Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-02
JOHNSON COUNTY.
A HANDLERS Visit 10 Grand,iew and
h,arado--An Incident on
the Train.

amusing incident on the road, which
II properly Interpreted, teaches man
useful moral.
Your correspondent boarded In
south-bouhd Missouri Pacific passet
ger train at an early hour on the morn
ing OF the Nth inst, in company wit
quite an elderly gentleman, whose gen
tlemanly bearing aud silver locks M
well calculated TO command the rev
erence and esteem of all such as cher
ish n veneration for such qualities. A
we passed through the car we foun,
every seat occupied, but most of then
had cut one occupant Ii was yer,
early IN the morning, and IL was quit,
natural that the passengers airead,
aboard should feel Mtiguod after rid
ing all night, and that each should tr,
Ia make himself rs comfortable Us pos
sibie, but several fresh passengers ha,
entered the car, and what were we /,
do for seat without disturbing some
body AT the far end'bf the car W,
found four ladies standing, and one %
them had young child in her arms
| which was crying most Justify. Tn,
old gentleman took In the situation n;
once. lie grabbed one gentleman
who lay stretched out ON tn,
] 7'"N NIHRiNuilN NSlttD. Nv
| the shoulder, and shook hin,
about like dog would shake rabbit
and asked him IL he did not hear that
child crying. This he repeated sew
eral times, but no response came. Not
10 be outdonc, the old gentleman then
grabbed his companion, who was ".
ing stretched out ON the opposite seat,
aud shook him In like manner, and
ntnnAnnHnI ihA Ia -.
After repeated efforts ON the part OF
the old gentleman, we thought we
could discern some signs oflife. Sleeper
no. finally straightentd M, npparcnt-
" very indignant at being disturbed,
and vacated his seat and told the old
gentleman and myself to sit down,
which we did with as much selfcom.
placency IA two French dancing.mas.
tiers. After all had become seated and
the storm had passed rs we thought,
sleeper No. remarked To the old gen.
tleman that he could Just rs well have
gotten the seat without nludiny To
the crying baby. "Oh," snys the old
gentleman, "that was only n ruse for n
little fun" Butt says sleeper No.
2, ''you did not have polileucss enough
TO even thank men OH SAYS the
read the scriptnrcs. which sav ar /
only do nv duty what thanks bnvn
Iin "BUt vou miuht have
done Tint much far NO.
litoness sake ~ resnonded slecncr Ma .
| expressed ly thinks AT the ticket Of
flee Responded The old yontlennn
and here the cbnyer.atinn Ceased Ina.
tween the old gentleman and Tho
sleepers. but they could NOT refrain
from alludinr To IL ocrnsIonnlIv bc.
tween Themselves within our herring
FINALLY daylight dnwned mud No
could look through thn ON, md 700
who was aboard, Presently. fine
looking gentleman came wnlkinr mn
the aisle and hating mt tho sent ON
which the two sieeners wnro sitting
vreeilne them with i'gooI n,ornlny
brother C. and how do Sou do brother
d. Alter these friendly snlutntIons
were passed. the newcomer glanced
his eve toward tho old penileman WIN
WINS sitting beside me and exclaimed
"Whyl how do Won do h other II -
| am so clad to meet Won, turn around
and let me Introduce Won 40 brothers
& and M The old pentloman turned
ONT 10 be the di-tinpi,ishod Dr n of
49,. or might fnr better snv of the
state of Texas. for his fame MS n diyIn.
and educator Ia extensive with hIs
state. and the twn sleepers
proved 10 be two younp
Methodist prenohers who wrr,
inst returning from conference held
I'm Denison Inst week The doctor
turned around very readily and re-
ceived tho Introduction nm VIVA IN
much amused at what hnd mss
ed TINT Inc would moi even Give his
brother nrenehers n ohnno 10 npoIo.
pize for their rudoness INF mitchell In
To- con yersation with them me- nIena.
nntlv M AZ nothing Ind honrcncd ian,
many wore the adde's and drv yrins
maj nnssed between the doninr and
mvself
MouAt-Do MT tbink ION uucJ, M !
vonr own ense aud cnmrort osnaci,Ilv |
when t,ey hny. IN he nrocured nj liz
,xnenee Of vour sunerIors In this
,nse Gnur Indies and ihreo elderly een.
.lemen Iniybt hnvc stood mn IN ih.y
All fran fatI0uc but far liz shreSd.
ness md hetter .euse Of mr. n c,n
.endIIv inngino th.se two yni,ng iii.
ines learned n Lesson In co1nnaon no.
iteness tint thew viii moi foryot be.
ore In. next neclInp of conioronce
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