Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-22
-Copyright-Kunkel Bros, 1887.

little fellows they are, IS they bob up
serenely on top of their little dugouts
and make faces at the passengers. AS a
squatter the prairie dog considers his
rights unalienable; as a citizen he is
ultra exclusive; he objects to famil-
iarity, and patiently but uncom promis-
ingiy "moves on'' AS civilization begins
to encroach upon his territory. That
Panhandle is
A GIGANTIC CONCEPTION,
too gigantic to be ''grasped on paper
One must see for himself, to believe.
Ones patriotism seems to increase with
the area Texas grows bigger and grander,
and the 'native'' begins to feel his i'm
portauce as he finds himself whirled day
and night over the swelling, beautiful
country still on his native heath. A
hundred years from now there will be q
revision of the classics, and the aspiring
Demosthenes of the country school will
elocute ''thusly - "Why, in that
elder day to be Roman
was greater than king,
and now, to be Texan doth lay both
deep in the shaded
The birth growth and progress of those
Panhandle towns are magical. With
their glaring white houses and big brick
public schools, they look intrusive and
aggressive setting down so composedly on
the lap or
THAT VAST ILLIMITABLENESS.
They seem TO look scornfully on prairie
dog, buffalo, antelope and wild horse,
and say, FMove on, Lady Civilization s
carriage blocks the way The smell
of sage grass comes in rank and wild at
she window, and an occasional bunch of
cattle bend their mild but unframed eyes
upon the advance guard of civilization
as it shreks and plunges along over the
vast soltudes. The towns all look boom
ing. They surely cannot complain of a
drouth this year, for the water at YER
non stood hub deep on the carriages at
the depot. Henrietta, Wichita Falls Chill
icothe, Childress, Clarendon, Washburn.
are all good towns. By the time one has
reached Amarillo (Which, by the way, is
pronounced Amary-ya) one begins TO
think, s'Ooh, amt we getting 'out
West! - The air has grown cooler,
fresher, purer, the altitude averaging
5000 feet above the sea and clear
OUT OF REACH OF YELLOW JACK
and his step-sister malaria. Such
country ought to produce race of
healthy, hardy people. The soil is fine
and responsive to cultivation. Like every
thing else in life that 3 worth having
it demands energy to obtain. A man
who goes there to live must be sure to
lay in years supply of provisions and
patience ahead, but he is bound to sue
coed if he sticks to his job. Fine schools,
good homes and land on easy payments
of 5per cent. On forty years time are
surely sufficient inducements for the most
fastidious.
At Texline we 'bade farewell to home
and native land, - and set our watches
back an hour Then comes New
Mexico, and things begin to as
sumo mountainous, brimstonish
reapepperish tomaleish aspect We
got good supper at Folsom, though the
steaks were not quite such as would be
set before the ex-Presidentiss frankie, l
opine, were she travelling in ''these
parts, indeed they were evidently on
that order which Uncle Jim Harris
describes as having been cut from steers
branded "B. c." [see?] However, in
this case as in the mirage swindle, the
Fort Worth and Denver evens up, -
and supplies
AN EXTINCT VOLCANO,
Capaulin, which rises majestieally
above the city. - [See railway
guide, page so and SOL A man