Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-28
80 GAzETTE Fort woRrH. TExAs TIIuRsnAY dNp as

This rough and ready fiatterer ana
everyhody's friend
Politically roasts you while hen urf-
vately commend.
lie praises all the yoieia In the coun-
try round about,
Predicting fame immortal to every rus
tie lout:
Writes everything a paragon that
wears wOmnns frock.
Tho sporting vlsaEe tough enough to
stop an eight-day clock:
However. local taffy" 10 the thing by
measure sold
His briefest "eaitoriai' you can not
buy for gold,
The ''ne'er-do-weli" with elbows pro-
truding through the rents
OF threhdbare coat and linen. when
finally he scents
A Job 70 drive delivery and grocers
Accepts q line position In merohanta
counting room"
The sleesy corner grocsr-o. Ananias,
wheel
You'd piss without snspectlng FAM
GUS merchant pllncer
The callow prtufoagtr. whose ways
and means are dark
Is Rising Young Attorney who's
bound TO mako his marki"
He praised his townsmcn living. wrote
dirgas for them dead
Their faults and fotbles hidden TO show
their worth instead
Did homciy daughter marry worthless
son and heir
A douhle-column leader rehcarsed
the grand afiairr'
When money panics threatened rell-
antly he stood.
Accepting legal tender Ia garden
truck" or wood.
And melons, s1uAsh and pumpkins
were coined when ut the mint
or lmpccunious Hardup who ran the
ready print"
He wrestled with hard fortune for
many weary years,
And doomed the town and county, un-
needing jibcs and 1cers
He watched the atragglirg shantles to
stately mansions change,
And fertile farms and meadows usurp
the old free range"
He advertised the country, hut dld the
poorer grow,
Till townsmcn, all deridlng him az
''fogyish and Slow
Induced y steam-power paper In n
stylish primer drese.'
To strike the burgh supplanting his
Washington hand press.
lHti AuAhN riNNh Nl lflH Olb lONt ~
patronize the new,
And debtors lodged the sanctum and
friends grew cold ana few;
As still tho times grew harder he hoped
FOR better days.
And laid" 10 catch subscriber, who
stops but never pays,
One day u. Linquent settling up, the
editor did cry,
"ThIs last straw breaks the camern
back. but, bark you, when die
The column rules turn over and keep
my m smory green,
For epitaph write 'noomer.' and sign
the Same Has Beeng
The secretary said that Or, ]. II.
Cranfiil of Waco. who was 20 hnve de-
livorcd an Grafton, was called to Waco.
much TO the DOCTORS regret,
j. c. Rankin of the Brcnham Ram
ner read n paper entitled "In How
Small Town VIII q Paper Payg'
The reading Of other papers was
postponed.
r. N, Johnston offered the following
resolution;
'Whercns, II Is believed that the
best and truest interest OF this organ
ization be subsorved by eliminating
the seemingly all-domlnHnt excursion
idea; therefore. be II
Resolved. that It be the wish OF this
association thnt no general excursion
be prepared or solicited for the next
two years; or at least That the cNour-
sion ldea be eliminated from the asso-
citation sessions"
Nj. Johnston's resolution brought on
lengthy discussion, and at nrst the
resolution was made special order
OF business for this morning, but was
nnally adopted, and then a motion pre-
vailed that n be recOnslderrd today.
II was after 7 o'clock In the evening
before the convention adjourned until
$50 o'clock this morning.