Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-15

dey come nome at night L seen EN-
rollin' dere eyes roun' at me an
larfn', an holding up dere hands and
sayin' kittysize! kittysize! / didn't
say muffin to EN- at fust. waited two
or free days, intel de occasion come.
Den / tole Mournin to fotch me de
hoe, and de gal jes' tossed up her head
and hollered out to my tother gal and
said 'kittYsize! kittysize, daddy! Den
I grabbed holt of her and l shuck her
and I kotohed up q switch and l said:
What you mean, gall I amt gwine
to hab no foolin'P Den she splained
de mahogany of the thing to me:
Oats de way We do In rchool, daddy,
when sother chillen don't talk proper.
We was jes' lartin' case you said fotch
de hoe stead of brung de hoe. Teacher
tols us to kiettysizs.'
~ shuck dat gal den tell her teeth
ratified In her jaw bones, and l tole
her il ever I hearn any more OBJ dat
kittys'ze roun' me I'd nigh about kill
her. I made her g'long and fotch dat
hoe and 60 and kittysizs dat cotton
patch. Dsre she is now and dere she
is gwine ter stay. Haw, haw! dat
girl was ,keered one time, sartip. She
amt agwine to hab no more chance to
be split to destruction. l likes to
'commodate Miss Cornely, but I can't
let my gals 90 to school and get to be
bigger fools den dey's materially. Dsys
as good hands In de cotton patch now
rs emmy mans gals is In dis country,
all case l stopped up from de kitty.
size. Cotton patch good huff place
for dere daddy, and cotton place good
huff place for dem. OATS de way l
look at 1t, boss. I amt got no use
fer dedicated Niger. Eddicated mig
ger stole my COW last Jinunry-thot
hisself too good toe work. He's
workin' at de coal mines wild de con-
viots now, all de same. OATS how
smart dedicated niger Ia now"
Uncle Depoleon Is o representative
man, but he represents q very small
class. He belongs to what the pro.
gressive Ethiopians call "de old slav.
cry niggers, what amt nebber gwine
to hab no sense" The average south.
ern darkey is very anxious to have his
children enjoy every benefit which
freedom brings in its train, and ID
ready to make sacrifices that they may
have an opportunity to acquire an edu'
cStion.
CHRISTMAS AMONG THE DARKIEs.
When we drove into the city or
"Sat'day fore Christmas" It was un
dergoing an American invasion, the
streets were literally blocked up will
negroes. Some of these were in
holiday attire, but most wore their
working.day clothes profusely orna
mented with flakes of cotton. They
were going up and down the streets
munching ginger cakes and apples, ant
o happier looking set of mortals
never beheld. What the eager ad
venturers of the fifteenth oentur,
could not ffnd-the fountain of per
pstual youth-seems to be In posses
sion of the negro. He never grow
old; he Is always q child; at least thi
Is what I think az I watch him O.
gloriously happy in his patched clothes
SO perfectly contented, provided he
supplied with q paper bag full of nuts
apples or COOLERS. In watching
crowds of white people I have grown
heartsiok at sight Of their troubled
care.worn faces, but these are not seel
among the negroes. The striking thin
about . crowd of black people Is tn
care. free expression of their counter
anoe-their air Of easy good nature
/ was amused by Watching one ma
WIN had Deposited at his side the bun
I die which he had tied up In his Grim
son handkerchief; his garb was uniqu
IAN ulster rudely fashioned out Of
striped jacket. He was just "waitir
fur de res OBJ de squad to git derselve
togedder," he said, and In the mean
time had stationed himself in the sun
with his back against q brick wall
and was delighting his inmost sou
by the music Of o j~ewsharp. Fort,
years had passed lightly over his head
but his capacity for the enjoyment o
his own music was as intense as tina
of the small boy for the duloet note
of a tin bugle.
"DAt's my wagon an team," h
said, pointing to q small vehicle, t.
which were hitohed q very small null
and q very large, broad.horned Texs
OK.
One glance at the wagons and team
!; Of the negro planters and farmers |
sufficient to convince q close observe
Of the shiftlessness and improvidenc
of the "brother In black" Perhsp
much of the responsibility for the OK
cess of these features In the negr
character IL due to slavery, for, O
course, slaves could never have tn
"sweet sense of providing" but it i
certain, too, that the centuries whiol
stretch behind the dusky inhAbitant
Of the south have q powerful i%pluenc
on bic present.
Horsford's AcidIP Phosphate as n Re
f~rigerant Drink In Fevers.
DIR. q. 8. DAVIS, Meriden, Conn.