Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 195, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 17, 1886 Page: 3 of 4
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Personal Appearance and CharacterlstloB
of tbe Oaneho of the Pampa^-Sluiple
Food and Plcturesqoe Garments—Span-
ish gpeeoh and Compliment. °-|
The original cowboy iB the product of
South America. He rides a horse as if he
and the animal was ono. He pomes near
to realizing the old thought of the Mexi-
cans, when they first :;aw the Spauish
horsemen, that this mounted human body
was a distinct order of beings. One would
not hunt on the pampas among the
gauchos for the millennium, nor for a
higher order of beings, any quicker
than he would among the cowboys of
Texas or Arizona. The gsucho is not un-
like the cowboy, cxcept that J»e is every
way more so. He is more of an Indian,
for he usually has quite a per cent of
Indian blood, undeniahly declared in his
high cheekbones, straight, course, black
hair, and copper or dark-tinged skin. He
rides wilder horses, and with either more
or less trappings, as necessity compels or
fortune allows. He needs only a short,
club-handled, heavy-lashed, whip, with
whioh he first tames his horse aud then
his herd. He is also greatly delighted
with saddle and bridle heavily plated with
silver. He sleeps where night overtakes
him and feeds on the dried meat which ho
carries; under more favorable circum-
stances he has a small floorless cabin as
headquarters.
FOOD AND CLOTHING.
Here he takes his breakfast on broiled
meat. He goes after the herd, leaving his
wife, when he has one, in the hut, and he
returns late at night to be fed on meat.
For months at a time he never tastes of
vegetables or bread. Sometimes he has a
little pulverized farina, into which he
dips his meat. His dress is, like himself,
a compromise between the Spaniard and
the pampas Indian. There is tho broad-
brimmed sombrero, borrowed from Spain.
Then he wears over his shoulders his
poncho. This i3 the garment upon which
he sets his heart. It is like a shawl, with
a slit in the middle, through which he
thrusts his head, and allows the ends of
the shawl to hang down over his arms.
When his arms are extended at full length
the poncho looks like a shawl folded
through the middle and held up by the
folded edge. This is often embroidered
most elaborately and ornamentally.
When he comes to town wearing this gar-
ment he sticks to it regardless of the tem-
perature. We have seen the poor fellows
on the steamers, with the thermometer
nearly 100 in the shade, wrapped in one of
these heavily embroidered shawls, per-
spiring as if in a Turkish bath, but
they would never think of putting them
aside.
Next he wears a chirrepa. This nonde-
script is worn where civilized men wear
pantaloons. It looks like a square or ob-
long piece of cloth, folded diagonally, ono
corner fastened to the waist and the op-
posite corner brought up between the
limbs and fastened to the belt in front.
The limbs seem to be loosely enswathed
with It. The ohirrepa may be very com-
fortable, but it is far from trim. It looks,
when they stand still, like very loose
drawers, but when they step it shows the
garment to be one piece, loosely folded
and wrapped about the limb, with the bias
fold hanging between their feet. Under
the chirrepa the gaucho wears calconclllos,
a pair of loose white cotton drawers. Thus
got up, tlje gaucho adds the Turk to the
combination of the Spaniard and the In-
dian in his composition. Mounted on his
horse, with his lariat hanging to his saddle,
he is a distinct product of South America.
DIGNITY ASP POLITENESS.
It is not well to regard hin* as a savage.
Though he feeds on meat, and enjoys both
dangers and hardships, he has in his veins
some of the best blood of Europe. Go to
this man's hut on the pampas, push aside/
the untanned bull's-hide which serves as
a "portiere" at the doorway, greeting you
with all the dignity and ostentatious
politenesn of an old Castilian knight, he
will offer you a seat on the skull of an ox.
Be careful to bring to the front your best
and most courtley manners, and exercise
your most prudent judgment in determine
ing how much of his smooth Spanish
speech is meant and how much is to be
set down as pure Spanish compliment. It
is good manners in a Spaniard to say "my
house is thine"—but it is Saxon boorisli?
ness to accept his offer.
The gauchos have had their representa-
tives on all the fields where liberty was
the stake, and they have also had their
term In the place of power. The tyrant
Rosas was a gaucho. Few men ever exer-
cised more power in their fields than did
he in his. The assassination of rivals and
enemies is a phenomenon produced by
and strong despotism alike, but to
order tfye u*lqr pf one's family to be worn
by all the families of 4 state indicates
great confidence in one's executive abljl-
tfec." No weakling could, fpr instance, sur-
round the churches with soldiers on a fine
{Sabbath morning, capture all the women,
rich and poor, and stick with pifcl) a red
rosette upon the hair of each que. But
Rosas, vfho did this, could dare anything,
He could mount ft wild home—never even
haltered—and, armed with a heavy whip,
run him down, tame him to be guided by
the motion of his hand, and then knock
the animal down for his own convenience
in dismounting, and In this be only a
gaucho, a wild Spaniard, bred Into tfc«
fierce blood of the pampas Indian, Buttq
capture, paste and subdue all the women
vt nis dominion he must need be an execu-
tive of majestic proportions,—Bishop Foo-
ler's letter In Chicago News.
One of Argentina's I'ubllo Works,
Part of the great plan for widening the
belt of safety is known as Alsina' ditch.
This was nothing lea than running a
deep, wide ditch 100 leagues long across
the pampas north, east, and southwest
IM a protection against the Indiana, It
found that the Indians oould pass
Every strata er
over it withoyt much trouble, and people
laughed »t Alsina's ditch; but it was also
discovered that the Indians oould not
1 the cattle over it. Thus it gave
to the settlers, and land Im-
mediately advanced In price over a wide
belt. Thus the government is steadily
back the difficulties. • In due
plains, rich aa an Illinois
" w Illinois prairie.
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GEORGE C, METERS,
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fM. Quad's Letter to Boys.]
Do you know anything about ground
riass? Did tyou ever wonder how tho
Banging baskets and beautiful scrolls dis-
played on the glass panels of front doors
a ere placed there? Come with me into
a»c works and we'll post up about it
In tho first place, all the glass received
is plain. The first move with ground
jlass is to frost it. They were a good
many years finding out how to do this,
ind a very simple thing gave them the
clew. An English servant maid found
some paiut on a window which would not
wuah off. (She took a smooth pebble and
some sand and scouted away, aud she not
anly removed the paint, but frosted that
portion of the glass. The glass men soon
bad tho correct idea, aud hero it is before
us. It is a tight box about five feet wide
and ten feet long, with a depth
of about a foot. It is hung on
Iron rods so that it rocks like a cradle as
the steam-power is applied to the machin-
ery. Tho glass is laid fiat in the box,
covered . with wet sand and pebbles, and
;ho shaking begins. The pebbles and
?aud shaking over the surface of the glass
cratch it and produce the frosting. It
takes about an hour and a quarter to com-
plete the work, but this homely invention
iccQinpllshes as much in that time as a
diligent man could in two weeks by hand.
When the glass has beeu frosted it is
ready for the artist, lie takes it to his
bench and draws tho pattern in crayon,
thus making black and distinct fines
which show through tlio glass.
When the grinder takes it in hand he
sits before a revolving grindstone which
has been turned to an edge hardly wider
than the blade of a table knife. One
grindstone cuts straight lines, another the
eurves aud so on to the number of five or
six. The side on which the pattern is
rlrawn is held on the stone, and he must
havo a true eye and a steady hand. If he
deviates from the lines his work is spoiled,
for the eye can at once detect the careless-
uess. An adept will grind scrolls, bou-
rse's and the finest work as neatly and
rapidly as an artist can draw them.
Where colored glass is ground the pat-
tern is made by simply grinding out (he
color, winch leaves the ornamentation in
white and the body of the glass in color.
There are only about twenty five ground
glass factories in the I'nited States, and
the pay of an adept workman averages #:>
per day the year round. All the grind
stones are imported from one quarry in
Scotland, there being no stone In any
other country so well fitted for the work.
Tlie Vitality of Seeds.
(Arkansaw Traveler.]
The seeds of the willow will not gorm
Inate after having been once dry. Tlio
seeds of coilee aud Various other plants
do not germinate after having been kept
for any considerable time. Wheat over
two centuries old has l)een found quite
tit for food, but the grains usually lose
their power of growth after the lapse of
seven years. Specimens of rye and wheat
known to be 185 years old could not be
induced to germinate.
"The stories of 'mummy wheat' Sprout-
ing after having lata dormant in Egyptian
tombs for thousands of years, are. to say
the least of them, very dubious," de-
clares Dr. Robert Brown, P. L. S. "No
well authenticated instances of such finds
are extant, while among other articles
sold by the Arabs to credulous travelors.
as coming out of tho same tomb as ihc
ancient wbeat, have been dahlia bulbs and
maize, the deposition of which in the re
ceptacle from which they were said to be
extracted necessitates the belief that 3,0()0
years ago the subjects of the 1 lniraohs
were engaged in commerce with Amer-
ica. "
When kept dry and pmteeted from
light and air, however, seeds have been
known to retain their vitality for some
what lengthened periods. Seeds of tho
bean and pea order havo sprouted i$ff!r
100 years' storaxo in an herbarium, and
many similar instances—most of them
somewhat doubtful—have beeu recorded.
Traylng Piute.*.
[Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. J
The wife of CapV Bob, of tho Piute
tribe, died tltQ OtU«r morning, and was
buried in the Csttholio cemetery. Not a
few of the Piutcs have been baptized into
the Catholic chu.»ch. A number of their
cliicfs became Catholics long before there
were any whites in Nevada. They were
in the habit of paying annual visits to tho
California coast towns, and gome of thoir
woptea married Spaniards at Santa Cru/.,
which made them acquainted with tho
Christian religion. Through the influence
of the wives of the Spaniards, their kin-
dred, several of their leading men and
wouion were baptired each year when the
annual trip was made to the sea coast.
Their own religion is not a bad one,
and from it to any orthodox religion is
but a short step Strange as it may ap-
pear, they are a praying people, are a
people always ready to either pr;*y of
fight. Tho Princess Sarah W ionemucca's
book is full of iust#ucgs where her peoplo
were aascRibM iu prayer, a id she herself
was wont to pray to tbe Great Spirit
whenovpr she got into trouble—prayed
aloud as she lied before her enemies on a
wild retreat acrows the deserts.
Baljy'e (Jutijokon Sympathy.
[ISomerville Journal.]
Baby hits an idea—the result—perhaps,
of painful experience—that if any one is
sick, the trouble must lie in the epigastric
region. The other day her father cante
home from the office with a bail cold ami
a raging headache. Baby appeared to bo
very sorry for him, but said little. Two
hot^rs later her mother was taking her
down towu in a well-filled horse car. Sud-
denly looking up, after a season of pen-
sive musing, Baby was mo veil to remark
in a tone audible to every one of tho smil-
ing passengers: "Mamma. Baby's awfu'
sorry papa's got 'o tumiuick ache!"
Medicine Called for.
[Exchange.]
An extmin&tion of 3,?M prescriptions
in a Boston drug store showed that 504
different drugs were called for by tho
doctors. Quinine took tbe lead by ap-
pearing in 292 prescription!, morphine
appeared in 172, bromide of potassium in
1<1, iodide of potassium in 155, and mu-
riatp of Iron in IJJL Tho whole dumlicr
of article* in the ptaarmacopirla is Wl,
and Boston used iaoro than half of them.
Behind the Tiroes,
[Clile^jfo Herald. |
In some parts of North Carolina can
dies and kerosene lamps am still cou
•iderod artic'os of luxury, while resinous
torches are most geuorally used by the
poorer clossci
Tempering me Monty
According to a French scientist tbe
force of storms pan ho lessoned by placing
a large number of lightning rods on tbe
telegraph poles along railway lines.
It is said that Mgr. Capel does his br I
work after midnight,
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