The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
A PAtgresqss Texas Plsis.

Have you ever sssn . Texas plain, dream
Ing under Texas sun. unfur rowed BY human
hands still bearing the mold Of the Almighty
a. upon the morning OF creation?
To the north to the SOUTH to the cast. Ia
the vest. on all sides tho smooth blue Of an
infinite horison. No rock nor hill breaks the
level ring Of II And all about you are flow.
ere. 40 far ~ the ere can range II resta on
hes utiful blossoms. red and pink and golden.
unswnyed except by the wandering wind. un.
touched save By the butterfly and the be.
Here the yellow sunhower wheels It's slow
disk to the sun. To the right the malva LITE
IL red pennon. and all around are parterres
OF purple monIda. cray euphor bia, oran 70
aselepi and the pink blossoms Of the cleome.
And over these endless carpets Of bloom
sweeps tho prairie breese. weaving tho mill.
ions OF corollas into STRANGE patterns. swing.
In the tall stalks Of the helianthus into long.
rolling swirls like the vaves Of the sea.
Through such scenes a. this Sam Crowther
piloted the man who one day was to become
tn turn his financial mentor and Guide.
Kin did not ponder deeply upon the scene
about him A. he would have done under other
circumstances. A fov dollars were In his
pocketbook. He WA bent upon maxim &
money for hirself. for Sam Crowther. for his
friends. for the entire world. II such a thing
were possible.
Ihey HASooo from the 9Toat HoWeT~cdTpcUeu
land and plum red into . vast plain ~ sreen
40 an emerald and as smooth - the surface
OF . sleepins lake. Here and there It was dap
pied by hu 60 shadows cast by the wings Of
the passing clouds.
Here at night they were greeted BY the
Querulous. nes-llke ye,p Of the coyote. and
often they heard the long. inauiring bay Of
the gray wolf. Sometimes they SsTa Visited
by Mexican vaoueros. sometimes by Texas
From tho green plains ,hey passed into tn.
re gion Of "mottes--the islands Of these
prairie seas--whsre the view was varied BY
clumps OF mesquite, and thence onward to .
land Of broken outlines and queer shapes.
Strange veeeta bic forms sprans from the
ground or sprawled along the surface Some
we're sphsroidAl In shape. others rose verti-
oally like green poles set on end and shaped
into carved and hutAd columns.
There were paants which threw out shaggy
branch with hairy oval leaves. All these
were oActi-a forest Of the Texan Eopsl.
Here. too, were olumps Of agavs, the plant
from which the Msxioans make mssoal. and
the great. hugs-leaved masusy. from which
fortunes have besu made In 8issl hemp.
Min Cling with these strange ants were
trees Of acacia and mesquite. Tho entire land
was redolsnt Of great poeaibilitass.
A. 10 O'Clock on The morning OF Oct .. 1901.
Sam CrowtAsf. soaasins 10 sndlsss prsiries
closely. sAid: Here We are at last"
To kthS thers was nothing particular In
sight except bus sky and level isnds. He
had only sssn fortune IN masvsy and plains
whsreon the horned and hoofed beasts Of tbs
entire world might grsss
The old mules and the old wagon wheeled
to the right. proceeded for . mile or more and.
stopped In depression between two prairie
billows ~ clear and limpid sprinS.
Wow, come with mo, said Crowther. Fol-