Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-22

! tnefl HOllOT. MT. lalhlu-
has presented bill in the house con-
templating the concession of pensions
20 these army nurses, thus designated
as such by the soldiers they served.
! OF course there were many more Of
these devoted women, but only these
| few survive. Diseases contracted by
the inhalation of deathdealing poi.
sons, exhaled from the dying, the gan
grened and the dead, have sent the
greater number beyond the reach OF
federal beneficence.
uRANKs AND BUMoiERS.
Each hotel has It's special policeman
who, apparelled as IA commonplace cit
iZen, must watch the professional
bummers and dead-beats who
prey upon strangers and newly-iiedged
congre ssmen and rural place-seckers.
Ruillans and thieves abound. Well
dressed men constantly ask for small
loans. They expect hourly remittan-
ces from home. They have been tele-
phoned for ut the capitol or George
town or White House, and must have
n quarter TO be refunded as soon as
they return. Others confcssing impe-
curiosity and pangs Of hunger would
borrow enough to buy bread. a surly,
great monster, whose eyes blazed and
hair was stin and parched by alcohol,
constituting half his blood, swore like
mailman, when his demand for IA
dollar was denied. They learn Il
strangers name and residence and oc-
cupation, and pretend TO be stranded
penniless citizens of the place whence
their victims come. the avenue is
lined each morning with impecunious
sufferers from debaucherie5 of tn e
night. They endure tortures OF the
damned until some plying wayfarcr
gives n nickel with which alcohol
may be bought, and accustomed fires
within re-illumined.
PLAcE-sEEKERs.
Habitual place-holders, who have
spent their lives in offices, state and
federal. are most persistent and most
successful hangers-on of congressman.
The good creature who has lived in
clover all his life Is most wretched
when ON the drcary common. He has
never learned to provide for himself.
OF toll he knows nothing. His pa
triotism is as sensitive as mercury,
rising and falling with the vol
ume of dollars flowing into
his till from the public treasury. The
strangest fact Is the prediction eyinc-
ed by those who dispense patronage for
those who have always been its bene.
flciaries. "Onee in Office always in
Office Is trite saying telling of n
fact universally recognized here, as
in the states. Perhaps n fellow
acquires knack in arts Of acqui-
sltion. He studies the weaknesses of
those who dispense places. He has
learned when aud how to ask. On the
contrary, newspaper man has only
studied how to serve others and pro-
mote their purposes of ambition. Aud
then who, can deny sympathy to fishes
on dry land? The tenure of place
Is the surest title to place, and place
holding In the capitol invests those
having offices with the right OF perpet-
ual occupancy.
TEXAN coNGREssMEN.
IL seems that the little storm excited
by newspaper reporters some weeks
ago In Texas among representatives of
that state, has resulted In their failure
To cooperate In the matter OF dispens-
ing the share of places allotted
10 the people of the commonwealth.
The result will be the loss of many no
sltions which Texans might have won.
II the delegation had made list OF
appointees and presented it with
their joint approval, the s,a'r
would have been conceded It's
proper relative number OF positions /;
but each Texas congressman stands
alone and cares only for citizens OF his
district. Applicants thus approved
by only one member from the state
are readily thrust aside. This state OF
facts acts most harshly In Nat @. q
case. He has been Hancock's virnlent
partisan enemy, even supporting Hon.
Wash Jones against Hancock, and
Nat should have migrated into anoth-
er district before he set out from Texas.
Blue a. are his chances, his face IL sp
aurora q ruddy splendors, aud Nat
himself Il a--roaref.