The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-08-24

have got fanatics like him into VlckSburg
and blown them up and put quicklime
on the place, we'd have been so years
ahead of what we are now. There ought
to be fanatic pruner in the cabinet
with nothing to do but go around over
the United States and fertilize the coun-
try with fanatics.
"War is only good thing for suffers
and bad women.
II sayydog on the war;"
That's it. Dog on the war. Each
town has got nice soldiers monument
with the terrible cost mark on it. That's
ALL God save US from another!
"War makes an advance on mourning
goods, that's all.
''Let advanced thinkers like Tillman
and naked savages in light uniform os
cocoanut oil have wars and fight in them.
I'm for peace and all era of goud feeling
with soda on the side
This meeting was one long to be re-
rnembered, and following as it did the
meeting between Mrs. Grant and Mrs.
Davis will, am sure, do much to frater-
nize the two sections and bring many
| southern capitalists north to live.
On the train the past week I got to
talking with porter on the palace car
Asphyxia.
'Is travel generally good for this sea-
son?'' I asked.
eyes, we call it fair, sab, just fair"
"World's fair!' said 1, poking HIM in
the ribs with my eight pound cane.
! 'Not exactly" he said, with a look Of
pain. 1--WE have some Worlds fair peo-
pie, but not many. They didn't start at
all till lately, and now some of them
would make you sad to look at them.
''They are 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 fam
bly,. They lived in the mountains and
shot possums and made crooked whisky
and wore yellow pants dyed with cop
peras and faded with perspiration, sab;
yaas, sab. perspiration that they had
, started up chasin a possum or a revenue
oficah. sah."
"Do you mean that any of that class
are on the way to the Worlds fair?"
''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 chance to
start in square with the aristocracy so
fur as money goes, and they're ahead
now, some of 'em, in money way. They
/ begun to work and hustle and dress bet
ter, and; by doggy, now you'd be sur
prised to see '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"
care they afraid of the cars?''
''Oh. yes; lots of 'em was never on bode
cyar, sab. One woman comes to me
Thursday and says, Look heah, boy, l
want you to look out fer me; never was
on this plaguy thing befo'.' She was
wild as hawk and mos jumped out the
window two times, but l ketched her.
She rode on the woodbox 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 hyena, and her
husband threatened to kill the engineer
for throwing her trunk off his machine.
She lodged every time we passed tele-
graph pole"
"How do the men act?''
"Well, some lays low and watches the
other men till they ind out; but you
ought to be a porter year or so to see
things. Captain Chase, the conductor,
he'll tell you amt lyin about these
folks. One woman got on at Sandy Bot
tom, and we called 'Skyland' a mile or
so outside the place, because Skyland
you have to watch pretty close or you
won't see it in time to stop, for it's only
little enlargement of the wagon road
from Asheville to Hendersonville. But,
great king! the minute the brakeman
said 'Skyland' she jumped off the train
and went down the 'bankment 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 week or two
and mos died, and we amt had no travel
from Sandy Bottom SINCE"
''How about the men?"
"Well, they travel better'n what the
women does. But on the sleepin cyars
they seem sort of ratified. One of 'em
tween here and Cincinnati got tin cup
out of his basket and filled it,with water
and made his toilet on the platform.
Then he wiped his face and hands with
his bandanner and came back in the car
and looked proud. Mostly thev wear
sort of red whiskers faded to clay bank
and chew tobacco, aiming to spit out the
winder, but if the glass is fairly clear
they 'casionally forgit it's there.
Papers sometimes pokes fun at the
northern farmer. but they wouldn't if
they could see a poor white that had be-
come prosperous"
What stock do they come from?'