Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-11-27

comes all the way from Chicago" and
when threshed, shipit in a Yankee vessel to
a Yankee port forthe English TO eat. When
his corn OF rare grade from Chester county,
PENNSYLVANIA, is ripe, he will cut 1t down
with Buckeye corn chopper" sll the way
from Ohio, or maybe he will use an old
"Waldron" scythe cut in short pieces and
fixed in q home made handle. Bound to
have some Yankee about everything
Turning his steps homeward he canters his
horse-by the way he paid fifty dollars for
the getting of said horse by celebrated
Vermont trotter, gaily along, and reflects
upon the wisdom, the greatness and the IN
genuity OF the Yankee race who can make
such wonderful things, and sell them to him
at only four times the cost price.
Filled with JOY and thanksgiving he pre-
parcs for dinner by taking a dram of Ken
lucky" whiskey, rectifcd and purified in
some Northern vaults, and eats from plates
and dishes and drinks his water from glasses
made in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and cuts
his victials with knives marked Meriden
Cutlery Co.." Connecticut. His watch, his
spoons, his silver salt cellars and other mis-
cellaneous articles of jewelry he brought
from Tiffany when he went on to New York
TO see st. Julien trOt. After dinner he
snoozcs in his easy chair, warranted by its
Connecticut manufacturer tot take any shape
he nav fall into if lie should have bad
dreams. and anon falls soundly to sleep,
soothed by the sweet strains of wife or
daughter singing "My country, It's of thee" "
Blessed sleep! Sancho Panza did not know
who invented it, so it couldn't have been q
Yankee Sunday comes. Oui S0utherner
is a religious man--all good democratic
Southerners are, whether church members
or not. So our friend sits down to his Bible
magnificently gotten up by Harper Y Bros,
New York; or he takes for his Sunday read
ing the Southern Churchman," Religious
Herald" or Southern Methodist" IS his
religious inclinations may lead him. They
are all printed on Northern paper with
PHILADELPHIA ink. Even his religious pa
pcrs are materially Northern but, thank
God, the spiritual and moral sentiments are
cmanations from Southern hearts and South
ern brains. He bitches up his Nermont-be-
gotten horses to Jersey OF Germaltown
wagon; puts his whip, made Of whalebone
brought from the Arctic regions by Yankee
whalcr. and polished and finished and beau
titled in some Northern factory, into ITS
patent Yankee holder, and OF he goes; his
wife dressed in as good as he cen afford,
bought at Stewards, New York, or some
other Broadway store, but ret much out
wardly Southern, even t. the pins IN her
clothes, and he glorying in his magnificent
rig Of Philadelphia make, (got 1t at the
Centennial; hasn't time 10 go to ms own
State fair At church both use new brass
bound PRAYER books which came from B0s-
ton. and the preacher lowering over finely
gotten Up Harpcr's Bible, beats the drum
ccclesiastic on chancel furniture, made of
black walnut from the rich Southern bottom
lands bv the best gcttcr-up of such things
PHILADELPHIA can afford. Time flies with our
friend and he pays tribute to our Yankee
friends i'm his outgoings and in his incomings.
Not an hour, not q day, pnssos bnt what he
is called upon to contribute to them IN some
way. silently but surely the protection
afforded to Northern manufactures i solldl-
fying into silver dollars clinking in the
bottom of their pockets, the sweat drops
from the poor mans brow. But there Is an
end 10 ali things. ard our friend lays on 4
bed of sickness. His bed and his sick room
furniture is made from the same lot Of lum-
Der his church furniture is from, and put up
bv the same man. The doctor gives him
medicine, prepared in Philadelphia labo-
ratory and his last taste on earth l. OF Yam
kce drugs. lie dies-and dressed in north
ern-made clothes, his Sunday best, he is laid
into a Cincinnati caskct. they make them
cheap out there only $lO0 his requiem Is
sung to a New jersey organ. The dust TO
dust ashes to ashes" is pronounced over him
out of his Boston praycr-hook, and the grave
i. filed by his sorrowful friends each Of
whom handles an "Ames" shovel. " Alas
Door Yorick." His foreign clothed dust
may remain in its foreign built coffin, but
his soul has been carried on Angels wings
straight up to Abraham's bosom where his
foreign tax gatherers could not follow him.
His was the crowning virtuc-Charity.
VrxDEV in Alexandria Gazette