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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14
lannon's Ministers as Editors.

There are many men in New York city
who have become famous in dual roles aud
labor Pulpit orators who are also well
knowu as journalists are quite numerous
here. Dr. j.. NJ. Buckley is the editor OF
The Christian Advocate, the organ of Meth
odIsm in this country, He was once
prominent pastor, but preferred the pen to
the pulpit and his success as an editor
las been remarkable. DR.. Buckley IS
tall man of slender build. He wears brown
side whiskerS and is very bald. He isn't
AZ all sensitive over the lack of hair on his
head, however, for 1t is one of his stand
ing Jokes when making IA speech to allude
10 II. As 4 speaker he is in great demand.
He is always logical, and at times eloquent.
dis versatility IS one of his most remark
able characteristics, and he can tell hui
moroUs story or deliver an after-dlnner
speech and enjoy good joke with the same
leSt with which he can speak at revival.
DR.. Henry NJ. Field, the editor and owner
OF the Evangelist, is another man whose
name is a household word. He is 4 member
Of the famous Field family, and brother
OF Cyrus w. Field. He is short, well built,
with prominent features and a strong face.
Tie wears q beard, which is now tinged
with gray, is negative in Presbyterian al
lars, and holds q prominent position IN the
councils of the church. BE has been great
traveller
Rev. DR.. Charles a. Stoddard, the editor
aud proprietor of the New York Observer,
Is another OF Gotham's famous religions
editors. He is a son of the late DR..
lrenaus Primm. and viii eventually own
1SSe Observer, which has become a very
valuable property. DR.. Stoddard has made
fortune out of his paper, which speaks
ven Tor his business tact as well as edito-
Flal ability. He is short. nervous man,
With keen eye and intellectual face. His
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

One day this week I saw on Newspaper
row 4 man whose name is known the coun-
try over, but whose face is unknown to
most people even in New York City, where
for years he has been alternately one of the
most abused and again best praised men be-
fore the public. He is of medium height,
broad shOuldered and powerfully built.
Indeed, mis- physique IS not unlike that of
the great pugiIist John Morrissey, although
two men were never less alike in other
ways. He is past middle age, but there is
no gray noticeable in his well-kept mutton
chop whiskers, or in such of his hair as
could be seen
This man was Anthony Comstock, the
head and front of the society for the sup
preston of vice, an organization that has
the support of most of the rich men and
women of New York who are rehgiously
inclined, and that has for its purpose the
crushing out of all gambling and immor-
atty. AS has been said, there can be no
question rs TO Comstock's sincerity. For
years he has opposed gambling as the
chief of all crimes. He has been con-
Sistent in this, for he has opposed the
Louisiana state lottery and the big pool
sellers with Just as much persistence as he
has shown in the prosecution of policy
shops and small gambling dens. 1t is. in
deed his very sincerity that leads him to do
things that subject him to cenSure more or
Western judge sharply criticised him for
having assumed name not his own in
gathering evidence against q dealer in i'm
moral literature. In all these matters,
however, the society of which he is the eX-
ecuive officer invariably sustained him.
Anthony Comstoek's courage is I'M
doubted. The deep scar onshis face is the
result of 4 razor slash given him by a crimi-
nal whom he had brought within the
clutches of the law When the man got
out he cut Comstock, and for this was SEN
fenced TO another long term. When ne was
again set at liberty he went back to his old
trade, and it was Comstock himself who
took the matter of arresting him in hand.
He has personally taken charge OF many
raids upon gambling dens run by pretty
tough characters and ne can hold his own
with the best of them. He has been the
recipient OF any number of internal ma
chimes of one kind or another, but he still
sticks TO his work, and every year he
SEXES tons of erotic literature, gambling
layouts and all that sort of stuff. He is
certainly a radical for he told me not so
long ago that III his opinion nearly all
crime sprung. from the gambling habit.
That IS a bold statement
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14
Kate rield,s Positive Ideas.

Miss Kate Field, the author, the lecturer
and traveller, is very positive woman. If
you ask her question she replies to it very
frankly yes or no. But if she doesn't I'M
derstand the matter she promptly asks
why. Talking to her the other day about
what women are doing il the various fields
of labor. asked her if she noticed that
women were really making progress.
Frankly she answered: 81 know nothing
about it. But I do know this, that mothers
and wives are singularly remiss in one i'm
portant department of life. The percentage
of women who know how to cook, how to
dress properly and how to educate their
children is very small They begin wrong
They have never studied the chemistry Of
foods for example. Some of them cannot
tell, to save their lives. when food is pro-
perly prepared They use no Judgment in
the foods they select for themselves and
their families and they know little about
follow the fashion, regardless of all
hygienic laws, simply because it is
the fashion, and they are ignorant of the
laws of health. One of the greatest neces-
sites Of our day, / think, is that more at
tention shall be paid to physical culture.
Mothers should learn to understand the
Importance of this most important of all
things in life. They should begin by in
structing their children properly, so they
may become healthy and strong. Then
they should see that they are properly
dressed and have a sufficient amount of uu-
tritious food to sustain the body. 1t is easy
enough for the women of America to make
the next generation the most splendid one
in our history if they will only pay some
attention to themselves. When they have
done this it will be time enough to begin
to talk about women's progress
But do you not think l said. ''that
women are doing well in various depart
ments of life. extremely well in some
branches of work, that heretofore only men
We're allowed to occupy1''
''Oh, yes,' was the reply, 81 have no
doubt they are. Yet I cannot say off-hand
much about it, They have made great
deal of progress, to be sure, aud they will
do better when they learn how TO take
care of themselves. have no fear of the
future if women win only stop for mo-
ment, think what they are doing, and then
bring'up their sons and daughters in a SEN
sible way. That is all there is of it, and
that is the greatest demand OF the day.
FOSTER COATES
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

rs he did everyone else. When he reached
the room where the reporters were buSily
at work some of them raised their heads
and then bent to their work again. He
was a stranger to them and only couple
of the veteran hands recognized him.
Yet Benjamin Wood had owned this
newspaper for more than thirty years, and
during all that time had actively directed
it. He had been noted man beside as a
congressman and an influential man in
state and national politics. His brother
Fernando was also q congressman and was
also mayor of New York. But although
Mr.. Wood is scarcely ever seen at his
Office he knows every detail of the manage
ment. He remains in his hotel or at his
club, and there consults with his editor and
issues his directions. Though compare
lively unknown TO the general public, he is
the cOnfidant of pretty nearly every man of
consequence in national politics. His in
come from his paper is estimated at any
where from SO, 600 TO 100000 per year,
which is a pretty good one and much
larger than what he once received as a
supercargo on a West Indiaman.
Among his other accomplishments, :" he
is one of the best poker players in the
Tinted States.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

hair and beard are gray, but he moves with
the sprightliness and vigor of younger
man. He writes for the Observer under
the nom de plume of Augustus, and his
letters have -eYinced much literary ability.
The Observer is also a Pres byterlan paper,
but it takes the opposite side in the Briggs
case from the Evangelist, and consequently
there is considerable rivalry between the
two journals.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott is, perhaps, bet
ter known as preacher than as an editor,
but in his latter capacity, through the
Christian Union, he is widely influential.
DR.. Abbott is personally u very striking
man. He is spare in build and not very
tall. He wears brown mustache and
beard, which are tinged with gray. From
his forehead, which is prominent, indi-
eating great intellectually, his hair Is
thrown back, thus emphasizing the schoi-
arly head. Every one knows Dr. Abbott as
a preacher. and as 4 writer the same pol
ished, scholarly characteristics are notice
BILE
DR.. William Hayes Ward, editor of the
Independent, is another man whose nameis
well known. While he is great archeolo-
gist, and perhaps the greatest living author
ity on subjects concerning the past ages, his
paper is bright and progressive and evinces
the ability and energy of the man who IS at
the head. DR.. Ward is man of medium
height He wears q full dark beard and mus
tacnc. He is most interesting talker and
is man of very wide information. His
fondness for travel and historical research
has led him into nearly every portion of the
world, and his fund of "reminiscences is in
exhaustible These five men are, perhaps,
the most prominent in the field of religious
journalism in New York, and their intiu-
ence, which in their several capacities they
occupy, is probably unequaled by any other
five men in this country.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14
Andrew Carnegie and His Vast Fortune


Not many nights ago man of nearly
sixty years of age sat in box in the Metro
politan opera house. His beard, that had
been sandy, was well sprinkled with gray.
He was short, and why rather than stout,
in build The divine Patti herself was
singing, but the man in the box paid but
li5tle attention TO her at the time, although
his handsome wife, who sat beside him,
was absorbed in the music. He seemed in
Il reverie.
He is thinking up some new way to
spend his income, said some one in the
audience.
1t was Andrew Carnegie who was in the
box, and the ocular reference to him
quoted was not such an idle one as it might
seem at first thought
The reason for this is simple enough
Carnegie is worth some $50, 600, 900 at the
least. 1t is his hobby, so to speak, that the
surplus of his great fortune shall be so
spent upon philanthropic enterprises that
he will see some of their fruits while he
lives, instead of having his wishes over
thrown, as was the case with Samuel j.
Tilden and others. AS Mr.. Carnegie,
though married, is childless. and as he
wishes to spend the bulk of his fortune, it
keeps him busy-fnding new ways of en-
downing really useful Institutions He has
established a public library at Pittsburg
with $500, 600, n music hall at Allegheny,
Pa, with 0.000; he erected the great
Carnegie music hall in New York, has en-
dowed any number of hospitals. and has
made the town of Dumfreshire, Scotland,
where he was born, a sort of Carnegie
eleemosynary institution by his benefac-
lions.
But, still, he has more money than he
well knows what to do with in 4 clearly ju-
dicious way. Of course he is not at all in
clined to throw 1t away, nor would he be
be much regarded if he did. But Mr..
Carnegie has another hobby, which he
shares with Henry Clews. He is honestly
ambitious of lasting name as an author.
Nor can it be said that he has altogether
failed in his ambition. His books have not
only had q wide sale, but one of them.
triumphant Democracy" has become a
sort of text both here and abroad. His
house on Fifteth street is one of the hand
soonest in town, and there are paintings in
it worth going far to see. Altogether Mr..
Carnegie occupies a very pleasant position
And if it be true that he is puzzled as to
just what to do with his money. he holds-a
unique one, too.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

To go out OF doors in rough weather is not
stron 6. but we are, many Of US, compelled 70
face rough weather frequently. Diseases
which arise from j chill are peculiar 10 no
season Of the year. This is true, therefore
there should be in the closet OF every hoase-
hold-whats Not an u1rnedicated <stimuant,
absolutely devoid of anything bus an excitive
jaeti5nssput TONG co9bining, u me electivel
form oftan inyi seranpf ald an saiieratiYe. ~
quality 81 defe1fe against CA ICES OF weaah =.
Hostetter's Sz6nac 1f3itI RI kas three or or
properties tn-Lf no sother szfticIe OF is slass
possesses 1Set OF ) dyes it relieve he'conl-
plains Fficait itvel8dally cures, - fl5ftifies
the SFSreln aeaiast ne bad effects ~ changes
OF tenpsratE' : ana 100 q Ia shown in
tae5Geadly form of Ia grippe: II Produces q
.fAdical change in the weakened condition OF a
system peculiarly liable to he attacked by it,
ana u teElsssto provide against the danger re-
scitiig nom an impoverished condition OF the
bowels.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14
A New York Editor seldom Seen on Park
Row.

The owner of a New York daily news
paper who does not visit his office once in a
year IS something OF 4 novelty in these days
of hustle and hustle. James Gordon Ben
nett has been supposed, indeed, to be the
only one in existence who does this.
Charles \. Dana is at his desk every day,
and all the other responsible editors follow
his example But there appeared in Park
row the other day a cab that stopped in
front of the Office of the New York Daily
News. This paper is one of the most sue
cessfuI penny papers published When the
CAP stopped an elderly man stepped from il
He had been tall when younger, but non
his form was somewhat bent. Yet he Mas
a vigorous man considering his almost
seyenty-two years. His face had thst deep
pallor that is said TO be a distinguishing
feature of MIR. Gladstone's face. but his
eyes were bright.
The old man was Benjamin Wood, Avho is
is practically the Owner of the Daily News.
Most OF his own employees do not seenfss.
know him The boy who was running the
elevator treated him with scant courtesy,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

According TO the ideas of the Icelanders
all waters which flow to the north are
drawn thitherward by suction created by
the oceans tumbling downward through the
hollow which they firmly believe exists at
the pole
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

Some of the biggest dams in the world
are in California. The MERGED dam is 90
feet high with a capacity OF $500, OoO 900
gallons, spread over $50 acres.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

The 'sPassion Play is TO be performed
by redskins at a great gathering of Chris
tan Canadian Indians, in Kamloops, B. c.,
next June.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

Ga every horse will be found. on the
inside of each foreleg, a dry, gray wart
about the size of a silver dollar.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-11

common purpose to defy the law, resist its
officers and to deprive any portion Of their
fellow citizens of their rights under the
constitution and laws. It's state Of war,
said be, when business plant has 10 be
surrounded by the army of the State TO
protect 10 from unlawful violence at the
hands Of former employees. Every member
of such asserted government, whether 1t be
an advisory committee, or by whatever
name it is called, who has participated in
such usurpatiOn, who has joined in COM
mon purpose Of resistance TO the law and
denial Of the rights of other citizens, has
committed treason against the State While
the definition of this offence is the design
ing or overturning OF the government OF
the State, such definition need not extend
to every portion ofits territory.
"It is sufficient to be an overturning Of
il in particular locality and such intent
may be inferred from the acts COM
mitIed. II you find from the evidence that
the defendants have, or any Of them has,
committed, participated and aided in any
Of the acts which l have defined TO you as
constituting the offense Of treason, it will
be YOUR sworn duty to find a true bill
against the party or parties so offending.
1--WE have reached the point in the his
tory of the State where there are but two
roads left for US 10 pursue; the one leads TO
order good government; the other leads
TO anarchy. Tue one great question which
concerns the people OF this country is the
enforcement Of the law and the preserya-
tiOn of Order.n
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-11
wYLIE AVENUE PANIC.
Hebrew Merchants in that Section Going
Down by the Dozen.


PIrTsBURG, PA, October 10.-The labor
troubles Of the past six months are held to
be largely respOnsonsible for recent busi-
ness failures among the Hebrews in the
Wylie avenue district. Within the past
week the sheriff has attached his bills OF
sale to six dry goods and notions stores in
that section.
Several OF those falling have branch
stores in the small towns in the vicinity,
which will also 90 down in the wreck. The
general reason advanced for the failures is
tlat the pedlers and small dealers supplied
from the Wylie avenue stores failed to
meet their obligations, thereby preventing
the merchants from settling with their
creditors.
The whole system seems to have been
one of credit. Little capital was invested
bv many Of the dealers Ali depended on
their income from sales TO meet their pay
ments. The merchants bought on credit
from eastern wholesal lers, sold on credit to
the pedlers and small stores and they In
turn sold largely on credit to their custom
ers.
The latter are almost entirely Of the mill
working class. Homestead has always
been considered one of the best fields for
the pack pedlers business in this section.
When the income Of this class was cut OIL
by strikes, etc, they failed 70 pay. Inc
amount involved by the Wylie avenue
failures is over 5000
Among the victims OF the panic are >.
Tapolsla, j. & 5. Friedman and ID. Ros.
epthal. The latter's liabilities are said to
reach S125, 900. II is said that all the stores
contain but a fraction of the amount OF
their liabilities, and if the sheriff's sales
take place the New York firms will be the
losers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-11
Yesterdays BASE BALL GAMES.

At Cincinnati, Hutchinson's two Dagger
won the game for Chicago in the ninth in
ming. Attendance 500. Cincinnati 3; Chi
cago 4; earned, Chicago 4; errors, and A.;
hits, and IL; pitchers, Dwyer and Hutch
son; umpire. McQuaid.
At Pittsburg, with two men out and the
bases full in the ninth, Bieroauer hit a
slow grounder to Mexican, and beat the
ball to first, two men scoring. The decls-
ion was close. Attendance, 1,202. Pitts
burg s, Cleveland 8; earned runs, Cleve-
land 3; error, ? and 4; hits, each; pitch
ers. Baldwin and Young; umpire, Gafney:
At Philadelphia, Philadelphia defeated
Baltimore by hard and consecutive hitting
Attendance. $50 Philadelphia Z, Batl-
more ?: earned runs, and /; errors, Bal
timore l; hits 10 and o; pitchers, hee1e
and Cobb; umpire, Lynch.
At New York. the Senator's could DO
nothing with Kennedy, and Brooklyn won
the game. Attendance, S45; Brooklyn 8;
Washington 5; earned runs, Washington
g: errors, Washington z; hits, 10 and 3;
pitchers, Haddock, Kennedy and Meekln;
umpire, Emslie.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-11
DISAPPOINTED.
The Meeting Of the Chairmsu Ofthe Various aspuN-
lican County Committees Of New York State,
Shows the Listing Of Voters TO Be Unsaiisfac-
tory-Ths Ohairmsn Urged to Work Hard.
Unlimited Funds Guaranteed.

New York, October 10-The meeting OF
the chairmen of the Republican County
Committees of the State, called by Chair
man Hackett Of the Republican State Com
mittee, was held this afternoon. Forty-six
OF tho sixty counties were represented.
The meeting being held with closed
doors and carefully guarded by Sergeant
at Arms Anderson OF the State Committee,
the details of the statements made by the
different counties cannot be giyer.
When Chairman Hackett was asked at
ter the meeting TO tell what had been SAID
and done, he replied that no Information
respecting the proceedings would pc maue
-puolic.
From others present, however, 1t was
learned that the condition OF the comfy or
CARNATIONS was one OF the principal points
touched upon. The registration OF the Re-
nublican voters was considered at length,
and most of the chairmen felt obliged 10
say that they
HAD BEEN GREATLY DISAPPOINTED
by the result OF the first day OF registra-
ton. In the rural districts the Democrats
have made much larger registration than
the Republicans.
They were earnestly appealed TO by
Chairman Hackett, Carter and Brookneid
as also Dy warner mliier, Ml, A@ee, oO,
retary McComas and Senator Sherman, all
of whom made speeches. TO redouble their
efforts for full registration and the
bringing out Of every Republican
voter at the election. Ample funds, 1t Is
stated. were pledged for the work neces-
sarv to poll the heaviest Republican vote
possible in the State They were also urged
10 work for the capture OF as many Demo
cratic votes for the ticket as they could
secure, all the necessary expense being
guaranteed. it is reported
The meeting was In session Tor over
three and one-half hours.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-11
AN AWFUL CRIME.
A Man and His Daughter Hacked to Pieces and
Their Remains Cremated-NegrOes Supposed TO
Have Done the Deed-The Father Died Defend
ing His Daughters HOnOr-An Awful Story
From Alabama.

MOBILE, ALA, October 10.-Hacked to
pieces with an axe and then cremated was
the awful fate of Richard l.. Johnson and
his charming 1S-year-old daughter.
A gang of desperate negroes is supposed
tohaye committed the horri BILE crime
The tragedy occurred at Johnson's plan
tation. near Davis Ferry, Monroe county,
Friday night. There are no telegraph
lines near the place, and the news OF the
awful butchery did not reach here until TO-
day.
Seven negroes have been arrested and
the people of the neighborhooo are searcn,
ing the country round about tor several
more who are thought to have taken part
in the bloody affair
Theindications are that Johnson died In
defending his daughter from the assault or
tine brutal blacks. That there was ter
rible struggle in front OF the house there
can be but little doubt.
The sod is torn up, and blood STAINS
cover the grass for several rodS from Inc
front entrance to the house.
The first known of the crime was about
midnight Friday night, when the nelgn-
hors were attracted to Johnson's home by
fire which was coming out OF the roof
The house was burned to the ground ana
in the morning the charred remains OF
johnson and his daughter were found,
His skull had been split in half ana the
body OF Miss johnson was literally mack,
ed to pieces. A search was instituted and
at the house of Burill Jones, colored; three
hundred yards distant,an axe with blood on
r. was found. and the shirts OF q brother OF
Jones, named Moses, and son were found
spotted with blood.
All three men were at once placed under
arrest as were FIVE other negroes who lived
farther down the road, east OF the planta-
tion. -
miles around have gathered in Davis Ferry,
and if sufficient proof OF the guilt OF the h,e,
arrested negroes can be obtained, they VIII
The respectable blacks Of the community
are doing all they can to aid In bringing
the guilty fiends to justice. -.
MASSACHUSETTS, in 1867, and was one OF the
respected citizens Of the c1unSy Y0np Hs Ho
man having finished her education last
wear.