Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-28

appropriate pictures and llter.,n~. .,
The little folks. Even tho eldsrs y, ,ot
pleasure and instruction from IN y,
trneiiyo pages. In Little Men and Wan.
En- d this description Of wondcrfaI
What wonderful stories some fa,no,.
drinking cups could tell, II they ronil
only speak. This rare old Chrsttn,s
cup Is one Of them. II Is soon 10 m, mr.
scnted to the British Museum. M ras,
Of $4,000, The cover aud Mi nre ~
solid gold. beautifully inlnid with enamel
pictures and mcdnllions, 1t once be.
lpngcd to Charles ". OF France. Before
the days of the Tudor soyereigns il was
in the royal treasury Of England. Hon.
ry VIII, and Queen Elizabeth have
touched their lips to it at grand Christ.
mas dinners, md James I. presented
II to the great Spnniard Velasco
a few years ago this rare old Christ
mas cup was sold at auction. and since
then i has been wandering about, bring
ing higher and higher prices-it is con-
sidcred such remarkable treasure
The College fraternity Is publication
that will interest the alumni and students
Of American colleges. II is unique in
character and its pages nre open to Mi
members of college fraternities for The
dissention Of views, or the discussion Of
questions of general interest.
There is movement on foot to have
the American college fraternity system
properly represented Mt Chicago In 1899.
and in this 'Frhe College fraternity Is
heartily enlisted; Address Friedrich NJ.
Gossett. III Broadway, New York.
Terms, 81 II year.
Andersonyille. by Herman A. Baum.
published by Q, ID. Fnhsel publishing
company, Milwaukee. Price 80 cents
The author In Il brief preface says he
has been prompted 20 make this critical
sketch because he believes that the p0-
litlcal situation In this country cannot be
fully understood without just uppreci-
alton of the prison horrors and its
causes In fnct, he considers the re-
citnl MS an object lesson upon the evils
that n gpedy plutocrncy entails.
II il somewhat surprising that the work
Is IN one sense n vindicatiOn of Captain
Wirz, the keeper Of Andersonville prison,
who was executed after the war for al,
legged cruelties pernetrated there,
The evidence Is valuable because it IA
the unsought testimony of one who buses
his conviction upon personal observations
III Confederate military prisons during n
period of eighteen months.
generation will have to pass ere the
South can hope for calm unitnpas-
stoned judgment upon the events OF the
civil war, and so while books such as
tins may not in the present effect much
good they are valuable because of The
neurness of the author TO the scenes
they depict, and in after years these may
do much In righting the accounts that
nave been in the main prcjuliced aud
unfair
Mr., Braun, while dealing plainly with
me horrors of life In Southern prisons.
y honest enough to cast the 0dium OF
their continuance upon The mower mt
Washington whore il justly belongs.
The Gazette is in receipt OF n pamph.
Jet, Albert A. Pope publisher, contain
ing expressions from muny prominent
educators in favor Of n road-makinr ok
hibit nc the Worlds fair and alan their
approval of having road-mnking a
branch Of instruction In colleges. When
II asserted that in all the United Stnlps
there are not more than fifty trained
highway engineers, the necessity for
suitable training becomes apparent.
The value of such instruction has boon
tested in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology for two years. and gives
added weight TO the favorable opinion
of the heads of colleges in the liffernnt
stltcs
The October Atlantic hal strong
nrticle, Tho Botterment of Onr Ilirli-
ways by. Professor Shaler. of Har-
ynrd. which hlr. Pope has been pllowed
to reprint and distribute.
a comprehensive roud exhibit at Chi
cngo would tend 10 bring the matter he-
fore the people and tend TO revision nitl
enactment of state and national laws
Tor the building and perpeiuatiou Of good
highways.