The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-10-25

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is any bigger fish than he is that
i believe you said that Mrs. Arp
was WELL"
Yes, | love To hear Newt talk.
The cars may rattle and the loco
motive puff and snort and scream,
but you can hear Newt. | would
like TO set away off on a hillside
and hear him at camp meeting
as he Numbered his warning voice
10 sinners. No man who talks as
fast and as earnest and as loud as
Newt Tumlin can be hypocrite.
He is the very type and symbol OF
sincerity. a byp0crite or design
ing man or politician always stu
dies his words, and is careful and
cautiuos in language. He can say
one thing and think another just
as easy.
The Atlanta folks made such a
fuss over the exposition that told
my folks would run down as
scout and reconniler and come
back and report, and now they are
worse off Than ever, for it is a good
show, and | had TO tell the truth
about it. 1t IS a good show. The
exhibit from our own county Of
Barlow is a show Of itself, and we'll
worth the time and money it takes
to see it. The minerals are just
splendid, and ought to be, tor every
one knows that this county Is the
richest in mineral of any county in
the eIimits of the American Union.
But we are not vain or cOvetouS
about that. Let the people look at
our agricultural products. Look dt
those thirteen pumpkins that grew
on one vine and weigh seven hun
dred pounds, anG there are seven
more on the vine that are green,
and they will weigh three hundred
pounds more. One thousand
pounds of pumpkins on one vine,
and it didn't grow on Pumpkin
Vine Greek either. Look at our
samples of corn and wheat and oats
and potatoes. We didn't send
anything but samples. Some coun-
ties senl all they had, but we didn't.
This is the banner county for grain,
as will be seen in the last census
reports. Our town of Gainesville
was named for old Sam Carter, who
raised so many oats-sO many that
he couldn't find room to enough in
his field to shock 'em after he had
cut 'em and had TO shock about
half in another field, and so when a
fellow has got heap of anything
he says he's got as many as Carter
had oats. What pity we couldn't
take down a slice of our rivers and
let those Atlanta people see what
a river Is, and if we could only
transplant one of our magnignifi-
cent springs that come gushing
from the rocks in silver streams big
enough to turn a mill, 1t is right
piliful to see those Atlanta people
pranclng and dancing around that
little Ponce de Leon that is about
big enough TO water the chickens
in and yet they call it a spring.
Oh, my, wish we could take down
one of our mountains and some of
the life giving tmosphere that
it from base to pinnacle.
But it. is a blessed thing that such
things can't be moved, otherwise
we would have lost everything
" hen Sherman's bummers went
through. But we are not vain.
We are only content with our
country and what God has given
her. As Daniel Webster SAID about
Massachusetts, there she is-l0ok
at her." We could have made a
bigger spread but our county COM
got scared and wouldn't
gives us a dollar to work with.
They said they were afraid some
body would find out what we had |
and swindle MS out of IT. But look |
at Floyd and Whitfield and Polk |
and Talbot and Jones and Troup !
and many others that are nearly as
good as Barlow. 1t is enough to
make a Georgian proud.
At II o'clock took seat on the
grand stand to see The Indians and
perform. | didn't expect
much, but | say LOW that for two
hours | witnessed the best show |
ever saw in my life. The circus
won't compare with 1t. 1t is a
show of such natural distances and
those Indians can be seen hiding
in ambush half a mile away and
when they come dashing down up
on an emigrant train and veil and
shoot, and ride around with their
bodies on the sides of their horses
and the poor surprised migrants
get behind their wagons and horses
and fire back, and one gels killed
and two or three Indians bite the
dust, and just in the nick of time
the cowboys come dashing down
like a whirlwind and fire and yell
and the fight gets thick and hot, II
Just makes the turkey bumps rise
all over a fellows back and | got
excited and wanted 10 lift up my
voice. did. The cowboys ran
those Indians half a mile, and then
guarded The migrants TO a place of
safety and carried the little chill
dren on their horses. They took
up the dead man and laid him
across the saddle, and one rode be-
hind to steady him, and his head
and his long hair hung down on
one side and his feet on the other,
lust as natural as life, as they pass