St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
My Dear. St. Tammany Farmer:

MY Lear. oC. ldmmany Farmer:
| trust you will pardon my delay
in replying to your kind request to
write you about our trip to Texas.
The family have been the hap1ess re-
cipient of some very undesired atten-
tion from Madame La Grippe, and
this Is the reason of my silence.
How did l like Texas?" I'm
mensely. She's great! Great not
only as TO size, but as to products,
agricultural, mineral, industrial and
human. And please stick a pin right
here-have you ever seen a Texas
prairie-cattle dotted, and rolling
rich verdure that meets the tur-
quoise of an Italian-no-a Texas
away as far as the eye can reach in
sky?
Have you ever seen it shorn of it's
verdure, and lying rich and black or
sloftly brown in its fertile, we'll till
ed earth? Or, more engaging still,
have you ever seen these vast plains,
stretching out acre after arce, cOv-
cred with the king of all products-a
mighty cotton crop--which rules the
markets of the world, and brings
untold riches and life to it's fair
state? Until you see this, Mr. Farm
or, you have something to live for.
A visit to the Waco cotton palace
showed the marbles, quick silver, and
ores brought from the great mines Of
Texas; mines deemed well night in
exhaustable. / wish 1 had time to
tell you about these wonderful !. ex1
hibits and others of cotton, wool, Tfine'
n q q nfp In
town is the hum Of factories, .thf.
tramp, tramp of busy men and Wo-'
men, and the unmistakable signs of
thrift, progress and prosperity. No.
drones, no knockers. no soreheads
anywhere to be heard or seen. And
this brings me to what | have upper,
most in mind, and what l wanted to.
put first and in big letters, THE
PEOPLE of Texas.
II Texas Is great, why, her people
are greater, for they have made
Texas. They have fought for her,
have worked for her, and have re-
deemed her from wild, crude, half
civilized land, and have made her
what she is--a mighty state-second
to none In the Union.
Texas is great smelling pot,
where men and women bear the
crucial test of leaving home and state
to take root in a new life and new
country. Be they from North, South,
East f,or West, their native states
b seem only to live with them holy
memory, as that of beloved mother,
and they become Texans with the
work, aims and ambitions of the
state of their adoption, that has open
ed wide her arms with bright prom
Z %fses of well being to these men and
women xswho so become children Of
her very own. No work is too great
ltfor this people to accomplish, no
! SpTobl leiuHpo knotty for them to solve,
and nd, dtficnlty too wide to bridge
), = Dal!as has arisen from the naked
splaintT~ith "a giants growth and
.notkAie can retard her progress. For
smunx6s4 tlifs fair city has been con-
frontefSw5 a water famine. Water
Is doIadseut from a water wagon to
theSiIthkb kbitants of many. parts of the
.toWnx#But does that daunt them?
Do ySS find any CUTTERS? Do you see
any bne with sthegdoiprous hammer?
We'll, didn't Exery body is bravely
enAhring tho discomtorts while the
eity authorities are busy as bees,
sfngking wells tfy supply the people
with wholesomeand plenNful water.
~ Dear friends, ii could Write on and
on-the words would vary, bat the
melody would BE the same;sHo I'll
halt, with the. ernest hopesthat our
people, at leaststhe obstfuctionists,
knockers and aaaftters, will all go to
Texas and leaEA the great lesson that