The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-04-11
Ny Texas Trip Continued }.
BY EsTELLE vEHsE.

OrummerS, urummerS everywhere.
One cannot throw a stick in Texas
without hitting a drummer or dog.
and like the "old man of the sea- on
the shoulders of Sinbad, as hard to
shake of. He comes upon the cars
with valise, an overcoat and
linen duster. He is as clean round
the edges as the margin of a new
book; lifts his glossy beaver from
his head and puts it in the rack as
carefully as a mother would lay her
first born to sleep; slips something
on his head that makes it look as il
carved from a gourd; makes himself
comfortable, gracefully(Y occupy
ing two seats, and, as far as seeing
that he is encroaching upon the
rights of others, as well TO have
been born, as the Mammoth Cave
fish, without any eyes at all. 1t
was raining when we reached
DALLAS,
a city that reminds one of Gentry's
turkey hen that tried to set on forty
eggs, She evidently intends TO be
a big city some day. She has mag
nificent distances; mud, mud every
where, and roads leading into the
city so intolerable that teams die on
their feet Embedded in their mud
tombs, hitched to loaded wagons.
The wind blows a hurricane forever;
dust, dust! "dust we are and unto
dust we return" L do not mean TO
be irreverent or paradoxical), and
instead of the old adage Of carrying
"a brick in the hat" it's brick in
the corner of each eye. The wind
beats the tears out, and the dust is
there-you understand. It's citi-
zens are from every nation, and the
everlasting patter of the feet coming
and going on Its plank pavements
in the business part Of the city re-
minds one of a soliloquy in Dick
ems "Tale OF Two Cities" Among
the coming and going footsteps are
what are Familiarity known as
TRAMPs.
Tramps, many of them, not so by
desire, and who have known better
DAYS; unfortunates THAT have been
lured to this FL Dorado by its fame
of easy position and big pay, and
their means soon exhausted while
looking up one street and down
another for it are converted into
tramps, prowling like jackals here,
there and everywhere; chopping
wood for a meal here, begging one
there with pitiable tale, and de-
handing it often when they en-
counter only timid woman; sleep
ing upon cellar-doors, hats caved in,
clothes worn and rusty, linen tuck.
ed away out of sight, coat buttons
gone and garment held together
with thorns. The heart grows hard
and desperate by disappointments
and i'll usage, God is forgotten, and
the tramp finds himself concealed in
the brush waiting to spring like a
tiger at the throat Of the unsus-
pecting traveller, with the demand
"Your money or your life" OF
boarding a train at midnight, rob.
bling all indiscriminately; or, holder
still, coming in the MONDAY sun on
feet horses and robbing bank, az
was done in the heart of the city OF
Dallas. hus thieves and cut
throats are often made, and, but for
the dull misery that tugged at their
heart strings, might have been bet
ter men.
There seems TO be land enough IN
the vast prairie farms Of Texas tc
employ the world, but there is great
distaspa and prejudice with some
people against holding the plow
handles, scorning one of the noblesi
occupations as beneath them, anc
often aspiring TO something thai
they are wholly untitled for. They
must be real estate agents, otter
: without capacity, only 10 sit will
their feet higher than Ahir heads
and count their per centage pei
week slovenly done; or they muF'
roll pills and kill the people; or they
must sell dry goods at one hundred
! per cent. and swear they are selling
at cost; or, worse still, they mus
finger estates, rescuing IL clevcrll
, from the clutch OF the enemy an'
! putting it in their own pockets, o.
they are not happy.
One OF the notable pictures u
, Dallas is the man with flowing whit
hair and flowing white beard AM
dark, laughing brown eyes, sittini
in that hole they call postoiiice a
master. He was an old-line Wing
and, when Clay was nominated 70
the Presidency, took an oath tina
be would never pass under ID
y hands OF q barber until Clay wa
President. If he lived In Tennessee
he would have TO hire page TO bel
! him stote" his hair. Fortunately
? for HIM at least, the winds in Texa
act as barber, and whip IL of 20
manageable length. Another fea
ture on the streets is kind Of walk
:. ing restaurant, with a tray befor
! him strapped 70 his shoulders, NOV
ing rapidly, turning neither TO CD
right or left, unless accosted, cry
ing:
"Cakes, cream cakes, very enc,
= One for a nickel, two for disnei
Two for you and three Tor your dhughteri
a win only come 70 quarter
He vafies his machine poetry
now and then, as he feeds the grea
e sunwashed and uncombed" public
Dallas has a population Of 1000
inhabitants, is lighted with gas an
y yelned with street railways; caurc
u spires are pointing upward all owe
q the city, and some OF their pulpit
are ably filed. There are some ex
= celleat business houses and fc'
: handsome residences and n grca
: many Of the things In and aroun
;, the city that Don Quixote esquire
g imagination turned into giants whe
], that pair were IN search Of adven
\ ture. The fair grounds are oxten
. sive and beautiful; near BY j.
: charming oak grove In which ID
: Hoa. JET. Davis shook hands wit
Texas and was sumptuously enter
tanned by the liberal-hearted cit