The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-01

a,,-.ud had to rlde the mall from
i 3'.,.nceyille to Roosevelt, twenty
4 miles and back in day. Friday
4 my day, rain or shine. cold or hot,
i: mv mother cried when father
S,,.d me on to the high dromedary
i - that morning; but I was bundled
4 ,ood and had warm woolen socks
/ :, my shoes and a pair Of home-knit
a;nsn. on my hands and woolen
I.torter crossed around my neck and
j.. thought l could stand it, for
Young and tough, and full of
A. and had been raised to work in
i, cold and to chop wood and 60 to
IN and my father always said that
4. who we're raised easy would be
4 account and die hard. l made the
Il to Roosevelt in good time, but it
4. growing colder and colder. and
4, drizzling rain had turned into
b.. For about an hour I sat by the
3russter fire and got thawed. He
l,sd nc to stay all night, and said /
SnI freeze to death on the road,
a, knew my mother would imagine
H. somewhere dead on the way and
\ distressed, and SO the postmaster
33rsd ME on the old dromcdary and l
Il him the rcins for home and held
3,o the horn Of the saddle. He was
3De traveller, and paced up hill and
Ap hill all the same. By the time
e.! to 'ircgory's bridge, on the
a,uahoochee, was pretty we'll clad
aice. and the horses main was a
Id sheet and his ears were full. |
sjpped in the shelter Of the covered
lise few minutes and found | was
3.iug colder, for the sleet had blown
&sr me on the saddle and got into
socks. \ feeling of alarm came
u ME. for my fingers were numb
) my feet too. Desperately I
.fked to the good horse, and away
4 vent, for there we're yet sixteen
IA: to make, and the blizzard was
|Ea earnest and it looked like the
|lkness of night had almost come.
d after nile was left behind, and I
= that We could make it; but all of
3liden, when l got to Fairvicw
orch. realized that l had about
4 feeling, for couldn't unclutch
lhand from the horn Of the saddle,
j didn't know whether my feet
8tin the stirrups or not. [ was
y two miles from home and nv
!Fhorse paced on. They we're look
aOr me-my father and mother
as the horse rounded up to the
door l almost fell into their
s, and my hand was wrenched
Il its frozen grip on the saddle. I
smber that, for it was the cold
}ay and the next day was colder.
as rubbed with turpentine and oil
tenderly nursed, and in a few
i i vas ready for another trip. We
anO thermometers then, and there
record how cold it was, but I re-
|.fber that birds were frozen in the
Fs and chickens ON the roost. 1
A know whether these thermom-
+ are any advantage or not. The
morning I got up soon and made
y IN two rooms and then went out
a Pc coalhouse to get more coal for
!a'lrs. | noticed that the hack
floor and the steps and platform
sfsd strangely as I walked on them,
81 felt that it was cold-very cold
q! | never looked at the thermom-
for half an hour, and it was z
fes below zero. I got colder i'm
3ltely, for 1 had never seen the
|3ury that low before. My opinion
At 10 degrees above zero is about
Pld as 10 degrees below if you
& 10 thermometer. I can't realize
Inference, and that is the reason
our northern brethren make SO
= fuss about weather 80 and 40
sees below the mark. .'It is like
engineer who was called in by
2'd committee to give his opinion
speed. They asked him if it
more dangerous to run fifty miles
7s' than forty. He said no. "Can
run sixty as safe as forty ?"
81 sad he. "How about seven
a elghty?" "Just as safe as for,
he said, "for if you jump the
q at forty you will go to the devil,
nat is as far as you can go at 100
'Han hour" just so [ don t care
81 where the mercury goes to after
fs below 20.
fas talking to an old friend from
about the weather, and he said
EAd sufforad ,En,. ob Jo