Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-03-30

the bed clothes, upon which he was sound
ly sleeping She then very deliberately,
and no doubt with great care, 'sewed him
up Che had no doubt been 'sewed' up be-
fore, but not with needle and thread and
then taking the 'cow hide she commenced
operations, not 'Caudle,' with The tongue,
but with an article which wounded his feel
ings quite as much as would lecture by
this unruly member. In short time he
begged and entreaied her to de.ist opera
tons, and wri,hed and twisted like worm
before the fire, screaming at most terrible
rate: but his wife continued to lay i, on, to
the tune of fifty, I'll too much assuring
him that hers was war of conquest, and
that nothing short of Indemnity for the past
and security for the fuure,' would be &C
cepable. After furnishing him for several
hours. and herself debating the terms OF
peace which was line around the citadel
of his affections, capitulalion was signed
and the treaty at once duly ratified He is
now most loving and obedient husband and
has never been known to touch the scritler'
since.
If Mrs. Caudle had been as shrewd as the
mountain lady, she might have saved near
ly wind enough TO have waited ship across
the Atlantic ocean.
Blu, | must hasten to my description OF
the 'SIamese Twins | rode from Wilkes
county to their new residence in Surrey,
some 40 miles, and arrived at their house
the evening Of the second day after leaving
Trap Hill.' On riding up TO the yard,
observed the Twins busily engaged in
shinel'ng house; and on seeing me they
promptly approached me and requested me
to walk in adding that they would attend
to my horse, and in the meantime walked
into the house and introduced myself to
Mrs. 'Chang,' pronounced 'ChunO and
found her to be quite handsome young
woman, just %. Her maiden name was
'Adelade La'es,' (sis'er Of Sarah;) and her
dress and gen'eel appearance all indicated a
degree of tideness which Mrs. Eng lacks,
indeed the people abou, here all say she is
'mghty lownifed.' Mrs. Chang was mar
ried on the same ght of her sister, and
now has three children, viz: Josephine
Virginia. days younger than Mrs Eng's
first, 'ChIis,opler Woen,' 8 days younger
than NJ Els second, and Nancy aged
only sI bonths. These are all very heal
thy aud forward children. but have their ia
hers' tas'ures clearly stamped upon them.
You could readily single them GU, of a
crowd Of ten thousand children.
After having passed some time with Mrs.
Chang the Twins came IN and gathering
up their pipes, commenced putting away al,
ii great rate. found them exceedingly So
ciable and soon had them fairly engaged in
conversation.
My first question was, how do you like
farming? They both replied I'VE like him
much; good business for US Do you raise
much corn and potatoes, hay. etc? we
make nough TO ed, and feed two horses, cat
ne and sheep, and hogs This is new
place, what did you pay for it: I'VE pay
three thousand seven hundred and fifty dol
lars. and have no good house to live i'll
How many acres Of land do You plant: We
plant last year 300 acres. Have you many
sheep, hogs, cows, rkies, geese? we got
200 sheep, great many cows and hogs. have
SIS turkies, SO geese, some ducks How
many plows do you run? -Four plow.'--
Does your land produce well Some place
make lirty busheI corn on one acre. How
many negroes have you: We GO. tir,een
(l3) big and little How long have you
lived in N. c.: we lib here nine year
What made you settle a, Trap Hill? Mighty
purity place, high mountain. big rocks. nough
deer, >qulrrls, foxes, and all kind of game.
You love to hunt +? 'Mighly well love shoot
mark too Doyou vote at elections? ooh
yes, never miss many time Who did you
vote for for President, in 1910? we vote
for Gen. Harrison, and in 1914 we vote for
Mr.. Clay, and now we ready to vote for Mr.
Clay again If he is wlling.' Then you are
both Wings? We'll we ant no,hin else
How do you like oar republican form of
government We like him much, very
much; much better than where we come
from Do you ever expect to return to
your own country? 'We never going back,
have wife and children here, all Mericans
and we Mercans now too Have you any
relatives living in Siam ?-'We have mudder,
him very old. We can't write Siam, and
mudder, can't write Merican. We only
hear from home two time since we been in
this country. Can't get no body to write
Siam to we mudder, and she can't write
Merican.' Would you not like to see your
mother? 'We like him much Have you
much money? 'We have some in New
York; Who has charge of it? we leave
him with Mr.. Bunker It may be proper
here to state that their money, $4,000, is
invested in wine importing company d.
per ct. secured by mortgage upon real es-
tate in the city Of New York, and that Mr..
Bunker, whose name they bear, is their d
gent. They draw on him for the interest,
bnt never touch the principal. Their in
ves,men,s in N. G.. have all been made with
the interest of the money
Do YOU ever expect to travel again: eve
wish to try it again next fall, about October