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t m: ' Mr I -: ^ t ' ' fJUinLOW 8. OAitTER. { = ^ Family Netotpaper : For U>e Frxrmotum ^ Oe roiMomi, Amtmi, Ajr+mtt*m *1 m* Qjmmm t<ial hUar%aU. J TEBMS: $1.60 Tbaa. MmtOM AID MAHAOBB. | _ | PAIAULJR UK AliYUUX StlMIWEEKlY bUriQN. ~ LANCASTER, S. P.. JULY 2 3. 1^08 ESTABLISHED 1852 Wit UUNIKT UUZZINS J t deems and Becky Ann's Visit to < the Cotton Mill. ' One of the overseers of the; t Newberry (S. C.) Cotton Mill ends us the following from the fl local paper, with the word that 1 if it finds favor, the author of it P will write more for the Textile 11 Kxcelsior. * Mr Editor: I bin a visitin' in j * your town for a few days, an' 1 i want to toll ye what I think about 1 it. I ain't much ai ritin', but * * 1 I've got to unburden luy mine to ' somebody, an' it jest as well be U you es eny, pervided you air I' willin' to listen. ! t I toll you I'm madder'n a wet ? hen; I've been imposed on, an' c laded at, an' fer once in my life 1 I'm completely riled, so to apeak, t 'Bout two years ago my hus- t band's biother. Christopher Col- r urabus Americus Jones, tore up an' went to the Newberry Cotton * Mil1*. Of course his wife an' t the hul. gang of seven children M went too. Well ever since they H bin et the mills they been a writ-* j in' to me an' Jooms an a scndin' A little sample scraps of fioery along 1 in the letters to show what kind 1 of goods they wus able to wear. 1 They writ that Mary, the poeti* 1 cal, wus a weavin' an' makin' a " dollar a day?so wus bert. Rob anner wus a makin' a dollar an' r a quarter in the kyard-room, an' 1 Nancy Jane wus a makin' a dol lar a day spinnin'. One day I t sed to Jeems: (('Sposen me an' * yWB ftjs 'em a aurpriso visit! < An* if kyard hands make ho much 1 I cad Uke my ole kyardh along? 1 an* 1 ain't afeared to race with * the heat ban' they got. I know 8 mighty well that 1 can lay out ' twice es many rolle ea ltosanner * can, fer 1 bin a knowin1 how to ^ kyard an' spin nigh on tar 48 a year?an' that gal couldn 't kyard j < a lick when they left here." An' 1 Jeerns aed: "Yea; an' Becky Ann, t you know I bin a helpin* ye apia I along at night, ever since me an' * you bin a trottin' in double bar- * neaa; I don't lielieve nol>ody cau 1 spin a broach any quicker or l>et- ? ter'n 1 can; an' if their spinnin' wheels air like our'n, I wouldn't fc l*e afeard to race with Nancy Jane, i An' I aed; "At the leaat calker- v lation I know we oculd make t enough to pay our way thai* an' c back." i An' Mr. Editor, the u|>ahot of r It wus we packe<l our truuk?not r fergittin' my kgards?an' we lit i out for Newberry. It wra purty I <li*k knndrA/l ' ? BUMUl VU UJ1IVO, III lilV till \ Jmiqb had oarer bin as much an ^ twenty from home. Hut land t eakee! it didn't take but four or J Hre hours to go; an' it didn't seem I like we wue so far from home c after all. When wo got on ten J the kyars at Newberry we dido't j know no more whar to go, than a a new born baby. 1 felt jest like f a ful? an' deems looked like one. a We wus a meanderin' up an' ] down in front of the depo' tryin' j to get our wits together when I 1 looked up at>out a hundred yards t or sich a matter, an' thar 1 seen t the biggest brick honae I ever c seen in my life. An' my stars! 1 sich a cbimbley! Of course that c was the Cotton Mill, but we didn't a have sence enough to know it, c jest then. Well, as 1 wus a say. t in* we wus a meandei'in' up an' r down, an' who should come along but Mary an' Hert' an' Nancy t dane an the rest of 'em. It was^ if est half past 12 o'clock, an* ll iad bin home for dinner an' \ >n their way back to the m dary wax rigged up better' >vcr seen her ut church; so v ho others. They were power I'prised to see us, an* I thouj it furst they wan't pleased, 1 reckon thut was jest my fan 1'hey said they wouldn't w< lone that evenin', but wo how us over the mill an' tl vc'd go to their home. So in he mill we went. It was ninutes till work time an* 1 I uno to examine them pes ooins. 1 seen h little stool a in' thar an' I told Mary to ti t an' sot down an' weave a litt o show us how it run. Hut cd: "Lordy! Aunt Heck Anr an't. We don't weave by h* ike you do on your olo nil rap. Jest hold your tutor a f ninutes?you'll see 'em run ectly." Mr Editor, 1 was coniplet ot hick?and I wus discus on, to think that tho be.niti ind poetical Mary would use s llanr?fi?d AnirnuwinnLj W.r.11 ? , MUII, est stood ?rou?' an' waited, vus plum sorry fer Jeems: ooked like he wus scared pu ligh to death. 1 seen the fti teep a flockin' in, an' all seen 0 be powerful upsot about lomehow. 1 knowed they wa 1 makin' fun of us, fer we > iggod up in our best. Jet lad on a bran new brown je iuit that 1 had spun wove nade myself: a new nair nf \ oed sboes an' a plug hat, an m& banlaareber around his ne . kuowed I wuh a lookin' my l? . had on an a red an' gr itriped caliker Hkyirt, a ya ihirt waist an' a while ape Viy hat wus white an' trimme< >luo ribhan an' white flow< Tea, we wus rigged up lit to k Mid 1 knowed tliem heath wouldn't he uiakin' fun of us, . don't know what wus the n er with 'em. 1 told deems xx>r things didn't know no I er, fer I knowed they had vork frum day till dark an' I 10 time to study the etti?pu abject. Well, Mr Kditor, 1 don't kn tow to tell it as it happened, f you ain't never bin in a n vhen it wus a ruunin' (1 m< vhsn the machinery wuh a ri iin') you couldn't coiupreh< f I could explain. Hut all >nce we heard n low, rumbl oarin' sound, an' seen lit vheels on thosido es them loo ?egin to dissolve aioun', th rati hands a tlyin', the roar jot bigger, an' all at onco bat >ang' clatter hang-hang hai kn' tne land sakes, Mr Edit ! wus so peterfied with astoni nent I could hardly move. 1 feems give a regular eoiumaix roll, jumped at>out teu feet hi/ in' es he landed hack on Irtor be caught iuo in his ar m' blubbled like a baby: " leek Add, l)eok \nn. Is it edgtnent day or is it a tornadf ^ert and Mary luffed fit to I heiraelves, an' I got mad an' i o .Jeems: "Look a here, pardi >f ray life, don't be so rediculo >et's do jest like we bin used t otton mill all our life. Don't ee it's all caused by the mach iryl" After that explanatio bought he'd kinder git his ne emulated. Es fer myself, after sec hem pesky looms a runnin' i iow they thowed their own shi loy les an" worked their own treddle eti vus I thought I wab prepared for Je ill. : anything. "Coran on ho' lot'* Jp n I go up stairs to the kyard room," j 44]l vuh yelled Bert. 44I don't see no tie ful stairs to go up," I yelled buck. Bi ght ''Plenty of stairs, Auat Beck it. nit Ann, but we'll go up on the eli- ik ry. gator," said Bert. "Ooeh-a- re] uk mighty! Becky Ana, dida't be eey if uld 'alligator?" " said Jeeae to ha ion an' I seen his knees a ehakin' be .ter like lie had a chill. "Yes, Jeems lof 1 "> that is what he said," 1 answered, it I lad "but don't you be afoard?I ou ?ky gue>?. if they can ride the critter do ct we can too, though I did think wi ike they wus strictly water anioiale " tk le, "Me loo," scd Jeema, an' hie oai she' teeth wus a poppia' together like lib i, I all possessed. "Well, here we end air, auntie; you stand right here. w? Itlo j Come liore I'nelo Jeems." Then dr ew Bert turned to a man that wus a liv di- standm' thai* with his hand on a eo< rope, an' ho sed: "Mr Turnip- I t ely ' seed, take us up on the alligator." go tod i 1 seen at once that the critter wue no ful down under the floor, fer Mr to ich Turnipseed shook the rope to . in WO unln U 1 ? --- nuao a uj?, am on. norrors, 11; rei I woke with a vengence. The hor. | M ho rid thing busted tho floor up right er rty under our feet, an' thar we wua ho ilks a goin' straight up on ita back th< ned with jest a few square feet of a 1 thin plank twix us. I started to Mi m't jump off, but Jeema grabbed me vus an' sed: ''Becky Ann, do be dii ?ms quiet! Don't you know if you bu nns wus to jump offeo here the thins he an1 might swaller ye) Ye don't kaov HI >ox which way its head la turned." fct id a 'Bout that tinvt we rutWMgk\% tekv n heir, nn' if q>all better* me, lJ| est. that alligator was eccomodetin' con enough to let us stop level with thi Her the kyard room floor. We scut- ^ irn. tied otfon that thing m quick es ja( 1 in possible. .leeins said: "Bocky >rs. I Ann, how do you feel!" Says I: be, :i 11, J "With my lingers, 1 recon, like I w0 ens j allers do." I want in no notion j,lc ho j to talk jost then. Well, that tvus OU| iat | the kyard room, but 1 never seen t tje the! a single pair of kyards in there. , wh ,et-' There wus a machiue of some kiud ,in! | to h rollin' out great sheets of purty p|e lad whito cotton, jest the right thick- 1 .tte|nesrtto put in a quilt; two widths I ' would a bin jest right. My ole ^ ow j kyards fell purty low in my es- Mj8 Rn? termation whilo I wus in that 0q 0iU kyard room. Wh), man, they pC 2an rolled out enough of that sheet H()1 an_ cotton in three minutes to go in a ^r jntl <luilt, when it would a took me 1 }lt half a day to kyard enough batsj^ qn' to do tho same. An' rolls! My L, ^j0 soul! they jest made by thoirsel- co, ims ves, liko everything else did, an' on ero I think one roll must a bin purty pQ ,|n> nigh a mile long. I seen with a OQ sink in' heart that my ole kyards (>fl n^? wouldn't do in thar, an' I vowed on or^ 1 wouldn't let nobody know I had p0 sh! brought em' de Then we went up to the spin- ne hyr nin' room. We went up the l?< [jh, stairs that pop, fer I vowed I th? the wouldn't rink that Alligator agin, in1 ms Soon an wo got up there the chilOh ' dren comiuenoed to lafT an' gigle. yo the I never soen sich l>ehavior. Jeems Th )|" is powerful fond of boy children, *t< kill an' he put hist han' on one little do &ed scamp's hed an' sod: "Howdy, bii ner little man?who's yer daddy?" 'n us. That's what Jeems alters ses to he o a 'em by way of gittin' acquainted, nil , ye "Whoopee! Guest you ain't, ole "( lin-1 cotton tail" the !?oy sod, an' away br n I he flew, pullin' a box along with ex rve hiro. Jeems sed: "llecky Ann, of is there eny cotton to my coat Mi iin' taill" An' sure enough, Mr bu ind Kditor, some of them unfeelin' m< ck-| wretches in the kyard room had tb ick a roll about a foot long to s ems coat tail. Now 1 tell ye I ems wus mad. He aed ter me: c Jecky Ann, do you think it 'ud i much hurm to cuss a little!" ? it I sod: 1 Jeems, don't ye do t " 1 reckin I spoke a little c >ruer then I'd ort*er; fer Jeems < [died: "No, Becky Ann, I wont t I can help it; but we'll pull fer 1 me ter morrer. If we stay ? re a week ee we intended I'll j A my religgin. I've 'bout lost 1 now, I'm afeared." We got 1 ten that spinnin' room in c uble quick time. Them cbaps in so rude 1 oouldn't take no- i m of not kin' but them. So 1 i n't tell ye nothin' 'bout it up t wr. i As we wuh a goin' down stairs t i met a tall middle aged man 1 eased in urev I *in'? ; in' 55 year fer nothin' an' eH ?n as I laid eyes on that man et him down to he all that wuz od an* noble. He spoke to uh pleasantly like, an' didn't seem see enything so extraordinary our appearance, like all the ?t did. Mary said that was r General Manager, an' that erybody that knowed him loved, nored an1 respected him. FurBr on we met another bose, with !>ook an' pencil in his ban', ary sed that wus the Super. b passed us in a hurry an' I Jn't get to look at bim good, it I seen that he had powerful en eyes?the kind that you feel te looks plum down inter yer art, an' reads it. I men telly Mrv?d if I had la work uadar i k lufwrtiiptiog ilk nrighty > erful bow 1 aoted. Es wa waoi ] rough iha ofli of lha mill I 1 ?n a tall foliar with a big mua i ;he. I fargit who ao* what 1 iry sed he wue. Hut I remain- ] r that he looked ao straight 1 1 ndered if ha didn't wear a lace 1 ket. 1 wus glad when we got 1 ton that mill. Bert got a litnigger to carry our trunk in a 1 ieelharror over to their house i 1 we all put out fer the name ice. 3 That night Mary an' Bert wont ? a party. Mary's pa was mighty t rticlor to charge Bert to see his t ter hack home aafe. 'Bout 12 t .'lock in the night 1 woke up rished mighty nigh to death for t mo water. I had forgot to t ing eny in the room an' 1 i owed if I got eny I'd have to c t it in the fiuntpiaier. I tried c go to sloop without it but 1 t iildn't. 1 riz and took down 0 of Mary's white wrappers an' t it on. It waa eaaier to put then my dreae. 1 didn't pull ' my night cap, nor I didn't out my shoes. The night was * werful warm an' all the win- j rs was up, an' es they wue so ar the groun' I jest thought ) 1 step out of a winder ruther t sn wake enybcdy up by open- 1 tho doors. So out I went, an' * len I got roun' the piazer 1 tell } u I seen a sight, an' 1 stopped. ( le moon wus a shinin', an' thar ! >od Mary with her hed hung < wn (an* I toll ye her hed orter 1 n hung down) an' a fellow a ' eelin at her feet, an' a holdin' | r han's. He wus courtln' like ] possessed. I bourn him say: "*h! Mary, my angel-?tho one ight an' )>oautiful star of my istence give me one little ray hope. Darling, 1 love you.' ary started to anscr, I reckin t as she raised her hed an' seen ?she piessed back a scream at bad ris' to her lips an' sed in i loud whiepcr, 'Fer tho love of iCHvon, Tom, if you love me lon't make ony fuss, fer if pa vakes up at this time of night in' finds you here, you'll find hat flesh an' blood is harder to :ontend with then spirits of the ieparted?oh! Tom, save me! hero's a ghost right behind you?' tie riz an' caught her in his arms ind 1 left 'em. I thought the oke wus too good to spoil, even 'er a drink of water; but I vowed I'd tell Mary's pa that Bert didn't ioiiio with herns lie promised. 1 went ter git back in at the winder an' Jooms <1 thought it \ C was deems) said: 'Don't come hrough here, dour, I've got comlany.' Got company indeed, .hought I, an' it hadn't raore'n en minits since I left him a snorn'. Not go in? 1 would see who ;he company wus or die. So in 1 anded without more palaver. Somebody struck a match; some, txxiy yelled 'ghost' an' I seen a feller sail out at the winder an' irother riz oflfen the bed an' sail*1 out after him a holler'n: 'Bert, ferGod'a sake don't leave me!' t ;? -ii * > 1 I wvu IU wa lb Ail At HIIt'D 1 Ilfid jot inter the wrong winder. IVhen I started in Bert thought [ win Mary. 1 got on ten there in' found the right winder next ime, an' none too Boon, fer 1 leerd'a powerful commotion go* n' on in 'tother part of the houBe. Mr Editor, my mistake loft me n the hole. I couldn't tell on mary mi' bout Bert not 'scortin' iter home without tell in' on mytelf. I wuz so powerful mad when I thought Jeeimi had com pany that I didn't know how he'd take it 'bout me goin' inter that room whar them boys wuz at nidnight. I knowed he useter be powerful jellus an' I wus afeard A) rouse them p&shions agin. So [ reckiu' I'll nevor tell Jeems. 3ut one thing certain and two things shore, ain't gwine to Newberry no nore. 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