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' 7" DOTE SMiTrt WRiTES \ t I ,v ? i After Long Absence Dote Reappears 1 in New Suit of Clothes a?ici With I New Experiences. Is Now a t Traveled Man and Uvea in j Town But Still Loves the f < Country. < ' ' ~~ li' Dear editoral:?it has bin suA j( time sints i rote you a letar an sumjs of mi frends air takin it purty hardj1 so i guest i had betar cum acrost or i* you will loss kirn subskribars. well j J ^ w -3?u j?m anj soznoxa puAns pcq'snq i 1 Jigent. lurot an foremust i has bin |] tryin to git thru picldn my cotan so Jj i cood move to town and be king of jt lower nuiin. where i now <is. I find; 1 : - this here thing of bein a toun man is 1 not what is air kracked op to be. you i kno out in the kuntry if you gits ; tired of the ole woman's cookin ana y the rashuns bought by yoreself, you1 kin drap by a naburs about a our be-.t foar dinner time, and they will say * ; to you, Mr. smith wont you stay to * -1 dinner, and after wipin your mou'h y wunst or twist and sayin you spect 1 they will be loomn fur yoji at bu??ua t you all the time*welkin in and taking a seet, after whitch, it dont make no jl diffrunts how little they planned to 1 have fur dinner, the ole smoakhous c door will be oapened and out the t lady of the hous and its boss, will c ' * cum with bout nineteen slices of fine < lmntrv ham. and in a little while you *1 u'smellin the gravyicummin out of itj. on a hot stove, and as yon has had % nuthin bnt turnip greans and collards fur bout two weeks you has to go out in the yard to wait till the dinar, are cooked and when it'is it do look good to me like it take a long time ' to git down to real eaten, but when ? x you git started there are no end to the-foyely wurk till you is too full fur uttrance. in toun i finds it very ' different, i goes up last Sunday and j p j stood around one of mynaBurs hous-j es for bout a hour befoar dinner and i he cum long and talk mighty rice bout the wether and how smooth thet mill run, and all that but there he! stood, and i didnt smell nuthin cookin neether but arter a while one of the little gals cums out and said tc . heir( i na that her mommer want to sec him, V / " so he say good-day dote, 1 will see you this eavning. now they bin teil > in me that, the peepul in the ktintry has kuntry ways*and shood cum up v to toun and stay awhile apd lurn the tour* ways, but arter this here experents it seam to mee that the peepul in toun shood go out inter the kuntry and turn how to treet a gentlemen when he calls at yore hous bout dinner time, in fack i is bout reddy to say that i is fur the kuntry, life, but howsonever^ whether^ moves back or not i spect to talk a drive out in the kuntry deestricks every / Sunday till groserries goes ddw&, cept when 1 gqes to brother waiter's. ?, when i goes there i is goin out on sattiday nite becos if i waits till sunday waiter will be too sharp fur me ana oe gone Bamwneres oezoar 1 nn git there, - thin i do not want to eet at waiters unless the. cook has had plenty of time fcp kno that boath waiter and myself is to be fed. they say there air always room for wun moar but that dont apply to mee and wal-j te? a! ragel,tow,5 . ' i V | I has bin travelin sum lately and speck your reeders, if you has any prints i quit ritin, wood like to have a line frtiw & man who has bin about , fctofai. Well, i has bin to boath atalattA ?J alalonfo ia si finp I in* *1IU av#u ' *w kitty and maiks a good dcel of noise. 1 did aot see menny persons there what i know, bat i9seen so many purty gals oaver there that i wisht dick sondley had bin with me to look ? at em. i got into sevrul konversations with them too, and askt them if they had ever red the prest banner and knode dick but they did not seam to do either, but- i guest they has never been round mutch, well, was waitin qn the comer fur a streat kar with jim cox and too ladies driv up in a kar and, stopt jist where we wus standin. so i walked up like enny gent wood and sed ladies air enny-J ?_ ? u? 4 v-i ( WMIMP nm|| VI MU i uciy juu 111 ?uuj partickler. they'sed rio but they wus /mutch obliged and i guess they no/ ' ticed they wus not talkin to no dudef but to a man what knode sumthinJ and they gaged us in a konversashun and next thing i knode i looked up up the Vode and there went our streat kar and i hollered at jim and sed why didn't he flag her we wood git left, but jim sed he didnt notice the kar hisself as he was listenin to what i was sayin to the ladies, he sed i was moast as polite to them as Cholly Lyon is when he is talkin to them and his mustash is rite, so the ladies they faffed and sed as we had got left if - ; r 1 ve wanted them to do so, they woo< aik us to the depot and put us off oi he platform in time to ketch th ,rane, whitch we sed we wood do, an hey tole us to take the back seel iim got in furst and the cushon wa >o soft and deep that when jim starl ?d down inter, it, i thought they ha jlade a trick on him, and i hollere >ut goodbye jim, but he cum u ugain and then i got in, and the rode us thru Ponts-de-leen, they sec * t-.-, 4-rt m .nougn uuiiga iuu&b punj^ iat w m iudgin by the houses what i seec rite up the street they went, and e\ ything got out of our way and i; food timev they put us out jist lik ;hey said th$y wood do, awl said the loaped we wood have a pleasant tri tome, then-they driv off and jim look it me and i lookt at him, then vent and lookt In a glass to see if vas myself. , well the uther trip was to anner-m: o the federal cote., i seed moar bald leaded men up there than i had evr? >efoar and they sed all of them moas vus lawyers. . i went into the co' ious, and set down and a fellar oi he same seat with ,mea askt the raai vhat was next to me what olt fa awyer that was sittin by him. n6w las bin in a lot of tite places ard bii iccused of doin lots of things hu hat wns the furat time that i ha< . sver bin sensed of being in that lin >f raskality and i hope it jv'ill be tb est and i tole him so. i guess it wa f - f J /' * * * 7* ' ' WfM ?vf . 'w ' EVER CAN HAVE T; - Ave haye done Otlfl :y Biggest and, Best CKiri est sight in town is < Christmas Gift's conta Fresh, New and Novel E y WHERE Y Is in simply getting + - Christmas selections complete assortment < GIFTS at the fairfest at YOU get new OUR LIN As you Jook through < practical demonstrate gathering under one r make people happy at PLENTY C ! Is here waiting for a suitable selection is -i pleasure, to possess it our store is a GUAR.AN 1 at Popular Prices. WE CAN MEET Whatever your neec you a variety oMfeaut 1 once appeal to you a^ XT 1 A i nave genuine i\ew ai and we want you to ki COME AND si It is a privilege to day goods and you wi ing this a personal inv our extensive and upNovelties. MERIT, QUALI' Are waiting for you h great variety of the B the y6ar, and our woi to hiivers of crifts is "i5 ~ " V . - V . And a Merry l BEST OF EV CHRI W. E. John i my clothes though that made me look n so hansum. you wrote us about ay e stunnin outfit last yeer, but you aint d seen nuthin. .you wait till i cums up t.' town sum Sunday mornin with lizzie s goin to church when they aint gonei have no big kolleckshun and i will i show you Cellars sumthin bout now a ' 1 c. !? - _ __/? I (j genueraen Kin smmray in a sou re uun p sute of klothes with oavercoat on his y arm. i is waitin now till i kin git my |f order in for a new style hat whitch e if, will taik to set me off, bekos they [ tells me that i wood look better in r. toun with a plug, or i wooder bin up n befoar now. i guest if they took me e for a lawyer in annerson they will y taik me fur a preecher when i gets p my fulf outfit, but they wouldnt taik ? me for no preecher if i goes hoam I from church and finds waiter there to i taik dinner the furst Sunday after i kills hogs, whitch i am expecktim him n to do unless i kin keap it a secret. [.. well, i has bout rote up mylnky r'and my arm is gittin tired so will say a MftHKtr fn nil fnonria nnfit mv nAit n issue, if ennybody wants my addrest a bout sendin in the krismus presents n tell them to make it south mane as t ilie karrier knows the rest i your ole nusepaper koranpondent. a i Pote. | t The Department of Agricultural * assisted the Census . Bureau in jiree paring the list of questions to be e asked of every farmer at the conrfng 3 census. r I SSSSSS^t*^ N \ YBODY A HAND IN IT i, part to make this the v ~ stmas EVER and the fin-, our Beautiful Stock of ining ^11 that is Bright, j in Holiday Goods. " OU COME IN I, :! busy and making your I from1 our won'derfully i 3f REALLY DESIRABLE | Ld most reasonable prices I IDEA S FROM ^ I IE OF JEWELRY | )ur holiday stock. It is a I ?n of POSSIBILITIES in I oof nearly everything to I Christmas time. B >F THE BEST I your inspection. To find I a pastime, To price it is a ? is a privilege.? A visit to g TEE of Popular Presents ?5 YOUR WANTS. . 11 is, come and let us show I I iful presents that will at I 1U. mk.'no II Wn fl 1 JUSt U1C A 11*115. ?o n tractions for Christmas I aow it. / ' 3 EE THE LATEST I show our beautiful holi- rf 11 oblige us by consider- - ^ itation to call and inspect ^ to-date line of Christmas $ TY & FAIB PRICE I nrtrk in ofinno^linn witll ft '.'i \/i Q AAA VVM??VW*v?* ?? ? ? est Holiday Selections of | d of seasonable greeting J l Square Deal" Christmas to All. I ERYTHING FOR 11 STMAS. II ison, Jeweler I] I i I m I1': B#'' ' 0 " I ' ' lllliiii " ' ..I I35| i I | ';'v " : ' ' ' V LADIES - ' " J' v" . .< 1 : .Si . . . I We are ovi (j . .i i< . i , ^ Kid Gloves them white It These glovt per dozen UUUgill tllCII 'it ' ' /' ' we would h for them. This is a be to take adto . t , ^ -/ . - / . ij . ' .<*' I : ' ' v ; . - * ; -> . 1 " : , / 1 ' i . / / I ' I I . : 'v , ' ' HADEX \ t ' ' 1 V * V / ' [; / I \ ' V, " . ' .- H- ' * * , .? : ,s' ?P!Br\lT!c? 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