[Illustration: Page from "The Plunkville Patriot"]
BEXAR SCRIP NO. 2692
[From _The Rolling Stone_, Saturday, March 5, 1894.]
Whenever you visit Austin you should by all means go to see the General
Land Office.
As you pass up the avenue you turn sharp round the corner of the court
house, and on a steep hill before you you see a mediaeval castle.
You think of the Rhine; the "castled crag of Drachenfels"; the Lorelei;
and the vine-clad slopes of Germany. And German it is in every line of
its architecture and design.
The plan was drawn by an old draftsman from the "Vaterland," whose heart
still loved the scenes of his native land, and it is said he reproduced
the design of a certain castle near his birthplace, with remarkable
fidelity.
Under the present administration a new coat of paint has vulgarized its
ancient and venerable walls. Modern tiles have replaced the limestone
slabs of its floors, worn in hollows by the tread of thousands of feet,
and smart and gaudy fixtures have usurped the place of the time-worn
furniture that has been consecrated by the touch of hands that Texas
will never cease to honor.
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