The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-28
A STUNPY LETTER.

VOuuQS HSlu. ! WOulu H6f OuA eO AOA v
now but hay bin that busy I aint had
the time. ! hav bin stayin rite at
home. I started to say all the spring,
but we haint hao any yit. it looks
like it is still winter time, an here it is
mos June. The gardens is all back
war.l, The truck in the fields looks like
tw IL Il all die. There seems to me q
heep IF changes goin on anyhow. the
seasons amt nj what they use to be,
and pollyticks is gittin all in como.
ton, and the Female werld is Oh a
tair. l notice that mi ole woman
Betsy has taken to poreing over the
newspapers nightly Of late, an ii has
made me little dubious, so tother day
I up an sxed her if she he'd any idea
of iiueing them, Female women what
were perambulatin over the State ur
huntin fur their rights. Mister editor
she looked at me very serious like over
her specks and says she, Jeems Henry,
I am gittin to be an ole woman now,
l hav brnught up large family OF
boys, an they is all good boys too, if
do say it. I hav tried to make you
good wife. I hav enjoyed all the
rights | wanted to, and when | hav
gone TO meetin on Sunday, always
sot on my horse sideways, an expect
to continue to ride just that way. No,
Jeems Henry, | am not hsnkerin after
auy such dSins. | willlet you no that
I am not that kind of hairpin, says
she. Are YOU satisfied now? says she.
told hcr was, an a1ed Der pardon
fur suspectir her, far alers noed that
she was true grit.
Mister Editor Betsy was out visiting
her nay bors Yesterday, and brupg back
won of your papers, and we seed last
mite where you wanted everybody
who was in favor OF going into q
primary TO rite YOU postal card.
Betsy says that before me an my boys
goes into hit she wants to kno if it is
to be like the timinits had last suner
the Cslicton plan, she called 1t. II
il was, she wanted US to stay ont of
hit, fur she didn't want her men folks
to be sick next fall, fur she seed in the
papers where there was lots Of folks
all over the State bad off now with
the collie from that same primary.
Even the little guyner had bad spell
of hit las week, and got off blud and
thunder ceciment to his fellow citizens.
Betsy says that if she had been clos to
him She would hav given him 8 dose
of catnip tea; says that would haV
straitened him, pore littlo feller. Betsy
says how the gunner is gitten lots of
free advirtisemint in furrin parts now
over here in Georgia, up in Virginia,
an as fur away as New York, au some
other country too, she said.
Betsy SAYS the guVner puts her in
mind of little 4 horse engine, trying
to run circular saw througha big log,
= site OF steam, but no go.
Mister Editor, just between you an
me, don't you believe he lays awake q
heap OF mites III wishin he was a
Cinon pu'e gurner instead of what
be Isl?
But about your primary. don't You
think that you were little previous in
your plans? didn't you kno that tie
Boss Man had his circular comitie to
meet him in Columbia las weak, an
didn't they so!emly agre to let levery
white man regardless Of race, color or
previous condition vote In this same
primary? New, want that big cum
down from las sumer " ben none Wernt
allowed but the elect. New you just
hold 70 horses, an let things roc along
to the general election, an I will bet
you mi long handle goad that they will
be willin to give us all the managers
and thro in the clerk for good meas
ure, you see if the: don't.
Mi-ter Editor, I went to the votin
las year an had two relish tickits in
my pocket what I had been usein fur
ten year, but they wouldn't fit nowhere,
so didn't vote. But Betsy says that
she seed in the papers where some in
haintial stranger from furriu coun-
try had persuaded the gunner that that
was all rong, all they mus not do so
any more. Let me kno if teat is SO.
Mister Editor, can You tell me what
ails the Circus Bos? they told me that
he cusses heap here lately an talks q
fair cite about white supremisy in the
dav tune an has bad dreams about the
nigger at mite. Betsy Say that she
don't believe that he is half as scared of
the nigger as he makes out, but the
roap be has been usein has get so long
that he is afeard some Of them will git
tangled up in hit.
seeh sum of our Stumptown folks
Yesterday. they all wants supremisy,
an that of the whitest kind, an nothin
else, but they want it homes and squar,
so they can s'ee2 good at mites they
is wilIin to 90 to the general election
with an of a kint and tote fare,
but they wont stan any feolin. Betsy
ras jus; come in from her earGin, an
Saws tell you that there is only won
thing that would i,jace he 10 jine the
Feniale ban, an that is The women
might lake the plsce OF sum of our
weak nred mrn VIII, hasn't got the
moral C. c.uragc to do what they no is
rir.
Ny zee. friend, you must cum down
All SIC ;e:sy; her chickens Is gltiln
mos ripe, All she will hav a rite smart
fruit in her orchid when sumer comes.
You c.u git 4 heap of good pints from
her, ard she will treat you we'll, pro
viied you don't ri!e her, all that j.
su.nihin | have had better cense than
! to do this many ! year.
Horein these lines will fine you en-
juyin all the blessins of life | will say
good by an quit. Yonrs till detb,
JEEMEs HENRY.
Stnmptown, May %, 1895.
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