The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-07

NllO maze, ana OF proper lntlnoub
OF soil culture which have turned
the failures Of former years into the
sure success of today "The fnnc-
ton OF rain In the summer Is TO
make crops, The functions Of rain
in the winter Ia to make mud" he
said after showing that the average
summer rainfall of the seml-arld
belt was about that OF Illinois while
the winter rainfall was much less.
Farming In the semi-arid belt, he
declared, was easier when the farm
ers knew how than In tho regions
where tho rainfall was greater be-
cause the product was better and
there we're no danger OF losing the
crop.
Announcing that he had a speech
OF twenty-seven typewriter pages
which he was afraid to deliver be-
cause the Oklahoma men had heard
him for two days, Nels Darling, Of
the oklahoma Sash 4 Door Co., who
proved himself an orator Of compell-
ing power and an impersonator Of
irresistible humor, told glowlngly of
the growth OF the Southwest as he
has known II, of Amarillo as he saw
II first fourteen years ago with
gambling rooms in full sway on both
sides OF the main street, and OF ANA
rillo as he saw 1t now where gamb-
ling is forgotten. In concluding Mr.,
Darling confessed that he wds a
crank and recited Wendell Phillips
ideal OF civilization as the prosper
Gus town Of 1000 inhabitants, and
told Of the methods Of merchandise
ing, manufacturer, wholesaler, job
ber retailer, which makes possible
such towns. Then he raped sharply
the retailer who sells goods at twice
their cost and thus leads the buyer
to patronize "Shears, Sawbuck G.
Co." and Insanity Ward G. Co."
Lunch and Talk ut Amarillo.
After the meeting at the Deandi
the visitors circulated some more
and at $50 were ready In the lob
by OF the Amarillo when the doors
OF the dining room opened and ANA
rillo men and Oklahoma one and one
took places at the long tables.
The two course luncheon prepared
for O'Clock was perhaps a little
unusual at the hour but as Mr.. Fu-
qua, who acted as POSTMASTER eN-
planned, "cold victuals were more
digestible than hot victuals anyhow"
1t was all good and the party soon
made way with it far enough for
the postmaster to introduce P. E.
Boesen, OF the Daily Panhandle, on
the Panhandle" who told OF his
prcconceived notions OF the plains of
the time a few years ago when he
first saw the country and how he
exclaimed that this was the Gland
that God himself has chosen as the
last and best for Gods people" He
recounted how Oklahoma City, which
nineteen or twenty years ago was a
spot on a prairie which men thought
all but an uninhabitable waste, is
now city hundred Of whose bus
mess men are visiting Amarillo and
whose emissaries Of business 90 out
to all parts OF the world. With this
Democratic state of Oklahoma on the
east, he said, and with nothing but
an imaginary line between them, the
people OF Oklahoma and the Pam
handle are rightly more than neigh
bors. Continuing, he dwelt upon
the possibilities OF this section and
told OF the offer made him recently
on a trip back to his former home in
Iowa OF the Democratic nomination
for congress, and how the prospect
OF being a Democratic congressman
In Republican Iowa was so much
less attractive to him than the pos
sibility OF being a humble worker
in the ranks in the Democratic state
of Texas and he did not consider the
offer.
j. L. O'Neill illustrated CONNER
cial Development" by telling OF the
actual development in the Southwest
and especially in Oklahoma City
which has been made possible by the
enterprise and organization OF able
men. He told of the impossible
tiles" accomplished and of things be-
Ing done in the Southwest which
the party was visiting, OF his sur
prise and delight at the showing OF
the towns the party had visited in
the Panhandle.
eve feel that you are our neigh
bors, that you are men of push, get
up, brains and money" said NJ. c.
MOBILES, speaking on "Jobbing Pos