The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-14

The funny man of the Texas press
writes: The climate Of Texas is an una
bridged one, and we would be doing it an
injustice If we did mot devote some space
TO IL m this paper.
When the pious old Spanish mission
aries first came 10 Western Texas to con-
vert the Indians, and everything else
they could lay their hands ON, to their
own use, they noticed the extreme balmi-
ness Of the atmosphere, the gorgeous
Italian sunsets, and the superior quality
Of the climate. They were surprised
that the Creator would waste so much
good climate on the wicked heather.
Back where they came from, where all
the folks were good Catholics and OBJ
served 211 holy days in the year, they
couldn't raise as much climate per an
num as they could harvest in Western
Texas IN one short week.
In the early days of the Republic OF
Texas, and even after annexation, many
of the white men who came to Western
Texas from oil parts of the United
States hAd strong sanitary reasons for
preferring change of climate. 70 be
more explicit the most of the invalids
had been threatened with throat disease.
SO sudden and dangerous is this disease
| that the slightest delay in moving to q
new and milder climate is apt to be fatal,
| The subject dying Of dislocation of the
spinal 'vertebra at the end of few
| minutes aud rope A great many men,
~ soon as they heard of Western Texas,
left their homes in Arkansas, Indiana and
other States left Immediately, between
| two days, the necessity of their depar-
| ture being so urgent that they were
| obliged to borrow the horse they rode to
Texns ON. All these invalids recovered
| ON reaching Austin In fact they began
| TO feel better, and considered themselves
out of danger as soon rs they crossed the
/ Brazos River. Some of those who would
not have lived twenty-four hours longer
/ If they had not left their old homes
reached green old age in Western Tex
as, and, by carefully avoiding the causes
| that led to their former troubles, were
never again in any danger of the bron-
chial affection already referred to. As
soon as it was discovered that the climate
| of Western Tevas was favorably dis
posed towards invalids, a large number
| of that class of unfortunates came to
| Austin. Many well authenticated cases
of recovery are recorded. Men have
/
in consumption, and so far recover as tc
be able to run for Office within year
and to be defeated by large and re
spectacle majority all owing to the atmos'
phere and the popularity Of the othel
candidate.
There is very little winter in Western
Texas. But for the northers Austir
would have almost tropical climate, as
it is situated ON the same parallel of lati
tude of Cairo, in Egypt, where they
have tropics all the year around. As i
is, there is seldom any frost, although i
is not an unusual thing for Jumps of ict
several inches thick to be found-ir
tumblers by those who go to market il
the early morning. Occasionally New
Years calls are made in white linen suits
and an intoxicated condition. Spring
begins seriously in February. Th'
forest trees put on their beautiful gar
ments of green and the fruit trees COM
out in bloom. Prairie flowers ant
freckles come out in this month, and tn
rural editor begins to file away sprinl
poetry. In February stove pipes ar
laid away in the woodshed and the syrul
of squills and kough kure man puts
coat of illuminated texts on the gardel
fences. Seedticks are not pulled unit
April, but after the middle Of Marcl
there is no danger of the musquito crol
being frozen. Early in March the doc
tors oil their stomach-pumps, for tn
green mulberry ripens about that tim
and has to be removed from the school