The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-22
II OBJECT LESSON.
||c,.,.n Palace and What 1t Ought
To Teach.

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'' To Teach.
,.ot that the Cotton Palace
~ ...ured causes muth interest
4 manifested in the on'l "a:
s,tsut Of the exhibit that is to
.Ss 1t is hardly possible that
a .,hy for this year will reach
degree Of perfection ton, tn lat WIN ,ha
I that cotton is to be the cen central al
:. .''' opens up a vast field TO
IT, from in making an exhibit It.
', hang the chief product OF
On on, int in the South; and Texas be-
fsr in the lead as a cotton pro-
; NJ, state, and there being 80
y ,vs more people Interested in its
iuotion and manufacture than in
i other industry, it will certainly
;us,ructiye and entertaining to
ont BY an exhibit, the growth
development of this plant, which
ow king of the South"
Cotton was in use as early as fve
dred years before the Christian
India and China probably beiug
arst to ute the staple; but little
WAS raised or used on account
he tedious process then in vogue
separating the lint from the
a. the art of ginning is of
ppsratively recent invention.
"a. many crude machines were
Ia for separating the lint from
seed, but until Eli Whitney in.
lied the "ssw gin" the cotton
b was of very little Importance.
Is was in 1902, but from that
Se to the present this king has
6tinued to grow and expand in
fulness in all his parts, until
he sands supreme, "the
march of all he surveys.
Texas being his chief abiding
Ice, let us erect here his palace,
h in that palace let us show to the
hid his marvellous growth and
velopment; let us have the
bton grow ing on the ground around
palace, let us introduce all of the
chines used in gathering the
ton, beginning with the
huiks' used by the Chinese and
bdoop, which led up to the per.
tied soaaw gin of the present
e, with all its improved attach
nts, such as oonveyors, distrib-
bra, cleaners, elevators, condens
etc. Let us also introduce the
home-which is known no
Pger except in history-where
patient housewife and children
th their hands picked the cotton
Pm the stalk, and at night by the
eside picked the seed from the
y, and by hand carded that cot.
P into bats and rolls, and then by
nd spun that lint into yarns, and
the same hands wove the
|rns into CLOTH; thus introducing
E old hand ca'ds, wheel, reel and
Pm' and alonside place the great
|mber of improved machines for
Fdlug, spinning and weaving this
hple.
|Let us also introduce that more
Paern Industry, the productio n of
from the seed, and carry that
~ On to i.s latest achievement,
owing the law oil, the refined oil,
% even showing the fine leaf lard +,
Z Jersey butter" "liuseed oil, p"
Pfvs OIL" "castor OIL" etc., all
J Offspring of King Cotton, pro-
yea oy the brain and ingenuity of
a. Let US also introduce the first
ii the old wooden screw, and
nov on with the numerous inn
||ovenents, up to that latest com.
|1 n and perfected compress.
out space forb.ds the enumera
~ VI tne vast array of machines
y III the cultivation, harvesting
I y manufacturing of old King Cot.
= ana his numerous progeny.
rougn could be introduced to I'll,
I whole Palace, but room must be
served to illustrate and advertise
!. o'aer vast resources of Texas
"a \ minerals, timbers, cereals, soil,
= ~ wa Sa'ers' and by no means crowd
g Jul the arts and sciences, and
wing full scope to the exhibita Of
&c udQUl WORK of a., r..