Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — On the Road to Dallas. [ARTICLE]

On the Road to Dallas.

New York Tribune. They were talking about Texas. “Oh, yes, I have been down there," said the traveler, “and I remember it very well. I ought to remember it. I was invited to ‘git into’ a little game of poker, and when I got up from the table I hadn’t a dollar in my pockets, not a cent.” “Of course,” said some one who was a believer in hospitality, ‘.‘they entertained you and then gave you % ticket tp vour home.” “Oh, no/'answered the traveler, thoughtfully. “The man who owned the house in which we were playing left the room when l announced that l was broke. Presently he returned with a lantern and beckoned me to follow him. I stepped out of the room, going carefully so as not to disturb the players. My host led me ->ut of the front door to the road.! Placiog the lantern in my hand, he pointed into the blackness of the night.- “ ‘Here is a lantern,” he said, ‘and this is the road to Dallas.’ “Dallas, my friend, was 100 miles away.”