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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21
A FINE MACHINE.

A Sixty Dollar Sewing Machine for Only
Twenty-Three Dollars.
SEVEN RIVERS, N M, Jan. 90. 1899.
Fort Worth Gazette, Fort Worth, Tex;
p DEAR SIRs-We received your premium
machine some weeks back, and have given
n a fair trial, and find It to be a splendid
machine, and as good in every respect as
lots Of machines that have been sold to our
neighbors this year for $50. Wishing you
good luck, will close. Yours respectfully,
W. T. COCHRAN.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21

SEYNoTR, TEX, March L 1874
The Democrat Publishing Company, Fort
Worth, Tex:
GESrLEEBS-Your premium machine
was received In due time. I am more than
delighted with it. nave used many DIFF
1erent machines, and TIE GAEETTR Is far
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my beautiful machine admire 1t very much.
Success and long hfe to TIE gazette.
Very respectfully, MRseL. E. ERLpes.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21
Tack. 1t
On the Wall.

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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21
After a Years. Trial.

CLARENDON, TEX, Feb. %, 1872
Mr.. Dean reports the sewing machine he
received from you about year ago to be
perfectly satisfactory in every respect.
Respectfully, J. W. TOMAS,
Deputy Postmaster.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21
WANAaIAKRR,s WAY.

JOHN WANAMAKER, oas ossAaIsssls.t
ADN ERIIS SisssEse8s< most successful
Sstle1ee1l4sS MEN in the country, says:
TO discontinue an ADVERTISEMENT
IS IKE taking down your SIGN. would
as soon think of dong business without
CLERKS as without ADVERTISING.
WHAT Is YOUR WAYe
Thirty ,sassnsSs sso7ssd ,,,,.
.Gan-s. 1oWer seeds for 81 at Drumm's seed
rstore, 500 Main street.
Refrigerators, .-.-I-~sEz.s..z's
On the sasE azszzsas ip.sn,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21
RELEASED ON BAIL.
The Santa Fe Watchman at Gainesville
Who Crippled Redmond.

Special to the Gazette,
GAINESVILLE, COOKE, COUNTY, TEX,
March 19.-John II. Hill, the Santa Fe
Waterman, who is under two charges for
attempted murder by throwing Redmond.
the printer, on the cars, waived examina-
ton this morning and was released on $1,000
bail; Redmond is lying very low with not
much hope of recovery. He refuses to have
his leg amputated. 3
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21

closed saloons on the Sabbath, made Of
fcers raid the gambling dens, and dared to
oppose the unbridled ways of corporations
in their dealings with commerce and agri-
culture and the clock of Texas progress
would be set back twenty years.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21

JoHNwANAMAKER, Oasossasssse
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21
An lnporis6t DiSsss7cs.

10 make itgappafentto thousands, Who
think themsetvesfll, tAat they are rot sf-
fected vita eny disease, bat thatthe system
simply Eeess efeansings9fs to bring cemfort
l9fnsto thelrh eafLssa as costive eohdition
s easily cH1ed ~ using Syrup of Figs.
blythe California Fig Sgrap,s
Co. =sisf ~
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21

Your Ewes.
defective eyes treated and zeoEnaataR sNfaiss
q spscia,s7E zsa1zls fsisse 10 each case By
z-tessof George 7. Culley, with ]. P.
Nlcks & Co., 511 Main street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
THE INDIAN AS A FARMER,

In an article in the April Magazine of
History, tracing the educational devel-
opment of the Northwest, ex-Lieutenant-
Governor r. s. Robertson points out
that the first agricultural college of the
country was established in Indiana Ter
ritory. AT tho beginning of the century,
on the request of Little Turtle, principal
chief of the Miamis, agricultural imple-
ments had been furnished by the So
ciety of Friends in the hope Of inducing
the Indians to become tillers of the soil.
In 1904 a delegation of Friends came
from Baltimore to Fort Wayne and met
in council with tho Indians, to discuss
the agricultural question. 1t was pro-
posed tn teach the savage the art of
farming, and, though Little Turtle,
remembering the unsatisfactory re-
suit of his efforts to encourage
industry among his people. was not
hopeful of the experiment, it was un-
dertaken. Philip Dennis, one of the
Friends, offered to remain and become
the teacher. A point was selected ON
the Wabash, a farm inclosed, and Den
Miss troubles began. His report, ac-
cording to Colonel Robertson, shows
that latter inclosing the farm, only one,
or at most two. of the red men showed
any disposition to labor. They would
sit on the fence or in tho trees near by
and watch him pillow and hoe, but with
out evincing any desire to lend a help
ing hand. He left in the fall, discour-
aged. and thus ended the first attempt
to teach the gentle savage the arts of
peace and the delights of rural felicity
on a farm. The first agricultural COL
lege closed without even an essay on
the potato bug. 1t was a failure"
Later attempts in Western Territories
to teach the Indian to work have re-
suited in much the same way. The In
dian will not work unless it is to keep
himself from starving, but with the
present amount of misinformation con-
corning him that is entertained by the
excellent people whose love for him
increases with the geographical dis
lance. this fact is not likely to be acted
upon by the government for at least an
other century.
Colonel Robertson, in this article, de-
scribes the establishment, vicissitudes
and growth of the Indiana University
Library, the first public library in the
State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

of an air ship which was at the same
time a war ship of such power and pro-
portions that it was enabled to lido
up" any Chinese ship in sight. The
date of these events was placed by
Mr.. Eastman at 1910. but recent
events in Russia show that, so far as
war balloons are concerned, he was q
few years behind time. Possibly Pro-
lessor Will, of Baltimore, who claims
that Germans have appropriated with
out leave his device for guiding balloons,
was inspired to the effort of invention
by Mr.. Eastman's tale. Although it is
not exactly q case of history repeating
itself, the Germ an supervision of Russia
from the sky is the realization of q nov
elist's dream. 1t has been said that
poets are the prophets, but writer's Of
fiction seem to have something of the
same gift of foresight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
SUNDAY AND THE WORLDS FAIR.

The action of the Indiana Board of
Worlds Fair Commissioner in regard
to the opening of the fair on Sunday ia
in accord with the opinion previously
expressed by the Journal. The Puritan
Sunday, in which everybody went to
church two or three times, and were
preternaturally sedate and solemn in
the intervals. may have been an ideal
Sunday, but it has passed away beyond
recall. Its successor is a day which
may be devoted to religious observance
or to such rational enjoyment and re-
Taxation as the mental and physical
powers Of those who have labored for
six days seem to require. 1t is to
meet such demands that reading
rooms, and libraries, and art galleries
have been opened to the public on the
first day of the week. All such innova-
tiOns have at first met with opposition
from w~ell-meaning people, and dire evils
have been prophesied as the result. No
evils have followed. The reading
rooms are filled on Sundays by orderly
men and boys. who might otherwise be
among far less desirable surroundings.
The Metropolitan Museum, in New
York. one of the latest of such institu-
tions to succumb to the pressure, is we'll
patronized on Sundays by intelligent
and a~ppreciative crowds who have no
other opportunity of seeing the art
works it contains. The wOild's fair will
be an education to all privileged
to see its wonders. Thousands Of
working people in Chicago will
have no other time than Sundays
in which to visit it. Thousands
of visitors from a distance whose
stay must be brief will be put at great
disadvantage if this great display is
closed to them part of the time. Chica-
go's dens of iniquity will not be closed
on Sundays, it is safe to say. and why
the Sunday champions will insist upon
closing a safe retreat and leaving the.
wandering crowds to the dangers that
menace all idle strangers looking for en-
t~ertainment in n great city has never
been made quite clear. The Indiana
board, in voting for opening the fair on
Sundays, voted in favor of order and
morality. and did wisely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
A NOVELIsT's DREAM REALIZED.

The commOtiOn excited in the minds
of Russian military commanders by the
discovery that the Germans are keeping
watch over their Notifications and army
aneuv from balloons, brings wildly
to mind the "Story of the Chinese In
vasion." published in the Journal, in
November, 1890. That graphic tale,
written by Frank NJ. Eastman, pictured
the landing of Chinese armies on both
the eastern and western coasts of the
United States and the transportation of
these foreign hordes and their acc0utre-
ments yer the country by means of
balloons. These balloons were of alu-
minimum and were filled with O gas
which was one of the component parts
of oxygen, a separation of oxygen into
its elements having been made by
the Kecly motor. which had been
brought to perfection by its inventor In
China, where he had gone on invitation.
The invading Cinnamon had war YES
war made upon new and improved plans,
and their commander. when asked about
the inventions, explained that they were
all of American origin. but their merit
had not been recognized in this country
or their designers encouraged. I'VE"
remarked the mandarin, pointediy,
''kn0w a good thing when we see it."
Fortunately for the United States, in
entor Edison had not been enticed
away from his native land and had been
devoting his attention to the invention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
HONESTY, WEALTH AND POVERTY.

Though he lived nearly seventy
three years." says a newspaper moral
izer CT Walt Whitman, che was always
honest and always poor" The idea tile
writer evidently mean to convey is that
Whitman was poor because he was hon
est. Perhaps he would not go so far as
to say that poverty is q necessary and
inevitable accompaniment of integrity,
but this is the inference to be drawn
from remarks of an explanatory charac-
ter so commonly made concerning men
who come to the end of their days with
out wealth-"at least he was honest"
This does injustice to the man who, by
dint of industry and apple alton, has
acquired competence for himself and
family. Though he is not poor he, too,
may be honest. Drawing the line this
side of a million dollars sum which
certain extremists declare no man can
rightfully become possessed Oft is
surely a tenable proposition that the
ov lership of enough dollars to keep the
wolf from the door does not necessarily
involve disreputable or crooked prac-
tees. Ir may ever imply the additional
possession Of some traits and habits that
the poor man does not always have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
( INDIAN N

Senator Henderson has introduced n
bill providing that Indians who are not
"vOting citizens" and who own LAND
shall be assessed for taxation, the gov
eminent, however, paying the taxes.
The bill is intended to meet a singular
case. In Thurston county, Nebraska,
there are about 26O. 900 acres of land. of
which the white people own 10000 acres,
while the remaining $4,000 acres are
ownod by Indians, many of whom hold
their land in severalty. As the Indians
are not taxed the total expense of main
tanning the county falls OH the whites,
and they claim that their burden would
DO reduced fully three-fourths If the
Indian lands we're taxed. There seems
to be an element of justice in the claim.
We think, however, that Senator Man
derson's bill errs in proposing that the
tax shall be paid by the government, or
the people at large. The idea. of course,
is that tho Indians, being wards of the
government, should not be subject to
taxation, but that the taxes laid on their
ldHus SHouiu NC Ooiuo oy ehO kosoAH-
mcnt. This seems to carry the doctrine
of guardian and wardship to an unreas-
enable extent. The Indians who own
these Nebraska lands are partly civil
lied. and us they enjoy the protection
of the government, the benefits Of mar
kets, roads, etc., it would seem no more
tban right that they should bear their
share of taxation. Moreover, there is
reason to believe that it would tend to
make the Indians more independent and
self helpful if they were made to con-
tribute to the support of local govern
ment. The present policy of the govern
ment is to educate the Indians in civil
lied methods. Taxation is q great civil
i1ar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
PROGRESS IN

Illinois has made more progress in tho
advocacy of good country roads than
Indiana has, for she has a State Road
Association, which holds annual meet
ings and is doing effective work in the
way of creating a public sentiment in
favor of good roads. The association has
just been holding its annual meeting, at
Springfield, and the discussions showed
an encouraging growth of public inter-
est In the question. Among other things
il was stated that all the main lines of
railroad in the State stood ready to
transport material for building hard
roads at net cost of service if the coun-
ties would enter upon a system of i'm
proving the highways. The railroads
could we'll afford to do this, for they
know, as all intelligent persons do. that
q general system of good country roads
would bring a great increase of railroad
traffic the year round. and especially at
those seasons when hauling is now rem
dered almost impossible by bad roads.
No doubt the railroads in this State
would do as much as those of Illinois
towards encouraging the construction
and maintenance Of good country roads.
The Illinois association recommended
State aid to the several counties cOntin-
gent upon like appropriations by the
county; a State board of engineers and
practical contractors; convict labor to
be used exclusively for preparing road
material; all contracts to be awarded by
the State board in conjunction with the
county board; contracts to be awarded
at the April meetings of county boards
each year, so that work may be done in
time. All these recommendations are In
tho right direction and show that the
association is getting at the heart of the
subject. Indiana ought to have a SINH
lar association whose object should be
to educate the people as to the immense
Importance of this question and bring
influences to bear on the Legislature in
favor of a good road law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
AN AMERICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

For some time q systematic crusade
has been going on against the Catholic
hierarchy of the United States by for
eign-born priests in this country and
their sympathizers in Europe. The gen.
eral charge is that the welfare and spir-
itual needs of on-English-speaking
Catholics are ~disregarded by the Amer
lean hierarchy. 1t will be remembered
that some months since a scheme was
proposed to have the different national
tiles composing the Catholic Church
taken charge of by priests of the same
nation and language with a view of To-
eating them in communities, where they
language, thus, In effect, establishing
foreign colonies in this CO untry. This
plan did not meet the approval of
the Pope. Not only do the alien
ecclesiastics attack such men as
Cardinal Gibbons. Archbishop Ireland
and Bishop Keane, but they assail
American institutions and ideas. Arch
bishop Ireland has been called to Rome
to meet the charges, and he and his as
sociates have been indicated. Still the
conflict is going on, and he has recently
made a statement, which was printed in
the Boston Pilot, the official Catholic
paper of the archdiocese of Boston, with
the emphasis of double leads, to show its
Importance. A part of the statement is
as follows:
Thnro n - ~ IN Dana NJ aut
garten, who, last summer. visited the
United States, and who seems to have but
one object to live for IN the Eternal City,
and that IS to whisper in all directions
calumnies and misrep presentations about
America and all concerning America. Two
Canadian bishops who have come hither
for their visit ad limlne apost0lorum. are
talking in all directions against the bish-
ops and priests of New England. as if.
under them. the faith of Canadians in
America is greatly imperiled. In addition
q Polish movement is on foot In Rome to
have. In some mann er, the Poles In Amer
lea organized into a special religious party.
| find that some time ago a pamphlet writ
ten by Father De ConoiliO, of New Jersey,
Was widely distributed IN Italy. deploring
the neglect of the Italians in America; the
reverend writer at the same time. for his
own part, holding very fast to an English
speaking congregation and marshaling his
forces TO become president of the American
College in Rome instead OF devoting him
self to the spiritual care of his Italian fell
low-countrym men in America.
The foregoing has no further interest
to the American people than it shows
that the able and influential clergy of
the Catholic Church in the United States
are fighting the project of Foreigners to
maintain the distinctions of foreign ma
%tionalities in the Catholic Church. A
Catholic Church in this country which is
not essentially American in its national
relations and sentiments is not the
church that such men as Cardinal Glib
bons and Archbishop Ireland propose to
have. American citizens themselves,
and moved with patriotic regard for the
institutions of their country, they do not
propose that the church whose leaders
they are shall be made up of communi-
ties alien to all thai is essentially Amer
icQn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

namely: thrift. economy. ambition. and
that Undesirable but useful thing
known as good management A bank
account is not invariably . product of
rascality. On the other hand, honesty is
not an inseparable element of poverty.
Poverty Is not of itself discreditable or
disgraceful; it may be. and often is, n
crown of honor. There are many OBJ
jects better worth attaining in this world
than wealth. and many are the
men who have voluntarily lived
lives of self-denial and ~privation
in order to devote their time and labor
to scientific, intellectual or religious
neutrality-suspicious. that do more for
the worlds advancement than mere
riches can possibly do. Many others
have seen something better worth liv-
ing for in the enjoyment of a moderate
competence than in the absorption of
energies essential to the requirement. of
great wealth. Many more have not tho
money getting faculty, and must per
force be content all their lives with
hard-won, scanty earnings.
But there is a poverty that is discrod-
liable, that is at least far from being a
worthy source of pride. 1t is possibly
true that Walt Whitman did all that
the world had a right to expect, or all
that he was born to do when he served
a term as army nurse and wrote q VOL
ume or so of questionable verse. He
is dead now, and no i'll need
be spoken of him. but it
must be said that hundreds
Of thousands of other men risked more
for their country than he and celebrated
themselves not at all a%fterward; that
thousands of men did better service
with thair pens after the wal was over
and did not appeal to the public for
financial aid and calmly accept it as a
right. Whitman's honesty is not to be
questioned, but there may be two opin-
ions as to whether honesty was the sole
cause of his poverty. At all events it is
time this coupling of honesty and pow.
erty when q poor man dies was done
away with,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

THE people of indianapolis are not
particularly concerned about n pub
lie librarian or another as an individual.
What they are interested in is That the
library shall be properly conducted.
This has been done by Mr.. Evans, and
therefore it is the general opinion that
in failing to retain him the School
Board has made a mistake. Certain it
is that no one equally competent can be
secured for the same salary, and NJ self
respecting man, skilled librarian or not.
will be willing to take the place and be
subject to the erratic action of the board
and to the restrictions it proposes to put
upon his authority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

In o so-called scientific article by Ern.
est A. futile, an attempt is made to show
how the signal-service officer makes
his forecasts of the weather. Among
other things, it is stated that q Their
mometer is dipped in water when an OBJ
servation is to be made, and then whirled
upon its axis. 1.-THE evaporation from
the wet CLOTH" says scientist futile,
~"raises the temperature, consequently
the mercury in that thermometer rises
If evaporation produces this effect in q
signal service Office. perhaps its eccen-
trio action accounts for the contrariness
of the predictions that emanate from
the same place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
TRIPPING WITH CONSCIENCE,

A statement was published in the
Journal a few days ago to the effect
that a young lady of Jacksonville, H.,
daughter of q prominent citizen and
herself we'll known in church and social
circles, had embraced the Hebrew relig.
ion, preparatory to marrying a young
Hebrew. She had been "a devOut Epis-
copalian, but abjured her religion and
family tradition IN order to identify her.
self with the faith of her intended hus-
band. In order to carry out her plan
the young lady first %renOunced her
Christian faith and then went to
Chicago, where, under the advice of a
rabbi, she is living in a Jewish family
until such time as she shall become &C.
customed to their mode of faith and
living and be prepared for full adnis-
sion into the Hebrew Church.
The Journals advice i'm the matter has
not been asked, and no doubt its opinion
will pass unheeded, as those of outside
parties generally arc by young persons
about to marry, but it will venture the
opinion that the young lady is doing an
unnecessary and unwise thing. In the
first place, it was not necessary for her
to embrace the Hebrew religion in order
to marry Il Hebrew. She could have
been married to the man of her choice
without that. If a rabbi had declined
to marry them any justice of the peace
would rave done so in a ~twinklinR. If
her afiianced objected to this mode of
marriage or insisted on being married in
the Hebrew church it would have been
evidence that he thought more of form
than of substance. more of the worlds
opinion than he did Of her, and that
would have been sufficient reason for
discarding him.
In the next place. the young lady did
violence to her own convictions in re.