The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-12


We can hardly understand now, 50 FAR
away then was the Gulf OF Mexico, What
a mystery was the Mississippi river what
tales came from the remote South OF the
mOnstrOus stream. what an attraction j.
was 50 so on steamboats, and ships oouno
for the halls OF the Montezumas, no"
certain Il was that the Mexicans were 10
be whipped, what a romance the history
of the conquests Of fernando Cortez was.
and how familiar Gautemozin on his beu
of roses seemed
our politicians builded wiser than they
knew when they gained imperial Texas
the France Of America on the American
Mediterranean-and golden California. II
was bad politics. perhaps, but 5000
craftsmanship. and the sombre jackson
was wiser and greater than the brilliant
Clay.
There was a chill on the air when letters
came that told some Of the boys were
dead Of camp fever on the Rio Grande'
and others had been killed IN hattie with
copper bullets. Some Of the crpples came
home from Monterey, and there was
poem written by Captain Cutter who
brought back the pistols OF young Harry
CLAY, speared by the Mexican lancers, ana
gave them to his father at Lexington
and the poem began;
con Buena Vista's bloody field,
A soldier dying lay,
His thoughts upon his happy home,
Two thousand miles away
The returning braves were stored with
stories Of the Spanlards. and the strange
mingiing OF races in the lands Of the suii'
and the bull fights that were as exciting
as the battles that made us masters OF
the city OF Mexico. But there was bun
fighting without going abroad, the boys
and the bull Of our own county were -
they are. forever at war.
Vbis warfare goes on, and the lourhals
are often supplied with news Of the en-
gagements that 50 diversity agricultural
eNperiences. Next 20 snake ana pear
stories the bun nights have an honored
place i'm our literature. Bears are depart
ire. with the bunalo and a fresh mar
ratfVe OF an old-fashiOned encounter
would be more charming II less Favored
with the suspicion of antiquity sun inc
number of our fellow-citizens VINO nave
stabbed gigantic black bears TO death
lust I'm time is remarkable. The grizzlies
die slowly.
were more important 10 newspapers than
telecrams. The supply of snake stories
holds out because the snakes like great
men. continue to sun themselves while
shrinking from the public gaze The bull
stories Increase in general interest, largely
owing to the irritable disposition OF the
Jersey breed. The AideYDey COWS seem 20
have all the good nature in the herd.
Rear a Jersey bull tenderly as you may,
and when he gets big he goes bad, and
he will gore his proud master win alac-
rltv and deadly violence. II IS common
place to read that some old farmer, iona
az cattle. has met his fate at the horns
- Ia .lrHF "a
II he has been INDUCING his fancy for
Jerseys. The information that the direct
ducal descendant Of Columbus was a
breeder of bulls was an introduction that
gave him the benefit of widespread SYM
patty, and II was sad indeed 10 hear that
he had lost his fortune attempting 10
make bull fighting as popular an amuse-
ment I'm Paris az in Madrid. Why did
he not Try It IN America
Joe jefferson has, as farmer, had ex-
perlenCe with bulls, and in an after din
ner speech gave a modest relation OF an
adventure that may be taken as typical
Joe's farm was I'm New Jersey, where
there was n great deal Of gravel rather
too near the surface, and gravel so situat-
ed that IL drained both ways into the
ground, and upward by capillary attrac-
ton. Joe had a great mishap, and he
said: 1T was when my Alderney bull
got into the greenhouse. There was moth
ing 10 stop him but the cactus. lie tossed
the flower pots right and left. Talk about
the flowers that bloom in the spring, why
l never saw such a wreck. and / am fully
convinced that there is nothing that viii
stop a thoroughly Well bred bull but a
full bred South American cactus. /
went down 10 look at the ruins and the
devastation that this animal had made
and / found him quietly eating black
Hamburg grapes. I don't know anything
finer than black Hamburg grapes for Al
aerney bulls. \ friend Of mine who was
chatting me for my farming procllvities
said L see you've got I'm some confusion
here 1t looks to me from seeing that
gentleman there-that stranger In the
greenhouse-that you're trying 10 raise
early bulls under glass.
1t is tolerably clear that this great mis-
hap on the sandy soil Of New Jersey
drove jefferson 10 Buzzard's Bay, caused