New-York tribune., 1899-07-17
THE PASSING THRONG.

According 70 w. NJ Mitchell. OF Houston Te1,
who IS now staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. the
people OF Texas fully pre-
TEXANS ABLE pa~ed to look after all the fam
TO CARE For HES who have been reduced TO
THE UNFORT- poverty by the ravages OF the
UNATES. great fool There really Is not
as much actual suffering as one
might suppose from the reports said Mr.. Mitchell
Most Of those who were the heaviest losers are
persons Of some means. They are property own
ers. and foods do no great damage TO soil
II this nundation had come several weeks earlier
think It IL quite probable that another crop OF
cotton could have been raised. and even at this
late date there are many planters who Will try TO
get a second crop this season. Other products-lke
corn, for instance--can be replanted and matured
this season without difficulty.
Among the poorer classes and especially the
negroes. there has been real suffering. They are
ar imorovident lot. and when their shanties and
chicken houses were swept away and their little
garden patches ruined they had nothing to fali
back IN But Texans. ike all Southerners and
Weste 'ners are generous and warm hearted and
quick respond % cries OF distress. In this case
From he present outlook there will be danger
Of any one starving 10 death. The only trouble Is
people won't do a stroke OF work II there Is any
way at all OF getting out OF II, and the ndlscrim-
mate distribution Of provisions affords such unscru-
pulous persons an excellent opportunity 10 lie back
on their and let somebody else DO the rowing
81 have been all over this country ana IN many
others" said Harry II. Porter. Chicago drummer.
TO a Tribune reporter yes
THE IOr<E WAS terGay but had 10 come
NOT AS HE WISHED to New-York 10 get bun
coed and then
easy as any farmer. ! standing at Broadway
and Thirty-fourth-st the other night. waiting for
car when | noticed two fellows. about nifty feet
away. who were carrying on an animated discus
sion They looked to ike college boys and ap-
peared to have reached the exhiarating stage OF
intoxicatIon Every now and then they would look
az me and then fall 10 arguing again like a couple
of LAWYERS Finally they each pulled out roll OF
greenbacks and deposited several Of them with
bystander who was, TO all appearances, ;oiai
stranger 10 them The taller Of the two boys then
approached me and said with suppressed laugh;
Now don't you let on what am telling you but
II YOU Will do as say, We Will each make rev
dollars as easy as rolling of a log just bet my
friend over there 800 that could borrow fye-dol-
lar bin from you. You give me the bill-of course
we couldn't run away II wanted to-and III col
can't be any com game about this. II there were
ali YOU would have to do would De 10 yen cop
and We would be arrested pedorg ,o we nv friend
lesson lie is eternally wanting to pet; ,o,,n,
well. / always did believe In training young
men in the way they should 60 and' realizihs that
there was possibility for the par 10 escape s
even II they were crooks, gave the feIoW a nve- M
dollar bill. He took It with chuckle, walked pyss yer
ten-dollar bill still chuckling at the good Jone
on his friend pocketed the note ana oesah bodS 10
chucke little myself After wns m.ed "oe over The
affair that in my exurberance ! invited the par
tender to have drink. | paid for 1t with me ten-
dollar note and told the cashier the whole story,
What do you think about that for easy sain
Never anything Ike IT, repled t.e
cashier. But you lose That notes coun'efie"