The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-14
BETSY HAMILTON.
Betsy aud Her Gang at aha Worlds Expo
sitfon.
Atlanta Gonstiiutinn.

Attanta Constitution.
This here New Orleans is tho biggest
| and the noisest town ever seen the
most houses aud the most folks, and the
most fuss ever heard st worst and al.
together hits enough to run body plum
distracted, in perticklerme aud Caledony
and our crowd that lives in the hills of
Alabamy, and don't never hear nothin'
but frogs and screech owls and whippoor.
wills. This is the meaues. place to try
to sleep Of nights ever have saw tho
kars and the steamboats, is whistlin' oil
the time, aud the street kars rInnin'
and bells ringin' and waggins and bug.
gles and fine carriages isjist stayin' like
they was gwine after the dock. Some
kind Of q bel! is ringin' continually
putty nigh all the time, aud hit keeps o
body busy akin whats that bell for, and
what's that whistle for9" aud no two don't
answer you alike and you don't know no
more'n you did fore you axed-but they
are powerful good about showin' you the
way when you git lost. I hearn some
folks say it was mighty different up
North, that up thar it was ever feller for
his sef, and they meyer tuck tine to tell
you nothin', and if you got lost 1t was
your own lookout. All our gang tried to
stick together to-day, we didn't want to
git lost no more Cousin Pink che never
got two inches from me all day, and it
tormented Cap Dewberry putty nigh to
death, kase he couldn't git o chance to
cay nothin' TO me. Buddy aud Cousin
Jake lowed tonight they had enjoyed
they selves most to death, and Cap he
never said whether he had or no. :.
20 II, "a
in jist to see what ell is made out'n cotton,
and the machines to work It with. Thar
was MIR: James 81. Halls plows from
Maysville, KY, to work the ground whar
it's planted, and plows from Chattanoogy,
and plows and hoes from heap of other
places disEemember now; and Mr.. j.
s. Lamar's cotton chopper and cultivator
from Augusta, Ga, and hit saves sight
else's cotton picker, but pap lows nothin'
cant beat the fingers for picking out
cotton, and then we seed ever 30 many
cotton gins, and cotton presses, and a.
B. Steers's New Orleans cotton compress,
hit takes big bale and packs it Into q
little one. Then comes the machine
whar they card the cotton aud spin il
and weave 1t into cloth, and it, was the
fastest weayin ever / seed. I wished
for NAV and Aunt Nancy and Aunt Dizzy
Ann; Z know in reason If they could
see 1t they would want to fling away ther
old wheel and loom. Somebody was a
tellin' about the Exposition they had in
Atlanty, in 1881, and what crowd they
dFawed one day to see what they could
do with cotton. They picked it, ginned
it, carded it, spun it, wove it, cut 1t, and
made two suits of clothes for two Cover.
ners all In one day. It was done to show
how and what the new machines could
do, and how fur it was ahead of. the old
way. I thought about the difference
twixt them clothes and the ones we'uns
made at home for buddy and pap. We
picked the cotton with our fingers, and
hauled it with the OK waggin to old man
Roberson's gin 'ouse and had it ginned
on the shears. then we carded It and
spun 1t, and died it with walnut bark and
plum roots and sot 1t with hickorylye and
coperas, and then wove IL, and cut Il out
and sewed 1t with our fingers, and spun
the thread to sew it Without can tell
you 1t tuck more'n any one day to do It.
We seed the cotton and corn stalk
cutter of Geo. w. Brown G Co., Gales.
burg, ILL.,, and the cotton cloth from the
Mississippi mills, Wessen Miss, as good
as that what comes from up North or any
whars else. And We seed heap OF
things made outn paper, paper house,
and come paper car wheels, and paper
water buckets and the paper was all
made out'n cotton. They don't lose
nothin' about the cotton now, they say
they ore even maxim paper outn't cotton
stalks, and pressen lie out'n the cotton
seed We seed a machine for hullin' the
seed and machine for pressin' 'em into
lie. They feed COWS on the cakes after
the lie Is pressed out, and some uses the
lie to shortea ther bread with. am
plum willin' for every body to, eat It that
likes It, but give me the old fashion hog
fat for mine. 80 gss
Hits ouris to see how many things can
be made out'n cotton. But that wire
fencing tuck buddy's eye-he lowed It
was cheaper'n rails, and would save o
sight of mawlin' and splittin'.
They've got machine here for mighty
nigh ever thing you can name, and some
OF EN- saves Q power of work too, and
thas is what folks wants they'll do most
anything to git out'n work. !
Hit was hsrd to pull buddy and pap
away from them machines.,, could have
looked at 'em all day but Caledony and
Cousin Pink wanted to 20 and see the
pictures and the pretty things th, women
folks had thar to explay. Cousin Pink,
abe wanted TO stop hslf hour to look
at q handkerchief they axed $50, for, aud
apron marked 800, and little old
table 'kiver for $25. Buddy lie KEEP a
Jerkint rs to come on-"come on,p SAYS
he, II wouldn's give cent thousand
for. eieh as that" and Cousin Pink che
wouldn't have GIN q cent thousand for
the things buddy liked to see, and 90
they, was Q pullin' and q jerkin' one
another ell the time to come on and less
30 some'rs else. "Have you saw the
Liberty bell l2'' says buddy,,tfY esq aeyS
she, II have saw it and it wasn't much
when ! seed It. The old thing is a hnn.
dred years old, and, cracked at lthat--I
don't see what in the name of sense aver
made 'em fetch 1t here.H Her and bud.
dy. couldn't agree on snotbini.. and she
turned him lose to 60 whar be pleased.
Cap Deuberry didn't keer whar be went
jes so I went with him. et III M,
In the. government buildin, We, over.
hearn one crowd say to .tother, a.SYe are
gwine to Kansas now, meet me in Mexico
at 2 O'Clock" and they lowed: "Hits q
glttin' 80 warm we'd ruthes meet you IN
Virginia or Vermoptnn--MS MSpose we meet
Of tho Texas department. Have you seed
that thar banner made by; them Cele.
hgrne, Texas ;ladies7 They aay Mas
Graves and Miss Osborn had hand In
maxim ite They passed on and, we
didn't ind out Whar they met. We'uns