The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-12-17

ua "FaAuDs NO MAN AND MAKES
TIE MONEY eco RoUE' SOMEHOW
Adaptability to business is not OK
slusiyeiy confined 10 the Anglo-Saxon
iacc, as the Hometic persuasion occa,
sionallg exhibit o marked force Of
character in that direction really
worthy Of being noted; and the fol-
lowing incident, says a FLORIDA cor.
respondent, proves conclusively that
a great deal Of business tact is some
times to DO found lying around loose
even in this settlement.
Some few days since one Of our
contractors had occasion to tear down
an old brick wall and remove tho
material elsewhere, Flo agreed with
an old darkey TO do the job for fifteen
dollars, the lob TO be paid for as Soon
as completed. The snb.contractor,
filed with the Importance OF MS
position, at once engaged the aeFyiceA
Of fifteen other negroes, agreslng 70
nav them at tho rate OF one dollar
Der day for their services, But, %
the work approached completion, the
idea suddenly entered Uncle Jake's
head that he was not making any
great profit out oil the contract
This would moi begin to dol 80, call
inC in the aid OF white friend who
kept a small grocery hard by, he sub
mitted his case, and was advised to
settle with his hands pro rata the best
he could. II was a sight not readily
10 be forgotten. Seated upon a nail
keg, Uncle Jake, after clearing his
throat TO attract attention, began by
the assertion:
II fraud no man. Now l want all
you colored gentlemen TO un'stan' dat
| loses on dis yer contraek. | don't
see my way to muffin tall. ! wants
ebery man to hab suffin, 'canse dat's
right; but, see yers, dis yers money
amt gwino 10 hole out clar it amt
an | dent want no grumlin nor tuSs
kicked up wild me; you hear dat'
How much / owes you, Lemusly'
"Dollar'n'arf. You knows dat well
as l do. Didn't / work day'n'arf!'
"Y.aa.s. Well, you take a dollar
an say no more about IL; de money
amt gwine to hole out, tells you. |
wants ebery man TO get a shsr', and
dat's all you gets any way. Say you
Dan, what i owes your
"You owes me dollar, Uncle Jake
i done work day"
"Dnts what i thought, Here ll
haff q dollar and dime TO get drink
of whiskey wid.n
'But wants my dollar
"Course you does. / frauds nc
man. Dis hore meney has got to &c
round somehow, yeu here me? Now
l don't want any more foolin' round
here. Jimp
"Here / is,
10. you's dar, is yer? How much
/ owes yer, Jiml'
isDoilarn quarter. ,
"Mighty tight times for money, Jim
-nebber seed such times afore. Here
take this sebbenty.fve cents, and
thank the Lord It's no worse"
Look heah, Uncle Jake, don't yel
come noue o dat on me. kase | AIM
gwine to put up wild it,"
"NOw don't you 60 maxim q fusI
heah, mind tole you. De Demoney ain't
gwine TO hole out, done tole you al
dat. / fraud no man. Every mar
spects to get little, an how you tinl
deyll get it, an you maxim, fuss like
dis? / done heerd enough. joe"
"Now tore you begins to talk, ole
man don't you fool wild me; | dont
my work, an now wants de spezehnc
tums. Buttsrberdam ef ] takes any
nonsense. Hand ober dat money
dat's wot you's got ter do"
allow much i iows you, JOEL
"You ows me sebbenty-five cents
an / wants il right away. An be
sides | done lost my hatohet, so
don't make muffin, any way
"You done lost your hatchetl"
"Dat's wot / tole you"
"Sorry bout dat, responded Uncl,
Jake, "kase l allus 'dopted a rule
when q man lost any of his tools, he
got to be docked till doy're totcheC
back. Here, take dis quarter, AMI
trabble."
"But do hatchet was mine, you oil
fool, You understand datP"
"Don't know muffin about it; you NJ
business ter loose der hatChet. l frau,
no man; when you fotehes dat hatehe
back den talks more wild you 'bou
it; But never lows any man 10 los
de tools-dat amt business"
"See here, man you's fraud-you,
worse dan do Freedman's Bank. Han
ober dat money"
30, g'long cbillin--I tole you di
yer's lOosin' Job, any way. How yo
specs ! makes anything by the oper'
ton? De money has got ter 60 roun
somehow"
The reprobate certainly gave any
thing but satisfaction to his isemploS eC
all Of whom went off highly indll
nant, but unable to help themselvt
in any way. 1t is barely possibl
that similar mode Of doing busine'
might occasionally be found els,
where, and not among the darkey
either.
The DEATH KISS. Woman's love
is there anything like itP A Canad
ans wife has just died at Raleigh, an
he has taken her to Canada to bui
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