Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-17
THE MAN UNDER A TREE.

am weary of hearing fellows talk about
its being so awfully hot With the Their
mOmeter in South Dakota coQuetting coyly
with the 102 degree mark, it has thus far
failed to register over SO degrees in Fort
Worth. Besides, at those Northern re-
sorts the atmosphere is moist, and a moist
neat is much more oppressive than dry
one. to say nothing of the fact that we
Texans always have a cool breeze. while up
there the very air seems Guivering with
heat, and not Il breath of air fans the
leaves on the trees. Lake Minnetonka is
all right, but Corpus Christi is d much
pleasanter resort, and more accessible and
cheaper for Texans than the Pride of Min
nesOta. -.
| see the authorities are not breaking
their necks TO any great extent III eliIniuat-
ing the weeds that bloom in the fall There
are not many around the city, it is true, but
II is all the easier to keep them killed out if
they are not allowed to go to seed and
spread. l have no desire to appear hyper
critical, but | am proud of Fort Worth and
her appearance, and ''out of the fullneSS of
the heart the mouth speaketh.'
Byron was a great poet. In fact, think
he easily ranks among the foremost of those
who have become famous for their writings
of song and story. Byron, in his Don Juan,
says: MANS love is Of mans life, thing
apart; tits woman's whole existence but
Byron evidently lived in an age when the
letters of matrimony We're more SOlidly
riveted than at present, and divorce courts
not SO easy of access, else he might have
claSSed woman'S love with that of man. in q
great majority of cases. / think the mar
1iage state should not be entered into with
out calm and serious consideration. and the
legal age should be put at twenty-five in the
man and twenty-five in the woman. This
n largo M, of
alliances, now so common. Men and women
would have arrived at years of discretion,
and the fires OF puppy love would not burn
out in few months, leaving only ashes on
the hearth and causing years OF domestic
imfelicity. The divorce courts would have
little to do, more especially if those con-
templating matrimony knew the bonds
could only be severed by death, but the
lawyers must live, and next to a murder
case, the averge attorney is looking eagerly
for divorce suit. There's more money in
it. -
have been told the city can't afford to
appoint night sergeant of police at the
station. But it seems to a man under Il
tree as though there were other offices in
the city government, the duties of which
are merely nominal. that could readily be
dispensed with. This is an Office which
would not only facilitate the work of the
police force but would add greatly to the
efficiency of the service. The present force
is hardly large enough to cover the city
properly, and if the council could stop chew
the the rag about the waterworks or some
other remarkable scheme in the future, and
give Chief Maddox and his men the aid they
need, Fort Worth would have the best
police service in the South. The present
council is too much inclined to save at the
spigot and leak at the bunghole,
i"
Professor Foster says that from August
% to September II the weather in the
Southern states will be simply torrid.
am personally acquainted with Foster. He
is Republican and a writer on the st.
Joseph MOI Herald He has not hereto
fore been known as harboring any ill-feel-
ing toward the South, and why he should
embrace this opportunity to roast the
South, l am at loss to know. Foster is
dyspeptic anyhow and probably his feel
ings at the time of making the forecast
We're agitated by a diSordered stomach
The South has been inclined TO believe all
Foster says, and he stands ace high in this
section, but few more breaks like that in
his forecasts of yesterday will result in a
rupture of the entente cordiale between he
and they, and the South will again be
solid -
The railroad men yesterday drew a sigh
of relief that was so broad and deep and
strong that it shook the entire state of
Texas. They h; been weeping and wall i
ing and predicting dire disasters to railroad
properties as the result of the commissions
work. Now the first tariff-a commodity
tarif-issued by the commission is out. 1t
is built upon mileage basis. and railroad
men are compelled to admit it is a just
tariff. -.
l see my old friend tGreenwall is making
a favorable impression in the dramatic
world. The Dramatic Times says:
81 am given to understand that Henry
Greenwall is going into the management of
road companies quite extensively after this
year. He now has an opera company, and
next year will have another, besides a
strong minstrel company Greenwall cuts an
figure. He is middle-aged
man with great deal of experience. He
changed theatricals in New Orleans, and
gave the old veteran, Dave Bidwell, lively
fight. Bidweli, before his death, controlled
everything in the Crescent City, Green
wall took hold of the Grand, which was
then morgue, and to-day there IS not
DETER paying theatre anywhere. Then he
built up the Texas circuit so that II is a
most profitable thing. Greenwal pays his
way with such promptness that he gets
things at half cost. He backs all his VEN
lures with money, is quiet in his talk, and
more in a day than many in weeks.
There is room for such man. Had we