The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-17

Western New York don't ever make the
mistake ol asking a respectable couatry
lass.e II CHE goes grape picking n the fall.
She m!sl tear oul SOME OK your nicely
pared i1nt bangs. The writer spent some
time last summer in Western New YORK,
wncIo the grape trellises hung heavy with
the juicy irutt IT'S here you see great
herds OF milk cows and farmers driving
wtn enormous cans fliled with milk 10 the
cr,dmeries, where De Laval, or SOM
other cream separator culls as ias5 AS
wheels can work the rich cream from the
milk. Here We find golden butter and lus-
caQus, Pungent cheesgs. What a paradise
this mus. be! How the land must dance
with corn and wine! Here they make
Sixty to hundred bushels of corn to the
acre, while we n Texas only average eh.rty.
We went into the farmers cellars and saS
great casks Of native Wine. We went Into
their barns and saw siios as large and as
high as two-story houses. We saw the CIV
manure saved and counted part of the
farm profit.
Did we find one cheerful farmer? Yes,
only few, about In the same proportion as
We find them in Texas, ID d we Ae&r Of the
deprec alton OF their lands no Satisfactory
market for crops, the good Ell time of ten
or twenty years ago, and no profit in the
business now? Did we? Well rather. Did
many ask us about Texas? Yes. all Did
| ell them to come TO this land.of promise?
Nit one lean aad lanAy farmer whom |
me-. at a creamery one morning, the first
thing wanted to know OF me, what show
there was FOR the making of COOL "mo0n-
shine" in Texas The writer has livel for
eleven years in Bell county and don't re-
member ever having heard during It's cycle
any one year rejoiced over as profit
maker. When the profits were rolling in
peonle didn't know III or would not ac-
knowledge 1t. This was alike with fargners
| and i,ttas ma ig IN Ves4
has been left several milestones in the rear
| that we look back aiii call that year II
cracker Jack" In New York they speak
| Of ten or twenty years ago when the horn
OF plenty was full and prices high, and yet
| ] warrant that there was then the same
proportion Of grumblcrs as there is naw.
| \ turkey Is never satisfied with his pas
| ture. but thinks over the fence N is better
| feeding. The white turkey that stays near
the house and picks up little grain here
| ana q little grain there gets fun quicker
and is ready for another meai before the
| wenderer gets started.
| "Contentment is pearl of great price,
| and he who secures Ii at the sacrifice Of Il
thousand desires makes a wise and happy
choice"
The farmer who stays at home and clips
| the wings OF unrest who saws wood aud
! stops the loakages on the farm after a
while this farmer buys the plantation o,
and he rents 1T to his nelghbor. who finally
returns to his home roost after his wan
dcrings, dead broke, OF course This UGes
not apply only to the farmer but equally 10
| the business man, Good profit years come
! about as seldom in business as in farm ng,
| but they come, and the man who has
! worked with his brains as well as with his
| hands Is ready to make in thar year long,
strong haul The men who remained Ia
Kansas and koAt on growing wheat have
made money Many lCft Kansas, thinking
that the swing of the pendulum would
never return. The wise man Is now study
| Ing business conditions in Texas, and he
| Will be ready when the pendulum comes
our way, as come II must, The cattle men
and sheep men waited \ long time for the
return swing OF the pendulGm and now
they are shooting silver dollars AZ birds
The brother who has gone North. Souh,
East and West. trying TO catch the pcndu-
lum, always finds II leaving. The man
who goes to South Texas in bad years is
| the man who has a long head, and is ready
when her turn comes. Conditions, locali-
ties and climates are we'll baNlnced all over
| the United States and the fulcrum is placed
| very near the center OF the scales.
Prosperity IS constantly on the move,
mover remains hong in one place and always
comes back to It,