The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-14
BETSY HAMILTON.
Betsy and Her Gang at the Worlds Expo
sition.
Atlanta Constitution.

atlanta Consultation.
This here New Orleans is the biggest
and the noisest town ever / seen the
most houses and the most folks, and the
most fuss ever I heard at wonst, and al.
together hits enough to run body plum
distracted, in pertickler me and 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 meanest place to try
to sleep of nights ever have saw; the
kars and the steamboats, is whistlin' all
the time, and the street kars q runnin'
and bells a ringin' and waggins and bug.
gies and fine carriages is jist stavin, like
they was q gwine after the dock. Some
kind of bell is ringin' continually
putty nigh all the time, and hit keeps a
body busy akin "whats that bell for, and
what's that whistle for?" and 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 shown you the
way when you git lost. 1 hearn some
folks say it was mighty different up
North, that up thar it was ever feller for
his sef, and they meyer tuck time to tell
you nothin', and if you got lost it was
your own lookout. ALI our gang tried to
stick together to-day,.we didn't want to
git lost no more; Cousin Pink she never
got two inches from me all day, and it
tormented Cap Dewberry putty nigh to
death, kase he couldn't git a chance to
say nothin' to me. Buddy and Cousin
Jake lowed tonight they had enjoyed
they selves most to death, and Cap he
never said whether he had or no.
Hits worth the money you pay to git
in jist to see what allis made out'n cotton,
and the machines to work it with. Thar
was Mr.. James 81. Halls plows from
Maysville, KY, to work the ground whar
its planted, and plows from Chattanoogy,
and plows and hoes from heap of other
places I disremember now; and Mr.. j..
S. Lamar's cotton chopper and cultivator
from Augusta, Ca, and hit saves sight
of work with the hoe, and Mr.. somebody
else's cotton picker, but pap lows nothin'
cant beat the fingers for picking out
cotton, and then we seed ever so many
cotton gins, and cotton presses, and a.
B. Steers's New Orleans cotton compress,
hit takes big bale and packs it into a
little one. Then comes tho machine
whar they card the cotton and spin it
and weave it into cloth, and it was the
fastest weayin ever I seed. / wished
for NAV and Aunt Nancy and Aunt Dizzy
Am; Z know in reason if they could
see it 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
drawed one day to see what they could
do with cotton. They picked it, ginned
it, carded it, spun it, woye it, cut it, and
made two suits of clothes for two Cover
ners all in one day. 1t 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 it, and died it with walnut bark and
plum roots and sot i! with hickorylye and
coperas, and then wove it, and cut it out
and sewed it with our fingers, and spun
the thread to sew it Without I can tell
you it tuck more'n any one day to do it.
We seed the cotton and corn stalk
cutter of Geo. w. Brown & 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 a heap of
things made out'n paper, paper house,
and some 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 are even maxim paper outn't cotton
stalks, and pressen lie out'n the cotton
seed; we seed 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 shorten ther bread with. I am
plum willin' for every body to eat it that
likes it, but give me the old fashion hog
fat for 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 q
sight of mawlin' and splittin'.
They've got machine here for mighty
nigh ever thing you can name, and some
of 'em saves o power of work too, and
that is what folks wants they'll do most
anything to git out'n work.
Hit was hard to pull buddy and pap
away from them machines. l could have
looked at 'em all day but Caledony and
Cousin Pink wanted to 60 and see the
pictures and the pretty things the women
folks had thar to explay. Cousin Pink
she wanted to stop half hour to look
at Handkerchief they axed SIS for, and
a apron marked Sl00, and a little old
table 'kiver for S25. Buddy lie KEEP q
jerkin' us-to come on-"come on" says
be, ~ wouldn't give cent thousand
for sich as that" and Cousin Pink she
wouldn't have gin cent thousand for
the things buddy liked to see, and go
they was q pullin' and jerkin' one
duULutI dll Luo Ilult W Cuue vi auu les5
go some'rs else. "Have you saw the
Liberty bell?" says buddy, "Yess" says
she, "I have saw it and it wasn't much
when / seed it. The old thing is q hun.
dred years old, and cracked at that
don't see what in the name Of sense ever
made 'em fetch it here" Her and bud
dy couldn't agree on nothin', and she
turned him lose to go whar he pleased.
Cap Dewberry didn't keer whar he went
jes SO I went with him.
In the government buildin' we over
hearn one crowd say to tother, "We are
gwine to Kansas now, meet me in Mexico
at 2 O'clock" and they lowed "Hits q
gittin' SO warm we'd ruther meet yon in
Virginia or Vermont"-"Spose we meet
at the Texas department. Have you seed
that thar banner made by them Cele-
burne, Texas ladies? They say Miss
Graves and Miss Osborn had hand in
maxim it." They passed on and we
didn't find out Whar they met. We'uns