Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-20
VOLUME xxXVI. No. Is.

| h0to'GSiASA NS1S5~t
fee,, a small plate ov slaPjax, sum.
phew pickles and cod cabbage and
vinegar, if thare 'vaz enny left from
Yesterdays dinner.
His dinner waz alwus lite onel
! ind he seldom ct ennyt. ing but some
| oiled mutton, sum EclrsG beet. sr'n.
koid ham, and sum imuB puddii teu
top oph with. .
| Hiz supp.rs were nere nothing
and konslsted simply cvkold horned
| beef, kold billed mutton, anu once in
i crate while, q phew 'ces ov kold
nam. with mustard id Eoss red
dish. .. -. H.
| 4 examined hiz he'd and found
that be had all the nsuui bumps ia a
remarkable state oy preseryashun. .
He haz good ear for music, and
whisselled me Yankee Doodle, with
variashuns.
He was born q saoemaker, but
ia mt dun ennything at the trade for
ne last l25 years. He enjoys the
oest ov health, but just now he IL
cethlng, which he tells me IL hiz 7th
sett. Ill
On the subjekt ov m marriage hiz
ned seems to be on. a ded level. He
s-d that he had. been married Is
Glmes, and proposed again teu Han
aah Campbell, lady in the neigh
oorhood, who was % years old.
asked him what he thought biz
chances were for obtaining the lady's
hand, and he sed lit lays between
n m and one Tneodor Whitney, a
travelling kern DOCTOR" and added
IF Whitney don't look out will en-.
large his head for him"
Upon mi asking him what he at
tributed his immense life and vigor
to, he sed, in clear and distinkt
voice:
To 8 small horns ov whiskey' a
lay, behaving in the hard shell doc
Derln, and voting unanimously the
democratic ticket.
thankt him very much for the
Information he had given me ov him
self, and asked him if he had emmy
objekshun to mi putting it into print,
aud he manifested great desire that
ishould do 50, not forgetting to make
special menshun ov what he had sed
about enlarging Whitneys head for
him, for he thought that would clear
him out ov the naborhood
l left john Bascomb alter a de-.
lightful vieit ov four hours, and
thought over teu misell, if thare
was emmy two rules for long life that
had been thus far discovered that
waz alike. So
The more i thought ov this, the
more wished i could cum acros5
Methuseler for a feu minnitts, and
hear him tell how he managed.
ELIZABETH MEACHEM.
/ Lib Meachem Gas she IL familiarly
called in the township whare she re-
sldes) il one ov the ra.csf gems ov
-.rszssrs,s~.sl,-,aaatAlisy> that has ever
been mi blessed Lux teii 5THounter.
She is not so old us Bascomb bi
about two years, being lbout l94
years old. Next to Lots We she IL
the best preserved volAan the world
contains.
| reached her place cv residence
early in the morning ~ IN one min
nitt after told her Nh bizzlness, her
tongue had phuli bed OF steam
on, and for three hours IT rur like :.
stream Of quicksilver down an in
klined plain.
I asked ner @ thousand questions
at leas but not one OF them did she
answer, but kept talking all the time
:aster than .Pochahpntas kah pace.
lown hill ten saddle.
AZ near as could find out size had
ived l94 years simply because she
couldn't die without cutting short one
" her storys.
ashei her teu sho ms her tongue
wanted to see if that member waz
'adly worn; but she couldn't stop it
ong enuff teu show it.
This woman haz reached.her cnor-
nous age. without eny particular
abits.
She has outlived every body she
az kun "krost, 50 FAR, by. out-talking
hem.
The only subject that I could for
moment kart the food over her Ian
uage with, was the fashions but
lis was a subject upon which un-
'-tunatel ly wasn't much.
As a last hope ov drawing her out
pom sum fakts as teu her mode ov
lie. tuched upon that all-absdrbing
'pick teu both old and young-I re-
Il now teu matrmony:
Her iust husband it seemed, was
appetizer, and, teu use her own
ords, was too lazy teu talk, or
u listen while she talked, and SO he
ed"
Her seckond husband was pretty
'od talker buta poor listener, and,
arefore he died.
Hes third husband was a def. and
I'm man, and, az she remarked.
either be or she had got teu die,
d the man died"
Her fourth husband undertook ten
t.talk her, and died early:
In this way she went en- describing
r husbands; l2 in all.
Az rose teu depart sed teu her,
lemnly:
" ALIzABETH MEAcHEm, you hav
On mutch married, and mulch an
kosolate widder-at what time ov
, do yu think the married state
eses teu be preferable2" ?"
She replied:
8 You must ask somebody older
IN I am
- st. Vincent, Fla, is an island of
DO acres, owned and occupied for the
three years by Mn latch, a gentle