Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
ABOUT TERRELL, TEX.
If You Want to Gather the True Facts
About Terrell Run Your rye Down
This Column.


TERRELL. Ten. Sept. 3.-There are a
great many things about Terrell Won won't
lind elsewhere. There are great many
things in Terrell YOU don't find in Terrell.
Some Of these we want; some of them we
would like never to have. Anything in
humanity that tends to immoralize and
bIulalize is, as Il general thing, something
we don't want. But we want the reverse.
There are AL over this country plenty Of
churches and schoOIhouseS, and we are not
h;nkeriug for an element that viii cr'ipple
the church or education, make men worse
and stop honest labor You say, that's
what everybody SAYS everyyvhcrc. Not
bit of it. old sore. You gather every bum.
loafer. popcorn peddler, millionaire. pauper
every one YOU can make 4 nickel out of,
bring him 10 town, yet his last mite and
turn him loose with 'gidcut he err"
Before taking. You outsmile Il donkey. and
after taking YOUR one smile will make pint
of vinegar. Oh YOU swceI-sceutcd. Canter-
ing dandy We know YOU for Terrell has
had many scab Of your kind. You will
paint the shailoweSt dry branch a beautiful
river banks carpated with lovely grass and
understanding flowers growing in surplus
abundance honey-dew dripping from every
leaf: lovely music from every bough: the
sweet songster sings its lullaby to the tiny
birds, while the healtll-giving brcezes flush
the cheek, brighten the eye ana intellect
until You are rene wed ten years younger
fifty pounds fatter, and happy as 4 Niger
in melon patch. Get out Terrell hasn't
anything akin 10 that. Your beautifuss
river goes dry in the winter time, .;Jlsia<sfth
u the rise the tadpoleS allslsassec6S have
10 wash OFF before taasrstsr rray wolf will
drink. OtheEsssaiAs in proportion, and you
can cousssSFS0 every time.
,s,eesfare, stranger if you are looking for
Mat kind of u LAYOUT don't come this way.
for we are not the kind of folks to stop
with When folks come visiting mere they
sometimes bring their knitting, the young
est baby or something else to keep from
feeling lonesome and get things ready for
the rainy gay No, we don't deal in all
that trash. We are away high up in the
altitude and there are no beautiful runnin"
brooklets around here for ten or fifteen
miles, ard vet We have a respectfully good
crop Of mosquitoes. We have as good var
iety Of land as any of them, as well of in
health, morals education and general nat
ural advantages, but PIGS have tails, men
and women get old, houses and horses wear
out and all this here about Terrell. And
then we have to work or do worse. We
have something TO brag on il the way of
good country, but it is no paradise. In the
summer time it gets hot here and men have
10 work in the sun. and when the winter
comes our toes are often pinched with cold,
and though our winters are mild, the north
wind hurts all the same. There are many
things YOU would be taken with, but we
have learned long ago that il is best 10 tell
the truth about Terrell. and then if we get
farmers and others to locate here they viii
stay. If they come in bag of wind
some woodpecker will soon peck the
softness from them, and they then spread
themselves abroad like poor innocent pan
cake. To all such we say, look out for
woodpeckers.
We can't say much this time. because il
is near time 70 grabblc COOLERS and dig
potatoes in the sandy land but we Just
want all incomers 10 look with two eyes be-
fore getting q home and then YOU are apt
to stay till the tadpoles learn 10 sing
And now about those pumpkins raised on
the ASYLUM farm. We've fixed it." as old
Uncle John r. Smith used to say. We've
sroilt the broth by not putting in the sea
soning. Won have TO make another pot
and pat in the ..greediments.' Here it is:
On those two acres they raised 1900 pump
kins and seventy bushels OF corn. The
pumpkins the broth and the corn the sea-
soning. We forgot about the corn. and DR..
Preston moved TO amend and we amended
quickly. Wei, now, YOU folks who have
every inch good land for a thousand miles
in every direction. will say that's nothing,
and viii beat il two to one. That's all right.
but we are glad we can do that well. There
is no stufing in this pumpkin and corn bust