The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-24
THE ROANOKE TIMES, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER ~ 1909

you know that--but while theroSis no
confidence shown in the stringency of
the times wish you would borrow most
ly of people you are visiting ut New Ro-
shell.
Among other things 1 sold at the auc-
ton and fire sale was the heavy mahog-
any bedstid, which 1 thought that some
lover of the anteek would run up to
fabuliss price. One woman spending the
summer near us said all it wanted was
some nice heavy brass castors SOS that
it could be jerked around easy and sweep
under. So I got big set at Brightly's
place for $3.50 and put them in that
night, boring holes in the bedstid to sock
them into. You know old wood like
that is pretty middling hard, and our
anger was injured 18 years ago by my
son when he bored into the pasture eleven
or nine times for kerosene oil. s,
l put in the biggest part of the night
boring four holes, your mother trying
to hold the old quail trap stiddy whilst
worked, and in the morning it was auc-
toned off for $780, This is fact and
shows how stringency is here on the farm.
l reserved the castors while the bed
Std was in transit and drove some nails
In the auger holes to teach future gener-
ations that an old man like me cannot
be ground under the iron heel of capital
and then fed to the hogs. 1t may not be
Christian spirit, but there is about as
little of the John Rogers idear in me as
most any honest farmer you will find in
Buncombe county, N. c.. U. S. A., which
is my address.
But have wandered from the Worlds
fair, and possibly you are glad of it, for
the papers are infested with it now most
all the time, but it is the biggest thing
ever saw, and shall be 8S next frost.
We took tent and picnic near the
grounds. Quite number of the wealthy
people do that way. l stand it better
than your mother does, as was in the
war and slept many of night under a
rhododendron bush and had to dress and
undress for four years in the presence of
the shocked and Mortified moon.
Once was changing my shirt toward
the close of the war. for mother had told
me not to dare to return from the war
without doing so, when General Lee. a
man of good family and generally sup
posed to have as much real polish as
cry man in the war, come in where
was in large cotton field and brought
$4,000 men with him, and l never had
met any of them before in my life. That's
the way Yankee soldier was treated
time and time again.
But that is neither here nor there. 1t
was in Virginia. However, to come back
to the fair have spent most of the
time at the farm machinery egzibbit,
where get more animation and noise
for my money than elsewhere also
love to strole through the pictorial de-
partment and wonder what is behind
the screen that is over big painting
there. Day after day excuse myself to
mother and go to the dairy awhile, and
gradually go on around to where the pic
ture is that has blanket over it.
1t was good idear whoever thought
of it. for it brings O good many people
TO the gallery that otherwise would not
come.
was also much pleased with Eli Mus
ser's egzibbit of buggies and phayturns.
Eli is man of enterprise and general
oner. as they say here. went to school
with him.
In the tapestry and rag carpet depart
ment there is good deal that is expen.
eive. but pretty we'll wore out, should
say. Our schoolteacher, Mr.. Pitcher,
that you stumped on how long 1t would
take A, B and @ to get their share OF
a grindstone used off il A paid two
thirds B one-sixth and G had one-sixth
charged, but did not pay for it, provided
A and took turns turning the grind.
stone and G riding on it with an old ak,
and per cent interest on money, is at
the fair.
He got-our districk to believe that we
ought to send him there "to get new
idears in school govermunt and rashional
methods" l met him here with big
red badge on. and he had shaved off his
John G. Calhoun whiskers, that used to
bile up oyer his collar like mass of red
top busting out through crack in the
sidewalk and kind of give me the i'm.
aknsRz,