The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-10-12
BILL ARP'B TALK.
Texas IL Great State, and Her People
Among tho Best In the World.
INnta Obnst:tlksozs.

By the tIae this reaches your readers
/ will be in the Lone Star Btate again.
It is no fun for me to leave home for 0
month, but I like Texas and am going
back TO perform my promises and see tho
bright side Of her country and her peo-
Pile. We always zee the bright side when
We go visiting. When people come visit
Ing ~ at our houss We are on our best
behavior and everything ID sweet and
lovely and when they 20 home they tell
everybody what a delightful time they
had and what charming family and
what good cooking and what good beds
to sleep on and somebody tells ua what
they said and that plsassa III and CON-
forts VI and makes us all a. loving SIS
mutual admiration society.
But 1t won't do for folks to aiay too
long anywhere, for 1t ID impossible to
keep the bright side In view more than
few days at a time. There Is dark side
occasionally in every family and 1t will
come to the front sveiy now and then
for man Is born to trouble a. the SPARKS
fy upward and woman is, too. 1t IL
good thing to visit and bs visited, for 1t
breaks up tho monotony Of domestic
affairs and improves our behavior and
sharpens our Wits and loouens the old
gentleman'a pursestrings and makes him
more shifty in providing something to
eat or to wear.
I like Texas-I reckon for the same
reason that Mr.. Stephens liked his little
snarly, unfrisndly dog. When asked
what was the secret of his attachment to
the bruse, he said: "Well, 1 like the
little dog just because he likaa 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. Itssrstches
from Tsxarkapa to San Antonio, and I
shall psruss the country all along the
line and Of courla will ace the bright and
beautiful side and write about Il; and
your readers mnst take it with some al.
lowancs for ! am an invited guest, and it
would be very bad manners for me to
6nd fault with her country or her people.
I am sorry thasI won't be here to vote
for pure, untsrrifed Democracy, but will
try 10 do like Mr.. Blaine did in the
Maine elecdon-I will pair off with some
Third Party friend-if I can find one !!
Mr.. Blaine had to publish card and ex-
plain why no didn't vote and hs said he
IVES 200 miles away from home on elec-
tion day bu! he paired off with 'Dem'
ocratic friend" liked that. like Mr..
Blaine because he liked Ben Hill and
Was the first man to send a check for $50
for bis monument. like him because
he Ia opposed to the force bill don't
like him for many other things too tedi-
GUS to mention. But don't reckon my
one vote will be needed no how, for the
Third Party is sick in Georgia and get
ting sicker every day and will be quaran.
tined bofore the election. Weaver and
Fields and Mira. Lease are quarantinad
already.
About nine years ago I visited Texas
for the first time and noted the state Of
public morals and found all the new
towns in a wild, reckless, unsettled con-
di,ion. Fort Worth had about 10000
people and it seemed to me the devil was
running the whole business, for the Sab
bath was gala day and the saloons wore
all open and The billiard balls were crack
ing and the faro banks in full blast and
Bogardus was ahooting pigeons in the
suburbs and the church bells rang feebly
and few and they had just furnished a
four story Jail that was 200 feet long and
wasn't half big enough, they said. But
the devil 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. O. A. became
power and thoy drove the devil out and
now it is an orderly, God. fearing city.
Young men who are dissipated and reck.
less caro- nothing about the morals of q
town, but when meu of families who are
raising up children around them move
to new place they want Christian
morality fur their children's sake, if
nothing else. A man may have no
religion, but if he has children he won't
settle in Goddess town.
Texas is now as much land of church.
ss as any State in the union and is en-
phatically the land of schools. 1 re-
member when it was supposed that it
was the land Of outlawa and refugees
from Justice and my wonder now is what
became of all the raacals who we're said
to have run away to Te1as7 When l
was out there last summer a man came
up to me and said "howdy, major"
"Well, tell me who you are" said I.
He whispered his name and said, ~
knovd you over in Georgia. About
twenty years ago I happened to kill a
man over there accidentally in fight,
and | didn't have DO money to fee a
lawyer and 80 | just stepped over here to
save trouble" He told me his mama and
I promised to keep his secret, for they
said he was behaving himself. l don't
believe in hunting @ mau down after ter,
fifteen or twenty years and breaking up
his family and carrying him back a
thousand miles and locking him up in
jail. But it is done continually by these
detectives and reward hunters just for
the reward that was once offered aud
noyor recalled. We read every little
while of the arrest of some man who ran
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