The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-31

his toe, just touched the grouno ne
screamed ont, Swing away, swing away
1 tells you nottings, but I meets
you in hell all de same, and den I swings
you oop.n
"Did they kill him, mamma? ?"
;"No, children, no They let him down
and gave him drink and told him to go.
But the funniest thing you ever saw was
your pas store. He and Bob Hargrove
had the biggest atorehouss in town, and
they put twenty thousand dollars
worth of goods in it and went to
trading.
aWhy, where did they get the goods,
mamma 7''
"Well,, there was man in jailin Sell
ma, and he wrote to your pa to come
down and get him out and he would give
him ten thousand dollars. So he vent
and got him out and got the money and
paid half of it for pound of opium and
| the other half for four dozen cotton cards
on the leaf-that is they had no backs
nor handles. It was just the wire stuck
| in the leather, and he brought home the
| whole stock in little valise. Mr.. Har.
grove put in a half box oftobacco and a
fewibunches Of factory yarn forl his ten
thousand dollars and they went to trad.
ing. You cauld have put the; whole
| stock in q big wheelbarrow. They sold
the opium at Eve dollars an ounce in
| gold-and ,-the cards at two hundred
dollars a pair in confederate; money.
You see all the cards in the country
were worn out and the women we're in q
bad fix; 80; they would club together. and
bring in chickens and potatoes andsaor.'
ghum and old bacon and trade for q pair
of cards." il
swell, mamma what, did you all sleep
on whenyo first came p
aWhy5wesboriow 9 couple of mat:
tresses and slept on : the floor, and ,we.
cooked il ia : skillet. We had 80 little to
cook that We got along very we'll. We
had 20 sugar nor coffee Porl: 81 milk X 1oF i
-four Yourpa heard ofa cow somewhere.
and paid three thonaand dollars for;her.
confederate money was almost as plenty
as the leaves on the trees-eyerybody
had pocketfull. Hundred dollar bills
were common, bat they woulden't buy
anything hardly except drink of mean
whisky. Some Of the cavalry soldiers
used to give hundred dollar bill for
drink, so they said. Before the money
go. so bad your grandpa sold his farm
for fifty thousand dollars and moved to
away down country to get.o Of trouble
and he invested his money in cotton. in
Columbus, and Wilson's raiders came
along and burned it. Poor man. But
he was like Job. He never lost his in
tegrity nor. bis cheerful disposition. ].
never heard him complain about any
thing.
TELL ON, MAMMA.
aWell, you MUST know that Sherman
wanted to make the people tired Of war,
and so he took away all their horses
and mules and everything that they
hadn't hid away 10 the swamps. The
men were most all in the army, and the
women and children did the best they
could, and bid some things until the
yankees went away. Sam Jones and
few dare devils hung on their aanks and
stole horses and mules most every night
and hid them away off in the swamps.
Sam was nothing but boy of sixteen,
but they say that he stole over one hun.
,dred and gave. them all away to thepoor
people who had lost their stock. You
see he got some old blue yankee clothes
and put them on and went about among
the guards who had charge of the extra
horses and he made out like he was a
yankee too and he generally carried with
him deck of cards and got them drunk
and before morning he would have
several OF their horses and mules away
off in a swamp. He was just as full Of
mischief then as be is now, though his
mischief WAS of different kind. He
was fighting the yankees then and he is
fighting the old boy -now and. there
isent much difference after ALL.
"Why, you ought to- have seen our
smoke houses when we got home. They
had converted it into a bakery and had
the finest bread troughs you ever heard
of. They made them out of the Presby-
terian church pews and they built
| great long stable on our lot of the
church lumber. Their horse troughs
were made OF the pews, and the pulpit
was scattered around. We cleaned out
the smokehouae and dug up the dirt and
boiled it down and made salt of it.
SmOR6QOuS6 ulTL tudb LIDO 1CGo!Scu .Iuo
drippings of salted meat for years make
splendid table salt when it is boiled down
and clarified. We made right good
coffee out of dried sweet potatoes. I
used to make hats for my children out of
old scraps of cashmere. Your pa built
fence and boat without nail. He
bored holes in the plank and pinned
them on with wooden pins. The war
made US all powerful shifty,' as Cobe
says, and 80 we got along pretty well.
The children all kept we'll and strong
until the war was over and doctors came
home from the army. And there was no
law suits nor courts until the lawyers
came back"
."You have to thank the yankees for
that much, don'tyou mammal"
"No; I don't thank the yankees for
anything. They run me and my little
children all over this country like We
J ..,., ,lno, vnur no ma kpa Oft ha han