Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-05

1Ac OOCIOttaIy LOu0 teo AOAAOWos
GLEN ROSE, Tex.
DEAR BRO. GARDNER-There is man
down here who says colored folks haven't
got any souls. That only white folks
turn to angels when they die. He points
with triumph to all the pictures Of angels
ever painted, in which not a single
colored angel is seen. He says he de6es
even old Bro. Gardner, the greatest
living logician, to prove that colored
men have souls all samee as Mclean
man. Will you accept the challenge?
Respectfully,
COTTONSEED WHITE.
There was deep silence in the hall
for few minutes, during which the
thermometer went up 10 degrees. Then
| the President said:
eyes, I 'cept de challenge. Let dat
Texas man prove to me dat white folks
hev souls an will prove dat black folks
hev de same. It am jest as easy to
prove one as de odder. AS to de picters
of angels, de black faces am not de only
ones left out. Whar am de Cinnamon,
de Arabs, de Injuns, de Laplanders, an
all de odder folks? Nobody cher saw q
red-headed angel, an yet do all our red
headed citizens go to de bad place? I'll
defy dat Texas white man to show me
any face among de angels cher painted
resembling a Texas man. He can't
show me de face oh Dutchman or
Irishman, or Frenchman or Spaniard,
but does dat prove dat Heaben was built
fur de use oh few Americans? We
doan take our black skins to Heaben any
mo- dan white folks take DER mutton
chop whiskers, glass eyes an false teeth.
| When we arrove at de gate death has
glben all de same color, an de poo ole
black man who has shaved an hungered
an suffered all his life, STAINS clus beside
| de white man who has had riches and
contentment. A piece of white chalk
| can be wrapped up in black velvet as
! well as in bleached cotton.
II tell yo' my frens, de road to Heaben
am long an full oh pitfalls an quick
sands an steephills an lonesome hollers,
an de soul which reaches de golden
gates am so cleansed and purified dat de
poo ole body left behind on airth would
neber know it. It isn't de money, de
raiment, de white skin or de fine talk
dat helps de pilgrim ober de quick-sands
| an past de thickets filled wild darkness
an de skeletons of de lost. It am de
heart an its kind thoughts an good
deeds. Let us now purceed to bizness. "
ELECTION.
While the Glee Club sweetly played,
ST Want to Borrow Fifteen Cents" Sir
Isaac Walpole made circuit with the
bean box, and the following candidates
we're branded for life: Canteen Pickup,
Old Man Silnms, Uncle Davis, Winter
green Snow, Elder Cantiff, Sir John
Smith, Rev. Snyder and Artificial
Hastings.
| THE CHAMPION POET.
| The committee in whose charge the
prize poems on the watermelon have
been given as fast as received since
August l, reported that 1875 poems had
been altogether received, each one writ
ten by colored man. The choice of
the committee had rested on the three
following named efforts:
First Prize Softly Stealing Through
the Melon Patch,'' by Juneberry Smith,
of Arkansas. Mr.. Smith can take his
choice between hand-painted, back.
action autograph of Capt. Kidd, or So in
| money.
Second Prize-"Down Where the
Melon Pined," by Killem Davis, Of
Tennessee. Mr.. Davis is privileged te
choose between a pen-wiper used by
Oliver Cromwell when he signed the
Declaration of Independence, or a So
bill with a corner torn off.
Third Prize--'sBury me Whar- dc
Melons Grow" by Destruction Skivers,
of Illinois. Mr.. Skivers has the choice
of an eight dollar note of hand against
William Penn, or silver dollar with O
hole in it.
While the committee were limited tc
three prizes, aud while they endeavored
to select the best, the other 1913 poets
need not feel discouraged. There is
room for all, and those who continue to
court the muses. must some day achieve
success. Any one of the rejected poems
would bring the highest cash price pei
pound even when the market was over.
stocked
SPECIAL OFFER.
Waydown Beebe arose to question
of privilege. He was not only a poet
himself, but he had q feeling of deel
sympathy for that down trodden class.
He wo Id therefore offer prize Of 81 in
cash or an eight-galion key of cider fol
the best poem on ''The Neglected
Grave" He didn't care where the grave
was situated, or what kind of an occu-
pant it contained, or how long the dead
had been buried. IL any one of the
poems on the watermelon could be cut
in two with an ak, split lengthwise with
a buzz-saw, or altered over in any way
to ill the bill for "The Neglected
Grave" he was perfectly willing. His
offer would hold good until the LIST Of
March, and all poems forwarded should
be plainly addressed: ''Waydown Beebe,
Detroit, Mich.-special prize.
AGRICULTURAL.
The Committee on Agriculture were
given the following respective queries
from various points to investigate:
/. "What soil is best adapted for
raising land sharks?"
2. "Did Gen. LIE Due succeed In
growing onions favored with winter.
green?"
8. "Do sunfowers act as electric
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