Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-08-24

is ground into yellow meal, excellent for
fa,tening cattle and the husk is pressed into
fiat cakes, 80 inches long, 10 inches wide and
inches thick and fed in place OF hay. AT
ter the cotton and seed haye been gathered
machine cuts the plant into small pieces
and cattle are turned in to browse while it
is fresh. When it begins to dry it is plowed
in and acts as fertilizer.
Galveston, Houston, Dallas are great bus
mess centers. The former Is destined to be-
come one OF the greatest ports in the coun-
try. The two latter are surrounded by rich
agricultural districts and have become dis
tributing point on large scale for farming
implements and shipping point for farm pro-
ducts of all kinds. Fort Worth has an i'm
mense meat packing industry drawing to
itself hundreds of thousands of cattle from
the great grazing grounds to the south and
west. All the cities and many small towns
have artesian wells sunk 1900 to 1900 feet.
Most of the large hotels own their own wells
The number of electric fans In use impresses
a stranger at once. They are everywhere.
in all public buildings, in stores, in the bed
rooms of the best hotels and we'll to do fami.
lies have them in Railways, dining, sitting
and bedrooms. They are necessity in fact,
the climate being exceedingly hot in sum-
mer. This Is said to be cool summer, ow'
ing to unusual rainfall, but even so the
thermometer stands % to 100 daily. True
the heat is dry, little or no humidity and 90
degrees in Texas is easier to bear than 90
often IN Maryland. But unlike the climate
here there is no let up, no hot spell of four
or five days followed by cool spell. Every
day is the same, hot and dry. BY 8 O'Clock
the freshness of the morning is gone and the
sun is burning fiercely. The nights howev.
or, are usually cool and brace man up for
the day to come. September is the hottest
month Of the year. 1t is said the long siege
of hot weather in sunni er thins the blood,
relaxing mans energy, but among the bus.
mess Een of the cities there is certainly no
indications of this they appear to be just as
quick and active, just as energetic mentally
and physically as New Yorker.
San Antonio bears the reputation OF being
the qualntest and handsomest city of Texas.
1t has great wealth and fine buildings, but
is said to be less enterprsing than the 9TH
ers. The San Antonio winter ls unique,
succession of hot and cold waves, "northers"
they call the latter. Day after day for sey'
eral days the mercury slowly mounts until
so to 81 degrees then suddenly, without any
warning, inside of half an hour fierce cold
wind which chils to the marrow sweeps
down on the city. This cold spell lasts al.
most four days, each successive day little
warmer, until finally the heat comes again
to be as promptly followed by another cold
wave.
Main Street in Fort Worth is spectacle
on Saturday evenings. The sidewalks are
full of promcnaders, soda fountains packed,
electric cars every minute and constant
procession of carriages UP one side OF the
street and down the other. Every kind ct
carriage, the automobile leading Of course,
handsome turnouts in the hest of style, rub
Der tired wheels, prancing hlgh-brcd horses
drawing ladies in light evening dress and
even the old fashioned prairie schooner with
its ribbed canvas top and loaded with the
family in f,om the farm to see the sights. AS
he sits in his chair in front of the hotel and
smokes his cigar one might easily imagine
he is in some popuous eastern city were it
not for the prairie schooners. We in the
East are apt to think of Fort Worth as an
outpost on the frontier and in fancy to see
the picturesque cowboy riding in on Sa,ur
day to shoot up the town. The f,ct ls the
cowboy is at Fort Wotth almost as eXtinc,
as the dodo. 1t is useless to repeat that Tex
as is great state, Every body knows that,
but few know how great it is. 1t is literally
seething with energy and progress. In this
respect the Texas cities beat anything in the
East outside of New York. The Texans
loyalty to his state, and his outspokcn faith
IN its future arc refreshing to see.
He believes in himself too believes he can
do things-and therefore does them.