Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-15
The Texas Climate.

The funny man OF the Texas Press
writes: The climate CT Texas IS an IN.
abridged one, and We wouli be doing
1t an injustice ii We dii not devote
some space TO it III this paper.
When the pious Old Spanish mission
aries first came to Western Texas to
convert the Indians, AMI everything
else they could lay their hands on, to
their own use, they noticed the extreme
balmineea OF the atmosphere, the ger
geous Italian sunsets, aud the superior
quality OF the climate. They were
surprised that tie Creator would waste
SO much good climate on the wicked
beathen. Back where they came from,
where al the folks were good Catholics
and observed Eli holy days IN tine year,
they couldn't ra;S3 as much climate
per annum as they coGld harvest in
Western Texas in one short week.
In the early days III the R9pubiic os
Texas, and even after anne exation, many
OF the white men who came &c Western
Texas from all parts of tie niied
States had strong sanitary reGsAr4 Tor
preferring change Ct climate. To he
hitiN tho i.Oct Oi INC ilFtiJttc
had been threatened with throat disease.
SO sudden and dangerous is this dis
case that the slightest delay in moving
10 II new and milder climate is apt TO be
fatal, the subject dying Of dislocatiou
of the spinal vertebr:r az the end Of
few minutes Gn.l a rope. a great many
men, cs so1n Us they heard Of Western
Texas. left their homes in Arkansas,
Indiana and other States left inlnadi-
ately, between two days, the necessity
of their departure being So urgent that
they were obliged to borrow the horses
they rode to Texas on. All these in
valids recovered on reaching Austin.
In fact, they began to feel better, and
considered themselves out Of danger AS
soon as they crossed the Brazos River.
Some of these who would not have
lived twenty-iour hours longer il they
had not left their old homes reached
green old age i'll Western Texas, and,
by carefully avoiding The causes that
led to their former troubles, We're never
again in any danger of the bronchial
affection already referred to. As soon
as it was discovered that tho climate of
Western Texas was favorably disposed
towards invalids, large number OF
that class OF unfOrtunateS came to Aus
tin. Many well authenticated cases of
recovery are recorded. Men have been
known to come to Austin far gene IL
consumption, and SO far recover as to
be able to run for office within wear,
and to be defeated by large and re-
spectacle majority, ali owing to the
atmosphere, ::ua the popularity Of the
other candidate.
| There is very little winter in West
ela Texas. But for the nortliers Aus
tiu would have almost tropical climate,
as it is situated on the same parallel of
latitude of Cairo, in Egypt, where they
have tropics all the year aroand. AS it
is, there is seldom any frost, although
it is not an unusual thing for Jumps OF
! ice several inches thick to be found--in
tumbles by those who go to market in
the early morning. Occasionally New
Years calls are made in white linen
suits and an intoxicated condition
Spring begins seriously in February.
The forest trees put on their beautiful
garments Of green and the fruit trees
come out in bloom. Prairie flowers
and freckles come cut in this month.
and the rural editor begins to file away
spring poetry. In February stove
pipes are laid away in the woodshed and
the syrup Of squills and kough kure
man puts coat Of illuminated texts
on the garden fence. Seedticks are no;
pulled until April, but after the middle
of March there is no danger of the
mosquito crop being frozen. Early in
March the doctors oil their stomach
pumps, for the green mulberry ripens
about that time and has to be removed
from the schoolboy.
Toward the middle of april the early
peach appears and all nstnre-and tie
druggist-smiles, usLoring the long
and lingering summer time when the
ice cream festivals Of the Church Of the
Holy Embarrassment rageth from one
end of fair and sunny Texas to Thy
otisr. Snch is short synopsis of the
varying features0 the Texas climate.
Walter Scott and His Dogs.
So intimately were SCOTS dogs bound
up with his life, says writer in Temple
Bar, that when his last financial diff
culties crowded upon him. and it was
for time in his mind whether it would
not be best to sell Abbottsford, the
thought OF parting from these dumb
creatures moved him more than any
other painful reflections; and he could
only hope "there may yet be those who
loving me will love ny dog because it
has been mine" Before he started AS
LOT, 1yuol III Gov M ,,loc nf hi. lor,
instructions referred to the management
of his dogs; and again and again, dur
ing his foreign soiourn, he gave strict,
and minute instructions to Lqidlaw, his
steward, to be Every careful Of the
poor people and the dogs lie was
always thinking Of them. /; Was du:!Is .
this last hopeless journey that he spoke
to the large Danish hound WHICH,
stranger though he was. fawned upon
kim at the Castle Of Bracciano, OF his
Fitness ss an accompaniment to such
q CASTLE but that be himself had
larger dogs at home, though. may be
not SO good-natured TO strangers.' 1t
was in Naples. too, where Sir William
Cells huge dog used to be fondled by
Scott, and talked to, and informed of
tuc Jugs HC h"u Ut uoiucs NuIlc Hc
would ooniide to Sir William how he
had two very fine favorite dogs, Nim-
rod and Bran -" SO large that l am
always afraid they look too large and
too feudal for my dirsiniehed income
And it YVES his dogs who, as the last
days drew near, came round his chair
and began to fondle him and lick his
hands, while their dying master smiled
or sobbed over them. "L'a,..i des chieas y
par excellence, was Sir Walter Scott in
the world OF letters.
"Pa, what is ensilage?' Why-h'm
-ensilage. my con. is-ur ensilage is
oh, something like mucilage, my son
something like muoilage; used to stick
things together. you know. There
now, run away to your play, and don't
disturb me now" And that hoy thinks
his pa is very encyclopedia of wis
dom. Happy child! Ere many years