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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

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FOR RENTAL elegant lower south
east front room; electric lights ana
bath zoo West First street. II. A.
Williams.
FOR RENT-Hotel. twenty-three
rooms, In good location. Apply 10 6iO
Main street, w. l.. LAgon s. Co.
PASTURE 10 LEr--The White Deer lands
near Panhandle city, Tex. Tor lease In
tfncts 10 suit CUSTOMERS. Apply TO j. T.
laul, Panhandle Tex.
FOR lsEN1- With nrst.class board n hand
snuie room on Inst nour al INK honse cnr-
ncr Fourth and Calhoun streets. Mrs. n. "
Burls.
FOR l'l.N1-~l< Kennedy Hotel. new brick and
with a., modern Improvements. Address
Mrs. 9. " kfunedy. hiisnoro. Tex Il
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

NO AID LESS THAN TWO LINES. NO
CHARGE LESS THAN 25c.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01
AGENTS WANTED.

10 MUCH COMPLAINT
About no work to do. II you real
~ want work, and are only an
average canvasser, you can make
SIS to 800 a month. Address for
particulars.
NEWSPAPER BOX 70i.
Dallas. Tex.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

$4,000 FOR FINE walnut case $1,000
sixth street. between Main and liouston.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

TRACK MEN WANTED at Granger. To1.
VIII start April 3; live line. White and
Mclncrncy.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FOR sALE-A $4,000 stock OF dry goods.
boots and shoes; stock contains only
clean. new, fresh goods. A snap for
Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FOR sAbE--saloon business In good
town at bargain. Write or call on
us. NJ. Y. skinner 81 Co, Sunset,
Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FOR SALE-Bargoin in residence lot
near the center of the city. Apply
early to Go Main street. w. l.. Ligon
q On
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FOR SALE-iOO 10 200 acres OF iand within
onc-hnlf mile OF Miucoln, Tex, 100 acres In
dress Mrs. s. W. L. Kennedy IliilsborU,
Tex. q
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

RUBBER GOODS for hyglenic aud private
We Gcm Rubber Company. Kansas City,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

The following Hotels are recon-
meDdcd by The GnAette, which main
tHins larger travelling force than
amy other Texas enterprise, ms the
most convenient and comfortable
In their respective townst
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FOR SALE-One Of the best bargains
In a big boarding house In the city.
1t Will pay for itself In short time.
House. lot, furniture. all goes. In
fact one of. the most complete places In
the city. Can early ON w, l.. Ligon *
Co, 6t0 Main street.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

A REAUTlFUL Groom c0ttngc on West
Dnggett avenue. worth Sl5O0, FOR $3.50,
terms easy. W. L. Wilson, POS Main street
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FOR SAl.E--Nloe little ave room house
on the West Side; $500: 500 cash, $50
per month; a bargain. u. $. Hare.
7O3 Main.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FOR SALE-Lots, at your own price,
any klnd Of payments. aud M the time
You want ID. $. Hare. iU3 Main.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

BOOKS bought, sold and exchanged: law.
lhe1logy, mechanical, electrical and engineer.
ing; aud all kinds of scientific books, Don's
fort Worth
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

FoR sALE-lS00 acres choice black land;
500 in CIVILIZATIONS, 4 miles north OF l'oft
Worth VIII sell IN small tracts aud on time
20 parties Improving same. $. \. Hatcher,
Fort Worth
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to handle Il nrst.class
specially as a side line: no samples; good
commissions; nrst-class references required
George A. kenuatd Grocer Company. St
tngtDll Mo.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

MADAM DE LA MoTrE Is acknowl-
edged by press and public TO be the best
clairvoyant and only self hypnotist
that has ever visited this city. can at
PoindeXter house. COS West Fifth street.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

WANT ED Everybody 10 see our complete
stock OF confcctioncros and choice line
Of fruits ana tobaccos. Bcachams new
stand, COG Niuln street.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

$1,000 REWARD-For any family OF
bedbugs that my eNterminator viii not
instantly destroy. Send iOc silver. +.
a. Samuel, Box 51S. Waco. Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01

srENoGRAPHI9R ut Hotel Worth. Patron.
age sollcited-Fiue circular work.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-01
ROOMS AND BOARD.

pRNISHED ROOM with or without
ohrd. Deane, Photographer.
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OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
Abuses Heaped Upon the Tars Shipping at American Ports.
Jack and the Oppressive "Grimps"-His Chief Hope in the Legislation Which Has Not Yet Come to
 His Relief.
C0PYRIGHT.. .I99b.

The differences between capital and labor exist almost as strongly in the endowment of sailors as in other trades. It is surprising fact that American seamen, or rather seamen in American ports. are as much oppressed by capitalists if not more so than any other workmen. But Jack" is such greparious animal, and his work takes him away from home so much, that it is very difficult for him to organize for self-protection. And his outlook is growing steadily worse, too, if those who come in constant contact with him can be believed, for every year the wages grow smaller, and the "crimps, ," as Jacks most aggressive enemies are known, grow more numerous.
 The chief hope for relief is in legisla- tioD, and already the legal wheels have begun to revoIve in his favor. But there are wheels within wheels, and opposing interests which combat the measures intended to improve the condition of the oppressed jack-tar.
 In the meantime, however, the dis graceful condition of affairs continues In no country, it is said, are the condi- tions governing sailors so bad as in America. Even despised China offers better conditions for seamen in her ports, while most of the other enlight- ened nations have stricter laws to gov ern ship owners and masters, and have them enforced better. In America, however, what laws we have are poorly enforced, and the consequence is that Jack is in a condition of semi-slavery.
 From the time sailing ship reaches New Your harbor till she leaves, her crew are not free agents, but rather the slaves of certain agents who pre- tend to work for their advantage, but who in reality live from their meager earnings. Even the masters of these vessels are not free agents, for they,
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4 Gem of A Girl.

Yes, there was one girl who lived right along with us for twenty-two years said the old lady, with q remin- iseent sigh, 'tand she might have been with the family yet if she had wanted to stay
 "She must have been a jewel" said one of the callers.
 "Yes, we never had any trouble with her about wages or afternoons out or anything of that kind.''
 "Good cook?"
 Excellent. She could play the piano beautifully, too"
 "Did you let her do that?"
 "Oh, yes. And she read the papers to us and kept the library in order and could keep accounts and paint on china and embroider on silk as nicely as anybody you ever saw"
 Il never heard of the lilel How in the world did you happen to let her go?'
 Well, there came a young man along one day-a professor in college, and said he wanted her, and-here's one of her children now Come, dar- ling, and sit on grandmother's lap. "- Spare Moments.
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 one thousand three hundred and sixty pounds. This wonderful feat gave Yucca national reputation. and she was challenged by Minerva, but, owing to their failure to agree upon fifteen test competitions, no contract was ar ranged.
 Yucca's feats include holding two forty-pound weights, to which ring is attached with each hand and straight from the shoulder; putting up one hundred and ffty-pound bar-bell with two hands and elevating it above her head at arms length; lifting barrel of lime, weighing three hundred and ten pounds, and placing it on her shoulder; lifting man of one hundred and forty pounds weight seated in a chair, chair and man being held at arms length; lifting sixteen chairs
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increase the physical strength and to improve the free action of the lungs. This is accomplished by regimen and exercise. The bones and their liga- ments; the muscles, the tendons, and all the finer and more flexible parts of the body are continually renewed and are as properly a secretion as Is the sa- liva that flows from the mouth, or the moisture that bedews the skin. The health of all parts of the body depends upon perpetual absorption, renovation and exercise. Promoting secretion promotes life. Since the human frame is thus capable of being altered and renovated it is not surprising that the art of training should be carried to a degree of perfection almost incredible and that by certain processes the lung power and courage of female should be so greatly improved as to enable her to perform the most laborious under talsings."
 That such effects have been produced is unprecedented, being fully exemph- fled in the astonishing exploits of our
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ready spent in the allotment s fore he leaves land. If it all was. e oo- fore he could complete his onea' meat be- must resort to the ''slop-chss4ns,' ne board his ship, and he never o,ts On thing fit to wear or eat, althe1os any CT prices than those on shon. ugh charged for what he buys. The d.ra are steps ashore, his contract exn;ros eay ne he is discharged. From that n,o os ana he cannot sleep on the ship. or ,ouient eO4 meals there. He must take arsa'. Ss HIS clothes and go ashore, and. f,,s., HIS more, without any money. Tbna 1a 'ler' four days later, sometimes a wae,. or ten days later, he gets the balance or him. But this is only three or s uue months pay at best, for the fr.4 .our months advance was spent beforo two " left shore. ne
 Now the sharks begin to get in .h, fine work again on poor Jack rsi' T, instant his ship ties up to a wharf als ans if the master will allow it, lon, bat- k, auu she ties up, the boarding-house ,,n. vsaore and 'crimps" are aboard and sat..s ae'S their nets for the innocent sailorvsas Having no money when they oa~ ~u ashore they must go to some sa;Ia., boarding house where they can =. credit. This is given to them br tt sos runners and Jack transfers his i,;4 '4' 4 the dingy little eubby in one of tbosO v vile dens, for which he pays SD ,eaal ..aGs' for he gets it on tick and eyervt5ia. costs more on this principle of bmrinEs But one of the conditions of the sa;Ias,. credit is that the runner for his boos1 ing-house will get the draft for the hal ance of Jacks pay when he reeeiyas-;. from the master of the vessel. And tbs runner gets it, too, for he goes befoss the shipping commissioner when tbs crew are paid off and secures the note then and there.
 Now it stands to reason that Iae, gets drunk. No self-respecting sailor. man ever fails to get drunk when Ia comes ashore, and the longer the vo7. age and the more money he gets. tba drunker he gets. His boarding.bonss supplies him with all he wants of tbs fre-water, and frequently more thapbs wants. They keep q record of it. and when that pay check reaches them they generally own most, if not all. of it. ig the accounts do not grow fast enough, 1t is easy enough to make them
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most celebrated feminine athletes. which are the invariable results of such preparatory discipline Athleta has just as great reputation as a fe- male champion in athletics in England as Minerva, the female champion, en- joys in this country, and she has an idea that there is no female in the world who can successfully lift dumb bells and heavy weights, or compete in a series of all-round athletic exercises with herself Athleta has number of admirers who believe no one can defeat her and it is in a contest in the above performance that she has challenged Minerva, the champion strong woman of America, for one thousand dollars and the female heavy weight lifting championship of the world.
 The only hitch In the proposed match Is the circumstance that Mile. Athleta desires the contest to take place in England, while Minerva is eager that the question of superiority be decided in this country. However, it is expected that Minerva will finally go to England to meet Athleta.
 Minerva, the American champion, is an excellent specimen of physical wom- anhood. Her right arm at the bicep muscle measures seventeen and three quarter inches. She is the daughter of Dr. Joseph Schaner, a wel-l1nown physician of Hobolen, N. J., and was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1865. Like Athleta, the English Samson, Minerva commenced practice with only light-weights in gymnasium, and when only eleven years old could jug gle twenty-pound dumb-bell. In 1887 she came to this country, and under Prof. Charles c. Blatt gained much of her strength and began to give exhibi- tions in lifting light dumb-bells and bar bells By degrees she developed her muscles until able to perform wonder ful feats of strength.
 Minerva is taller, heavier and no doubt stronger than either Mile. Attn leta, the English female champion, Nile. Bronx, the Bavarian strong woman, Angela, the Italian champion, or Tulla, the German female champion. Minerva stands five feet seven and one half inches in height, is twenty-siX years cid, and weighs one hundred and sixty pounds She is the only strong woman who has ever fairly lifted eight
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hundred pounds in America. She has a fifty-inch bust and is an amazon in proportions. Among the many feats she excels in are holding straight from the shoulder with one hand a fifty pound weight to which a ring is attached and holding fifty-pound weights lone in each hand and elevat- ing them above the head. This feat puzzles many strong men. She puts up one hundred and fifty pound bar bell with two hands and raises it above her head at arms length. She can lift a barrel of lime with her hands weighing three hundred pounds and place it on her shoulder. She also stands in pail and lifts barrel of lime with her hands without upsetting the pail. This feat is q most difficult one and requires great strength and unity in balancing Minerva lifts one hundred and thirty-fve pound man in a chair with her hands, holding chair and man at arms length. Several of the strong men tried to compete with Minerva in this feat, but failed to accomplish it in the same easy way that she did. Often she lifts fifteen chairs with her hands, elevating them above her head and then balancing them with one hand alone. She has raised cartwheel, supposed to weigh three hundred pounds to her chest, and then balanced it. One of the sensational feats Minerva performs is that of standing with one foot each on two chairs. the chairs being placed thre feet apart, and raising two hun dred and fifty pounds by the help of rope and hook attached to her neck. When Minerva was once performing this feat in Mexico chair gave way under the pressure just as she had the ponderous weight raised from the ground The glrl fell and injured one of her knees, but she procured another chair, repeated the feat, and her repu- tation was made among the Mexicans. Breaking horseshoes is another of this strong woman's specialties. She uses her hands to break the horseshoe either across her thigh or on her breast, and has record of breaking fiftyfour in- side of sixty minutes. Breaking chains and leather straps by expanding the chest is another feat Minerva performs. But her greatest feat is catching a twenty-four-pound cannon ball fired from cannon. She accomplished this twice single day. and it is claimed she is the only female who can stand thirty feet from the cannon and successfully perform the feat. Minerva accom- plishes various other things, such as pulling team of horses and lifting a horse while suspended head downwards by means of pulleys.
 Another wonderfully strong woman who can probably defeat any of the foreign female candidates for the championship is Yucca. She is a na- tive born American, stands five feet eight inches in height, weighs one hundred and fifty pounds and boasts of a bust measurement of forty-four inches. She has appeared at all the principal places of amusement in the United States, and two years ago in New York created sensation by lift ing a horse weighing, it was claimed,
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too, are bound by cast iron contracts to one of the worst systems that ever ex- isted. The origin of all the trouble is the shipping agent. In New York, for instance, there arc scores if not hum dreds of these men whose business it is to get crews for outgoing ships. Com petition for patronage has become so sharp between them that they offer good-sized premiums to owners of yes sels for the privilege of supplying their ships with seamen every time they reach this port The wages of the sailor average from fourteen to twenty dollars month, but from this the agent agrees to take off four dol lars per man, perhaps, for each crew shipped. This bonus, as well as his own profit, which is fat one, too, the agent must get from the sailor, and he does it from the advance allotment. 5
 These shipping agencies are usually over in saloons along the river front or South and West streets in New York and MT. Agent calls into his dingy little office dozen of the idle sailor men he finds on the streets waiting for work, when he has q call from a master for a crew. They haggle little over terms, perhaps, but if the sailor does not accept what is offered, then the agent walks out into the street and calls in others till he finds those who are satisfied with what he offers. This, perhaps, is sixteen dollars month for a deep-sea voyage of six months. Those who like the terms sign the articles agreeing to ship with such and such a vessel on such and such terms.
 They never see the ship until they go aboard.
 They are told, perhaps, that she is a bark in the East Indian trade and will carry machinery out and fruit back. She may be a leaky old tub, in the last stages of decay, out of which, before she sinks with all on board, the owners want to get one more voyage. They have DO alternative but to keep the con- tract they signed in utter ignorance of the ships condition, or be arrested for desertion.
 But supposing she may be eminentlv respectable in every way and ships a ~eNNA NA w odSh . AOe 10 cNC1I tflC1 IilEu enough. From the advance allotment draft which he signs, twelve or four teen dollars perhaps, is taken by the agent as q commission for getting him the job. Then, too, the other jack als of the waterfront, the runners for the boarding-houscs, all of whom are In league with the shipping agents, come in for their share of the meager advance which Jack gets before start ing out to sea. Since he has landed from his last cruise. the sailor has had to live at one of these sailors boarding houses, and of course gets into debt for his board and drink-for no sailorman can get along without his grog on shore. The runner gets his slice of the allotment for which Jack has signed, and with what is left, supposing that there is something left-which is ire quently not the case Jack buys what he ntsds to complete his sea outfit, for every sailor has to supply himself with clothing, tobacco and eating utensils 5
 We'll, he ships at last and gets off to sea, but his first two months pay is al.
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grow faster, for Jack is too drunk to know how much he is spending.
 1t is to a good many peoples interest to prevent Jacks getting any change from his pay-ehecs, for once he gets into debt, he is no longer a free agent until he can pay off the mortgagecn on his next allotment which is not until he ships again. If there should be some charge due the paid-off sailornan and it sometimes happens that he is entitled to small balance, it is al ways suggested that he had better leave the difference with the boarding house people who will keep it to his credit for future expenses.
 Now, Jack is in no hurry to go to sea again. He never is, until his money and his credit run out, and the latter lasts only as long as the amount of ms next allotment will carry him, for the boarding house people know how muen he will get and they will not carry nm beyond that amount. When his per- odical round of dissipation reaches ls forced end Jack hurries around !" the shipping agents to get another l0g Again he may haggle about terms Vu' if he will not accept what is offefeo n' must stay Ion the beach, as It sex pressed in the vernacular. And sna one will trust him further, he niu'' take what is offered to him and es'l ". be grateful for that. It makes nV ul ference whether the ship sails oacn ns ~, his native port, for New York, for nOa ss. olulu, or for India, he must take ND4' he can get and look happy. ., n.
 It will readily be seen that It ls ,ns owners advantage not to ship crews the return trip, for they get a colnutr sion from the agent at the other pols.@ shipping new crew, even though sOI' of the same men may be engaged agSn. and it allows the crimps to squ.sT .sT. some more blood money from .he sr ,raI ors. For the same reasons, they @a not deal directly with the sailotmSr, sr, and insist on getting their .nine through the agents. Ihis cl1l.f ner system, as it is called, is the moss sler. p nicious influence which prevents a,s .rsae cans from taking to the sea as 'ls that They will not stand the aouses asbore sailors have to put up with oo'n '9
 or at sea. o from
 In times of war the only source .a,Id r which we can recruit our navy Il sub be the merchant marine. Englan' ss sidizes her able-bodied seainen slar, aE naval reserve. so as to have then nsed ways at her command in tune, .so aago Any English ship which flies 'ns n,ontly M s the naval reserve and consequea;dig ,a;digsd manned by members of this sup s ppSoardsi body of British sailors, can os @ a,thOr. in times of necessity by English aaal ,'asrp ities. no matter in what port she ,bsidy ,Ibs found' ' p and the seamen qnder saDs-i aastrs taken off for duty in her ,,nat ma ns- navy. This furnishes excellsd .,ited ars terial, for the men thus rec, an to h the most experienced seain'
 found. ,f afais continue in this country alp II, hack op have few if any sailors to fal. .non pos in case of war ten years ~ time ia They could not be taught III '
 service. pABEr