Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-12
MIDLAND.
A TRADE Against Northers-Their
Uselessness to Texas.
The Town Replete With Ananiases Who
are Not Struck Dead,

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
MIDLAND, TEX, Jan. lO.-Weather
reports from the North and East bring
US the information that December,
1854, has passed into history as the
coldest December for twenty-five
years. This explains and reconciles
to the memory the uuususl frequency
of northers thus far this winter A
quarrel in neighbours backyard often
disturbs the peace and comfort Of
many highly respectable and we'll
ordered families, but we are never
told that these hideous ca.erwAulings
among our nelghbors are necessary ~
bring to our households the proper
sanitary, moral and religious condi-
tons And yet we hear great deal
of pretennous, ill-considered preach
ing about the benefits that Texas de-
rives from these nOrthers. We have
hundreds of miles In every direction
without sluggish stream,
muddy lake or steaming,
filthy morass, and yet they
tell US that we have been benefited
by these Internal tri-weekly northers
that come 10 us from the very sane.
tum sanctorum Of fens, bogs, mOras5es
and cesspools, because forsooth they
drive away our malaria. Do not our
whRngdDOdle preachers know that the
North Is every winter full OF smallpox,
ecarletiua, scarlet fever, typhua aud
typhoid feyeTs, typhoid pneumonia,
dipntheria, Group, measles, mumps and
dozen kinds OF COMPOSITIONS, and that
the North and not the South IL bene.
flied by these Winds The world has
been singing for thousands OF years
about spicy gales, balmy breezes and
Tose-scented zephyrs. We can all turn
up oar noses al the vile Odors that the
wind watts 10 us from a dlstlllery or
glue factory and there Is no uneX-
planned mystery about Ii. II lie time
Tor as 70 understand that three-dRys'
gale from the hospitals, pest-houses
and cest pools Of the North starts on liz
journey laden with a hundred forms
of disease and death, and brings
TO as thousand fold
more filth than II drives away. Now,
rs we all understand each other, let the
northers come. They donot hurt, they
only annoy. Our Northern friends
| send US disease aud our perfect climate
kills its germs. We look upon the
norther a. a bull In china shop, 3
ravenous old sow ia the flower garden,
a sWill barrel under our bedroom win
dow, a polecat In the well. II helps
our Northern neighbors; Il annoys but
| does not rjure us.
"Whst can ] do for you" said the
! editor 10 the old lady.
If heard people call you Ansnias,
and / thought / would call and see
1 you,r replied the old lady.
"Well, ma m, said the editor, "do
you think ] am like Ananias?"
"No, ] don't think ys be; AnEnias
was struck dead, and ye seem to be
alive"
Our Ananissea are all alive, and the
country is full OF them The reasons
Of their malice are OF every cOncsiva'
bile kind. Two days ago = freight con
ductor told passenger that every
drop OF water used in Midland
h brought from MOYnahgn's well
fifty miles west, and yet this idio
knew that Midland has the finest we'll
Ia the state, and that ia a few months
! 4 great district around Midland ba
; become densely peopled because Of tn
; great abundance OF fine water. TIN
ne was as foolish as to say that Penn
, sylYanlR has no pig-ir0n, Ohio no poll
! ticlans, or Louisiana no alligators. BU