The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-05-22

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stalk cutter of G.. w. Brown & Co.,
Galesburg, ILL.,, and the cotton cloth
from the Mississippi mills, Wesson,
Miss, as good as that what comes
from up north or any whars up else.
And we seed u heap of things made
Out'n paper, a paper house, and
some paper car wheels, and paper
water buckets and the papeP was
all made Out'n cotton. They don't
lose nothIn' about the cotton now,
they say they are even maxim pa
per Outn't cotton stalks, and press
| in lie Out'n the cotton seed +; we
seed machine for hullin' the seed
aud "A machine for pressin' 'em into
lie. They feed cows on the cakes
after the lie is pressed out, and
some uses the lie to shorten ther
bread with. / am plum willin' for
everybody to eat it that likes it,
but give me old fashioned hog fat
tor mine.
Hits curis to see how many
things can be made Out'n cotton.
But that wire fencing tuck buddy's
eye-he flowed it was cheaper'n
rails, and would save a sight OF
mawln' and splittin'.
They've got machine here for
mighty nigh ever thing sou can
name, and some of 'em saves pow
er of work too, and that is what
folks wants-they'll do most any.
thing to git Oufn work.
.shit was hard to pull buddy and
pap away from them machines. l
could have looked at 'em all day,
but Ualedony and Cousin Pink
wanted to go und see the pictures
and the pretty things the women
folks bad thar to explay. Cousin
Pink she wanted to stop half hour
to look ut IA handkerchief they axed
S75 tor, aud apron marked 500,
aud little old table k,ver for $25.
Buddy he kcp a rkin' us to come
Outcome on, says he 81 wouldn't
give ceut thousand for sich as
| that" and Cousin Pink she would
Mt have giu cent a thousand for
the things buddy liked to see. and
80 they WAS a Oullin' and "a jrlkm'
one another all the time to come on
aud less go some'rs else. ''Have
You saw the Liberty bell 7" says
buddy, eyes, says she, ~ have
saw il and it wasn't much when |
seed it. The old thing is hun
dred years old, aud cracked at that
Il don't see what in the name OF
sense ever made 'em fetch it here"
Her and buddy couldn't agree on
nothin', and she turned hin loose
to 90 whar he pleased. Cap Dew.
berry didn't keer whar he went jes
so | went with him.
In the government buildin' we
overhearn one crowd say to
tother, ave are gwine to Kansas
now, meet me in Mexico at 2
O'Clock, ;" and they lowed "Hits a
glttiu' so warm we'd ruther meet
you in Virginia or VermOnt"-
'SpOse We meet at the Texas de.
partment. Have you seed that
thar bauner made by them Gle
burne, Texas ladies' I They say
Miss Graves and Miss Osborn had
a hand in maxim it," They passed
on and we didn't find out whar they
met. We'uns went in a house
made Oupn the DOzier Weyl crack
ers aud tuck seat. Hits got ], ,2S0
different kinds of crackers. We
seed the Cleveland gem that they
axed $4,000 for, but they've got
the insurances to az fortune for
everything they sell they show.
ed us a hand painted chany
plate and lowed it was 150 years
old and was worth $3.50. ! told em
my nav had some blue age tlOwery
dishes Ut home wasn't nigh that old
aud Sued sell 'em for a sight less
money. They had a reticule over
a hundred years old, aud table Xiv
er 400 years old that they wouldn't
sell. A solid lump of coal from
Alabamy weighs thirteen tons
they offered TO give it to buddy and
Cousin Jake if they'd lift it and |
tote it away. We'uns went to the |
Customhouse aud went in
room that cost over million of
dollars, and pap be was tight aud
KEEP stayiu' aud a stsyin' to git a
chance to shake hands with United |
States Circuit Judge Hon. Don
Pardee. Then we went to the mint
aud seed 'em maxim silver dollars
they had 'em than by the hamper
baskets full, whether you believe it
or not.
We seed the French market aud
hits a plum good show by itself,
and We seed Jackson's aud Clay's 4
and Lees statues, aud Margaret's ]
aud orange trees with
ripe aud green oranges aud the
blossoms all on the tree at the same
time, and we heard some black
niggers talkin' French, aud Cal she
right in ther faces.
stLivin' and larn'" is what we'uns
is a doing now. We have saw near
Iy ever thing that's to be seed, bot
thar is sump'n new to be seed ever
time you 90 to the exposition, and
maybe hits sump'u you've passed
right by aud fetched and did't know
t you'd be SO busy a lOOkin' ut
lne thug you couldn't see tOther,
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