Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-04
HE STARTED A PAPER.
1t Was Ran Cd the Host Approved
Methods Of journalism, but
Some Way II
Didn's Pan Out woIl-Hopes He May Not
Meet His Subscribers IN the
Better Country
Fred Carruth in Chicago Tribune.

Fred Carruth in Chicago Tribune.
IN 1879 youpg man named Lswler
came out to the city OF Roaring Spring
(since extinct) snd started the Roaring
Spring Examiner. He followed the
usual custom and doomed everything IN
sight, besides good many invisible
things, endangered his chances of saliva
ton dozen times in every Issue by his
disregard for the trurh in referring to
his fellow-citiZens, and made paper
generally which they ought to have sp-
preciated, but didn't. He struggled for
year and decided to give it up, espe-
cially as mortgage was being foreclosed
on mis- type aud presses as fast, or little
faster than the law allowed. Below is
sE extract from his vsledictory, be walk
ing cot Of town the night before it ap-
pesred ard leaving directions for the boy
10 put the papers in the postottice next
morning:
ave nave worked pretty hard to please
the mossbacks and jayhaWkers living in
Roaring Spring, but it seems they don't
want to be pleased.
"We referred to the Western hotel as
'sumptuous and elegant in all its appoint
ments' the same week We were carried out
of its dining room insensible under the
influence of It's tenth-rSte canned goods
and poisonous coffae.
"We have spoken Of old man WIlkin as
our efficient and scholarly Justice Of the
peace while at the very ZINE we were
writing the words the old soaker was IN
der our office drunk end humping his head
up against the floor, having craWled there
under the impression that he was going
to bed in sleeping csr moving forty
miles an hour.
ave have lied about the prospect for q
railroad coming here when we knew there
were more chances that Noah's ark would
sail through town than that train Of
cars would ever get ia hearing distance
ave have howled about the astonish-
ing fertility of the soil near Clearing
Spring in the same issue that we should
have recorded the fact that the only man
who ever took the Examiner, and paid
for II, had just starved out trying to
raise men grass.
"We wrote glowing account OF a
visit to our well built and commodious
court house, when the truth is that 8
stray COW came out of the front door OF
1t and tried to hook US over the fence
when we first went up toit.
1--WE noticed the cause for pardonable
pride which we had in the flee condition
of our streets the sane day we had q
good pair Of boots pulled eff Dy the mud
while going to the postofice.
We grew really eloquent over the
splendid opportunities that exist here for
Settlers when we knew that the only
was promptly run into s saloon and
cleaned out Of his money in poker game
by Bill Cuhn, town clerk, and Dsn
Woolly, county commissioner.
ave told Of our Sparkling drinking
water, cool and delicious to the taste
when we knew that there was so much
alksli In 1t that In washing our type with
1t it hac actually eaten the tails of the
very commas We punctus.ed the state
ment with.
1--WE spoke of our winter climate as
being clear and dry, rendering it quite
impossible TO feel the cold,' when only
month before the doctor had smputated
two of our toes where we had tnndver-
tently got our foot over rat hole in the
floor while eating supper.
"We found time to write q lengthy
article on our beautiful spring weather,
with Just enough breeze to purify the sir
and make it heslthful,' even il we were
kept pretty busy that week in sorting our
type, which had been pied by the office
being blown away and scattered over half
the country.
"The week we we're sulstruck we wrote
poem on Beautiful SUI mer at R JEring
SPRING. when Judge Of Probate Dough
erty had the iimjams and set the school
house afre in the night we laid it to the
sdisbolicsl work of some vilialnous
tramps; when Nick Daggett and his wife
tried TO poison each other we shouted
about the arsenic in the wallpaper; the
Packard family frcze to death in biz
zsrd we wept over the fact that consump-
ton should thus enter family without
warning and sweep away whole house
hold; cyclone killed six and we sobbed
over that fell destroyer, epileptic frs, con-
tracted in the army drinking alksli water
hurried dozen to an untimely grave, and
in every case we bowed our head and
through our sobs moaned out: Another
good citizen killed in q runaWay!h That's
the way we've been standing up for you;
that's the way we've been lying for you,
but we are going to stop. This is the last
Examiner. II the few remaining dead
beats In Roaring Spring will this evening
cast their eyes through the gathering
darkness they will see tall, orainy young
man formerly engaged in the newspaper
business In their midst pace out from
them through the cleaning on the trot.
Good by. It is our earnest hope that we
may not meet on better shore; we
couldn't meet on worse one"