Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-20
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mot exactly" he said, with = look of
pain. ave have some Worlds fair
people, but not many. They didn't
start at all till lately, and row some OF
them would make you sad to look AZ
them.
There are good many OF them that
before the wah was called white trash
by US colSred people. They didn't call
themselves no way up TO US. They was
mos generally po'. sab, and had no
fambly. They lived In the mountains
and shot possums aud made crooked
whisky and wore yellow pants dyed
with copperas aud faded with perspIra-
ton, sab; yaas, sab, pefspiration thai
they had started ND chasln possum or
. revenue oficah, sab"
"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
arisiocracy so fur as money goes, aud
they're ohead now, some OF 'em In .
money way. They begun to work and
hustle and dress better, aud, by doggy,
now you'd be surprised 10 see 'em break
loose aud ride on the cars.
"Some Of 'em don't know the wah 10
ovah. sab. Some is knittIn socks for
the soldiers yet.
care they afraid OF the cArsT'
- IL
bode cyar, sab. One woman comes 10
me Thursday and says, Look hesh, boy,
want you TO look out fer me; never
was on this plaguy think oefo.' She
was wild as 3 hawk aud mos jumped
out the window two times, butI ketched
her. She rode on the woodbox most OF
the way. Puierred II sort OF. One OK
'em put her trunk on the engine the
other day. She didnt know about the
check system. She was ike hyena,
and her husband threatened 10 Kill the
engineer for throwing her trunk of HE
machine. She lodged every time We
passed telegraph pole"
How do the men act ?"
"Well. some lays low and watches tho
other men ill they find out; but you
ought to be porter year or so 10 see
things. Captain Chase. the conductor.
he'll tell you amt lynn about those
folks One woman got on a. Sandy Bot
tom, and we called 'SkylAnd' mile or
so outside the place, because SkylAnd
you have TO watch pretty close or you
won't see II 10 time TO stop, for It's only
little enlargement or the wagon road
from Ashevllle TO Hendersonville. But
great kingl the minute the brakeman
said 'Skyland' she jumped oil the train
and went down the 'bankment like tho
evil one beatin tanbark."
"Was she killed?'
"W'y, no; not exactly. She sort OF
frappayed her skull, the doctor said, and
she was of her head for week or
two and mos died, and we ain't had no
travel from Sandy Bottom since"
How about the menP'
"Well, they travel better'n what the
women does. But on the sleepin' cyars
they seem sort Of ratified. Ono OF 'em
tween here and Cincinnati got a tin cup
out OF mis- basket and filled itwith water
and made hls toilet on the platform.
Then he wiped his face and hands with
his bandanner and came back In the car
and looked proud. Mostly they wear
sort OF red whIskers faded TO clay bank
aud chew tobacco, aiming TO spit out tho
winder, but II the glass IL fairly clear
they 'caslonally forgit IT'S there.
Papers sometimes pokes fun AZ the
northern farmer, but they wouldn't IL
they could see q poor white that had
become prosperous" ~-..