, 1885-04-18
slLL ARP N K
what the Georgia Philosopher say. OF the
Lone Star State.

Iona star rtAits
lcor. Atlanta Constitutional
| said that l saw no pleasant inviting
country homes in middle Texas, no white
houses with green blinds and a broad YER.
nnda with vines running up the t~rellaces and
evergreens in the front yard But I never
saw more attractive homes than they have
in the towns and suburbs. They have
splendid court houses and iais and
public school buildings, much finer and
. ~costlier than any In Georgia. These
Texans do what they do In a grand
style. They arc well up with all the
advances OF modern times. l find the tele-
phone everywhere and it is used much mors
than the telegraph-one can go TO the tels-
phone in his hotel in any OF the towns and
converss with any other town 100 miles
away. There are ten times as many tele-
phones in Texas as in Georgia A friend OF
mine while in Gainesville talked TO his fam
lily Ia Sherman and then to his agents in
Waco and Dallas. He Is in the lumber BUSH
moss. and when a man in Denison inquired
by telephone what he would sell him W.
carloads Of shingles for. he Immediately
telephoned a shingle man at Texarkana and
got his reply, and then yer
the Denison man, and said he mad
s54 by tho transaction. The telephone
is hurting the telegraph badly
II Is hurting the street cars, too. A mar
used TO got on the cars and ride a half mile
to ses n man, but he don't now There are
30 telephones In Sherman and moro in
Dallas, and as many in Gainesville. They
are everywhere in this country and all the
towns are tied together by it.
Now l am hero in Denison, in northern
Texas, aad find this a much better country
for advanced agriculture and horticulture.
/ never saw any orchards south Of Fort
Worth, but this region Is full Of them. They
make fruit IA speciality and 1t Is Lucrative
occupation. Vineyards, and orchards, and
large arsas Of strawberries and other small
fruits may DO seen all around tho city. It II
MT a prairie country like middle Texas, but
Is gently undulating and has a rich, deep
soil that needs no fertilizer.
But there is ono thing lacking here, AMI
that Is manufactures There are no steam
whistles except on the locomotives. There
Is nothing done in Texas except farming and
cattle raising and merchandise. This is a
fine field for tho manufacturer TO occupy.
Train load after train loaded with wheat
goes north and passes just as many trains
coming back with flour. But they don't
care-money Is plenty and It goes FREQ and
easy. When I smoked cigars in Georgia l
was ashamed TO pay more than IA nickel for
one but you can't find a nickel cigar here.
They are 10 cents or three for % cents, and
II is the same way with everything. Lum-
Der is SIS per 100. They used TO weather
board their houses with rawhides but they
don't now.
Texas is cosmopolitan. People from every
Land are here, but the native Texan prevails
and rules. An immigrant has TO live here
for years before they will trust him. used
to hear that our boys would come back to
Georgia il thoy could, but they don't talk
that way to me- They love TO talk about
old Georgia but they don't want to 60 back.
An old settler told ME that for a long tims
they used to skin our boys when they came
and swindle them out Of what they brought
here, and that kept them from going back
for they had nothing to go back on, and SO
they went to work and after "A while got
reconciled.