Telegram-herald., 1891-05-10
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the powNrIopDES CHEROKEE
. whole town Is hardly worth assessing.
A county with ba-bed vtre fence
around il Is moro hike the customary
thing. A friend OF mine here has the
best OF q county. 1t Is fenced in with
barbed wire, which the outlaw used to
cut now and then so that tho cattle
would get out and wander away into
Peru and other neighborins places. He
had to keep force Of cowboys to ride
the lines" and examine the fence every
day, until it occurred to him that he
rouh mako the top wire . telegraph
wire, and with an instrument at head
quarters he could detect . break and
locate it at any time. So now line re-
pairer and . cheap operator, who has
nothing 70 do but to communicate with
himself all day. constitute tho fence
forcc 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 q genial smile filed
with mirth and gilt edged teeth He is
the kind Of conductor who looh out for
his passengers comfort He photographed
ahead and got lunch for rs, 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 tho United States. Yet it
IL . genial and accommodating road.
All the trains are accommodation trains
The one rode On stopped fifteen min
utes while tall man went back to re-
cover his hat, and it was not . very
good hat either.
When the train pauses 1t station on
tho Houston and Shreveport road the
little bronze razorback hog comes and
eats the axle grease Oh tho cars. and the
inebriated Cherokee Indian assists his
Jag on board the train and rcproaches
the white man for robbing him Of his
lands We had one ~ Q fellow paRen-
ger. He wore a pink shirt, with large,
wide hounces at tho wrists and around
his neck. He had been drinking. 80
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 be held my hand q great
big warm tear welled up in his dark eye
and fell on my vest. He said that his
folks owned all tho south at ono time,
but the white man came among them.
and two or three treaties with thirty
days and costs deprived them Of their
once lands.
The Cherokee has not been well treat
cd. of course. Neither has the negro,
nor anybody else, for that matter. The
heather has been imposed upon, and 80
has the missionary who went across the
sea 10 knock little gospel into him. A
missionary who graduated with meat
the same female seminary, in fact-went
over to sock little Calvinism into the
heart Of Timbuctoo. bat his relatives to-
day do not even know the names OF
tho folks who ate him. On the other
hand. the heather is said to murmur a
good deal about the favor Of several
well meaning pastors who used tobacco
20 excess, and which impaired their DE
fulness from food standpoint. The
use Of tobacco for many years makes the
most toothsome people - unpalasable a.
Mexican.
In the day coach thsre was lady
with snuff stick in one corner OF her
mouth. aslsep Tho clipper Is quite
common here among the plain people.
II one could have seen this peri slum-
bering there. with her snuff swAb in the
corner Of her saezing jaw and the corn
cob stopper Of q bluing bostls-which
did not contain bluing any more. how
ever-es IL pesped from the pocket OF
her deep and profound mourning dress.
he would have said to himself, "How
cool and restful must have seemed the
grave in which her husband secrete,i
himseifr' Any way that 10 what l said.
Others. Il course. might have looked at
the matter differently, however.
Everything is out of repair on the
Shreveport Rad excep< the recriver. He
IL looking first rate.
In Louisiana the great parent Of va
sers va on the rAzrpaee. Recently pipes
and fumes cf ons kind and another have
bepu iue~rtsa 81 various points along ths
banks OF the river. so I am informed,
and when the water 10 high leakage
frequently occurs which grows at last "a
be 4 terrific crevasse. Then the wsses
wxnders away all over the state, aud
Aune the pcrR barrel in tie cellar Of the
better classes.
We met up with the Mississippi and
found where it was At. more than 81
bouss before ve really crossed il. Iws<
szuuss eusnia that - came upsa u %
frr. ~ rc< 10 Shrevspcrt. ens ~ con
aucsDr sid NJ hsrdly thcughs that poe
sshie. becsuee IL ceuidnS gee sc<css ~
Red river owing b hieh water.
i-ctursi once in Mississippi Aer'
thai done -. sud ske roar 1t sppaaas'
bod aiei away. . ~na1l boy With . PIE
Milvsnkes hxsck compacxicu. brok>z
hers snd there by lsrHs nelo'iicu'
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