The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-27
THE SETTINGS MAN.

Alex F. Sweet, editor of the Texas N,ttsqs, recently contributed io the New York T1,A Rus the following auto biography:
 Eiifor T.i-B Bis Sr--Eour favor of re- cent date requesting me to send you a photograph and brief biographical sketch of myself. for publication in Ti-Bsis, was duly received
 You impose upon mo an almost i'm possible task How am ia be brief when have such d splendid chance to write about myself? am just boiling over with valuable and interesting in formation about myself X frenlied public is bowling for it, and you ask mo to be brief This is the occasion of all other when should turn myself loose l want to be copious when writing about my many good qualities of head and heart.
 will begin by hragging Nttle about my pedigree When say that belong Ia one of the first families. l am draw ing it very mildly belong to the first family. Eve was a Sweet girl Adam himself said so several times Milton repeats it in his Paradise Lost could trace my pedigree back much further, hut don't want to make the old Dutch families of New York any mor, tired than they will be when they read about how old my family k
 Why dil you put that little word brief in your letter Ia me- l would like to write few columns about the Sweet to whom Caesar referred when j." wrote Bakct d etc How willingly would write about that other Sweet, the chum of Shakespeare of him Shake wrote. The rose hy any other name would smell as Sweet He used cologne, no doubt That what made him smell like rose
 But must be brief You want Ia know something about myself That subject with which am perfectly ia, miliar As Is frequently the case with distinguished men Was born That event occurred on the 2Sth day of March j lS4l in the city ot St John, N B at the residence of my parents moved to San Antonio Tex, when was Il mere child, taking my parents with m" To keep them out of mischief l went to school as it would have been inconvtl nient to have the school brought to mo every day, and here 1 acquired knonl- edge and an occasional rap over the head with ruler When reached the age of sweet sixteen, having outgrowu the local institutions of learning l was sent to school at Poughkcepsie. on the Hudson After had absorbed all the knowledge in that vicinity, went to Germany. l absorbed everything in that country including some beer and l.. H.. ( | get licked, as n member of the Thirty third Texas cavalry.
 After the war having been robbed of all the vast plantations and negroes which never owned by that hircling foe, l took to stealing. myself, to get even l practiced law for several years Finding that couldn't make anything at the law, took to lying and drifted into journalism on the San Antonio Erprtss Atterward was local re ! porter on the san Antonio Hvaid. lift ing it into sudden but lasting fame by 1 my wonderful descriptive power and l brilliant hunor Ii died, owing me { j6 l The next paper 1 lifted into sudden fame was the Galveston N,acs My siftngs in the Nt,cS have never been equallcd by anybody except myself The wit that sparklcd from my facilc pen whenever l graspcd it by the neck, was, and still is. simply appalling Strange to say, the Nncs still survives in 1881 l started Texas .Sftinqs. at Austin, with Colonel J Armoy Knox The fame of Texas .S,ft,nqs has gone abroad over the land, and find that am regarded as the most versatile, the most generally read. writeG of this or any other age really deserve a great deal more than this, but, being modest never refer to the inadequate recogni ton of my shining talents by the pub lie After have been dead few hun dred years the public will begin fully to realize what they have lost That's the way 1t was with Shakespeare, to whom l extend the right hand of genius across the lapse of years, and say, Shakei
 Yours truly
 ALEXANDER l., SWEET