San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-13
erHE COTroN BUSINESS.


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Swisdlsd By ~ Honest Dsrksy.
New Orleans Times
"How do you dink de cotton pisines.
will come oud dis year, Misder Hoffen,
stien," said Herman. as he busted of q
shoe.box, and arranged an overcoat on
q pile of clothing.
~Vell, dot vas spisiness. replied Hof.
fenstein, wat don't like to EXPRESS
myself aboud, und venever dink uf
de money vat I advanced I'm vat ne.
YER get any more, gets 30 mad dot l
feels will die rigid away mid do abo.
blexy. De first time dot I vent in de
cotton pisiness, / keep little sdore in
dc country, and-nefer mind hanging
mp those bants, Herman, do flies was
too pad. II you hang up someding
vite dey will speck plack, und if you
hang up someding plack dey will speck
vite-I dink dotno Won can swindle me,
but vas mistaken, dake my advice
und if you hat sdore in de country
don't advance noding on de cotton crop.
vas swindle dot vay."
"Who was it swindled you Misder
Hoffenstein ?"
at vas q niger. Herman, und his
name vas Isam. My gr-r-acious, efery
von say he vas de best niger in de
whole country around, und I advanced
him cloding, shoes, provisions, und
dollar und a half musket, for vich
charged him only SO, und he vas to let
me buy all uf de cotton vot he makes.
Won dsy dell him if he gets de firsd
cotton of de season he will get q bre-
MUM on it, und he says he will hat
dree bales uf cotton to my sdore de
firsd uf de year. A couple uf de bales
weighed eight hundred und de oder
weighed nine hundred. l knew de
cotton would pring dwendy cents a
bound, SO I gif Isam den cents for it,
und shust as soon as buy it Levi Co.
hen offers me fifteen cents, but I only
vinks at him und asks uf he drinks I
vas more .greener as grasshopper.
My gr-r.acious, Herman, vot you dink,
after I shipped de cotton found oud
dere vas couple uf old cooking stoves
in Won bale und aloud seek hundred
bounds uf an old worn oud saw mill in
de oders, und Isam vas in Arkansas,
de tief. Ven de peoble found it oud
dey all laughed und said it vas shoke,
und got so mad dot I didn't sell dot
cotton to Levi Cohen for fifdeen cents
und I vas in ped week NIT der rheu-
matism Herman, I don't want noding
more to do NIT de cotton pisiness."
The RluA RurrO
The donkey is marvellous animal
in point of voice. His braying power
varies inversely as his size. The large
Spanish jack, whose bray can be heard
distance of thirty-four miles-as COM
puted by Prof. Huxley-is reduced to
silence when he enters into competition
with small London donkey of not
half his size. The smallest, and, at the
same time, the loudest, of all donkeys
is the Mexican blue burro, little
beast not much larger than Newfound-
land dog. It was donkey of this
variety that in 1867 put his nose into
the door of Protestant mission chapel
in Minitlantepetl, and prayed the
preacher and the entire congregation,
numbering five souls and fifteen
Mexicans, out Of the back
window. The unfortunate con-
gregatien was whirled before the awful
blast like leaves before o. hurricane, and
even the roof the mission Chapel was
lifted and seriously strained. The
noise was distinctly heard as far as Chi
cohaultlac, distant eighty-fve miles,
where it was mistaken for the roar OF
an approaching cyclone, and so greatly
alarmed the people as to temporarily
interrupt business and put stop to
the mornings revolution.
DR.. John Y. Cruger, one of the lead
ing scientific persons of New Orleans,
bought burro for his little daughter.
Fascinated by the bray of the animal,
he determined to make a scientific in
vestigation into the nature of the bur-
ro's vocal instrument, and with that
intention spent many hours in observ-
ing him when in the act of braying.
He finally made up his mind that the
peculiarities of the bray were caused
by a peculiar structure of the larynx,
and he thereupon determined to over
haul the burro's larynx in a most thor
ough manner.
Accordingly, he one day seized the
donkey, conveyed him to his private
Office, and there putting him under the
influence of chloroform, opened his
larynx. To his great surprise, he
found that che larynx was filed with
series of small tubes, each containing
a "reed," and precisely resembling the
pipes of melodeon. He counted
twenty-nine of these tubes-thougl he
is not quite sure whether the twenty
eighth and twenty-ninth were really
separate tubes-and with remorseless
knife removed every one of them from
the donkey's larynx and placed them in
a bottle for exhibition to his medical
class. The larynx, which beIore this
operation. could not he distinguished