New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-22
enough to live an pay his honest debts That's

It's great mistake" he said, pausng in n
lesurely way. to think that gold is paying crop
TO raise. anyway. 1t takes about three dollars in
money to get up one dollars worth of gold an two
dollars to get one in silver. When you come to
copper you're about even an when you find iron,
then you've struck it rich p
"Corn and wheat's about the best Job we've I'M
dertook here" the Squire's wife said sedately.
"They tell me that the women do great deal of
farm work about here" remarked.
woMAN's WORK IN WAR TIMES.
"Well, kin tell you what done. durin' war
times she answered. Me an the women-we
run thirty acres an raised crop while the men
was gone to the front. An heaps o. women-folks
has to do what is done roun their place. The tmen
may be Aiming. an earnin' eighty cents or
dollar a day or they may not be good for any
thing; in places the mems started goin' TO
school an gettin education, SOS they're too busy to
stir roun' home much an there amt many
woman in this country that don't have to follow
the plough some spells to git little corn-mea i'll
the house "
Did you ever plough Mrs. W. asked in
surprise She laughed.
Not much. But the last year o. the war l had
to do many thing never done before. You see,
Mr.. W. he hadn't never gone to the war. ben a
tie time had come when every man was needed,
an it was to 20 into the hcne guards or to the
front He want long choOsin' between gOln TO the
front in honor an hangin' roun home with those
rascals who made a business o. plunderln' an
KILN instd o. defendin. The day he left for At
Ianta shut up the store an the post-office, an
sent the mail-bags to Dahlonega. for hadn't
any right TO keep EN- an then / went down the
fields Men boys to be had but sent
word to the women to meet mel had one negro
boy on the place who couldn't be hired to leave me.
They come an | made 'em n talk. an asked EN-
what they'd take to see me through. Thar was no
tellin' what we'd do for food if didn't raise the
crops. TLey said If I'd just keep 'em IN corn,
tobacco an rice, they'd work long as I'd furnish
atoms"
tobacco p
"To be sure. Some of em wanted it for their
own use an some or EN- for their soldiers. They
had to have meal an rice for their chdrun. So |
puts my negro boy into a wagon, Jan gave him the
money, and sent HIM of for the provisions Some
folks laughed, an said I'd never mules nor
wagon nor boy nor money agin but knowd my
man an it wasn't week before he got hack from
Atlanta with his wagon load, an all hands was
hard at work. The corn had had one hoen', but it
was all to plough AN lay by; an with the other
crops We had our hands full Sometimes I'd stay
in the field all day sometimes I'd just send down
the rations an say | wouldn't come that mornin';
and Just when they didn't know when to expect
me- I'd drop down on 'em; that's the way | KEEP
EN- to their work. They never did know when TO
look for
"Along that time party O Yankee soldiers de-
serted at Dalton an come through. They come TO
me to open the store an let 'em git some tobacco.
Help yourselves, said l., an pointed EN- to a box
that was lust opened. They swarmed round II,
when one of 'em says: II ARE in all the rest, an
let's see il it's all alike Another fellow says:
Joe Won kin see il IS all alike by the marks on the
boxes: what makes you do so, when the ladys so
polite as 10 tell you to help yoursefF Then the
irst one come up me an began to act very rude.
Scaredf Well, had picked up all the courage that
had to stand whatever should come so | stood
still and looked him the eye, an said l: I've
gone through all the war up to this minute. says
l. an you are the first man that has offered to
insult mer An then the Others took him an inst
carried him his horse they never let him speak
another word but rode away. all of em; an the
Home Guards met 'em half way To Dahlonega an
killed some of EN-. poor chaps"
Blu; how did your crop turn out :!
"Weli. raj sed hundred and thirty gallons o sor
zhum to begin with an seyentyiive bushels q
wheat an some eight hundred bushels o corn an
when nv husband got back AN the war was over that
Home Guard run wagon into the corn-held, an
stacked their guns, an went to loading mp with our
corn thr1win' ii the mules an wastin 1t. as they
went. Inevcr seen him mad in all my life. He
was ready to fight a dozen they couldn't scare
him. He got down there an be stood betwAt them
an their guns an he had gun in his own hands
II Won don't cit out o this I'll shoot you into NIB
bon, he said. i wouldn't mind 1t so much If Ia
raised the crop but the women harvested this corn,
70 Gfn Not
while live you don't git grain of it" He druv
en- clean ont; an then he got sorry thinklh they
might need some very bad for few had raised
ANYTHING; so he called to EN- to let the wagon wait
at the fence an TO send two back an gave EN-
what he thought right an let 'em go"
You had good many Union people mp here.
hadn't yon ?" | asked
"Yes we had. This section furnished COM
many to the Northern army durin' the war. Some
of EN- are liv in here yet bn. people never Will
like EN- for il not III this generation. But We
ne yer ad no respect for the way the nome Gu9rds
done about it, They took men ont o their beds by
night. an hung EN- took EN- where they never
was heard of again-UniOn and secesh both. Ihey
never cared Slunder an deyitry. that was all
they wanted
VISIT TO ONE OF THE MINES.
@Was this countryIas thckly settled before the
war as now y
"Yes. lust about. Aurara once heap
bigger place than it is now. But this has always
been white mans country; very few hggers
owned any nearer than Gainesville
"Ive noticed their absence; | think have yet
70 see a colored man in Lumpkin County"
"Thcres some at the mines; they work white and
colored there Are you goin to look at any o the
mines :"
"Yes. suppose so. Which is the richest one :"
.Wcll. Pigeon Roost is about at the top-thats
Colonel Hands There ere six or seven mines IN
the neighborhood an you'll see pretty much the
same thing at all. They're run by water you
know"
I did not know but before long had an oppor-
t,,itv of learning The Dominic and |, with his