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* Troubles of By Ethel Well. thank goodney. I am now saft at ho-:n agaia. and eady .f: r business. Hay bin on a extendid trip Lrew old S.'lath C:olina. I jef; Norw.> d on S:l!.tv, July 21s; and got '.aek on Ai-.: . hieh was Sat urday. I shoire 0.H 11:,Ve a gloi:-a; time while I was gone, but atter awl the best part of a trip is gitting back heme to Je.ems. I went to Saulsberry and Sharlot, Gastony and Spartan burg.. stoppin fur a few daze in Greeonvill. From there I went to Newberrv. S. t. and siade a hole week. I had sum turrible times and got completely riled several times while I was cne. The first time was up here at New London when we -3tarted to Whitney. Cap'n Frabier ,was off on a vacation and a nuther -onduckter-a tony lookin feller 'named Chattem, was a runnin his job. I aon't no what in the name of sense they called him that for, cawse he -din't chat 'em worth a red sent. At ,er he got their tickets or money, he Jidn't pay no more 'tention to 'em, %no diffrunee how purty they' was. Wel. as I was savin, when we got to New London, that conduckter sed we had to go by Whitney; and, Mr. Edi -ter. as shore as my name is Becky, Ann Jones, lie perseeded to take us ,down there backerds! Mrs. Ramsey .-from Chestnut Hill, Saulsberry, was on the trane. and mE and her got to -tawkin about sich a indignity - bein put onto' us. Me and her had both bin use to goin into'things face fore -mist and with both ize open, and we didn't like no sick. Purty soon I prescovered that Chatem feller com i threw the kyars, and I up and axed him what he meant by sich -doins. Sez I: "My deer man. besides bein riled and exasperatid to the pint of ex-1 -plodin, I'm also comfuddled and puz zled to no your reesin, that is if you have got arry won, for sich doins. Air -ou 'shamed fur your passengers to see Whitney, or air you 'shamed fur 'Whitney to see your passengers? -Which is it, man?"'' I reckin my umbrel looked purty -thretnin, eawse he tride to get up - sum sort of a flimsy piassifyin ex muse that wernt no excuse at awl. I told him that I node well and good that Cap 'n Trazier woodn 't 'a subjagated his passengers to sich in diignity. Then Mr. *Ohatem 'lowed uwith em aticks, that he was jest as -;good a conduckter as Cap'n Frazier ~or any other Cap 'n, and, ruther than ~have a fuss and make spectickle of myself, I let it go at that-bit my un ruly member, put up my umbrel and sot down to meditate consarnin the unreesinbleness of the male men. Well, I had a longtime had a han kerin' to see 'ihitney, and had lgde off to go there soon; but little did I think that when I did go, I'd go in 'backerds! I never seen nuthin dow-n there that inprest me faverable, but of course as I nev4r got offen the 'kyars, I hadn't f6rter pass judgment on the place. Atter a while we got to Saulesberry ad, I allers' lowed it was a sin to be pore and act the same way, s'o I went to won of them hifalutin hotels ~where a sarvant skoots a cheer under ;you when you go to set down to the ftable, and then stands rite behind you reddy to do jest anything you axe * em. Bless Patty, I[thought I was too late fur supper, cawse there wern 't a .solitary thing on that table 'ceptin a few tiny little dishes of stuuf stuck -'ite round the plates of a couple of 'dudes. I node they was dudes soon 'as I lade ize on 'em, fur they was *jest prezactly like Governor Glenn's prescriptin of that species, in the speech he made at Albemarle the big corner stone layin' day. Yes they *was dudes-wawkin sticks, big -floppy britches and awl. I was about 'to axe 'em what they ment by taken possession of ever artickle of eata bles that was on the table, when a giee eleen lookin yaller chap warrin a puty white apern and caip, handed sne a strip of paper that looked fur awl the world like a dun fur a bill of groceries. There was lots of furrin ritin on it that I cudn't make out but I seen enuff to rouse my 'spi eions. I handed the thing back to him with a hawty gester and sed: '"My good frend, I ain't a doubtin but what you air 'onest in your in tention, but you have made a series mistake; I aint the pursin you air lookin fur. I don't owe you a red cent :-have jest now arove in the city." "Bi of fare, main; -what dia11 I:bring for your supper?" sed Ie. felle mie. permit and not noti + Becky Ann. 0 Thomas. 6 ein my orful blunder, while won of them dudes had a orful coffin spell, and the other busted out to laffin and sed he jest happened to think of a leckture he herd the nite before, and that ever time it crosst his mem ory he had to laff, no diffrunce where lie happened to be. If they hadn't a bin sich tony looking fellers, I wood a thought maybe they was laffin at me; but they looked like they had been well razed. Well, I allers was Tick to keieh on to most any thing, so looked over that paper agin and told that yaller man to bring me some tea. (I jest ordered it cawse I hadn't never seen none, and if I live long or di soon, I hope I'll never see no more. It tasted fur awl the world like Sim mons' Liver Regulater) and some ham, eggs, rice, butter, bred and s on. Purty soon here come a servant with a big tray full of stuff-awl I had ordered and a hole lot more, and I perseeded to bizness. Won of them dudes got threw and went out, and I sot there a eatin and a wishin the tother'n wood go too. But no, sir, lie wanted to git up a conversatio'n with me, and I had to give him a pease of my mind before I got rid of him. I jest wish to goodness Jeems cud a hearn him! My! my! If he had! Mr. Editer, did you ever stay in a room where there was a little button on the wall, and by pressin it yoi could git jest anything you happened to take a notion fur? Well, that is the kind I stade in. I don 't no what kind of a inven tion will be next. People air gittin tc be overly smart, and how, and some of 'em think they can make jest any thing. "It's wonderful, now-days, how the3 drop the olden ways, And new appliances are every where; We have elevators high that will land us to the sky, And let us down again with prope. care, We have telephones that talk fron Chicago to New York, And patent cradles, too, for one ani all; But to give a fellow ease, you can gei just what you please, When you press the little button or the wall! Your tailor you can shun, when hi calls to make a dui, Your wife need never hear you comi home late; If you want a private drink, you have only got to wink, The button does the business while you wait, If you find your ma-in-law has a lit tle too much jaw, And makes within your home toc long a call, You can make her too the mark 'nd she'll vanish like a lark, When you press the little button ox the wall-! In polities you'll win, tho' you chances may be thin; Your pockets will be always lined wit] cash; You can make*the girls admire, if t< fashion you aspire, Among the great 'Four Hundred' yoi can 'mash.' If you havent' got an heir, or wouli maybe like a pair; Or want the earth you only have t< call, There's nothing you can't get, if yot want it you can bet, If you press the little button on th wall!'' Thats won of Marthy Jane Matil dy's songs, and I allers thought tha them senterments was stretched til I occipide a room where won of then buttons was. Well, as I eudn 't thin] of a thing I wanted, I never toc] that button that nite, but I mad< things lively as I come on back ! wont tell you about that till I get t< it, and I may change my mind ani not tell about it at all. I don't lik, to tell things on myself no how. left Saulesbury soon Monday morni: and took the kyars fur Greenville, S C., where I spent a happy time ti Thursday, with won that I'll cal "Sister May.'' She had red some of my artiekle and shad rit to me and fur quite spell we had bin a correspondin wit] much plezure and mutil benefit. As I had to go to Newberry any how on sum bizness, I pereludid to g by way of Greenville, and see i "Sister May'' was as sweet as he letters. I found with grate stupefae tion that she was more so. She lives with her mother who is sense '"Sister May was sixteen. th,?y have bin alone together. The mother is a feeble little critter and "Sister May's" devotion to her is the pur tiest site I ever seen. Well, my friend shore did give me a fine time. She tuck me mitey ni awl over Greenville on the street kyars. I've rid on them tliinzs before-sev eril yeers ag-o when I was in Shar lot-but I don't reckin I'll ever see the time that I can ride on 'em with out feelin kinder curis. Jest to see them things go a tarrin up and down the streets without a sine of a horse hitched to 'em is enuff to make the creeps crall up and down a pursins spinel collum, and to be on won when it's a doin it, is somethin else. I don't like to show my iOner ance in a eroud. and I wouldn't let on to '"Sister May'' that 1 was ske-er ed within an inch of my life, but I secretly clung to my seet with a deth grip, and tride to summon a cool, cam, and indifferent expression to my countenance. Won time I thought fur shore we was a goin to glory, or to the other place 'cordin to our deservin, fur I seen a thing comin like litnin down the street a meetin us, and a snortin defiance rite in the face of our kyar. And, law sakes! it was rid by fore purty gals with their hare a flvin in I the air, and they didn't 'pear to be skeered a mite. I shore thought they was goin to run rite square itio us. but jest as I give a screech of horrori -and dismay, the thing skooted rite out to won side and we was awl safe. Soon as I ead speek I axed "Sis ter May" what that thing was and she sed it was a orterbeamule. I told her it shore had orter be a mule stiddy of a dare devil kind of a crit ter like that, fur a mule woodn't a tuck them gals rite into the jaws of deth like that thing did. No, sir! I no a little about mules and I haint nev er seen won yet that wood a rushed rite up on a street kyar frunt end foremist. Well, I visited lots of interestin places in Greenville, and will try and -tell sumthin about sum of 'em. Reedy River Falls is a purty place and is among the grandest of Naters wild seenery. [t ain't more'n five min iits wawk from the bizziest section of t.he city. It was here that in 1776, Richard Paris hilt his historic mill; but romanse has bin swept aside by modern progress, fur here air now lo cated the Cemperdown Cotton Mills. SThe old piill (I reckin it is Parises) is still a standin, its grate warter wheel idle and lookin like a sentinal at a post of duty. Sitiwated on the West McBee ave new, in a purty grove of native oke trees, stands the First Baptist church -a stately house of warship with grate ma'ssive collums and tall steeple. It can set down 1,500 people and has got the finest pipe orgin in awl S. C. The church was established in No vember, 1831, with ten members. Then there's the Greenville-Female College, a Baptist institution. It was founded in 1819, but never got its present name till the yeer 1845. It is on College street; the grounds air large and roomy and the bildin is comnmodious, stately and imposin. Its dormytary will 'commeraate 300 pu pils, and the big auditoram has got won of the sweetest soundin pipe or gins in that part of the country. I believe that upper Mane street is the purtiest residence section that I seen. On this street is the grate moneyment, erected to the memery of them that lost their lives in the civil war.. Two grate big cannons gard this sacred spot. The Suthern R. R. Depo is a mitey big hansum bildin in keepin with the stile and progress of that hustlin city. SIt is complete in awl its derange ment.s fur the cumfert and conveni enee of the :ravelin puxbliek. It shore is a whopper. 1I went awl over the Cotton Mill of the W. F. Poe Mfg. Co., won of the bigest and finest cotton mills in the south and is fit up from top to bot tomn with awl the latest improved ma sheenery fo-r makin fine cotton fab rics of severil different kinds. 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