The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-01
accept it. The letter runs as fol-

accept it. The letter runs as fol-
lows.
We came by way of st. Louis, and
covered Missouri, part of Illinois and
the whole of Kentucky.
l was rather disappointed in the
looks of the sunny south so far as 1
have seen it. Kentucky, seen from
our car windows, seemed very much
like Missouri; unkempt and uninter-
eSting, the towns are small, poverty
striker and dirty. at the stations the
people are sunburned, sad and stOlid
creatures; men chewed tobacco, WO-
men wore sunbOnnets and negroes
were plentiful, ragged and dirty. To
bacco warehouses, were conspicuous in
every place we passed through, miles
and miles of swampy roads, and sell
dom saw well kept and prosperous
looking farm. 1t is quite possible the
railroad passes through the worst part
of the country. 1t often does. Nash
vile is beautifully situated on the
Cumberland river and has popula-
ton of loo, 900 people.
Yesterday we went to the largest
church here, Methodist one. The
minister was an invited guest of the
one in charge, and much to my sur
prise he gave a fine liberal sermon.
| have been told that they are
very old fashioned in religious matters
in the south, maintaining strict ortho-
doXY. a Unitarian church does not
exist here. Imagine my surprise then,
to hear this sermon. But, as / say,
the man was stranger, and / don't
think his discourse was relished by the
congregation. There was no respon-
sive faces around me. His one
thought was, Religion is a simple
thing. Follow the truth as it is re-
vealed to each soul, and initiate
Christi He was odd and "Beecbery"
in some of his illustrations and eX-
pressions. ''If You think heaven is
going to be recruited from the amen
corner of the M. Z. church alone, you
will be nightly mistaken. - We should
not make forms and ceremonies a part
of ourselves, but wear them as we do
our clothes, ready to lay them aside
for better ones when they are out
worn. If we wear them like we do
our skins, we are sure to become hide
bound, and a hide bound Christian
is no better than a parchment dried
the clip theory; the Baptist has the
dip theory; Presbyterians have the
grip theory; Episcopalians have the
tip theory; Methodists have the
hop and skip theory and they are all
apt to wear these theories like their
skins, TIL they become hide bound"
Much of his discourse was smooth and
eloquent, and think of his quoting
Emerson and Tennyson! A MethO-
dist minister in the south!
A ROSEATE FUTURE FOR THE NEGRO.
In the afternoon we took dummy
street car and went to the outskirts of
the city to pretty park six miles out.
Thousands of people were enjoying
the cool breeZeS under the trees in a
very quiet way. We saw no drunken
people all day. When we returned we
took another dummy line to see West
Nashville and the suburbs in another
direction The train this time had
two cars. one for whites and the other
for blacks. Several colored girls, well
dressed and quiet, got into the car we
were in, while we were waiting for the
time to start. The conductor told
them they must go in the next car.
| They left the train with indignant
| faces, and did not go at all. L dis
cussed this incident with southern
| woman who sat next me in the car.
Those girls ought not to have been
| allowed to enter the car, she said. l
asked her if the colored people often
demanded equal rights of this sort.
"Oh no, she said, las rule the ne
groes are right obedient.' ''They
know they have to be. - she added. So
| you see the color line is drawn sharply
| and is sometimes resented. We will
see more of this no doubt as the meet
| ings go on. The race question is the
question of our time believe. The
| blacks are increasing faster than the
whites. 1t is only a question of time
when they will outnumber the whites
two to one. They are sJrong and stur-
dy, they are being educated and have
the ballot. What is to hinder them
from having the power in their hands
some day? May 1 then be in some
convenient corner in the sky to look
down on the spectacle of black heels on
white necks. Cursed be Canaan
will do now, but it won't last forever.
| Well, Our trips to the parks showed
us the people of the middle south, Oh
rather the working people of "a south
ern city, taking a holiday. Tonight
after supper Mr.. Garfield and walked
to the state house and walked through
the grounds by moonlight. We
passed many solidly elegant houses
There is much wealth here. The cap.
ital is on hill over the city. II
seemed very massive and imposing tC
me tonight. Seen by daylight have
no doubt it would not look so fine, but
would appear dingy and uncared for
as everything else dose in the south.
had call from two southern womeI
| to-day, wives OF members OF the lOca
committee. The dialect, as given il
novels, is not at all exaggerated.
, rather like the soft voices. the invaria
BILE draWl and the absence of RS. an
infiicting this long letter on you to
night because my husband is late il
} coming IN and am waiting for him.
hope you will be able to wade through
it all. 1 have a Pickering light and /;
scratchy pen, both drawbacks to gooC
) letter writing.
1 am in a depressed state of mind
because / have Just finished dreadful
book, a novel by Florence +. Kelly
) whom my husband is interested in al
3 an eX-Student of the Kansas universe
ty, aud one he thought promising.
have read the book because of thi
! interest in her. Frances" is thu
: name OF it. 1t is weak and vile. N,
other word will do. L am ashamed
r and Disguised that Kansas woman
! should do this thing. What is thu
matter of the women noyeliStS nova
: days? 1t is as if they had discovered
! that indecency was in demand ant
r nothing else IN the literary market vii
! sell.
/ hope to see CraddOck's mountain
t eers and the Mammoth cave before g
: home. Yours affectionately,
FLoRENGE CANFIELD.
Suit Against the South Fork Fishing
, Club.
! PTTTSBURG. Penn, July ga sui
c has at last been entered against tn
: South Fork FISHING Climb for dama1a