Smyrna times., 1890-11-05
can markets. The Coast Line, will,
too, become the favOrite route to New
Orleans as it is already to Florida.
NEW GRASSES.

Anent the substitution of electric for
animal power on street car lines men
tiOn should be made of a pleasing
writer on the Chronicle, Mr.. Pleasant
A. Stovall, who has written a short
prose farewell to The little Texas
mule" that may rank with the best
productions of the day. 1t is a gem of
humor set in a circlet of pathOs. The
grasses feeding such mules are grown
here under the names of Vetch, Guinea
and Burmuda. There are four or five
cuttings yearly, Veth arriving first and
Burmuda last.
The Burmuda grass is a native, the
others exotic. Forty acres and
mule" is common implication that
not enough land is in grass to supply
the needs of more than one mule.
A SOUTHERN WATERING PLACE.
Brunswick, Ga, is fast becoming the
"Cape May" of the South. Huge break
ers roll in there of their own sweet
will. At supper your appetite, sharp
as razor, will be whetted on Clam fritz
ters, pig fish, soft crabs aud the inevit
able dish of rice, of fcOtfee you will have
to put up with the black commonly
called barefooted. This coast was the
faVOrte starting in place for the block
ade runner during the war, many of
their skeletons protruded through the
white sands, a mishap that overlook
them in endeavoring to escape from
the pursuing federal cruisers. Now,
time the wind and weather had Oblit-
Grated the semi-piratical craft.
CLAY EATERs-sNUFF.
Clay eating propensity holds to no
extent down here, at least have made
inquiries on the point and have been
unable to find out that it is so eaten.
But go away snuff. You need not be
very solicitous on that point in
your inquiries. One would think that
these old red Cay hills would turn out
the material for making first class
bricks. Such is not the case however
as they are the veriest of salmons, and
not to be compared with your Chester
paving brick, or w. P. Wright's brick
at Clayton. Yet the wells are dug
down through this clay thirty or more
feet without any support from caying
in on the sides. A pure supply of
water is not however Obtainable from
these wells as nearly all of them arc
affected more or less by surface drain
age, a fatality that may overtake your
fine town well some day in a crop of
fevers unless old wells are filled up
and not used as closets. did not
know so much of public health hinged
upon a good water supply until l saw
the workings of it here personally.
TERPENTINE AND RosIN.
When is considered the exceedingly
small area on the globe capable of pro-
ducing in sufficient quantities the two
great necessary ingredients in most of
the industries viz-terpentine and
rOsin the wonder increases when the list
is gone over to find how useful these
two articles are to know that terpen-
tine sells at the stills for thirty five
cents gallon Gust think of that and
rOsin heaping barrel weighing two
hundred and seventy five pounds for
one dollar. 1t is one of the surprises
that in land of good prices such an
anomaly like this should exist.
THE PROFESSIONAL MEN.
Preachers l find have a hard time to
get along, thinness Of population added |
to thickness of family tow heads is one
superinducing cause for the ministry
to seek livelihood in mending nets
or otherwise as the Apostle to the Gen
tiles did-tO his credit. You would
be surprised to see how undignified gar
ments the doctors go about in. Broad
brimmed sOmbrerO hats surmOunted
wealth of hair mostly uncOmbed,
fringing high cheek bones and swar-
thy visage, short riding whip and mud
spattered boots, indicate that the doc
tor has just been to see a patient miles
back in the pineries. In such a Jour
ney, little use would be the stylish york
attempting to find way where only
bride paths exist so that you will find
the southern doctor to be the best
hOrseman in the world, he lives in his
saddle.
SOUTHERN WAYS.
At no time can great stretches of
landscape be taken in at a glance as
you can on the plains of Delaware. A
few rods at the most and the wall like
line of forest rises up and as it were,
walls you in from the world beyond. !
The men here are mostly boyish look
ing, in fact this is due l think to the
great latitude given to grown up boys.
They are pampered and permitted to
take leading parts in every thing their
fancy may aspire to. This is seen how !
early Southern men ''got on" in the
world and caused large percentage of
the southern army to be composed of
youth, not out of their teens.
A partial way to keep the towns in
good sanitary condition is to let hogs
run at large. In some respects
it borders upon reprOach 10
civilization. Little thought is |
paid to- drainage as the absorbing
power of these black and white sands
readily attends to that and l fancy to
the detriment of the drinking water in
the unwalled we'll.
THE SADDLE.
So much riding is done on horseback
that description of the saddle used |
may be of interest. Fortunately as l |
write one Of these hangs before me in
the room and is we'll worth looking
at. The workmanship like all serious
attempts in leather is very 6ne, the
model is Mexican, and while we NAV