Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-19
THE MAN IN THE TOWER.
lie Grows Unhnppy from Fear of Inter
Views.

lie Grows tnhnppy from rear OF inter
Views.
The old man was deeply Immersed
In n newspaper when the reporter en-
tered the tower Yesterday aud his face
was as stold as that OF an Egyptian
mummy II greeted the reporter in
II kind Of non-c0mmunichtive way and
again buried himself in The columns
of his paper The GAZETTE man looked
out the south window aud listened to
the cooling of flock of pigeons ON the
roof and wondered what
allied his friend who at last broke the
silence by saving, ''see here, MIR. Re-
porter, there i, no telling the Ills flesh
is heir to- Yes erday | thought when
my clock was started that content
meut would smile on me forcvcrnlore.
but the best laid plans of men and
mice don't always 50 To suit your
humble friend. Yes sir, contentrnent
like rose bush In full bloom had shed
rs perfume IN my bosom, aud
/ was as happy rs n
June-bug in June; u May-lly in May;
mn al lermlu elected, or a small boy
ia circus ten. But this morning |
found that this paper there the old
man showed q copy Of the Houston
Post under the reporters IiOsel has
been noticing our interviews and here
iswhut 1t says about us:
"Ihe GAZETTE has u "nian IN the
tower,n as he calls himself, who writes
q column of observations daily while
pr, sulunbly seated In the watcn tower,
He need not be ashamed of his produe-
tious, and might lengthen them out
into regular stories without fear of not
finding readers"
Now, Mr.. Reporter, what do you
think of thatN The reporter told
his friend that he supposed the
tower man would wake up some morn
ing like Lord Byron and find himself
famous.
The old man shook his hend and pa
per 50 violently that the pigeons ON
the roof took hasty Hight, and said
No sir, I'll wake up some day and
find Il crowd of interyiewers at my
door, IL the papers get 10 Noticing as
and Ivy answering questions longer
than Evarts' sentences. and talking
my head nearly OIL, will find that
killed my own mother, stole melons
when | was boy, and am nov Il big
ger liar than Tom Ochiltree."
Vhe dudes will -ay |. am the Dor
sey OF heir party and was never Offered
position in their cabinet, ! guess
when the first one of those interview
| ers comes up here with I-don't-carc-
if.l-do drink-at,your-eXpense lock on
hi. face for an interview, I'll try jim
Blaine's ; ulligan letter racket on him
and keep clse of sun stroke on lee
for the emergency. The reporter said
he thought Il better plan would be to
bluff such fellows or by asking theal
who wrote the Morey letter? who
could beat Peter Smith for governor.
where Dall;s WAS l9cated? or 10 name
another city in Texas equal to Fort
Worth IN enterprise and pretty girls?
and if that did not bluff them OFF, 10
send down to The Post for the ban Of
Il gun hy next mail, bariiel,ie thetowtr
| and shoot the first QUO tlrat showed
his nose in the lookout
The old man looked at the reporter
and said with an approach to n smile
Young man, you show II great lack OF
newspaper sense; cont you know that
when n reporter wants TO interview
you he would do SO if old Sain Hoils
ton and his army detied his way. No
! sir, | don't know how ri get arount
than, unless ua less unless, ht
added, his face hrighteniug like.thc
sun bursting through the clouds o.,
the western horiN IN, II postpone al
! interviews one day and send the inter
viewers To the ---- hotel 4
stay all night. They will never sur
vive for the interview"