The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-30
life and your old socks too that
have had a damn good time"

life and your old socks too that l
have had a damn good time"
II IL old buns meat tnat 10 eaten
Ny every clviuzed nation on me eartn,
sue feeds the armies OF tne Worid ana
supplies the barracks OF the country.
her product is sent IN cargo loads TO
foreign countries, In the late sum-
mer and fail months she blockades
tho railroad from the west ana this
country TO the Missouri river cattle
markets, and will until YOU get your
packing house built here In Anna
rillo, then her sweet juicy meats will
go out TO the ends Of the earth. She
Is raised and grazed on the sweet
nutritious grass, fed on alfalfa and
fattened on the Panhandle grain, and
II my friend Colonel Groom was
here, he would say she was Favored
with the Panhandle sugar beet, Her
descendants In the way of high grade
will be at your fair next fall. She
has gone to all OF the cattle shows
OF the country, and we OF the Pan
handle expect to help you have a
fair here that Is second TO none in
the country from an agricultural and
livestock standpoint. II is our good
fortune to see her descendants In the
long lines of high grades at the Kan
sas City Royal. II was also our mis-
fortune to be introduced to one at
an entertainment given for the BEN
eft OF the visiting cattlemen which
we do not believe was OF old Brin's
kin and kind. She was on the sun
ny side OF forty; she soon informed
us that her home was In Pittsburg,
that she had spent the greater part
OF her life abroad, had been educated
in Germany, but was then rusticat-
ing for a few weeks out west In Kan
sas City. She said she presumed
you had come to the Royal Stock
Show" and we said, Yes" She
said, 81 was down at the Royal this
evening, and oh! ! did enjoy the
cattle so much. Those beautiful
white faced Durhams, and those
great red Herefords and those great
big black ones with their fighters
pulled off," She said, 81 do not
know the names OF the cattle out
west very well, but when we were in
Naples, Italy, they had some cows
that they called goats and they would
bring four or five Of them around
tied with little strings and ring, and
II you wanted milk they would take
the goat-cow up TO the pantry and
pump the milk out of them, and oh,
my goat milk Is so good, 1t is so
efficacious against the ravages Of
tuberculosis, We buy II in Plttsburg
and New York" She said, Have
you ever been abroad?" and think
ing she was trying to load us we said
Eyes. When we were a small boy
we went with a good old aunt Of
ours to a neighbor and" She
broke into our conversation and said,
Have you ever crossed the water?"
braced up again and said, Eyes,
when | was a bigger boy crossed
hte Mississippi" She looked blank
and said, ooh! / do not believe ever
heard OF that, but you ought to go to
Europe. II is delightful, and oh,
the sweet blue sky Of Italy. Il is
the most delightful place on the face
OF the earth" Then our old Texas
blood began to boil and We said,
Madam" and she said, ~ am not
madam" and we said, Pardon u.s."
and she said 81 would not mind being
madam" but We told her we could
not help her Then we told her that
Texas was larger than Italy, Austria
and Jamaica and when her north
ern plains are covered with snow,
and the southern shores are wreathed
with flowers, and her winter veg
etables and tropical fruits are being
shipped to all parts of the earth, then
Italy is not in It,. Where we lived
In 1898 the sun shone without a
cloud to mar its brilliancy week in
and week out, month in and month
out and year in and year out until
1897. She said, "Oh my! have
heard of that dreadful country. I
will go and get my friends and have
you tell them about it." She went
this way and / went that. Rain
and mud, civilization and progress,
have gone hand in hand until now
Brin's happy grazing grounds are
covered with villages, towns and
cities. But on these convention oc-
casions we are proud to meet an
element OF society to whom we shall
ever hoist our hat and bow our heads,
and for whom we shall ever gather