The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-15
NEE.. BROWN ASKS SOME
QUESTIONS ABOUT TEEE
GHsssSONS MATTER:

taWked bOut in my nayberhOOd fe
the lass hefor or five weeks sep docte
Grissin and the Slum-bout hi.
dom rOng up there--er GUESSING ar
er beaten Of the pashunts, treting O
the gals in a nifty rorg way, takir
of the pise and cakes and the turkys
and 90 setera, when he amt got DC
bizness er doiR it. And thay tel
me that he kisses all the pore nen's
wives he can git mp with, and dDz er
lot er things that amt used the
people doin Ground here. And thay
tell meier IeVer wus edJucsted
and cant rede this here new kind er
print now er days 70 way, but my
sOn Ton he's been ter coI!idge-h
can rede, rite and sulphur. good as
emmy man--he tells me bout all these
here things and sometimes hears
him redin and tawkin ter his educ,
ated trends er bout UNI. He saws
thay had this here feller up but the
feller8 that sot On the jury loved
him SO good that thay wOodnt bIeye
no body exsep this here doctor and
thay tuck and didn't like too bleve
him when be sand ennything that
wont exzackly al rite bout hisself
My son Tom said these here fcl,ers
coodnt hep likjn tie doctcr. fer
every time thay went ter R0lly he
drlv um crronnd tie sjtty in his Gne
ca:Tia9c and bosses and showed I'm
all cr bout and tuck um up ter his
house and fed um like game cox and
Civ UNI wlGe and brandy and sham
pane and SIGH like and he used ter
Plt on Blenders wild sum Of I'M; anu
that be Wus powerfully clever too
I'm all the time and thay jest coodnt
hep from sayin be wus innosu~t. |
been teilinTocl bout him bein clever
too every body, even ifhe Is got a pIrt
In lt--that sortcr blcve in the ole
sayln that manners c2rrys q Teller
luther an mummy emmy way. Well
ON says this here Teller GOT Off
good 'ashshun and the people is
powerfully upset er about it too. |
heas that the curry says he didn't DO
nuthln sep tndiscreshuns and i'm
prGpretys, but Tom says these here
is exzackly what doose all the mean
nesscs in the world and we all Good
git off on them thare kind er senses
IhareS wun thing I've hcered that
cant zackly see intoo. They tell me
i've heered Tom and er munxt um
er ta"kIn bout it--that this here
doctor lives bigger an emmy body in
the sltty OF Roliy. Thay tell me he
gives big suppers aud dinners fer
his friends and po!ltishuns and the
Legislators all the time and he lest
sets out the wines AMI shampanes
and the Yanrsr segars too en- And
he keeps the prettiat HOSES too be
shure and the finest carbide end or
oiack beeVereG, brass buttcned Niger
ter drive him and his trends Ground,
And he dresses ter kill And Some. |
times his little boys thay hav sup>
pers fer thare frens too. Oh, tbav
say he lives Ike er king and he cot
mummy er plenty nowl And then
may take and tell me that he don't
GIT but twenty ate hundred doIIers
er year!
Now jest don't see how er feler
ken live SO grand on slch er little
and in SIGH er greet big place like
RoIIy IS, canse Eve heered nv nav
Der Sykes say er heap or times he
amt got SIGH er big family and #
takes neer bout fifty bags of bis res,
tO'I "h All SCrt6r SDeCt-
aoIY aud send bis boy John ter the
colilge, and he dives in the counlrv
Too Now jest Cant git this here
thing starte in my mind. l cant 500
no" he ken live so big and make
SIGN er big pile er mnnny too less he
get 81 stowe somewhere and noze
zackiy "Lo ter sell too, or suppja o,
Futher "hsre he ken git mummy from
sides his sallery.
Lem SAID nc seed in the nan9r
WHARF some of the big men bad
fi'ton ter this here doctor er gratuIa-
tin of him bout his innosnnce ona
gluten eli as good as he did. Bnt
ION SAID he amt Sprised at un or
VAL cause. he sad these here men
WHO stays out at night WHARF they
amt got no bizuess er stayin and
some OF UNI who don't trete o,ho-
mems wives like thay wood have
'u"renS tFeted and who docs sizeIv
IKE this here old state is ustor tbay
got Sence huff ter no that in unovnn
'hares strinxth, and if thay don't stick
"P LET won annuther thay cant stand
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