Smyrna times., 1883-03-28

in February. Many say it is cheaper !
to buy than to Winter stock, but to
my mind that does not fill the bill are
we not almost entirely dependent on
the beasts of burden for our crops?
For without them how could any con-
siderable amount of the earth's surface
be titled and the grain be harvested
and stored and thus far the benefits
are mutual, put the brain power is sup
posed to be on the part of the man, at
least to those who live in the north
temperate zone. We presume the pre-
cedent was obtained from the Buffaloes
that live without barn or storehouse,
but the cupidity of man, coupled with
the inordinate desire of the Indian to
kill something, will soon sweep from
our domain all that species of American
game. The encroaching tendencies of |
civilization from every side and the
killed of last winter are summed up at |
10000, points to the fact that unless
domesticated, the buffalo and the bison
will soon be no more.
THE COW BOYS.
The cattle rancho or COW boy bust
ness is asserting its power by meeting
in convention to concert plans to hold
the lands in vast grazing districts and
in fact, to purchase lands of settlers
and throw them open to the range.
Lands are rented by the Legislature for
grazing at 10 cents an acre. Theirunited
means and numbers with their revolv-
ers and fleet footed horses, are no
mean power in the land. Woe to the
settler who is found in their baliwick
who does not move himself and his
. personal effects inside of the notorious
, five minutes warning. The movement
; means that the settlers will have no
: law that they feel bound to respect.
) The affair does not come under con-
r gressional notice because the land or
: public domain was reserved by the
S State of Texas as State property when
# she came into the Union, and this fact
r may serve as an explanation Of many
$ difficulties that occur in this State and
d no where else. wish to be under
K stood that in the settled communities
r the people are as genteel and city
/ ordinances seem to be as we'll obeyed
3 as in other states, but we smile when
" they claim that murder and outrage
are no more frequent than in Ohio Oh
\. Y. Sectional boastings have alway.
a been INDUCED, and newspapers are
- more to be censured than any othel
:, source for their manufacture and main
~ tenance, for when assertions are re
=. peatedly made, they soon find defend
.v ers and when sources are demanded, i
,e is found to centre in the local press.
it THE INTENSITY OF TEXAS.
or Texas has many things of which t.
re boast, the standard being that 1880
be square miles of land, which is siIaply
Sc piece of immensity, out of which re
eir public was once carved of no mea
ri proportions, being as large as France
ur Spain and Portugal or equal to an
les half dozen of our smaller size state {
nd the original "old thirteen" Th
it truth is it has practically in the earle
he days, been like the man who drew a
ed elephant, the prize was so immense ths
lid he could not handle it, nor keep will
to out impoverishing himself, nor Civ
fly it away. Before the day of our gre:
Dill Railroad Kings in New York, NO ma
'ut dare look over those magnificent di
'ed tances, of five hundred miles aero
led the State in one direction and eigl
vas hundred in another, and think Of no
ms far he had to run and how many M
ty. lions it would require to reach al
ted great centre or avenue of trade th-ous
hey a sparsely settled country, and order
the great trunk line constructed. But
re- recent years railway syndicates ha
wn been formed, and associate capital
ew now equal to any distance or difficult
tai The great Southern Pacific r. r. is
,wo accomplished fact and great trul
un- lines traverse the State from east
the west and from north to south. T
ich twin sister of enlightenment and pl
ght gress with the printing press is t
ten locomotive. 1t is a grand machil
lld- the symbol of progress and power a
cry the triumphs of the arts of peace; t
cry, day will come if it is not already hel
sion that the nation that has the most
With them, will be called the greatest
rom earth. never saw locomotive tra
It is that did not have a parallel telegrs
d is line, mail car, a day coach, an
for Pullman car, freighted with youth a
t to beauty, as we'll as those of ripper yes
Illiteracy must vanish before inte
gence and culture, and the sound
that the piano must take the place of
mat sharp crack of the pistol.
sub- We say to any who anticipate go
,tiop to Texas, that this is a more propiti
from day than any of its predecessors ant
.,Iad it ever was an Eldorado it is n
,;c;s- There is plenty of room for Y
NTH. money, your mind, and your mus
,lcr. and the comforts of life are, or can
II in made equal to other states.
fla MEXICAN RECIPROCITY.
shell Ex-President Diaz, of Mexico,
but heard the sound of the whistle of
5 like American locomotive, and has
apply come to visit our goodly land, Y
berty their minister of war, and their ira
take ling suit, bringing the olive brancl
aven, peace, and their hands full of offer
t the reciprocating benefits to be fount
hem; commsrcialties. We are indebted
/ get President Diaz for his pioneer e
they while in the chair of State of reno
them existing prejudices of race, educa
5 but and nationality between us and Me,
looks We doubt not that he and his suit
with be richly and sumptously enterta