The Washington bee., 1888-01-28
JOE BUNKERS BUDGET.
MORTGAGED BY THE BEE.

i'm my peregrinations in and
about the several large buildings
which my uncle owns in Washing
ton, frequently come in contact
with a colored messenger in the
Laud Office, who is endowed
saturated is better word, with a
liberal amount of something he
calls grace Whatever that is and it
is really remarkably how this pious
cuSs whom my uncle has kept in
his employ for nearly dozen
years has learned to play the by.
pocrite and to fawn and toady to
some of&he lean and hungry look
ing white help uncle hires. Every
time l sec this addle pated colored
man I feel the greatest sympathy
for him and his kind, and Think
often and bitterly of what Mrs.
Rale's Polydore says when the eff
fort is made to give him his free
dom and make a man OF him.
"Shuh niggers a niger and he
cyarnt be muffin else" [ saw this
colored messenger a few days ago,
do to one of his own race what he
would not have dared do to the
meanest and poorest white man,
the person referred to had called
to see the commissioner Of
and bore a letter of introduction
from a certain member of Congress
arriving at the Commissioners
door he presented his card to the
messenger who took it scanned it
minutely and then made a mental
photograph Of the gentleman who
handed him the pasteboard and
said "well sir, the Commissioner
is pretty busy just now with some
gentleman" After delivering him
self thus he resumed his seat at a
table and commenced wasting gov
ernment paper by scrawling his
patronymic all over it, "The col
ored man. sat down to wait for the
"gentlemen" to come out, they
came out in about ten or fifteen
minutes, and their places were fill
ed by other ''gentleman" whom
this negro messenger and lackey
ran a head of to open the door for
aud bow them into the august
presence of an OverSeer, called
commissioner. Uncle hires to look
after a certain branch of his bust,
NJ SIS, thus these white gentleman
kept coming and going every if-
teen or twenty minutes, while the
colored MANS card lay on the desk
Of the messenger, who presently
condescended to go over where he
sat and say to him that s'just as
soon as them gentlemens comes
out I'll try to git you in, the Com
missioner is very busy this mawn-
ing" Them gentlemens finally
came out and were not long out be-
fore others were shown in by the
"intelligent darky" as he is styled
by certain southern member of
the Honse. Twelve o'clock came
and the colored man still sat pa
tiently waiting to see if this ''intel-
ligent darky' intended to present
his card Ito his overseer. At last
the supreme moment came, the
card was presented the mess enger
all smiles invited the sscolored
man" in.
After be got in and was seated
the messenger remembered that
the fires were low and that there
were certain bits of paper on the
carpet that didn't look nice, &c.
After hearing enough to convince
him that the ''colored man. had
not called to press his claims for
the place he is filling so discredi-
tably and disgustingly he lit out
and stayed out until the overseer
whistled for him to bring on the
next victim. "Shuh a Niggers a
Niger aad he cyarnt be muffin
| else."
If you ever should 60 to New
York city and want to enjoy true
southern hospitality with buck
wheat cakes lasses, aud coffee,
such as your mother used to have
On Buckwheat day home, let me
commend house No. $50 ". 37th
ST., as the place above all others
where you may rest your weary
bones satisfactorily and make the
inner man feel moustl Gus comforta.
BILE and happy.
| see young Beale late of the
q. S. Pension Office has opened at