Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07

CRATE and settle in eleven different COM
+ ties and assume control OF as many papers
| from a blanket sheet 10 u fOur-page seven
! column weekly. all home print, with the
| early prospect Of u daily issue. One Young
| gentleman who announced himself as bust
| ness manager of Il growing weekly rashly
! promised two theater tickets per week, Il
| free pass on the railroad to mis- town and II
| position as cashier. if Edna would come
| prepared 10 invest 500 in a paying enter
| prise of legitimate worth and long eStab-
| lished reputation.
| Even the proof-reader ~ of a well-knovn
| daily forgot for the while the Fluctuations,
| transpositions indentatiOns and eXpungings
| incidental to the weary routine of his daily
| life and, figuratively speaking, threw him
| self, his experience, his talents and all his
! leisure time. at the feet Of fair Edna" but
| alas he wrote with 4 lead pencil and failed
| TO enclose a stamp.
A travelling man with Big Scheme"
| desired TO meet Edna face 10 face in order
| that, as he succinctly expressed it there
| mite be fare and square underStandin'
| about the profets."
Another one stranded. for the time being,
| in New York city considered his ''bisness
Notifications" worth the prize of ticket
| TO the advertisers home. Indeed from the
general tone of this letter it might be Incl
| dentally inferred that he would accept
| most any marketable commodity.
\ third knight of the grip had some bust
| ness in Edna's vicinity and would start i'm
| mediately providing he could be assured of
| 4 welcome from the fair advertiser herself
| and guarantee of board and lodging free
| during his stay. In short. travelling men
were well or badly represented and gave
pretty far evidence OF possessing Il suitable
quantity of that most necessary adjunct
| to financial success on the road-gall.
One horny-handed son of toll found time
| enough to spare from the craps in which
: to enter the arena as au applicant. and he
sent certified statement signed by two
competent witnesses and sworn TO before Il
justice of the peace that he. the writer,
was morally sober" (whatever that may
be-, a good provider. and was seized on,
possessed of, two bales of cotton unsold,
one wagon and two mules. In putting that
letter aside Edna felt thar she was missing
the one chance of her life.
Nearly every trade and position in life
was represented in the replies TO the per-
Sonal from the young lady OF nineteen with
means. Newspaper men and railroad
agents predominated. Whether this is be-
cause that particular class have more time
in which TO read and answer such adver-
tisements or not ! cannot say. but the fact
remains. Possibly the latter class, isolated
at some little country station with but one
train per day, are so overcome with lOneli-
ness as to become more easily accessible to
the wants OF young lady aged nineteen.
with means.
Real estate brokers'. merchants, conduc-
tors, mechanics, engineers. clerks, news
dealers. capitalists provided they secured
the capital county officials. lawyers ard
even preachers OF the gospel wrote TO
Edna.
Among the styles OF address might be
mentioned: Edna: Fair Edna; Dearest
Edna; excuse ny biusheSl NV Dear;
n
Stranger. (How paradoxical.) Sweet Adj
vertiser. and lastly, My Dear Young Lady.
And as that missive was from minister,
and mention no names or localities and
violate no confidence, l cannot refrain from
giving it entire.