The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-05-02
My Texas Trip Continued }
BY ESTELLE VEHSE.


Waco! beautiful city of the West,
salute you in the morning light,
beneath the swaying branches of
your tall pecan trees and the wide
spreading foliage of your live oaks!
The silvery waters of the Euphrates
flowed through the Garden of Eden !;
the emerald waters of the Brazos,
spanned by its lofty wire bridge,
flows through the Queen City ''un
der the. setting sun"
Waco is built upon plateau and
partially surrounded with an am
phitheater of hills; its long wide av
enues filled, on either side, with bus
mess houses, mansions, churches
and colleges; where only few years
ago the buffalo and Indian roamed
at will. In the distance rise the
wood crowned heights that overlook
the charming valley of the Bosque.
To the west rise gradually the roll
ing prairie, and from that point the
eye seemingly takes in the world !
We are but grains of sand between
the great blue above and the green
beneath, their edges mingling to
gether round the sweep of the vast
horizon.
AS l gaze upon this illimitable
grandeur and magnifcence, grow
dumb with ecstacy, and my soul
goes outward and upward to mingle
with the white winged clouds--be
lost like them in the warmth and ra-
dience of the exceeding glory that
flooded the heavens
There are a great many Tennes-
seeans in Waco. They gather
around me to hear from the friends
Of "Lang Syne." With look of au-
tumn in their eyes, and sad cadence
in their voices, "Where is Pr
"Deadw "What is - doing?
aDeadw "Does-still live in"
"Deadw All! me, how our hearts
throb with pain as the dead faces
whose names
chad been carved for many year
On the tomb"
pass in review before US. OH this
thing of death it makes everything
appear phantom like, and all we
would enjoy Gas ashes on the lip"
There is great cordially and
courtesy in Waco; and as much in
telligence as characterizes any town
of its population in the Union.
The Giles countians are numerous
all on the read to fortune and
greatness, happy and eontented in
their handsome houses. Aside
save few restless widowers and
bachelors that are now on the 9ui
viVe for the fair softly be it spo-
ken-who are to accompany the
party of Tennesseeans in May, to
the annual club dinner. Father
Time has dealt gently with these
beaux, scattering but little of his
silver upon their dark locks-put
ting an abundance in their pockets,
and all they need is the Questionable
blessing" to spend it for them in
pinbacks to bring them perfect con-
tentment (O have great sympa-
thy for the former class. The latter !!
well, if Ionly had a hand in making
the laws, wouldn't l make these
Sinking "birds of a feather" squirm
under their burden of taxation!
My visit is rapidly drawing to a
close, and the sheep and cattle
ranches are yet to be seen. A party
of four, full of lie and yiYacity, all
young and fresh-ahemi prepare to
start out sightseeing. Home folks
pile our wagon with shawls, bits of
carpet and blankets, with kind adj
monitions to take care of ourselves
as Norther is expected, and TO meet
that monster on the plains unpro
| tected, was almost certain death
We start out merry set, and go
ing down the steep banks of the
Brazos our horses kick out of the
traces, and when they plunge into
the water there is not q lady in
the express. Our gallant escort,
though ar fat in handling the lines,
had too much to do to look back in
sympathy at the pile of dry goods
lying round promisculously in the
mud and on the banks, with one
shoe gone and the other not to be
found. And no chance to turn the
wagon and play "the help in time OF
need" without probably getting into
the quick sands of the treacherous
ford. So we rise, adjust ourselves
and Chamber in over the back; and
it would have created "a smile under
the ribs of death" to have witnessed
the scene. l have seen work quick
er done but not any better. Our
spirited horses travel most of the
day with undated vim, their heels
in the air, and we continue vieing
with each other in the acrobatic ac-
complishments. We never know
what we can do until we try; mol
success we may prove until we prac'
tice. We see thousands of ant hills
as big as Tennessee sweet potato
hills, and shaped like them; and
birds of beautiful plumage fitting
through the chaparal
! At noon we reach herd of 6,0Ot
sheep feeding upon Gods untitled
pasture, with their shepherds anC
trained dogs. They are divided in
to three herds, and each shepherd
has his crook and dogs. In one
herd there were 1000 ewes witt
their lambs. All fine merinos.
saw no other kind in Texas. As {
general thing they yield from twelve
to eighteen pounds per fleece.
The long horned cattle look vi
cious Sometimes from three u