Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-18
HIS STRUGGLES,
Some of the Trials of q Rural Newman,
Man,

Some of the Trials of q Burial Nsv,p,n,r
Man.
In 1879 young man r.med LAWYER
came out to the city Of Roaring Springs
(since extinc.) snd started the Roaring
Spring Examiner, writes Fred C.rrush in
the Chicago Tribune. He, following the
usual custom, doomed everything in sight
beside good many invisible things, en-,
dangered his chances Of salvation q drzen
times IN every issue by his disregard for
the truth in referring to his fellow citi-
zsns, and made 6 paper generally which
they ought to have appreciates, bnt
didn't. He struggled for q yesr, and de.
cided to give it up, especially as mort.
gage was being foreclosed on his type
and presses as fast, or little faster. Than
the law allowed. Below is an extract
from valedictory, he walking out of Town
the night before 1t appeared, and leaving
directions for the boy to put the papers
in the postofics the next morning:
"We have worked pretty hard to please
The mossbacks snd i,yhawkers living in
Roaring Springs, but 1t seems they don't
want to be pleased.
'sumptuous and elegant In all its appoint
ments,' the same week We were carried
out OF its diliDg room, insensible under
the influence OF Its tenth.rate canned
goods and poisonous coffee.
1--WE have spoken Of old man wilkins
as our efficient and scholarly Justice of
the peace while st the very time we
were writing the words the old sosker
was under our o&ce drunk and humping
his head up against the floor, having
crawled there under the impression that
he was going to bed in sleeping car
moving forty miles an hour.
"We 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 in hearing dis
lance.
"We have howled about the astouish.
ing fertility of the soil near Roaring
Spring, in the same issue that we should
have recorded the fact that the only man
who ever took the Examiner and paid for
it, had just starved out trying to raise men
grass.
eve wrote glowing account of 8
visit to our well built and commodious
courthouse when the truth is that a
stray cow came out of the front door of
1t and tried to hook US over the fence
when We first went up to il.
M"We Doticed the cause for psrdon.ble
pride which we had in the fine condition
OF our streets the same day we had
good pair OF boots pulled of by the mud
while going to the postoffice.
"We grow really eloquent over the
splendid opportunities that exist here for
settler when We knew that the only set
tier who arrived here this summer was
promptly run into saloon and cleaned
out of his money in poker game by Bill
Kuhn, town clerk, and Dan Woody, county
commissioner.
"We told Of our sparkling drinking
water, cool and delicious to the taste.i
when we knew that there was 80 much
alksli in 1t that in washing our type with
it, 1t had actually eaten the tails of the
commas We punctuated the statement
with.
1--WE spoke OF our winter climate as be-
ing clear and dry, rendering it quite i'm
possible to feel tie cold,' when only 4
month before the doctor had amputsted
two Of our toes where we had insdyert-
emily got our foot over a rat.hole In the
floor while eating supper.
1--WE found time to write lengthy Ar
ticle on our beautiful weather, with lust
enough breeze to purify the air and make
1t healthful,' even if we were kept pretty
busy that week in sortirg our type, which
had been pied by the office being blown
away and scattered over half the country.
"The week we were sunstruck we
wrote poem on beautiful Summer and
Roaring Spring.; when Judge Of Probate
Dougherty had the Jim jsms and set the
school house on fire in the night, we laid
1t to the disbolical work of some VII
lianou5 trsmps; when Nick Dsegett
and his wife tried to poison
each other we shouted about
the arsenic in the wall paper; the
Packard family froze to desth In a biz.
zsrd and we weps over the fact that con-
sumption should thus enter family with
out warning and sweep away q whole
a cyclone killed six and we
sobbed over that Fell DESTROYER
epileptic fits, contracted in the
army drinking slksli water hurried
8 dozen to an untimely grave, and
in every case we bowed our head, and
through our sobs moaned out: Another
good citizen killed in runaway!' That's
the way we've been standing up for you,
but are going to stop. This is the last
Examiner. II the few remaining dead
beats In Roaring Spring will
this evening cast their ewes
through the gathering darkness
they will see tall, brsiny young man,
formerly engaged in the newspaper BUSH
ness in their midst, pass on. from them
through the cleaning on q trot. Goodby.
It is our earnest hope that we may not
meet on betterlshore; we couldn't meet
IN worse one.