The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-29

. Tow words 70 you. Buyin' property aud all dat
YOU are iissi: d any time % los. 4: 80 much
money gone. Your former owner. you say. will
titles l. GOOD. Can You Know Of It Is not tied up
In mortRaResf Your risks very great: YOU
sy Ss' IL 'of Ssr %s s az
here are CROWN each year less able to meet
dom the STATE VII, soon own large ., estates and
waitin' you will be aole TO buy Iece OF land
by merely. payin' de taxes, and your Publican
friends will see dat de title IL made GOOD. We
expect soon TO crowd out dose land owners.
I'm a good friend OF yourn, Mrs. Trap. and
dere oondishuo, poor creatures. I want TO SEQ
dem rise ia de world. crush these stif neck
citissns Now we nave bank s called de Freed
mans Bank. run IN de iDtrust OF de colored peo-
nle. wnere we will guard your money ~ de apple
Of our eye. No rcDel al II touch penny Of II.
Put your money In our bank and we Will nay
YOU SIX per cent intrust-a very handsome in
come Tor you. Only tnink white you are laying
bark In your chair joiciDg your pleasure your
money Will be CROWN. No mule to perish. no
land devoured by taxes. but wben YOU want
money list tote yer book TO de bank. and drawn
" tie talked beautiful. aud was getting
ana eTsea na., ana oouo see ysy
Frcedman's Bank to draw my intrust, while de
siotekeepsrs were a-bowin' aud scrapin nxins
Mrs. Trap to walk In an examine nere hne
things. / fslt rite aualityned. III oharee
YOU nuean for my seryicss.' sed he thIo bis
Let me look at your money, lady, i handed
him de roll.
~
"Ies. BELIEF l will, said.
He frightened up. Jist walt here, and win
nS u ~ Tor you IN ten mnytes Den he st =;
hand. All ritel here's yer bank book. Look
when you want your money carry dat book Co
IL went home happy as a frog. laid awake
NIL night. and counted de strings Of sassengers
| and de smoked hams I'D swing from De tOists.
| de pipes Id smoke, and de chickens I'd hab 10
IN coop. met old Marse one day ne will hab
bis joke; he SEQ Well. old lady how is dc
"Fus tratei / done drawed two dollars, SIR"
Two dollars / am 'frsid OATS about all you
| will cher draw.
"Why. srf"
DE concern in Washington, l hear. has fallen
into the hands of swipdlers what Is stealin' ali
de money, and you'd better go and GIT youra
while you KIN
her son-in-iaw iddle up ana 20 rite strait to de
| bank. When de boss man found Wilson done
what do you want to do that for5 Dis bank
| Il as good as god2 Don't YOU know Gen. Grant
| would die afore he'd see your money lost. Some
| fool Of a Democrats been teiiin you lies. Come
He took wilson In an showed him drawer
DO you think ois bank ku break and all dat
wilson was shamed of hisseif como back
Mary, don't be a fooli You're aus fyin' on
bank as II YOU had Il here. Fred. Douglass is
head man IN Washington: he 10 a colored man
ike We all. and be amt gwne to let US suffer De
bank. feel rice mean Dem men at de banks
dom all de good for we all, and we amt willing
TO trust EN-
80 didn't saw no mo- but I'd better mind
| ed old Marster, and wouldn't he scratcbin' a
and len Sister Harriet on de rOdeside broke
| down wild trubble. Like me, she lost Doth her
! husband and sons In de army, and now her
! money has been cheated, and fooled on it's
| more dan we pore critters kin bar. You don't
| know how desolate and lonesome We feel slnce
| our last hopes been swept away. We've no
! prop TO stand on. no Marster. no Missiles. DO
! husband. no sons, no money, no friends. Our
| friends was our wuss enemies. Dey robDed US
| to our last loaf. We hab num-. Our bank
! books ain't WORT crooked STICK, and den we
| get LATED at for trustin' to our friends, who
sneak across de streets when dey sees ne COM
| In. 1 can't Tar to 20 back to my cabin IL
Eats sick wtat l got TO pend onl I'm bout
| skuffied outl'
Here, overcome by the picture Of her unhappy
condition that she had drawn, Mother Trap gave
| way to another bysterIcal outburst OF sObs and
! mournfui CALCULATIONS. rocking her withered
| form to anu fro in the Intensity OF her grief.
| Greatly touched by her Distress her Kind white
| friends endeavOred to comfort her with words
| OF announcement. and before she left they
provided her with basket OF those house IN I'd
luxuiies which the colored people specially
prize. At last, wiping her eyes and murm uring
her thanks. the pour victim OF Washington ras
cality tottered on toward her home-wbich she
was never again 10 leave. The next day the
! good. pious old creature was found dead In her
! lonely cabin. she had died Of broken hearth