New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-02

feat the fields, crawl into the houses am
drop from the beams upon the weary ane
unwary Omrrier Caborer), and when, az my
parrain food father mentions, pantners
and bears issue suddenly from tn'
cvDrieres and carry off persons no
~ great weight. 1t is but just to dea1
mother to saw that she holds these stories II
contempt. and exhorts me not to interrupt
vnnr career. Better said she that dear Al
vnste should remain permanently q farmel
fhan abandon q resolution he has once
taken. All. these mothers are Spartans
| Ia IL not 80, dear Augustey Yet thlnE
not that l could inter such sentlments
NV heart would leap up and interrupt
nv utterance. Still, l have Dorne aAc
could bear much rather than pia a.
the impediment of straw IN tut
| the path of our redemption from the AFRO
can't and oppressive rule which, to use your
own beautiful figure, is SLOWLY draining
the last hfe-drop from the pantlng o1som
of the exhausted pelican" Yet events nave
CONQUERED. they have eliminated, to compel
me to recall you to my side. From tlme %
| time after your departure persons caheo
with notes, bills and demands against you
l was convinced that you never could nave
owed these persons, especially the man ~
Mamma said gentlemen were often careless
of such bills, but l would not listen
| | grew quite animated, and said i! knew
| those persons, hearing OF your absence
| had appeared, hoping to have those Dllls
| paid over again. 1s it not go, Auguste
am sure it is These persons were told you
| had gone in the country. But these were
not the worst. There came that 0efe, tne
prop,ietaire. Why is it, Auguste. that the
proprietaire is always repuisive person
| 1t is always so. She demanded the rent,
now three months in arrears. Its paltry
sum-a little more than 500 francs.
| Mamma, who is az fat DIES afai'es, met her
| in the parlor. Mamma reasoned with her
of the stagnation in trade. She sald-the
brute-it was that which made her demand
her rents. Mamma said it was impossible
to buy food if we paid the rent. :,
The prOpriet0ire answered 1T was equally
impossible tor her to buy food II she did
not receive the rent. Mamma adverted to
the turbulent character OF the proletairat
or negro lahorers. The proprietaire had
never heard of it. Mamma said that you
had heroically quit your home to labor IN
the fields to displace at least one arrogant
black. She said you were q fool. who had
better have gone to work here. paid your
rents and taken care of your famii Y.
Mamma made some sarcastic remarks
on those who encouraged the insolent ne
groes by employing and paying them, as
in the field OF battle for their race This
impertinent proprietaire asked mamma II
she did her own washing. This, of course,
no lady could do, or could bear to be
supposed capable of doing. Then the
voices grew so high that l quilted
the key hole and rushed into
the parlor. The proprietress is Dutch
woman. l really believe, Auguste, she
must sell things in shop, but she was
inc ~, hox Of rcn1vinO IN Iunat
cutting remark Of my ma with her appraised
umbrella. rushed into the room with our
dear little cherub in my arms. 1t should
have melted the heart of Comanche. !
thought afterwards of that affecting scene
in Norma" only had but one child, you
know. appealed on behalf OF the absent
father. She replied, "You sells some of
dose fancy furniture, unit pay me my rent
l cooms me no more, nein." Well, we did
not suppose she could have the heart to seize
the piano, or the Brussels carpet, or the cur
talns of damask, or the pendMle de Paris, or
the ornaments and pictures. 1t would be
barbarOus. Is it not 80 Auguste! Mamma
said such things could not be permitted by
the lower orders. 1t is atrociOus, is it not!
When husband and father is in the field
fighting for the liberties of his race, WELD
ing his hoe-driving his obstinate mule
but, alas! mon Auguste l must shock your
ab0minable proprietaire, whose name Is as
see Vonderbottom, has obtained what my
parrain tells me is fiery facias and Ger
man keeper, with q very t10rid complexion,
is at this moment in our parlOr playing
"Der Watcht am Rhein," on your own
piano of Pleydel, Paris! Singing it, also,
in such tones as to have attracted crowd,
who are wondering at the window. But,
AuPuste, this heartless creditor, and this
stupid and unfeeling miserable who plays in
discordant triumph, upon my own French
piano, the chants of his own barbarOus and
ruthless nation, are-white! ,chite! Can
you comprehend such insensate rapacity?
But mon Auguste, there is more; last
night l was awakened by my child, who
has not been-shall l confess it-well for q
week past. 1t was fortunate. l saw the fig
ure of man crouch behind the armOire; it
was already open. The small sum of money
was there and the few jewels that possess.
Dread gave me desperation. l screamed.
ran to the robber; he had his arms filled with
things. had seized the pistol you left and
CRIED; II will shoot you, vllain!' Then he
dropped the things, and as he pushed by
me saw that though he was BACKED to
negro his hands and arms we're
white. The police came aud found that the
robber had assembled by the iron posts
which support the balcony. Nothing was
lost. but am SO unhappy with the dreadful
Dutchman playing that Der Watcht am
Rhein." He dimes on sausage and LimbOurg,
drinks lager and smokes until it makes
US cough, even out on the galleries. This,
with the robbers who climb the posts by
night, is insuppOrtable. I can bear it no
longer. These ungratefui white people!
Can the blacks be wOrsel Come, my be-
loved, our child is sick and l am desOlate.
Gomez
What hoorf oor,11 hoyo o%ood %b;o annool7
Mr.. Auguste decided on the instant to re
spond in person. 1t was time to begin the
canvass which was one literally Of life aud
death, as he was to be recorder of births
and deaths and marriages. L'Oncle Arts
tarque heard the decision without emotion.
He deemed it BEST because he had foreseen
Augusta was not fitted for the porletariat,
and would do better in the lottery Office or
cigar shop. In either of these he would
profit by his popularity, which otherwise
accustomed him much waste Of time and ex-
,enditure of money.
The family wss sorry to part with their
'elation, but as they had attended to his
mending, cooking and had nursed
,im through the results of his duel with
he mule, there was not much linen cambria
noistened on the occasion.
The daughters all liked him. When he
ook leave of Solomon Trout the old man
aid:
''Little Boss, you got family, eh9"
Eyes; wife and child"
"BOy or girl ?"
ga boy"
eff put up bag of early taters and