Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-10

Houston TO Shreveport, La. Here Hous
: ton is pronounced Hyoustun, and not
HOwstun, as the street in New York i.
called. The railroad from Houston tc
Shreveport has a roadbed, a right Of way
and a receiver.
When the train stops at station a
slight, bronze, razor back hog comes out
from under magnolia tree, backs up to
the tracks and proceeds TO warm his per
son against hotbox Then as we pull
out he goes back into the forest again
to brood over his wrongs till the train
comes again on the following day. 1t is
an exciting life.
Along this line one occasionally sees
the noble Choctaw associated with an
Etruscan jag. The Indian and white
| man are quite different when sober, but
] exactly alike when drunk. Their aspira-
tons, hopes, fears, passions and tend
/ enc1es are the same then. The Choc-
! taws have village near the line Of this
| justly celebrated road. 1t is under the
/ management of a chief, who attends to
everything, even to the punishment for
murder. The law of the state does not
pool with the Choctaw settlement. If
one kills another in an unguarded mo-
ment, the chief sends for the murderer
and tells him what he thinks Of him.
The country is still quite unsettled
along this line Of railroad, and the pri-
meval forest may be seen on either hand
extending for miles and miles. Yester-
day slight, girlish figure might have
been seen tripping gayiy toward the de-
pot as the train approached. She was
all dressed up and had little pOrtman-
teau. Her figure was graceful and pc
tite. She dressed neatly, and her
clothes fitted her like the bright and
angry surface of boil. She seated her
self with great dignity, and everybody's
eye was upon her. A fine looking trav-
cling man removed the curl papers from
his mustache, and there was a general !
sensation through the car. was anx- |
iOus to hear her voice, for am crank |
on that subject. No matter how beau |
tiful woman may be, with a harsh |
voice she is disappointment. /, with /
the rest Of the passengers, remained al !
most breathless waiting for her to speak. |
As the train slowly moved out of the de-
pot she opened the window, looked out !
hurrledly, and with little winning vet
impatient toss of the head exclaimed,
"Oh, hi! they have left them there
trunks Of mine" This is an actual fact.)
Then 1t was 50 still there that all YOU
could hear was the quick, half drawn
pants Of a colored man from Nagadochez.
Texas is a marvellous state, as | have
had occasion to say before. There are
sixteen kinds of climate and a million
kinds of fora and fauna in this vast
empire. Cotton grows in great album
dance in almost all parts of the state,
and at Galveston, figs, bananas, oranges
and lemons are to be seen growing as
as potatoes. At Galveston the
oleander is the natural hedge Instead
of having to carry this fragile Scandi-
navian down cellar every November in a
large green tub, it is left out by the citi-
zen Of Galveston Just as the Michigan
man does his thrashing machine, to
buffet the storms of winter and to come
up smiling in the spring. The oleander
is now in full bloom Also the cape
jasmine, a big, beautiful bloom that
just turns itself loose regardless of ex-
pense and perfumes whole county at a
time
Texas, Of course, is quite a new state,
and often for miles along the road the
newly cleared fields are heavily and pro-
fusely punctuated with stumps. l never
regretted more thoroughly my haste and
in coming away without
my stump puller than l have on this
trip.
Yesterday, on the Houston and Shreve-
port road, man who had boarded the
train about an hour before looked out
at window Just as we were going through
a sort of swamp and lost his hat off. 1t
was quite awhile before he could get
the train to stop, but it did, and heaven
Is my judge, the train stopped but the
conductor refused TO &c back after the
hat. The man who lost it had to 20
back and get it himself. 1t was a miser-
able old felt hat, with broad brim and
IN oily dado around the crown too. |
never saw a cannon bali train stop for
such poor hat.
Business is poor on this road, and so it
has to be obhging. 1t requires over