Show ABRUPTLY CHANGED HIS MIND jersey city man had cause to reconsider the advisability of cutting up state of texas we had been talking tor for half balf RD an hour or so on the subject 0 of dividing texas into tour four states and the man from jersey city who had a front seat in the stage insisted that the matter ought to come up for congressional action we finally drew up at a way station tio n to change horses and as we got down to stretch our legs the one native texan among the eight passengers pulled out a bowle knife and confronted the jersey man with so you reckon that theres there Is of texas to make tour four states its its a very large state replied the man looking with anxiety at the knife exactly you are also a very large man yes Y e s do you reckon theres of you to make four men well bardl hardly Y it if I 1 should even slice off your ears lose euthin of your glory you of course and you feel fed that you were ere much of a man with your head gone would you no indeed 1 I merely illustrate said the texan as aa ho he whetted the blade on hla his bootleg it if texas can be divided up and still oh she cant be interrupted jersey texas is none too bis big tor for a single state for or the empire state ol of the west and if I 1 were one of her honored citizens I 1 should certainly oppose such a movement with my every energy r gy gentlemen let us drink to texas as she Is and we gurgled exchange |