The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-18

behind these heroes. and by their help and by their words of comfort and noble sacrifices made 1t possible for our heroes to win. All honor to tho women of Texas who are working to save to their state the historic Alimo.
 At the expiration of this short rest we were again aboard our train, and soon we are speeding away across one of the prettiest and best farming countries in the world. The day is grand, the breezes cool and invigorating. There has been rain :, and so no dust. At 3 O claek D. m we are out of the rain belt, and nearing now hilly country, rough ranch country,
 with but few farms in sight We are now running almost parallel with the Rio l Grande and looking away across this l stream we sec the mountains of Old Mexico looming up in the distance. The scenery Is grand. The walls of stone along the banks of the Rio Grande look as if they had been placed there by the hand of a skilled mechanic Now we come to the Pecos river. Our train stops on the bridge to give us a chance to get off on the side and take a look at what they said was tho highest bridge in the United States. It is 320 feet high but I have been on bridges 10000 feet above the sea level, and where out train was hang ing out apparently In the air, but this Is surely high bridge and a grand master piece of mechanism.
 Train Winds In and Out.
 Crossing the bridge our train twists and winds around through hills, almost doubling back and passing over curves where, as the saying goes, you may sit in your sleeper and shake hands with the engineer. But now night Is closing upon us, the sun has set and the beautiful tt,i1t ha ,,Ia har way In darkness but for the great elec- tric headlight. At o'clock this beautiful Sabbath morning, May the 8th. we reach this wonderful city of Fl Paso, The Pass. The weather is clear. cool and refreshing. This Is truly wonderful city, and one buided up largely on mining speculation, on railroads coming here, and on the great travel that passes through here.
 It Is rather a wild plaee-a town of sport. Yet they say that most of the 1 sport. cock fighting. bull fighting and so | on takes place over the river on the Mex | ican side. Here at the hotel this morn | Ing they are drumming up crowd for | a cock and bull fight for this afternoon | over on the Mexican side. l surely pity | the taste of anyone who Is so heathenish 1 as to cater to any such sport It certain | ly shows that such persons have very lit- | tie self respect or that they have become | lost to all sense of decency. This may be l as one man said the chance of my life | to see genuine Mexican bull fight, but I shall pass the chance, and I am glad that our laws will not permit such heath enlsm on our side of the river.
 Great Size of Country.
 To give our readers some idea of the size of this great country l will say that 1t Is only s32 miles from Houston to Fl Paso and it Is nearly POO miles to where We uso usht c.. larger than the German empire. One hundred miles counts as nothing in Tex as when we come to reckon distance.
 In writing these descriptions of my travels I can only treat of few of the many things of interest. There Is so much that could be said. and so many things that I have been unable to mention. among which is much of the beautiful. The beautiful flowers, that are to be seen everywhere all over the prairies, the wild flawfrs. the great variety of flowers, with their almost innumerable variagted tints and their sweet odors. They are ev- e ywhere to cheer the hearts of the ap- preciative traveller, but the traveller who buries him or herself In some worthless. cheap, trashy book or magazine get very little comfort from the lovely flowers. Natures great book Is to me the most interesting of all, and this book is al- ways open to the traveller, and this Is why like day travelling
 In looking at this great sea of flowers. I am reminded of what our Warrior said in looking upon his mighty handlwofk. He said behold the lilies of the feld-and 1 say to you that Solomon in all his l glory was not arrayed like these. No l skilled hand of the artist has or will | ever be able to reproduce these colors in l our flowers. strange that people of this | country should want to go abroad to | sec things of interest.
 America Is the grandest country in the | world, and there Is enough here to see | to take more time to see than many can | afford. I leave here tonight for Fort 1 Worth and expect to be in Texas week | or two more.
 The Mexicans.
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