The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-01-05
DIsesUsrED GEoRGIAS.

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$500 Year. Resurns for Hsrseay
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IL win be remembered that during
Las March Colonel s. B. Spencer. exs
mayor of Atlanta. packed up his effects
and moved out TO Texas. On lsst Mon
day he returned to Atlanta without his
eli scts
HIS story of Texas life is a rich one.
II certainly realized. while out there,
the yearnings of that poor fellow who
ran away from his father TO 40 to Texas,
and after being there for year or 50,
| telegraphed back, Prepare the h.tted
cali for me.
Colonel Spencer is a man of fine abili-
ties. undoabted talent, tireiess energy
and unbiemished character. No man
WAS better calculated to give Texas aud
ITS vast outcome a fair trial than be-
HIS words are consequently of practical
Importance. and may be called fitting
''aeples Of gold in pictures of silver.
| We found the distinguished returnee
reclining on o couch Ia his room A box
! OF pills sat near.
Colonel. can you give me for publiea-
ton some reasonswhy aGeorgian should
not emigrate to Texas p
! Well, sir, replied the colonel, with
that grim hamor that is his characterize
/ tic, Il do not know tina. | could give
you better reason than | furnish in
myself Look at me Here's a good
reason FIR not leaving Georgia for
| Texas"
You had bad lucs out there. didn't
you p
Yes, sir, ] did, reminded myself
OF the fellow who went 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. ! didu' do
J! quite that badly. | went to Texas to
practice law with good firm. Both of
the partners were invalids. | soon
found that the business, while large,
was q gaeai deal of il criminal and pau
per business. The best run OF work
was the practice among the cattle
drorers of the western counties These
were called cow boys and good pa
irons But it was the widest circuit
that ever a man rode. Ii would take
you month to reach your court, and
your life was in perpetual danger. If
You pressed prosecution against some
; fellow he would shoot you or If he
didn't want to do it himself, might have
itdone for IS by some dirty ank undis-
nguishablc Mexican let that il was
nut the sort ola business that man at
my time of life should build up. Conses
lquently gave itup. went TO San An,
tonic and thought | would Try il
there. | commenced editing a
daily paper, and WAS doing
very well. when | found that
the depressing. enervaiing climate was
killing ray wife. Ia that city there is
actually ten months OF summer every
year. l. just tskes all the energy out
II man While there | met friend
, who had been TO school to me in south
: western Georgia, and he told me if |
would 60 IA Dallas | could gat good
school. | went to Dallas, anu soon had
school that would have paid abou,
, 81 500 a year, has teRnd everything Sd
. unsettled that determined to come
back to Georgia, And here am, heart
lily home-sick, and determined never
to play truant TO this great old state
again.
What are the advantages that Geor-
; gia has over Texas7'
Why, nearly every advantage. In
the tirss place. let me tell you this.
When a man finds it hard to get along
II his own home. he fancies that lac Is
suffering from the effects of a local de-
preston, and that If he were elsew ere
he would do fine business He for
gets that the same depression exists
everywhere, and that man has to
scratch like the mischief for a living, no
matter where he is.
Now when he goes to Texas il il
generally IN response to the desire to 90
and grow up with the country" This
is all folly. He will find when he gets
there that he is in miserable society.
, 1t is ehoatic, uncertain, shifting and
. transient, Instead of meeting with a
, warm reception, he finds that he is
looked on with q sort of suspicion, and
simply because he is one of host OF
strangers that have come into the state
from everywhere, many of them the
worst of adventures, and most of them
without conclusive credentials This
spirit of social and bue,ness distrust
pervsdes nesriy every town in Texas,
and naturally, too, because there no
man knows who is his neighbor, or
| where he came from, or what his char,
acter is. Everything is loosely thrown
together.
You can hardly imagine how this
spirit Of suspicion weighs stranger
down, and keeps him back in his bust,
ness. Ii is o terrible load to struggle
against The same amount of work.
put TO any sort OF business in Georgia.
viii give much better results than il
would in Texas. ] am certain of this.
You then have the advantage of better
society, and all the social comforts
| mere"
is Texas better country for young
man than Georgia
ut is not. In the first place. the
most Of the young men who want to 60
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
overrun with young men DESTROYS of
obtaining work. You never saw any
thing like it. They can get literally
nothing 10 do. II may be possible to
get job on farm, but tell you the
| man who tries to work a. farm hand
out there will find his muscles tested To
he utmost The most of the blowing
ia done there with two horse blows
ofrener four horses than one The pillow
itselfis huge eighteen inch sffair. and
ut cuts furrow like gully. II is a
| tremendous task TO follow one of these
piows for day. Que of the ploys we
use here couldn't be pulled a foot
through that deep marshy soil out there
NO. sir; "a young man had thousand
times better stay in Georgia than 90 10
fsxas. II he has capital he can use il
much more safely, and quite as profi.a,
hly here, as there. III be has not and
desires to get work, his chances for 4
Job area dozen here to one out there
/ is Georgia better farming country
than Texas Ii is not so rich. but i
is much more safer, A man will some
times make "a much in one year in
Texas as he can make in three here. but
IN the aggregate OF ten years work he
would make mere in Georgia than he
would make in Texas.
'srhe soil there is wonderfully rich I.
issix feet deer, and is very fssrt;la