Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-16

peered out from beneath the rich.
rustling drapery Of her skirts. She
was an animated picture, 4 veritable
incarnation of tenderness and love
illness. / watched her in rapture from
station to station, wondering the while
who she could be, from whence de-
scended and what was her mission in
this vale Of tears. Did she, like other
mortals, eat, drink and sleep? Did
her thoughts descend to the ordinary
affairs of hum-drum existence? Did
clouds of sorrow ever fit across the
bright transparency of her beauteous
lace or conceal the roses ON her cheeks?
Were those lustrous eyes, fringed with
long dropping lashes, and beaming out
from beneath those arched eyebrows,
ever dimmed by the dews Of unhappi.
ness? Perish the thought. Her life
must be all sunshine and gladness.
Beautiful visions fiittled before her gaze,
and thoughts "too pure for the touch OF
word' occupied her mind. Her
FOOD was roses, her drink nectar, and
to mortal passions she was stranger.
was musing thus when the brake
man poked In his head and bawled
out, Twenty minutes for dinner ~
MY excitement knew no bounds /
saw her reach forth her delicate hand
toward a neat little basket, which she
opened with her beautifully taperinp
fingers and took out lunch. What
WIS my utter dismav and horror at
seeing her, instead of nibbling few
morsels of humming-bird tender.loin,
proceed to MUNICH on a hunk OF cold
corn.bread, kitchened with long whsng
feathers of fried tripe woman ~
exclaimed, thou art delusion and
snare J" and then rushed out, deter.
mined to tackle railroad sandwich.
oLD-TIME CANDIDATES.
| Candidates are not like they used
to be-" said an intelligent Johnson
county farmer in my hearing the other
day. He was one of a party of per-
haps ten grapgers, all sitting ON their
launches, whiting and discussing
the situation. II recollect long years
ago when Sam Houston was candi-
date for governor. He came
In company with n gen.
tleman who was candidate fol-
the legislature, to stop over night with
US. He was introduced as Gen. Sam
Houston, and this being our first tim,
to see him, we bestirred ourselves to
give him as good fare as possible, anC
my wife busted herself in preparing
supper. We had a chicken killed ant
n heap of tiXin's for our distinguished
guest, but he made himself perfectly
at home and walked out into thu
kitchen where my wife was and asked
her what she was going to have fol
supper. My wife commenced maxim,
apologies, saying we We're newcomers
in the country, which, being wilt
; one, afforded few delicacies, but thai
she had prepared nice chicken and
would have some nice bread and do tn
best she could. Il want some goo,
sweet milk aid mush, said the gen
eral, and nothing else And mill
, and mush he had.
"Seemed to enjoy 1t heartily. After
supper he insisted or having a blanke
TO sleep on on the front porch. w,
tried 10 induce him TO accept of bed
but he was accustomed to sleeping on
and wanted a blanket and his over Goa
for a pillow. We finally persuaded
on Kim to take pillow, and he spen
the night on the porch. l recollec
him well. He wore "A long hunting
shirt which reached to his boot top:
, aud was otherwise dressed like fror
tiersman. tell you what, ne was nc
,, like the highfalulin Miss Nancy car
didates who dance around in thes
days, and he had bushelsof sens
yes, he had a wagOn-lcad of old barr
yard sense"
BY this time most Of the party ha
exhausted their supply of "whittlin,
; wood" and were amusing themselve
by sticking their knives in the sane
In various selections from the opera {
mumblepeg, signing the while. for
return of the good old times of yore.
NJ. w, C.,