Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19

I was permitted to see samples of The men
wore large hats, heavily embroidered, and
whatever else they could get'in the way of
clothes. I never saw people run SO much to
hats or seem so Indifferent to outer clothes
| Some of the Popular Costumes.
saw one man at church who wore a
massive Mexican hat with two or three
| pounds of silver braid on it, and leather
cinch, with two silver buckles, for band.
He also wore q beautiful pair of lilac trou-
sers. One man in the amen corner of the
cathedral wore no coat or vest, but had q
shirt made of buff calico, with grim figures
on it, and it was made with puffed sleeves
and Stewart collar. He had also socked
his inheritance into hat, and wore hello
trope trousers of the time of Queen Eliza
beth.
Dallas is probably the most prosperous of
Texas cities. Some well-known writer-up
of towns-possibly Charles Dudley War
ner-states that if you draw a circle, using
a radius of 100 miles, with Dallas as the
center, you will have therein "a counties. l
was too tired to try it while at Dallas, and
could not get 100-mile radius at any OF the
places where l looked. Some of the stores
didn't seem to have any radius at an. These
"a counties produce nearly half the cotton
wheat. 1t is very fertile district indeed.
The soil is rich and deep, and cotton just
naturally grows here with the very slightest
encouragement
An Anti-BeIlum Plantation.
never saw so much cotton anywhere be-
fore as have seen on this trip. Down near
Waco-pronounced Wayco-there is an old
time cotton planter who runs his plantation
IL - hofo fba 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, watered
and looked out for every day. The mules
are locked up, also. so that there is no
frolicklng over the country at night with
the stock. Severe system is the rule, and
500, 900 year is the cotton crop, while the
negroes themselves are any of them fat
enough to kill, and their happy songs in the
cottontelds show that healthful discipline,
regular hours and regular meals agree with
them.
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 tire white
man, making him bright and highly con-.
versational, it is not proper for the negro.
II Ouils MS seHsIUlllIleS duu uaheS uim
almost coarse: l met one of them here in
Texas who had become somewhat addicted
to the use of liquor for medical purposes.
Not Successful in Drowning.
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
admitted, though, that it was not success.
He said ne had drowned several OF his more
sickly and feeble sorrows in that way, but
he said they always swelled up and came to
the surface on the following day bigger and
more disagreeable than ever.
! said that was good simIle.
He said he didn't know what it was, but
it was so.
L found that he was talkative, and so
conversed with him. He said that he. had
got all his work done up ahead and got all
over the rush before came, so that he could
have real good visit with me when I got
here. 1 judged that it had been several
years since ne had been busy, however. He
said that Texas was advancing rapidly, he
thought, in the matter OF civilization. l
said "Yes?" with a rising infection. He
said that she was now safely past the crisis,
he thought, between the customs of the cliff
dwellers and finger bowls.
Invited to Visit the Club.
"Some of US, Of c'ose, is raw yit but we
are advancing. I would like to have you |
the guest of our club here this evenin', sab, |
if you will come down-the Upper Congo |
club it is called, sab. We run it on econom- |
ical principles, sab, but 1t is quiet, home |
like place, whah you kin 60 for hour or
two, check you old razor aud injoin you
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