Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

THE DowNTRoDDEN CHEROKEE.
a whole town is hardly worth assessing.
A county with a barbed wire fence
around it is more like the customary
thing. A friend Of mine here has the
best of a county. 1t is fenced In with
barbed wire, which the outlaw used to
.cut now and then 50 that the cattle
would get out and wander away into
Peru and other neighboring places. lie
had TO keep a force of cowboys to ride
the lines" and examine the fence every
day, until it occurred to him that he
could make the top wire telegraph
wire. and with an instrument at head
quarters he could detect a break and
locate it at any time. So now a line re-
pairer and a cheap operator, who has
nothing to debut to communicate with
himself all day, constitute the fence
force in place of the old and expensive
corps Of riders and repairers.
We rode up from Galveston the other
day with Conductor Taylor. He Is a
hearty man with genial smile filed
with mirth and gilt edged teeth. He Is
the kind of conductor who looks out for
his passenger comfort. He telegraphed
ahead and got a lunch for us, which
saved our lives no doubt, for we had to
travel all day on the Houston and
Shreveport railroad, which is said to be
the worst in the United States. Yet 1t
is a genial and accommodating road
All the trains are accommodation trains.
The one rode on stopped fifteen min
71tes while tall man went back to re-
cover his hat, and it was not very
good hat either.
When the train pauses at station on
she Houston and Shreveport road the
little bronze razorback hog comes and
eats the axle grease off the cars, and the
inebriated Cherokee Indian assists his
Jag on board the train and reproaches
the white man for robbing him OF his
lands. We had one as a fellow passen-
ger. He wore a pink shirt, with large,
wide aounces at the wrists and around
his neck. He had been drinking, so !
was told by people who knew him,
though thought at first that it was his
way He spoke of the past with some
sorrow, and as he held my hand great
big warm tear welled up in his dark eye
and fell on my vest. He said that his
folks owned all the south at one time,
but the white man came among them
and two or three treaties with thirty
DAYS and costs deprived them of theii
once lands.
The Cherokee has not been well treat
ed. of course. Neither has the negro
nor anybody else, for that matter. TIT
heather has been imposed upon, and 81
has the missionary who went across thu
sea TO knock little gospel into him.
missionary who graduated with me-a
the same female seminary, in fact-wen
over 20 sock little Calvinism into tn
heart Of Timbuctoo, but his relatives TO
day do not even know the names o
the folks who ate him. On the othe
hand, the heather is said to murmur
good deal about the flavor of sewers
well meaning pastors who used Tobacco
TO excess. and which impaired their us'
fitness from a food standpoint. I'll
4ise of tobacco for many years makes tn
most toothsome people as unpalatable
n Mexican.
In the day coach there was lad
with a snuff stick in one corner of hi
snouth. asleep The clipper is qui
common here among the plain peopl
If one could have seen this peri slun
bering there, with her snuff swab in Il
corner of her sagging jaw and the cor
cob stopper of bluing bottle-whi'
did not contain bluing any more, ho'
ever-as it peeped from the pocket
her deep and profound mourning dre'
he would have said to himself, "Hc
cool and restful must have seemed
grave in which her husband secret
hilnselfr Any way that is what | sal
Others, Of course. might have looked
the matter differently, however
Everything is ont of repair on
Shreveport road except the receiver.
is looking first rate.
In Louisiana the great parent OF v
fers was on the rampage. Recently phi
and fumes of one kind and another la
been inserted at various points along
banks of the river, so | am inform
and when the water is high leak
frequently occurs which grows at last
be a terrific crevasse. Then the wa
wanders away all over the state, 8
floats the pork barrel in the cellar of
better classes
We met up with the Mississippi
found where it was at, more than
hours before we really crossed it. l