Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-04
A Deadly HarpOOniHg.

Vefind the following in the Boston
usY}Gy Evening Gazette of June H.
IS solid enough to stand without the
pof cnmment
IT is generally supposed that Texas
state chiefly devoted to the raising
battle and of rufliaus; In which the
Olver and the bowie knife are
later than the pen but it would
bear that injustice has been done
L region of vast plains and fertile
in fact, II literary taste of the
HEST order prevails there, min-
ID With critical spirit that is at
lie searching, dignified and
|crinlinaiiug No more convincing
,Qfbf this can be given than an esti-
jteof Or. Oliver Wendell Holmes i'll
Dojy Express of May 9th, issued
that famous intellectual centre, San
ktoIlio. The criticism is published
tUrially, and without waste of words
hinges at once into the marrow of the
beet AS follows: 1--WE regard Oliver
endeil Homles AS one of the baldest
nibugs of the country I'M
tunately, this statement is lack
in literal trutipuluess, and its force
k0Inewhat impaired thereby, for the
et0rs hair has not yet fallen out,
d he is, consequently, not bald.
Nav however, is Il tritle scarcely
edssto affirm that the poet is 'one of
pBe blatant cyclists who never tires
tAlking of himself, and persists in
Eh& the hero of every occasion"
ke{mpressiveness of this scathing ex-
SURG is somewhat married by the &c
atricity OF The grammar in which 1t
Ed0nveyed, but the greatest charm
In kan life and Texan literature
rs unconyentionality. He is
upaspiring soul indeed who can
handler pruvocation, rise superior
6itrary demand that substan.
hall agree with its nominative in
ktf(ber and person. DIR. Holmes
<f& CONTINUES: mo poplnjay ol
ftime, whose office ii IL To write
|tty rhyme I r church celebrations,
tafiled TO profit by 50 few occasions
(lfit may be remembered that when
was asked, lately, to contribute
me complimentary verses to the
|tlior OF Home, Sweet Home,
declined. saying he feared he
uld furnish no new thoughts. The
5ob. The trouble was that John
oNard Payne was not OF tbe patricar
zinc 10 which alone Holmes doe,
bin age.h Here, with the space of /;
FrS few lines, DR.. Holmes is itigma
led as bald humhug, blatant ego
Ff, popiujay and snob, and SEN
uDried and degraded down to pos
rity. In this section of the country
chave been accustomed to look upor
III doctor rs II passing fair poet, viii
In ething OF talent for that high call
III In Texas--asland without pre-
IOce, unless ii be preference anon.
61nale inhabitants To die with thei
bots ont is far otherwise. Blu
ough the critical taste of Texas, n
Eliminated in the San Antoni,
SQiiD Express cannot worship at TIN
nine OF our poetic idols, it has |
Ntlc idol of its own, and that i
eorge Alfred Townsend, compared
Hill whose high-soaring Pegasus tia
/eed that DIR. Holmes bestrides in hi
ehts OF fancy is Il heavy winged
kvined, broken winded and old hacl
an animal. only fit for the knack
NJ knife. We fear that DR.. Holme
foo deeply sunk in his bad method
poetry 10 reform his ways till the,
hch Texan standard of merit; hu
can surely DO him no harm 10 Civ
hat he can spare of his days AM
4gts to the study of Mr.. Townsend
hd the thoughtful, If bruslue, crit
sms of his San Antonio c, nsor,p
a GOOD Lone BREATH would b
ch a relief during an attack OF
thIna, when the muscles OF III
proat seem to draw together; the
the time dose of Acker's Englisl
&emedy should be given-relief fo
US, Said by l., n. Brunswig & Co
IMPoKrANT AND TRUE.-Impur
ood causes disease and decay n
natter what part seems TO be the sea
the disease--liver, kidney or brain
zen how To cure IL is 10 purif