Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-06-27

who would 60 there to listen to them.
because they we've asking for something
more than the issue of the war promised
at that time, but everything that these
old fellows asked in their prayers csme
about afterwards, and it is out of those
results that this incident Ina telling you
about came to q conclusion. We camp.
ed one day near little town called Red
Bank, on the Kanawha and after our
coffee had been prepared we found
that we hadn't q spoonful of sugar in
camp. There were lot of negro cabins
over on the hillside opposite our camp.
and agreed to 60 over and try to get
some sugar from the negroes. There
was about thirteen cents in money in
the whole camp, but took that and
started over with tin can to get the
sugar, I entered one of the cabins and
found buxom negro woman with two
little pickaninnies hanging to her insey
dress. They drew off into q corner of
the cabin, half frightened when I went
in, but told them that they needn't be
afraid; that only wanted to get some
sugar, and that had the money to pay
for it,
"'I'se kindly feared o. you 'uns,' said
the negro woman; 'mastah told me not
to have anything to do with you Yam
KEGS, cause you'se gwine to take us off to
Cuby and sell us to get money to carry
on the wah.'
"'My good woman 1 said to her, Civ.
ing her little barney, because wanted
the sugar, you don't understand what
this war is about. We Yankees are fight
ing for you, and if this war comes out
the way We want it to, you will be free,
and you won't have any master, and will
have all the rights that white people
have. Your little boy there will be cent
to school, and he will have just as coed a
chance to become governor of Virginia
as any white boy
"'Fo' de Lord, you don't say SOL" she
exclaimed.
Il went on 10 tell her then about how
the. black people were just as good as the
white, and how they wolld be benefited
if we were victorious. Before I quit
talking she brought out an old can and
gave me what sugar I wanted. She
didn't want to take the money, but 1
told her that she'd better, and she &C.
copied it. 1t was only an incident of
the day, and after l told the boys in
camp how l got the sugar thought no
more about the matter. had forgotten
it entirely until about three years ago,
when was returning from the city hos
pital one night, when the car stopped
for an old negro woman with basket of
clothes. l was sitting near the door,
and helped her to lift the basket into
the car. She sat down beside me, and
remarked: Mighty cold tonight. Don't
have any such cold weather down whar'
ay ole home u.s.
"'Where was your ole homer in
quired.
"sAt the little town of Red Bank,
down on the Kanawha river, in Wes'
Virginia.
"Did you live in a little cabin, with a
well beside it. and opposite big white
house?' asked of her.
fright dar was whar l lived
"'And do you remember when the
Yankee soldiers camped over in the
meadow, near your cabin?'
"'Deed 1 do sir. I remember that
mighty we'll
"'Do you remember a young soldier
with brass horn strapped to his
shoulder and q small sword at his side,
coming over to your cabin to buy some
sugar.
AZ should say I do. remember dat
young man mighty well. He spoke the
first good words ever heard said about
the colored people. He told me that l
was to be free, and that my little boy
might be president some day. Why, he
gave me thirteen cents. l kept that
money every siuce for luck, and I've got
it right herer and the old woman drew
from her bosom a small, dirty purse,
from which she took the coins that
had given her twenty years before.
" Do you think you would know that
young fellow if you would ever see him
again?'
"'Deed 1 would. I'D know that
young nan the minute set eyes on
him.
"'Well, auntie, Pm that young man.
"'For de Lords sake, honeyP she ex-
claimed, and threw her arms about me-
1t was doubtless a funny scene to the
passengers in the car, but her demon
STATIONS made it little embarrassing
and trife unpleasant for me. l learn
ed afterwards that the woman's husband
was a carpenter here in the city, and
that they we're moderately prosperous"
Why her Lover Enlisted
The mystery of George s. Carter's dis
appearance last September, says an Tx
bridge, Mass, telegram to the New York
World, has been cleared up by the pub
licatiOn of q little love story with q 70.