The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-03
p,sGUsTED GEORGIAN.

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u,portor WIN the Long How
# uul be- remembered that durin
March Colonel =, b. Spencer eX
,|.g5r off Atlanta, packed mp his effect
'nJ moved out % Texas On last Mon
'" I.remurd 10 Atlanta without hi
effects ,r,, ,.i .i.L 49,.
r,rlainly realized, while out there
ina warnings OF that poor fellow win
M sVav from his father 10 90 10 Texas
"loner being there for year or "a
rraphed back Prepare the lNtte'
fiorme"
Colonel Spencer is mau Of fine abili
undouLted talent tlreless energy
unblemnhed character No mar
better calculated TO give Texas ano
.,l outcome a fair trial than be
ord8 are consequently of practIca
lance, and may be called lifting
Of gold in pictures Of silver
We found the distinguished returnee
reclining on couch in his room A box
Of pills sat near
Colonel, can You give me for pubica'
ton some reasonswhy u Georgianshould
NOT emuatc to Texas p
well, sir" replied the colonel, with
that enm humor that is his characterisN
dr II do not know thai | could give
you better reason than ! furnish in
myself Look at me Here's 4 good
reason lr not leaving Georgia for
Texas
you had bad luck out there, didn't
you
Eyes, sir, ! did, ! reminded myself
of tine fellow who won't to California to
make fortune digging gold, and wound
up by washing clothes for the miners
until he had scooped together enough
money TO bring him home, | didn't do
quite that badly, ! went to Texas to
practice law with good firm, Both Of
the partners were inyalds. ! soon
found that the business, while large,
was q gaeat deal Of it criminal and pau
per business. The best run of work
was the practice among the cattle
droyers of the western counties These
We're called Cow boys and good pa
irons. But it was the widest circuit
that ever man rode. 1t would take
you month to reach your court and
your life was III perpetual danger, il
you pressed n prosecution against some
fellow he would shoot you, or if he
didn't want to do it himself, might have
tdone for IS by some dirty ank undisN
Mexican. let that it was
lot the sort ola business that q man at
my time of life should build up, Conse>
luently gave it up, went to San Ans
ohio and thought | would try it
mere. commenced editing
tally paper, and was doing
cry well, when | found that
he depressing, enervating climate was
.illing my wife. In that city there is
ctually ten months of summer every
ear. 1t just takes all the energy out
f man. While there ! met friend.
'ho had been to school 10 me in south>
,estern Georgia, and he told me if
ould so to Dallas | could get good
yhool. ! went to Dallas, and soon had
school that would have paid about
800 a year, but | found everything so
nsettled that | determined to come
nck to Georgia. Aud here am, heart
y home~sicR, and determined never
, play truont to this great old state
gain.
Nv hat are the advantages that Georr
ia has over Texas?
"Why, nearly every advantage. In
he first place let me tell you this,
When man finds it hard to get along
{ his own home, he tancies that he is
unering from the effects Of II local de>
ression, and that if he were elsewhere
e would do fine business, lie for
cts that the same depression exists
and that II man has to
cyatch like the mischief for living, no
natter where he is.
Now when he goes to Texas it is
enerally in response TO the desire togo
nd grow up with the country. This
all folly. lie will find when he gets
here that he is in miserable society.
t is choatic, uncertain, shifting and |
ransient. Instead of meeting with
warm reception, he finds that he is
cooked on with sort OF suspicion and |
imply because he is one of host of
that have come into the state
rom everywhere, many OF them the
worst of adventures, and most OF them |
Without conclusive credentials. This
,pirit of social and business distrust
leyades nearly every town in Texas
md naturally, too, because there no
man knows who is his neighbor, or
where he came from, or what his chars
lcter is Everything is loosely thrown
together.
You can hardly imagine how this
spirit of suspicion weighs stranger
down, and keeps him back in his busi>
ness 1t is terrible load to struggle
against. The same amount OF work,
put to any sort Of business in Georgia,
will give much better results than 1t
would in Texas. am certain Of this.
You then have the advantage of better
society, and all the social comforts
here
as Texas a better country for young
man than Georgia p
1T is not In the first place, the
most of the young men who want to 90
there have little or no capital They
consequently desire to get work as soon
as they get there. TO do this is almost
totally impossible. The state is simply
oyenun with young men DESTROYS OF
obtaining work. You never saw any.
thing like it. They can get literally
nothing to do. 1t may be possible to
eeta job on farm, but tell you the
man who tries TO work as a farm hand
out there will find his muscles tested to
the utmost. The most of the blowing
Is done there with two horse plows-
oilener four horses than one. The plow
il'eliis huge eighteen inch affair, and
II cuts iurrow like a gully. IL Is
tremendous task to follow one of these
Plo"s for day. One of the plows we
Use here cottldn't ba pullpd a foot