The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-06-06
0ur Oldest Inhabitants-Two of Them.

and once lent nlm lU QOlldIS teu Duy d pan wv
kaff skin boots with.
He fit in the revolushun, also in the war ov
1912, likewise in the late melee, and sez he
won't take sass now from emmy man living.
He is hard shell baptiss by religion, and
sez he will die for his religion.
He was konverted $50 years ago, and thinks
the hard-shel IL the tufest religion thare il for
every day wear. He sez that one hard shell
baptiss ken clio more hard work on the same
vittles during hot day than ten episkopali-
ties.
He haz always used plug tobako from child,
and sez he lernt how to cheu bi watching COW
cheu her cud.
He haz never drunk emmy intoxicating Ticker
but whiskey, and sez that no other licker IS
healthy. He thinks horns a day is enuf for
health.
He haz alwus voted the dimokratik ticket
for the last 40 years, and walked, last fall In
sloppy weather, Is miles, to vote for Jim Buch-
anan.
He haint never seen rale-road yet, nor q
wimmin's right conyenshun.
His greatest desire, he tells me, IL teu see
Gen. Jackson, and sez that he shal 60 next
year down teu Tennessee teu see him.
He fatted a hog last year, with his own
hands, that weighed 636 pounds after it was
drest and we'll dried out. He is very cheerful,
and sez he won dollars on the weight ov this
hog, out ov one ov the deakons ov the hard
she'll church. He declares this teu be one ov
the proudest acksidents cv his life, for the dea-
kon Yves known far and near as tite kuss
He tells me that for 80 years he haz went
teu bed at Just II minutes after 9, and has
arozen at precisely o'clock the next day.
The fust thing he does in the morning IL teu
take short drink, about 2 inches, and then
fur an hour before breakfast he reads the al
manax. (IaoiU hear state that 1t az "Josh Bill
lnqs' Farmers Ainanar" that he reads.
asked him hiz opinyun ov gin and milk az
a fertilizer. He pronounced it bogus, and sed
that the good old hardshell drink, whiskey un-
adorned, waz the only speerits that never went
bak on a man.
.Hiz habits are simple. For breakfast he gen.
orally ct four slices NV psalt pork, billed per-
tatoge, a couple ov sassagis, hot biskits, doz-
en- hard bold eggs, kups of rhye cofe, q
small plate ov slapjax, sum phew pickles and
cold cabbage and vinegar, if thare waz emmy
left from Yesterdays dinner.
His dinner waz alwus lite one, and he sell
dom ct ennything but some billed mutton, sum
horned beef, sum kold ham, and sum injun
puddin teu top oph with.
Hiz suppers were mere nothing, and konsis-
ted simply ov kold horned beef, kOld billed
mutton, and, once in CRATE while, Phew sll-
ces oy kold ham, with mustard and boss red
dish.
I examined hiz head and found that he had
all the usual bumps in remarkable state ov
preservashun. =,
He haz good ear for music, and whisselled
me Yankee Doodle, with variashuns.
He was born shoemaker, but hasn't dun
ennything at the trade for the last 125 years.
He enjoys the best ov health, but just now ne
il teething, which he tells me il hiz 7th sett.
He is firm beleaver in the darwin theory,
and sez he used teu hear his grate-grandfather
tell ov race ov men sumwhere down on the
coast ov Florida, who had sum little ov the
kaudle appendix still remaining.
On the subjekt ov marriage hiz he'd seems to
be on ded level. He sed "that he had been
married Is times, and proposed again teu Han
nah Campbell, a lady in the neighborhood, who
was % years old.
I asked him what he thought his chances
were for obtaining the lady's hand, and he sed
'it lays between him and one Theodor, Whit
ney, travelling korn doctor" and added: "it
Whitney don't look out will enlarge his head
for him."
Upon mi asking him what he attributed his
immense life and vigor to, he sed, in clear
and distinkt voice:
"To small horns ov whiskey day, beleav-
ing in the hard shell docterin, and voting unan-
imously the democratic ticket"
I thankt him very much for the information
he had given me ov himself, and asked him il
he had emmy objekshun to mi putting it into
print, and he manifested great desire that
should do so, not forgetting to make special
menshun ov what he had sed about enlarging
Whitney's head for him, for he thought that
would clear him out ov the naborhood.
left John Bascomb after delightful visit
ov four hours, and thought over teu miself, il
thare was emmy two rules for long life that had
been thus far discovered that waz alike.
The more thought ov this, the more wish
ed could cum acrost Methuseler for a feu
minnitts, and hear him tell how he managed.
ELIzIBETH MEACHEM.
Lib Meachem las she IL familiarly called in
the township WHARF she resides) il one ov the
rarest gems ov extenuated mortality that has
ever been mi blessed LUX ten enkounter.
She is not so old as Bascomb bi about two
years, being about 1914 years old. Next to
Lots wife she IL the best preserved woman the
world contains.
reached her place ov residence early in the
morning, and in one minute after told her mi
Dizziness, her tongue had phull he'd OF steam
on, and for three hours it run like stream OF
quicksilver down and inklined plain.
I asked her thousand questions at least, but
not one of them did she answer, but kept talk
ing all the time faster than Pochahontas kan
pace down hill teu saddle.
Az near as could find out she had lived 194
years simply because she couldn't die without
cutting short one ov her storys.
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to see if that member waz badly worn but she
couldn't stop it long enuff teu show it,
This woman haz reached her enormous age
without eny particular habits.
She haz outlived every body she haz KUN
akrost SO far, by out-talking them.
The only subject that l could for moment
kart the food over her language with, was the
fashions; but this was subject upon which
unfortunately wasn't much.
AS last hope ov drawing her out upon sum
fakts as tcu her mode ov life, tuched upon
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