The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-14

grown up people who never saw a chest.
nut. The hay business is no small item
Hundreds of acres are fenced off ano
moved, then raked into large heaps and
pressed into bales by a hay press. A
great de al of this hay is kept and much
more shipped to other states, Some of il
goes to Tennessee, and 1 can't see that It's
any better than the grass would be from
those sedge fields where it is fine and
grass-Lke. Texas Is ahead of Tennessee
in the way Of machinery. Corn, cotton
and wheat Is planted without the use OF
hands, except to keep the hopper filled
with grain and the planters in order.
Likewise all the wheat, oats and hay is
cut and bundled by machinery. After
The land has once been broken the rest of
cultivation is done with a custivator. A
few cling to the old method of single
handed blowing, A laber-saving feature
of all the cotton gins which l have no
tIced, In the way of unloading cotton, is
called suction" Those who have ex-
perienced the old fashioned scratching
up process know how hard it is. These
machines are attached to the power by a
band from the shaft wheel and the de-
| sired velocity given. The machine is a
simply constructed arrangement. A fan
is placed in an air tight frame or casting,
little larger than a locomotive cylinder,
| and a hue extends from it out over the
wagon. Directly over the hopper is a
reservoir, which catches the cotton as it
is sucked up and is emptied at regular
| int--vals by L Us of a chain band,
| which opens the DOOR and the air escapes,
| the door OF the reservoir opens and the
cotton tails into the hopper. This con-
| tinues until the wagon Is emptied. l
| have seen bale taken up, glnned and
baled and ready for market in twenty
minutes. Very little care is taken OF
machin cry and farming utensils. have
| noticed engines, reapers, mowers, cultlva-
tors, planters and all sorts of farming i'm
plemcnts out in the weather, rOtting and
rusting. In fact few men have their ma
chinery and farming implements under a
shed of any kind. No wonder there Is 80
much scrubby stock in Texas, tor most OF
them have to stand the rough weather.
A rope twenty or thirty feet long Is as
good barn as most people would nave
In dry times a man is continually harrass-
ed from morning till night by beef ped
dIers, apple peddlers, vegetable peddlers,
peddlers peddling on articles OF nearly
every description. Besides book agents,
horse traders, home seekers, school teach
ers, newspaper agents, machine agents,
pig drOvers, office seekers and the never
ceasing yell Of the cow boy. The FACTS IN
the case are that most of the people have
come here to lind an easy way OF making
money, no good where they were. One OF
the first features that attracted my atten-
ton was the queerly built houses. Few
CT them have a single chimney. L noticed
simple tin hue reaching 'ove the
rooves and was forced to expose my igno-
rance to the eearest by-stander when l
step ped off the cars, by asking if it never
hox I ncrht
il very delicate apparatus to heat
room in cold weather. Coal is taking
the day in the little towns. There are
but few negroes on the prairies. In east
rrn and southern Texas they are more
plentiful. The white women do most OF
their work. l don't think our Iennes-
see gir!s would like it. for generally their
lots are hard at best. 1t is really anus
ing to see the ladies jerking their feOt out
Of the mud. There is a elias, OF people
almost equal to the wild gCo-e for lmmi-
grafton. They live about in wagons,
tents and next things to brush heap
For most par from what can earn,
they roam about all the year-gO south
in the winter and pick cotton and back
nor,h when spring opens. Near this
place is a very large rock quarry. The
rocks ale in layers or strata about tour
irch-s thick, and thousands OF feet In
width and length. A great deal of this
rock is us-d Tor building purposes, etc.
The way il is gotten out is quite simple.
Firs5 it is marked off into squares or
blocks W hatever size desired; then it is
drilled aleug every two or three inches
aud loaded with blasting powder or dy-
Mantle, aud blown up ready Tor use.
This operation Is continued from layer to
layer until enough Is secured to complete
the building. A houte made of this roc k
will last forever and day and looks ale
most like marble. There is no dividing
line in politics in these new counties. But
there are republicans and few prohlbl-
tionists here. Prohibition, as we'll as re-
publicanism, holds a weak hand IN Texas.
Collin county democracy is divided into
the "sky bluen and 'mugW dmps." The
Iat!cr were gloriously shovel under In
he late election. Straight democracy
foes best. Merchants don't seem to be
doing better than in older countries, be-
cause there are too many OF them. From
one nigh plateua have seen eight towns
of considerable population. Every few
nils a town is going up. Two yeas ago
ali the cotton ana produce was hauled 10
Terrell. about twenty miles, now there
| are dozen markets in sight. To catch
what In is is 20 one who was never IN an
omen country would have to imagine HIM
| self above the clouds looking down upon
| ten or twelve cities in every direction,
| with nothing to obscure his view. l had
| heard a great deal about the wire cutters
| and desired to see some of their mIschlet,
| where upon drove out TO 8 large prairie
| that had been fenced by number OF
large cattle men. They were rich and
1 their object was to fence up an immense
] IN keen cattle off of 1t
so when the grass gets scarce on the open
| prairie. they would have an elegant pas
/ ture for their cattle to enter. But those
who owned cattle and were unable to
fence their pastures, joined together /,
marched to the great enclosure with clubs
| and cut the wire between every post. The
/ large cattle dealers have gone west, 10 a
Land which will never be th:ckly settled
because il does not produce well and is
| subjected 10 droughts, There are many
| objections could make besides the mud
and scarcity Of wool. The northers are
equally disagreeable and they come often.
have retired at night when it would be
too warm for blanket, whereupOn
awaking in the morning the wind would
be sweeping across the praIries 80 sharp
and swift that man would almost freeze
goinng ten steps. These are what you
may term the bracing winds of Texas.
Singing lizards are numerous, and their
sting makes very painful wound. In
the bush the centipede and taraRtula are
plentiful; also wood rats and ground
hogs, but there are no prairie dogs here,
they can be found out west on the plains,
The mule cared rabbit Is quite interesting
and when being pursued by a hound he
assumes the appearance af wild gaelic
The day is not far distant when Texas
will rank amongst the first states of the
Union in its pnbIic school system. Good
comfortable school houses are being built
all over the country and in the little
towns, and able educators are employed
kh, fA,ar. no