Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-01
About Terrell Run Your Eye Down
This Column.

TERRELL TEX, Aug. 31.-There are 4
| great many things about Terrell you won't
| find 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
| brutalize is, as Z general thing, something
| we don't want But we want the reverse
| There are all over this country plenty of
| churches and SchoolhOuses, and we are not
| hankering for an element that will cripple
| the church or education, make men worse
! and stop honest labor. You say, that's
what everybody says everywhere. Not 4
! bit of 1t, 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 4 'gidout he'er,'
Before taking, YOU outsmile a donkey, and
after taking your one smile willmake apint
of vinegar. Oh, you sweet-scented, cantcr-
ing dandy. We know you, for Terrell has
had many q scab of your kind. You will
paint the shalowest dry branch beautiful
river, banks carpeted 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-giviug brcezeS flush
the cheek, brighten the eye and intellect
until you are renewed ten years younger,
fifty pounds fatter, and happy as a Niger
in d melon patch. Get out! Terrell hasn't
anything akin to that. Your beautiful
river goes dry in the winter time, and when
in the rise the tadpoles and freq eggs Aseser
to wash off before the old gray .sSssff will
drink. oGher things in gseeess6h, and You
See here, stssytef, # you are looking for
that kiSStsfa layout don't come this way,
iaSsse are not the kind of folks to stop
VIZ har
sometimes 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
brooklets around here for ten or fifteen
miles, and yet we have respectfully good
crop of mosquitoes. We have as good az
iety ST 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. aud all this, here about Terrell. And
then we have to work or do worse. We
have something to brag on in the way of
good country, but it is no paradise. In the
summer time ii gets hot here and men have
to 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
y
have learned long ago that it is best to tel
the truth about Terrell, and then if we get
farmers ana others to locate here they will
stay. If they come in on a bag OF wind
some woodpecker viii 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 it
is near time to grabble COOLERS and dig
potatoes in the sandy land, but we just
want all incomers to look with two eyes be-
fore getting home. and then YOU are apt
TO stay till the tadpoles 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
spoit the broth by not putting in the sea
soning. Wen have TO make another pot
and put 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. Well, now, 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 ara sorry lands, sorry
enough for any purpose. The average
though is excellent. We don't want you
to 90 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 Illuminate dis meetin'n We hang out
our invite TO all who are able TO take care of
themselves, and now and then chop 4 few
rounds for his neignbor, to come along and
see which way the chips fly. Can't make
you any promises that Will do you any good
unless you try to help yourselves. We are
not going to tell you what to do, either. but
we would like to see you look at the country
with Your own eyes and not through some
other fellows specs.
There have been few here and they
smole smiles and wink winks when they
saw the sights. They find 4 better country
than they looked for and they find that the
truth sticks like a tack. We want you to
come. provided you are the sort that can do
the straight business all along And, if
there are any questions you wish TO ask
just write TO the city secretary, Terrell,
Tex, and he will tell you what little he
knows. But we advise everybody to look
out for woodpeckerS, and keep your eyes
''skun'' when the sharper tackles you.