The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
SOUTH SEEN BY A DRUMMER.
DEADLY WORK OF A NORTHER
DOWN IN TEXAS.
Difference Shown TO Women, Which Also
4. Restraints Them-Variety IN the streets
Z Prosperity brought to Negroes in
4, kaD by Big Crops OF Cotton.

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An hour later at Temple, Tex. a cold,
emitting wind caught the travellers full In
the face
"Norther," was the remark as they tum-
bled into the closed carriages.
The rest of the night and all the day
following the blast whistled at a high note
around the corner OF the hotel. The streets
were almost deserted. The Presbyteians
debated after morning service whether to
open the church in the evening.
II was IL degrees above, the coolest
record In six years. Doors and windows
showed cracks that let the blast in; only
the immediate vicinity Of the red hot stove
was warm. Such cold Is not provided for
In these Southern houses, wide open
most of the year.
Queer sights com with q norther. The
Mexicans wind crash towels over their
heads for ear protection; also handker-
chiefs and all manner of rags. At Goliad
several boys wearing overcoats were run
ming around barefoot.
Some years ago eight Mexican women
and children started to walk ten miles to
a settlement. A misty norther that sent
the mercury down to "a degrees came up,
They wandered among the mesquite-a wild
growth resembling a peach orchard, miles
In e1tent-lost, it is supposed. Night com
ing on, they squatted down 70 wait Tor
morning. Their bodies were found t%o
CLOTHES, poor food, thin blood.
One popularity Of the norther Ia Its effect
on the Texans curiosity. This is shown
by his question, when did it come up?'
and the exact answer by some one, Ten
fifty" for instance.
Il Ia not clear why such interest attaches
to the precise minute when the first gust
reaches town or why the one with the
answer knows the exact moment when the
blast struck.
Out on the range the cattle freeze by
hundreds. Imagine a bunch OF 10 900 head
huddled together on the frozen plains,
unablet to get water at the ice covered drink
punchers cut holes to prevent the etock
from perishing from thirst; their Efforts
count Tor little.
On February 10, 1905, the Houston Post
correspondent at Engleton, Tex, reported
that 'over $1,000 cash has been, paid for
hides from Monday morning to Wednesday
evening. These hides were taken from
dead cattle around the town and show
the loss sustained by the stookmen In the
recent cold SPELL
soME THINGS ABOUT WOMEN.
Lometa, Tex, is a frontier town innocent
Of paint or sidewalks, and with much empty
land between the scattered houses. The
male population gathered In the hotel
office to examine the signboard being
fastened to the wall-a board whereon all
the business houses, the blacksmith and the
doctor had their names in scrawling paint
each in q square at $3.50 per. And they all
remarked that Mr.. Loca Amateur had left
of Fire" in Simpsons insurance sign.
Lometa was very new.
The town boys occupied all the available
= u,ha- t,,N ~,
women from the country came in to warm
themselves. Then Lometa showed what
abe In made OF. Instead Of the snickering
Of the ~,up-north village boys there was an
instant jumping to the feet and every chair
p was offered to the newcomers.
AT Halletsville, Tex, a maiden OF forty-five
land then some), came into the office OF a
lumber dealer. on came the lumberman's
hat. Open came the gate OF the private
ONCE: Up rose the lumberman and in
marched Miss Spinster, to accept his chair
and ask the cost Of a board for the hem
coop.
man with hat doffed. It was as though
the Viceroy's wife had landed at Calcutta.
These incidents are noteworthy because
they are the rule.
The pastor Of a San Antonio church calls
attention to the younger girls in the league
meeting leading in prayer, He holds them
ND as an example to the older girls and to
the ome Of the congregation. He thinks
there are not a dozen churches IN his de-
nomination in the South in which women
are encouraged to a a part in the public
Woman has been held to be so exalted
that she must not talk in a promiscuous
crowd.
At this same lea meeting, one Of the
Southern women said to a man:
Get up, say something; l would IL ] were
q man; they won't let me talk"
RESTRAINTS Oh CIVILIZATION.
Gurden, Ark, struggles out of the pines
and into them again. The Gurden Lbr.
Co." in large letters on the brick building
meant q place where anything may be had
on which a price can be put,
Inside, a white woman, with q square
Methodist jaw, was looking at sateen. A
oolored woman wanted sugar. The travel
ling mar had Just landed ar order for a
ear of feed. The cigar salesman had his
order.
Up a way on the station platform, a native
Ia long whiskers was defining "sanctifica-
tion.s 1t was early Monday, he remem-
bored over night.
In front Of the block Of up and down
store fronts, a SOW and a half grown family
OF ten rooted in the red dust called a road
way. When a cat forgets the rules and
regulations and Jumps on the kitchen table
10 lap warm milk, the noise Of battle and
righteous indignation follows. When a
pair of three months old pigs stray into the
front Of a store-the dry goods are up near
the door on left; shoes on the right,,-then
the moi so OF battle comes also. II the at
lacking party is very agile, sharp pig
squeals rise high above the shouts and
stamping feet.
The three months old pig looks a cousin to
the little bear as he walks down the station
platform to inspect the products of %civiliza-
tion-the baskets Of bread left by the train
just gone. Bears work for a living. So do
Arkansas pigs. Bears are thin in the spring,
go are the pigs; bears ears stand out.
and pigs' ears do, too.
Thus II happens that three Of the young
pigs, smiling the brown paper, the sealing
wax, the bread, look like a family OF bears
strayed out Of the woods, Like well be-
haved bears they step out Of the way when
the agent comes for the bread.
The Arkansas pigs, barred from exc'ir-
eions into the stores, would sympathize
With the pony that could not get into the
bank at Miles, Texas. With the other
horses, this pony lives of the grass growing
IN the wide streets.
Why build barns where it is summer
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