Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-04

circles Of social reform. DeVoe. Tor
twenty years superintendent OF New
1Ork's markets, wrote q book 10 show
that Il public market in each ward would
reduce the price of country produce TO
the householder 10y 20 per cent or 50.
lie department store prOprietors are
Forever entertaining wilder schemes 20
be applied IN cheapening shop goods.
The uncunsVryatiyc street railroad sys-
tenn, with It's cables and trollcys. has
brought the average cost Of the pnsseu-
gers ride 90 the syndicate) down TO
cents
All, If the great public would take TO
dreaming with these dreamers. planning
for Itself ns they TO for themselves. and
taking up with their ways of doing bust
ness. how rich aud happy u might be- IN
1893. j. W. SULLIVAN.
Copyright. 1893 All rights rescrvcd)
When you thrust rur with about twenty
sharp Interrogation points about what
viii be the condition Of the world
hundred years FROM now. ! must lirst
say that there is % possibility that the
world 10y that time may be heap of
ashes or knocked to flinders. All gcol.
OgiSts agree in saying that the world is
already ON hrc inside. All that Chicago
saw Of her big fire some twenty years
the coutlaerutiun now raging IN the hulk
Of this old ship of a world And then
the earthquakes witness Charleston and
SAN Francisco aud Java. And then the
comets shooting rccklessly about and
the big chunks from thp other worlds
falling in Kansas aud Iowa on picked
up by the British museum ON the other
side of Che sea.
The fact is that our world needs to
take out policy In some Astronomical
fire INSURANCE. or accident insurance com
pany. From the way the world goes on
n rs certain something is the matter
with 10. The volcanoes are merely the
regurgitutiOn caused by internal cramps.
| am not apprchcnsiyc about the world.
and | sleep well nights, and | do not
want 10 brighten nervous people hut
considering what is going on down I'm
the depths of the earth and what rs
living all about us | am surprised the
world bus not long ago gone ont of bust
ness. But suppose &c lasts-and / hope
10 will, for IL Is q grand old world and
worth snving--what, then, will bc It's
condition In 1892
la incidence Well. cancer and con-
sumption will be- as easily cured as u-
! iluenza or u run around
Theology Far more religion than now,
! The tcchuiCalitips nothing The spirit OF
religion dominant Ministers war hatchet
buried beside Mudoc's tomahawk
Condition Of Cipitnl and labor At
! peace by the prevalence of the golden
| rule. which euipus MS TO do TO others us
We would have them DO 10 MS.
Treatment of criminalsf Prisoners will
/ have ventilation and sunlight and bath
room and Libraries and Christian infu
] enccs which will be rcformatory insteut
| of damnatory
I Educational methodist The stuiiing Inn
| chine which we call the school system
/ which Is musing the rising generation
! race of inyulids, win be substituted by
/ something more reasonable. No NOR,
! school girls with spectuclcs at IL, thCi
! eyes having brnn extinguishpd 10y over
study, with oyerwrought brain. and n,
more boys ia thcir dying dream tryini
to rccte something in high mathematics
What American now living will bc IN,
most hOnored In 1887 by that tim
longevity win be- 80 improved that l5C
| years will he mo- unusual age tO reach
So | answer your last question as 4,
! what American nov living will Dee mos
hOuOrcd Ia 1898 by saying that American
/ now sleeps Ia the cradle on the hank
of the Hudson, or the Alabama, or TN
Oregon, cor the Ohio, q rattle in hand
gum swollen with new tooth, aud vii
soon undertake a course OF mgusels au,
humps. but he viii pull through am
advance until ! see him Ia 1898 presiding
at banquet. aud as hc rises 10 speal
hear him say Gentlemen ] wa
born In the mtter part Of the Ninetccutl
century, and here We are In The Latte
part Of the Twentieth, and the worl
has been improving AL the time, and
now Odcr the toast for the evening
Charge your glasses with apollnari
water and lemonade and drink deep &
this sentiment;
"rhr newspaper press. May It's In
nuence In the Twcnty-iirst century be Il
happy and prosperous as Ia the Nine
teenth and Twentieth centuries
I. DE MIIr TALMAGE.