The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-05-22
BETSY HAMILTON.
BETSY Hamilton at the New Or
leans ExpOsitiOn-What She
Saw and Heard.

This here New Orleans is the big.
gest and nOisest town l ever seen ;
the most houses and the most folks,
aud the most fuss ever | heard at
wunst, and altogether hits enough
to run a body plum distracted, in
particular me aud Calrl0ny aud
our crowd that lives III the hills Oi
Alabamy. and don't never hear
nothiR but frogs and screech owls
and whippoorwills. This is the
meanest place TO try TO sleep OF
nights 1 ever have saw the karS
and the steamboats, is Il whlstlin'
all the time, and the street kars a
runuin' and bells a rlngin' aud wag-
gins and buggies aud fine carriages
is jst stYvin' like they was d
gwine after the dock. Some kind
of a bell is Il ringin cOntinnerly put.
ty nigh all the time, and hit keeps
ii body, busy akin ''whats that bell
tor, and what's that whistle for ~
aud no two don't answer you alike
and YOU don't know no nOre'u you
did fore you axed, but they are
powerful good about shown you
the way when you git lost. hearn
some folks say 1t was mighty diff
ferent up North, that up thar it was
ever teller for his self, and they
never tuck time to tell you nothin',
and if you got lost it was your own
look out. All our gang tried to stick
together to-day, we dldn't want to
get lost 20 more; Cousin Pink she
never got two inches from me all
day, and it tormented Cap Dewber-
ry patty uigh to death, kase he
couldn't git chance to say nothln'
to me. Buddy and Cousin Jake
lowed tonight they had enjoyed
they selves most to death, aud Cap
he never sed whether he had or no.
Hits worth the money you pay to
git 10 jist to see what all is made
Out'n cotton, and the machines TO
work it with. Thar was Mr.. James
II. Halls plOws from Maysville, Ky :,
to work the ground whar its plant
ed, and plOws from ChattanOOgy,
aud plows and hoes from a heap of
other places | disremember now
aud MIR. j. s. Lamar's cotton chop
per and cnltivatOr from Augusta,
Ga, and hit saves a sight of work
with the hoe, and MIR, somebody
else's cotton picker, but pap lows
nothiui cant beat the fingers for
picking out the cotton, aud then
we seed ever so many cotton gins,
and cotton presses, aud A. b.
Steers's New New Orleans cotton
hit takes a big bale aud
packs it into little Que. Then
comes the machine whar they card
the cotton and spin it aud weave it
into cloth, audit was the fastest
weavenin' ever / seed. l wished
TOR nav and Aunt Nancy and
Aunt Dicky Ann; l know 10 rea-
sou if they could see it they would |
want to fling away ther old wheel
aud loom. Somebody vas tellin'
about the exposition they had in
III 1881, aud what a crowd
they drawed one day to see what
they could do with cotton. They
picked it, giuned it, carded it, spun
L, ,wove II, cut il, and made two suits
Of clothes for two governors all in
oue day. Il was done to show how
aud what the new machines could
10, and how fur 1t was bead of the
Did way. / thought about the diff
ference twixt them clothes and the
1nes we'uus made at home for bud
ly and pap. We picked the cotton
With our fingers, aud hauled it with
he OK waggin to old man Rober-
,on's giu 'ouse and had it ginned on
he shears, then we caTded it and
,pun it, aud died it with walnut
bark aud plum roots and sot It with