Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-20
TOURING IN TEXAS.
Pan Pictures of Life In the Lone
Star State.
,.s FAR SOUTHWESTERN DARkEr
TIE Thriving Town Of Sherman-where u
Is. How il Looks. ard What It
Amounts tO-A Nail Cltiren's
Impressions.

4 ..,,,, r,,r,,yOrJ, ncr Of nc S'nt1y Reyf'Esr'
SHERMAN, Ten, May lO.-ln con-
c,rmity with my promise to occaslonai'
IL enlighten the readers Of the SUNDAY
EraIsTER as 10 my impression oil tniusS
:, ,rs far southwest, mail you the iol-
,ovyiry notes from sherman, my HIS
hsIting place south of st. Louis. FROM
~ Louis southwark, the change IN the
APPEARANCE Of both county ana people
:. poticeable. albeit gradual. Negroes
appear in greater numbers al each sue
c.rsiye station, mules take the place oI
borses- Toward evening cypress
swsmps begin TO line the road-the Tan
ami bodies OF the trees drlpplnS Win
Groom moss as with Shiny tears auu
7Tsndirp deep in water 50 turOld that IL
mirrors them only family. The pas
.rnpers look out OF the windows intent
" 10 catch sight Of the rabbits that ire
.iuent tine swampS, sight oi "Licu
brings good luck. VOLTA announcer
.yupt0m Of our changed environments
EVERYTHING Is sign! AT sunset, as
rio long, yellow rays strike through
,h,. fnr.st and gleam duly in tins dark
MFR while the trees stand out, black
..r tI,sn ever against the pale buck
,.rouDd. scene better calculated 10
,,r,,lsa superStitiOus fears could scarcely
b.. imagined.
on the Border.
breakfast al TeXaTkanS the next
p.orrinp. Tai euphOniOus mamie Is
vulutrr, making known To the traveller
i,yt he has r,arued the boundary line
b., ,w,sn IrNa, AMI Arkansas, and Is
,..,.r that az Louisiana, also. Ii Is
r.rrnad rruler, and an imp Irtant point
.Inr crowd unat fitted the dining groom
~. most crrt4 aIy molly crew, pas
.,uu.rS from Two or three trains stop
ING for breakfast and To make con-
r,rItopS, guiug south for their hea.th,
ON bu-lur,s. Prospecting, or simply
travelling for pleasure; here a Scotch
r,ou fresh fTom the old world, on ms
WAY 10 visit -jlytr mines in Mexico;
there German lady returning from
thu. sra-vuyag, presrrbd by her physI-
elm, and growing vl>ibly eager ~ she
laws nra er ID her Frontier home, Ill
psSo, where her husband is stationed;
travelling sa'csmen who have been over
the road before and are tired of il; and
lew people, like myself, not yet sutli-
entity odd sta geran To find the trip
.unUl0uOuS Add TO all these the ma
IVES Of tie place whose chief Occupa-
non -rem- L. Ice waiting for trains, the
rrurtry people, whose business in town
allow, them plenty Of time for signt-
rt"g, and you have a scene worthy
an. -bi'l Uf an artist, il il could be paint
,d simultaneously between its kaleidO-
,,orlc changes.
Texas Travellers
There is much local travel between
re way.statiUuS that dot the road from
IrXaGhaua To- S.eTman, and l had my
.r-t opportunity 10 observe the people
II tie SycuUu through which We were
travelling. They boarded the train at
-mil settlements, where the whole
population Issued forth from tumble
,.uNU houses, and waued through the
uu! To tue depot, TO see them allght ut
the next station, perhaps five or ten
miles distant. Tie gOOd-byes seemed
d.>wCpprli"uej To the length of the
i.uruey. y family of children entered
Jhr ear az one point, three of them en-
N,tOpsd in sun OnnnCtS, the oldest in Il
..ryU, black QUE tuai covered her like a
j.u. The fourth was u remarkably
,g.,ty girl Of IL or II, and rather nicely
.ar~syd. 1 had heard that dipping
N,s much IN vogue here, Uut supposed
% Mas cOniued 10 grown peOple,at leaSti
AT this Young girl h9G her stick with
a., little ball of shuT AT one end, and
a-trl 4 with the ease Of long practice.
pppyrsn call il brushing the teeth,H
s.- the stick with its suull:bIll is their
"lu1th brush" fla confirmed dipper
.uauOt obtain snuff, she falls back on
tobacco in another form a. the next
best thing.
The CoIOred People
seem to have an infinite capacity for
"lu"king"-Oue cannot say staring, be-
cause there i not the Open-eyed aspect
that one associates wit the latter word;
'nd their curiosity is of so languid u
hlUd that il is easily diverted from one
object To- another, never resting long
enough on one thing to make diScOv-
rii's or reach conclusions. While
>Vp; king of them / may note some
rapS OF conversation that | heard in
regard to them on the train. \ white
mau teLind me, talking of the diff
CU,ty in getting field hands, said:
Well, I'd heap ruther have Il mig
&rT thau white man To work for me.
I ,.ll you, I'm used to niggers. kuOw
" Ia treat emf know just when to
Knock Niger down and when u let
h.m up again"
~giia companion, miSchievouSly: al
=, kou you're careful what niger you
knock down, amt ynu"'.
Ne. wouldn't touch town mig
r,-; tfcsayer
Town NIggers are Dangerous"
Later OIL a negro boy Of u, perhaps,
IA very iuolleus!yea appearance, a5well
a- pcIur,-QIr, IN his brOad-nrimmed
raw hat, came into the train and took
q >'at across the aisle from me. Straight
Way a youth who had been making
himself obnoxious by his cheap jokes
aad horse laughs, saw foemau worthy
nj his steel, and began by calling across
lDr ear IN very offensive way;
halo, tar.bahy, where'd you git
un:'
The baby, Ike the one who fig
lres in Uncle R.mus' tales, wasn't
>ay!R' nCihiu',' AID was badgerrd some
i,n.e before he broke his diyniipd
silence. When h. ill, at last, IL was
quay W say i ltH NDlu>, OUT WIN lDpG
.uat caused him u be left in peace the
Isot of his trip.
The ChiidrPn
"a The train seemed to partakA Of the
a,t,r>> character o. their elders there
"S~ 10 rr>ll, s>uess. no running about
io look out OF different windows, no
l"inliug at objects on the road or ask
aug questions ia regard tO.them;a baby
That remained i'm the car six or seven
hours did not cry once, cOnleatinS it
>eif with talking softly, sounding diff
Aertnt notes, Us II trying its voice. We
wire delayed nearly half.hour I'm the
country between two stations, but no
one seemed to feel any curiosity rs to
NE reason Of our stopping, aud boys
aMd men renamed in their seats
throughout the interval. A man, loung-
ing Ia the seat in front of me, feeling o
nrait OF sir on his neck, put his hand
slowly back 81 reach his coat collar aud
iuIi up about his cans. As he turned
trp It slipped from his fingers and
HopPed back 10 its original position,
EG which he ceased his efforts, set