Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-05-18
it back at the songster with the
red necktie:
But caught ono in my corn 6el.

it back at the songster with tht
red necktie:
But I caught ono in my corn iel'.
"I amt got no mo- money
"say, Cornelius, you better take
half dollar; yo' better take
what yo' kin git" "oh. let hin
go with the blame or wagon. Say
girls, Pm a-goin' home," (that
was from a woman). 'Ain't Cor.
nelus got cheek! My sakes
some sklnfints 'spects to get blood
out Nv stone. Let's all go home. d
A dozen voices caught up the cry
"Let's all go home" Nobody
moved, but Cornelius was alarmed.
He weakened. He hustled about
and let it be known that be would
rather take a half a dollar than
have his speculation fail so utterly.
Then came another movement
back into the wagon. 1t was as
sudden as the movement out of
the wagon had been. But it was
more remarkable.
The man with the red necktie
started, apparently without pre-
arrangement or consultation with
any one else. "He don't git no
half dollar out of me. hain't
got it. I've got 35 cents and it's
all I got. ALPS is willing to ride
to de ball for 35 cents, skip right
in an let's be moving"
There was a scramble for the
back of the wagon. Cornelius was
astonished and excited. He said
35 cents wouldn't see him out of
de woods" He'd got to have more
in order to make any money. The
darky with the red necktie paid no
heed to him, but kept yelling "Git
your girls aboard. Hop up, skip
up; eff you can't git up chuck your
money up. Dis yer's a 35-cent
racket. So help me God, it's all l
got.
The ladder broke down under
the weight of two women at once,
and after that the men got up on
the straw and reached down and
literally hauled the women up,
scraping them against the wheels
and the wagon frame, but pulling
ahead just the same, as if they
would pull the arms out of the
women's bodies. When the wagon
was filled again Mr.. Sid Cornelius
climbed up to collect his fares.
He had become reconciled to the
extraordinary reduction of the
rate, and seemed only intent upon
getting the IS cents, which each
passenger owed to him. Soon all
the money was collected and the
wagon was started. The darky
with the red necktie now sang
whole verse of his favorite song {:
Some folks say dat a preacher won't steaP
But caught one in my corn feP.
He said he was prayin' where no one was nigh.
Lord God knows dat preacher won't lie.
The song proved catching. AS
the creaking, humping, swaying
load turned a curve in the road the
air to which the verses were sung
came pleasantly back upon the
wind. The merry-makers were all
in good humor, and each was Is
cents better off than he or she had
expected to be.
One of the largest farms this
side of the Rocky Mountains, &C
cording to recent bulletin of the
West Virginia experimental sta
tion, is to be found on the foothills
of the Blue Ridge in Jefferson
county of that State. In 1887
Becker Brothers set out $4,000
peach trees, since which time eight
adjoining tracts have been added
until the fruit Farm comprises
2,4O0 acres in one body. The plant
ers have not stopped with peaches
alone, but they have large area
in grapes, ounces, and cherries
besides American and japanese
pluns, apricots, Japan persim.
mons, .nectarines, English walnuts
Italian chestnuts, with paper shell
almonds.
A girl residing in a Lake Michi.
gan town has recovered $500 dam.
ages from a steamboat company
for naming boat after her with.
out asking her permission. Al
exchange says she took offence al
a marine item stating that "Kittie
Marshall, having been thoroughly
scrubbed, painted, reftted with
canopied stern and new boilers