Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-01

which kiss the skies and then around
abrupt turns and sudden step-offs, until
1t requires uncommon courage 10 ride on
such road. Over such Il road BOD
pounds Is the extreme limit OF weight
that can he pnt on a mule. Well, Shep-
ard took a notion ho wanted plano.
He got II. He had it shipped to Mazat-
Ian which Is on the Pacific coast, whore
100 MeAicans met IT, The piano was
boxed so that fifty men could get hold
ON II and they carried il. There being
i've crews, each relieved the other ut
short intervals. but there We're many
places on the road where the path was
too narrow for passage ani turns so alb
rupt that the piano couldn't he carried
around. Where such places occurred
the caravan stopped until the road could
be made wide enough to- pass. or the
abrupt turns rounded off. III some places
a new road had to be built entirely
Sometimes the piano was not moved an
inch In several days. Well sir; how long
do you suppose 1t required 20 make
that tIip-a distance of 200 milesi Just
three months, lacking a few days. How
much did It costI Oh, l don't know
but IT bet il is the most expensive pinno
In existence should guess, though.
that II cost him nearly $1,000. Here's
another instance Of tlp abandon with
which Shepard spends money. As | told
you the usual mountain road in the In.
terror of Mexico Is rough In the extreme.
Wei, shepard didn't like this, so he set
whole army of men at work building
a wagon road around mountain sides for
u distance OF nearly seVenty-hve miles,
This rOnd cost about dozen small
sized fortunes, but Shepard has mine
that produces faster even than he can
spend Il. Then Shepard conceived the
idea of connecting all his mines ny tun-
ncls. He did It. and now he eau ride
nearly ten miles under ground on his own
railroad train, whose path is lighted by
electricity. Shepard has all his kith and
Kin with him. including several sons-in-
law, grandchildren and their equipments.
Its great life he lives, and so long as
he can conceive some method by which
he can be eStravagant, he'll be happy"
Loungers about the Pickwick yesterday
afternoon were RECALLED with an extremely
lively political discussion which became
so heated that harsh words we're uttered
and passed unnoticed. 50 great was the
excitement II started very amiably
Two gentlemen, one an adherent OF Gov.
Elogg, aud the other from Colorado
hence of no party In particular. were
discussing general conditions, when, OF
NeutoNt AhN NNhftANlAluH hNlAAti ~ tut
subject Of silver, The two gentlemen
were unanimous on every proposition. in
Guiding u bitter deuunciation Of President
Cleveland, so the converse ton was very
amiable, 1t did not remain so long
though. A gentleman who held q posi-
ton ON one Of Mr.. Clark's committees
sauntered up aud from that moment The
ball WAS opened, 50 10 speak. The dis
cussion OF silver and Of kindred subject:
was spirited indeed and II grew IN inien
sity with each moment As IL 10 al,
fuel 10 the flame men continued 70 GROVE
around and each one had bitter sen
teuee which he wished to plump down II
the midst Of the constantly gr0wini
crowd, Every one talked at oice an,
had for his audience only himself, 10
| every man wac intent ON what his owl
tongue war6led. Wei. Il MAS a veritabl
/ Babel. TO Ing IN Stereotypei sentence
| "pauOlemonium reigned' Every bod
shouted and arms swept through the al
| ~ aholt the same manner that thOus
and electric fans would, We're each on
| drunk. IL was a side shoN. indeed. an
! i had a big house" The audience wa
dispersed by a polleeman's sephulchuru