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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.
Mr Editor, when you git this
on may know we're safe at homo
igin. Jeoms sea if ho wui to go
er a cotton mill agin he'd have
or have his name scratched often
he churci book.
Jest print this please, an' if I
hink I'll have my levenge on
hem cotton mill folks. Perhaps
t'll cause 'em ter see the error
>f their ways an' try an' act more
hristianized whin strangers from
he country give them a call.
Yours truly,
Becky Ann Jones.
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M EX
He Thinks His Cubans Should he
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Santiago, July 20._ (Jen. Garcia
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I Garcia is especially dissatisfied
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