Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-03
Down BY THE RIO GRANpE.

Alliance Of Kansas on the north with
the romantic yet peppery Quixote of the
south. Here the sad and solemn lubri-
Gator, vulgarly called the greaser, spends
his patrimony on an 8-pound hat, and
with what he has left he buys a horse
never tire of looking at the delirious
clothes Of prosperous greaser. They
are wildly beautiful to one who loves
as | do, to see a hand to hand contest to
finish between strong colors.
On Sunday attended divine worship
at the Mexican cathedral in San Antonio
1t afforded me a grand opportunity to
look at the clothes of the congregation
as we do at home, also 10 study the
faces of the people as they came out
Religion does not seem to afford the
Mexican much JOY or comfort. He
e9e6 through it, however, as one gets
his teeth repaired-not for the delirious
thrill Of JOY he finds lurking in the job
itself, but as a precautionary measure
and as an evidence of his powers Of en-
durance.
r The ladies of the congregation, it
seemed to me, showed better taste in
proportion "A their means than the gen
tiemen. They dressed plainly and seemed
to favor deep mourning wherever there
was an excuse for it. Some Of them,
judge, were mourning on very slight
provocation-that is, if they were mourn
ing the loss of such husbands as was
permitted to see samples of.
The men wore large bats, heavily en-
broidered, and whatever else they could
:, get in the way of clothes. never saw
people run so much to hats or seem so
Indifferent 10 outer clothes. | saw one
man at church who wore a massive Mex
lean hat with two or three pounds Of
silver braid on it, and leather cinch
with two silver buckles for band He
slsy wore beautiful pair Of lilac trou-
sers- One man in the amen corner of the
cathedral wore no coat or vest, but had
shirt made Of buff calico, with grim
figures on it, and il was made with
pulled sleeves and Stewart collar He
had also socked his inheritance into a
hat and wore heliotrope trousers of the
time of Queen Elizabeth.
Dallas is probably the most prosperous
of Texas cities. Some well known
writer-up Of towns - possibly Charles
Dudley Warner-states that if you draw
a circle, using radius of 100 miles, with
Dallas as the center, you will have there
in thirty-four counties. was too tired
to try it while at Dallas, and could not
get 100 mile radius at any of the places
where | looked. Some of the stores
didn't seem to have any radius at all.
These thirty-four counties produce
nearly half the cotton Of Texas, also
more than half the oats and wheat 1t
is very fertile district indeed. The soil
is rich and deep, and cotton Just natu-
rally grows here with the very slight
est encouragement. | never saw 50 much
cotton anywhere before as | have seen on
this trip. Down near Waco-pronounced
WNco-there is an old time cotton
rplanter who runs his plantation Just as
they used TO before the war, only. Of
course, he can't show as good an abstract
of title to his help, but he has the large
black negro with the white eye, and that
negro knows his place. He is fed, wa
tered and looked ont for every day. The
mules are locked up also, so thst there is
no frolicking over the countrv st night
WIN the btSths tDCftit btStcfh ~ tue
rule and 10000 year is the cotton
crop, while the negroes themselves are
any Of them fat enough to kill, and their
happy songs in the cottonfelds show
that healthful discipline, regular hours
and regular meals agree with them.
v In this way they have also very little
temptation to monkey with the flowing
bowl. Rum is highly injurious to the
negro. While unquestionably beneficial
to the white man. making him bright
and highly conversational, it is not prop
er foq the negro. 1t dulls his sensibili-
ties~spd makes him almost coarse. l
met one Of them here in Texas who had
become somewhat addicted to the use Of
liquor for medical purposes. He said
that he lost his wife several years ago,
and had been ever since trying to drown
his sorrows In the flowing bowl. He ad-
mitted, though, that it was not a success.
He said he had drowned several Of his