The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-11-19
WALKABOUT.

WALKABOUT
The newspapers that do not use
auxiliary sheets, or patent outs1des"
as they are generally called, are down
on those who do. The Galveston !
News In particular, has always taken |
the lead in ridiculing these auxiliary
sheets. Now Walkabout has plea to
offer in their favor. Newspapers are
not published for the exclusive use Of
list Is very limited affair, compara-
lively speaking. Those who use
auxiliary sheets publish papers for
country readers mostly. and when
these auxiliaries are properly edited
greater variety of information than
them, simply because those who issue
them have access to more sources
of information than any country
sheet can afford to have.
The majority Of farmers and their
families, for instance, prefer them for
the general lnforma ion they contain.
Without the aid these auxiliaries at
ford, many papers that are now pub
lished in the state would have to sus-
pend, and i5 Is far better to use
them than to abridge intelligence.
even admitting that they are not as
good as the homemade article would
be. But this is not admitted. Solong
as the masses are satisfied with them
it makes but very little difference
what rival newspapers may say about
them.
Walkabout is happy. His old and
tried friend, DR.. Hal. 2. Howard, has
been installed postmaster in San An
tonic. At last most worthy man
has been rewarded. May he hold that
office as long as he wants it.
There must be considerable merit
in man who receives so many en-
dorsements for political office as Mr..
Harrison, in the comptroller's Office,
does. The San Antonio Express is
the last to pay him very handsome
compliment.
President Cleveland's proclaim alton
is very generally reprobated by the
Tarrant turkeys. Unless it is re-
scinded there will be blood spilled.
Their Indignation can not and will
not be restrained.
Do you suppose when you sip in
| during Walkabout's absence and leave
a notice on his table of the arrival of
| Ghis one, or the departure Of that one,
unaccompanied by your name, that he
is going to publish it? What 10 you
take him for? You can save yourself
all such trouble in future.
The funny man OF the New Orleans
! Picayune is never + markedly good or
remarkably bad in his attempts. He
is a sort of intermediate standard,
who never draws tears or chuckles.
The managers of the Texas evening
papers meet in council to-day in Aus
tin. 1t is useless to tender them the
freedom of the city, for they will take
it anyhow. Walkabout invites them
all to call and see him and leave their
pictures for his picture gallery.
The dress of the eastern ballet girl
has been reduced. The corset still
stays.
Another young man, in the prime OF
life, has gone and left the architect
business in the hands of others
Walkabout never sees funeral pro-
ceSsion but what he asks himself who
will bury him when he dies? TIC
guard against contingencies he thinks
of buying lot in Potter's Field as
soon as he is able. If he keeps on
with this column he will make hi;
readers only too willing to bury him
at their own expense. On, happy
thought has struck him; he belongs tt
the Sons of Malta.
That Dallas News man must have
got hold of Walkabout's picture, OF
else he must be mind reader, by tele
phone.
The Hampstead Ledger says Mr.
Ben. Schwarz's infant babe has died
That relieves Walkaboue's mind, fol
he was fearful that it might be ar
adult babe, in which event its heav.
emily chances would have been muct
less, as very few adults go to HEAVIER
from Hampstead direct.
The Laredo Times, which is tht
best edited paper of it's size in the
state. sometimes makes mistake IL
multiplication. For instance, it says
that by the late fire in Galveston, one.
third of the population of that city
was left homeless and destitute
Now, three times three are nine
and as only three thousand were sc
left, Galveston can have but nine
thousand inhabita ats. Don't you &C
to Galveston, brother Penn, until you
give that city a larger population
than that. May the Lord have mercy
on you, If you come back at Walka-
bout, and ask how you are going to
give Galveston a bigger population
without going there.
/ A lady writes for copy of Walk
about's picture. He would send you
one. but 1t would draw the flies to
such an extent, that you would burn
it if you had it.
Ii Galveston will accept all the aid
that is rendered and hand it over to
Walkabout together with the insur-
ance money that will be paid, he will
agree to repair all damages caused by
the late fire. Now then, what say
you?
The most energetic man of his age
in the state is Ex-Governor Frank Il
Lubbock. When he undertakes to dc
anything, he does it. What other
man in Austin could have secured
the amount of aid for the Galveston
sufferers that he did in the same
length of time, 1t is safe to say thai
no man among US could have done it
But it is the same old story. He was
born so and has been so all his life,
and when be reaches heaven, those
who are loafing around the throne
will nave to stand aside and MAKE
room for him.
If Galveston keeps on with her
fires, she will eventually rebuild her
city at the expense of northern and
foreign insurance companies.
Walkabout walks himself down and
Thea writes himself up; SO he is up OF
down all the while-Iike churn
dasher.
| Governor Ireland is still in the
prime of life, with his faculties unim-
pared. Ifhe lacks those essentials,
as is claimed by his detractors,. why
in the devil did they not find it out