Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-09
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Without pausing to comment on articles
of interest to omnivorous readers, viz
The Politics and the Armies of Europe,
by PlOf. L. 4. Freeman; "The Armed
Truce of the Powers" by William Thayer
The Degradation of Pennsylvania
Politics. by Herbert Welsh; Regulation
Of the Lobby in Massachusetts, - by Josiah
Quincy; English University Life fol-
Women" by Anne j. Clough, principal Of
Newman college, Cambridge, England
and The Death of Polygamy in Utah" by
Charles S. Zane, chief justice of the supreme
court of Utah; attention is directed TO the
Importance OF an article by Isaac B. Potter
on THE Profits of Good Country Roads y
This is subject which should interest al
citizens, for as the general prosperity OF
any country hinges upon its agricultural
development, and that development is
accelerated, or retarded by the condition OF
wagon roads, it is matter of vital import
ance that the people be thoroughly alive TO
the necessity of good highways and thus
through them the government, national
state, county and township be forced TO
tIke lively interest in such improvements
us are essential to national prosperity. Mr..
Portter'S paDers abounds in cold facts and
combining figures, he shows that while
moneyed corporations by persistence and
other effective means, best known to them
selves, have Obtained large concessions,
state and national, the country road has
been let remain in much the same cOndi-
ton as when century ago railways and
other means of rapid transit were
unknown. The writer shows that the value
of land is largely affected by distance from
market, a distance that is enhanced because
IF wretched roads, for in this age distance
is computed by hours in transit, and not by
miles and leagues; also that an obServant
traveller will always note degrading Of
thrift as the distance from the farm 10 the
market town increases. He is of the opin,
ion, as are the majority OF sound political
economists, that wherever the national gov
eminent assumes paternity aid should be
given, not to enterprises that kick Us soon
as they have waxed fat, but to such as the
improvement of the ways by which the
farmer communicates with the world, and
who is now, in the face Of an increased con-
sumption and growing market, badly handl-
capped in his industrial race. That the COM
mon road in its present conditions is d re-
proach to a government which has shown
even eXtravagant iberality to schemes, is
evident to even Il casual observer
Space does not admit making extracts,
but cavilers at the cost of good roads should
read the statement of the board of freehold
ers in Union county, New Jersey, in which
they declare that the sum of $500 600 spent
one, in building forty miles of telford and
macadam road, has proved to be wise and
beneficial. This evidences what counties
may do Tor themselves by voluntary taxa
ton, and county effort will serve to force
the way to state and national appropriation,
thereby enabling the farmer to become a
more efficient factor in the nations pros
perity.
The Danger of the Farmers Alliance"
by Senator John t. Morgan, is well calcu-
lated to be of profit to such person as would
study this movement dispassionately.
THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
November. Office of Publication, S. Fed
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annum.
New England has entered many names
upon the roll of fame, and among them
there is not one more endeared to all lovers
of literary excellence than that of James
Russell Lowell; it follows then that the
home and haunts of this poet, (for although
distinguished in other fields, on his poetry
must rest his fame) as described by so able
a writer and loyal friend as Frank NJ. San
born, must gain new interest in reading the
opening article of this magazine. This ar
ticle, as do several, aboundS in photograv
ures and other forms of illustration, the
frontispiece being copy of portrait of
Lowell taken when comparatively young
ton from the poet, wherein he speaks of
his home and haunts as the places dearer to
him than earth's fairer spots. An article by
Leander S. Keyser, Lowell and the Birds
shows by liberal extracts from his poem
how this writer drew inspiration from the
scenes around the home of his childhood
and of his latter years.
''The Great Dike'' is the title of an arti-
Gle of Dr. Dennan that scarcely suggests
the subject, which is the stronghold of
homes as conserver of nations unity
and strength. "a Future Agriculture" C..
l.. Plumb, author, is of the Cooking back
ward" order of literature, and is a prophetic
vision of farming in the year 1000. Rose
Terry Cook contributes a short story of
MES, and Jennette B. Perry tells a love
story in quaint fashion. The various de-
partments present choice selections and the
subjects are well chosen to be generally
pleasing.
Tho Review of Reviews is an excellent
exponent of the possibilities of condensa-
ton. Few people in this busy everyday
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and periodical such as the Review serves
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The glance can be comprehensive one, as
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Current History in Caricature, Record of
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