The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-08
WOMEN IN THE WEST
Queer Experiences---Cabins Rocked
by Storm Beaten Cattle.

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Many an interesting story can be
told of the women who have lived IN
their lonely homes out on what used
to be marked in the old biographies
as the Great American Desert. A MISS
Church, near Callahan, on the Denver,
Texas and Fort Worth Railroad, IN
Colorado, recently took up a land
claim, ON which she lived and built a
rude cabin. She had a COW, a horse,
pigs, chickens, etc. All these
women keep u good saddle horse.
They may want to go TO
the country store, the post
office, or if sick could start for the
nearest neighbor before too Ill to ride.
Her nearest neighbor was three or
four miles away. AT first n was
nervous about being so far away by
herself. She would nail down her
windows at night. She would then
take a board the length of her room,
and placing one end against b door
prop the other against the opposite
wall. She would then lie down
to pleasant slumber and happy
dreams, with an x in easy reacn.
1t is possible she had a pistol in
the cabin, for the most of the women
living alone on their lands Keep
such weapons for handy use should
the same be needed. But after be-
coming used to the place, and seeing
| that no n molested the women on
| the frontier, the locking of her door
was considered sufficient. She spent
- nfObk fhNt1ph of a utfI1l tnrrOT A
terrible snowstorm was sweeping over
the great plains, and she felt her little
cabin rocking to and fro.
Hastily lighting he lamp and dress
ing she peered out through the win
dow into the darkness OF the bowling
tempest. She was first startled by the
eyes of a COW up near the wlndow
pane. She then made the discovery
that a herd Of cattle had crowded
around her cabin for a little, shelter.
The herd grew larger and larger until
the cabin was swayed, not by the
bowling winds, but by the pres
sure Of the cattle She walked
up and down the floor through
the long hours of the night,
fearing every moment that the storm
driven cattle would turn her cabin
over. There is a similar story of Miss
| Emily Brown, who had located on a
ranch. At one time she taught in the
Leadville public schools. She is o
chaperoning some New York girls in
Europe. She felt her cabin rocking
in a storm and supposed that it was
the wind, but a herd of cattle had
sought shelter there. She tried to
scare them away, but the poor, shiv-'
ering brutes refused to go. Miss
Brown then tool out her pistol, and,
raising a window, began firing it into
the air and the cattle fed.
Vegetable Flannel.
Vegetable flannel is a textile mater
ial now being largely manufactured
in Germany out of pine leaves. The
fibre is knitted, and spun and woven
into undergarments and clothing of
various kinds.
In the hospitals. penitentiaries and
barracks of Vienna and Breslau,
blankets made of this material are ex-
clusively used. One of the chief adj
vantages is that no vermin will lodge
in them. The material is also used as
stuff1ing, closely resembling horsehair,
and is only one-third the cost.
When spun and woven, the thread
resembles that of hemp, and is made
into Jackets, spencers, drawers and
stockings, flannel and twill for shirts,
coverlets, body and chest warmers,
and knitting yarn. They keep the
body warm without heating. and are
very durable. The factories are
lighted with candles made from the
refuse of these manufactures.
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Henry w. ofady,s sAother.
1t is said that the mother oil Henry
w. Grady had a great infiue nee over
+hat Gifted man She has been q. de-
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modest and retiring disposition. has
always asserted itself. Grady was al
ways especially anxious to please his
mother, ~ Delleye, says wallace E.
lmtJbsat ,ndrad If times When the
orator looked nnon the smiling faces
If his bearers amidst their hearty
nIo11dits he was looking beyond them
To- his mothers face. and listening in
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