Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1898 — Naming a Texas Boy. [ARTICLE]

Naming a Texas Boy.

A strange communication was received by Congress just previous to its last adjournment. The letter came from a small setUement in Northeastern Texas, and was addressed to “Tbe Congress of the United States in Washington Assembled.” The writer, who had penned the lines in an entirely earnest spirit, related how a boy lmd been horn to him and his wife Amanda and they could not agree on a name to call ti'o youngster. “Now, what we want' included the Texan, “is to hay.- urnent passed through your h. . him ft handle." The letter • private secretary of Congi liley, of Texas, and a ha lit came to him. Calling se he employes around the Ho r he communicated the co; he missive to them and P 1 hey act as a subsittute ol committee of the whole an i y a name. Accordingly a s tions, sticklers in their foim ion, were drafted, with seal and signature properly fixeo to the writer. They informs xun that the Congress had to uizance of his communication ; I acted accor ;' i~ly. “The Oongro.-. exercising :v -.-I'' was vest ,i in it said the resolution- >signates, denominates, • nes your offspring after tii: d scions of the Lone b t , - known that his name sin Hailey Chilton Mills .”

Reclaiming Welsh 1 Large tracts of sand w.- >o* telng reclaimed along Mi , coast Series of parallel fee.-: • : up sea/ ward, closely Interwoven ,w|tb wlret tnd furze, and spaces between these poets are filled with earth and road scrapings. In these various trees, sm* as sycamore, willow, pine and alder, are planted, while the ridges are sown with gorse and broom seed ni»n««4 with Man.