Nevada County picayune., 1888-04-04
5 I. LOUIS LETTER.
Nehenn'ah Tells of Her Trip From
 Texas to St. Louis.
Brilliant Pen Picture of Scenes in the o"anps and Barren Hills of Arkan. sas-What She Saw in Cairo.
 Some Incidents, Etc.
Correspondence Paris grex.l News,

Correspondence Paris grrx.] News,
 st Louis, Mo-. Feb. 1O.-It often becomes necessary and nearly always remains a pleasure for persons tc take trips and travel. To traye through ArkaHsas-over railroad Ilnes that traverse that statc-means a series Of scenes that are not inter- 'Stlng only as becoming montononS hy thcir unchanging ap- pearance and finally ending repug- nant feelings over Iowlinesa and bar ren wastes.
 Long lines of unbroken swamps. dense, vine-hung gnarled old oaks. ragged sycamore, hugh cypress trunks. The ground in places coy cred with debris of fallen limbs, trees: sometimes with rich cane. again clear and clean of underbrush but covered for miles with water, over which the trains rtlshes and hur- rics, never splash not stir in the shallow depths. but in which are nirrored the tall old trees, and one feels as if gazing into a world where the tree. grow downward unknown depths of space.
 The landscape of higher lands is broken here and there by mills with rows of cabins, one-roomed-neyer more than two=whcrc live the mill tenants. more often white. though sometimes a mixed tenantry. both whites and negroes. Into the door, ways would swarm childrenIto look at passing trains. Poor little badly born uaderbred creatures of hard times and fated lives of poverty and ignorance. Little baby girls that under normal conditions would he visions of infantilc loveliness, baby plumptnesS. ringlcts, laughing eyes. rosy cheeks. and dimplcs all over - they would be, they ought to bc-in their abnormal state of poverty. so depressing as to he q race crime. they stood sad-cyed p.Ic-checkcd, their unkempt, sun burnt hair lying close and coarse, their feet bony and large. their legs lank. lean; no shape only bone and shrunkcn muscle
 The chief products in this part oi Arkansas are lumber. hound-dogs and children.
 looked at the drift-wood in the ,waups that for miles and miles covered the ground could hut think of the calls for fuel in Kansas and other states and territories. Every place has it's drawbacks and compen- ,a,ion. do not think that with all it's drawbacks would like to live in Arkansas and be compensated by oood fires. There is another place on record where they have good fires T have never heard that advanced as an argument in its favor, or eml- grant, desirou. of it. Though there is large emigration to the other place every year, they just graNitatt thcrc and to Arkansas l suppose.
 | reached Cairo in the Egypt oi IT. liuojs seventeen hours late, but icIt deliphted to think got there at alt' Having eight hours at my disposal spent several nicI>les on the street ears to see Cairo. found it q plac, of over O,OOO inhabitants, with the lu>uries of water works. gas. electro lights. free deliveries, etc. l class thc above mNuriess though. really II the 18th ccntury,they are necessities T shoulJ judge the people a a whole are more southern than nor thern. or western. 1 judge that bN their easy urbanity and quiet way ol onsrariuo questions. A northern man rescnts a question as a treSpaS' on his time. A western man ha' contempt for your ignorance anA IS ot mn mains to conceal it. These arc certainly southern and never seem S' happy IS answering questions oI 'h' good points of the city klo'hs down in street car to one ot the s" hnrbs T man entered with 2 flat par .al 1 took him to be a book agen and avoided him accordingly. | n wronpinp his bundle he showed two or ,hree slabs of wood eighteen 0 twenty inches square under th' higbest degree of polish-hanolns
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