The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-11-02
do anywhere. was touched with pity

w ouy WuVIo' "os HoS1~e "Aso P'y
and amused at young man of my town
who had just arrived at Gainesville 4
few days before I got thsrs. BE was az
glad 10 sss mo az II I Was his father.
"Found anything 10 do ?" said I. mo
mot exactly" said hs, "but I'm going
to work tomorrow" "Whst att" said
I. He looked rather sad and said,
"Wsll, Pm going to work In q cotton.
seed oil factory. can gel dsllar and
a halfa day 10 shovel up seed and I'm
going to do it"-and he looked away Of
drcsmily towards Georgia. Well, he
couldsu's get anything to do back thers
and no boy ever tried harder. If any
young man thinks hs can just step right
into 4 pleasant business out here he i
mistaken. He will have 10 begin at the
bottom and work up-but labor does
command better price ont here and 1t
is easisr TO get place. Western Texas
is but little settled yet. In fact not set
tied at all far away from the railroads.
The Texas Pacific has opened 1t up
within the last ten years. 1t is won
dsrful line of railway and gives good
service to the people. II is nearly 900
miles long In OBS unbroken stretch, and
have been over 900 Of 1t. II seems to
bs crowded on every train. This side of
Fl. Worth there ID but one train = day,
and whom night comes thsas western
Texans call on tho porter for pillow
and give him dime and they double up
and tumble down. It is the only road I
know OF that rents pillows to the night
passengers. Last night watched the
prairie sun go down and nothing could
be more grandly beautifully brilliant, for
1t Illuminated the aeesy clouds with all
the huss OF autumn. It is naid that
when northern woman waa one night
walking with Tom Ochiltrse she went
into rhapsodies over the beautiful Texas
moon that was shining on the boy and
Tom sighed and said, "Ah, madam, You
should have seen our moon before the
war." There must be something in the
rarifed atmosphere that makes even the
starry heavens more brilliant out here.
For an hour or two after dark gszed at
the stars and took comfort In , tchinE
the Big Dippsr as 1t slowly des,ended
beneath tho horizon. It made nae feel
as if ! Vas no. 20 far from home.
Van Astyne ia good little town-so
clean, so neat and everybody 30 friendly.
I rode out With some lady friends and
they chattsd with and hailed the good
uabora all along, just like it waa all one
family. I like that. When society gets
80 stiff and stuck up that they must pay
their calls in a carriage and are 80 glad
when the folks are not at home and 30
leave their cards and count 1t vista
debt paid-I want none of 1t. Whiting
ought not TO BE- debt. 1t should be q
pleasure or be nothing. Van Alstyne
has bran now college that her own peo.
ple built and established. A graduate
Of Vanderbilt, Mr.. Plner, has it iu
charge, and he has already gotten mu-
scum aud labratory and some astro-
nomical instruments and library, and
everybody is proud.
Granbury is an older town and has
college, too, in charge of Mr.. Williams,
snd there ID another one only two miles
away. Education is a big thing here,
and it is within easy reach of the riaing
generation.
But must halt for the mail Is about
to close. BILL ARP.