The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-08-14
TEXAS IN SUMMER.
Picnics and Barbecues-A Pleasant
Land and Prosperous People
A Confederate Re- Union.

Land and prosperous Feople-
A Confederate Re- Union.
BRowNwooD, TEXAS, Aug. 3, 1891.
To The Editor of The Bonner
Our social season through the bright
hours of joyous May and rosy June, up
to the long midsummer hours of August
has been very bright with many shining
episodes of joyous life. We Texans are
truly in love with all that is bright,
beautiful, pure and good, in the merry
round of pleasure. The gay picnic and
hospitable barbecue are with US,
and mountain hill and dale are giving
back glad echoes of music and mirtb, as
hundreds gather in the shady wood
lands and by the sparkling waters, TO
exchange happy words of good will
over luxurious luncheons." The "old
folks" once more recall the blissful
dreams of dear halcyon youth, while the
young folks follow in the footsteps of
yenerated fathers and dear mothers, to
repeat again and again that dear story
Of old" which ever attunes the heart TO
the sweetest music. Thus pass the
Texas summer hours, and thus TIE xans
show the world that society circles ia
the historic Lone Star State" are just
like society circles in the poetic and
beautiful "Land of Flowers" in all the
social and sweet little affairs that give
our earthly life happiness and love.
An old Aziic chief once exclaimed in
heartfelt rapture, "Tehas! Paradise
Texans think, with the Old Chief"
that no land can surpass-yea, no pen
can portray or pencil paint, the peerless
character of Tehas." Paradise, CARRIED
as it is in the bloom of millions of flow
ers, with apple and orange interlacing
bougts, corn and cotton growing side by
side, its genial climate, fruits, grains and
cereals of every country and CLINE, and
the wonderful productions stored in the
hidden vaults of nature Pardon Texas
egotism
Yes, Texan patriotism had full play
when the GLORIOUS fourth" dawned
upon the country few weeks since.
No matter about the personal feelings of
the late war, when We just remember
George Washington, Pat Henry, Tom
Jefferson and other boys of rs, who
consecrated their rich virtues of mind
and heart to the upbuilding of great
and glorious temple of freedom. True,
Brownwood did not hail the annual re.
turn of the nations natal day with the
rapturous applause of bonfres and illu-
limitations, yet away down in Texas
hearts there was reverential feeling for
the spirit of rs, and all said: Let the
dead past bury its dead we live for
common, united country"
Brentwood is busy just now in prepa-
ration for the annual encampment of
the ex-Confederates. This encampment
promises to be the most brilliant affair
of the season. Hundreds of the old
soldiers will gather from the neighbor
ing cities and the plains of the South
west to remember the virtues of "lost,
though glorious cause" 1t is designed
as a re union of the blue and gray"
and all Union soldiers will be welcomed
in the noblest sense of the word, well
come. Thus speaks Texan love for tn
pure, noble and good of their = lost
cause" and thus Texans extend the
olive branch to the soldiers of the
blue. All States, North and South, will
be represented in the grand parade by
beautiful Texas maidens, mounted on
horseback, bearing the star sprangled,
as we'll as the Confederate banner.
What does the BANNER think of Texan
patriotism
Our hearts grow sad when we think
that few more weeks will call one Of
Leesburg Female College maidens away
from our midst, to once more roam
among the orange groves of the "Flower
State" God bless her Florida home
Brownwood still moves upward with
electric lights. colleges, cotton COM
presses, new railroads and bright, new
faces from dear old homes, in the dear
old States. CARL VINCENT.