Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-01
MIDLOTHIAN.
Ingenious Expcdient Of a Sign.Board
Fsinter-N Notes Along the Way.

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Correspondence OF the Gazette.
MIDLOTHIAN. TEX June 27.-Ir
passing through the country from Fort
Worth TO this place one has an oppor'
tunity Of observing quite diversity oil
soil az well as products. out -four
miles from Fort Worth there stands q
guide-board unique in It's makeup.
The person who placed IL there was at
least entitled to be called "orIginal'
II has double duty to perform; that
IL IL guides you to two places. A hand
with the index figure pointing TO
the right is followed by the word
Mansfield. Below this Is dart, point
! ing from the right TO the left, and just
here is where the author Of the sign
board found such demand made
upon his genius. The dart (it would
not do to use the pretense Of a hand
twice. points from the right TO the left,
but the name of the place, according
TO rule. must read from left to right.
Our guide postman here discovered u
contradiction between the symbolic
language of the dart and the name
of the town, Bowman, which
seemed to read land therefore guide
In an opposite direction from that in
dictated by the dart. Hence in order
to make the dart and the word work in
harmony, Ike members OF well reg
ulated family, our guide.post genius
spelled the word Bowman as follows:
namwoB; preceded by the dart, which.
of course, pointed from right TO left.
One thing is certain, a drunken man,
with his mental machinery somewhat
awry, and working, rs 1t generally
does, In reverse order, will have no
trouble in reading that sign and find
his way TO bowman, even though he
thinks lie is on his way to Mansfield
or Fort Worth, or both at the same
time.
The farmers just now have but little
use for newspaper correspondents.
Right nobly they are battling with
the common enemy, the weeds; and in
the sandy soil near and around Mans
field the crops, especially cotton, are
looking fine. The heavy rains did not
entirely interrupt the work OF weed
killing In the sandy loan of this u :,
OF TarraDt county, hence, many fiL Ids
are beautiful 10 behold. Corn IL look
ing well. Wheat IL mostly in shock,
and some of IL threshed. | made
bold dash on gang OF threshers about
four miles northwest Of Mansfield and
captured the following friends for THE
GAzETrE: G., NJ. league, J. NJ. John |
son and ID. w. Loftin. Don't talk to me |
about lack OF energy on the part |
the farmers when men can perform all |
the work pertaining to wheat thresh- |
ing with its choking and binding dust,
and n blazing hot sun dishing up heat |
ut rate of 100 degrees in the shade.
Leaving Mansfield on the way to .
Midlothian, we finally emerge from
the timber and sandy loan and come |
out once more upon the black prairie |
lands. And here we find the prospects |
by no means discouraging. Hot |
though IL is even the women and girls |
are in the cotton fields, and, as if ap. |
preciating the delicate touch |
OF wOmGn's hand the I
crops, kissed by the sunlight
and quickened by its beams,
are responding SO joyiully that one can
almost see them move upward.
The weeds have made n greater start
in the black lands than in the lighter
sandy land Of The timbers, hence the
fight wakes hotter. But nature deals
in great equasions. The black land l..
harder to work, but yields more
largely. If the weeds are bigger on
the prairie the toiler is braced up In
his labor by the gentle zephyrs,
which the timber land toiler does not
get, hence he must seek rest In the
shade of trees and cannot do as much
in the same number of hours.
One thing among the many
that one notices Ia the
lunlr nf
many of our farmers. Forty acres
well worked are better than eighty
acres half cultivated. Great results
eau often be better accomplished Wild
in well-propOrtioned limits than to
spread ones self over too much terri
tory. Some day may in my notes, If
acceptable to your many readers, par
ticularize aud 20 into more minutim
on this subject. see too much to at
tempt TO elaborate here, but IA little
story may convey my meaning: When
quite small, one Of our neighbors'
boys was told by his mother to fix n
nest for the old turkey and place some
eggs under her To hatch. The boy did
his work promptly and reported to his
mother.
How many eggs did you put under
her, my son ~
Nine dozen and ninety-nine, was
the somewhat pompous answer of the
boy.
why, my son, she can never hatch
All those eggs; she cannot even cover
them.n
well, | do not expect that she will
hatoh many. | just wanted TO see the
old fool spread herself.n
am here at Midlothian and the
good people have captured me, boots,
spurs and all. IL Is II nics little town,
with many good points OF interest, aud
] hope 10 make these manifest In my
next.
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| A full line of reed and rattan cba;rs.