The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
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abvul. S. c., aprile fust.

abvul, S. c., aprile fust.
deer edditur, see that lital bill
has had to git away frum hoam to
pit sumthin to eet. well i must say
that hev bin expectin this fur sum
time. thought the chile wus lookin
lital puny, an wus neadin a full
meals vittles. I see the neufar boy
WIS with him. You cant fool bols,
es see thay didn't go to DIR. neufars
neither to git sumthin to eat which
shows that they had been there be,
foar. lizzie sails that she is afraid
bill and hap will come in contact
with sum of our bois if they git to
runnin round the community amung
the 400 huntin sumthin to eat.
had big time on the jury last
week. wusnt on a single case an
had nuthin to do but set up in the
cote hous, heer the lawyers rangle
and draw too dollars a day which
beets plowin. There air CRATE
many men which do not wish to git
on the jury atall as tina say that
thew can maik more at hoam. but
i can git off emmy time at too dollars
day an maik money. think it
wuold be we'll if the jury wus drawn
from the fellers which air maxim
less than too dollars per day, specially
if they will git us. fellers frum round
town so we can go hoam at mite. this
will not inconvenience emmy man
which don't wan to be on the jury en-
will help the poor man, which IS me.
the reason wus not taken on a
case wus becaus one lawyer was
afraid i would decide the case right
and the other one was afraid would
not decide it wrong. I wus on one
case. in which we rendered a verdict
for q hundred and fourteen thousand
dollars aginst felar. the lawyer
irwin the case thought he knoWed
moar than the jury so he calcllated
the intrust an tole US how much IL
wus. the judge sed we cud talk ms
wurd fur it en- the foarmun slept up
and sined the verdict. when Went
hoam that mite me an lizzy got to
calcilatin on the thing and cording to
NV count the lawyer maid a mis-
talk of fifteen or twenty cents on the
intrust, which shows that a felar
need not bee too smart and try 10
do moar than a jury do. the smart
felar lost jist that much mummy by
not letin me maik that calculating,
which would hev hired a nigger to
hoa cotton for half day, which is
now comm on.
I hev not yit decided to run agln
fur Kurriner: see that all campane
liars air not ded yit. i though we
wood hev had three mayors OF tne
town by now an so we wood II every
felar had voted as he promist, heV
had sum sad experients with theas
felars which will come around and
tell YOU tina will voat fur you an
then 20 an not do it, An / am mere
to advise all mi trends which has a
portion of his leen still to run at
the stoar to stay out of pollertlcks
and stick to the leen. Pollerticks Is
too uncertain but a leen IS with you
all the time specially in the fail'
when it Gums DUE: an, there Will be
no disappointment bout it cumin due,
an if YOU air in hurry for the cot
ton to open an fall to git hear Jlst
sine one and it will be with you., 81.
thought the poor man wood "a
bin rich by now. tina sed that when
the old leen law was kilt that the
country would jump up an git ritch
in spite of itself, but sees that you
kennot down the merchants, as soon
as they kilt the old leen law: the
merchunts slept in with Q: mortgage
on all craps Of cotton, cotton seed,
millit, corn and hay. now felar
under the ole law was out with his
leen at the end of the year an when
he pitched a new one, the merchant
could not talk any of it out of back
debts, but under the new law, j sez
to the merchant j wish leen for too
hundred dollars, and the first thing i
knoas he hes already took out forty
nine dollars and sum cents on last
yeer, and when a rails kick on this
he sez if this is not saterfactory
pay up an 60 further, but when i
start i find am hobbled, which
teeches me that you cannot down the
man with the rashuns when you is
hungry.
well lizzy is callin me to breckfust.
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