The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-08-04
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Little Thoming Horn, was one
of the worst spoilt babies that 1
ever saw; and yet he grew up to
make q flrst-rate man, and he Is 4
| Hrst-rate man yet. In the spring
| of 1877, Thoming went to Oconee
| County to peddle in washing ma
chimes. He was a young man, but
little passed his majority, and
he had given his horse and buggy
and what money he could raise, for
the right to sell machines in OcOnee
county. The kind Of machine that
ThOming represented, was the little
tin funnel, so familiar now to many
people in this County, and, by the
way, the best washing machine
ever inv, nted. But ThOming was,
perhaps, not q good agent, or per-
haps the people of Ocohee have
been bitten by somebody; ut any
rate, they didn't take hold worth a
cent. But Thoring thought he must
get his money back, so he con-
tinued to ride day after day, with
a dozen tin tunnels hanging to the
horn of his saddle, and barely max
ing enough sales to pay expenses.
He at length reached a point bor-
dering on despair, but determined
to make II more effort. In this
frame of mind he approached nm
other residence, and saw the old
gentleman blowing in q field, near
the house. The old man stopped
and walked slowly towards the
fence. When he had approached
near enough, Thoming began in his
usual style. "Old gentleman, L want
to sell you a washing machine this
mOrningW The old man walked
several steps nearer, without APP
pearing to notice the remark. Then
he stopped suddenly and raised his
head and eye :, in attitude Of prayer:
"Lord! Lord! Lord! what is the for
Hampton, or any body else, to try
to do any thing for this Country, and
the like of that going on p" But
Thoming determined that he would
not be baffled at the first word; so
he began to explain the nature Of
invention, and at the same time to
unite n of the tunnels. But the
old man stopped him. "Now, don't
unite them things, for i tell you it's
no use. 1 would give you five cents
for n thousand of them, and, If you
were to give them to me they
shouldn't stay on my plantations"
Then, looking the young man
straight in the eye, continued:
young man, have you got any
home 2" dyes" says Thoming, I
have" DWELL, for the Lords sake
go to it, and stay there! Tll tell
you what I'll do. 1t is now nearly
dinner time, and I'll give you your
dinner and feed your horse, and
not charge you a cent, if you'll
promise me you'll go home and go
to work and eve engage in these
sort of things again" Well, it is
needless to say that Thoming was
in no humor to trade; so he ac-
cepted the old mans offer and he
kept his promise too. But the right
to sell washing machines in Oconee
county still belongs to Thoming
Horn..,.. | was led to think of this
little joke from present surround
ings. This, SO far, has been the
worst year that our farmers have
ever Look which ever way
you will, the prospect is gloomy in
the extreme. In some parts of our
State the people are calling for help
p'N "''""iiS gazing al starvation
while every where else the people
are gone crazy on Base Ball! Ne
ro's tiddling while Rome was burn
ing need not be quoted any more.
....A man who expects to make
money out ofpUlitics, had better in
sist on II cash system. have been
keeping II running account with the
old gentleman for over thirty years
and now he Is a bankrupt and so
am l.. II wish to call the atten-
ton of my readers to the fact that
the Editor-in-Chief is n single man;
therefore babies must take a back
seat. But it will not always be so.
We had good rain yesterday.
BY the way, on the subject of
Base Ball, 1 desire to offer a sub
stitute; 1 think "Leap Frog" will
come in very well now just for a
change. You needn't to laugh. Just
let 1t get started from some city,
and Inl assure you 1t will take like