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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

PARIS, Aug. 2S.-A youth named Bailty,
convicted of several atrocioGS murders, was
guillotined at Donai, near Lille, this morn
ing. He died shouting Vive Ia republique.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
A Texas Veteran at Rest.
Special to the Gazette.

BRENNAN, WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEX,
Aug. 2S-W. a. Cleveland died here to-day,
aged eighty-four. He was Texas veteran
having come to Texas in tina thir,ies.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
MEXICAN WASHOUTS.
disastrous on the Southern Railway
Diaz's Economic Policy.


Diaz's Economic Policy.
CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 2S.-Heavy wash
outs are reported on the Southern railway.
The bridge on the Mexican Central railway
below Apizaco is washed away, and the
passage of trains is retarded.
President Diaz has decided on firm,
economic policy in view of the striugeucy
of the foreign money markets.
4 duel of swords took place to-day be-
tween two Mexican gentlemen, publishers
of Spanish papers. Both were wounded.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
QUITE FISHY.

Portion of a Human Hand Found Inside
Fish.
Special TO the Gazette.
DENIsoS, GRAYsoN COUNTY, TEX, Aug
2S.-Yesterday Il fisherman by the name OF
Strohmeyer, who lives on the banks of Red
river, caught a large catfish which, on
being opened, was found to contain por-
ton of human hand
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
THE SUBURBAN LINES.

Last nights rain storm brought home
to many people the beauties of our
transfer system, and made everybody
who lives at Hamline or ST. Anthony
Park particularly we'll disposed to the
street railway company. The eXplana-
ton of the discOntinuance of the
through lines to those suburbs is the
very simple one that they have not paid
for the expense of running them. The
GLOBE thinks that Mr.. LOwRY's man.
ayers misunderstood the temper of this
community if they think that this will
be accepted as an excuse for bad or in
adequate service in any section of the
city. We have given to this corporation
without compensation a franchise of IN
calculable value on condition that it
solve the local transportation problem
to the general satisfaction. So extern
sIve are the rights and privileges it
enjoys that competition is impossible,
and the other methods of conveyance
which existed before Its construction
have been withdrawn from the field.
Ali our people are now depend
ent on the street cars for getting
to and from their residences, and they
will be loud in demanding that they be
not subjected to discomfOrts and incon-
veniences in the journey. If one or two
lines do not happen to prove profitable
the company will not be justified on
this account in abandoning them. The
average returns are said to be enOr-
nous, and the companys duty is to de-
vote part of the surplus one system
yields to the maintenance of the less re-
munerative ones. Its charter does not
permit it to supply one quarter because
it happens to be populOus and neglect
another because It's remotenesS makes
the returns from it small and out of
proportion to Its cost. The whole city
is the sphere of its operations. and the
law of average must be its guide in ac-
ton. Ii, on the whole, 1t can not earn
interest OH the capital it has invested, it
can resign its trust and let some one
else assume it. But as long as it holds
on tOits charter it must observe all Its
requirements. and not those alone which
tend to swell its Golfers.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
SOUND ON THE QUESTION.

One Of Speaker CRISP'S home organs,
the Atlanta journal, exults over his
election as an emphatic triumph of
tariff reform, 1t pronounces it an as
surance to the Democracy of the nation
of the continuance without shadow of
variance" of the battle on that line. 1t
finds evidence of this in an unbroken
record as q consistent, earnest and az
greSSive tariff reformer. His speeches
i'll the campaign and personal aSsur-
ances were all of that stamp. Then he
clinched these with his pledges in
his speech of acceptance of the
speakershIp. 1t is not seen how
there can be any substantial diff
ference found between his attitude to-
ward this great issue and that of MILLS
or SPRINGER, except in the fact that
they have been more conspicuous in
their work, and Mr.. MILLS has had his
name attached to a tariff bill. No
ground for dissatisfaction on this point
is visible. Only Republicans need have
any solicltude over the matter. The
Democratic party is unit on the line
of tariff reform, and will make that the
Overshadowing question in the great
battle OF the coming year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
RENEWING YOUTH.

The case of the young maiden school
teacher who Wept so bitterly as she
thought the time might come when she
should fall in love, marry and have
sweet young daughter who would fall
into the fire and be burned to death, is
paralleled in the young man in the East
the other day who committed suicide.
He had brooded over the picture of him.
self as a decrepit old man without
friends and constantly losing the juices
of life. He became SO morbid over the
picture that he blew his brains out in
the bright bloom of youth. The preva-
lent adherence of old age with its in
creaSing intirmitleS is seen in the eager
ness with which the Elusive or fabled
promises of perpetual youth have been
clutched. Were there a certain fount-
ain of waters at the North pole that
would renew youth to age, and give
adoleScent rGddineSs to decrepitude, no
dangers would stand in the way of its
being reached, and a doZen-track railway
would be needed for the thronging null
titudes. Possibly, in the developments
of the powers of electricity and the dis
OOfCIlCo III puyoiCdl SCltuce, Illo Illn6
will come when some antidote to decay or
a process to preserve early vigOr may
be discovered. In fact. a man on the
Pacific coast, THOMAS LUKE HARRIS,
already claims to have devised some
thing of this sort. His simple process
is to convert the tieShly molecules into
psychic animateS. 1t is not quite un-
derstood what this means or how it is
to be effected. 1t may be by some sort
of an infusion, as in embalming, or an
injection. as III the cure tor the disease
of inebriety; but the mode is not ma
terial. Mr.. HARRIS is siXty-eght years
of age, and very properly has been ex-
perimenting with himself, with the re-
suit of constantly growing younger.
Followers are gathering about him, and
if he is able TO furnish genuine samples
of renewed youthful vigor he will have
the largest business offered him that his
ambition can reach OUT to.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
HOWLS FOR H0WELLS.

Once again it is announced that Mr..
Howells will Did farewell to Boston for
ever. Mr.. HowellS is the Adelina Patti
of iterature.-Chicago Times.
So Mr.. Howells goes to the CoSmo-
politan. His readers all will join in
hoping that these new fortunes may be
without hazards.-New York Recorder.
With W. d. Howells, Edward Everett
Hale, Murat Halstead and Brander
Matthews as editors, the Cosmopolitan
will have strong staff, but the worth
OF magazine is in its contributors more
than in its editors. - Chicago Inter
Ocean.
William Dean Howells' connection
with the HarperS will cease on Jan. 1
next. On that date he will take edi-
torial charge of the Cosmopolitan Maga-
zine, conJOintly with John Brisbane
Walker.-New York Advertiser.
New York landlords and real estate
agentS-and. incidentally, we presume
and hope, New York boarding house
keepers-will quake to know that w.
ID. Howells, the novelist, is in town,
making realistic study of them.-New
York Telegram.
John Brisbane Walker, proprietor of
the Cosmopolitan, says that when How
ellis takes its editorShip next month
he will writeexcIuSIvely for this maga-
zine, completing his engagements with
the Harpers, Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The announcement that Mr.. Howells
has gone to the Cosmopolitan, (which
will as consequence advance to the
first class, and rank hereafter with
Harper's, the Century and Scrlbner's," I"
credits Mr.. Howells with a lifting power
which no one has heretofore suspected
him Of.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
"C0LLARS AND CUFFS"

The engagement of Albert Victor to
his cousin must be a damper on the mat
rimonial expectations of lot of conti-
mental princeSses.-New York Recorder.
Albert Victor has chosen a good
woman for his future bride. So did
Albert Edward, his father before him.
But the princes heart, alas has not
always been ''true to POiI."-BOston
Globe.
Princes Mary of Teck may be a
charming lady, yet her acceptance of
the harum scarum Prince collars and
Cuffs" raises a faint suspicion, which,
like the murmur of a brook, is hard to
drown, that she is somewhat anxious to
marry.-Kansas City Times.
The Prince of Wales son is to be mar
ried. Parliament will vote HIM an ad-
ditional income amounting to a gOodIy
fortune every year for the maintenance
of himself and family in luxurious idle
ness. The honest wOrkingmen of
Great Britain will have to furnish the
mOney.-New York World.
Prince collars and Cuffs" has pro-
posed and has been accepted just as
any ordinary mortal who pays his way.
If England should get tired supporting
her useless appendageS collars and
Cuffs" will wish he had not done so. for
he cannot support hlmSelf, let alone his
wife.-KansaS City Times.
Prince Albert Victor, possible fut-
|. ure king of England. and Princess Vic
tOria Mary, q possible future queen of
England, are said to be actually in love
with each.other How fortunate this isl
Queen Victoria and the rest of royalty
are pleased with the engagement. and
all is going as merrily as the marriage
bell which will ring for them before
great while. collars and Cuffs" will
now please settle down ana behave him.
self. He has got a good deal to live
down as well as fOr.-PittSburg Post.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
CHAT ABOUT CHAUNCEY.

Mr.. Depew comes back from the West
enthusiastic for the worlds fair. 1t is
time to launch the big metropolitan
boom for it.-New York Recorder
DR.. Depew thinks that the potential
force of our modern civilization is the
dinner. We can imagine the tramp's
reflection as he plOds along the snow
bound highway that great minds run in
similar channels.--Chicago News.
when your time comes you are 60
ing" said Mr.. Depew to a reporter who
asked if he feared dynamite crankS.
The professionalism and the railroad
man are neatly blended in that Oracular
response.-Chicago Times.
Chauncey Depew said in the course of
his address to the Fellowship club, in
Chicago, that after man has passed
forty years of age he makes no new
friends. He has then passed the period
when it is possible for him to open his
heart and cOnfide its best secrets to any
body who did not possess them before.
New York World.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, besides being
one of the most eloquent, is one of the
bravest men of his time. There are
precious few men in the world who
would dare, while holding high posi-
tion in a monopoly, to denOunce the
selfshneSS of millionaireS. Mr.. Depew
has the courage of his inconsistency
New York Telegram.
l remember very we'll the last time l
was in this room, and it has to me per-
sonal meaning-not of regret. 1t has
also historical meaning. The New
York delegation had presented a citizen
of that state to the Republican national
convention three years ago for preSi-
dent. AT the solicitation of his granger
friends laughter he thought it best to
retire in favor of railroad attorney.
Laughter. ]-Depew's Chicago Speech.
Mr.. Depew, on being questioned by a
New York World reporter, was of opin-
ion that if menaced by q crank he
would temporiZe with him and tell him
funny stories. Mr.. Depew would doubt
less be equal to the emergency of spell
binding such an assailant: but how
about the other gentlemen who lack the
silyern gift Of tOngues?-Philadelphia
Record.
Chauncey NJ. Depew is doing enthusi-
aStic missionary work for the worlds
fair in New York. This is gratifying,
as New Workers have great faith in the
accuracy of Mr.. Depew's statements and
predictions. When one of their own
leading citizens, who tried hard to gain
the fair for New York. tells the people
of Gotham the true status of worlds
fair matters, as MIR. Depew is doing, the
effect cannot be otherwise than benef-
cial to New York and to the fair. All
the same, Mr.. Depew's air of a discoV-
erer is quite muSing.-Chicago News.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
A LAGGARD STATE

South Carolina is proverbial for its
disposition to lag behind the rest of the
states. Up to the war it chose its presi-
dental electors in the legislature, scores
of years after all others had abandoned
that system. Its divorce laws have none
of the modern Improvements, and it can
have no share in the business now so
prosperous in South Dakota. The other
day one branch of the legislature passed
prohibition law modelled after the per
forated Iowa measure that nearly every
body in that state wants to get rid of.
1t prohibits the manufacture entirely.
and limits the sale tc one druggist to
1000 population. 1t was supported
mainly by the country members, and
opposed by the towns. Possibly the OBJ
1ect is the same as that of the wheat
growers in North Dakota. They want
TO keep their harvest hands from induI-
gence to interfere with their work.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE.

Just where man ceases to be an amateur
and becomes a professional is a question
that is exciting considerable controversy in
the sporting world. j. a. Thatcher of CHI
cago. in an interesting article on billiards,
discusses the problem intelligently and with
force. His deductions seem reasonable and
his position finds many fervent adherents.
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Among billiard players man is ranked a
professional who earns a livelihood at the
game. SO it should be with all branches of
sports But the distinction is not drawn in
this way. 1t is almost universally held that
when an amateur completes with a profes-
sional ne also becomes a professional To
great many this is absurd, and it is to me-
Mr.. Thatcher says:
1.-THE definition of a. amateur at billia rds
varies with the locality: and really there has
never been anything definitely settled upon
to cover all mooted points, Generally, a
professional is supposed to be made by a
player cOntesting billiard match in a hall
where gate money is charged; but the
Racquet club, of New YORK. go away beyond
this, and from their annual tournament for
the championship of America bar out the
best player. Foss is the name of the man so
barred. He is maker of dynamite up at
Haverstraw, n. Y. and never in his life
ought TO have been called a professional
billiard player. But when q boy. he drifted
lHlO DpilLEAciu. -hdSS, anu BOl Il JOO clSdu-
ing billiard tables for Charley Parker, now
of Chicago.
$50, according to the rules of the RACQUET
club. any man who ever worked for his liv-
ing in or about billiard room is a profess
siOnsl.
Capt A. c. Anson is dubbed a profess
siOnal he once played match at Central
Music hall with Frank Parker ex-ehampion
of America. Martin Mullen, of Cleveland, is
a coal merchant who, when a boy, played in
a billiard tournament for the championship
of Ohio. SO he is put under ban with the
Others
The name profess implies that its
possessor makes his living by the game of
billiards. For him. then. to contest with the
amateur for fun is only a method of sui
eide. Yet his refusal to play costs the am.
ateur just the experience he needs. = long
ball to ball spread or draw he can success
fully execute for fun, but for money, why,
that's differentr'
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
operation before the next campaign

operation before the next campaign
opens.
Unlike the tariff commission of 'S2
the senate committee on our trade rela-
uons with Canada, both of which bodies
acted on the SuppoSitiOn that they were
created to prepare brief for the pro-
tectIonlSt side of the case only, this
committee evidently intends to make a
search for and gather facts, regardless
OF the conclusion which may be drawn
from them. This, at least, NAV be in
terred from the article in which Carroll
ID. Wright, commissioner of labor tells
OF "A Great Statistical Investigation.
The best assurance of the bipartisan
purpose of the committee is the fact
that it has invited the cooperation OF
Mr. WrIghtS bureau, and enlisted his
services in the work and his assurance
that 'the public can rest assured that
the aim of the committee is to secure
absolutely impartial results and
let the consequences take care of
themselves Mr.. Wright is a born
statistieian. He regards fact as of
vastly more value than theory, setting
1t above party advantage, and regards
the consequences of a collision between
a party policy and All array OF facts
with the same equanimity and diSre-
gard of consequences to the party
which George Stevenson felt for the
GOO which might collide with his To-
cOmOtive.
The whole investigation, however,
proceeds upon theory whose premise
is denied by the majority Of men in this
country. Setting aside the advantages
OF the investigation from the point of
view OF the mere statiStician, from
which it might possibly be justified.
what may be called the historical
method whether restrictions ugon in
ternatiOnal trade are or are not ad-
vantageous to the country. This ig-
noreS entirely the underlying question
of the inherent right of the citizen to
freely exchange the products of his
labor without let or hindrance from the
social machine we call government.
Those who believe in this right will not
Tor moment admit that it is a mere
question of policy to be adopted or re-
Jected as its results may be made to ap-
pear advantageous or otherwise to the
aggregation of men who constitute the
nation. But possibly, in the semi-bar-
6aro"s conceptions Of trade yet largely
prevailing, public opinion is not ready
to intelligently discuss and decide the
fundamental question, and meantime
the gathering of the facts by which the
bad results of the denial of that right
may be demonstrated will be beneficial.
The scope of Investigation, as out
lined by Mr. Wright in this article, will,
If fully carried out, leave but little to be
desired in the way of the facts relating
to the question, and the report of the
committee will be eagerly looked for
and highly priced by all to whom the
economic questions OF the day are of
interest,
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
SIR EDWIN'S RAMBLES.

Within very few days Sir Edwin
Arnold will be met on the outskirts of
the city, and asked how he likes Chi
cagO.-ChicagO Evening Post.
1t is announced that the press club
will give a reception to Sir Edwin
Arnold, K. c. l. E., e. S. l. Some anx-
iety is felt as to whether these mysteri-
Gus initials stand for formal or informal.
Chicago Times.
Sir Edwin Arnold is said to admire
ZOla, and read all his books, but when
he has got through them he carefully
puts them into the stove for fear his
Office boy should get hold of them.-
Chicago Herald.
Sir Edwin Arnold has the impression
that Chicago is "a town of about zoe, 900
inhabitants" Measures will be taken
at the earliest opportunity to convince
Sir Edwin that his figures need reyis
ing.-Chicago Times.
Sir Edwin Arnold's statement that
the late Lord Lytton was Chauncey NJ.
Depew's only superior as an after-din-
ner speaker was hardly fair. 1t is al
ways mean to hit man when his hands
are tied.-New York Telegram.
According to Sir Edwin Arnold, the
apostle of the Japanese cult, the court
esy of that rYsanthemum-loving peO-
pie is almost servile." 1t must be this
unnecessary confusion of courtesy with
servility that inspires the lofty inde-
pendenee of the average American pub
lie servant.-New York World.
To win wager made with a lady, Sir
Edwin Arnold climbed 1900 feet to the
top of Full San in Japan. and wrote on
the edge of its crater a picturesque
poem of ninety-twO lines. Perhaps TINS
explains why the crater got hot, and the
Observation-Disclosures swallowed up some
$4,000 innocent JapS.-Memphis Jour
nal.
Sir Edwin ArnOld's progress thus far
through the country has been one of al
most unsurpassed success. The news
papers Invariably speak well of him
of his amiable and unaffected manners.
his genial presence and the thorough
excellence OF his reading of his own
works. AS a. tirst-class Journalist, and
at the same time a superior "Bohe-
mian." he is assured of a cordial recep-
tiOn by the journalistic guild wherever
he may go in this country.-New York
Advertiser.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
HAPPY AFTERWARD.
Romantic Ending of a Common
Deception.


Chicago Herald.
About year ago." says a Brooklyn
clergyman, "a woman who had been de-
ceived by her lover by means of a mock
marriage and who had discovered the
fraud, came to me with her tale of woe
and asked my advice. She was living
with the man she supposed to be her
husband, but believed that he was about
to desert her. l thought the matter
over, aud told her to arrange a little
party at her house and to invite me as
a friend, but not as a minister of the
gospel, and at an OpDOrtune time
propose to the lover that they show
their friends how they were married in
fun She was bright little woman,
and carried out my instructions to the
letter. The people in the house when |
went there knew of the existing condl-
tons, and readily entered into the
scheme, prompted by curiosity to see
how mock marriage was performed.
l was pressed into service by the woman
on the plea that | had brother in the
church. took Bible she provided
and married them fast and made out
the certificate in due form. Then |
had an Interview with the man. He
was very angry at first, but came around
all right, and he and the little woman
are now living together very happily.
That isn't the way most mock mar
riages' end, but it would be q good ay
to do it.0
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
TODAY's WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, - For Minnesota
Light rain OF snow; variable winds: slightly
colder For Wisconsin and Iowa: Occasional
rains; southerly winds; slightly colder. For
South Dakota: Showers in east, fair IN west
portion variable winds; slightly colder eX-
cept in central portion stationary tempera-
ture. For North Dakota: Showers in east,
fair in west portion; variable winds' slight
changes in temperature. For Montana: Oc-
casional showers in west fair in east portion;
colder in west stationary temperature in
east portion; west winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULT-
URE. WEATHER BUREAU, WASHINGTON, Dec
13, 6:4S p. m. Local Time, sp m. 18th Merid-
ian me.--ObseryatiOns taken at the same
moment Of time at all stations.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
WOMAN.
beautiful garments,

A queen III her beautiful garments,
she stands on the ramparts today
To herald the dawn and the cerements
OF her past are folded away.
She stands with the prophets and sages;
3 She speaks, and her tongue is flame,
Leaping forth from fires which for ages
Have smoldered in silence and shame.
He feet have come up from the valleys;
They are climbing the mouHtains of light;
At her call The world rOuSes and rallies,
Bearing arms in the battle Of right
She treads on the serpent that struggles
And grinds out its life meath her heel;
She grapples with sorrows that wrong her,
Converting her woe Into veal.
Made strong through ner slaughtered affec-
tiOns,
She comes with her sons by her side,
An angel of pOwer and protection.
Their beacon light, leader and guide.
No longer timorous being,
To cringc ard cry meath the rod,
But quick 10 divine, and faTSesing
She bastens the purpose of God
-RutA Hartaick Thorpe il Ladies Journal.