Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-26
Life fn Tcx1rxana.
m the st. Louis Post Dispatch.

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Among the guests Of the LiDdell hotel is a
venerable gentleman named b. F. Moses, who,
according to the hotel register has his resi-
dence at Texarkana the interesting town which,
lying partly in Texas, partly in Arkansas, aud
quite close to Louisiana. was called after all
these states, the first syllablcs Of two of them
and the dyssyila3;c termination of the third
being combined to produce its Understanding
name. The impression conveyed by the hot.
register is, hrgrcrGI Incorrect. Mr. Moses was
aTesident of Texarka a a day or two ago but he
has shaken the dust of Arkansas from his feet
forever aud he proposes to end his days In his
Old Kentucky home at Palucah-at least SO he
assured Post Dispatch reporter with whom he
held Il brief but animated conversation this
afternoon.
I've had enough Of Texarha7a." he said.
land I'm going home to Kentucky. I've been
Keeping hotel therc-the BroughaHl House, STE.
here's my card-since last Marcl. bat We had to
give up: ! couldn't stand it"
what was the trUuble:"
First of all the nIr9ers then the cantipedea
then the taraatulas and then the country
The reporter suggested that race prejudice
ought not to be allowed to interfere with bust
Ness. but the gentleman explained
I've no prejudice against the ncrer at large:
n : the Texas n@ger I'm down on They're the
ineanest human cattle that i've black. white or
yellow. Steal: TEar's nothing they won't
make away with. They'll take the towels from
the bedrooms the tood from the kitchen the
mats from the hat-rack. anything that belongs
to somebody else that gives them chance to
steal they remove the first chance they get. I'd
heard of these Texas nogerS before started to
IeXarkana. 50 i took along with me from
Paducah. where had been keeping hotel seven
of the deCentest darkeys | ever knew-Ken-
tucky boys who had worked with me for years:
some OF en- | had raised myself. Well. sir. it
just took these Texas ni:sgers two weeks to
demOraiZe the whole lot Of them.
Its rule of the hotels i'm TeXarkana that a
Niger is never allowed to leave the building by
the back door. He's always got to SHOW up at
the office before ne goes Well about two
weeks ago. at the biggest hotel OF the place the
clerks eye fell one evening upon the form of a
departing dariley. and it struck him, somehow.
that the boys coat hung kinder heavy so he
first calls him UP to and then behind the counter
Investigation of the nrsrer's coat then showed
that the lining had been cut open and kitchen
goods piled through it till You couldn't rest.
There We're crackers and lOayes OF Vienna bread
two cans of oysters. 1t roast chicken a tongue.
package of tea. sugar. coffee. butter heaven
knows what all. which the confOunded nimger
was carrying off to his home. When heard OF
this it settled me. had never felt like carry
Ing the freRt-d0Or-only rule into effect and it
struck me that if such robbery could go on in
place where the ni@gers had to undergo super
VISION before they left the premises, there
10 chance at all for me. allowing them to come
and go when and how they pleased
''HoW about the centipedes:"
Just "a bad as the Texas niggers. They are
bug about as long as this Indicating a length
OF five inches and when their fangs enter a
human being death is sure to follow. They are
almost all legs aud in each leg is fang They
crawl over you and won't bite if not disturbed.
but. make one move ut them and in go the
fangs About two weeks ago a man i'm Texar-
Kama woke up in the morning and saw one of
these ceHtipcdes crawling about his thigh. He
ought to have let il alone, but he didn't. He
hooked his foretinger against his thumb,
sneaked it up to the bug and tried to bang it
OIL tie was quick. but not quick enough.
just one OF the fangs entered his flesh and in
twenty minutes he was corpse
And the tarantuas:'
They're bic. hairy spider; size of a sparrow
CT bat Their bite is fatal. too.
Are these bugs cOmmon:
APT to turn up anywhere. You find 'em in
the Kitchen. the parlor. tue bedroom anywhere
around the house. in fact"
In conclusion the disappointed hotel keeper
explained that another drawback to the bust
ness IN TeXarkana was the fact that the country
round about produced no vegetables OF meat
from St Louis and if train was delayed. by
the time the consignment reached its destna-
ton, the food was stale; consequently a good
Square. enjoyable meal was the exception in
1eXarkana. even at the leading hotels. He an
nounccd his intention of returning to Kentucky.
re-eStabshing his I'aducah hotel and remain
Ing away from the land OF bad darkeys taraIl-
tuias. centipedes and stale cabbage during the
remainder of his life.