Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-31

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WHAT HE FOUND IN THE HEDGE
was much pleased with your suggestion
that people from The older states might do
good work for Texas in settling here and
teaching Texans better ways by example,
while at the same time they would be doing
Il good work for themselves BY becoming
citizens of Il good country. | have been
here about two yearS-came from Ohio
and while | find the Texas people 4 good
deal behind i'll point of general information
also find them apt scholars and entirely
willing to learn, as You intimate. In many
localities you ind people so pulled up with
seif-importance that they Will not admit Il
want of knowledge though 1t be ever so
plainly stamped upon them, but the Texas
people appear, as Il rule, TO be much clearer
of this Objectionable disposition than IS
usually the case, especially IN new coun-
try. In my opinion YOU have much 70 gain
from an encouragement OF Northern peo-
pie to settle among you, additionally TO that
gain which must arise from having the
country settled up. BUCKEYE.
Fort Worth. Tex.
We can fully agree with our correspond
ent in everything stated save that the
Texas people are "a good deal behind in
point Of general information. " They may not
be entirely up to what would be considered
general information in Ohio or any other
Northern state so far as relates to the local
affairs of those states, but when 1t comes to
understanding Texas local affairs we think
them entirely up to the average of any
other section. The fact of our not happen
ing to know all about everything in Ohio is
no good reason for supposing that We don't
know a good deal about very many things
in TeXas-even things that the Ohioan Just
arrived don't know as much about as there
is to know. It strikes US that the average
Ohioan and the average Texan are about IL
the same boat as to local information. and
that each might be the others teacher TO
about the same extent.
We have plainly seen cropping out in not
a few strangers 4 good deal of this notion
that native Texans are comparatively igno-
rant, and we have also noticed a good deal of
the thing that our correspondent calls
''puffed up though we shall not be per-
sonal enough to state on which side we have
seen its greatest development. a little Incl
dent that came to our knowledge at Fort
Worth last summer may be mentioned as
applicable in some way or other, an opening
being left for the reader to make such appii-
cation as best suits him.
We have in Texas little insect of the
yellow jacket character that, instead of
nesting in the ground after the manner of
yellow jackets up North, hangs its nest
among low bushes. It is lively singer,
and represents a species never seen North.
So much by way of introducing the subject.
A gentleman from one of the Northern
states had lately located with his family in
Fort Worth. a citizen was paying him a
friendly call, and the two Were walking
over the premises, the gentleman from the
North telling the citizen all about every
thing and the citizen listening attentively,
but mainly in silence. There was in the front
yard an ornamental privet hedge, and as they
were passing near it the gentleman from
the North saw something among the bushes.
1t appeared TO be about the size of q hat
crown. but being somewhat afflicted with
near sightedness, ne could not make out ex-
actly what it looked like at mere passing
glance. Not feeling willing to betray any
lack of general information he made no
reference to the discovery, but SO soon as
the citizen was gone he turned out to inves-
tigate It appeared to be something the
likes of which he had never seen before, so
he parted the hedge and deliberately
plucked it and started it towards his face in
quest of better focus. Just then an I'M
preston seized upon him that his women
folks, having got q fiat-iron too hot, had
put it out in the hedge TO cool; then he
thought it might be a small circular buzz
saw in full motion; then it dawned upon
him that raw thunderbolt had concealed
itself OF his premises, and finally his heart
fairly sank within him as he arrived at the
conclusion tlfit he had found steam boiler
under the inf uence OF high gauge Of steam
and had carsf essly pulled OFF the end Of it.
That Texa could have told him all about
Guinea wasps' nest in few words.
THE CHINCH BUG.
Some of as farmers IN this neghborhood