The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-01
LErrER ERoR TEXAS.

i WEITEsBORO, TEXAS, July 20, 1883.
To the Editor of The Mcrristown Gazette:
In this busy world, we cannot al
ways find time to do all we 5ssire.
Frequently determine to write you,
but other duties come up and the writ
ing is deferred.
This afternoon visited the sister-in-
law of the brave and generous, but ILL
fated, Kyle McCarty; and after talk
| ing about his children and friends in
Tennessee, returned to my room at
the hotel, and found THE GAZETTE and
letters from dear ones at Morristown
and near there. Since reading these,
cannot sleep. People and events of
the past come troeping through my
brain. am carried back to the noun
tains and valleys of the beloved Ten
nessee. In IMAGINATION 1 am again
there. enter the quiet dwellings of
many lsved friends and hold pleasant
converse with multitudes of those /
dearly love-those who were my COM
panions in boyhood and manhood, and
those who were my pupils at Norris
town and Regersville. am not m UGH
given to the sentimental, but 10 long
tonight to be at home. Bat am net,
and cannot be. The providenees OF
God plainly say, 'fYour work is here"
Texas is a wonderful State. What
the country will be is beyond compre-
hension now. There is not such soil
nsr such people in the werld. The
land now is grooming with the products
of the soil and the prairie. Fair wheat
crops have been raised. The yield of
oats is simply enormous, and the corn
in all this North Texas is beyond COM
putation.
From my window is a full view of
the Union Depot. Here meet the Tex
as & Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, and the Gainsville branch. Ny
roommate tells me that sixteen heavi- |
lF loaded freight trains have passed
east since 4 o'clock, and five west.
Thus it is every day and all times of
the day and night; and still, agricul-
ture and railroads are in their infancy.
The people who have become the per-
manent owners of the soil are those |
who are now coming by the thousands
each year are mostly thrifty, honest, |
industrious penple-the best material |
in the world out Of which to make a
frugal, prosperous population. These
people are notigRorant, nor careless in
reference 70 the failure for their chill |
dren.
In obedience to the demands of the |
voters the Legislature has had in oper-
alton for five years a thoroughly equip |
ped Nor NAL School at Huntsville, in |
which two students from each county |
receive beard, books and tuition free
each year; and there is not vacancy.
To-day was examination day for an
pOintments all over the state. The APP
plicants for Grayson and Cooke coun- |
ties were examined here. Fourteen |
applied for the four appointments.
examinations will be held |
in five places in the STATE for Peabody |
in the Nashville Normal.
One Of the FIVE gees from this Normal.
Over twenty are booked fol the con-
test. Besides this evidence of interest,
the State has conducted forty Normal
Schools for four weeks, one in each |
Senatorial district. This one item costs
the State Sc, 900 Annually.
We have not yet q well perfected
plan Of public instruction; but it is
rapidly-iust as rapidly as
In possible with people so cssmopoli-
tan in character.
Then, our private schoOlE, semina-
ries and colleges are increasing in eff
ficiency.
The religious interests do not lag. |
We have many of the best possible |
Christian workers. Church work has |
much to contend with. No one thing
retards christian work more than the |
great multitude of impracticables and |
ecclesiastical dead-beats, or rather
uAhioSCAAAA "a am %. 0AOut NuO HAu |
proved incompetent in the East, have |
come to Texas 10 mend their fortunes. |
They appear in the roll of professional |
place-hunters, temperance reformers,
lecturers, etc. They infest the towns,
they beseige resident pastors and |
teachers. Ii they succeed in getting |
into = house and securing an audience,
the Performance closes with the stere- |
oiyped whining appeal for voluntary
This continued tramp, |
these rapid, hollow lectures, cause
even the earnest christian people to be
of all se-called revivalists
and lecturers; and hose who are not |
identified with church interests, lock |
upon all efforts to build up the inter
ests of the church with suspicion. But |
when men have proved their faith by |
their works, and by consistent deve-
ton to duty, have secured the conf
dence of the people, their influence
for good is great.
have already written toe much.
A. w. WILSON.
To Smokers If you want the best |
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