The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 04, 1900, Image 3
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. 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.
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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.
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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. "I ran get t
five cents a pound for It."?Chicago
Tribune.
The Itcst Prescription For Chills
and Fever 13 a bottle of Grove's Tasteless
Chill Tonic. It is simple iron and quinine
in A tasteless form. Nocure.no pay. I'rice25c.
! Wigg?"What sort of a man is
Bjones? Rather eccentric, isn't he?"
Wagg?"He's the sort of fellow you
anight expect to go to a horse show in
xn automobile."
How'a This }
; We offer One Hundrsd Dollars Reward for
any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
! ?- .F- J- Cheney A Co., Toledo, O.
I ?e, the undersigned, haveknown F. J. CheI
nor for the last 15 years, and believe him per
(fectlv honorable 1 n all business transactions
find financially able to carry out any obligation
made by their firm.
West <tr Truax, Wholesale Druggists,Toledo,
I Ohio.
W albino, k inn an & Martin, Wholesale
Druggist?, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price. 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Hall's Family Pills are thereat.
The one thing that everybody cm
succeed in borrowing is trouble.
Putnam Fadei ess Dte produces the
fastest and brightest colors of any known dye
stuff. Sold by all druggists.
A girl can't bleach her hair and keep
It dark.
Salesmen Wanted.
Two honest, reliable men; experience not abaolutelv
necessary; salary an<l expanses paid.
Peerless Tobacco Works Co., Bedford city, Va.
One way to find time Is not to lose
It.
Don't drink too much water when cycling.
'Adams' Pepsin Tutti Frutti is an excellent
substitute.
I The busy foundrynaan is always easting
lots.
Carter's Ink lathe
best ink that can be made. It costs you no
inure than poor stuff not ht to wr.te with.
It isn't every telephone girl that can
make the welkin rlag.
To C*nre a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bboxo Quinine Tables.
All druggists refund the money if it fails to
cure, ?. \V. Grove's signature on each box.
26c.
The literary tramp probably refuses
to cut wood because he dislikes hack
work.
I do not believe Pi9o's Cure for Consumption
has an equal tor coughs and colds.-John F.
Botsk. Trinity Springs, lnd.. Feb. 15, 1900.
Mrs. Wlnslow'aSoothing Syrup forohlldren
teething, softens the gams, reduces inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind colic. 2r?c.a bottle.
Baseball is in its last throes.
I
^ ,|?75b
?that means sweet breath, qi
with your bowels clogged, sen
but thoroughly and keep them
the genuine. CASCARETS ar
"C" on the box. You will I
them are quickly and permane
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, - ' / Bt?*r?old
Addr
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The tombstone never says mean
hings about the man that's down.
Show us a fault in our business
and we stop it at once, no
matter how profitable. We
don't believe a fault can ever
be really profitable.
They said our Ague Cure
was too bitter and powerful for
the weak digestion of malarial
illness.
We have corrected the fault.
It's cost us thousands of dollars
to do it, but we have corrected
it.
And there is no better medicine
under the sun for every
form of malaria than this newMalaria
and Ague Cure.
J. C. Ayer Company,
Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mass.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla Ayer's Hair Vigor
Aver's Pills Aver's Cherry Pectoral
Ayer's Ague Cure Ayer's Comatone
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more calls for graduates
II than it can supply.
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I clean with CASCARETS Candy
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Red May seed wheat from a crop that yielded
S3 to 35 busheb#->er ucre. reeleaneil by a
special seed wheat c?eaner, iu new two bushel
baps,price $1.25 per bushel. Seed Oats grown
in Norlh Carolina from Texas Red Rust Proof
Seed, the North Carolina orop vieldlg 30
bushels per acre, price 50c per bushel. Prices
on cars at Charlotte, N. C.. freight to be
paid by buyer. Tefms cash with order.
CHARLOTTE OIL & KKRTILIZEK CO,
f RED OLIVER, CHARLOTTE. N. C.
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The rial worth of
our ttS.OO and S8.SO n
hoe* eunipurcil with KSw Kt - 42
other make* 1*94.OO
to fcS.OO. W. art the It L v pf
larsro't m?kfr? and m*ilm [aKi. _y
of men'*$1.00?nd#3.JO?ho?* flML T
in tie world. W? make and /
ell^more $.1.00 and $3.J0 L
manufacturer!'ia the U. 8.
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k)i V kWhy do yoa pay $1 to
m _ A \?A $5 for shoes when yon
H Trial \A canbnyW.L.Donglaa
If will Xt^x-ghoes for $3 and
^^^INCEv^^K$3.50 ^whlch
THE RE AAOV more W. L. Doi?:m SI and
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THE Made of the beet imported and THE i
1 ,,fc* Amertran leather!. The work- 1 ,,t i
___ inanehip ie unexcelled. Tha alyla BEST
$sr? BESTi
torn mede thoaa. The; will outa9
pfl waar two peira of other makaa at (jo All
vpOiuU the aama pneaa. thathara so rep- $JaU(#
utation. Yen ran aafel; raanmpunr
mend them to Tour frirnda i the; CUftP
aS hliC. I P'eaaa ever; hod; (hat wear! them. aHUL
Tour deiler ahould keep them s we glee ot>? deader
axcluaira aala in aach town.
Take no auhatltiatn I Inaiat on kirlnt W. L.
Douflaa ahora with name and prira a tamped on bottom.
If rourdealw will not get them for ;ou, aend direct to
factorr, ennoaitif price and fir. extra for carrlnga.
htatc kind of leather, aire, and width, plain or en ton.
Our ahoea will reach ;nu an;wh>rt. Catalog** fYt*.
W. L J0U6LAS SHOE CO., Broctton, Man.
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U fit patiaata wba pa; axpraaaa?e ao!r on aalirary.
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Attention is facilitated if ?ou meution
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always smell a "dead
i costive-looking face.
<h knocks you down.
> his feet
to his talk turn their
the other way.
th poisons God's pure
it to keep clean inside;
ou can't feel well and act well
tem. Clean them out gently
Cathartic. Be sure you get
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he trade-marK, me long-ianeu
nasty symptoms that go v/ith
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DRUGGISTS
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Chicago or New York. 4l7
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