Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-27

Mexico and here, too, We're the rose.
jasmine, persimmon and pomegranite
giving out their perfume to the warm
Southern air and inviting to their cool-
ing shade; grandly suggestive of the
fruit and flower displays to be seen in
Waco last of November
We entered the coliseum of exhibit
ton halls which is divided into two
separate apartments, the one called
music hall, where concerts were given
by the 5th L. S. Cavalry band. vaude-
vile shows and phenomenal acrobatic
feats by the Royal japanese Troupe;
and here, too. were the art galleries,
music booths and exhibitions of ia
nous French paintings such as The
First Murder" The other is the eX-
hibition hall proper, and has three
floors of immense space. On one side
of the second and third floors are
booths for the display of the work OF
Texas educational schools, colleges
and universities, which proved to a
Northern mind that the education OF
the South is fast nearing our standard
of excellence. Here, too, were the
product of her schools of art and
science-living mementoes of her honest
labor and skill, and again could be seen
the tables and booths piled high with
articles of domestic use and pleasure
that have come from her novelty in
dustries-those productions interme-
date between the outgrowth of nee
essity and the demand of pleasure that
prove a diversified, numerous and
wide-awake population, so necessary
to a great state. While on the other
side of the two upper floors were to be
seen the beautiful display of her fruit
grains and vegetables, so large, so fine
so plentiful in kind and cultivation
Here were the cherished harVestS OF
her cotton, wheat, corn and barley
fields that cover her 800 miles of rich
est land north to south, east to
west Here the wealth of her garden
vegeta bles, common to every state Of
our grand republic, and those only
grown on her fertile soil, together with
the surplus plenty of her orchards
all brought here over her many lines
of railway that touch her ports. her
plains, her lowlands and her valleys.
Surely it would have delighted New
England farmer to have gazed upon
such specimen products of Texas
lands and his heart would have
yearned for home mid the beauty
and liberality of nature, where She
yields so bountifully from her six foot
soil without aid of dressing or phos-
phate.
The first floor of the exhibition hall
was devoted to the display of knick-
knacks, novelties and products of her
| minor industries. Here, too, music,
| art and science contend with anxious
pride for comment and appreciation Of
| their marvels, their beauty and their
grace. No need for Texas people, as
| they wandered to and fro in this hall
among it's booths, to exclaim, ''Oh,
| Texas, how great is thy power, how
| marvellous thy works." it was suffi-
! cient to wonder at her displays, to be
| grateful for her fortune and glory in
her achievements.
| After dinner at one of the many booths
| under management of church and state
societies. where hospitality, kindness and
generosity reigned supreme and proved
| the noble inner life of her honest free,
open hearted people, we entered the ma
chinery hall where the incessant whir
of her many wheels of industry deafened
our ears. and where we were almost lost
in the maze of intricate machinery which
| man has harneSsed to the power of ma
ture to make her yield more and better.