Fort Worth Daily Gazette

COMBINATION prevents competition. Competition is the life of trade. A pool is a combination.

The Chicago News thinks it an unwise policy to spoil a good fancy drink mixer to make a poor alderman.

The New York Herald describes the kind of man Cleveland should make Chief Justice. But, alas! he's dead.

Base ball is as uncertain as the verdict of a jury. Don't bet on base ball games—unless you are on the inside.

If free trade with Canada and Mexico is a good thing, why will not free trade (or a tariff for revenue only), be a better thing?

Tom Ochiltree is such a liar that one never knows when he tells the truth, but when he says he is going to run for Congress it is feared he will keep his word.

Dallas won a base ball game at Galveston on Sunday, and they do say that the Galveston club was the favorite in the pools on the Saturday night preceding.

It is said that of the eight bridesmaids who officiated at the wedding of the Prince of Wales twenty-five years ago, all are living, all married and none divorced.

Texas faces a reduction in its tax rate. Gentlemen who desire homes in a country where the lands are productive and the taxes low should give us a call before purchasing elsewhere.

The Tyler Record has issued a special edition advertising the advantages of Smith county. This edition of the Record will be of great benefit, not only to Smith county, but to East Texas.

Visitors to the city can, by walking up to the head of Houston street, see the depots of the Cotton Belt, the first road to locate on the north side of the river. Two years hence there will be a grand union depot in that locality.

The New York Star says: 'The report published in some city papers last evening that the Star had been sold to Mr. John B. McLean of Cincinnati is false. The Star has not been sold nor offered for sale to any one.'

The Texas News, printed at Gilmer, has made its appearance. S. C. Hart is editor and proprietor, and if the first issue of the News is a guarantee of the others to follow, Mr. Hart's ambition to be an editor was well founded.

MRS. CORA FELLOWS CHASKA has been insulted by the offer of $5000 to appear as a museum freak. Perhaps, as sometimes occurred with Pooh Bah, the insult was not gross enough to entirely humble her pride. The museum man should raise his offer.

The New York Mail and Express knows what it is talking about when it says, 'If the Sun wants to aid in preserving the protective system, it must assist in destroying the Democratic party.' And some so-called Democrats are trying to do just that thing and for no other purpose than to preserve the robber tariff.

The El Paso Herald has some very kind words for THE GAZETTE: 'The Fort Worth GAZETTE is the most enterprising journal in the state of Texas. It is a power in pushing Fort Worth to the front, and has done more for the Texas immigration movement than any other ten papers. The people of the state should appreciate it, too.'

REGULAR trains are now running on the Fort Worth and Denver between Fort Worth, Tex., and Denver, Col. The Fort Worth and Denver is the only great Panhandle route, and Fort Worth is the Texas terminus of the line. Merchandise from New York and other eastern cities is now shipped to Colorado via Fort Worth.

Give us deep water on the Texas coast.

The Texas pool would ingratiate itself with the people of the state by prompt dissolution. It looks bad to see certain Texas roads refuse to enter the Colorado pool and then insist upon the perpetuation of the Texas pool. If railroad pooling is a good thing, the people can't have too much of it. If pooling is a bad thing the people do not want any of it.

The mistake that Texas labors under is due to self-complacency. The people outside the state do not know anything about Texas. What the state needs is advertising, and a geological survey would officially advertise the mineral resources of Texas. As it now is, men laugh when a Texan talks of iron in the state, and only a few individuals of the countless millions on earth know that Texas is manufacturing the best article of pig iron.

In an interview published in the Pall Mall Gazette General Boulanger declares that he does not go to canvass for his election in the Department of the Nord, for the reason that his candidacy is not an ordinary one, based on petty departmental issues, but representing a great principle appealing to all the country. He boldly predicts his triumphant election on the platform of a dissolution of the Chamber and a revision of the constitution. He declares that he has perfected a plan of revision which is his policy, but which he will keep secret till the time comes to propose it for adoption. His chances of general success will be widely judged by the result of the departmental contest. If his boast of local popularity is falsified by the result of that election, the world will regard his game as lost, at least for the present.