Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-02
irving to Beat TwO-Fsrty.

30w many people in all branches
6a1einess are trying 10 beat 2:40 with
Rree minute bushes? The man who
/ 8Bsmall business that is paying
xAnd goes into debt and tries to
u himself over too many eggs, is
10 beat 2:40 with three min
! brse. The young man who gets
~ salary, and spends more money
r. cream and perfumery and neck
|#han he earns, is trying TO beat
With three minute horse. The
Ewho was calculated by nature to-
G wife of a mechanic, and gets
&e her business and looks with
b upon man who earns his living
hard work, will look at an old
in the glass few years from
ard realize that she has been try
10 beat 2:40 with three minute
e, The ordinary, every day sort
4 man, who is elected to small
&e by n big majority, on account OF
n voting for him for charity, and
a thereupon aspires to a big office
which he is untitled, will be nom
I'D for the big office some day and
Beaten higher than kite, and he
u then feel of his aching head, ex-
|he his empty pocket TX, look
: ind at the debts he has contracted,
8the enemies he has made, and il
&suddehly come to him that he has
81 trying to beat two-forty with
e-minute horse. The man or wo
who leaves profession or en-
ment to which they are fitted,
in which they can be prosperous
happy and have friends, and goes
the stage TO compete with men
i women who have been brought up
and who have made success by Il
8time of hard work, will some day
&c to their sorrow that they
- failed to beat two-forty with q
Ee-minute horse, The young
Z who has been left "a for
by a dead father, who has
ked lifetime to accumu-
4 riches, and who changes from
that was good enough for him
Pc, to champagne, and plenty of 1t,
who can't find places enough to
pa money without sitting up all
upt, and who finds old sledge and
muckle too tame, and adopts draw
IN and faro, and who forgets that
fisters are splendid company, and
acquainted with quick women, and
them diamonds as big as pieces
UNI, will in a few years be walk
on his uppers, and having fur col
inned on to linen listers for win
IEnd he will wake up some morning
II the almightiest headache on
Rrd and come to the conclusion that
Pig to beat twc-forty with three
ute horse is what ails him. The
mer resort hotel proprietor who
kaip an old rookery and fills 1t with
Nts, who are seeking comfort, and
fges them Fifth avenue prices for
Hefy accommodations, will look at
empty house next year and say
season Is backwards, and whom
q guests do not come with the dog
III he will suddenly scratch his
- ana say he made fool of him
last year in trying to beat two
$y with three minute horse. The
<pie souled, good fellow, everybody's
hd gets to drinking too hard, and
~ Is healthy, he gets an idea he
peat whisky, a gan lat so many
NJ tried aud failed. ne keep It up
III his nose gets red, his eyes bleared
4 MS voice shaky, and
mas a whisky cough, ana
friends try 10 reason with him and
MIN TO let up, hut he laughs at
M with his good natured laugh,
4 tells them that he has got con-
Lution like a horse, and that nothing
hurt him, and he asks them Ia
yea drink. Some day he gets the
4 jams, and all his friends, say, ~
q you So" and they sit up nights
pa him and drive away snakes, and