The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-30
MUSINGS FROM GARzA's CROSSING.
The Philosopher Views Life From His
Empty Beer Roadside News
and Sketches.

Into the country. Breath comes freely.
All that is vicious, tiresome and inodorous is
left behind. The dusty streets with their
noise and glare-city competition with its
fierce whirl and strategy-the sinking bar
rooms, where rot gut is God and fighting law
the other side of San Pedro with its lairs
sin and poverty capacious plazas on
whose bosom beggars and parasites cringe and
crawl-all these are retired from; and after
monotonous stretch of a dozy dozen miles the
real country is reached.
CARA CROSSING,
on the Medina, has its pecaliarities. 1t has
admirers. Seven white ducks give a syco-
phantic greeting. The flowers, cows, birds,
horses, foliage and goats live merrily. There
is no crossing under the blue sky where so
many melons pass. The country south of the
Medina is famed for its logged, persistent
faith in water melons. There is rich bacolic
eccentricity about its passion for them, which
superinduces special admiration.
AN EMPTY BEER BARREL
outside of the little grocery on the ACTIVITY of
the river makes fair substitute for a seat In
stream. The lighter green of acacias forms in
the foreground very placeful, quiet picture.
Then comes the road, offensive and dusty;
and then of course, the empty beer barrel. If
man could love his fellow men, he would
not have sickly pulse a-setting on that key.
is running away, man obfuscated with San
Antonio rum-a partial upset-child nearly
scared into fits.
Spence, Jay Goulds right-of-way man in
Mexico, gives an account of his scientific rail-
road labors, and the diabolical mismanage-
ment Of his farm on the Atascosa in his abb
sence. Alec. Cass stops and relates stories OF
he has just returned.
A young Scotchman speaks of the endur-
ance of his Buenos Ayres horses in compare
son with the Texan stock.
Prof. Russell, who halls from California,
demonstrates his theory of the cause of earth
quakes, and presence of latent heat.
Charlie Edwards eulogzes the Mexican
| character as observed when he was justice Of
the peace, and inquiries with avidity of his
stolen stock.
Banks bitches up his horses, and swings his
northwind arms as he praises his bees, vege-
| tables, cows, his sun-bonneted wife, and mon
grel dogs; as he denounces with his Humorous
| voice all shysters, road-masters, Mexican JUS
| tees of the peace, horse and COW thieves, and
scabby rascals generally.
Uncle John Kinney, the man who prays for
his enemies, draws up on his way to town,
shaky and nervous about his wicked son.
Payne arrives-the future county commits
sioner, and knowingly descends on the wire
pulling proclivities OF the pettifoggers of San
Antonio.
Malone treats the listeners with descriptions
Of Sunday family rides, and his coal mine es-
caP pa!1s:. ...:.,
to sell out and raise stock in the moon.
Sutton, the antitype of Mr.. Diogenes, bold
ly ask for an honest mon; tells the congrega-
their land; discourses on Moses, Joshua, Mis-
souri,, and old Virginia.
Norris stops and plainly tells man that he
will not allow his horses to eat his oats.
The blacksmith, Kay, instructs youth how
to propel a wheel-no use.
The colored man, Howard, tells of the
| wonders of Cincinnati.
Goldbraith sends greeting to the key
| a couple of punches of Swiss chard, mid
summer vegetable unknown to this region.
Bowen, the greatest fruit man in South
western Texas, brings punches of onions,
grown on w. Deucess' place, each one
weighing two pounds. Murray, the man
who never told lie in his life, holds the key
in breathless awe by his report of margold
wurtzels 900 pounds in weight.
| McCaleb, the greatest negro delineator in
Benton City, asks the key for news with the
avidity of penny-a-liner. Avant speaks con-
corning cheese.
Lagrange, Villas, and Seed are tomato mad;
they will insist on San A. consuming all they
can grow.
Paddy Kinney spouts Shakespeare-his
present selection is from Macbeth, "Hold on,
| Macduff."
Wildman is in hurry-San A. must have
food.
Mccain gives description of his visit to
the Medina park.
Bias Herrara borows billy-goat from the
key.
Griff Jones eulogizes his crop.
Frank Reciz is in clover, or rather in fod-
der.
Carruthers, the land surveyor, in the role
of STOCK, passes mods to the empty beer
keg, dreams of mistakes in boundaries, and
the enigmatical price of melons in San A.
Josiah Cass gave the kegs wife plums or
peace-nobody can tell the difference If the
road from the Medina to the great city were
lined with red-haired women, planted like
cotton or corn-one row either side-Cass
would be poor man-sings, "How beautiful
upon the mountains" every morning at sun
rise.
Collinp gives his doc Rob IN the Lao and