Show OUR om NATIONAL TRAIT rr resourcefulness 3 IS 13 MARKED IN AMERICANS i 1 I t ingenuity of people nover never at a timer moralises Mor Morn alises lizes on lc sord taught southerners by ahr of odthe the civil war i idy upon the Anie american rIcan people to cross any bridge they como come to coal might have soared to tho the altitude ol oc tho the cow that jumped over tho the moon but they would have found some como way to keep warm it was so in the civil war you yon feel it in tho the north you havo have to come to it as they did in the south and west artilda man who has been 0 several wars and not a few strikes kez there came a time caien gentlemen who had lived bountifully had no coffee somebody tried parched corn it mado made a fairly good breakfast liquid 0 oats ts had a bitter flavor the maali who first used chicory was p pretty etty well weir GIT some people never mever went v ent back to coffee caffee after chicory the da darkies A doo par parched chea acorns and kilell pounded them into powder an am bollett it and tho the arlel ifor for it it then wo vo fell upon the ovll evil lays days when wo vo had no iau m an it required more money to buy a pound 0 of f than it has oblate of aate to abuy buy a ton of bf coal i but somebody discovered sorghum it required a to produce it but it was a splendid the man mail who had sorghum molasses on his table belon belonged ed to tho the old antebellum ante bellum quality Sorg sorghum lium was too high hig h for the dar kles kics but they had to have sweetening so eo they made some sort of sugar out of watermelon and reveled iu in that we reached that point when flour was a luxury I 1 remember a dinner given by a a prominent man inan who had cometo our town there ivero no olive spud blue points no relishes 9 nol HOT soups bouas but abut the meat was baked pe pea a cook cock and the dessert consisted of flour biscuit andhor and sorghum hum molasses it was tho the of the community that enough flour had been found to make biscuit every lay day bread was waa made out nit of pumpkin ever elvor oat eat any pumpkin bread of course you know all about the southern women who had been accustomed to io their imported silk gowns before beford the war and who when alil sherman was splurging around in the south and grant was ham hammering hammarin merIn g ills bis way through the wll berness der ness went to their looms and bovo lius out of which they made th their eh owns gowns 4 I went to a wedding in tennessee where the brides dresa aresu was i n homespun linsey and one of the presents was ivas a biltof calico for which the donor paid a yard oh yes those were d dark irk days daya but they contained a lesson and the last chapter of the lesson was that no mat ter what chatan wh atan un american went up against at the last badt ho he went trent over the obstacle ae in some way and it if he go over it ite hy beneath it ho got 1 1 sf 7 past it and when this coal strike got to its doret and some thought 0 wo were on tho the ra ragged faraino famine 1 nover never despaired 1 1 knew we could find Bom someway eway out outry avit it |