Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07

a SUUUSsicfFSsssiIi ENsfisR. DIAMOND BRAND !
US mount this live oak peak on the old
BurroW place and view the country
round. Now we are up in the clouds, the
rain still DIR zzles and the gnaTlsd oaks
weep and moan at the s1aying norther,
the partridge walks leisurely out OF its
cover and molly cotton tail Pushes from
thst tuft Of sedge and displays her white
flag OF truce from the rear, the game birds
whisper soft things to each other-now
molly stops on three legs to parley with US.
Look out northward now, see Raome and
Aurora and even Decatur, in the dim ind
misty distance, on the northern rim OF
prairies. See how those brown and sere
prairie pillows heaVe and swell and sink
Ike waVes Of the ocean, which once, IN
the ages long past, swept over them.
Turn now little northeast and see the
tip of the blue mound, that recsll5 the
era of the mound builders, an extinct
race, who by some unknown machinery,
heLped up these monuments to their sun
god. Like produces like, and now that
the sway OF Neptune has passed out with
these ocean waters, their trace is LEFT on
these prairies in their wave like forms
Blu leAbuEcS. NOW hUUus IaCc "CSb-
ward, and see for miles and miles the
tawny cross timbers loom up against the
horiznn ii 1t melts away into the blue
clouds. Here are the red lands aud the
gray loans and the chocolate and
the whitish sands that will
be the future fruit nurseries
and garden farms that are to feed the
great maWs of the mighty cities that the
black-WaXy soil of these prsiries are to
build as by magic under the ever incress-
ing demand for room for the fast multi
plying generations that are covering the
earth. Once more look scuthWard-see
the West Fork winding in and out of the
dark ground of brush and timber; WeaV-
| ing bright fringe OF silver braid on this
magnificent coat of nature. But the
| shades OF night are falling fast, and the
great shadows Of darkness begin to weave
their weird forms among the huge giant
trees below in the river bottom where we
are to descend. But before we turn to
go, there are two tall sentinels st "HaIls
Ranch" that catch our attention. What
are they7 Now I remember, that last
| fierce norther swept its blasts against
the kitchen fue OF the Hall
mansion, and in lees time than we
write it-Mrs. Hall and Volney are
fleeing for life out Of the house into the
bitter, piercing cold Of the morning, with
nothing saved, not even their wearing
apparel, and these chimneys, like Sher-
mans sentineIs marching through Geor-
gia, alone remain to mark the spot where
stood that well furnished farmhouse,
that elegant dining hall, the rich furni
ture and tapestry OF the parlor, even the
sweet -tonep piano that we heard not long
since laugh and moan under the sweep
OF q practiced hand; all, all gone, de-
voured By the fre-god. We rode through
the cleaning OF twilight to farm house
near the north line Of the county, and sll
wet and weary, called halt. Soon, with
Charities pants, so small, it is true, that
had to button up my coat to make fair
appearance around the good old-fash-
Toned log Are, I am welcome with
hearty, homely cheer, oil around.
Supper over the news and incidents OF
the day we're passed around the hearth
stone when 1t was not long till the arrest
Of the Burrow boys came in for its share.
Jim and Rube Burrow once lived and
loved and lead the life of honest farmer
boys in this neighborhood till the passion
for gain and greeds turned their plow
shares into bowie knives and six-shoot-
ers and them into robbers OF railroads..
eyes," said the old patriarch, 81
knowed them sll their lives, here and
back in old Alabama where they come
from; they was never Just right anyhow.
For I'll tell you fact, which you, maybe
know already, that there is as much in 8
stock of folks as in hogs or horses. Fl q
scrub jumps In your pen he is shore to
leave his sign. The Burrow blood was
all right but they WAS crossed with 8
stock thai wasn't and that's why they
went crooked"
sand don't you think" ssid the good
lady, "that Rube Burrow stopped in here
Jest after that robbery up on the Denver
at Sunset last ye.r, and set right there in
that chair, in that place right there, and
when Charlie was a-talkin' sgin them
robbers, RUDE he held up for 'em, and
when l said eff it had bin me and had
bin q man I'd a-shot some Of them
plagued Varmints that was agoin' through
that train slsppin' women in the face
and skeerin' the niger soldiers and chill
dren, when Rube, he Jared up, kinder
mad, like, and said something about Z
NAN named Jay Gould, and how as he
owned that train and had sH that money
was piled up sdoin' nobody no good, and
Il Gss about half right to sorter scatter
1t around aliKe End divide up things
and then he got SO mad he said
somethin' nigh onto cuss words or words
to that effect. noticed, too, he had Cd
oyeralls with old WORKOUT duckin', but
under it was fne-yes, the finest kind
Ter clothes. He didn't stay long, and
after he went l told my old man that
sounded mighty like b. WAS one of them
anarchy fellows thaJ thsy hung, or was
about that time agoin' to hang, up in Chi
csgo, an ef we had q had any good luck
with the crop last year we would a. bin
in danger of Rube, il We had any loose
change lynn around"
C. G. CUMMINGS.