Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-11-23
WALHALLA SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 90 1882

addressing the crowd, this is your money,
is it7' 'Yes, said dozen. 'And you give
it up freely FOR the rings2' .Yos,' oame
again iu chorus. Very well, here's twopty
cents for you, sir and tweuty cents for you,
sir, andseo on around the crowd. Tlcy
commenced to wonder what 10 the world
| meant; said l was crazy and q lot Of
other things; but | only told them that I
wac advertising goods for my house md
had plenty more things to give away
Next took up some Of my handsome dia.
mond studa, which I explained were Lake
George diamonds, equal to any on earth,
Co., aud TINT was going to sell them from
it would be. Of course, for him. Twenty
studs were sold and the same speech made.
Then made the crowd hold up the dis-
monds, and each man got fifty cents back
who had bought.
The thing began to get very interesting
and the crowd numbered 800 or 400 Then
| got out sumo gold plated sleeve buttons
which explained could not DO bought
for lcss than Sl2 These proposed
to sell for fifty cents each, giving to all who
bought dollar additional us before, each
time doubling the money gift. The buttons
soou weut off as did the other things, aud
| was ready for the final bite at the crowd.
The twenty puir Of sleeve buttons had brcn
sold for half a dollar and had given back
twenty silver dollars. That fellow darn
FOOL heard all around me, hut replied
to this by saying that last week, in Macon,
had given away $500 and that l was
ready to do it again.
Ttfrko or,m1 ,u.e ,>orfootlr ,r,So5 J., .oo
whet came next. 1t was watch chains.
The chains | was to sell ut any price from
50, so to anything above that one wanted to
give telling theu the while the moro
they paid the better it would be fer thom.
hintcd that the watches would come next,
and this let them of like lot Of madmen.
| The trick was now to sell as mouy chaius
as possible at 50 SO had devil of
lot Of chains aud so sent them out right
and left. The dollars came rushing blndly
at me and raked them in like chaff Then
got uut of chains
"prcyiously hnd prepared two big red
silk handkcrchicfs, exactly alike, aud us
soon ns the chuins were all sold took the
money, aud, in tho presence Of the crowd
tied it up all together, and utter making
! speech proposed to throw the bundle 10 the
crowd for tho best man to take. While
talking purposely dropped the bund|e
into my little box by my side 10 which
ten dollars in silver and some paper to
| make it staod out aud look like the one
had dropped. All this had been arranged
beforehand, Of course. With u swonp |
swung the bag around my head after stoop.
ing to pick it up where first dropped it
and up it went into the Dir. Great hcuvcnsl
you should have eccn the mob! never
saw snything like it, They fought like
tigers over the handkerchief, while took
occasion to leave the spot. had also
arranged to bring the thing to climax
about the tmc the Albany train left so
was driven at once to the depot. wos
just $3.50 ahead. But got very weak IN
the knees while waiting at tho depot.
was q little too soon and about dozen
young men ran up raising the very mischief
it proved to be true They saw me and
came around me laughing and knocking
each other like crazy men | did"'t know
1 what on earth was the matter until they
finally told nc it was the best joke that
had ever been played on .3runswick, and
although they hsd been viotiInized, they
wanted to assure ne thst it was all right
81 had sold the chains to nearly all the
best men in Brunswick, srme of them
paying me as high Us five dollars for them
was satisfied to leave and had my revenge
You may put it down for fact that any
average American crowd can be hum-
busged the sau'e way every day in tho
year
THE VALUE OF Orr MILLS -On the
su.jcc' Of establishing u cotton seed OIL mill
II, Charlotte, the Journal of that city says
1t is shown by reasonable calculations that
the absence of such mill from Charlotte
has been costing the cotton planters in OUT
tributary territory considerably over $780,
900 per year, 10 the single item of the
waste of the oil in the cotton seed used as
fertilizer; for the oil of cotton seed is not
Of the slightest value in enriohing tho soil
and its extraction from the seed does not
impnir the value 10 this respect of tho oil
cake. The removal Of the staple ndherinp
for extracting the oil also adds much to the
! value Of the oako us provender, as the lint
on the seed coming from tho gin helps to
form 40 indigest,ble mass in the somachs
of csttlo, whilo no such result follows with
the cake
The Baltimore Suns Wall street corres
pondeut tcIegraphs on Friday as follows
'.Sinoe the election there has been better
| demand for pond Southern bonds for trnsl