San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-09-23
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
.Parades and TabIeau the FlshIOn-A
Chance for the Local AgxId alturIIA

,Parades and TabIeau the = lshion-A
Chance for the Local AsxidplturiSA
ST. LOUIS, Sept 12.-AlL the great
shows st. Louis IL to have'EHs winter
seem to group themselves 13bout the
month Of the Fall Festivities. Tho
crowd already here has arrived just
in time to see the big labor q az parade,
which filed the streets with marching
men, flying banners and music, this
week. The celebration or German day
will take place before the people leave
the city. This is Efestival peculiar to st.
Louis, which other large cities in the
United States arearrangiIg to initiate.
There is a parade. of tableaux on floats,
second in beauty only TO the Yelled
Prophets procession, and an open air
entertainment in the AFTERNOON at the
Fair Grounds, where natio nal Rmuse-
ments hold the ground till n late ho1r.
From twenty to Ii irty Thousand peSple-
are in the parade, and over
fifty thousand 81 out to tine Fair
Grounds. to say nothing Of the thou
sands who ride out there to'looliat tho
scene from curiosity.
Farmers in the Southwestern, States
who have little corners of land which
they can plant with anything profit
ably, would make Il good dealtof money
easily if they would follow thA sugges-
ton to them in the combination Just
effected by the castor oil IN lis; in st.
Louis. This city makes over half fall
the castor oil in the United States, and
the companies have got tiDsd of the
fluctuations in price brought about by
competition. They viii now fix
the price Of boSh tie bean
and the oil, and chs farmer
can make contracts for all the beans
he can raise at a very good profit. The
new price of the bean wilt not he lower
than $50 a bushel, and as this price
its culture will be very re munerative
TO western farmers who go into the
business Systematically, and contract
ahead for all they raise. The demand
is constantly increasing, and a pro-
tective tariff viii keep tn market
from being flooded by the bean Of In
dia. which is the only other country
which can compete with this in the
supply.
During the cool weather which
came on st. Louis just as September
entered, there was 4 short and violent
thunderstorm one afternoon. and the
observers up in the signal Office hastily
dropp all their work, and bringing
out all their instruments took observa-
tions during every minute while the
outburst lasted. The next day they
compared their notes with those re
ce;ved from other parts Of the country
which were taken during the storm.
and were disappointed.
"The Agricultural Department is
bending all its original investigation
now to the task of finding out where
these sudden local storms tome FROM
said Observer D. !. Herndon, land so
far VIC are not succeeding very well.
They drop down from nowhere, and We
can't trace them on weather map at
all. Yet they do great damage some
times, and it is important fer us to as
certain something of their habits, so
we can warn the towns and villages
in their track. We can't follow a local
storm now fifty miles, while we can
follow the track of other storms
twenty-four hours before they get to a,
given point"