The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-08-31
You'll Enjoy This.
SOME HUMAN NATURE FAITHFUL
LY PORTRAYED.
Silas GanderfOOt and the Fair---The
Journey from Ciderville to Chicago
---Scenes and Incidents---Why He
Was Glad to See the Preacher.
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iRam's Horn.
DEER SEMANTHY-You kin send
word to the Kaff Raizers Klub that I
hav aroye here safe and we'll, tho line
tired most to deth with ridin on the
kars and bein broke ov my rest. When
got on the midnite train at Shake
vile it looked dredful mutch ez tho
wud hav to do my travelin a standin
up, fur the kar was full of foxes who
had stretched themselves out in all
kinds ov shapes to git nap, except a
few who was a settin up straight, and
peerin to hav all they cud do to keep
frum noddin their heads off,
Finally tho, the conduckter man.
nidged to wake up feller who was a
sprawlin hisself all over two seats, and
turnin wun ov the benches over he
made a place fur me. The mans
head was hangin out in the lie when
we KUN to him, and his mouth was
owen wide anun to hold birds nest,
and sech snorin | never heerd before
in all the days ov my life. 1t sounded
ez tho he made his supper on pine
knots and was doin his best to spit
um up. He growled like.a bear with
sore head when the conduckter shuke
him, but when he got woke kleer up
in the mornin he turned out to be a
ruther plezzunt chap.
| was most afeerd to 90 to sleep
myself, fur fear sumbody wud kun
along and carry off my umberel and
carpetsack, but try ez l wud l cudent
keep my eyes from goin shut, and the
fust thing l knode l eckspeckt was a
noddin and snorin ez hard ez the rest,
tho it was dredful little satisfackshun !
got out ov the sleep, fur about evry
time the ingine whissled l wud most
jump out ov my skin and make up,
and then the dreams | had tired me a
good deal wuss thun l was ever tired
by hard work.
I cant tell you how glad I was when
it got to be daylite, so that l cud
look at the farms and see what kind
ov chance there was fur crops.
Even if cud git to do it fur nuthin ]
don't bleeve | wud ever git SO that ]
wud like to ride on the kars at mite
1t made me trimble all over evry time
we crossed bridge when l thought
ov what wud happen if a wheel shud
break l don't bleeye | ever wished
more times in wun day that l had ben
a better church member than | did
last mite. There was wun place where
the kars Civ sech jump that l thought
sure we was off the track, and ez felt
my hart kummin into my mouth
was about reddy to promise that if my
life was spared l wud pay my quarter
idge in cash after this all the rest o,
my life 1t duz beat all how mutct
easier it is to feel religyus when yure
in places that yure most sure hain'
safe, than it is when you kno every
thing is all rite. l don't bleeve a
preecher in pull pit ever had any
stronger noshun ov wantin to be a
good man thai I bad by spells last
mite, but sum how nearly all my good
intenshuns peered to ooze away after
it KUN daylite and 1 cud begin to SET
things and kno fur myself that 1 was
safe. >
| got into a chat with the feller tht
conduckter had walked up to give mt
seat, and found out that he has beer
trubbled with the rumatiz most e;
long ez l hav. He told me his wife
name, and how many children he had
$ how mulch he pade an aker fur hi
land, and what his tax was. He sec
he lived in Ohio, but had ben raiset
in Kaintuck. It dident take me long
, to find out that we cudent agree il
pollyticks, but in religyun we was jes'
alike. We hadent ben a tawkin ter
u minits before he sed it was his noshul
I that we wud hav better preechin if W
It dident pay our preachers ny SO mulch
:. He Civ me sum pints on how to max
a a bargain with preecher that Ime
e goin to try not to furgit.
:. When | asked the man what hi
# name mite be, he sed it was Jaku
klumm, and he furthermore sed h
had ben belongin to meetin all hi
life He dident kno fur sure whethe
s he was any akin to the Klummzes a
d Grassburg, but he kind a thawt he wa:
He got me to change ten dollar bi
fur him so that he cud buy hisself a
" orange, and at three places where
S tried to pass the bill l got ov him
they they told me it was kounterh
At first it made me feel almost ez tn
| was about to be tuke down sick, bu
line in hopes that it will turn out a
rite. Ii seems to me, tho, that if tt
bill is raally bogus, the Kaff Raize
klub ort to stand the loss, bekoz 1,
got their promis in black and whit
that they are to pay my expenses
kummin here and goin back, and
luzin good mummy on the trip hair
expense Ide like to kno what they ca
it. | haint mulch wurried about
tho, fur Klumm sed he had kun hel
express to see the fare, and l haint
bit joobus but what when l see hil
there hele make it all rite. He W;
I sech a sosheble man, and bein
farmer and church member too,
haint to be suspishuned fur a minn
. that he passed that bill on me
n purpus.
Is When we finally got to the DEP