Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
WHY'S AND WHEREFORES.
A Piece OF Literature Bearing Directly
Upon the Commission Bill.
Why All the Petitions Presented in the House
Have Had a Uniform Heading "A
Scribe's Valuable Baggage.
A sEcRET cIRcuIAR.

sECRER CIRCULAR.
! Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Tx, Feb. 13.-An interest
ing piece of literature, bearing upon the
commission bill, fell into my hands the
other day. 1t is as follows:
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE STATE)
FARMERS ALLIANCE OF TEXAS,
AUSTIN, lex, Jan. %, 1859.
Dear BrOther-I herewith enclose you
number of petitions to the Legislature
urging the passage of railroad commits
sion law. The time has certainly come
when the people IS wish shall be respect
ed, and it behooves US to be vigilant I'M
til the battle is won Spare no pains to
| secure as many names to these petitions
as possible, and return them to me-
Distribute them among the people of your
county where they will receive prompt
attention. This is fight of the people
for posterity! Put your best energies
III the fight.
The bill will be up for action early in
February, and what you do will have to
be done quickly. Yours fraternally,
Signed SAM FL. DIXON,
Secretary.
This accounts for the fact that the petit
tions presented in the house concerning
the commission bill have had a uniform
heading, fact that has been several
times remarked during the debates. Mr..
Dixon, the secretary of the committee
appointed by the alliance to manage the
legislature, is a clerk in the office of
Commissioner Foster.
A NEWSPAPER MANS BAGGAGE.
There is q member of the press gang
now on duty in this city who never lets
pass an opportunity to tell joke on him
self or anybody else. The last few days
he has been telling one on himself that is
particularly good. A few years ago the
scribe was in Houston and was invited to
come to Austin with party Of ladies and
gentlemen in a private car. When he
arrived at the depot he found that ne had
left his grip at the hotel Beng just full
enough to feel good he thought here was
a good chance to make reputation. So
he walked up and down the platform
snorting and gnashing his teeth, and de-
claring that he could not go on without
his trunk, which contained his dress
shirts and collars and neck
ties, besides number of other clothes,
too valuable to be lost and too necessary
TO, be left behind Finally one of the
officials of the road had the
train held and sent up for the journal
list s baggage. When the messenger re-
turned the scribe was seated with two
ladies talking in a lordly manner that
struck his hearers with considerable
awe. The messenger walked in, set
down one OF those small grips with a
long, shoulder strap with the remark,
g there s your baggage, sir. - The
scribe went on talking in d yoluble man.
ner, hoping the ladies would not notice
the significant manner in which the |
words were spoken. If they failed to
notice it they were not long to remain in
ignorance, for one of the male members
of the party, who understood matters,
walked up to say something, got his foot |
square on the grip and mashed it as fat |
as founder. The ladies caught on, and
their hardly repressed merriment plainly
showed in their faces. The scribe;
however, was equal to the /
emergency. Looking INTO the faces of |
his companions for moment he coolly |
reached down, took up the satchel, |
calmly opened it-disclosing two collars |
and one sock-blew through it, shook it |
to straighten out the sides, closed it and |
calmly set it back. One of the ladies |
then tied it to the seat to keep it from |
blowing out the window.
NOTES AND PERSONALS.
The new furniture is being rapidly put |
in and the capitol will soon be in harmony |
throughout.
Representative Carwlle of Cass is the |
ladies man of the house. He can talk |
to more pretty girls and at the same |
time keep a good lookout for the inter
ests of his constituents than any other
man in the house. Cone johnson, the |
handsome young senator from Smith, is
his only equal in the whole body.
The friends of a constitutional con-
vention are still at work, and the senti-
ment in favor of a new constitution is |
growing. The fact is that the passage of
a great many necessary measures is pro-
hibited by the constitution and the mem
bers are beginning to appreciate the need
of an instrument better adapted to the
needs of a growing state like Texas.
GEO. BYRNE.
Beecham's Pills act like magic on weak stom-