Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-08

a boy TO ego wrong but II Is n matter
Of doubt whether they are more ruin
I Gus 10 The young mind than reading
the Gcbhard. I,angtry escapades. There
Is no law 10 punish the latter, but
there ought 10 be. There are hun
dreds OF young Freddy Gebhards
spripQing up all over the South, the
main lack OF these promising disciples
beiup their lack OF worldly wealth.
Here lies the trouble with them: they
I have the inclination but not the
] "wherewith.m Verify, ! believe the
J increasing school OF dudes and dudelets
OF whom Mr.. Gerhard aud Mrs.
! Iangtry are AT the head, is doing
more damage TO mind aud heart than
WAS done 10 life, limb and property by
the train rObbing gentry IN their
palmiest days.
ODDITIES.
The Chicago board Of trade adjourned
two days for the proper celebration OF
the glorious Fourth One of the pa.
pers said one day was 10 celebrate and
the other was set apart that the mem
bers might have ample time in which
To ret over the effects. The bulls and
bears OF the board of trade may be "A
hard lot of ''genteelp gamblers, but
there Is one thing they do know, and
that is that IL pays TO take liberal rests
when opportunities Offer. They OBJ
serve al legal holidays and great
many extras. They make things
howl VIII II they are at it. but they
have fun in all equally enthusiastic
spirit.
July ushered in the first really hot
weather we have had this summer.
The mercury is dancing around about
the ninety. and occasionally hobs well
up 10 round numbers. 1t j. notable
fact, however that the weather three
or four hundred miles north Of here is
far hotter than is being experienced
here. The prospects for corn begins
TO brighten with the weather, but an
old.timer was heard To- say the other
day that the time lost by wet and cold
weather could not possibly be made up
now, be the conditions hereafter ever
SO favorable. However, there always
were croakcrs, and probably always
will be.
The Investigations Of the charges of
adulterated lard are being held secretly
and the papers are mad about it;
rightly arguing that the matter is one
in which the whole people are inter
ested. II looks as If too many of the
other packers lived in glass houses TO
throw stones at the accused At all
events. no stones are being thrown.
The friends of law, order and tenn
rerance in this state are in good
spirits. and feel that the right mode of
controlling the evils of intempefance
has at last been found. Prohibitionists
argue that the Harfeg law
Is not a step toward their de-
sired end, for they think that the
thinning out of some of the weakest
will merely make the strong saloons
stronger and more powerful. As All
illustration Of this point the query is
propounded: Why does gardener
clear away the weeds and worthless
growth and prune carefully each tree,
out 10 make it stronger?
Base ball j. one of the much talked
of means OF sport. The Chicago White
stockings, champions of other years,
Will have to take'a rear seat it they do
not 90 70 work in good earnest to re-
deem themselves for the bad work
done thus far. Perhaps bad be- i'm
nlng Will make good ending.
The summer driving and running
meeting here was well nigh f,jlure
OH account OF lne weather which
greeted the opening week, but the post
poned r1ces this week have been fl.
Vored with line weatherand have been
very successful.
Tue exposition building Is being put
III shape for the Theodore Thomas
summer night concerts, which com
nience July 9th and run five weeks.
The mnsie at these concerts, of course.
is superb, bat il seems
a pity that Chica 70 could
not support such an enterprise
without thd demoraliziug beer garden
accessories think, and know She
could.
The creditors OF McGeoch, Evering-
ham " Co, the insolvent hard specta-
tors have accepted 80 cents OH the
doilar. The grand total OF unsecured
Liabilities were Sl344, 9lI.4l.