Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-07

object TO mosquitoes. The Almighty
evidently intended them for some
wise purpose and do not presume to hint
they have not as much right to existence as
have, but still prefer their room to their
| company, and can worry along through life
just as well il they don't present their bill
with such provoking frequency. l don't
| like bills, anyhow.
A travelling freight agent was in the
city the other day and told
me the following story on Col
Charles r. Berry, assistant general freight
agent of the Maple Leaf. / won't give the
travelling freight agents name, becadse 1
| don't want to be the means OF causing
| trouble, and Col Berry is rS1ed for his
cory inclinations. Those who know Charlie,
are aware of the fact that he is voracious
pie-eater, and frequently lies awake at
night In order 10 study out scheme by
VIII oh he can get more pie, as well
as freight In the pursuance OF that de-
lightful American occupation MIR. Berry
| had occasion in downtown restaurant
yesterday TO have an experience with the
impertinent waiter, whose kind is all too
numerous here.
What kind of pie have your" inquired
MIR. Berry
Apple, peach, pumpkin, apricot, black
berry, cranberry, raspberry, strawberry,
cream, custard, lemon, grape, squash, sweet
potato; and so on TO end of the walters
list.
Livery man who has ordered pie in res
t. rant knows how the waiter answers. He
lcks his head up in the air aud talks faster
than chained lightning, and as indistinctly
as possible. About all that Mr.. Berry
heard was peach and when the waiter
had ratified Off the list he said:
"A piece of peach
Away dashed the waiter, and after an
almost interminable wait ne came back
with a whole tray full of pie and with u
bill for sixty cents. He said that Mr..
Berry had ordered "a piece OF EACH
a man stopped under my tree and said:
'Why cont you roast the police?" After
a series of skillful questions l found the
aforesaid man had gone down into the Third
ward the other night and had made a
fool Of himself and the police had shown
sufficient temerity 10 put stop 20 that de-
igntful avocation. When YOU see man
who wants 4 newspaper to ''roaStn the po-
lice force you will generally find man who
has put himself outside the pale of the law
as by the city ordinances made ana pro-
vlded, and wants the newspapers to assist
him in yeniug his spleen while
he is safely screened behind the press. d. I
told him The GAZETTE was not published
grievances, real or fancied, of any individ
ual. and referred him to a sheet published
in Kansas City that makes practice OF
delving in filth. -
! see by the dispatches that Lon Bulling,
who murdered his wife in 81. Joseph, Mo,
in the summer of 1857, has finally met his
Just deserts and went to his death Shrek
ing, cursing and disappearing even as he
shot through the trap. dying as he had
lived d contemplate, cOwardly cur. His
crime was one of the most foul and cow
ardly known in the annals of crime. He
was caught before the body of the young
wife, whom he had debauched and after
wards married IN the police court to
avoid penitentiary sentence. had
vet stiffened in death. There
was not the shadow Of II
doubt in his case, vet ne was allowed TO live
for over four years, and caused the state of
Missouri TO expend thousand of dollars in
finally bringing him to the scatfold. i am
not calloused Or blood-thirsty, but believe
in the old doctrine of Il life for L lite. He
who wantonly and with malice afore-
thought, coolly and premeditatedly
takes the life of human being,
and the evidence is direct and without
4 chance of disproving, should die the
death. -
I heard 4 good story on a new fireman
who made his first trip on one of the roads
the other day. He was sent out on an en-
CINE pulling way freight, and had managed
TO keep up steam pretty well, though being
unfamiliar with the use of the blower he
sometimes allowed the cab TO get filed
with gas when he opened the
the iirebox door. All went well until at a
way station something occurred TO cause
the engine TO stand for few moments on Il
sdetrack He had her hot and of course
she began popping" Mr.. Fireman did
not walt 70 see what was the matter, but
Id ,al, =
the crew were unable to move for fully five
minutes, so conyulsed were they with
laughter -
Speaking of railroad men reminds me of
the new railroad mems club. This is a
move in the right direction, and l am glad
to see the men in all classes of the service
taking an interest in il. II IS most demo-
cratic project. There are no ariStocrats in
it. Every man who earns his bread
and butter III mail, express, or rail-
road service is eligible to membership,
rs are also the employees of the Union de-
pot and the news agents on trains. The
Fort Worth railroad club Will be au institu-
ton of which the city may we'll feel proud.
The railroad men fully appreciate the ad
vantage it will be TO them and are very en-
thusiastic in the movement.
The most sensible statement 1 have
heard lately is from 4 gen
tleman who had somehow IN
Willingly incurred the enmity of the
anonymous correspondent of a dtsreputable
Kansas City sheet and had been roasted
in consequence. He said: Il have always
been taught when a cur banks at me to pay
no attention to it. Barking dogs never
bite, and people who know me viii not be-
heve the assertions made in that sheet.
The man who will act Us correspondent for
such publication is unworthy the notice
usually accorded a SnJrliug cir -
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