The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-02-28
Old Things Good Enough.

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:ly up ffomsa dozen great furnace stacks,
the shriekiug of the whistles and Sthe
rumble and roar Of countless locomotives
can be heard, and at night electric lights
and the glare offurnaces and coke ovens
light up;the heavens but Aunt Nancy
has never seen train or q furnace. Fo,
fifteen years she has not been four blocks
from her home. a dummy railroad to
one Of the parks passes eshouse only q
block away, shd occasionally ahe will
walk to the doo- and see a train pass, but
she cannot be induced to go any nearer,
I'm all the one hundred years Of, her exist.
Eence she has never been 10 q carriage, or
even. buggy. Aunt Nancy owns some
valuable property, and has an income ot
yseversl. thousand a. year, but she lives in
the style Of three quarters Of q century
ago. She has never; worn q dress made
of iner fabric then calico, and has neve,
engaged the services Of a dressmaker.
Nine yards of calico is all she will put
into a dress, declaring that more than
that quantity would bea waste of mate.
MA.
Ss Mrs. Brown was born in South Carolina
on March s, IN 80. She married when
about 90 years old, and soon afterward
removed with her husband to Georgia.
About fifty. Eve years J d ago they came to
Alabama, and settled at the place where
3she now lives. Her husband secured
one hundred and sixty acres ofiand from
the Govern nment By: homestead entry.
When the city Of Birmingham Was
founded BY the Elyton Land Company,
in 1870, Mrs. Brown sold all the land ex.
5cept four acres sto@that Company Her
husband had been dead several years, and
her family consisted Of q maiden daughter
and q married son, who is now nearly 70
years Of age. After q few years, when
property became valuable Mrs. Brown
sold several zlots, and with the money
built, houses on the lots which she retain.
ed. From these houses che derives an
income afseYeralthousandi dollars q year.
She would not consent to give up the old
log. cabin, and there she still lives with
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her maiden daughter. y Mrs. Brown can.
not:read, but she can count money and
every month she calls on her tenants and
collects her rents.Y She cannot understand
;thesmo dern system Sof banking, and has
no faith i;insbanks All her money sbe
Keeps in!thes house in2purses knit by her
:oWn hands. sthe, shed room Of the
cottage there IS an old Flash hioned spinning
wheel, and occasionally Aunt Nancy
spins q broeeh as shessaya to remind her
OF old tines s. $5 6. 3 s.g
She cannot besinduced to visit the
great industrial city which has grown up
where only q few: years ago she saw tam
Sgleds woods end corn fields. She has been
told of the wonderful inventions of Morse
and Edison, but she refuses to believe the
story Some years ago!her son bought 9
sewing machine and presented it to her,
but she refused to touch it. She says
she lived happily many years without
knowing anything about these modern
inventions, and she does not care to see
them now. She will not even allow q
cooking stove in her house. Aunt Nancy
ssys,she: wants to live and die as people
did ID the good old times Of long ago.
She is in excellent health, and her eye.
sight, hearing and memory are unimpair.
ed.