Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-11

! ny Mail and Telegraph.
Washington, November i0.-Iocal
| newspapers made a great uproar when
John Barnard, of the printing bureau,
ran away with pretty Blanche Burr.
| Blanche and John We're married, Il
was said and for time he was gener-
Gus and kind, but speedily grew weary
of fading charms. 1t Is
an old, old story, told n
Thousand times each year and never
once provoking congress To onact n
civil rights bill. II Is only a social
| question and the law would operate
/ aud he felt North rs well as South.
Therefore, ''thc old, old story never
/ eSaspemtes the blessed congress. but
the poor girl Is abandoned To want and
helplessnoss among strangers, In 81.
Joseph, Missouri, and her friends
here, even the poor clerks In the bu-
reau IN which she was en-.
/ ployed, have raised money
by subscription that she may restored
TO her desk and her home.
WOMEN As CLERKS.
Reference TO this social incident In.
duces the suggestion that women are
more aud more approved each year. MS
clerks in the departments. In pains.
taking, monotonous tasks and such
are those discharged 10y thrte-fourths
OF the employees OF the govern
ment women surpass men In
every oNcellencc--minutc nicety and
accuracy crown the sex with highest
rewards. II Is only unfortunate for
them that men are reared with fixed
/ convictions that they are morally and
{ intellectually wpmnns' sunerlors I'm all
I things, and therefore Il happens that
Z men have higher salaries, without ref
erence 20 capacity or fitness for tasks
10 be discharged, than women. Heads
Of departments and bnreaux
slowly recover from this pre-.
conception or prejudice, and with
] the progress of these magnets In liber-
eral aud just thinking are admirable
/ women promoted. The librarian of
the Smithsonian, the real ctiei of The
dead letter ulllce-both these ladies
/ have mastered the French, German,
I Italian and Spanish languages, and the
| foremost arlthmetlcians of the CEN
sus bureau are women. The women
| neither chew, nor smoke, nor
| drink, nor fight the tiger. They steal
not n penny. They count millions
4 and millions of money In stamps and
1 n.thing sticks 10 their fair fingers.
/ Tbey form no organizations TO rob
/ pensioners or patentees or contractors
/ or the government, and women dis
! charge almost every clerical task inn
! posed by the needs of government.
4 Men should nos be suffered 10 unseN
/ themselves by addlctedness TO per-
suits that make them ddv-
oilers aud helpless tri1ers, and
while the great Weat aud railways aud
! farms demand manhood's vigor and
muscle no clerical sedentnry duty
should be imposed on men that may
be better discharged by women. II
may be proper TO add that Islander and
gossip and suspicion have ceased 10
attach themselves TO women In the
departments. They have made, of
recent years, clerkships respectable by
their fidelity 10 trusts aud by stainless
integrity, and / am honestly
inclined 20 believe that women finally,
filling MI clerical positions, Will re-
move the spoils question in the capital
from the arena Of partisanshlp. In.
capable 10y law OF voting. they are
commonly ignorant Of aiAirs aud
philosophy OF government, ash unlike
men, would be selected fr -Siiices sole
ly with reference to fitness.
opINIoEs or THE PREgs
The newspapers of the capital are
well pleased that the GAZETTE has its
abiding place in Washington ms well
ms IN the most prosperous eltyof Texas.
They have been induced 10 study the
virtues and resources OF the GAZETTE.
They are not only amazed that such
daily paper should he published but
most generously sustained In Texas
When It was stated that there are
$4,000 worth of material and maehin-
cry In the GAZETTE Office
fess lncredulity and smazement.
When they see that the GAZETTE IL
an eight-page daily, cut and pasted
like the New York Herald, and con-
tains ns many pages of equal measure,
they cant believe their eyes, The
first commentary u commonly
TEXAS IS All LII or a COUNTRY"
You will observe that the virtues,
intelligence and character Of
by the appearance, prosperity,
ability and taste of It's newspapers.
The GAZETTE surely harms the conf
monwealth In nothing.
An OLD TEXAN ON MS IRA yELs.
Judge a. b. Norton OF Dallas Is In
the city. He came into the GAzEqTE's
apartments, and shaking the dews
and dust OF travel from his clustering
nneasurcless hair and beard. hc depos-
tied the walking.stick which he has
toted around through forty years ON
my table. Mine, which I observed
was very like liis own, was lyi lg hard
by. was induced 10 read
the inscription on the silver
head of his ''slaR Of lifcr
and was amazed 10 find that his aud
my own were from the same ash tree
that fell in 1874 in front Of the resi-
dence at Ashland. Norton wagercd his
whole fortune on Clay'S election and
lost, and Mr.. Clay gave him this cane
In attestatiOn OF his respect aud grati-
tude for Norton's devotion; mine vas
given to Governor AID United States
Senator James G. Jones by. Mr.. Clay
In full payment for services rendered
by Jones in carrying Tennessee by ilS
votes against Polk and for Clay In the
presidential race Of 1874. III Jones
had achieved such task for Hayes
or Garfield, The M0rtOn-Hubbell gang
would lave paid him $4,000. Icm-
J,ora s1utontus, you will observe, and
Jones was perfectly blestthat he bore
about the world walking-cane that
Henry Clay and his wife polished with
their own hands.
But was II not strange that these tive
"excerptsr from the same ash tree OF
Isit should eacounter one nnotnerf
after Infinite wanderlngs