The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-29

Let advanced thinkers like TilIman
and naked savages in a light uniform
of cocoanut oil have wars and fight in
them. I'm for peace and an era of
good feeling with soda on the side"
This meeting was one long to be re-
membered, and following as il did the
meeting between Mrs. Grant and Mrs.
Davis, will, I am sure, do much to
fraternize the two sections and bring
many Southern capitalists North to
live.
On the train the past week 1 got to
talking with the porter on the palace
car Asphyxia.
is travel generally gool for this
season?" I asked.
Eyes; we call it fair, sab, just fair"
"World's FairG" said I, poking him
in the ribs heartily with my eight
pound cane.
Not exactly" he said, with a look
of pain. I'VE have some Worlds Fair
people, but not many. They didn't
start at all till lately, and now some
of them would make you sad to look
at them"
"There are a good many of them that
before the wah was called white trash
by us colored people. They didn't
call themselves no way up to us. They
was mos generally po', sab, and had
no family. They lived in the noun
tains and shot possums and made
crooked whiskey and wore yellow
pants dyed with copperas and faded
with p~erspiration, sab; yaas, sab, pers-
piration that they had started up
chasin a possum or a revenue of1cah,
sah."
DO you mean that any of that class
are on the way to the Worlds Fair9"
"Oh, yes, we see 'em every little
while, folks that has sort of braced up
since the wah; folks, you know, that
never had slaves. The wah give them
a chance to start in square with the
aristocracy SO fur as money goes, and
they're ahead now, some of 'em, in a
money way. They begun to work and
hustle and dress better, and, by doggy,
now you'd be surprised to sea 'em
break loose and ride on the cars.
"Some Of 'em don't know the wah is
ovah, sab. Some is knittin' socks for
the soldiers yet"
"Are they afraid of the cars?'
ooh, yes; lots of 'em was never on
bode a cyar, sab. One woman comes
to me Thursday and says. Look hear,
boy, I want you to look out fer me; I
was on this plaguy thing befo'.'
She was wild as a hawk and mos
jumped out the window two times,
but I ketched her. She rode on the
wood6ox most of the way. Puferred
it sort of. One of 'em put her trunk
on the engine the other day. She didn't
know about the check system. She
was like a hyena, and her husband
threatened to kill the engineer for
throwing her trunk off his machine.
She lodged every time we passed a
telegraph pole"
'How do the men act?'
"Well, some lays low and watches
the other men till they find out; but
you ought to be a porter a year or so
to see things. Captain Chase, the con
ductor, he'll tell you I amt lynn about
the se folks. One woman got on at
Sandy Bottom, and we called Sky
land a mile or so outside the place, be-
cause at Skyland you have to watch
pretty close or you won't see it in time
to stop, for it's only a little enlarge
ment of the wagon road from Ashe-
vile to Hendersonville. But, great
king! the minute the brakeman said
'Skyland' she jumped off the train and
went down the 'Oankment like the evil
one beatin' tanbark."
"Was she killed?"
"W'y, no; not exactly. She sort of
frappayed her skull, the doctor said,
and she was off her head for a week or
two and mos died, and we amt had
no travel from Sandy Bottom since"
"How about the men7"
"Well, they travel better'n what the
women does. But on the sleepin' cyars
they seem sort of ratified. One of EN-
tween here and Cincinnati got q tin
cup out of his basket and filled it with
water and made his toilet on the plat
form. Then he wiped his face and
hands with his bandanner and came
back In the car and looked proud.
Mostly they wear sort of red whiskers,
faded to a claybank, and chew tobacco,
aiming to spit out the window, but If
the glass is fairly clear they '~casionally
forgit it's there.
Papers some times pokes fun at the
Northern farmer, but they wouldn't if
they could see a poor white that had
become prosperous"
what stock do they come from?'
81 couldn't say, sab. Mostly they
don't feel right sure themselves, fgues5.
l see of 'em at a hotel in Charlotte
eat a whole watermelon and then soup