The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-08-08
FROM THE FIELD.


Professor Malley, who has been
| fighting the green bugs, Mexican
| boil weevils and other insects gave
| the cotton growers several good
talks and he said he had not yet
discovered any Mexican weevils
north of Hill county. The United
| States government now has several
| of it's expert entomologists at Vic
toria and Calvert, who are devotlng
all their time to the matter Of des-
| troying boil weevil. One of these
| Washington experts made talk to
the congress and he said no discov-
cries had as yet been made TO des-
troy the pests, but he believed that
the scientific work now being done
by the most eminent men the gov
eminent had, would finally result in
their extermin alton or else keep
them back at any rate from doing
so much damage, and IT was his
opinion that these Mexican boil
weevils would spread all over the
cotton growing country. Whatever
means are found TO destroy these
pests by these scientific men Will be
published to the world free Of
charge.
From Houston to Galveston over
the Harrisburg d Galveston road is
a delightful ride. First we run out
through a pine woods country and
this kind of a country, when we do
get in it again, makes some OF we
old states fellows feel at home, and
In this piney woods along the banks
of the streams large Magnolia trees
grow Bull Boy, we used To call
them in Arkansas and they are
blooming nicely now. 1t showered
and rained on us all the way from
Houston to Galveston, making IL
cool and pleasant. Very little OF
all this country Is in cultivation
and 1t is fenced in big pastures on
which they grow cattle Many Of
our Ellis county good farmers came
down here close To Houston several
years ago and attempted to make a
farming country out of this. They
all failed and came back broke,
Grass, cattle and rice are all the
products that will thrive on this
road. The Gulf of Mexico Is In
sight to our left frequently and we
cross on trestle two miles long
over the BAY OF Galveston. We ar
rived In the city at IL o'clock, got
off at one of the finest union depots
In the south where we boarded
street car that took us through the
city to the gulf shore. The closer
you get to the gulf shore the more
pleasant it is. The oreeZes that are
constantly blowing across that
ocean Of salt water are cool and re-
freshing. We secured a boarding
house close TO the water and then
my fun began. | donned another
bathing suit and plunged into the
biggest bathing hole any man ever
went in. The bath houses were all
washed away In the storm. Muir
| dock an old bath house man, has
| rebufN finer than ever before and
/ guess thousand people can I'M
dress i'm separate rooms and put ob
| their bath suits at one time. From
| each room steps lead down into the
water and ropes are tied 70 stakes
out in the water, marx now Tar
YOU can 90 and then when big
wave comes in, and they are cou-
stantlv at il, We need the ropes to
| hold to- We circIed over the city
/ on the street ears and tn our aston
| ishment very little sign Of the big
| storm that killed 5000 or 6BM people
can now be seen. The houses have
| been Strengthened mp and reprinted.
| Now aud then pile of rubbish h
! to be seen whore houses were
washed away. Certainly the Gal
weston people have used the money
well that was sent them from ali
| over the world. One lady who lived
right close To the beach aud lives
there yet, said that next morning
after the storm over two hundred
dead bodies drifted into her yard,
Her house did not wash away and
she has had it reprinted and 1t l.
now prettier than ever.