Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
SILVER DOLLARS.
Jim Minor Thinks That Things
are In a Muddle.

think my old friends Jim Penn
and Goody Zimmerman will agree
with me. Boys did you see Jim? l
know you did if you were at Edge
field last Wednesday. Oh how l
wish l was one of those fellows
that could draw pictures. I would
have drawn him and attached
hereto for the benefit of the
Shadowfeld boys who unavoidably
or for some other reason were kept
away. Why didn't you come boys
it would have done you good. 1t
was a grand and gorgeous display.
How l enjoyed looking at Jim.
He sat through the whole perfor-
nance as If nailed. Not even the
Grand Act" caused a muscle to
twitch-perhaps you might have
discovered slight facial expan-
sion while Duncan was untying
the string to The bag that held the
cats; but before the cats began to
jump got back to norpality and
remained normal throughout the
leap. After such marked attention
l ask you Jim as a friend, / docon-
slider you my friend, "old fellow" !"
though we differ a little along the
silver line and few other things
not-of a nature though to break
our friendship, yes I ask you with
all candor. Don't il appear to you
as it does to me, two good looking
men-that there is a little decay
IN Denmark. Itappears to me that
there was webbing done. You know
a spider will weave him nice
webb and when an enemy ap-
proaches he runs off OH strand
that he has made for that purpose
and is gone, the webb is left to take
care of itself.
I've been pegging along try
ing to make living for myself
wife and 6 babies, and thank God
I've succeeded very we'll not
withstanding the fact we hav'nt
had 16 to 1. I hav'nt had time to
go to that great "Free School" es-
tablished a few years ago to edu-
cate politically the "wool hat" and
one gallus boys. Boys when are
you going to graduate, get your
sheep skins and be prepared to
work your rabbit foot on "bond
deals" &C., &C., &c.
/ am going to quit pegging in
the field send my boys, as it don't
cost anything, to Clemson College,
rest myself on my wooden leg un-
der the shade, surrounded by the
silver lined sky, study the pres.
ent political weather flags, run for
coroner, advocate free coinage of
silver Is to 1, get elected and die
rich.
Hurrah for political education
and when free silver comes what a
a time we will have. Why some
folks say a band wagon will 60
round about once a month with
silver horses, and loaded with
money, back up to overy mans
house and dump a big bag of
money in the back piazza-in fact
it will rain dimes in the winter,
have an april shower of quarters in
the spring and a hail storm of half
dollars in mid summer when the
liens give out. Some folks up here
now are SO opposed to gold that
they are going to draw all the gold
plugs out of their teeth and the
children will no longer be taught
that there is a bag of gold at the
end of the rain bow-not a bit; it
must be bag of silver. The sill
yer lined clouds have turned into
a cloud of solid silver, and the
dentist have all got silver aow to
plug teeth with, and in the next
two years we will see the banks
going round borrowing silver from
the farmers 10 lend to poor old
gold bugs.
j. M. MINOR.
Squedunk Holler.