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BECKY A \ ^ , By Mrs. E t * < Mr. Editor: \\ hen I writ that articklo consari in nil trip to Newberry, I didn't, n wo was goin' to move down then but that in jest presactly what w ha\e dun. However, I'm goin' t finish up (lie account of mi trip a< i cordin' to promise, an' then, I'll to \ you about the move. . Well, as 1 was sayin,' when I lam / e<1 in Newberry, I wade prezactly <] pounds, an' when I left I wade jo.even a hundred, an' only stade tliei , a week. There aint no tellin' whei I'd a kicked (lie beam at if I'd Made a month. T wernt serprised r niiself tho, fur I seen that milov i ever body down there was fatter tha they used lo be, an' I allcrs wood 1: in the fashion an' tai? along with tli majority, if it happened to suit in Now, there's J. M. Davis, the supei intender of the Newberry col ton mil jest as tat as butter. When we live ) down there six year ago he was jc: ) a common size |<all an' slender mai } He was only a weave boss then th an' I reckin' that getlm' a fatt< job made him fatten up. I no there sumthin in that fur there's Wile Koon, the second boss?lie haint hoc liisted up no hier an' he haint got n burger. A Mr. Hardeman is weave bo< now, an' they do say lie is the be; ever. Rut. lawk about people fa tenin' there's sum at jest wont, n 4jJv differens what they eat or how nine boei they drink, or where they live. ? There's Will Thomas. Tn spite c ^ the good vittles his wife cooks on tin ilo stove, his stumick still Jeans agi his backbone fur support. An' Joh Shirley is prezactly like ho was si year ago- jest, as good lookin, e older an' no bigger. If I was tho: bachelor gals, (we aint allowed 1 call 'em old maids any .more) I: send Cupid at tor that man so rapi he'd have to surrender or hit tl grit. There he is, workin' hard ar savin' money an' savin' bi his actioi that he haint got no erlhly use fi pettieotos of no description. It's I shame fur a good husband to bo ruin in' an going to seed in the bach ?.( lei stale like that. Wron time there wj a bachelor gal who went throw tl world with hi lied an indifferent hai proudly seorin' awl advances of tl I other sex, an' rofusin' the honor < bein' parished to delli hi any wl axed the raver. Hut alter a whi she rot i'h a glimpse of (lie fort oil y sine post loomin' up close bi, an' be ant it was old age, roomalicks, ne^ f ralgy an' lonesnmness, an' she g skeered. With horror she looked ba< V- over her mis-spent life an' begun think of what mite lie' heen, an' wish that it had ha been, an' wonder if if was yet too late. W< ovenin, way all or sundown, win twilile shaders was a slealin' ov hill an' dale, when the whipporowi nile hawk an' bool.in' owl was luui up fheir musical instruments this po gal went, way out in (he lonesu * woods an' prade with all I lie ele quenoo born of despair, thai Hie lo wood send her a husband. 1' Lord, send him, an' send hi quick," she pleaded. From I he top of a tall tree near camo |he question: ' 'Who?who?who ? who?who o?<>?" Roalizin' that beggers must not choice, an' bain ' in a big hurry an how, she ansered back: "Any body will do, dear Lor jest so as ho wares britches!" John Shirley, take warnin'; git move on you. Sum day old age w ' cum along an' give you a doso roomaliz, gout, plowrisy an' other j cossoris, an' then you'll wish like i Y forly lo hear the soft swish of the [' samo petticotes that you have be a scornin', the gentle foot step of number fore, an' will wish in va fur a soft female womans hand rub you with arniky salv? an' nar an' bone liniment, an' to apply mi tard plasters to the place that hur ] I've seen old age an' lonosuninc j;, wobblin' along hand in hand, an' il jf|. enuff to melt a hart of stone lo s |j how miserable they air together. |j)j; But tawk about people fattenin' there's Per Cesser Wright, the boo keeper of tho same mill an' h I' sakes, I woodn't a node him if I ha' seen him any where else. He 1 fij od lo be so slim an' strate that |,j) thought ho wore a laco jacket, a j;j now he is a grate big fat soft a I j mushy lookin' man-?still handsi k'; tho, in spite of it. j]'', T shore did miss Mr. T. J. McCrai who was president an' general mr As) ager when we lived there. When dide the mill people lost a go I ]!l ,NN JONES. Sb ? , ithel Thomas. ^ ^ friend. They do say tho, that Mr. ' 1- Zaoh Wright, who is in iiis place, is * o as good as he can be an' can't bo beet ^ a, bi none. I had the pleasure of meet- f e in' Mr. Wright, an' lie made a mitoy ' o favorable compression on me an' I j- am orful hard to fool. J " Ever forth Sunday nitc Mr. Wright * gets sum big liifalutin' 1). 1)., or oth- ' I- er title minister, to lector in won of ^ '3 the three churches on the mill hill. * 't It's a union sarvice an' over body 1 0 goes an' injoyes it. I hcarn the A. li. ' 0 !' preacher frum up town, but I 1 Ji can't recomember his name, lie made ' it t iio grandest lector 1 ever hearn, on ' n Christ in character. It was grand, n thrilliu' and' sole inspirit!an' won ( 1,1 couldn't hear it with out longin' to | 1C roach a hier plane of livin'. The lee- ; n- ter was made in the Mctherdist t 1" churcli, an' I will say rite here that t 'i il is the finest church 1 over soon on i d a mill hill, an' I haint never ?een | many no where that ?-ns r I II went to see mi old trend, Mrs. liar- i mon, who is a charmiu' young wid- t !1* or, the third or forth wife of the late t s Thomas Harmon, who was a insur- < y anco man. , " Mo an' W. M. Thomas an' wife all ' ? accepted a invite to Dr. Smith's won 1 nite, an' shore did have a nice time. ' I heie s two l)r. Smiths at Newberry, J- but this won is a fizzickin' Dr. an' | mitoy popler. Ilo shore has got a | 'tl h>voly wife an' sum sweet children. , The other Dr. Smith, Dr. Van i )f Smith, is a medicine an' pill mixer. > lt Me an' .Teems used ter bi all our fiz- I n zick from hum, an' wo aint ded yet. i in thinks there aint nobody like i |x Di. Van Smith, an' I guess there f l0 aint. Won day T was uptown an' i m wanted to get sum butt ins an' threw 1 to a mistake an' not bein' used to the < place, I out into the drug store look- i [(] in' fur 'em. Dr. Smith didn't keep < ie but tins, but he axed me if I node 1 what went "around a huttin." I told J 1S him T allers rapped the thread round , ir 'em when I sowed Vm on. He sed a he allers herd that a billy goto went a round "a but tin e- .Tessie Burns, whoso mother lives is in Wadesboro, is runnin' a grocer 10 store in Newberry, an' get tin' rich I, in reel estate. ie Wo used to get. all our groceries | if I rum O. Kiel t nor, the pore mans i 10 frond, an' we found him still hustlin' i le around at the same place. III And there's James Mimnaugh, won I y- of the biggest an' most reliable dry v- goods merchants in the place, doin' a at hustlin' hi/.ness at the same old k stand. I don't believe you could call to fur a soli tarry thing hut what Mi in- 1 to naugli has got it. in all si/.es, shapes, lo c.?lors an' prices, an' he'll sute you >r. or die trvin.' m I seen our old frond Tom Wicker er an' his pa an' ma. Wo used to live II, close to ',mii an' shore thought a site n' of 'em. Tom is a wider, now. ro I found the Editor of Herald an' m News was also fat?like inifey ni ever r- won else. Well, I've allers herd that I'd to make a long tale short you have to eul it nil, an' I reck in' I'd belter not in let lliis narrative get too long or the Editor mite amperlate it. So I'll hurbi rv on. I didn't intend lo go hack hi Sauls? berry, hut .Teems writ, that he eudn't niool me at Wadesboro, an' I had to. he T left Newberry at 10.30 a. m., y- Aug. 2, goin' hi way of Columby. Soon as 1 got onion Newberry, T no d, ticed that the craps was better than I had seen 'em any where on mi traft vols. The rode was good, too, an' I ill end actilly write an' read what T of writ. ic- Prosperity was the first stoppin ill place and was won place that 'in had a comporerale name. Ever on thing round I hero looked mit oy a prospori forous. The scenery along the ne way was jest grand an' digniferoent to Sumtimcs we was in a deep cut with vo hi walls on each side, an' sum times is- oil a hi pinnacle, an' lookin' down hits. to deep an' dangerous lookin' preci;ss pices an' ravines. t's There's lots of wood-land betwixt ;oo Newberry an' Columby, too, the home of many a fethered songster. ? TIave#hcarn of swamps, an' red how >k- deserters an' criminals often hid in iw 'em. .Test below Pomaria, I seen won, 'd a grate, dark, dismal lookin' place is- that made the creeps crawl up an* 1 down mi spinel eollum. -n' It was hovv timbered with big trees n' an' thick under growth, an' where the im warier wcrnt standin the ground lookI ed mitoy soft an' trecherous. At. won ry, place I seen a little path zigzagin' in- in lo-lhe mislorioiis interior of that he orful lookin' place, an' T wondered if od sumwhere in them cadaverous depths, i pore blind li?or was a liidin'. 1 vas I lie? loiicstimesi lookin' place 1 vi*r seen. All was silence, deep, dark an' in nl except the tlinnderin of the Iran vhieh seemed strangely out of plac m' made won want to hold thei >reth. Hopes was jest won of tiier it tie three sided closet lookin' st;i ions, hut I reckin' it hopes to be big rer sum day. Peak is a little plae< hi' a church in the distance with ajl peak, must ha' give it the nam* At Alston we crossed Broad llivei i grate, wide, sleepy an' mudd itrcem. l'eeplo change kyars at Als en fur Spartanburg an' Ashevilh kVe passed two more little places h( 'ore we got to Columhy, Wallacevill 111' Little River. There was mor >urty woods an' pine thickets, an >1T to the rite at intervales, we cu ietch a glimpse of Broad River. Bu I must go hack a little. Noon att<<r leavin' Xewbcrry, Mipple of fellers got to tawkin' o he seel rite behind me, an' in conis I worn doef I cinln't >11> 11? hearin heir converset an' a lot eonsarnin lie principles of man. Won of 'oi vas a wider, fifty in looks an' Iwei v in feelings, an' lie was a onlei ainin the other won with sum of hi eoonl, expliles with the fare sex. 11 old how a few daze before, he ha uck a gal ten miles to a pickuiek, ai liter he got there he met anothc von that lie liked better an' he tnc lor home an' didn't no "how in lli )inor an' Tom Walker" the won li ai iiod got back. I (ell you what it made mi bin >ile to hoar him, an' I'd ha' give ot I'nr the chance to uive him a le: iin?an' I go I the clianci'! The oth< nan got oil" at l'omaria. an' purl soon mi frisky wider got up an' wci Cur a drink f warier. As he passe ne he tipped his hat an' give me nteresled look. As lie cum back sorter drapped mi bed an' rolled u ni izo at. him in a cokcttish wa; ilushed an' smiled. 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