The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
y TALKS OF TEXAS.
ARP, STRUCK WITH THE PRETTY
TOWN OF MARSHALL,
Says 1t IL just Largo Bnsugh-The People
Contented and Texas Not Too High.
No Booms Bother tho People.

| lCanCS IL is just ABOUT large cuOuSH. wv
town ought to have more than lO,oOO. III
the influence of great cities is pestilental
| to good morals. as Jefferson said, then how
| large can city safely be before the pestl-
| lence begins. 1t seems to me that 5000 IS
| about right, for that number ensures good
schools and, perhaps u college or two. 1t
| ensures good churches of at least four de-
| nominations with good preachers who are
| fairly well paid-churches that living do not
| languish and preachers whose famihes are
| not pinched with poverty. Church assem-
| bies are invited there once or twice q year
| and their ministers and laymen INK ana
mingle with the people In their homes ana
| leave the influence of their good example
as n benediction upon the community. For
| those who like secular pleasures 1t secures
! good halls and opera houses, good shows
| and troupes and concerts, good orators ana
| lecturers. 1t secures good streets aiu SUI
| walks, and waterworks and gasWorkS, aho
| ice factories and other luxurles that /! pros
| porous people can afford to indulge III. IL
| secures IA good market, good butchers anu
| bakers, u laundry and, last but not least' 4
| dallys newspaper
| here inMarshall, which has that many people,
| and is Just such Il place. 1t IS Dig eliUush
and everybody seems TO pc content. 10y
! don't want to strain the town Win ii pooih'
|
| natural increase, and they don want pros
pcrty to go up so high that they can
| pay the taxes on. 1t is the outspreadlhcsC
| town for its size | yer saw, Tor most every
| family of any pretenslons has got an acre
| or two enclosed and Il grove OF shade trees
| somewhere Many of them have from TWO
to five acres and fruits and flowers abound
| everywhere The mechanics and the uli-
pretending people generally own their resi-
| dences where the good wife and daughters
1 no,, y,la tInoiv vii ShII1hhnrE
| hang Il few pictures on the walls and re-
Apaper the room and fix up the kitchen with
ont feeling that they will have to move
: hen Christmas comes. If / was KING
! md a CroesuS, my highest ambition would
,e to see to it that every family, however
tumble, should have home, a home that
'Jhey could beautify aud adorn and love, a
|. home that the children would love to think
bout when they grew up to manhood or
/. womanhOOd and become tranSplanted to
! some other less hallowcd spot. There is
! no purer pleasure in this life than in ad-
| ding to the little comforts i'll and around
| home. 1t is far better to make these inn
| provements from time to time as the purse
will admit of than to buy them already
made. 1t is better for the children to make
| them if they can, and let their own hand
work embelish and ad0rn the house and
the front yard. | thought of this the 9TH
| er day when our girls called me up stairs
! to show me their days work They had
| bought a beautiful papering for 80 cents
and had made the paste and put it on their
room and the entire cost, including the Dor
| dering, was only $l.30, and they bought
| little can of paint for half a dollar and
| coated the mantc and the doors and win
dow castings and everything looked so new
and clean. Most anybody can do these
things if they will try and there is refine
ment and pleasure in it. Make HON happy
should be the motto of every family. 1t is
common, or it used to be, to
| see in a frame over the mantle
| worked in crochet or painted with brush
! the PRAYER God Bless Our Home" but
| better thing is to go to work and bless it
| yourself. A Marshall man told me that
| there was but one rich man within her linn
| its and not half dozen poor ones. No beg
| CARS for charity and nobody utterly poor
i Old Agnes's prayer has been answered to
| this people. A magnificent courthouse is
| fhe only eXtravagant thing / saw but that
| is Texas. If they dident have that. Mar
| shall would be just over the line in Louis
| lana. The railroad shops add good deal
to the prosperity of this place. They are
| very extensive and employ several hundred
hands and pay out not less than $1,000
week for labor, and all this is expended and
circulated in the community and keeps
things lively Without them the town
would languiSh and soon go into a state Of
innocuous desuetude, or words to that eff
feet. / never did know what Mr.. Cleye-
land meant by that, but it must be some
thing mighty bad. hope it won't catch him
in November.
Considering the great benefits of these shops
to the prosperity of Marshall. l supposed
that almost every citizen would be for
Clark for governor, but they are not They
don't want Hogg, but they say he was
fairly nominated and they will vote for
him, and they say that he will be more
friendly to railroads and to capital than he
has been. But | shall take no part in the
contest Mr.. Cleveland and | have con-
Guided to keep onr hands off Of this fac
tional quarrel
Last evening | saw the COWS MIXED. Mr..
Lothop, whose guest am, has q small herd
of seventeen beautiful Jerseys, besides the
calves. They are said 10 be the finest in
the state and no finer in the south 1t was
n novelty and a revelation to me. There
they were in a row. Every one in her stall
battered to her feed trough and all looking
calm and serene and seemed to be happy TO
have their swollen udders emptied. Some
of mem gave two gallons and some less, but
l learned that the quantity of milk Is
longer a test. We used to speak of three
gallon COW or a four-gallon COW, but now
the butter record is all that
is mentioned. The standard is fourteen
pounds week. There are only 5000 Jer-
seIs in the United States who come up to
that record. OF course, there are many
who have broken the record, as they say
about Nancy Hanks. There are many cows
who make twenty-five pounds a week and
a few who have gone to thirty Such COWS
are almost priceless and their calves bring
from five hundred to five thousand dollars
before they are year old. Mr.. Lathrop
knows the pedigree of every one of his cows
as far back as he does his own. They are
all registered in the books and his books are
well bound and make quite u library. for
there are $4,000 Jerseys registered in them.
He is director in the national association
and is desperately in love with his business.
He sells $50 pounds week of golden but
ter, and realizes 81 IL cents pound for it.
Every pound is sold i'll Marshall and he cam
not supply the demand / saw the separator
at work--the machine that has cylinders re-
volving G,4OO times i'll a minute-and the CEN
trifugal force sends the cream out at one
tube and the skinned milk at another
That milk is fed to his tters of Berk shire
pigs that are coming in a back lot, and
/ know that kind of pork must be good and
sweet and healthy One of the heifers
dropped a beautiful calf yester-
day, but it happened to be
boy and the poor little unfortunate
thing had to be knocked in the head, for he
says it doesent pay to raise boy calves
Fortunately, the mother never cried about
it nor mourner for more than day Give
her enough to eat and she is happy A cow
has got less sense and less emotion than any
creature of its size upon earth You can