The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-10-12
BILL ARP'S TALK.
Texas II Grsnt State, and Hsr People
Among the Best In the World.
lNCatd Obnsts*IRO~.

By tho tlns this reaches your readers
l will be in the Lone star state again.
1t is no fun for mo to lea.e home for q
month, but I like Texas and Am going
back to perform my promises and see tho
bright uids OF her country and her peo-
| pie. We always zee the bright side when
ne go Waiting. When people come visit
ing M at our house NE are on our best
behavior and everything Is sweet and
lovely and when they 20 home they toll
everybody what delightful time they
had and what a charming family and
what good cooking and what good beds
to sleep on and somebody tells ua what
they said and that plsassa us and COM
forts III and makes us all au loving as q
mutual admiration society.
But 1t won't do for folks to siay 800
long anywhere, for it ia impossible to
keep the bright side In view more than
few days at time. There Is dark side
occasionally in every family and 1t will
come to the front every now and then
for man Is born to troubls IS the sparks
fly upward and woman IL, too. 1t Ii
good thing to visit and be vitited, for 1t
breaks up tho monotony Of domestic
affairs and improves our behavior and
sharpens our wits and looHens the old
gentlsman's pufseatrings and makes him
more ahi>y in providing something to
eat or to wear.
I like Te1as-I reckon for the same
reason that Mr.. Stephens liked bis little
snarly, unfriendly dog. When asked
what was the secret of his attachment to
the bruse, he said: : "Well, like the
little dog just because he likes me and
that is reason enough" I am going to
Texas this time in search of the end Of
q rainbow thst ia over there. It Itstrstches
from Texarkapa to San Antonio, and I
shall psruso the country all along the
line and Of course will acc The bright and
beautiful aide and write about II; and
your readers muat take it with some al
lowsnco for ! am an invited gueat, and it
would be very bad manners for me to
find fault With her country or her people.
I am sorry that I won't be here to vote
for pure, unserri6ed Democracy, but will
try 70 do like Mr.. Blaine did in the
Maine elecdon-I will pair off w''e some
Third Party friend-if I can find one !!
Mr.. Blaine had to publish card aud e1-
plain why hs didn't vote and hs said he
was 200 miles away from home on elec-
tion day but he paired off with "Dem
ocratic friend" liked that like MIR.
Blaine becaus, hs liked Ben Hill and
was the first man to send check for $50
for bis monument like him because
he ia opposed to the 'rce bill don't
like him for many othGt things too tedi-
GUS to mention. But don't reckon my
one vote will be needed no how, for ths
Third Party is sick in Georgia aud get
ting sicker every day aud will be quaran-
tined bofo.e the election. Weaver and
Fields and Mra. Lease ara quarantinad
already.
About nine years ago visited Texas
for the first time and noted the state Of
public morals and found all the new
towns in wild, reckless, unsettled cou-
di,ion. Fort Worth had about 10000
people and it sesmed to me the devil was
running the whole business, for the Sab
bath was a gala day and the saloons wore
all open and the billiard balls we're crack
ing and the faro banks in full blast and
Bogardus was shooting pigeons in the
suburbs and the church bells rang feebly
and few and they had ju.t furnished a
four story Jail that was 200 feet long and
wasn't half big enough, they said. But
the dsvi don't run the business nov /.
Good men and women banded together,
and more Of them kept coming and
churches were built and Sunday Schools
established and the Y. NJ. G. A. became
power and they drove the devil out and
nov it ia an orderly, God. fearing city.
Young men who are dissipated and reck'
ess caro- nothing about the morals of q
town, but when meu of families who are
raising up c...lIren around them move
to new place they want a Christian
morality for their cbildren's sake, if
nothing else. A man may have no
religion, but il he has children ho won't
settle iu Goddess town.
Texas is now IS much land Of church.
ss as aay State in the union aud is en-
pha!ically tho land of schools. 1 re-
member when it vas supposed that it
was the land OF outlaws and rsfugees
from justice and my wonder now is what
became of all the raacals who were said
to have run away to Texas When /
was out there lasl summer man came
up to me and said "howdy, major"
"Well, tell me who you are," said /.
He whispered his name and said, 81
knowd you over in Georgia. About
tweny years ago I happened to kill 8
man over there accidentally in fight,
and | didn't have 10 moueJ to Zee a
lawyer and so just stepped over here to
save trouble" He told me his mama aud
/ promised to keep bis secret, for shoy
said hs was behaving himself. | don't
believe in hunting man down after ter,
fifteen or twenty years and breaking up
his family and carrying him hack a
thousand miles and locking him up in
Jail. But it ia done continually by these
detectives and reward hunters ju,t for
the reward that was once offered aud
noyor recalled. We read every little
while of the arrest of soma man who raa