The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-22

the guest know in some way that he
lodges you and that the other felier
feeds you. ! knew there was one way
to get even with him, and that was to
do without dinner, which I did.
like Pine Bluff, though didn't see
the pine nor the bluff. The pine has
been cut down and the bluff caved in,
but it is delightful little city of $1,000
or $4,000 people, mostly black and mu-
latto. The town is we'll laid off and
solidly built up, and the streets paved
and the suburban residences spacious
and home like. New and handsome
houses are going up all the time. The
streets are crowded with wagons loaded
with cotton and the negroes throng the
sidewalks and laugh and joke and
spend their money free. A fine-look-
ing mulatto named Wiley Jones owns
all the street car lines and is said to be
worth quarter Of a million, and says
be would give it all to be white man.
He is highly esteemed by the white
people, and lends all his influence to
keep peace between the races. This
county sends three negroes to the legis-
lature. Pine Bluff handles more cot
ton and does more business for its size
than any city in the west; everybody
seems to be prosperous and their busi-
ness increasing. I wanted to see Mr..
Howell, one of the eight brothers who
were raised near Rome, and who are
now running eight compresses atdiffer-
ent points and have made fortunes.
His place of business was pointed out
to me, but when I called for Mr.. How
ell good-natured gentleman said his
name was Howell, but be was not the
man 1 was looking for-"You wish to
sec the Georgia Howell, but ] am bet
ter stock than he is, I am from South
Carolina" Most everybody here is
from Georgia, or South Carolina, or
Alabama. The native-born citizens
are very scarce and very young.
Now if man can stand the negroes,
and face the conflict that may come,
Pine Bluff is a good place for young
man to come and settle down to busi
ness, but some thoughtful citizen told
me that there could be no general pros
perity until they got rid of the negro.
Their rich lands would never bring a
fair return until white population
cultivated them. 1t is all cotton, and
for miles along the railroads you see
nothing but immense cotton fields and
negro shanties. On these farms there
ought to be raised cattle. and sheep,
and hogs, and fruit. and there ought to
be little thriving villages with churches
and schoolhouses; but there is nothing
but miles of cotton and that is badly
mixed Wiz. weeds and grass, for the
negroes don't give it but one blowing.
1 have heard that Pine Bluff is sickly
but saw no signs of it among her peo-
Pile. I never stood up before more
healthy looking audience nor more
cultured one.
And now I am here in Warren,
which is not far from the Louisiana
line. 1t is just 100 miles from Pine
Bluff and it took US just thirteen hours
to make the trip on one of Jay Gould's
roads. It took US seven hours to make
thirty-eight miles of it and that is the
fastest and the only train he has on it.
But for good company, who were used
to this style of railroads, I should have
been desperately mad. Asit is, I coulo
with great satisfaction, have Jay Goulc
tied in that car and made to ride IN II
every day for month. Arkansas need:
railroad commission badly. Goulc
does exactly as be pleases out here, anc
cares no more for the comfort Of these
people than he does for drove of hogs
Warren is in a different county
Only about one-third of the population
are negroes, and they give no trouble
The exhibits at the fair show tina
white folks run the machine, and art
improving their stock and emulatlns
each other in raising corn and oat
and potatoes and hay and fruits of al
kinds. The country is filled up witt
good, old-fashioned, substantial people
. who still believe in a God and Provi
dence, and in virtue and temperanc
and a judgment to come.
BILL ARP.
A delightfully."- dainty kind of'farm