Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-23

War makes an advance on mourning goods, that's all. Let advanced thinkers like Tillman 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 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?' asked.
 "Yes, we call it fair, sah, just fair
 Worlds fair::" said l, poking him in the ribs with my eight pound cane.
 Not exactly" he said. with look of pain. "We have some Worlds fair pco- 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 theirselves no way up to us. They was mos generally DO, sah, 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 precipitation, sah; yaas, sah, perspiration that they had started up chasin a possum or a revenue officah, sah."
 Do you mean that any of that class Al. .l-
 "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 q 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 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, sah. Some is knittin socks for the soldiers yet
 Are they afraid of the cars
 "Oh, yes; lots of 'em was never on bode a cyar, sah. One woman comes to me | Thursday and says. Look hcah. boy, want you to look out fer me; never was on this plaguy thing bcfo.' She was wild as hawk and mos jumped out the window two times, but 1 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 cheek | system. She was like a hycna. and her husband threatened to kill the engineer for throwing her trunk off his machine She lodged every time We passed a tcle- graph 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 year or so to set things. Captain Chase. the conductor he'll tell you I ain't lyin about these folks. One woman got on at Sandy Bot tom, and we called 'Skyland' mile ol so outside the place, because Skylant you have to watch pretty close or vol won't see it in time To stop, for it's only little enlargement of the wagon rOaC from Asheville to Hendersouville. But great king. the minute the brakeman said 'Skyland' she jumped oif the trail and went down the 'bankmcnt like tn, evil one beatin tanbark."
 Was she killed:'
 wy, no; not exactly. She sort O frappayed her skull, the doctor said, anl she was off her head for week or tw, and mos died, and we ain't had no travc from Sandy Bottom since"
 How about the mem
 Well. they travel hettrrn what tn women does. But on the slerpin Cyar they seem sort of rattlrd. One of 'cn tween here and Cincinnati got a tin cul out of his basket and filled it with wate and made his toilet on the platform Then he wiped his face and hands witt his bandanncr and came back in the ca and looked proud Mostly they wca sort of red whiskcrs faded to a clay banl and chew tobacco, aiming to spit out tn winder. hut if the glass is fairly clea they 'casionally forCit it's there.