Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-14

local or general conferences, with
presbyteries, in church and missionary
boards, indeed, with his bishop or arch
bishop; and the sohoolboy of ten strives
for q Fpull" with his teacher or
among the juvenile crowds whose affairs
comprise the most important consider
atoms of his daily life. The word has
been editorially deplored, assaulted and
numerically scourged and pursued, but
always comes out uppermost and goes
straight on in its sententious work and
uses with hardy knuokles and sturdy
legs. Like one of those grim and hardy
waits of the street that, homeless, par
entIess and without ancestry, pushes
himself, from the very aggressive power
of his usefulness, into position and place,
"pull may be now regarded as a nat
uralized American and important enough
i'll its hard-fisted place to deserve atten-
ton to its ancestry. Various philologists
have already written essays Civ
ing "pun'' distinctly American
origin. By the purest accident
of research upon another sub
ject l discovered this to be incorrect.
For its immediate parentage we must
charge its oblOquy, or credit its merits,
to the Irish. While recently in Ireland,
engaged IN an investigation upon certain
of its resources, l came upon an old work
entitled, GA Statistical Survey of Ros-
common, print at Dublin in 1882.
Among the quaint and interesting re-
citals of a local nature TO be found In
this "survey, - is an account of the rise
and fall of the Angina coal and iron COM
pany in 1924, known as the bubble
year, of English and Irish speculation;
and particularly of the remarkable
manipulations among London nobili-
ty and capitalists in nearly
successful effort on the part of an
Irish engineer, architect and builder
with the significant name of Flattery to
float Roscommon bog and hole in the
ground upon London investors for
81, 800, 900; Flattery's share of which
booty was to be 500 900. Although it
was uphill work, and eventually became
so glazing fraud that parliament in
vestigated and put a quietus upon the
scheme, the radiant enthusiasm of MIR.
Flattery found frequent vent, by letter,
TO his Roscommon friends. In one of
these, dated London, Nov. 80, 1924,
(Appendix p. x.) is found our
American "'pull' in all its robust
force of application and incisive-
ness. Mr.. Flattery writes: 81 have
not sighned anything for them-yet, tho
1 have humbuged them out of E25G, and
got them 70 send of the work of the en-
CINE, which comes to $1,000. 1 have now
pull on them and will make them do
whats rite.
The announcement of stanIey's en-
gagement of marriage to Miss Dorothy
Tenant, the London painter, will re-
call to the memory of older working
journalists of New York, his earliest
known dream of domestic bliss. His in
amorata was truly sweet Philadelphia
girl, daughter of well known family
of that city. 1t was q wonderful love
match, flaming gloriously along through
1867, '6S, ana '69, while Stanley was
ent and utility man on the New York
Herald. He was q furious
and ardent lover; kept the railway car
seats warm between New York and Phil
adelphia visiting his bethroted; and the
tame and the rest of his companions
among the old-time Herald boys wild
with his rosy schemes for future domestic
joys. The greatest source of their dis
comforture was in mis- perennial and gor-
geous architectural fancies. He drew
hundreds upon hundreds of plans, each
one for residence TO cost anywhere from
500, 200 to $500 900, though the generous
and improvident fellow seldom had more
than enough money on hand for ga
bowl at ''Cobweb Hall, - and before
he would mail these to his Philadelphia
sweetheart, as he almost daily did,
his set among the Herald
boys must Invariably examine and pass
judgment upon them. 'Going over to
discuss the changes in our future home, -
came to be the explanatory remark as
the party went into council. This was
something fearful on the other fellows,
all forgiven, however, for Stanley had
big heart for the fraternity; and he
would never forget his fellows, not he;
nor his lovely wife to be, not she. One
great, grand room was tohbe theirs for
evermore. Indeed the wonderful man.
sion was to be built all around this grand
room. 1t was to be filed with broad,
cool leather lounges. a great library
was to cover its walls. 1t should have
half dozen fire-places and at least a
dozen coy corners. Tables and all ma
terial for writing should be everywhere
yet nothing "shop-like' in sight.
There should be loads of splendid
rugs. a sideboard provided with such
galore of inspiration and wealth OF cI-
CARS as never was in any other man g
home should be there for his newspaper
friends. By George! they should eat,
drink, sleep and work there, if they
liked. In a word, it was to be, and be
called their ''Soul's Rest. -
This dream was broken in upon by his
African search for Livings stone. On his
return, the most famous man of his
time, in 1872, he found his betrothed
married and already a mother. The
"Soul IS Rest dream was done. The
heads of the old Herald boys are already
well silvered. The Philadelphia lady is
the mother of young men looking about
for wives themselves. And Stanley,
still hale and hearty, realizing his dream
in another way, with one woman who
could work and wait, Is 10 be a sort of
king of the vast Congo free state.
EDGAR L. WAKEMAS.