed,
rather than voicing their individual
opinion upon it. 1t is gratifying COM
ment upon the growth of the standard
of development in village communities
that the disciples of the metropolitan
lecturer so quickly secured their audi
ences.-N. Y. Sun
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
SOME BIG BRIDGES.
Engineering Feats That the Ancients
Would Have Thought impossible.


Would Have Thought Impossible.
The inventors of phrases have much
exercised their ingenuity of late in
coming proper title for the present
age, and to the list of labels already
made there may surely be added that of
the Age of Big Bridges. The Brooklyn
bridge led the way, then came that
across the Firth of Forth, next the pro-
ject to join the shores of the English
channel, and now congress has been
asked to grant company of engineers
and capitalists the right to span the
Hudson from New York to New Jersey.
1t is claimed that this will be the big
gest bridge in the world, the engineer
ing standard being the length of span
and not the length of the whole struct-
ure. Thus, while the English channel
is twenty miles wide at the point to be
bridged, the longest span of the contem-
plated great link between England and
France is to be but 1,7OO feet, while the
span of the North river bridge is to be
1850 feet. A better idea of the bold
ness of this enormous leap may be gath
cred from the fact, in comparison, that
the river span of the Brooklyn bridge
is 1,495 feet, while that at Niagara is
but 1903 feet. The height of this giant
span from the river is to be $50 feet, or
fifteen feet higher than the Brookly n.
This will leave the river practically Tn
INSTRUCTED.
The dispatch does not say so in so
many words, but there is very fair in
ternal evidence that the bridge is to be
of the suspension order of construction
the most graceful form of all bridges.
1t is to be built of steel and steel wire,
materials now so much cheaper than
they were at the time the Brooklyn
bridge was built that the probability is
that the airpassage over the North river
will be completed at no greater if not at
a less cost ($8,0O0, 00O) than was that over
the East river. One important factor in
this probability is the fact that the New
York-New Jersey bridge is to be open
for traffic in seven years from the date
of franchise, while fifteen years elapsed
before the New York-Brooklyn bridge
was completed.
The enterprise is undoubtedly good
commercial one, as the success of the
Brooklyn bridge has proved; and per-
haps by the time the Jersey bridge
is in good running order the spirit
of boldness may have made its way so
far West that we may begin to seriously
discuss the feasibility of a similar con-
nection between San Francisco and Oak
land.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
WOMEN AND LUGGAGE.
Two Experiences That Saddened Fla
River Baggage Master

Two Experiences That Saddened a Fall
River Baggage Master.
queer creatures, these women" said
henry Wheland, baggage master of the
rail- River steamer, the other night.
What has struck you now?" was
asked.
1--we just been having nice
time with one of them. She came to
my Office just after we left the dock at
New York and said she'd like to get into
her trunk.
"Now,you may not have noticed it, but
all our through baggage is packed in
crates on the pier in New York, where
the crates are locked, and rolled them
aboard the steamer, to be transferred to
cars at Fall River and so carried to Bos-
ton. AT Boston these crates are supposed
to be unlocked for the first time.
This woman's trunk was bound for
Boston. l told her about the crates. and
that out of the 1,500 pieces of baggage
in the eight crates on board tonight it
would be hard to find her particular
trunk.
oh, if you'll ask the men who pack
ed the crates" she said, Il know they'll
remember my trunk and where they put
1t, for it was brand new and the very
best make
1T was no use to suggest to such a
woman that there might be another
brand new trunk on board. She seemed
In such great distress l thought it was
surely case of sudden sickness, and so
L took my keys and began to hunt for
the trunk. l unlocked and unloaded six
crates before l found her trunk. Hav-
Ing placed it convenient for her to open
l, OF course, waited near by, so as to put
it back again. She hastily took out the
tray, plunged her hands into the bottom
and pulled out-what do you think? A
sunshade. Then she locked up the
trunk, sighed gently with satisfaction,
picked up the parasol, said 'Therep and
walked away with not even thank you
to me. It's no small job to unload six
crates of baggage, and signs won't buy
a cigar"
"But you don't find many such women,
do you?" asked the reporter.
Don't |? Pm good-natured sort O.
devil and hate to refuse woman any
thing; so I'm always getting into mess.
A few trips back nice-looking young
lady wanted to get into her trunk be-
fore 1t left the pier, so said all right
and hunted it up for her. Istood close
alongside to assist her and keep the
crowd away from her while she took out
her buds.
when the trunk was open she turned
over dress that was on top, and as /
was turning my head away took out
something, l did not see what, which
she thrust into my hand to hold while
she re-arranged the things in the trunk
The boys around began to snicker 1t
was nursing bottle, and there I stood,
an unmarried man, you know, holding a
nursing bottle while the handsomest
young woman on the pier was locking
up trunk alongside. Did the boys guy
me? You bet. I'll never hear the last
of it. I'm done helping women"
However, he wasn't quite done. The
next morning at Fall River he was seen
going down the gangplank carrying a
gripsack, two bundles and bird cage,
and leading a very large dog at the end
of chain, while woman who carried
nothing walked along in front with an
air of supreme indifference.-N.Y Y. Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
MY OWN.
she basks in the glorious sunshine,

She basks IN the glorious sunshine,
Half hid in a favorite nook,
Her eyes bent on fields in the distance
With dreamy and far-away look.
The wild flowers growing about her,
Unheeded receive not a glance
silently gaze on the picture.
All shall l retreat, or advance?
She knows not that am so near her,
I'm standing outside of the gate.
My entrance, l fear, might disturb her,
And hence impatiently wait.
For once when l burst on her musings
The interview ended in Tin
j., And now is my heart in a flutter
With fear lest it happen again.
All, could decipher the feelings
That throb in the heart of my own.
Oh could foresee glad welcome
If should approach her alone.
And, Oh, If she kindly would greet m
And slip her head into this moose
She's the trickiest mule in the pasture
And won't let me catch her when loose.
Charles L. Hill, in Jury.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
The Longevity of Birds.

The swan is the longest-lived bird
and it is asserted that it has reached
the age of 100 years. Knauer, in his
work entitled Naturhistcriker, states
that he has seen falcon that was 162
years old. The following examples are
cited as to the longevity of the eagle
and vulture: A sea eagle captured in
1715 and already several years OF age,
died 1O4 years afterward. in 1919;
white-headed vulture, captured in 17O6,
died in 1926 in one of the avlar1es OF
Schoenbrunn Castle, near Vienna,
where it had passed 11s years in captlv-
ity. Paroquets and ravens reach an age
of over 100 years. The life of sea and
marsh birds sometimes equals that OF
several human generations. Like many
other birds, magpies live to be very old
in a state Of freedom, but do not reach
over 20 or % years in captivity. The
nightingale lives but 10 years in cap
tivity and the blackbird Is. Canary
birds reach an age of from IL to 10
years in the cage, but those flying at
liberty in their native islands reach
much more advanced age.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02

which we had no desire to dove
babe farewell to the good tempered
crowd and continued our journey up
river.
We passed some two hours later the
large district of Lulungu-consisting of
several villages on the mainland and on
an island in mid -stream-whOse inhab-
itants regarded us either in speeches.
establishment, or greeted us with loud
cries to land, as we steamed past the
long line of their villages. Elenge
Mimic, our guide, informed us that we
should find these keen ivory traders
more inclined to sell to us on our re-
turn from the upper waters of the river
than on our present journey, so we de-
termined to push ahead as rapidly as
possible, only stopping where it was
necessary to obtain wood, or to pur-
chase food for ourselves and crew.
A heavy tornado of wind and rain
forced us to halt early alongside the
deep impenetrable forest of the left
bank, on the edge of which we put our
crew to saving up dry trees and dead
wood for next days firing.
Next morning soon after starting we
again came on canoes darling about
ahead of us, and speedily were steam
ing through channel between an
island entirely covered with native
houses and the north or right bank-on
which were collections of huts among
immense grove of plantains separated
from one another by stretches of grassy
plain in some places extending quite
mile inland before the eger-encircling
belt of forest was reached.
This island-village and the north
BAH istrict was called Bonginda, hut
we passed it without stopping pursued
by a fleet of friendly canoes Offering
very bad-smelling small fish for sale.
They continued the chase until we had
entered another district, that of VAN
bala, Elenge Mimic informed us, whose
inhabitants set up great cry at our
approach, but did not attempt to come
out to us in their canoes.
Towards evening we arrived opposite
two villages surrounded by high stock
AIDES on the land side. through two gates
in which we could perceive women 60
ing and coming. on their way to or from
the village plantation surrounding the
fence. We halted for the night at the
upper of these villages, fastening the
steamer close alongside the bank In
the morning when 1 arose from my
couch on deck I found, to my disgust,