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On to Jacksboro is a cry thatWould be
mnsio to the ear of Fort Worth at this
time
There is more crime committed every
year in Ohio or Indiana or Illinois than in
all Texas
TnE less there seems to be of Mrs
James Brown Potterinthe aggregate the
more the papers make of her
A spring palace in Fort Worth in
Juno ought to realize the vision of a
Persian poem in an Eastern epic
STKriiEXviiXK is happy in a sixday
mail service and its chance to read The
Gazette on the day of publication
Mrs Harrison says that she will al-
ways wear a small bustle The public
may infer that she rends her responses
from a diminutive prayer book
The Republican senator to bo from
Delaware is named Higgins Mr
Eiggins
will begin his senatorial career with one
advantage a good Democratic name
While other people are talking of deep-
water the news comes to us that a con-
tract has been let to Mr Gus Wilke for
making a deep harbor at the mouth of
the Brazos
A Canadian girl has been discovered
who has not tasted food for seven years
and who lives on water alone Possibly
she acquired her abstemious habits while
trying to support a hungry husbaud
A local option road law could be
framed that would permit the people of
any county to adopt the bond or high tax
or present means for making roads
Such a law would be injustice to no
county or pooplo t1
Mrs Parson s latest role is as a defend-
er of the church At a recent anarchist
meeting she moved that the attacks upon
the churches should cease With a few
alterations iu color opinions and am-
bitions Lucy might make an excellent
kitchen artist
Ik capitalists are willing to give Texas
at any point on its coast twentyfive feet
of water the government ought to be
willing to return the money in ease of
success or pay the amount estimated by
its own engineers to be necessary for the
purpose No friend of Texas will object
to such a proposition
The St James Gazette thinks that
Lord Salisbury is right in resenting the
treatment of Lord SaokvilleWest
jbythis goyernment but suggests that it
is judicious to place his lordship beyond
the reach of r Yankee curiosity He
shouldbe sent to HongKong where
they hold no elections
Permanent good road way s mean fa
eilities for trade and communication less
idleness for fanners less depression for
merchauts the maximum value of real
estate less isolation of the farmer and
therefore more education and progress
Such roadways are civUiiers and promot
THE GAZETTE POUT WOUTEu TEXAS EBIDAT JANUABY 1
ers of refinement and prosperity And
such highways cannot be obtained with-
out expense
The Cincinnati Enquirer warns those
who are crowing oyer the Barrett de-
cision againsts the trusts that they are
not yet out of the woods that the gaunt-
let of theappellate court is yet to be run
The affection of tne Enquirer for trusts
financial and political leads it to cling
desperately to the last straw
The Chicago InterOcean prints sev4
eral columns of good words of itself
written by esteemed contemporaries
The InterOcean is a splendid newspa-
per and its ability editorially enlarges the
evil of its political courses The Inter
Ocean could do a noble work for union
unity peace and fraternity if it would
The governor of North Carolina in his annual
message denounces the apparently growing
disposition to resort to lynching Itisasad
commentary upon 1SS9 civilization when such
criticism by the governor of a great state is made
necessary and sadder still when it is applicable
to several states Chicago InterOcean
And sadder still when the governor of a
great state negotiates with lawlessness
rather than suppress it by force
It has been found necessary to change
the law regarding the prepayment of
regular postage for special delivery
letters So many forget to prepay the
postage that now the special delivery
stamp alone will speed the missive on its
way and the neglected minor payment
of regular postage will be collected when
the letter is delivered For short dis-
tances the special postal delivery system
is a very great convenience and we
wonder it is not used more
Among other things of importance the
labor commissioners annual report of
the state of Maine shows that a remark-
ably large number of women are at work
in mills and shops The highest wages
received by a woman is 12 per Week
the munificent pay of one of the fore-
women in a Waterville Me mill The
lowest for steady employment is 3 week-
ly The work of the department during
the year has been mainly devoted to the
condition of female laborers and its re-
port contains some very interesting sta-
tistics on this subject Regnrding tho
large amount of female labor this is
due simply to the fact that their natural
supporters and protectors cannot provide
for them
AX ALAMO MONUMENT
Austin Statesman Too long has a
noble work been neglected and its per-
formance now should be our promptest
care No monumental remembrance
arises from the scene of the Alamo to
hold the attention of the present and tho
future Texas nor her people have
planted a pledge of grateful retrospect
upon ground made holy by the blood of
those martyred for freedoms cause Yet
some have determined this disregard of
our glorious history shall exist no longer
and effort is now crystalizing to erect at
the Alamo a monument fit to commemo-
rate those stirring days One gentle-
man Mr Sam Maverick of San Antonio
has contributed 510000 toward this end
and a determined effort will be made
to collect about 8 100000 for a monu-
mental fund And to accomplish this
Express makes a good suggestion that
on next San Jacinto day and what time
so fitting all along the line from one
boundary of Texas to the othei contri-
butions be gathered for this noble work
The Express also calls to the aid of the
cause the ladies and suggests that be
tween now and the 21st of April they agi-
tate without ceasing this matter We
submit the end and plan to our people
with an earnest endorsement of each
and bespeak for our people an interest in
that monument proportionate to any like
representation in the state
THE
INVALIDITY OF
ABSOLUTE
LEASES
The proposals to enhance the value and
desirability of leases of the free school
lands by increasing the terms of leases
and making them absolute for tho term
ignores one very important fact that the
legislature has no power to adopt such a
policy were it so inclined The supreme
court of Texas settled this question for-
ever in a decisiou in the case of Amissen
vs State rendered on the 19th day of
June 1888 There is no ambiguity at
the following language quoted from that
decision
It may be conceded that it was not intended
by the people when they adopted the constitu-
tion that any leases should be made without
reservation of right to sell even for fixed and
short periods whereby any impediment to sales
would be created for it must have been intended
that every legislature should bave the power to
determine whether the time had come to jlace
the lands upon the market and if so deter-
mined at once so to place them It has been
the settled policy of this state to encourage
actual settlement and if leases of large bodies of
school lands could be legally made for fixed and
even short periods the tendency of this Would be
to hinder the sale of such lands during the lease
to actual settlers The provision that
when a lessee has but one watered section leased
from the state in the same vicinity such section
shall not be subject to sale and settlement during
the term of the lease may be inconsistent with
the free and full exercise of the power to sell
made mandatory by the constitution We
hold that the intention of the people by the sec-
tion of the constitution under consideration
was to make the exercise of this power manda
tor The effect of this is to withdraw from the
legislature the power to adopt a system for the
ultimate utilization of the commonschool lands
otherwise than through sales
In the face of such a positive declara-
tion from the supreme court it is obvi-
ously improper for tho state to enter
further into negotiations for the lease of
the school land for fixed perteds Such
contraots are dearly invalid and operate
to deceive the lessee and possibly to cause
him serious loss and inconvenience
Under the present law which
provides that absolute leases may-
be made of lands classed as fit only for
grazing purposes and of sections npon
which 100 worth of improvements have
been placed by the lessee hundreds of
thousands of acres are held ostensibly
under an absolute lease and the lessees
are perhaps not even now aware
that the state can dispossess
them by the sale of the lands
whenever it chooses to do so The Ga
ZETTEhas information that thousands of
dollars have been expanded in making
improvements for the purpose of bring-
ing desirable sections within the opera-
tions of the absolute lease clause of the
law Such a state of things demands
prompt action upon the part of the state
to atone for the deception it has unwit-
tingly practiced rather than an effort to
perpetuate the delusion shared in the
past by its agents
The constitution as construed by the
supreme court makes the sale of the
lands mandatory and prohibits any dis-
position of them that interferes
with sales The absolute leases
now in existence are absolute
in name only and whenever the actual
settler desires to occupy any part of them
he may do so without danger of eject
ment
The Gazette has contended from the
first that the only honest lease was an
absolute lease Anything else is a delusion
that blinds the state and deceives the
lessee Yet it is a greater delusion to
pretend to make absolute leases when the
state has no power to make them In-
stead of enlarging the scope of an un-
constitutional policy it would be fairer
and wiser to abandon it altogether
The state of Texas can hardly afford to-
go into the business of obtaining money
under false pretenses
FEDERAL BUILDING AT FORT
WORTH
Upon Wednesday last an effort to
bring before the house of representatives
of Washington the Federal building of
Fort Worth was defeated by the objec-
tion of Congressman James Buchanan of
Second district New Jersey Mr Bu-
chanan is a Republican and has the ca-
pacity to be a leader in his party were
it not for his unfortunate habit of giving
much of Ills attention to small matters
If a man grapple with great and intricate
questions and errs his fellowmen are
quite ready to excuse him But when men
err upon little simple questions it hurts
them in years to come If we atfe not
mistaken in the soil and climate of Texas
she will have in numbers a representa-
tion in congress which will induce New
Jerseys members to do her justice
COME AND BEHOLD
The following letter has been handed to
The Gazette by the gentleman to whom
it was addressed
Newark N J Jan 12 1SS9
Messrs P A Huffman Co
Deah Sirs Please accept my thanks for two cop-
ies of Fort Worth Daily Gazette I find much of
interest to a reader and to myself from so distant
a point of our country You have a most re
markable development in a business aspect
which I can scarcely appreciate Very truly
yours William M Force
The Gazette invites Mr Force to eo mo
and behold this land of promise with his
own eyes Texas is an empire nearly
thirtyfive times as large as New Jersey
and within its borders are grown all the
agricultural products of the Union
except rice hero we can raise cot-
ton sugar corn oats wheat tobacco
millet sorghum fruits and vegetables
here we have iron coaL and granite
here we have a vast cattle sheep and
horse field here we have delightful cli-
mate and fruitful soil health and com-
fort here we have intelligence and re-
finement and welcome to all with no
question as to politics religion or
nationality here we have an un-
developed empire with capabilities
and possibilities beyond the i am
even of our own people Come
Mr Force and with thine own
eyes behold the truth for no1 pen or
tongue can do it justice And if you
cannot appreciate the situation here we
will try to make it plain to you in the
future when forty Texas congressmen
will command attention to the claims of
Texas
SHALL THEY WORK OR PLAY
What to do with the convict is a ques-
tion that has not been satisfactorily an-
swered in any state in the Union In
Texas the issue culminated in 1883 in a
revocation of the leasing system and
since that time it has been the settled
policy of the state to keep its felons in-
side the penitentiary walls Yet at Rusk
and Huntsville there are accommodations
for barely onehalf of the state convicts
and the rest remain outside for the very
good reason that there is not room inside
for them
The periodical cry of convict labor
has been raised against both of these
classes of felons It is claimed that
those leased to the owners of plan-
tations deprive honest farm labor of
employment and that the state by the es-
tablishment of industrial enterprises in-
side the walls has created an obstacle to
private enterprise thnt would employ
honest labor Looking at the senti-
mental side of the matter there is no
such thing as dishonest labor Thef elon
who works a forge or shapes a plough
shire does not by his touch divest that
work of its nobility When the state
teaches him to work it is teaching him
honesty and the lesson fulfills an obli-
gation due to him The practical side of
the issue cannot be thrust aside by rheto-
ric or invective The taxpayers of Texas
who work on an average twelve hours
a day are unwilling to support in idle-
ness 3500 ablebodied individuals whose
only claim to public maintenance is the
commission of crime
Panegyrics on honest labor cannot
conceal tho fact that If Convicts are not
made to support themselves the people
must support them Outside the prison
walls they were or ought to have been
producers inside under the policy of
sentiraentnlism they would become bar-
r es upon industry consuming with
A
out return a percentage of its profits
It is not clear why the labor of a law-
breaker should prove any greater menace
to the lawabiding citizen when directed
by the state than when it is free and inde-
pendent To urge that there is a surplus
age of labor in Texas isto ignore theplain
facts in the case Were it otherwise the
taxpayers of Texas would hardly con-
sent for tho state to bear the labor
market at their expense
That industrial development in Texas
could be hindered by two or three crude
enterprises manned chiefly by unskilled
labor without the enthusiasm or incen-
tive given by the offer of reward is too
incredible for belief The convicts of
Texas will harm no legitimate interest
public or private by work Whatever
changes are made in the svstem of man-
agement are iikely to be in the direction
of less rather than increased idleness on
the part of Texas felons
A PROMISED SCORCHER
Amelia RivesChandler and Ella
Wheeler Wilcox are reported collaborat-
ing on a dramatic poem to be printed on
asbestos paper with incombustible ink
Proof sheets arc not yet out but the ap-
pended excerpt is said to be in the na-
ture of a mild starter to one cf the
chapters
Ye gods and nymphs who
Ere on high Olympus mount
Did dwell and love in
Years sung storied or bepicture
By the hands of masters of
The years agone
I now implore you
All your passion lend and
Pire me to the heat of
Molten glass thaH
May meet my love and him
Surround encircle and oersweep
In one hot lire of glow-
ing burning kisses
Let my lips sizz and
Boil and bubble forth
Steam with heat and
Let my arms
His neck encirle as a coil
Of burning brass at in-
Candescent coint
To draw him closer singe
Yea mere to scorch
With all the fear-
Ful ardor or Caress-
Es as from out
A very hell of burning
Brimstone bubbling
Oer in love Chicago Mail
NEWS AX1 > NOTJES
Of the 200000 population of Milwaukee
100000 are foreigners
Madrid theaters are allowed by law to
use only the electric light
There are 130000 drinksellers in
Belgium or one for every ten families
The cheapest Christmas present sold by
one jeweler in New York city cost S cents
the most expensive cost 50000
A statistical genius has figured out that
this years corn crop2000000000bush
els will load a string of wagons stretohing
284000 miles or enough to make eleven
tows of wagons loaded with corn clear
round the earth and have 9000 miles of
teams not in the line
Denver has invested S505000 in a cable
system for rapid transit and has a road
six and threetenth miles long over which
the fare is 5 cents The speed in tHe
residence sections is limited to twelve
miles an hour and in the business por-
tions eight and a half miles an hour
It may be stated as a proposition says
the Meridian Miss News that the
most peaceable and most tractable of the
negro race are tho fullblooded negroes
whether they are educated or not The
negro is seldom found in the lead where
there is anything approaching a con-
spiracy or an emeute
The White Caps have appeared in Dela-
ware and have started in by ordering idle
young men in Newcastle to go to work
On LongIsland New York they are try-
ing to regulate convivial clubs In
Monticello 111 last week they threat-
ened violence to the mayor the Method-
ist minister and other well known citi-
zens Gov Foraker ought to send his
method of annihilation to the governors
of those states >
Maine has a great many thrifty citi-
zen Governor Burleigh in his annual
message states that in the savings banks
of that state there aredeposits aggregat-
ing about 41000000 and of this large
sum over 100000 depositors have less
than 500 each The entire vote at the
state election was 144507 and it will
thus be seen that a number not far from
the voting population of the entire state
have deposits in tho savings banks
Some men are born rich while others
are born lucky An old Georgia farmer
named Dickey who has for years barely
subsisted on the meagre crops he has been
able to wring from the wretched soil of
his farm has just leased his land to a
syndicate for 100 years at 12000 a year
and more if the hopes of the speculators
are realized The cause of this good
fortune was the discovery of a bed of the
best marble in America on his premises
The entire aspect of nature along the
Hudson just now is far more like spring
than winter and the icegatherers are in
utter despair A farmer near Kingston
has just been sowing eight bushels of rye
Others are plowing forother crops The
steam passenger yachts have been
dropped into the water from the dry
docks and are making regular trips
along the river Tows are being made
up for various points North and South
Continuance of such mild moist weather
is contemplated with alarm by the fruit
growers
Contraetors have agreed and given sat-
isfactory bonds to clean the 800 miles of
streets of Philadelphia for the next
twelve months and to take up and carry
away all the ashes and garbage supplied
by the 1G0000 dwellings in the city for
the same time for the sum of 425942
For similar work the city of Boston ex-
pends annually about 480000 on less
than half that number of miles of streets
and a far smaller list of dwellings For
similar service New York city appropri-
ated 1272000 for a single year with a
less number of streets to clean and a
smaller number of houses to care for
The smuggling of Chinese men and
women from British America into United
States territory is a very lucrative busi-
ness at various points along tho border
from Vancouver to Winnipeg If the
venture fails at one place it is renewed at
another and sooner or later the pilgrims
get in A new trick just discovered at
Whatcom W T has almost taken away
the breath of the Federal officials for
they know that it must have been very
successful for a time The large number
of squaws coming into tho country from
British Columbia finally attracted the at-
tention of an official and he took a party
of them to jail On close inspection it
was found that the creatures were not
squaws it all but ablebodied Chinamen
who had painted and otherwise disguised
themselves so as to resemble the typical
Indian squaw of the frontier In one in-
stance two young and rather comely Chi-
nese women came across in the garb of
American women but closely veiled An
ungallant official lifted their veils and
found them out These girls were billed
through to San Francisco and were
worth to their owner about 2000 apiece
AHOVT 3LEN JLNJ > W02LE2T
Capt John Miller who recently died
in the Indian Territory aged seventy
years i had taken thirty scalps duringhis
eventful life
Governor Ames of Massachusetts calls
in his message for a good truant school in
every county and the enactment of a law
securing municipal suffrage for women
The wealth of the Vahderbftt family
now amounts to 274000000 and the
estimated income from this per annum is
set at 13SG4400 If there were not
things thnt money cannot buy heymight
be very happy
President Cleveland does not bother
himself about the details of a state din-
ner He leaves oil the arrangements to
his wire who is very careful in her in-
spection of everything pertaining to tlie
banquet
Empress Frederick a month ago re-
quested her son the emperor not to
mock her with any presents A year
ago at San Reino she wrote I
thought no family could
der Christmas than we
celebrate a sad
Butl was mis
taken
James Bailey of Iowa married his sec-
ond wife two xlays after the death of the
first Mrs Bailey was the recipient of a
coat of tar and feathers and suoueded in
rubbing off the last of the tar just fifty
three days after the close of his second
honeymoon
Governor Gray of Indiana is reported
to have one eye on Senator Yporheos
seat in the United States senate two years
from now and the other on the second
place on the democratic presidential
tioket in 1S92 with Governor Hill in the
first place
Mrs Cannon wife of the niinois
congressman is a handsome matron
who for many years has held a conspicu-
ous position in the social life of the capi-
tal She is very skillful with the needle
and many of tho dresses she wears are
embroidered by herself
It is an interesting fact thnt of the
fourteen presidents elected since and in
cluding 1S24 only five received a ma-
jority of the popular vote on the face of
the returns namely Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren William Henry Har-
rison Franklin Pierce and US Grant
Mr Gladstone says that his reasons for
writing about Robert Elsmere was to
show that the arguments brought for-
ward against Christianity in it are fal-
lacious Mrs Gladstone is quoted as-
saying that her husband considers it one
oi his most secred duties to do his utmost
to tiheck the flood of infidelity that is
sweeping over England
Pay your money aud take your choice
One Washington eorrespondenfrannounces
that Mr Blaine is now almost certain to
be the secretary of state and scarcely
anybody in Washington now doubts it
Another says that one of Mr Blaines
most intimate friends admits that he has
received no offer of a place in the cabinet
and lie the friend does not believe that
the offer will be made The correspondent
adds that for some reason not under-
stood the confidence of Mr Blaines
friends has suddenly and decidedly di-
minished
Emma Abbott announces authorita-
tively that she will not abandon the
s nge She buried her husband last week
in Gloucester Mass and she will re-
main there until the 21st when she will
rejoin her company in Memphis She
has a route laid out and a grt > at many
people are depending upon her It is
therefore much more womanly for her to
continue her work stifling her own pain
than to sit down in idleness and grievo
over him who has gone This is in-
line with her whole life She has
always devoted herself to her art
and the fact that she is now rich
makes no difference in her sentiments
One does not easily drop the employment
of a lifetime or grow into other ways
and courses of life In youth her dream
was of the stage In the first flush of
maturity and after a struggle remark-
able for its intensity and the perseverance
that overcame poverty obscurity vocal
defects aud the indifference of the publio
she realized her ambition She cannot
now throw all of these triumphs to the
winds and abandon the stage She
could not do it if she wished Peoria
Journal
Says the New York Sun Amelie
Rives is being starred in a fashion that
ought to cause the keenest pangs of jeal-
ousy to enter the souls cf Mrs Potter and
Mrs Langtry The publisher of the pa-
per which has recently been exploiting
Miss Rives literary wares has had a
number of watercolor portraits made of
the Southern celebrity aud these are to
be placed at various points of interest
about town and along Broadway The
portraits are admirably executed and
framed in good taste They pre-
sent the face of a remarka-
bly beautiful woman The com-
plexion is soft and rosetinted the lips
the brightest red imaginable the hair
golden in tint and the eye3 light blue
A little black patch on the tip of the
chin adds coquetry to the novelists face
The personal friends of Miss Rives by
the way are stauncn in believing her to
be the most beautiful woman in America
This is the sober second thought more or
less The gush about her1 appearance
which immediately followed the appear-
ance of The Quick or the Dead hav-
ing settled down into a sober estimate
which places her at the very head of the
beautiful woman of the United States in
their opinion
Mrs Potter Was Nervous
New York Sun
It would seem to be only fair to say
that the startling exposure which Mrs
Potter made on Tuesday evening on the
occasion of the first performance of
Cleopatra was the result of nerv-
ousness The writer has been requested
to say this by a member of the actress
family When she placed the asp to her
bosom after the historical precedent of
the real Cleopatra she pulled her gown
open but the intense nervousness and
agitation of the first performance in New
York together with the weight of a
great production on her shoulders had
almost unnerved the actress and the re-
sult formed the incident about which
New York has been chattering for several
da vs
Town Life a Cause of Degeneracy
Popular Science Monthly
The general unfitness and incapability
of the dwellers in our large hives of in-
dustry to undergo continued violent exer-
tion or to sustain long endurance of fa-
tigue is a fact requiring little evidence
to establish nor can they tolerate the
withdrawal of foodundereustained physi-
cal effort for any prolonged period as
compared with the dwellers in rural dis-
tricts It may be affirmed also that
through the various factors at work night
and day upon the constitution of the
poorer classes of town dwellers various
forms of disease are developed of which
pulmonary consumption is the most fa-
miliar and which is doing its fatal work
in a lavish and unerringfashion
Thns it may be conceded as an
established fact that the towns-
man is on the whole constitutionally
dwarfed in tone and his life manfor
man shorter weaker and more UTujer
tain than the countrymans I holdthe
opinion that tho deterioration is more in
physique as implied in the losjptf
physical pr muscular power of the l i
the attenuation of muscular fiberythe
loss of integrity of veil structure ang
consequent liability tor the iuvasMjnTof
disease rather than ifiyaotual statu rjiOf
inch measurement hfe trjte causes of
this deterioration arel neither very obi
scare nor far to seek They are bad air
and bad habits To these may be added
a prolific factor operating largely to pro
duce degeneration of race and that
frequent intermarriage ofteu nece
fated by religious affinities
An Entcrprishijr People
ZCacogdoches StarKcws
I
A f ow years ago where the magnificent
city of Fort Worth new stands there ty3
nothing to mark the place but ft vast ex
pause of prairie The sudden hml
marvelous growth of that plaice is at
tributed to but two things namely The
enterprise of her citizens and railroads
Census Every Five Years
Cincinnati CommercialGsette >
A census taken every five years s uqh
as is proposed in England would tijftra
advantages whatever objections tljtjjiya
might be to the plan The fiveyear sys-
tem would better admit of an experiehcetf
corps of censustakers being omployed
Indeed the fact that it takes ten years tb
get the report ready for publication showd
that a part of he corps might bo perma-
nently employed Some of the reports
at least are so stale as to be uninterest-
ing and practically useless A fiveyear
census would have the preference as being
fresher and more accurate But would a
census each five years by experts can-
vassed and tabulated rapidly cost more
than a big bungling one only once in tqh
years That is of course a question fe
consider Census taken by the states
each according to its own plan might be
all that is necessary for practical pur-
poses in a national way
Air J
stock it
little city
The Jewish Problem
Atlanta Constitution
A prominent Isrealite has been telling
a New York Herald correspondent some
queer things
He informed the newspaper man thai
the Messiah is already on the earth and
is now in Paris When pressed for an ex
plantation he said that the Jews long ago
lost faith in the literal incarnation oftiifc
Messiah what they look for is the npostio
of the new doctrine of assimilation with
Christianity and that apostle appears to
be Boron Hirsch of Paris The baron te-
a brainy man of fifty Ho is a rich
banker aud has given ovor 10000000
francs in Russia and Austria towards
carrying out the unification of the Jews
and the Christians In arecent talk he
said
I am a bitter enemy of fanaticism bigotry
and exclusiveness The Jewish question can
only be solved by the disappearance of the
Jewish race which will inevitably be accom-
plished by the amalgamation of Christians and
Jews The funds I have placed at the disposal
of Russia are not for educational purposes of
Jewish children alone but Christian children as
well There are 4500000 Jewish children in
Russia They are in a most destitute condition
They do not even know the Russian language
they speak a sort of Hebraic jargon of their own
They are frightfully handicapped in all that
concerns earning their bread and making their
way in life There is a complete Chinese wall
around them isolating them from the rest of
humanity My idea was to knock out the cor-
nerstone of the wall by establishing schools in
Russia on condition that they should be open
to Jews and Christians on terms of per-
fect equality The younger members
of the families of Rothschilds Heine
Commondo Montefiore and dozens of others are
assimilated that is to say thev are married with
the Grammonts Richelieus and Roseberys In
Saint Antoine and Belleville mixed Christian
Jewish marriages take place everv week The
Jewish race is not disappearing There are nu-
merous instances of conversion of Jews to Chris-
tianity but I cannot recall a solitary instance of
a Christian becoming converted to Judaism
The salvation of the Jew is assimilation Let
them be amalgamated by Christianity and merge
into Christianity let fusion be complete let
Jewish isolation be broken down let Jews as a
distinct race disappear This is the tendency of
the age and this will be the solution of the Jew-
ish question and a blessing to civilization
When an influential man with millions
of dollars talks in this way it must be ad-
mitted that his words cannot fail to have
some effect But it will take a stronger
power than Baron Hirsch to bring about
such a fusion as tho one he is working for
Seal of North Carolina Plug Cut
Smoking Tobacco is cool on the tongue
ROCKDALE
L 00 F Officers Installed Increased Cotton
Receipts Bad Bonds
Correspondence of the Gazette
Rockdale Tex Jan 1G Rockdale
Lodge No 2311 O O F installed
the following officers last night viz
Homer Eads N 6 W C Laurence
Y G Mr Winterbery secretary B T
MiddletonP seoretary Geo W Hey
wood treasurer W R Kennard P
E Breeding wardenL Isaacs R to-
N G J H Stribling L S to N G
H CTalleyI G and W C Lau-
rence representative to grand lodge
Owing to the recent heavy rains the
roads around Rockdale are in such con-
dition that only those farmers living in
the sandy districts are able to come to
town hi consequence of which business
is dull Rockdale has received to date
11600 bales of cotton and there will
probably be 1000 bales more marketed
here Last season the receipts aggregat-
ed only 8400 bales
The Farmers alliance cooperative
store here which succeeded to the busi-
ness of the Farmers alliance store last
summer is closing out preparatory to
quitting tho business This organization
will however quit in good shape owing
nothing
Col J H Traoy lately connected
with the alliance exchange located at
Dallas is here for a few days visitinghia
old home Col Tracy will soon be con-
nected with a national farmers paper lo-
cated at Washington D C in capacity
of secretary and treasurer
Anson
Correspondence of the Gazette
Axsox Tex Jan 1Z > Jones cminfy
has been visited with a glorious rairi
The farmers are in high hopes for a good
crop this year Wheat is looking well
Immigration is still ranMly coming in
S Foy
dry goods
Stonewall county
1st instant and has
is
wri
emovms
hi
from Baird to our
organized on the
taken some steps
toward the erection of a courthouse The
county seat is Raynerville in honor Qf
Capt W E Rayner of the Rayuer cat-
tle company
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Cluldren Starving to Death
On account of their inability to digest food wil
find a most marvellous food and remedy in
Scotts Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphites Very palatable and easily di-
gested Dr S W CoHESof Waco Tex says
I have used your Emulsion Ja Infantile wast-
ing with good results It irot only restores
wasted tissues but gives strength and increases
the appetite I am glad to use such a reliable
article
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