The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-01
THE PED RIGS.

think of something, and it Will not be
what YOU came there to think of. 1t
will be something else. 1t will jog your
memory, and you will find when it Is too
late that memory is not where you
thought it was at.
The red bug was the very first white
child born in Ticktown. He could tell
us some strange tales, Iwot, If he would,
of northern people with whom he has
assOciated-the young, the fair, the aged
and the vencrable-but he has spared
none of them. The young, the joyous
and the gay, the crumbling wreck OF
former grandeur, he has speckled them
all. ,.,
He lives in old logs that are a little
soogy and still have the bark on them,
hut he does not live on the same. He
lives on the health seeker from bos-
ton. Charleston and Tompkinsvllle,
S. |. He 5uries all past differences
and every day is Decoration Day with
him. wish you could have seen me
Yesterday evening, but possibly you
might not care to. was as spotted as a
trout, and felt like leaning up against
q tree and rubbing the bark off the tree
by means of myself.
The red bug was made for a purpose,
but wish had dollar for every time
have wondered what that purpose was.
Still | suppose that the finite should not
seek to sneak under the great tent to
learn the purposes of creation or get into
the infinite, as Sam Jones was 80 truly
saying the other day when he saved
quite a number of souls and turned
away money besides.
Times are a little quiet at TicktOwn
this season, owing to low prices in both
cotton and Gods heads and fins. Yankees
are many of them going to Bar Harbor,
hoping to see Mr.. Blaine's place, while
the guests from the south have not yet
arrived for the summer at any of the
mountain resorts.
What we need at TicktOwn is really
capital and a sack of flour. There Is no
race feeling here at all. Though tho
town is entirely settled by colored peo-
pie, the white race is cordially invited to
come and settle here. n hotel with a
poste cochere and printed menu is very
much needed here; also horse team to
do odd jobs about town.
A good live paper could be started
here III connection with the regular bill
of fare ut the hotel.
! Most any one around here can tell you
where Ticktown is. 1t is pleasant ride
! from Ebenezer to TicktOwn past Potato
/ Hill. 1t is also pleasant to ride back
again. Ebcnezer consists of an old
| church with n thrifty graveyard annex.
1t is a quiet place.
! Possibly the reader has doubts about
the existence of Ebenezer and Tick
town, but if he had faith like mustard
plaster or would drive out here for a
dav he would find that they are to be
seen with no great difficulty, together
with some hound dogs who will betray
considerable pleasurable emotion when
he heaves in sight.
Last year IL man talked of starting an
OK yoke industry at Ticktown, but he
had to go home to Fort Dodge, Ia, and
is doing time now in that state.
There was some agitation here also
eight years ago about having the county
seat at this place, but owing to the red
bugs the legislature said it would hurt
the place as a county seat, so it was
abandoned.
Corn is looking little pallid, but root
crops are doing very well, and with good
growing weather III July and a couple
of boarders l shall make my farm almost
self sustaining this year. l am trying a
little patch of cotton this year-three-
quarters of an acre. You have doubt
less heard of the cotton belt. 1 want to
have one myself, if possible, raised right
here on the place. 1 haven't worn one
since l was a child.
The Richmond and Danville runs near
my place, and Is a good road. ! have
been trying to sell is the right Of way