San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-17
In the slow old davis ~ w.

when 1t took two weeks for a lett lave
60 two hundred miles, and yar; s,i %
IN the markets We're not known s ~ a
farmer for ten days after their o ~ Tue
renee, the thoughts and the h vTvat'
the views and the urages of mar aos'
trade and traffic We're very dii life IN
from those of the present day. 1 Any
commercial affairs were much ,n All
simple, much more contracted O.e
those times than they are in tbs ~
times. Counties, states, sections t too
were much more distinctive in t':'
industries than they are now. I 'r%s
railroad, the electric telegraph, ae
ocean steamer multiplied ard ram;s av
have compressed time and sp.ce ~
degree hardly dreamt ofin the nbiloSos
ply of fifty years ago; and in brino;nr
close together places and peoples onos
widely separated by distance, tbsv
have brought about revelation in tbs
minds and methods of men, and ~
changed the relations between estaS'
ished industries, as well as so davol
oped new pursuits in old lands as n
evolve harmony of interests wbe,e
there were discordant claims and con-
fiicting feelings before.
Under the old regime of ante.bel
lum times the southern states of tbe
Union, with their peculiar institution
of slavery, were so essentially distinct
i've from the northern states as to nre
sent themselves to the world almost
in the aspect of separate country
with separate interests. 1t is not 81
now. The south is every day becom.
ing more and more like the north
The habits, the views, the methods Of
the people here are steadily increasing
in resemblance to the habits, the views
and the methods of the people there,
There is marked change in the in.
dustrial interests of the south-a
marked change too in her industrial
relations with the north. And this is
all attributable, not altogether to the
disappearance of the institution of
slavery, but in no little degree to the
great shaking up of everything per-
tanning to material progress, through
the enlightening and expanding infu.
ences following IN the wake of those
of science which, in laying
open new fields of values, with new
inventions and discoveries, have crea.
ted and are still creating demands not
only responsive to the supplies but
ever out-running them.
The old south, peculiarly agricultu.
raj, had all the peculiarities of habits,
customs, tastes and usages invariably
characterizing an agricultural people;
she had, too, those especial PECULIAR
ties, all her own, which were derived
from the perversive influences Of the
institution of slavery. The new south,
becoming manufacturing as
well as agricultural countrj rapidly
those characteristics by
which she was so conspicuously con-
tra-d distinguished in the old slavery
times. And now, with the map Of
The Union no longer so marked as to
designate the slave-holding states on
the other side, "the north" and "the
south" in American nomenclature
must very soon cease to be interpreted
than as terms distinctive
only as to geographical lines and not
with reference to any differences Of
between the people of the two
sections. In great free
land like this, with its vast domain,
it's unreasonable resources, it's meal
culable capabilities, there should be
grand national feeling, sublime sen
timent of general devotion to the
whole country, showing, however 1t
may be elsewhere in the world, that
the American people at least, as one
people have proved equal to a mastery
of themselves and of all the disagree
ments arising from multitudinous IN
terests in the Immense territory their
country comprises.
The south's interests are the inter
ests of the whole country; the south
resources are the resources OF ne
whole country; the souths destlnyiS
the destiny of the whole country
Bald Heads.
Nine Nilsson, the sweet singer,
don't like bald headed men. In 1aG'