Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-11
FROM THE PINEY WOODS.
A Delegate from the Wild and Hilarious
West in Town.
Railroad that Rumbles by the Lone Star
sOIons-Some Figurative Facts on
Farming and Fruit Raising.
Memphis Appeal.

from Texas shakes the dust of the wild,
hilarious occident from his S22 shoes and
turns his anxious face toward the re-
sponsive orient in search of the migra-
tory immigrant or restless traveller, he
always makes a stop-over in Memphis,
making this one of his ultimate or object
i've points. When the sombrero- crowned
Texan reaches the Bluff City he feels that
he has arrived somewhere; he realizes
that he has left the trail and the ranch
far behind and is plunged in the swim
of civilization Indeed, when a Texan
desires to go anywhere he always says to
himself, I'm go to Memphis, and from
there to-anywhere. - To Memphis first,
always
Bowling with patriotic Difference to a
time-honored custom, Mr.. D. j Price,
assistant general passenger agent of the
International and Great Northern rail-
road, arrived in this city yesterday.
Like Caesar, he came, saw, and-was
conquered. His road runs through the
Boston of Texas-down through the piney
woods where the balsam and pine eXude
healtbful fragrance that blights disease
and encourages health and vigor of brain
and lungs-down where a score of proud
crested "sand- lappers are anxiously
waiting to see cold Dave'' CuIberson
die, so they or some of them
can get his seat in congress
down where the erstwhlle "'printer IS
devil, - Jim Hogg. waxed fat
and ponderous and became Eattorney-
general and will become governor in
good time-down, where the graceful
Horace Chilton-he of the big bank roll
and eloquent bazoo - resides - down,
where noble Tom Herndon, the piney
woods cato in wisdom and Cicero in eIo-
Quence, resides-down, where lives
''Picnic Dick Hubbard, lately returned
as minister from far-off Japan and where
he marches out to his front gate every
morning before sunrise, and with his ear
10 the ground, listens for his country to
call rundown, where Congressman
"Howdy' Martin is embalmed in the
hearts of an admiring constituency, who
do not believe that he blew out the gas in
Washington, nor care what he knows
about the tariff, but who know that he
used to take an Indictment in one hand
and six shooter in the other when he
was prosecuting attorney, and make
horse thieves on the jury convict horse
thieves in the dock-down, down, down
TO the little island in the Gulf where the
pirate, Lafitte, once fiourished, and
where many believe his lineal represen-
tatives still flourish, and where the waves
of old ocean still moan and sigh for a
81 800 900 appropriation. His road
passes through, not the most fertile spot
in Texas, but through one of the most
noted, and where the boast of the citizen
Is that "for good water and apples it
beats Arkansas.
Mr.. Price, unlike most railroad passen-
ger agents, is a yOluble talker. Unlike
most passenger agents, he praises his
road and the country through which it
passes. He can occasionally be induced
to say q few words, ana privately to an
Appeal reporter observed Yesterday:
"Why WASH t down here after some
of the many returning school girls? Be-
cause our girls do not go abroad to
school. We have the finest schools on
earth and more of them. Our people
had schools and churches before the war
and have been building ever since.
''How is the fruit crop?'
'Immense! Apples as large as cannon
balls and dozens in cluster.
''Don t the fruit break the trees?''
"No sir. People plant sorghum and |
cotton in their orchards and these grow |
and prop the limbs. -
'Does cotton grow so high as that?'
"High as that! Why, that is in the |
fruit section, where the land is light and |
dry. Down in the bottoms cotton grows |
as high as a house. People use step |
ladders to pick it. -
"Aren t step-ladders expensive?''
eyes; but expenses is nothing there.
The only trouble is that the children |
climb up the cotton stalks tC hunt hawks
nests, and either lose themselves in the
open bolls or kill themselves by falling to
the ground: I attended three funerals
asst week of children killed that way,
and, mind you, the cotton had not begun
TO open, and was not more than half
grown.
'Can they gather the cotton by ma
"No. 1t must be gathered by hand
have third interest in what is known
Is the Ariel Cotton Picker an auxiI-
airy to the Children s Protective Asso-
cation It floats over the cotton patch
md the daTkeYs reach down from It and
pull the bolls up. 1t is cigar-shaped,
md -
''Break away? 'thundered Jno. Scott,
Ind Mr.. Price subsidized.
''What about the cider?" eventured
he reporter.
''Oceans of It'll Lakes of it, For the
asst ten years people have not used any
ainwateT. They fill their cisterns with
,ider. a company offered to furnish the
luid to the city waterworks in Jackson
lille, but the owners of the plant feared
hat cider might injure the machinery -
How do the average immigrants seem
o succeed out there?''
''They bloom, they flourish. People
ONE in every day almost without money
nough to flag a bread wagon, and in q
ear or two they are rich and have pie on
he table three times day. You never
aw the like! I knew a man to come into
'yler eight years ago, and we had to
make up money TO get him out in the
and to-day he Is as well fixed as
ny man need be. Just to show you, the
reacher stays at his house every time he
omes that way, he can buy all he wants
t the store without a cent of money.
hen there was another man .that-''
ut the reporter escaped withs Shy few
light bruises. SEs
s fel s5osfs 81 Cascarine VIII sfull,
shVy fessiHg caused by a 60 sc Aed6ftion of