The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-02-05
From the RuraJ Carolinian for February.
NN -aGe0rse Augustus Again. /.

on in the same old track; certainty not any
better. andhgis getting dsttessingly stout. 1t
Is so aggravating! really do not think the
condition of our family affairs warrants George
Augustus getting.so stent4 But nothing stops
him. If ever get married again, (of which
there is not the slightest chance, as | think
George Augustus will. .hre to be a hundred
but if ever do, am not going. to marry TOR
sbettsrr rworse.plIt shah onlybe or41better. .
Pll be married by the Methodist minister, and
I'll make him leaEs out the iWorser part
Two "worsers" would be too much for me.
George Augustus has been very: much exer-
cised lately about the panic, banks breaking,
etc. He expounds. to me twice day his ideas
on the subject, and just before dinner becomes
su-glooIng and prophesiessuch terrIbieieyltsto 70
sheIcountry, that it quite takes away my apps
'tite: Every time I go down town, + see George
Augustus at the corners OF the streets, talking
with two or three others about sthe bans, !.
Ieass. he saws It's about the, bank. Il doubt it
srnyselfI i think it is gossip. Men are just as
fond of gossip as they say women are, only
tshey are more quiet about it; and you may be
sure when you see knot of them talking at a
street corner, somebody or something Is being
o:nulled to pieces. I really don't see why he
.shonld be exercised about the bank. He's got
eno. money in it, that I know Of; in that, or in
-anything else, more's the pity. 1t would be
some comfort to think that one did once have
money. If you haven't it now. I believe in
that old verse with slight alteration:
D r aItis better to have had and lost,
20 Than never to have had at all.
Edoesn,t worry me at all, the banks breaking.
4 have got my winter hat
= But T have one igrest piece of news. George
.kupnstus has had q client at last. Such q
7thiaal has never happened before in the annals
of our, household I tell you, we made much
ef that client. We invited him to dinner, we
neited him, we did everything that man could
Do think George Augustus would even have
sune on the guitar for, him, but I discouraged
bhe idea: feared for the result. George Au-
el,stus gained the cause He tried te explain
s, tTu me: what bic case really was. Something
or 6ther saboht some money. i gave him my
ideas. said : George Augustus, If were
the Judge, should commit both your client
and Yourself to the penitentiary Him for
doing wrong, and you for defending him?'
George Augustus put on a very dignlhed air,
and said: "My dear, women know nothing at
ali about business" With which magnificent
renly he stalked graudly away, having quashed
me. as he probably thought. Right or wrong,
however. that client was great blessing to US,
foruge haze been living off his case ever :since.
T am beginning to look with anxious eyes for
another now. If he don't come soon, don't
know what welntd2 You needn't be surprised
some day to see George Augustus and myself
preambnlating the streets with grind organ
t1am0nkev, fon Te2pect To- come to it. /
q have greaf mind to put George Augustus
in the kitchen, and turn lawyer myself; l am
sure it would be easier than cooking Rebekah,
i'm the Bible, said she was'weary Of her Life, bes
eau5soff de daughters Of Heth I'm weary Of
mine. because Of the daughters of Ham! l
can't get any to cook for me. Ny cook has
stopped because she needed "chanse, of air"
I said to George Augustus that when needed
mycooks needed change Of air, SIZE took trip
OF somewhere He smiled grimly, and said it
was "dog-gone" state of things. Please Mr.
Editor: what does that mean? 1t is a favorte
word Of George Augustus. Please, if it's any
thing wrong, scratch it out; you know, 1 don't
fnSEh %slls s1ioiusdIt6s eiiangs the 9TH other day: It
Is yery nice and jolly . N0lo feel that l have
begun to live at last. J believe that we shall
vet save the eoubttrst SSTbey taught1me ever
so many signs, and passwords, ana hand-gripss,
but + eiye yo1 my word, don't remember one
Of 'em to-day. 7 was elected Pomo--Oh! [
forgot, I ought not to tell anything about. it !!
I'm aftaif / tell a good many Things, for every
now and then, when l am talking, George Au.
pustus looks at me with an awful frown, and
saws: aCornelaw Then know I've told some
solemn secret that I'd sworn never to reveal.
George AUGUSTUS .madeia very interesting and
abe Speech the day joined, on the, Uses of
Agriculture. Ifeft so proud to think that was
mi husband speaking; but thought it a Curl
Gus coincidence that after came home. was
looking over an agricultural journal and
come aerss arsaryicle which had all OF George
Augustus ideas, almost to the very words Ihe
question that has puzzled me since then Is this: +:
dDid that journal gets ITS, ideas from George
Augustus speech? o.. did George Augustus get
bis ideas from that journal?" .,!ir
There was one thing that affected me almost
In tears for It showed me how dauhtess is the
spirit Of our Southern men, notwithstanding
all their cares and troubles. 1t was the wayin
which they-George, Augustus leading the. van
-attacked theG Grauge dinner! ILmay. say
there was hardly bone left. 1t,is beautiful to
see such ardor in anything.
,We-not Geosge Augustus and but the
Grange, are going to buy the State Fair When
we ret It, it Will be better than this last one,
for between the refusal to let US ladies have
cur innocent, little bazaar and the Predom;;,.
nance of the horse racing element, thing II all
went wrong. And another thing, I'm not 60
ing to send, anything more to the fair 1t q am
to have Knitting needles given me as premium.
What on earth do want with them George
Augustus is also much disguised, for he sent
chickens to exhibit, and they gave him a SER
yiette ring! Never mind, "we are going to
change all that"
George Augustus has been going down so Of