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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
IRRIGATION COLONIES.

An Albuquerque correspondent of the
Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower tells
something about the irrigation colonies, or
communities, as now operating in New
Mexico. He says irrigation is, at present,
attracting much attention, even in the So
called humid sections of our common coun-
try. He has tried farming in Ohio, Iowa
ami Kansas, and is now engaged in the
same kind of business in one of the colonies
near Albuquerque, and is doing better by
far than ever before. Any man who irri-
gates can do better than'the man who does
not, he says, even though the latter is oper-
atinE in 4 region of heavy rainfall It will
never 10 to depend upon the clouds for
moisture if one expects his crops to do the
best that crops could do. If the clouds
happen to not give full supply of rain at
ali times exactly when needed, the crop
cannot be otherwise than short, its extent
of shOrtness depending upon the deficiency
in water supply. On this account the crop,
even in humid regions, is very often par
tial failure, and occasionally it is total
failure, or next door to it. Statistics show
that in all rainy countries-that is, where
the farmers depend upon the rains TO make
their crops-the seasons of too much drouth
may be safely counted upon as coming three
seasons out of every five, thus giving the
farmer three short crops to every two that
could be reckoned as entirely good.
Then in those humid regions there is an
other danger not 10 be expected in regions
west of the 9th meridian-the eastern line
of the United States irrigation inquiry.
That danger lies in seasons of too much
rain, which come about as often as do sea-
sons of drouth, and are about equally as in
furious is crops. Both of these unfavorable
condition. are apt to come in the same year,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09

I send you for identification huge bug,
or fly, or whatever you may be pleased 10
call it. Captured it at the ROsedale pavil-
ion, whittier It was attracted by the lamp
light. Please look it over and let me know
through THE GAZETTE what manner OF
creature it Is. K. c. HOPE.
Fort Worth, Tex.
\ large, brownish water-tiy, measuring
some three inches in length and one inch
across the wings. Has 4 pair of horns on
its head like unto those of an old-fashioned
Texas steer, though unlike the horns of tho
Texas steer, which stand out right ana left,
the horns of the fly range forward and come
together at the points. Its common name is
''hellgramite name, Cory
dalis cornutus. Breeds in water where its
large spiny larva-as large aud long As a
mans little fingers sometimes captured
by the boys to be used as tish-bli \ full
description of the insect was published il
these columns some weeks ago, in reply 10
a note, with specimen, sent US by Mr.. Me-
Adams of Fort Worth.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
THE IANTASA AS A PEST

In Sundays GAZETTE you have an article
on the iantana i'll Texas 1t may interest
your readers TO learn that i'll the island of
CeylOn, which | visited last winter the
lantana. like the sweet brier of Tasmania.
has become pest, growing and spreading
with great rapidity, and crowding out other
and more useful vegetation. ! don't know
that the climatic and other conditions are
favorable TO the spread of this plant i'll Tex
as. but too much care cannot be taken in
the introduction of the fora and fauna Of
other lands, of which little or nothing may
be known.
The rabbits which are such a scourage in
Australia and New Zealand, breeding in i'm
mense numbers and consuming the grass to
its very roots, over vast areas of paStuTaGe,
were introduced many years ago from the
warrens Of England. Now large sums are
offered by the colonies for an effectual
means for their determination So in the
island OF Tasmania, the SWeetbrier
was introduced many years ago, as 4 pleas
ant reminder of home. Now it covers the
fields and pastures, spreading with the
greatest rapidity; and it is always impossi-
bic to eradicate it.
In the same manner, in our own and
other countries, chiefly through ignorance,
similar errors have been made to be re-
pented of at leisure. C. A. GooDALE,
Captain United States Army.
Fort Worth, Tex.
Capt Goodale is correct in what he
SAYS with reference to the unfortunate
work sometimes wrought through igno-
rance, but we cannot think that we have
been running any risk of doing anything
bad that way in our recommendation of
the lantana Uantana camara) for flower
garden culture in Texas. No less author
ity than Peter Henderson says in his hand
book of plants, page ll5, as we stated in
the article referred to, that the lantana
was first introduced into this country from
the West Indies in 1892. This, up to the
present time. has given it Just 200 years in
which TO make itself known here as a pest,
and since it has not yet hung out Its shin
gle as anything of that sort, we take it for
granted that there cannot still exist any
very great amount of danger. Besides, we
were referring specially to Lantana cam
ara, an American species, and since there
are several hundred species of lantana, and
the captain does net give US the botanical
name of the pesriferous species he saw in
Ceylon. we think it highly probable that
each of US has had in mind an entirely diff
ferent plant.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
OUR wILDrLowER SEEDS. ETC.

I like your general information depart
uent of The GAZETTE better and better
every week. 1t is certainly worth a great
deal 10 Texas, as there IS nothing else Ike
it in the state, and never has been. Those
askers after information must put a great
deal of labor on your hands in the way OF
hunting up what they want, for it is not to
be presumed that any one man could have
it all in his own head, and ever ready for
dealing out TO order. / see that you are
grum bling at the folks for not giving YOU
their real names. You say they should not
be ashamed OF Texas. Well, suppose they
are not. any OF them, but there is something
about many people which makes them
shrink from the thought of seeing their
names in newspaper. | am myself one of
that kind, and Vet 1 cannot tell why But
since you express willingness to print let
tiers for persons without printing their real
names, provided they give you their real
names in private note for your own refer
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
TO KILL RED ANTS.

] have 4 cheap and efficient inSecticide for
ants, and il will effectuallY eradicate the
large red ants that nave heretofore been 50
hard TO get rid of. Pour from Onc-hdlf To
one ounce of bisulphide of carbon into the
mouth of the Deu ana touch lighted match
TO it, If large bed repeat in three days.
Can get get it at any drug store-price -
cents pint. II. >. MORAN.
Weatherford, Tex.
Some months ago we recommended
through these columns what we suppose to
be the same agent for destroying the large
red or agricultural ant as it is often called,
though our manner of treatment differed
somewhat from that proposed by Esquire
Moran. We pour bsulphuret of carbon
into the mouth of the formicary, and after
it has passed down we close the opening
curely with clay mixed into a stiff mud, 70
prevent the escape of the highly volatile
liquid through the air as gas, 4 thing it
would otherwise soon do. So confined, its
fumes pass into every avenue OF the formi-
cary and promptly destroy all the ants.
This method is much better than to fire the
sulphuret-a single application Of an ounce,
or even less, will seldom fail TO complete
the work of destruction for large hill OF
ants. The same agent is often employed in
the same way, and with good effect, for
destroying prairie Gcgs.
Bisulphuret or carbon is gaseous liquid
made BY passing the vapor OF sulphur over
burning charcoal in porcelain tube. 1t IS
a poison, Of course, and has a very fetid
smell, but there is no danger attending the
handling of it if one keeps fire away. But
one must be careful Of fire, as it is highly
ayr.1ociva
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
COLORADO GRASS SEED.

l am patron of The GAZETTE, therefore
would like to ask you where l might
obtain so much as one peck of Colorado
grass seed. l would furthermore like 20
have instructions as 10 the best time for
sowing Colorado grass NJ A
Box a, Sand Rock, Foard county, Tex
We do not know who has the seed for
sale, neither are we well informed relative
to the culture of the grass. VIII some reader
kindly give our correspondent the informa-
ton desired, addressing as above2
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
ONE OF THE BIG BUGS.

have heard of '.big bugs through all
my born days, but was never entirely GER
tain that had seen ope until last night It
few against an arc light on the public
square and fell to the ground, where l cap
tured it-you will find it all safe in the dc-
companying box. What is it, any way
Fort Worth, Tex. NIGHT WALKER
1t is big bug"-your head is entirely
level In one particular as TO what it is. OF
course we sometimes speak of big bugs
that are really not bugs Al all but this is =
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
HOW Is THISo

The editor of the Farmers Home Journal
says the best thing 4 farmer can have is
conteutment. Not the don't-care kind, but
that in opposition to giving up entirely and
spending the time in grumbling. There Is
great cry that farming does not pay,
while at the same time there are great
many thrifty men who started with moth
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions as may be asked by our sub
scriberS. which may be of general informa ton.
Inquiries OF personal character that require an
swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give full name and postoffics
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber" or "A. G.. u, not tor publication,
II against the will OF the writer.-bLt TO admit OF
direct communication should such a thing be
deemed necessary. Address as directed al head
OF this page
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09

ing and worked along steadily, not inquir-
ing whether there is money in farming, and
have paid for their land, improved it and
stocked il and are out of debt.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
RIBBON CANE. SYRUP AND sUG.R.

The ribbon sugar cane natures well in
this section of Texas. and would be more ex-
tensively cultivated if we could make syrup
from it that would not ferment or granu-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
BILL ARP ONFARMING.

The versatile Bill Arp, who cultivates a
small piney-woods farm in Georgia, anc
dabbles somewhat in little of everything,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09

We send you some rocks which our party
gathered in canyon about sixteen miles
northwest of Fort Worth They were
taken from the bed OF the stream fully fifty
feet below the common level of the sur
rounding country. What are they? What
do they Indicate We are two little girls,
aged eight and ten years respectively, and
we would much like for you 10 answer Us
through TIE GAZETTE
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
LOVE MORELANp,
Ale. Tex

AZle, lex. GCsSlE KEY SOl.DS.
p. S.-We also send a rock out of our
yard-the one with hole in ii. There are
many like it to be found hereabouts.
r. NJ
q
The advocate., 1891-11-25
KANSAS CITY no TOLEDO.
without Change OF Cars via wabash
Railroad,

without Change Of Cars via Wabash
Railroad.
A solid train composed Of the finest
sleeping and chair cars In the world Ia
now running on the Wabash railroad
from Kansas City to Toledo, leaving Kan
sas city every day at $40 p. m, arriving
In Toledo at 4:15 next afternoon, passing
through the cities Of Jacksonville, Spring
field, Decatur, Danville, Lafayette, LO-
gansport, Fort Wayne, Defiance to To
ledo. No other train out of Kansas City
runs solid train as far east as the Wa
bash. This fast Wabash train arrives In
New York at 400 p. m. the second after
ternoOn from Kansas City. There 10 no
extra charge on this fast train. We will
reserve your sleeping car accommoda-
tlons through to destination by applying
at Wabash ticket Office, northwest corner
Ninth and Delaware streets, Kansas City,
or write or telegraph to II. N. Garland,
western passenger agent.
The advocate., 1891-11-25
Inrarsoll ON California.

In recent magazine article, Mr. EP-
nest Ingsrsoll, the noted writer, says:
The climate of southern California In
winter closely resembles that OF Egypt. EtS
equability is constant, and It's dryness ID
proverbiAL The only complaint made Ia,
that II 10 too nearly perfect. Residents bred
IN the, eastern states confess now and thsn
that rousing storm would give them 8
gra4eful sensation. But this sentiment
meets with no favor from the man who has
just 6ed from BuperHuity Of wetness and
chilling gales. To him perpetual summer
seems perpetual paradise, and TO the invalid
dCSading the advance Of disease the still
and arid atmosphere Is as the breath Of life.
The most comfortable way TO reach the
PaClflc coast Is vie Santa Fe Route.
Weekly excursions In Pullman tourist
sleepers at low rates. Apply to g. T.
Nicholson, @. P. & T. A.. Topeka, KAS.,
for folder.
The advocate., 1891-11-25
Subscribe for the Farmers Wife, o Month
ly Alliance journal for Women.

Subscribe for the Farmers Wife, Month
ly Alliance journal for Women.
II Is paper that Is giving women .
new sensation and Is being talked Of
everywhere as a woman'S paper of an en-
tirely new type. 1t Is the only Simon
Pure woman's Alliance paper published,
and is the national organ Of that assocla-
tion. The following editors and con-
tributors are among the most widely
known reform writer's In the world:
Mrs. Fannie Mccormick, Mrs. 8. E. V.
Emery, Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, Mrs. Mary
A. Livermore, Mrs. B. A. OTIS, Mrs. EN-
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and many others. The only journal Of
its kind In America. It should be in
every household. On trial six months
for 25 cents. Every woman wants Il;
every woman should have 1t. Address,
The Farmers Wife, Topeka, Kansas.
The Farmer's Wife and TIE ADvo-
CATE will be sent to new subscribers foE
81 per year, the price Of TEE ADvocArH
alone. Address, Advocate Publishing
Company, Topeka, Kansas,
The advocate., 1891-11-25
winter Tourist Rates TO tho Southeast.

Winter Tourist Rates 10 the Southeast.
Round trip tickets are now on sale at
offices of the Ohio & Mississippi railway
In st. Louis and at offices Of connecting
lines west via the o. & M. to winter re-
sorts In Florida, Georgia, South Caroll-
ma, Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir-
ginls at low excursion rates. For rates
and further lnformStion call ON nearest
ticket agent or address, A. ]. Lytle, Gen.
eral Western Passenger Agent Ohio &
Mississippi Ry., 1O5 N. Broadway, st.
Louis, Mo.
The advocate., 1891-11-25


statesmen, generals, soldiers and people
were straining every nerve to save the
country. 1t pounced upon It's prey IKE
a panther, when the victim was bleed
ing at every pore. Moulton'S history OF
American finance, page 131, states the
case as follows:
Mr.. Sherman now introduced the ma
tional bank bill. After a lengthy debate, it
passed the Senate by vote Of twenty-three
to twenty -one. In the meantime there had
been several bills for the same purpose in
troduced and referred to the committee in
the House. When the Senate bill came
down it was not referred as usual, but
brought before the House without consider
alton in committee with other similar bills.
Il was not discussed in committee of the
whole, but under a motion to refer, which
cut off all amendments, the friends Of the
bill debated its general merits. When by
parliamentary tactics it was forced to
final vote, it passed under the gag rule of
the previous question by vote of seventy
eight to sixty-four.
And thus was fulfilled the prediction
Of Senator Thomas H. Benton, when, on
thevictory of President Jackson over the
United States bank, Benton said that
Jackson had beaten the bank; yet the
bank power was not conquered, but, like
"royal tiger" driven to the jungle, he
will return again. He returned In 1858
to prey upon the prostrate form Of a
bleeding republic, when neither presi-
dent, Congress nor people had the power
to resist his coming. With 5000 whelps
and an aggregate capital of $1,000 900,
much of 1t furnished by the government,
this 'roysl tiger" has been for twenty
five years preying upon the fortunes and
liberties Of the people, through this sys-
tenn of legalized robbery.
Seven times the people of the United
States have voted on this national bank
question at presidential electiona Five
times out of the seven they declared, by
their votes, that "a national bank is un-
constitutional and dangerous to liberty"
That sentiment was regular plank in
Democratic platforms prior to 1860, and
five times that platform was approved by
the people at the presidential elections.
Peter Cooper tells. US that In 1893,
President Washington signed resolu-
ton Of the American Senate declaring
that holder of bank notes should not
have seat In Congress. And when John
Quincy Adams was elected to Congress
he refused to qualify until he had dis
posed of his bank stock. And yet Sena-
tor Sherman Is In favor of the national
banking system, and his party regularly
send to the United States Senate numer-
GUS bank presidents, just as II this great
country has no other interests worth at
tention except stock gambling, coupon
clipping and usury collecting.
And at this moment the president Of
the United States Senate is not only q
banker, but d British banker, doing buIi
ness in London as "MOrton, Rose & Co."
And, further, should President Harrison
die, we would have London banker as
President of the United States! Verify
Thomas Jefferson was right when he
said: Banking institutions are more
dangerous than standing armies"
The exception clause on the greenback
lin and tba nahIonol hark;nn, la1u am all
The advocate., 1891-11-25

Arouse the faculties, stimulate the cir
culation, purify the blood, with Ayers
Sarsaparilla.
The advocate., 1891-11-25

ners like him must not be allowed 10
pass unnoticed.--John DaVis, N. O., IN
Journal Of the Knights Of Labor.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-05

Going to Jerusalem to Welcome Christ.
u The Rev. w. P. Brown, a prominent
latter Day Saint minister, formerly of
Harvey, Kan., now of Richmond, Mo-,
isin Independence selling his real estate
and effects for cash, with which he pur-
poses going to Jerusalem and there wit
ness the second coming of Christ. '
He says that the second coming of
Christ is not far distant; that the Jews
are fast returning to Jerusalem, and he
takes this cas- indicative of the great
event. He belongs to the Whitmerite
branch of the Mormon church, and has
been at Richmond studying the original
manuscript of the Book of Mormon for
the purpose of figuring out the exact date
of Christ's return.
Richard Whitmer is the present guard
ian of this manuscript. He is the son of
David Whitmer, who sat on one side of
the curtain and wrote down while
Joseph Smith, the prophet, read and
translated the Book of Mormon on the
other side by means Of the spectacles
made of stones known as the Urim and
Thunmin From this manuscript the
Rev. Mr.. Brown has figured out this
great event.
He win leave his wife and three
daughters here while he goes to Jerusa-
lem in the early part of this summer
He says he does not know just what day
Christ will come, but thinks it won't be
very many months, and wants to get
there in time.-Cor. st. Louis Republic.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-05
MONMOUTH RACES.
The Thorougllbreds Who Will Face t
Startess Today.

The Thorouslfbreds who Will Face the
startess Today.
The starters with their weights in the
different races at Monmouth Park today
are as follows:
Five-eighths Of a mile-Volunteer,
1922; Onaway, 115; Jim Glove, 115;
Loantake, 115; Oragense, ITO; kirkover,
1903; Brentano, 1903; Contribution, lO8;
Caterer, So; Cokena, SO.
Fourteen hundred yards-Beck, 122
Volunteer, 1872; Torchiight, 115; Mr..
Soss, ll5; Jim Glove, 1l5; Margherta,
ITO; Firenzi. 10; Trelliswood, 108';
Kirkover, 108; Schoolboy, 1O1; Sir
George, 1O1; Lille K, 96.
Five-eighths of mile--W olcotte, 1876
Kingstock, 129; Soho, 124; Beck, l22
HELEN Rose, 112; Miss Coloville, 108;
West Farris, 108; Banquisher, ITO;
Goldstep. 10S; Arnold, 100; Rhoda, So;
Coronet, 90.
Mile-Prother, Ill; Stryke, 1903; Es-
quinan, 1O1 Long Knight, So; Lepanto,
So.
Five-eighths of mile-Anna Queen,
los; Crocus, 104; ALA Blaze, 103; Take
Back, 1903; Prohibition, 1903; Juliette,
100; lillian, 100; Service, 90: Wah Jim,
90; st. Pancras, 95; Protenial, 95; Knap-
sack, 95; Absconder, 93,
Steeple chir-Deleware, 100; Bassano
1877; Westmoreland, 1877; Benefit, l34
Wontapeake, 1873; Gladiator, 133
Countess, 1870; Little McGowau, 12S
Puritan, 128.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-05
A Pass That Has Don. Service.

n Seb Ah8t mas DOno SERVICE
Twenty-six years ago, when connected
with the Clarendon hotel, at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, J. G. Chamberlain, the
present cashier Of the Leland hotel, was
given pass on the National Express
company by its general superintendent,
E. ii. Virgil. Mr.. Chamberlain was then
a bright young man and had done many
acts of kindness for the superintendent.
In gratitude to the young hotel clerk
Virgil presented him with the pass,
which gave him the right to send any
package free of charge through the com
pany.
A few weeks ago the National Express
company was amalgamated with the
Northern Pacific Express company, and
the new arrangement came into effect
a few days ago. Mr.. Chamberlain had
used his pass whenever he had occasion,
but he was little in doubt as to whether
it would be of any good under the new
management.
However, as soon as the Office in the
Rookery building was open Mr.. Cham
berlain walked in with package direct
ed to G. R. Durkee, of Saratoga Springs
The clerk weighed the package with par
ticular care, as this was the first one
handled by the new company. Then
when he asked for pay the pass was pro-
duced. General Superintendent Hutt
was called in on the question Of the
validity of the antiquated pass, but he
knew that the document had never been
rescinded and the package was sent
along. The pass was on flimsy paper,
but the cashier mounted it on piece Of
stiff pasteboard and preserved it care
fully. Now he is wondering whether he
can will away the pass when he requires
1t no longer Chicago Herald.