Polk, Dallas And Texas

Dr. A. W. Carnes delivered the address of welcome at n reunión of pioneers in Hutchins, Dallas county, recently. Among other things he said: "In 1844 the battlecry of the admirers and folio wers of one of Tennessee's most honored - yes, of oue of the nation's most honored sons - was, 'Polk, Dallas and Texas!' That cry was the ory of the victors of that day, but littlo did those who gave voice to that sentiment realize the magnitude of its import. Little did they think that that vast expanse of uutilled prairies that had just wrested itself by the rnighty arm of a Houston, of a Travis, of a Lámar, of a Rnsk and of a Crockett from the grasp of the Aztecs would, in the time of thëir corapatriots even, blossom as the rose and become the home of the arts and the sciences. lts history reads like the wonderful talos of the 'Arabian Nights. ' Under the magie touch of those pioneers cities and industries sprang into existence like the mvthical castles of an