The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-20

nuskeeters that L seen down there. It
vas jest a little three sided consara
ortcd like a closet. 1 was on q trane
hat didn't pay no 'tention to no sich
'laces, no more than if they hadn't
'in there at awl. Cap'n Billy Smith
vas the conducktcr, the jolliest old
;ent l even seen. He sed he mad bin
m the rode forty nine yeer, and that
|e had hauled too thirds of Lee and
Iacksons men over them rodes durin
! 20 war. l learn as how Cap'n Smith
as won Of the consciensiousest men
at ever rid kyar, and that he wont
tie his wifes pickter in his pocket
thout a pass. Ever station we got
he wood have sumthin funny to
~ about the place and the people.
zNmtimes he wood spell the name Of
70 station and he'd alters wind up
sath "Everybody out fur this place 2
Sa response to the contrary" Then
@erybody wood laff fit to kill--with
BOn or TWO cNc1ptlnS.
ss%Thcrc was two fine lool1in gals set
M close to me and I noticed that won
SSfS 'cm had pug nose and turned it
pR considerable ever time that con-
4Skster cum around. I precludid to
bun her, and sed: ~ declar I'll
lhte to get off this tranc; when I cot
IIllTsmy IIllTsm hart was hevy with the thought
lf39Is lf39Isich a long lonesum travel, but the
is so jolly and amusin
hut [ am injoyin myself immense
al He's sure cure for the bluze. /"
S:gslzzfshe:
EEM think he is a perfect nusance-
Eis two old"
Nllooked at her long and hard be-
M8M ansered:
ung lady, I haint never yet seen
EpMrson that was two old in yeers,
ktgA've seen good men yung pee
Rsthat was two yung in wisdim. :"
ant law, sakes! that conduckter got
he sweetest kind Of revenge on
pr and I cudn't help but think that
stmbody had told him what she sed
! wernt long before he cum back
hew the kyar, and he seen little
by about ten or twelve yeers old set
p jest befor them gals, and he did
hH peer to no where to place him, so
Hs stepped up to this yung gal and
|ed in cleer distinct tones: "Madam,
saS that your son9" I never was so
(all of tickle over anything in my
Sfe and cudn't laff. Several had
earn her remarks and ther shore
las sum broad GRIMM done. She was
&sportin awl the National cullers
aSnrPss her countenance as she replide
g5th emphasism: "No, indeed, sir!"
Madmont was a nice lookin town
,Maso was Pelzcr.
tSWe had birds eye vew of Will
IHsmston, where the conduckter sed
SAe$ warter was good, the people good
sshSsd everything good. The country
SAege begun to look white and sandy.
Gaps farely good.
&Thc next place was Chcddar. A
sent hale storm had jest about COM
&Stely ruint the corn along the ralc
te. Cotton seemed to be on the
Rmble bee order-the kind that
Bable bees have to stand on the
and to suck the blossum.
,elton was purity place, and pee
have to change kyars there to go
Anderson. So meny people got on
t I jest expected we wood have a
ke down and a smash up. I seen
big base ball ground there, and
ps beyant it begun to look better.
ext cum Honea Path with the fin
J. depo I had seen sense leavin town.
.re was three fine churches awl
close together and neer the rale
G side tracked at Donaldsville to
a trane pass that was a cumin a
tin lis, and law sakcs, we hadn It
!ore then got still before it cum a
m by. I tell you it shore made
feel orful to think what a mar
escape we had had from bein in
3E :ck. If we had a bin a minute
r them frames wood bustid rite
won anuthcr and then Jcemcs
Il a bin a widder and that is won
g I don't want him to be. I no
and good he wood be the sport
~ kind Of won, and I cudn't rest
& in my grave and no he was a
t. tin sum uther womin on my in