The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-07-24
SARGE pIUNKETT.
Hunting For a Position on the Work of
the Exposition.
Atlanta Constitution.

is the question that will soon be heard
in the land.
OF course. everybody in Georgia is
going, if they have to walk and hang
themselves up on peg to sleep while
there. Thousands will come from a
distance; some to make money, some
to be instructed, some to see the South.
and some will come just to be in the
fashion.
There is no estimating the amount
Of advertising this section will receive
through this great show, nor can it's
influence for good or evil be approx
mated. A thousand years from now
the people then living can study the
conditions in the South before this
exposition was held, and maybe they
can say what of good or what Of evil
grew out of it. It is most sure to
mark a period, just as ''before the
revolution" marked period with the
colonies and as "before the war marks
a period with us, but I doubt if any
generation will be wise enough to size
up the consequences Of any of these
periods entirely correctly under
thousand or two thousand years from
now.
Anyhow the exposition is on the
line of progress, and whether progress
means going up the hill to the pima
Gle or down the hill on the other side,
Brown nor I saith not, but We join
hands with the majority and throw up
our hats for the event, and shall try
to do our part to instruct and enter
tain, and we have decided to derive as
many benefits from the show as we
possibly can to be honest.
It would sound mighty patriotic to
say that ne want no gain from this
exposition, but we cannot. Ii there
is man, woman or child in ten miles
Of Atlanta who has not made some
sort Of calculation or had some sort OF
hope of making something out Of this
event, they are duller folks than us:
Brown swears that we are ''goners' if
we lose this opportunity-it is the
last chance Of our lives, is what he
thinks, and we are acting accordingly.
Just what "soft" place we should
accept" has been a question with us
for some time, with a considerable
emphasis on the word "accept.
Our wives advised us to aim high
"Shoot at the moon," say they, eff
you only hit a lightning bug"
We remained at home expecting
every day to be pressed to accept some
position, till the thing began to look
squally, and so we sauntered forth two
weeks ago and have been saunteriDg
ever since to find place suited to our
ideas, and it is well to state that our
ideas have been as varied as there is
number of days in the two weeks that
we have been on the hunt.
The first day our steps were quick
and our hopes were high; we felt GER
tain that we had only to apply to be
pressed. We found the "headquar-
ters'' without much trouble, and were
carried up on the elevator. There
was not much of stir when we step
ped into the room Of headquarters
in fact, there was no stir at all.
Nobody said take a seat, or howdy,
and how are your folks?-they said
nothing, not thing, except that a
negro asked US to stand to one side
that he might sweep. In moving out
Of the way of the broom we happened
to get where we could lean on win
dow sill, and there We leaned and
leaned, and 1 think We could have
leaned on there till now, and never a
word would have been spoken to US.
We saw that We had to approach if
there was any approaching to be done,
and so set Brown on one-arm man
that impressed us as being some
pankins" and as an old Confederate
veteran besides.
Glow are you and how are your
folks?" said Brown as he stood beside
this one-armed mans desk.
"Blodget, come here!'
This is what the one-armed man ut
tered without raising his head, ap17sss
iron-gray, heavy-set fellow STEP
over from another desk and the Two
went to looking over map.
Glow do you both do said Brown,
"and how are your folks?'
I saw that Browns mouth was get
ting 80 full of tobacco juice that he
could hardly speak, but only "Blodget"
gave him side glance from under his
heavy eyebrows. I soon saw that
Brown must either spit or bust and I
trembled for the fine carpet upon the
floor, but all is we'll that ends we'll.
Brown had the good sense to walk
back to where I was and unload his
mouth out the window. The gentle
man Of the empty sleeve walked over
to cooler close by us and took some
ice water about this time, and Brown
and [ took it as sorter providential as
giving us a chance to speak and be
heard.
''Pretty hot weather." said I, and
the gentleman turned and bowed to
us and was altogether so pleasant that
our feelings changed at once toward
the headquarters, and we felt GER
tain Of job in few minutes.
''Lost your arm in the WARP said l,
pointing to his empty sleeve.
eyes" was all he said.
"They crippled a good many Of our
boys" said Brown, "but we give the
rascals as much as they wanted" "
eyes," smiled the gentleman.
"They got enough" said Brown,
and the gentleman Of the empty sleeve
smiled so pleasantly that I thought it
we'll enough for me to let him know
that was here during" and that I
was ''reb' to the core. l had about
told of all the rascality | knew against
the yankees and had fixed my mouth
to ask for position, when Brown said
to the one-armed man:
"What regiment was yours?'
Before the gentleman had time to
answer and before quit foaming for
being disturbed, just as l was ready
to ask for the position, this same
"Blodget'' called the gentleman back
to his desk.
Our expectations fell about SO de-
grecs in second, as we saw the one
armed man depart, but we revived in a