Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-26

during canal days. il turned out at m
unexpected moment tina this ward was
COMPOSED oil Patients boin aAd urcu ~
Africa They arose ~ onc man. lhelr
oonyalesccnce was almost unanimous and
ai once. They had been talking African
10 one nnothpr while The sisters were
str0king their hrows The sisters thought
they had fever and were out OF thelr
heads They were not They We're
talking African "a one another. AT the
signal they took up their bcds and
walked. 'rhrv walked through all the
wares in sight They laid low widows
and children slew the dclrious, and
left a track of carnage iu their wake.
OF course this Is too serious 20 De light
about, but for the sake of truth II be-
h0oves me 10 say that when the Africans
had finished their work they were {. y
resi- were dead This Is still talked Of
in Panama this massacre u the other
patients by the conyalcscing Africans
Many such salient black marks blur
the great face Of the Panama scheme, as
u might hive been shaped 10y honest
hands, but the wrinkles are coming out
tnst enough Ia America aud Paris.
LAND or OVERLOOKING RICHES.
The fact remnlns that this continent
Of Central aud South America is rich IN
fortunes for young men who dare to
chase the innin chance here The fever
Of the sthmus Is but an accumulation Of
the richness Of the soil. There Ia nm
over richness. The richness Oyertlows In
nauseOus fever Every thing IL rich both
In grace aud color The sea is richer
than those seas along our harbors. for
each wave seems 10 be wrcathed with
rainbow and the foam lace falls over lis
lima LIZ. III. Ii,
mantilla, while ON itY white crest IL has
a curling plume: the summer sea Is frat
grant with the breath Of romance: the
sky seems to b. flower garden blossom
ing with stars: the dawn IL stately with
Sirius climbing the ladder of the sky;
the moon ia crescent comes up along
side keen rs "a scythe: the southern
"A heart TO my eyes that somehow cling
10 southern skics the sun lifts its great
hand and sweeps IL with waking thrill
across the cool. gray brow uf sleep
What a procession. Followed, too, 10y
that sky soft aud blur-that deep. cool
blue Of boby's eye. The sunset. The
sunset must be- Keen from the wall around
Pupaina over Chirqui prison. The old
wall stragglcs all the way around this
quaint old burg. After the band and
bellies are gone from the plaza under.
meath this wall. when the fever has
passed un the cheek Of day. you see the
cool. tender sunset The sunset which Is
the blush of Erlhuod under the first nm.
certain. startling tirill OF love: the blush
% a peach half warmed to riponcss: that
mngling of uink aud rose and ash and
lava and 20 many cOlors that rush pcll
NELL, dcfying analysis, into q soul that
loves the beautiful. You cannot call that
sky by cOlors; you must call IL by notes
those note Chat come as ii FROM a
moonlight mandolin of years gone by; us
u from thnt sang your lullnhys be-.
fore those lips were hushcd: as II from
music somewhere unseen but so loving
aud close 90 you. The sky Of Panama
at sunset on the wall is q bpnedictiou on
all that city's sins.
SUNSET.
Underneath the wall the demons of
Chiriqui prison, Just at your feet. crawl
on their bellies In dungeons: the towns
checks dimplc with twilight lamps. the
sea sweeps up against the beach with a
Kind OF endless hoarseness: the port"
aud "stnrbOard' lights twinkle from the
steamships ia the bay. aud the great
coral rocks lie Dat and broad and blark
and sheentul against the moonlight. like
so many heavy monsters of the sea; from
Romeo and Juliet balcony OF the town
comes that summer tinkling sprinkle of
dancing notes and laughter The sun.
SET ~ gone. The reason and the con
science Of Panama are at last oalerp
torgettlh of the fact that the harp will
murmut OF cen when the hand that
swept It's chords 10 still"
No II *, my readers, that the strings
that were pulled 10 the olden dime nre
now making music for the great De
Lesscps aud his lesser brethren
The. cackllng of jacks hen has nj last
walked mp Tie giant
WILLIAM EDMUND CHRISTIAN.
SWINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE