The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05

stripe before I get her particular stripe.
Then she says she wants little figure;
and get all the little figures out for her.
She wants to know how much tits yard !;
I say six cents, and she says she can get
better in Springfield fo!. five. and she
'1l6oks at t'ms siispiciously, AasSif I was q
cheating youth She wants! to- know If
it'll wash, and say presume so, most
calioos doesEwasb; and .she looks at me
indignantly.as.if, ! was ,saucy youth.
Then she asks if we take eggs, and | say
we do, and we pay 2S cents, and she says
s,they'ss paying so asthe other st6rsS and
of she goes, and I put up the prints, and
am down at the farther end of the room
turning fragments ,out Of Q cracker bar.
rel, when back She comes and wants
samples.
We keep--the-pess-efice, and,1 by the
-.stiuia J Iges back ID my cracker barfefr IN
comes a man and wants to know if be
hasn't letter. He never had letter in
his life, and be, knows it, End know it |;
but it Is one:o those facts that both par
ties ignore, and I go and look, and give
him the consoling assurance, that he
hash'tfany, and .hej departs in peace of
Then there is lady who wants to
match q confounded bit of silk braid,
drab bordering on the lilac. 1t takes me
five minutes to indoae box of silk braids,
and five more to find we havn't drab Dor
e dering' on the lilac. Then she wants
sewing silk therssme; shade and hunt
through all the sewing-silks, and: there's
drab bordering on everything else under
the sun excepting lilac; but I know by
thes@ay her ihouncssa sweep out that q
MERCANTILE house not. keeping drab bor-
dering on the lilac stands very low.
nj get down to: the father ,end Of the
= store again, and there comes man to
the front door, and yelps out loud enough
for every customer to hear that he's
brought back that barrel of flour; says,
the bread was -black, and 7ally dough- in
the middle. Now that man understood,
when he had that Hour, that it was infe-
no, quality, not recommended, and he
lid iii cheap, land took it because it was
ycheap. n help hira rolf Che -four in, and
can see that he thinks he has circum-
venteda villain; e;,t'..s-k
That's the way it goes, day after day,
: week aftervweek, and sLha.es tea, zdetest
! ssIefatls abhor Goldfish, and wish calico,
{. oaEton Scloth, ,adrilling, Shooks ands eyes,
and all the rest of the wretched necessi-
ties of an artificial civilization were at
the bottom of the Indian ocean. long
to be savage more than I do to be- an
angel, and shall be, one. of these days,
though do wear cloth suits, and have g.
+, shaving. mug at the barbeHs marked in
Gilt letters, S. o. Haynes. Iwonder that
all selfsfsspect and sentiment of human
sityshnsn't long ago persisted fnoni~odt my
'Hs Such were my reflections, one fine
morning just after train time, while I was
weighing out half a. pound of black tea,
when my fellow sufferer in the dry-goods
and grocery inaiction called out'.i.s
Here's O. lady inquiring . for you,
Sam"
/; It In distinct outline before the door
stood little woman, her skirts spread
softhe femals figures we Used to draw on
our states at school. came up to, make
my bow, and saw she had deposited
drown willow basket on the showcase,
and dropped black glazed bag at her
side, She wore. stringy kind of shawl,
with fearfully long fringe, and seemed to
be afflicted with numb palsy.
q. "tAre you my nephew, Sam'well 2"
asked she. H..
"My name is Samuel Haynes, ma'sm."
'I'm your. fathers aunt, .Loueezer
Haynes"
She looked at me sharply, as if I was
making fun of her. L suppose it is be-
cause the corners of my mouth turn up,
people are, always 9,suspectlng me Of
making fun, of. them. T. wish. those cor
ners would sink, and wonder they don't,
"I'm your only. living female. relative
on the fathers side," said she.t7 +
:,eiMy business experience with females
had been so embittering, I was glad to
learn she was the only one on the fathers
side.
.y!iAsc you've ng mother; feel ;it my
duty to help make home for you"
Instantly I remembered that Aunt
Louisa WAS worth seventy7fye thousand.
think flearned that fact 'in early years
st the parental, knee, along, With who
made me, and what State J. lived in. : /
know it always stood to omyinfantile con-
sciousness in the relation OF a primary
truth. Ny father, all his life, courted
poverty through the medium of dry-goods
and groceries, and went through bank
ruptcy as often as the law would allow.
DgFdiqg tbs Pa1odjcr seasons, before call
ment, he used TO clasp his hands to bis
head and ejacdfate:' -"Louisa might help
me if she only would!" IN
But Louisa wouldn't, or at least didn't,
and: whatever may be- thought of her
flial affection, matuge observations on
the oscillations in the lnolasses aud GIN
ger market have convinced me of the
soundness Of her judgment. .}
Elm, delighted to see you, Aunt Lou
lisa. ri go right down to- my boarding
place with you."
Hence, with a.brown willow basket in
one hand and shiny leather bag .jn; the
other, and my great-aunt trotting behind
why under heaven she didn't walk by
say side couldn't see I'VE meandered
y We usssoEsslsa Angela aPlimpton,
,I,was, engaged to Evelina' Angela. [
had enjoyed that honor ever since one
JulyeReningwhen there came up a sud
den thunder-shower, and she clasped my
arm and ejaculated:she was $50 tim-id:" !"
An engagenent Was an annual episode
with Eyelina. When solennly asked
-Pa.Plimpton's consent, he didn't remove
his ip,ipet from his mouth, but just nodded
and pursued his previous train Of thought.
Evelina smiled patronizingly upon me.
Difference to the aged 1 knew she consid-
e1edbeautiful. ,'ns ~"
j. MY aunt didn't like my boarding
rplace. and wasn't pleased with my board
ipgi mistress. She thoughtiwe'd better
keep house, and I spent the next fort