. The life and writings of Rufus C. Burleson, containing a biography of Dr. Burleson by Harry Haynes; funeral occasion, with sermons, etc; selected "chapel talks;" Dr. Burleson as a preacher, with selected sermons. at is the size and climate of Texas? III. What is the history of Texas ?First. What does ^Texas mean ? Tradition and legend give three meanings to Tehas, orTexas. 1. The name Texas is derived from the Latin verbterio, I weave, and was so called from the number of spiderw^ebs found woven over the forests in the bottoms of LowerSabine, Neches and Trinity Rivers. 2. That Texas means fr
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. The life and writings of Rufus C. Burleson, containing a biography of Dr. Burleson by Harry Haynes; funeral occasion, with sermons, etc; selected "chapel talks;" Dr. Burleson as a preacher, with selected sermons. at is the size and climate of Texas? III. What is the history of Texas ?First. What does ^Texas mean ? Tradition and legend give three meanings to Tehas, orTexas. 1. The name Texas is derived from the Latin verbterio, I weave, and was so called from the number of spiderw^ebs found woven over the forests in the bottoms of LowerSabine, Neches and Trinity Rivers. 2. That Texas means friends, or friendly, and was so•called from the fact that when La Salle and his men first 750 The Life and Wettings of landed in Matagorda Bay, seeking the mouth of the ]Iissis-sippi River, and the Indians crowded the shore and were askedwhat tribe they belonged to, answered, Tehas, or Texas, or friendly; hence, it has been claimed that Texas meansfriends, or friendly. The third and most probable and beautiful meaning isthat recorded by John Quincy Adams, in his celebrated diplo-matic correspondence with Don Pedro Cerallos and Don Louisde Orris about Texas affairs. That tradition says Texas means Paradise.. I 4 Of i I 4 i ^*^ / C^JMWlS^ *• LANDING OF LA SALLE. And that when the roaming bands of prairie Indians, seeking a better hunting ground, came to the range of moun-tains north of San Antonio, ISTew Braunfels and San Marcos, and saw the beautiful, transparent rivers of San Antonio, San Geronimo and San Marcos gurgling from the mountainsides and meandering over the vast prairies, carpeted mthunending green and variegated with fragrant flowers, inter-spersed here and there with live oak groves, as the weary, delighted hunters saw these boundless prairies, covered withvast herds of deer and buffalo, and the streams filled with fish, Dk. Rufus C. Bueleson. 751 all refreslied with cool, delightful Gulf breezes, and coveredby a sky of more than Italian beauty, all at once shoutedTe