The Velasco Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1893 Page: 4 of 4
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A THOUGHT.
BV 1.ITTI.E KLLA HKKTI.EY.
I tow ii In tbe wood* a little at ream
Flow* wjMj- pa«t the liend,
And though we've looked ko oarefully
We cannot find the end.
ITntll at lam we've quite tired out
Ewh mcHHenKer we tend,
They walk «Ion* the flower-clad bank .
But never reach the end.
And ho It brightly glldca along
An gentle an a dove,
And menu to huve no end all,
We call It Mother'a Ixjvc.
THE DISADVANTAGES OP B10NEKS
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Some Remarkable Facts About the
Great State of Texas.
The fut boy at the museum re-
marked one day that proportions
such as his had their great disad-
vantages. This statement of a
profound truth, based upon per
sonal experience, seems to apply
very well to the state oí Texas.
There are disudvuntages' in big
ness. This fact will impress any
ono who reads the report prepared
by General Adolphus W. Greely,
chief signal officer," on ''The Cli-
matic Conditions of Texas."
The geographies, us a rule, do
not help one to acquire correct
notions of the size of Texas. The
State is so large that few atlas
sheets show it on the same scale
' as other stutcH, except on general
maps of the country. Studying
Alabama on one map sheet and
Texas on another, the attention
of the student is seldom called to
the lact that Texas is shown on
a much smaller scale than Ala-
bama, and very likely he leaves
school with quite erroneous no-
tions of the size of Texas as com-
pared with Alabama and other
stutes.
Although Texas belongs to the
drainage basin of the Atlantic, its
extreme western part in El Paso
county is about 200 miles nearer
to Pacific waters than to the gulf
of Mexico. A part of the Pan-
handle is nearer to the Great Halt
lake of Utah than to the gull' of
Mexico. Fourteen of the 228
counties are larger than the state
of Delaware. The distanco from
El Paso to the eastern boundary
of the state is as great as that
from New York city to Chicago.
The northwest corner of the Pan-
handle is as far from the southern
boundary at Brownsville as Chi-
cago is from Mobile. While the
extreme northern part of Texas
is in about the same latitude as
Norfolk, the most southern point
of the state is scarcely 100 miles
north of key West.
Texas is one of our great sea-
board states, only California and
Florida exceeding it in length of
seacoast, and yet there are large
regions in the state that are fur-
ther from the sea than many of
our political divisions in the in-
terior, such us Idaho, Nevada,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio.
It must make the intelligent
citizen of the great state smile
when he is asked, "How about the
climate of Texas?" As Texas en-
joys a variety of climates, it takes
some ime adequately to answer
bo comprehensive a question.
The state extends across It de-
grees of latitude. While snow
and ice are practically unknown
in its southern portion there are
large areas across which the
severe "norther" sweeps, and
where a temperature far below
the freezing point is not un-
common.
General Greely sums up tho
climate diversites of Texas in a
striking manner when ho says,
"The apple and olive, cotton and
hay find congenial habitat" there.
With regards to the rainfall,
some portions of the state have
less than an inch a month* and are
a part of the arid regions, while
other sections have moro than an
inch a week.—Now York Sun.
This is what one of our exper-
ienced dairymen has to say about
receptacles for storing butter:
"1 perfer a well-soaked, properly
made oak tub for keeping my but-
ter to any other kind of package.
Both tubs and firkins are more
largely used by our best dairy-
men than any other form of pack-
ago. They are much to be pre-
ferred to earthern crocks or jars."
Texan Abroad.
Frank Carpenter's letter: At a
recent Washington dinner the con-
versation was spicy and lots of
good stories were told. The sub-
ject of money-making came up
and Tom Ochiltree said:
" Did you ever know that i
came within an ace of makiug a
million dollars! Well, 1 did, and
1 lost it through my reputation
for exaggeration. I was at a din-
ner ut John Chamberlain's in
Washington and Senator Ilearst,
John Itussel Young and several
other prominent Americans were
at tbe table with me. We got to
telling stories over the walnuts
and the wine, and Senator Hearst,
whom you know died worth sev-
eral million pounds, was giving
his early experiences. He told
how he amassed his great fortune,
and he described tbe struggles of
his early life, lie told how he
worked and saved to get money
to take him to California. He
described his long and weary
ourney in a wagon across the
plains and grew pathetic as he
spoke of bis hardships along the
Platte river iu Nebraska. When
they came to this river they found
a flood hud made it almost impas-
sable and they waited lor days for
the river to go down. The
waters, however increased instead
of diminishing, and they were iu
despair. 'At last,' said Senator
Hearst, ' four or five of us conclu-
ded to make a raft and. get across
by it. We tied a lot of wagon
beds together, put our bedding iu
them and finally had quite a res-
pectable boat made. Then the
question was to get a rope across
the raging torrent, in order to
ull tho raft over. No one of the
party could swim, and for even ¡
the bravest swimmer it looked j
like death to go into that raging j
flood. We east about for some
time as to what to do, until at last
a fat little red-headed, blue-eyed
boy came up to us and said that
he could swim tho river and that
ho could carry the rope in his
tooth. lie was sturdy, muscular
and courageous, and we concluded
to let him do it. lie jumped into
the river and after wonderful ex-
ertions reached land. Two hours
later we were on the other side,
and, gentlemen, 1 never felt so
happy in my life. We threw up
tfur hats and shouted for joy, and
1 never think of my early life but
that Í remember that redheaded
boy. I have looked for him
everywhere and I cannot find
him. Had lie not been there I
would have probably gone back
to Missouri and my gratitude to
him is beyond description. Why,
gentlemen, if I could find that red-
headed boy to-day I would give
him a million dollars. 1 mean
what I say. I would give him a
million dollars.'
"Up to this time I had been
very modest," continued Ochil-
tree, as ho ran his hand through
his auburn locks and then brush-
ed the back of it across his blue
eyes, while his fat, rosy cheeks
shone. "But 1 could stand it no
longer. I rose and said with tears
in my eyes, 'Senator, 1 was that
red-headed boy.'
" Hearst looked at me a moment.
He then brought, his fist down on
the table so that the glasses rang
and exclaimed, with more empha-
sis than elegance, 'Tom Ochiltree,
you arc a blank blank liar,' and so
I lost the million."
A woman has been found in
Chicago who insists on hugging
all the handsome men she meets,
whether it be on the streets or
elsewhere. This lends the Victoria
Review to remark:
"It is to bo hoped something
will be done with that woman be-
ALFALFA RAISING.
Experience in the l'ecox Valley on Dry
and Irrigable Lands.
Qalveaton New*
Hohwkll, N. M.—In the News
of April 5 I see some queries and
answers concerning alfalfa, or
lucerne, and as I live in the great
allulla belt, the Pecos valley, this
may interest your readers:
Alfalfa, when once firmly root-
ed, comes from the roots peren-
nially. Prof. Curtis gives seven
years as tin- limit of its root
growth, but in this he falls short
of the mark, as there are alfalfa
pastures in this country thut have
never been allowed to seed which
were plauted twelve or fifteen
years ago and are better now than
ever. In California at some of the
old missions the plant has flour
ished over a century, and, I am
told, has rarely ever been allowed
to seed.
The farmers of this valley ull
raise alfalfa when in their power
to do so, as it is u staple product,;
taking the placo which cotton oc-
cupies in the south without the
"drug on the market" peculiar to
cotton just now.
The umount sown varies from
fifteen to thirty pounds per acre,
owing to quality of moisture, that
may be relied upon that tiie farm-
er has at command.
The yield after tho first year is
three to four crops of from three-
fourths often to two tons per acre.
The seed can be bought during
threshing season for K cents per
pound. Tho amount of seed sown
should be somewhat larger on
"dry" than on irrigable lands, and
tho crops of course will be some-
what lighter uud fewer to the sea-
sons. Water makes the best hay
of the plant, but 1 am told "dry"
lands raise as good seed as ' wet"
ones.
To those readers of the News
who wish to experiment with
small quantities af alfalfa seed I
will gladly send from two to six
ounces, or more if desired, if they
will inclose postage for same.
Will also answer any questions
within my power when stamps
are enclosed for reply.
Jas. W. Mullens,
United States Sub-Statistician of
Crops for Chavez and Eddy
Counties.
with cultivation.
The blackberries, suchas Kittat-
ting Wilson brought here from
the uortb, do not suecceed on ac-
I count of rust, drouth, etc.
There is no need to grieve over
! this, when we can find plenty of
¿ood berries growing wild near
at hand only requiring planting
and cultivation to equal in size
and flavor the northern kinds.
It will be a surprise to many of
tin friends of Mrs. Jefferson
Davis to learn that she is living
in New York in poor and un-
comfortable circumstances. Her
income is said to huve decreased
rapidly in the pust few years until
now it is inadequate to her sup-
port, even in the modest way in
which she lives. There is no
doubt but that Mrs. Davis failed,
through misrepresentation or
actual fraud, to realize her share
of tho proceeds of the sale of her
husband's memoirs, and it was in
an effort to secure justice from
her publishers that her income
was reduced to its present
status. The wife of the Confed-
erate President is not in actuil
want, but she and her daughter
have scarcely more than the bare
necessities ol' life.
liLACKUEIllMES AT HOME.
the
fore the Texas I'ross association
reaches tho city."
Let 'er alone. I'ncle Dan'l
Mc Gary has announced that ho
will not cxcurt to Chicago, and i
Major Charles Edwards will
be out at Ogden, Utah, dallying
with the Saints. The T< xas press
gang without Uncle Dan'l and
the Major will never be mistaken
for a ho-beauty show.—San An-
tonio Express.
What is tho matter with Col.
Tom Richardson and General
Hice of La Porte.
How to Transfer and Cultivate
Wild Variety.
From the Nowh .
Every one who is willing to
take a little trouble can have
plenty of luscious blackberries
right at home. The native or
wild blackberry, when cultivated
and given the same attention that
the tame sorts demand, loses its
wild characteristics and becomes
a large, firm, delicious berry,
which would not bo rocognized us
related to tho common, wild ber-
ries growing in the woods.
The most prolific and finest of
wild briars should be selected and
dug with all the roots possible.
The roots cut into pieces two
inches loug and plauted upright,
the top near the surface, will grow
and make' fine, thrifty briars by
fall, ready to fruit next season.
Of course tho old plants may be
planted too, and will grow and
produce as well. Hows should
be laid off eight feet apart and
plants set twelve or eighteen
inches apart in tho rows. If the
ground is previously well pro-
pared and fertilized a fair crop of
berries will be had the second
season.
The blackberry plant has a
tendancy to overwork itself.
While covered with bloom and
young fruit every season it throws
up great tender shoots to a height
of six or eight feet within a few
weeks. These shoots should be
cut down as soon as they appear
that all tbe strength of the plant
may be thrown into the fruit.
No weeds or grass should be
allowed among the briars, and
they should be pruned every win-
tor in order that they do not take
up all the ground and interfere
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Leonard, W. A. The Velasco Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1893, newspaper, April 21, 1893; Velasco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185369/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .