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BECKY AD * , By Mrs. Eth Mr. Editor: " When I writ that artickle consarn in' mi trip to Newberry, I didn't no we was goin' to move down there, but that is jest presactly what we have dun. However, I'm goin' to finish up the account of mi trip ac cordin' to promise. an' then, I'll tell you about the move. Well, as I was sayin,' when I land ed in Newberry. I wade prezactly 93 pounds. an' when I left I wade jest even a hundred, an' only stade there a week. There aint no tellin' where I'd a kicked the beam at if I'd a stade a month. I wernt serprised at miself tho, fur I seen that mitey ni ever body down there was fatter than they used to be, an' I allers wood be in the fashion an' tag along with the majority, if it happened to suit me. Now, there's J. M. Davis, the super intender of the Newberry cotton mill, jest as fat as butter. When we lived down there six year ago he was jest a common size tOll an' slender man. He was only a weave boss then tho, an' I reekin' that gettin' a fatter job made him fatten up. I no there's sumthin in that fur there's Wiley Koon, the second boss-he haint been histed up no hier an' he haint got no bigger. A Mr. Hardeman is weave boss now, an' they do say he is the best ever. But tawk about peeple fat tenin'-there's sum at jest wont, no differens what they eat or how much beer they drink, or where they live. There's Will Thomas. In spite of the good vittles his wife cooks on that ile stove, his stumick still teans agin his backbone fur support. An' John Shirley is prezactly like he was six year ago-jest as good lookin, no older an' no bigger. If I was them bacheler gals, (we aint allowed to. call- 'em old maids any more) I'd send Cupid atter that man so rapid he'd have to surrender or hit the grit. There he is, workin' hard an' savin' money an' sayin' hi his actions that he haint got no erthly use fur Ipetticotes of no description. It's a shame fur a good husband to be a ruinin' an going to seed in the baehe ler state like that. Won time there was a bachelor gal who went threw the world with hi hed an indifferent hart, *proudly scorin' awl advances of the tother sex, an' refusin' the honor of: bein' parished to deth bi any who: axed the faver. But atter a while she eoteh' a glimpse of the forteith Ssine post loomin' up close bi, an' bey ant it was old age, roomatieks, new ralgy an' lonesumness, an' she got skeered. With horror she looked back Fover her mis-spent life an' begun to think of what mite he' heen, an' to wish that it had ha been, an' to wonder if it was yet too late. Won evenin, way atter sundown, when twilite shaders was a stealin' over hill an' dale, when the whipporewill, nite hawk an' hootin' owl was tunin' up their musical instruments this pore gal went way out in the lonesum woods an' prade with all the eler quence born of despair, that the tord wood send her a husband. ''Lord, send him, an' send him quick,'' she pleaded. From the top of a tall tree near bi came the question: ''Who-who-who - who-who Realizin' that beggers must not be choice, an' hein' in a big hurry any how, she ansered back: "Any body will do, dear Lord, jest so as he wares britehes!'' John Shirley, take warnin'; git a move on you.. Sum day old age will eum arlong an' give you a dose of roomatiz, gout, plewrisy an' other ac e essoris, an' then you'll wish like all. forty to hear the soft swish of them same petticotes that you have been a scornin', the gentle foot step of a number fore, an' will wish in vane Sfar a soft female womans hand to rub you with arniky salve an' narve, an' bone liniment, an' to apply mus tard plasters to the place that hurts. I've seen old age an' lonesumness wobblin' along hand in hand, an' it's enuff to melt a hart of stone to see how miserable they air together. But tawk about peeple fattenin' there's Perfesser Wright, the book keeper of the same mill an' law sakes, I woodn't a node him if I'd ha' seen him any where else. He us ed to be so slim an' strate that I thought he wore a lace jacket, an' now he is a grate big fat soft an' mushy lookin' man--still handsumn tho, in spite of it. I shore did miss Mr. T. J. McCrary, who was president an' general man ager when we lived there. When he did the mill pearle lost a good IN JONES. el Thomas. Sa friend. They do say tho, that Mr. Zach Wright, who is in his place, is t as good as he can be an' can't be beet bi none. I had the pleasure of meet- a in' Mr. Wright, an' he made a mitey t faverable compression on me an' I am orful hard to fool. a Ever forth Sunday nite Mr. Wright s .ets sum big hifalutin' D. D., or oth er title minister, to lecter in won of the three churcles on the mill hill. It's a union sarvice an' ever body a zoes an' injoyes it. I hearn the A. R.. P P. preacher frum up town, but I 0 ran't recomember his name. He made tile grandest lecter I ever hearn, on Christin character. It was grand, birillin' and' sole inspirin', an' won c ouldn't hea.r it with out longin' to t reach a hier plane of livin'. The lec- a ter was made in the Metherdist t) 2hurch, an' I will say rite here that t! it is the finest church I ever seen on ii a mill hill, an' I haint never ceen t; many no where that w finer. . t went to see mi old frend, Mrs. Har- ri non. who is a charmin' young wid- t4 ar, t1he third or forth wife of the late ti 'homas Harmon, who was a insur- a Inee man. 1 Me an' W. M. Thomas an' wife all h iccepted a invite to Dr. Smith's won aite, an' shore did have a nice time. e rhere's two Dr. Smiths at Newberry, )ut this won is a fizzickin' Dr. an' b mitey popler. H1e shore has got a lt ovely wife an' sum sweet children. si The other Dr. Smith, Dr. Van n 3mith, is a medicine an' pill mixer. si Ae an' Jeems used ter bi all our fiz- f ,ick from hum, an' we aint ded yet. n Teems thinks there aint nobody like ii Dr. Van Smith, an' I guess there s4 int. Won day I was uptown an' n vanted to get sum buttins an' threw b i mistake an' not bein' used to the el dlace, I went into the drug store look- n Ln' fur 'em. Dr. Smith didn't keep t] uttins, but he axed me if I node b Phat went "around a buttin.'' I told f7 im I all,ers rapped the thread round. 'em when I sowed 'em on. He sed e allers herd that a hilly gote went ound ''a buttin''' 1 Jessie Burns, whose mother lives in Wadesboro, is runnin' a grocer store in Newberry, an' gettin' rich in reel estate. We used to get all our groceries A rum 0. Klettner, the pore mans rend, an' we found him still hustlin' - round at the same place. And there's James Mimnaugh, won >f the biggest an' most reliable dry oods merchants in the place, doin' a austlin' bizness at the same old , tand. I don't believe you could call mr a solitarry thing but what Mim augh has got it, in all sizes, shapes, olors an' prices, an' he'll sute you >r die tryin.' I seen our old frend Tom Wicker mn' his pa an' ma. We used to live elose to 'em an' shore thought a site of 'em. Tom is a wider, now. I found the Editer of Herald an' \ews was also fat-like niitey ni ever won else. Well, I've allers herd that to make a long tale short you have to out it ofE. an' I reekin' I'd better not et this narrative get too long or the 3 Editer 'mite ampertate it. So I'll hur rv on. I didn't intend to go back bi Sauls- ~ berry, but Jeems writ that he cndn 't meet me at Wadesboro, an' I had to. I left Newberry at 10.30 a. in., 3 Aug. 2, goin' bi way of Columby. Soon as I got outen Nrewberry, I no tied that the craps was better than I had seen 'em any where on mi tra vels. The rode was good, too, an' I ud actilly write an' read what I writ. Prosperity was the first stoppin place and was won place that had -a comporerate name. Ever thing round there looked mitey prosperiferous. The seenery along the way was jest grand an' dignifercent Sumtimes we was in a deep cut with hi walls on each side, an' sumntimes on a hi pinnacle, an' lookin' down in- j to deep an' dangerous lookin' preci pies an' ravines.c There's lots of wood-land betwixt Newberry an' Columby, too, the home of many a fethered songster. Have,hearn of swamps, an' red how deserters an' criminals often hid in ( 'em. Jest below Pomaria, I seen won, a grate, dark, dismal lookin' place that made the creeps crawl up an' i down mi spinel collum. It was hevy timbered with big trees an' thick under growth, an' where the warter wernt sta.ndin the ground look-c ed mitey soft an' trecherous. At won place I seen a little path zigzagin' { in to the misterious interior of that orful lookin' place, an' I wondered if 1 J A 1 xv a s s; ive (leep). J.'a1k i i - al except the thunderin' of the trane -hich seemed strangely out of placa n'.made won want to hold their reth. Hopes was jest won of them ttle three sided closet lookin' sta ons. but I reckin' it hopes to be big er sum day. Peak is a little place, n a church in the distance with a ill peak, must ha' give it the name. At Alsten we crossed Broad River, grate, wide, sleepy an' muddy treem. Peeple change kyars at Als m fur Spartanburg an' Asheville. 7e passed two more little places be >re we got to Columby, Wallaceville n' Little River. There was more urty woods an' pine thickets, an' E to the rite at intervales, we cud etch a glimpse of Broad River. But must go back a little. Soon atter leavin' Newberry. a apple of fellers got to tawkin' on .e seet rite behind me, an' in corse ; I wern deef I eudn't help hearin leir converset an' a lot consarnin' 1e principles of man. Won of 'em -as a wider, fifty in looks an' twen in feelings, an' he was a enter iinin the other won with sum of his ?cent explites. with the fare sex. He >ld how a few daze before, he had ick a gal ten miles to a picknick, an' tter he got there h- met another 'on that he liked better an' he tuck er home an' didn't ro "how in the iner an' Tom Walker" the won he irried got back. I tell you what it made mi blud le to hear him, an' l'd -ha' give a >t fur the chance to give him a les n-an' I got the chance! The other tan got off at Pomaria, an' purty )on mi frisky wider got up an' went ir a drink f warter. As he passed te he tipped his hat ai' give me a iterested look. As he cum back I >rter drapped mi hed an' rolled up di ize at him in a cokettish way, ushed an' smiled. 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