The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-02-13
GRULLA WHIM-W HAMS
Doubling Thomas AT La Grulla
House Builders Failure
That Famous Sow Still
Lives.


daily paperi Or are there visions
abouti
My English friend is wild
plum locoed-and can hardly be
kept-in spite OF all my soothing
words aud elaborate theories that
even (mark you that wOrdO an
editor may be mistaken, and Civ
ca to gorgeous pipe dreams
from mounting his horse and max
ing a trip to the Border MetrOpO-
lis, aud demanding a full and ex-
plicit explanation of such wild
imagining as shown IN your last
few papers.
tie insists that the strange things
published by you may tend to
delude the people here that read
your sheet, and make 'em emigrate
to your county. | have been argu-
ing with him that you are +
miSlead by an ardent. overtaxed
imagination that makes you con
touud hopes with reality, fiction
with fact, or-by-SOmeOne who
had looked upon the wine when it
was red aud, drunk with the ex
uberance of his verboSity, did
delude You with fond aud vain
fancieS.
l also tell him to consider that
a man, even an editor, living in
Brownsville. is but too apt to look
upnn things as they are; that a
mistake is ont a crime, that the
error perpetrated is Cor was-I am
so mixed up in the labyrinth of
my own words that the devil may
fly away with me if | know how |
am going to get Out) so great, so
enormous, SO entirely pre-
pOSterOuS, that even a tender infant
could not be deceived
What Six days Of rain in and
around Brownsville week before
last, and three more this! What,
mud, actual mud, to be seen and
walked in! What, pools of water
lying on the surface of the earth,
water that children may splash
thrO', that bird and beast may
drink, wstsSthat is really wet and
stays s0-nOt sinking into the dry
S0ili All! no, Mr.. Editor, you
may have dreamt all that, or
has unsupported the facts,
or the number of days is ex-
aggerated, but nine days of rain
in two weeks won't dot won't
waSh-there's something fshy Ia
it ALA nice delusion in the
brains of Cameron county people.
| write this in sorrow, but warn
you not to perpetrate such a hoax
again, or I'll never be able to
hold back my English friend. He
goes about wild eyed, muttering:
"Six days rain one week
three days another-I don't believe
il! It's not true. Such things
don't happen here.
We don't bave such things here
why imagine that you should.
True ''the rain falls on the just !
and the anjuSt-but then
One Of our tienderoS has bad |
quite spell of bad luck. He in
tended to build him house of |
brick, so set to work to make the +
bricks. Instead of ordinary ones,
ne determined to burn adobe-sized /
1rickS-and to make his own lime
not buy any. So he called to
lin Don Librado, a Jack-of-sII-
rades, popularity known rs Ell
Arauo. The adobes were made,
,iled in the kiln, and fred, aud
tOne was qusrried and burnt for
ime. But, 10! all was "A failure.
The brick kiln was not properly
made, the draft zoo slight, and not
enough fire kept up-the adobes
we're c,7tdo and brittle. good for
The lime was crudO also
or the same reasou-aIl \ dead
osS. What it amounted to / don't
NOW.
Ny report as to mail contracts
urnS out e0rrect n
Lucas HinOjosa. our postmaster,
las resigned IN favor of Miss Ems
Ola Garcia. lie made a vrrs good
iosimaster, butoV ing to the In
reasing care of his large herd of