The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-05-17

Well, Big John Underwood was aao,hef
character in his day He loved and mar
red an Indian Ktrl-one OF tho dana aAserD
Of e Cherokee chef aud he cnfertAznc@
none other than the p.oe. john Howard
Payne during his career rs a sort Of In
dian agent in the South have h.Ar&
Big John tell of the pncs's playing oa tlac
violin and singing his .ad song
Then Bill Arp described the other elass
of old Southern folks-the slave holding
a-istocracy. and told how all men loved
authority. Any man loves dominion ovsw
other men, and II he can't have men uu-
der hi4 dominion, he likes other things
4 niger loves dominion over 'possnn
dog.
''And so.- he eontinncd. there are
now two Glasses in the South-;hose who
have seen better days and those who
haven't. In the old time Georgia Whk
wolldnt speak To aSicorgia Democrat l
was q Democrat. and once came mighty
| near turning Wing, 10 get a little Whig
angel. But just as | got 10 the turning
point she turned Democrat. SO | got her
and saved my Democracy Al the same
time. That was dark time in the An,
household. Ny old father had invested IN
| some railroad stock. The stock kept 60
| ing down just when other financial tron
| bles set m SO one night the old gentle
man called Us all around him, and made
| the sad announcement that he could no
| longer be bloated bondholder, but be
must sell every share he had (which had
cost S10O piece for $25 to Judge Hutch
| ms. 1t was q sad occasion. But ] was
equal TO It, For | stepped forward and
| made the announcement that on the night
| before l had made little matrimonial ar
| rahgement with Judge Hutchins's daugh-
ter. SO the old gentleman got $25 a share
| for his stock, l sot the stock back for moth
ing and the Judges daughter to boot.
Well, the old aristocracy were great
people, and they had plenty Of servants.
Two servants for every white person was the
smallest number that good manners and
| good style allowed. There was the cook,
the head cook and the assistant cook, the
chamber maids and the nurses, the coach
man, the stable boy, tho wood chopper,
and body servant. Then came a whole
army of little niggers. You see it was a
white child was born the family was s5
| out, but pretty soon little niger would
| be born and that would be $100 i'll.
In those days we had fine old negro
stories | used to listen about ghosts and
! JACKIE lantern and other spirits until |
was afraid to 90 back into the big house
I never did get so l could pass grave
yard at night as easily as could go into bat
tie. l had to go by one when used to go
ACQUIRING: Mrs. Arp must have appre-
ciatcd my condition, for, though she made
me stay late, she always came out to the
door to see me we'll started. But to this
days she maintains that she used to hear me
running at-pat-pat-by that grave
yard.
Well, the good old times have changed.
The pendulum has swung the other way
Many of the rich aristocracy are now al
work-men and women-nobly at work
| have in mind one man who was an hon
Ored representative of his people at Con
gress; he was man of large wealth. O
! large influence and of fine culture. Fl,
now deals out a nickle's worth of soda il
, country store with as much grace as he
: dispensed his lordly hospitality in the OLE
, time. The sturdy middle class that didn'
|. have a good chance in the old days have
) now come to the front, and some of then
are doing mighty weIl-getting rich ant
; educating their daughters. Money is
II mighty big help in this world. A rich mai
= without culture manages to have q socia
, standing along with poor man with cul
ture-until his money goes, and then b
' goes.
. Money is mighty good thing in it
= way 1t is the last thing that adds +
|
i | mend that any fellow marry girl just be
cause she is poor People buy all sorts q
: things with money-nOt social positiO
r | merely, but their way into the church some
times This reminds me Of what French
man once told Mrs. Arp. He said he mus
o get into some of the churches, becans
2 they made him respectable while he live
e and would bury him when he died II
] ! asked the Episcopalians about their church
\ ode 'Piscopalians, they knew ov
o moneys haf put away and dey say on
hundred tollar it would cost a year. De
: | ask Presbyterians. Dey know also
tollar. Den de Methodist-dey say twer
i ty-fife tollar. De Baptist dey hear nothil
about me money. and dey come down I
: ten tollar, and jine de Baptist. '.'- --
I The trouble about making money sue
O denly is that when so made it don't last
!, big pile of surplus makes fool Of anybod
on short acquaintance know fello
!. | who got rich all at once and went trave
!. | ling At Washington he saw an Ostric
a egg, and thought it had been laid by a z
+ raffe There is another friend of min
+ ! who was once as poor-sO poor ! Now +
ID | lives in fine house IN Atlanta / we1
, to see him and he showed me his fine hbr;
i ry. and furniture. When we entered b
# elegant dinning room l said: This is III
4 ique' No. said he, ft is sideboard y
4 ''But don't know what will come Of ed,
1t eating our girls so highly at the expense
the boys l remember when the boys we
!. educated in preference. But it is q
m changed now. When these college ed
| | Gated girls come home with all their accon
"a plishments,- do you suppose they Will ma
ID ry the plain country boys? No that tn.
wont--that is, not just at first. They
D. wait for fine lawyer fellow to come alor
lll But he won't come, and after viii
% they'll marry the country boys and tai
1e the chances of educating them afterward
D. / can say this for the women, howeve
1e you never knew one that was miser
ID your life-not if there was MILNE
ID store in the neighborhood. This way
$, haVlhg 10 walt ana wait anu wait Tor nu
n bands may be a good ARRANGEMENT aft