The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-06-07

over the city on float to be exhibited.
The mayor and city officers rode on tho
float He was put on big platform to
be roasted, so that 1900 Christians
could get good look at him. Do you
think that Christ was there Christ,
who said, Peter, put up thy sword
Christ, who said, He that is without
sin, let him cast the first stone?'
''Did this terrible punishment bring
reformation to the south? Did it encour-
age people to come with their families
and their money to Paris, Tex? Did it
make life on the street safer to young
girls?
>"No! It was an eye for an eye and a
tooth for tooth, and Christ is not with
such procession as that. !"
One-fourth of the cotton produced in
the United States is grown in Texas and
Of the highest grade. For week we
have been riding through rich black cot
ton lands. There is hardly richer
agricultural country in the whole world.
You can buy cotton lands and pay for
them with the first CROP This has been
done over and over in this peerless state
Texas has 80, 900, 900 acres of fine tim
Der land, and she actually sends lumber
to Grand Rapids at a profit. Furniture,
wagons, etc., are made.
Fort Worth is the great railroad CEN
ter of the southwest. That, however,
gave the city rather an overstimulus at
first, and she extended her lines out Of
sight. I never saw city troubled with
such severe enlargement of the SUBJ
urbs, but now that is past, and the cleo
trio lines and dummy lines are being
hauled in one by one. So are some of
the houses.
There is but 5 per cent of colored peo-
pie here, while the old southern states
have so per cent and often more. This
is quite an advantage, though I judge
that in the four years since visited
Texas the percentage has gone up some
what.
There is one serious drawback about
the climate of Texas, though the soil is
very deep and rich, especially in this
part of the state. The climate is very
trying. It is extremely hot in summer,
and the norther is so severe sometimes
that brass and cast iron ornamental ami
mails do not dare go out of doors much.
It was in Texas that the scene of the
poem called "Lasca" was laid Accord
ing to the author of that work, Lasca
was dark eyed beauty, with Castilian
blood in her veins, while there were
also 10 parts Montezuma, parts Cortez
and several parts Piute in her veins.
She was very beautiful, and even after
q week or two on horseback, with no
baggage, she was still neat and trim,
according to the poet. Her laundress
had an easy time, and her milliner
spent most Of the time in Europe.
Lasca loved this poet who writes the
piece, and once when he spoke to anoth-
er very beautiful girl on the Alamo
(another Spanish lady with Arapahoe
blood in her veins and some in her eye
alsO Lasca stabbed the poet with a
dear little dagger, but he got well, and
she regretted it so much that he forgave
her and wrote this article regarding her.
One night when the poet was herding
cattle at $11 per month the Texas
norther came down on the range and
stampeded his stock. Lasca was with
him. Her mother knew nothing of the
matter, however, for she had left town
for the summer. So the poet only heard
the roar of hoofs and horns and heads
and - Lascal
He must save Lasca or fracture a
hame strap. He leaped on his horse and
swung her lightly on his saddle. Then
they let out. They did not stop to gather
the furniture, for they were only doing
light housekeeping, as a guitar and a
package Of Beauty Bright" cigarettes
were all they had. Poets live very SIM
ply anyway.
They broke loose, she clinging to him
on the saddle until he saw that the
steers were gaining on them and would
soon swarm over them and tread both
Of them into calf's foot jelly.
He only has to stop a moment to
think, for he has an active brain. He
leaps off the saddle and draws his bright
little revolver, which is also a nail file,
photographic pen and shoehorn COM
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