Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — NOTHING WRONG WITH TEXAS. [ARTICLE]

NOTHING WRONG WITH TEXAS.

Where Conditions Are Glorious and Nature Smiles. Tho Washington Post says: "Sunshine continues to be at a premium tn Texas.” Not so, friend, says a writer In the Galveston News. Tho sun to shining from a cloudless sky upon more than 8,000,000 acres of cotton} upon 80,000,000 watermelons still upon the vines; upon millions of peaeh trees burdened with ripening fruft; upon tons of grapes growing purpls In tha light of the waning summer; upon vast areas of growing grass upon which 5,000,000 cattle feed; upon millions et fat horses and Industrious mules; upon myriads of musical and contented jackasses; upon innumerable fat hogs, granting as their snouts plow througl the damp, cool earth; shines thirteen and a half hours of the twenty-four, and then come the restful shadows es the night, the gorgeous August moon, and the golden stars, when nearly four millions of people fall asleep to the soothing breath of lisping zephyrs mingled with the Incomparable melody of 1,432,807 mocking birds. Such is life In grand, gleaming, glowing, gay, glamorous, gorgeous, gemniferous, glistening, gramineous old Texas.