The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-01
q laCinGed, musing, Is

a general bnluOl LuTH Out Weiiss
AS Dan Lamont says, that is the way
l got my start Mayor is good Office
too. Tom Vance, the Senator's son,
is your mayor, / believe
"No, sir. Mr.. viii Newland is our
mayor" :"
"Humph! Good start he has, then
for the Senate, but Mr.. Harshaw is
mayor of Colletsville. Odds is even.
But Tom was mayer of Lenoir, was he
not ?"
eyes, few years ago"
"And Coot ?"
"Yes he was mayor before Tom
was"
Gust so. I often joke Coot and tell
him that it is good thing to start out
as mayor
"Do you know Mr.. Willy Barber?
asked Mrs. c., who was working on
crazy quilt made up of scraps from ev-
cry county in the United States.
"Oh! yes /; very WE'LL" [ replied.
"I think he must be such nice
young man but very shy. He wss
here at sociable we gave, the other
night, and I was so busy with the
large number of guests that [ did not
succeed in getting half well enough
acquainted with him. Does he live
III the town of Wilkesboro or in the
country ?"
1 replied that he lived in the coun-
| try and determined to tell Will that
if he makes his fortune in Washington
he must throw himself together and
quit being shy.
That is not evan an outline of the
jolly time we had. The President
leaned back and toasted his feet before
the fire and smoked his pipe and
talked with me in the homeliest way
about North Carolina people, farming
and politics, and every now and then
Mrs. G. would look up from her work
and contribute bright word to the
conversation. When a big negro
came in with a shoulder load of wood
tor the fire, the President told him to
bring in some apples and presently he
came with about half a bushel of green
pippins. We peeled and ate apples
till we couldn't rest sand [ praised the
pippins but said l thought timber
twigs were better as an all around
apple, especially for cooking purposes.
aft that is so" said Mrs. c.. "I
must have some.'
"When 1 go back" said, as gal
lantly as could, "I will send you a
box Of Them
"Oh! how good you are" she ex-
rlaimed, "but you will foget it," and
she looked as reproachfully as though
I had forgotten it.
"No, no indeed, indeed 1 will not, %
1 cried, and you may bet your bottom
dollar I will not.
1t grew late apace and I arose to
"Oh! stay all night" said the Pres
ident.
1 replied that Colonel Cowles and
Will Barber were expecting me at the
National Hotel and had promised to
sit up and wait for me. And further
that, as l was stranger and some.
what green, theys might think [ wa.
lost and grow uneasy.
eff that's all,' saidi the President
81 will send niger around to Billy
Cowles and tell him you are safe and
sound and are going to.stay here all
night"
So it was settled and was given q
room to sleep in that was fit for q
prince. Wood fires everywhere as
Grover is from the country and don't
like to smell coal.
Next morning I ate hearty break
fast at the presidential table and was
as cordially welcomed to it as I had
been the evening before to the East
room. AS had related that would
loaf about town and see the sights thai
day, delicious lunch was put up fol
me. When [ left the President cor
daily invited me to call again.
think I shall.