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f t . GOOD OLD SAM PITTS Bill Arp Writes About an Old ExSlave. SOME OF NEGRO'S SAYINGS rv,/* ? ? D--A...AA* V/inffAAC N ntl'.l i/mtrrcncc dciwccu V- days and Those of Ante-Bellum Times. Uncle Sam is dead. Good old Sam Pitts. He never changed his name when freedom came. "My old master was a good man," he said. 'Dar was good people den and bad people jes' like dar is now?black and white, but de black has got wusser and wusscr Since dey got free. Effea a black man had a good master he was might" well pff. fer he didn't na\e no sponsibility. Effsn I bin r^o of a good master and fny wife and children been- sho of one and we all live together ontill v/e die 1 wouldent keer anything bout freedom. Niggers got too much freedom anyhow. 'Ml. r?lrl mooter iisoH tn make de nii?TPr gals get married and take a man and stick to him, but nowadays dev dent marry at all hardly. I got a lot of grandchildren what hair.t got no daddy to speak of and I don't know ray sonsin-law. Dey don't come about in daylime. Dats what killed my old woman. She Jes' so mortified and so shamed she never got over it. So many spurious children all round calliu' her granny. Effen a white woman do dat way she es disgraced, but a black oman don't keer; she shine as big as ever and dev don't turn her outen de church. Ir^de old times she got a whlppin and de ort to have it yet. White folks dun quit whlppin bad niggers: dey send em to chaingang. and dev don't keer for dat. I hear dat dar is four or five thousand in dar from Georgy. How's dat-?dident have nary one before de war. Gwine to school too much 1 spek and work too little. Don't know what is gwine to come of " all d(8? grown* up niggers. Dar is a dozen or more round de depot or trampin* around town doin' nuthin' all de time?livin* often dey mammies and smokin'^ese little paper seegars." Old I'ncle Sam dident talk much, but sometimes he would lean on his hoe or his ax and spres3 his feelins. It did him good. He has been chopping my wood and helping me in the garden for thirteen years and we will m!ss him. He fell down paralyzed with his hoe in his hand. He was "the man with the hoe" to the very last, but he never was poor, for he made a good living and had many friends and owned a comfortable house and lot. They sent ti my wife for some grave clothes and hi wjll be buried in a right decent suit of mine and we will go to his funeral. 1 was ruminating about this good old ^^negro who had seen thrity-three years of slavery and thirty-seven of freedom and knew the good and the bad of both conditions and then my thought wandered to the malignity of those who have slandered us so long without a cause. Here is a book of poems gy John G. Whittier and thirty-seven of them are pitiful appeals for the poor slave and invoking heaven's curses upon his master. He knew no more about slavery as it really was than ;ie did about Barbara KYeitchie and he fed the young people of New England upon poetic lies for thirty years and instilled into their hearts that hatred from which they, have recoverd. Strange it is that smart people will write about things they have never seen. Now, the idea of an uneducated negro slave getting down on his knees and making an apostrophe to the north star?and yet that is the title of r ue of the poems?"The Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star." That nigger was 'pos sura hunting right then, out tne poet makfs him to say: "Star cf the North. I look to thee. "Thy light and truth shall set me free." But enough of this. The quesrton still survives what will become of the negro. And that other question looms up before us. what will we do with iO.OOO.COO more of them over i(i the Philippines? A more senseless wir was never waged. ^ It wai conceived in sin and is being carried on In iniquity. Prosperity! Yes. it is war that glosses over suffering and death and grief with a coat of prosperity. But it is nothing but a coat. War always produces a semblance of prosperity, for armies have to be fed and clothed and equipped. Ships have to b? bui't and rannon made and a thousand things iollateral to these show activity and give employment to labor and to capital. This activity began with the Cuban embroglto and etill goes on, bat in the long run somebody will have to " Kill fnr 1,1,-W.d root tne money um. xwo u... and suffering will never be paid. Who wants the war but contractors who are growing rich from their profits? When I was last in Texas I > heard a cattle man say he hoped that Russia and England would get up a fight, for he had 100,000 head of cattle that would go up 50 per cent, in a day. Daily wages dont go up. but everything the laborer is obliged to consume has advanced. How about clerk -.hire, made and female, in the towns Tand cities. How about child labor in -'the factories?not in all the factories, but in most of them, for thre are not many Gunby Jordang at the head of southern cotton mills. What a beautiful tribute his people paid him in Columbus when he returned from Europe. What a touching ovation these factory workers gave him. Why can t the owners of every mill do the same by their operatives and secure their love, which is worth more tfcan a crown of gold. 1 read in an Atlanta paper about a poor woman who swore her son would not be nine years old until next Christmas, but ner husband certified to the superintendent of the mill that he was eleven so as to get him a place, for no boy under ten ho omnlnved. What a degree of misery rauBt bo in a family who have to resort to such methods. The poor have but few friends, hut I hope they have enough to press that labor bill before the next general assembly. " T.atrr?N'ews has iust come that old I'ncle Sam is not vet dead. They began to dress him for the grave and suddenly he showed a sign of life. May be he will live to have his obituary read to him?who knows. I read ray own many years ago in a western I. But I'ncle Sam will hardly live paper when the original Bill Arp died in Texas and the editor thought it was through the night.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. P. S.?That multitudious poem has not ceased to come. Yesterday brought a copy from Minnesota and one fox the State of Washington. On'y 347 have been received up to dat?. I -an riardlv find thanks to HO round. ? PROMINENT PEOPLE. Andrew Carnegie lias promised Greenock. Scotland, $2T>,000 for a library. The oldest of the colonial representatives in Loudon is Lord Stn.thconia, of Canada. Lieutenant Hobson. the hero of tho Mcrrlmac, is on duty at the Brookr lyn Navy Yard. John Sherman, former Secretary olj State, has returned to Washington td spend liis declining days. The Duke and Duchess of York will visit Australia next year to open the first Parliament of the Federation. President Loubet of France is interested in autographs and lias one of the l>est private collections in that country. President Eliot, of Harvard, has oblate years been evincing interest in athletics witli which he was of old little credited. General Stewart L. Woodford, former Minister to Spain, was married to Miss Isabel Hanson, his private secretary. at Xew York City Justin McCarthy, novelist, historian and statesman, announces his retirement from Parliamentary life on account of failing health. rue new Kin?: ot Italy proposes to give his valuable collection of rare old coins to one of the State museums. He says that if he kept if he would give to its improvement time which his present duties will not allow him to spare. Abuer Bobbins. the leading capitalist of Eastern Oregon^is one of the most eeeeutrie of American millionaires. He lives alone in a lonely hut. prefers humble fare and will not accept a pass on his own railroad. Oerliart Hauptmann. the (Jerman dramatist, does not have to depend on his pen for a living. His work pays him very well, but he inherited one fortune and his wife brought him another Most of hjs investments are in real estate. LABOR WORLD. Organized British coal miners urge (he Pennsylvania strikers to stand linn for their demands. About 300 journeymen tailors went on strike at Clei eland, Ohio, for recognition of their union. The labor troubles in Chicago are practically over, and over ?S.OOO,OOQ new building operations are iu progress. Tlie slrike of steel workers In the "West lias I>een settled, and about sixty thousand men liave returned to work. .Tames McDonald, an American engineer. has arranged to take ."(mk) Jamaican laborers to build a railroad iu Ecuador. The Dcering Harvester. Company, of Ctyeago. has reduced wages from ten to twenty per cent. About 3000 men are affected. Dried fruit packers and cauners on the Pacific Coast are having much trouble over the lack ofdbelp necessary to handle the crop! Two hundred employes of the Merrimac packing room, at Lowell. Mass.. Imve ctrncl.- in srmnnthv wtth the nrillt workers, who want pay for overtime. , The International Association of Wood Carvers has almost unanimously rejected the proposition of the American Society of Wood Carvers to amal gumate. At a meeting of seveny hundred retail butchers at Buffalo,*'N. Y., resolutions -were adopted supporting the Buffalo packers and condemning the recent strike. The Chase Woolen Mills, at Elmville. Conn., have been dosed' indefinitely. A scarcity of orders is given as tin cause of tbe suspension. About lot hands were employed. ' There are thirty-three jute mills ir India, employing persons. Tin mills contain 13.371 looms and ovei 387.000 spindles. Nearly all of tin mills are in the neighborhood of Cal cutta. As an evidence of the supremacy of the English tongue in the Far East It is to be noted that the various foreign journals use the English word Boxer"' in speaking of the society which is fomenting such grave disturbances in China. For example, the Germans write "die Boxers," the Italians. "i Boxers," and in Spanish it is "lo8 Boxer? " , Itching-, Burning Eczema. Was troubled with a painful skin truption, and after all other remedies failed, the father writes: "Send me lour more boxes of Tetterine for my little daughter. It does her more good ^ lhan anything we ever tried. Yours, , etc , Jas. S. Porter, Lynchburg, S.C." j At druggists 50c. box, or postpaid by* ? J. T. Shnptrine. Savaunah. Ga. ( Retained All His Faculties. i Tiroil of his parsimony and general < meanness his neighbors turned out one night and tarred and feathered old Skinnphlint. "Save the tar,"' he said to the good Samarltau. who was scraping him off several hours afterward. 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