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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22
HOW THE LAW MAY BE AMENDED.

HOW THE LAW MAY BE AMENDED.
Monopoly in land is a thing not much
to be feared in this country. Great
estates are built up only by long years
of accretion and holding. The law of
primogeniture and of entail, by which
estates were kept in the hands of the
eldest son, without the power OF aliena-
tion made the great English landed
properties. The law favored them.
Our laws are opposed to them. Instead
OF descending to one heir alone. half a
dozen or more children inherit ana
break up into as many parts the great
farm that the proprietor may have
spent lifetime in getting. And it is
not often the case that the children Of
a very rich father inherit his faculty OF
accumulation and holding together. 1t
is more often their way to spend what
they take from the old man, and in q
few years his great landed property is
dissipated and in the hands OF
strangers. The Astor estate in New
York is the only one in the history of
our country that has held together for
two generations. American prosperity
is not likely to suffer from this source.
There can be no occasion to dread
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22
: Jack-Rabhit Social Club.

Special TO the Gazette.
MIDLAND. MIDLAND COUNTY. TEX, Aug.
22.-Yesterday party Went out iuck-raGbi
netting, and succeeded in catching about
five hundred in the wire netting. Tonight
q permanent jack-rabbit club was organized
upon social basis to provide fall sport for
the poDuiace.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION

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Give Postonce Address in fun, including
County and STATE.
il address is 10 BE changed, give old address
a. well new.
TIE GAZETTE VIII tie sent only for the time
Tor which remittance IS mace
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22
The Arkansas Alliance declares against
him. Roger Is treat Tor luck.

WHAT funny, funny thing is the Texas
law Of libel Houston Post.
Texas has no law OF libel. The Texas
newspapers pleaded in vain for one.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22

subdued the police entered the tenement.
and in searching through the rooms, found
the bodies OF two unfortunates who had
failed in their tracks and had burned to
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22

United States signal service cotton region
bulletin for twenty -four hours, ending at 8
!. II. yesterday. showing the maximum
Temperature, the minimum temperature and
rainfall by inches AMI hundredths:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22

those who can from doing so. Is this
patriotism Or communism? It is GER
tainly very large sized deg in the
mangar.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22
Yesterdays Local weather

TEE ratatoriun people are public
len af;lctors
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22

Nils candidacy for the speakership
Ids oeen pal forward by another boom.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22
Roston Wool Market

Special to the Gazette.
BosToS. Mass, Aug. 2o.-Tyool in steady
demand at full prices.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22
He PREFERRED DEATH.
". L. Pinkerton, Under Life Sentence at
Bowie, Commits Suicide.

Special to the Gazette.
BOWIE. MONTAGUE County. TEX, AUG
17.-W. +. Pinkerton. who received a life
sentence for killing his uncle, committed
suicide this morning in jail by taking car
bolic acid. The contractors were here for
Pinkerton and eight others.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-22
TEEEIH ONTH.


di:-rlRl Rooms ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
4BOUT yOMEN.

Harriet Cooke of Cornell was the first
woman ever honored with the chair and equal
pay with men. She is professor of history,
aud has been member of the faculty of Cor
neil for twenty three years.
Miss M. G.. McClelland, author of "a Self
Made Man" and other novels is described as
"of middle age, tall and slender, with iron
gray hair, parted over her forehead" She
never attended school, but was educated by
her mother
Miss Sue Bebout Of Anderson, W. Va, has
offered to sell to the city of Baltimore pet
lion that will soon grow beyond her control.
When only three hours old he was the gift of
n Snowman, is docile and obedient, and sleeps
on the floor beside her bed
Mrs. Helen H. Backus the newly elected
president of the Brooklyn Woman's club is
graduate of Vassar college, one of its trus-
tees, and the wife of the president of Packer
Institute of Brooklyn. She is woman of
broad culture and dignifed bearing.
A short time ago the ladies of Marienberg,
East Prussia, published a card IN the princi-
pal newspapers of that city requesting the
gentlemep not to remove their hats during
cold weather In greeting them, but to ac-
knowledge their bow with military salute.
The dismissal of Mrs Mary Morancy as
state librarian of Mississippi, after fourteen
years Of faithful and efficient service, has
provoked widespread discussion in the south,
and petition is in circulation asking that
Snc Do TcSlOTeu 10 oHlCe. MIS-. NlOTalCy was
the first woman to hold a state Office in Mis-
sissippi.
The pioneer woman lawyer TO America,
Arabella A. Mansfield, was admitted to the
bar in 1869. Ten years later women were
permitted by statute to practice before the
United Stat supreme court, and there are
seven women who have been admitted in
Washington. Tn single decade the nun Der
of women lawyers increased from one to sew
enty-ive.
A boat load of young people was capsized
in a river near Parkersburg, w. Va, the
other day and the occasion developed hero
inc. Miss Mary Shelton, who is a good
swimmer, swan ashore with one young man,
and then swan back after another whom she
found almost exhausted. Catching young
man No. by the neck, she managed to get
him ashore also.
Mrs A. M. Thomas, who is thirty-two
years old and lives In Godsden county Flor
Ida, is the mother of thrty-two children, all
of whom were alive She was married tif-
teen years AGO and twenty months later she
and her husband found themselves the par
ents of four bright ana telutiful children
With almost unvarying regularity ever since
the family has been increased by the addi-
tion, sometimes of twins, sometimes of trip
let's, until the number has reached thirty
two,
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
Here's n Suggestion.


we may count upon one more convert to
the doctrine that our naturalization laws
need amendment, in Mr.. Boyd, who was
elected governor of Nebraska last November
by majority of 1900 votes, but deposed by
the supreme court OF the state because of a
technical irrcgularity iu his proof of citizen
snip. No one seems to dispute his rcspecta-
bility or his responsibility; nobody has ever
questioned his ability to exercise with intelli-
gence the ordinary duties of citizen. His
civil status would probably never have
been put in doubt II he had not
been carried by the tidal wave of tariff
reformed sentiment into a distinguished
place Of trust which other men coveted. All
his present trouble might have been spared
II the process of naturalization were attended
with the dignity, the ceremonial safeguards
and the publicity which its Importance de-
serves Let us have a national bureau Of
naturalization here in Washington, as first
step toward the reformation of the whole sys-
tenn. Then it can be ascertained at a glance
whether foreign born resident of any part
OF this country has right to hold office or
not,
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25

now questiugs the wisdom OF this.
Events are demonstrating that the
United Statdt can no longer afford to be
without n navy capable OF defending its
ports against foreign foe, and of main
tanning its rights aud dignity Even
Mr.. Cleveland did not venture to attack
the naval AUTHORIZATION. So with re-
gard to nearly. Every increase made by
the last congress there wero demands
which justiliedi IL, and in most cases these
were so imperative that the public
service and the interests and welfare of
the government'and the people would
have suffered If the larger appropria-
tions had beon withheld.
1t has been pertinently said OF the
democratic loader who expects to be
again the standard bearer of his party
In presidential campaign, that he "has
hardly talent enough to scare the coun-
try once because there is surplus, and
again because there is not surplu us. "
The democratic party will find no profit
able capital in harping on the alleged
extravaganza of the last congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
q HARPING ON EXTRA 1VAGANCE.

1t is evident that the democratic party
intends to make the appropriations of
the last congress conspicuous subject
of discussion in the next presidential
campaign. Mr.. Cleveland in his politi-
cal address at Buffalo gave this matter
more prominence than any ether, dwell
ing upon it as something to be pro-
foundly deplored and vigorously re-
buked by the American people. Of
course he did not go into statistics,
because these show that by much the
greater part of the. increase in ap-
propriaticns was for pensions to the men
who preserved the government, while
considerable sum was to meet deficien-
cies which tho previous congress did not
provide for. 1t was quite sufficient for
the purpose of Mr.. Cleveland to make a
sweeping attack, and his example will
be emulated by other leaders of the
party. The "billion congress" rolls
smoothly from the tongue, and although
the masses of the democratic party NAV
be unable to quite comprehend what 1T
means, they may be impressed with the
idea that il is something OF extraordi-
nary enormity. In this way it may be
made to serve the purpose of a shibbo-
leth, whereas an attempt to analyze it
and explain the details would simply
throw the average democratic mind into
such hopeless confusion as to defeat the
intended effect
There was large increase in appro-
priations by the last congress. consider
ably more than many republicans be-
lieved to be wise or necessary, but
that there was any such extra
ordinary extravaganza as the demo-
Gratis are claiming, tho figures
do not show. There was an in
crease of Sll3,oOO,OOO in pensions, in
GLIDING deficiency of S25, 900, 900, and
every dollar OF this amount goes to our
own people, and from their pockets into
the channels of business OF course the
democratic party would never have per-
mitted such an increase, and it is not to
be doubted that if it were to obtain
control OF the government it would make
haste to reduce the pensions of the old
soldiers as the first step in its scheme of
economy. But the great body of
the American people are not
anXions to save money in this
way. They desire to deal gener-
ously with the men who saved the union
and they are satisfied with what has
been done in this respect. Another
large increase by the last congress was
for the postotice department, amount
ing to 922, 900, 900. This was made neces-
sary by the increasing demands of the
service, which the preceding congress
neglected, and the country is realizing
the benefits in vastly improved and
more efficient service. A large part of
this increase will undoubtedly be sup
piled from augmented revenue.
There was an increase of sl4,000000 in
the appropriation for the navy and
it is safe to say that no American citizen
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
interests.

Now that the board of education has
unraveled the tangle into which it
plunged itself in dismissing Superinten-
dent of Buildings Woolley by electing his
successor, it should adopt rules defining
that officers duties to be something
more valuable than such as usually ap-
pertain to head janitor or common put
terer. The superintendent of buildings
should have authority beyond puttying
window panes in the sash and screwing
seats to the floor. He can be very use.
full to the board and the taxpayers if re-
quired to protect them against rascally
contractors and careless architects. All
building operations should' be under his
supervision.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
FLIPP.f NJ.

Carl Smith In Harper's Weekly
Somewhere in the wide wide world, some
where
She wanders from me apart,
And her sunny smile and her golden hair,
And her manner winning and debonair,
No longer enslave my heart;
But her face as bright rs the summer sky,
And her voice so soft and clear,
And the memories of that last gCod-by,
Combine TO provoke one regretful sigh
For the girl loved last year.
And looking back through the shadowy haze
That gathers around and aoOve
| catch the faint perfume of summer days
And the dying echo Of roundelays
That voice an unquenchUble love;
And her bushes rise from "a heart a-1amo
And her blue eyes look into mine.
(Please understand she is not the same.
This girl loved-rve forgotten her name-
In the summer of 'S9.)
Her lily hand beckons from the past,
But beckons only to tears
To "a love which we both of US vowed would
last
(But whose powers of endurance were
wrongly ClasScd)
AS long as tho coming years.
Where'er may go | shall never forget
Those happy days. All, fate
Is kind to leave me the memory yet
OF the dear little maiden whom met
In the mountains IN 'sS.
Her ruby lips hiding teeth of pearl,
Which dazzle me when she speaks,
Her nut brown hair ia rioto1s curl,
Her laugh which sets all my seuses a-whirl,
And the dalnask OF her cheeks,
Her form of Venus like a flower arrayed
In the garb of the blushlng May
All bid me rejoice ana quite undismayed
Swear my heart shall eer be true 10 tho
maid
Whom wildly adore today
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
THE ITArA AFFAIR,


washington reports go to show that
there is no agreement between the in
surgents of Chill and the United States
government for the peaceable delivery
OIL the ltata at an American port. Had
such an agreement taken place between
our government and the insurgents
IL would be upon grounds which the
United States has never yet admitted,
nor has 1t so far as advice has gone the
right to admit. International law main
talns that "a foreign power may assist
TO repress rebellion and may not assist
revolters themselves, but when they
nave fairly created q new government
may enter into relations with it, with
out untriendliness toward the original
state" (Woolsey Inter. Law p. 800.
According to this, our government has
nobody with whom to treat on the one
hand; and on the other, the Balmacedan
government asked the United States to
mold or capture the Itata in case she en-
tered our ports. The Itata entered our
ports in clear violation of our
municipal laws and our policy
as expressed in the treaty of Washing
ton in 1871. Upon the grounds OF the
order from the only government recog-
nlzed or treated with in Chill and the
further provocation of disregard for
the laws of the United States we have
the right to recapture the Itata.
Were an agreement entered into with
the insurgents for the return OF the Itata
we should have recognized the insur-
gents as party with a government, in
cdSuS beli, or we should have recog-
nized them as belligerents, and this
does not appear to have been done even
by the Chilian government.
Ii the insurgents are of mind to sur
render the ltata they may do 50, and the
result will in all probability be that she
Will be condemned and sold. This would
In no way compromise the United States
IN its stand; but any other move would
result in the probable declaration that
the insurgents have government
to be treated with and which
is responsible for its acts. Thus far no
information has come to light that the
insurgents have asked the United States
to recognize them, and it is even doubt
full If the state department would recog-
nize them did they ask it, even
though the Balmacedan govern
ment is not at all kindly dis
posed toward the United States.
The most plausible theory in regard to
the whole affair is that the insurgents
have made this move, that by so doing
they might not only aid their cause by
procuring arms but also by arousing in
terest in their cause and thus accom-
plish two ends, force the United States to
recognize them as belligerents and thus
bring their case up for adjudication in
an international court of arbitration
Were the case brought upas they offered
the Balmacedan government to allow it
to be, the insurgents claim their case
would be won.
The whole of the affair seems to be a
not badly laid scheme to further their
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
A BRIGHTER DAP FOR FARMERS.


For several years the agriculturist has
suffered from tho low price Of stock and
farm products. The supply Of both has
greatly exceeded the demand through
out tho greater part OF the world. Poor
crops in various sections OF the United
States have been counterbalanced by
largely increased production else
where. The immense agricultural
areas Of the world, and especially of
America, have been extensively peopled
and the product OF the soil correspond
ingly increased without proportionate
enlargement OF the markets. The reac-
tion which follows the rush OF millions
into profitable industry has been expe-
rienced and hundreds Of thousands who
would otherwise have been farmers have
turned their engeries in other direc-
tions. Farmers and stock growers have
been the unfortunate victims of COM
bination of disastrous circumstances
leading from Improbable prices
to failure OF crops. 1t is not
surprising that they. have grasped
at every suggestion which had in it
'OiiiioO Vi lOilCl, llOW jNtT NlSlDutTN lU
may have seemed to those more fortu-
nately situated.
The era OF depression now appears to
have been passed. The general failure
Of crops on this side the great ocean has
decreased the supply of food products
and tho withdrawal of capital from the
ranges has ro-established the equilib-
rium which makes demand FOR meats
at improved prices. The products OF the
farm and range are today bringing
remunerative returns and the world is
demanding food from every production
field. The supply from foreign farms
promises to be greatly below the de-
mand for home consumption, and Amer
lea will require vast quantity, largely
increased bv the Capitalization OF the
population in cities and the diversion
of hundreds of thousands of farmers from
the fields of other forms of employment.
Reciprocity is opening up new foreign
fields and the revival of manufacturing
industries long running on short time or
closed entirely is also contributing its
share toward establishing the proper
balance of commerce which is epito-
mized in the trade maximum OF "live
and let live"
The dawn of brighter day is break
ing upon the farm. Well titled soil will
hereafter pay good profits. There is
comparatively little areable domain un-
occupied aud it will probably be years
before so great and sudden an enlarge
ment of the aggregate food production
as to glut the markets Of the world will
occur. The development of other indus
tries and the growth OF population has
very materially increased the number
OF consumers all over the world.
Land will increase in value as it's
cultivation grows profitable and the
farmer will again become, as he
should be, the most independent citizen
OF the republic. The political agitation
will eventuate in reforms at the hands of
whatsoever party may control states
and nations and the burdens Of corporate
monopolies controlling transportation
lines and of corporate combinations for
manipulating prices will be lifted. The
future is bright for the farmer and par
ticularly for the western farmer.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
A EUROPEAN Gus IONS COALITION

w.
1t is not easy to determine how far
American interests might be affected by
the projected European customs coali-
tion, of which the latest cable dispatches
make mention. 1t is plain from these
advices that Germany has been actively
at work for some time in furtherance of
plan which, ii successful, might place
her in u position of comparative indie
pendence of the American market, and
1t would seem that there is
favorable promise that it will
succeed. The scheme, as par
TALLY set forth, contemplates policy
of commercial reciprocity between all
the principal countries of continental
Europe except France. This does not
mean that tariffs are to be done away
with and free trade instituted, but
simply that as between the countries
entering the coalition there shall be
such a modification of tariffs as will
admit of reciprocity. Whether or not
this would materially improve the exist
ing state of affairs is problematical, but
1T would very probably benefit the m IN.
ufacturing industries of Germany,
aud to that extent any losses
sustained by reason of the increase
Of the American tariff would be made
good. 1t seems entirely evident that
this coalition was suggested by the, ad-
van ced tariff policy of this country.
True such q scheme is not now talked
of for the first time, but it had been
abandoned until the tariff action of the
last congress revived the idea. 1t is
an interesting fact that France was the
first European nation to propose such
coalition after the passage of our tariff
law, and now she is threatened with
commercial isolation.
What is Of immediate concern to the
United States is the statement that as
soon rs the pending European treaties
are arranged it is the intention of tho
combined powers to test the special
privileges granted to the United States
in the convention with Spain regarding
the trade with the Antilles: The ar:
rangement recently effected betweea
Spain and this country has been sub
ject OF very earnest discussion abroad,
and the latest advices Indicate II deter
mined effort to break it, at any rate to
demand that Spain shall conccde to Eu-
ropean countries equal fnvors with
those granted the United States, which
of course would deprive us very largely
OF the advantages hoped for from the
reciprocity agreement 1t becomes now
manifest, therefore, that the most for
midable obstacle the United States will
have to overcome in carrying to success
its scheme of reciprocity is the com.
bired opposition of European nations
England, France, and probably Ger
many, have already taken stops to
secure from Brazil commercial ar
rangements as favorable as those ac-
corded by that country to the United
States, and besides government action
the financial and mercantile interests of
those countries are doing all in their
power TO create popular sentiment in
Brazil hostile to the treaty with this
country. Now there is proposed COM
binatlon OF European powers to prevent
Spain from according to this country
privileges in the trade OF the Antilles
not enjoyed by other nations.
These are conditions which somewhat
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
Christ Wouii Advertise.
NeD York Recorder.

NtW IOTh HtcOrIeT,
DR.. McGlynn delivered his last Sunday
evening lecture for the season to 900 men,
bers and well-wishers of the anti-poverty so.
ciety. His subject was '|rhe Uses and
Abuses of the Press" He said that if Jesus
were now upon earth He would say, "Ad.
verti SO the gospel" II was customary for
some croabers TO denounce the press without
estrictiol anl to aivoclte censorship of
its columns. Instead of slch measure DR.
McGynn said that blessings should be called
down upon the modern newspaper for the
good that 1t has done in the dis semination of
Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25

YANKToN will entertain the conven-
tion OF aiding citizens of South Dakota
for devising ways and means to partici-
pate in the worlds fair, this week. 1t
goes without saying that our enterpris-
ing sister on the north will make her
presence felt in Chicago in 1893 in spite
OF the want of patriotism exhibited by
her late loose jointed and lamented al
lance legislature