Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-03
ABOUT TERRELL, TEX.
If You Want to Gather the True Facts
About Terrell Run Your Eye Down
This Column.


great many things about Terrell you won't
| find elsewhere. There are a great many
| things in Terrell you don't find in Terrell.
/ Some OF these we want; some of them we
would like snever to have. Anything in
| humanity that tends to immOralize and
brutalize is, as general thing. something
we don / want But we want the reverse.
| There are all over this country plenty OF
churches and schoolhouses, and we are not
| haukering for an element that will cripple
| the church or education, make men worse
and stop honest labor. You say, that
what everybody says everywhere. Not
bit of it, old sore. You gather every bum,
loafer, popcorn peddler millionaire, pauper,
every one you can make nickel out OF,
bring him TO town, get his last mite and
turn him loose with ''gidout. he'er"
Before taking. you outsmile a donkey, and
after taking your one smile Will make a pint
of vinegar. Oh, YOU sweet-scented, cantar-
ing dandy. We know you, for Terrell has
had many a scab of YOUR kind. You will
paint the shallowest dry branch beautiful
river, banks carpcted with lovely grass and
understanding flowers growing in surplus
abundance, honey-dew dripping from every
leaf: lovely music from every Dough; the
sweet songster sings its lullaby to the tiny
birds, while the health-giving braczes flush
the cheek brighten the eye and intellect
until you are renewed ten Years younger,
fifty pounds fatter, and happy as Niger
in Il melon patch. Get out! Terrell hasn't
anything akin to that. Your beautiful
river goes dry in the winter time, and NlsA
in the rise the tadpoles and frog eSS64flve
to wash off before the old g.ag5sFolf will
drink. Other things in pSas61son, and you
can count it so every. A}sn
See here, strausxWT you are looking for
that kind QIyEssayOut don't come this way,
for ws.sfot the kind Of folks TO stop
U.,s6a~Nhcn folks come visiting here they
sFrmctimes bring their knitting, the young
est baby or something else to keep from
feeling lonesome and get things ready for
the rainy day. No, we don't deal in all
that trash. We are away high up in the
altitude, and there are no beautiful running
brOokIetS around here for ten or fifteen
miles, and yet we have q respectfully good
crop of mosquitoes. We have as good var
iety of land as any of them. as well off 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 or in 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,
aud 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 II IS best TO tell
the truth bout Terrell, and then if we get
farmers and others to locate here they will
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 pam
cake. To all such we say, look out for
wOOdpeckerS
We can't say much this time, because it
is near time TO Crabble COOLERS and dig
potatoes in the sandy land, but we just
want all incomcTS to look with two eyes be-
fore getting home, and then YOU are apt
to stay till the tadpoies learn to 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
spoilt the broth by not putting in the sea-
soning. Wen have TO make another pot
and put in the ''greediments. Here 1t Is:
On those two acres they raised 1900 pump
hins 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. Well, row, you folks who have
every inch good land for thousand miles
in every direction, will say that's nothing,
and will beat it two to one. That's all right,
but we are glad we can do that well. There
is no stuffing in this pumpkin and corn bust
ness; sure enough truth.
But, say, you can't do that well all over
these parts. There are sorry lands, sorry
enough for any purpose. The average
though is excellent. We don't want You
to go wild over this, but come and see for
yourself, and if your ecstacy runs you crazy
VII just have you put in the asylum, where
YOU can work the pumpkin patch to your
hearts desire.
Now. as our neighbor said, we are going
to "kulminate dis meetin'." We hang out
our invite TO all who are able to take care Of