Dec. 1, 1898.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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ally rented space when he found he was being boycot- 
ted, and upon investigation he discovered that bis 
grocei-, the jeweller and others were opposed to any 
such innovation, and he concluded and did change his 
plan and now has a very beautiful store, confined ex- 
clusively to his own line of trade — that of a retail dry 
goods dealer. 
GALVESTON 
is unique in very many ways. Nearly every 
corner has its grocery and beer store, gener- 
ally kept by an Italian or Greek, and with a population 
of 65,000 it ha9 only three first-class giocery stores doing 
a retail business. It is said to be a very wealthy f ity, 
and one is told that it has tvvent) -seven resident 
millionaires. It is nearly a dead level with well-laid- 
out streets, of which a few are paved with wood, while 
the rest are either deep in sand in dry weather or just 
as deep in mud in wet weather. Each residential 
street has, on each side of it, a line ot trees and a row 
of oleander bushes, and as the houses are generally 
built back from the side-walk, with a lawn between the 
two, some of rthe streets are not lacking in beauty. 
Its sewerageor want ot sewerage system is a blot upon 
the city and where there are sewers the householder 
has to pay the Company a dollar or so per month for 
their use ! The lanes and alL-ys are a standing merace 
to health and a disgrace to any city and yet the Health 
Officer declared, not long ago, in public print, that the 
city would compare favourably in regard to cleanliness 
with any other city in the Union. The streets running 
north and south are known by numbers, while those 
going East and West are styled avenues, and are sup- 
posed to be lettered— beginning at the north— with the 
letter A, and thence on to M ; when this letter is 
reached, you have M^, N, N.| and so on ; but the 
streets and avenues are bare of either letters or num- 
bers, and the stranger muse ask the passer- by where a 
certain street may be and how best he may reach it ; 
consequently it is not an easy matter for him to find 
his way about the place. Galveston is the largest of 
the Gulf shipping ports I believe, and during the 
season about 25,000 bales of cotton are received daily ; 
while for the last nine months upwards of 4,000,000 
bushels of corn and 6,000,0 0 bushels of wheat have 
come in for shipment, besides many other products of 
the State. There is very little differencf-- here between 
the Sabbath and>ny other day of the week. Many of the 
stoves, all the corner stores, the cigar shops, saloons 
and theatres are wide open on Sundays, and I pre- 
sume do a thriving business. Sunday before last I 
heard an obscure miuisttr declare this city to be the 
most wicked and ungodly in the country, while another 
clergyman last Sunday referred to the Galveston 
Sabbath in terms set forth in an abstract from his 
sermon, which I cut from , a newspaper and now en- 
close to you, 80 that you may know that I have not 
exaggerated the matter in the least : — 
" Now what shall we say concerning our own city — 
the city we all love, the city for which we all would 
make any reasonable sacrifice ? Think of our Su^ day 
saloons wiUi their open doors. Think of our gambling 
places in full blast on the Sabbath evening. Think of 
our open theatres on the Lord's day. Think of the 
open beer joints and corner groceries on theLord'sday. 
Think of our city as the only port of the world, save in 
China or Japan, heathen countries, that forces men to 
load and unload foreign vessels. The m^n must obey 
the ship broker or lose their jobs. Think of our offices 
where men are piotaniug God's day. Think ot our 
Sunday picnics. Think of our Sunday baseball. Think 
of our Sunday excursions. Think of our utter dis- 
regard of the Lord's day . What does it mean ? What 
Will be its result ? The declension ot religion, the 
declension of morality, yea, the loss of free institu- 
tions. I plead in behalf of our holy religion ; I plead 
in behalf ot public morality ; I plead in behalf of free 
institution ; I plead in behalf of physical nature itself ; 
I plead for the Sabbatli. H:)ld the Sabbath ! To the 
last man 1 Always the Sabbath ! It the Sabbath is 
lost all is lost !" — Part of a sermon preached in Galves- 
ton, 2:ird October, 18'.)8, by Ilev. W. D. Bradfield. " 
A prominent lady told me not long ago that it was 
as much as a minister's position was worth for him to 
refer to certain subjects, and when he bo far forgot 
himself as to do so, he was quietly told that a re- 
petition would endanger his billet, and lead to 
his separation from the Church ! 
So far as I can learn none of the towns in 
TEXAS 
holdout very promising ortlattering inducements to the 
vendor of Uejlon tea, and it will be a matter of time 
and education before any perceptible hold can be 
got on this market. If there be any benevolent indi- 
vidual, having a million or so to lose, in advertising 
and exploiting your tea in the "Sunny South," and 
is prepared to wait, he may, in the course of a de- 
cade or two, make converts ; but to the person ot 
limited means, my advice is to damp his money in 
some convenient river, and thus save himself an in- 
finitude of trouble and worry, and prevent himself 
from attempting to invade this particular part of the 
country, addicted to cheap, fearful compounds, termed 
coffee. It would be unfair to this bright (?) city to 
omit to mention its want of an up-t -date modern 
Hotel, where cleanly prepared food could be obtained, 
or to make mention of the many so called Restau- 
rants where the food is stacked upon a counter, in 
all kinds and conditions, and where one sits on a 
stool and v.'here he is jostled and crowded until he 
is not quite sure that he is a wedge era bit of jelly. 
The traveller had be'.ter fight shy of the Galves- 
ton Restaurant and its neighbour in iniquity and 
uncleauliaess Ihe boarding-house. 
Texas is a large and an important state that needs 
developing, and that is destined to become the pro- 
ducer of immense crops of almost every kind, so soon 
as the socalled farmer can be brought to icnow some- 
thing beyond the planting of cotton and corn, learn 
a little about his business anl go in for diversified 
crops. The person in the South styled a farmer is, 
no doubt, a good cotton and corn planter ; but beyond 
this he IS a back number. He does'nt want to work 
every day in the year, nor does he go in for rotation 
of crops; but he goes on hia own sweet way, tickles 
the soil a few inches, applies artificial manure, goes 
on cropping the same piece of land, year after year, 
with the same crop; and when that bit of laud is 
completely exhausted, he clears up another patch 
and repeats the same old dose, and follows the same 
ancient methods that prevailed ages ago. His clearing 
for years is a picture of slovenliness, for he does not 
out down all the trees, but leaves many of them to 
die and rot — standing. He has no vegetable garden, 
but depends upon some other state or on cancet? 
goods tor his vegetables, and as for his house and 
out-building, why? — a coolie would weep over them if 
he had to become an occupant thereof. 
I will now take a leap over to 
THE DOMINION, 
where everything that is produced is of the very best. 
No place on this continent can produce more deliciousl> 
flavored or handsomer fruit, and the vegetables are 
beyond compare. There the buildings are, as a rule, 
neat, warm and comfortable, and the out-buildings 
ar^ now of the very best kind, while the gardens are 
something to be proud of — and all this iu the face 
of the long bitter winters that the producer has to 
face. A friend of mine in New Brunswick writes that 
the Maritime Provinces will not in 1899 import 
2,000 half-chests of China tea, and that Ceylon and 
Indian teas will be almost solely imported ! He 
ought t(3 know whereof he writes for he is and has 
been Agent for years of the largest China and Lon- 
don Tea houses. 
This letter may possibly interest some of my old 
and dear friends in Ceylon. I hope so, if you think 
it worth publishing. 
K. E. PINEO. 
INSECTIVOKOUS OR CARNIVOROUS 
PLANTS : 
[INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE TO ALL 
WHO HAVE TO DO WITH PLANTS.] 
Sir, — Your conespondent " E," who has treated 
us to a popular account of tiie insectivorou.s or 
carnivorou.s plants, is veiy far behind the >\-j,q in 
