The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-17

the D0ys' garments, ana sne SAID she
wasn't ready for them to 60 yet. She
didn't want Sicily Mimms to go at all
nor Aunt Angelina Peacock, for when
she can't get one of them she can get the
other, and Angelina makes the best silver
cake in the world, and Sicily is the best
all l.round cook in the world, and jusI
goes along so quiet and gives her no
trouble. A plymouth draynau came tc
the back door for trunk this morning
and walked big into the kitchen and took
his tobacco out of his mouth and took
drink out of the kitchen dipper, and
Mrs. Arp saw him just in time and used
language on him-language, nouns and
adjectives and intelections. III bet he
don't come here any more. Mrs. Sicily
Mimms says its just such impudent mig.
gers as him what gets up all the fuss,
The other night my wife and were com.
ing home from church and overlook a
dude darky, who had the arm clutch on
his girl, and they crept along at a lovers
pace, which is about half mile an
hour, and the sidewalk was very narrow
with deep ditch on one side, and they
wouldn't let US by nor turn out, but just
spread themselves out in an aggravating
way, and we had to creep along until we
got cross street and my wife says it made
her SO mad that the preaching didn'tdo
her bit of good. There are some lazy,
trihiDg negroes about and they ought to
be vsgranted, and there are some white
folks who seem to think that it is ungen-
tlemanly to work. The funniest thing is
to see these educated negroes going about
with fans 10 their hands and umbrellas
raised on cloudy day when there is
neither sunshine nor shower. They are
trying to initiate the white folks and
just over do it a little-that's all. A
negro girl is as fond Of fnery as an
Indian is of beads. She will pick cotton
all the week in sun and strut around
under parasol on Sunday. She will
wear fashionable hat and high heel
shoes and black stockings ifshe has to
wash month to get them. That's after
the white folks, too, excepting the bad
taste of the stockings, for the women do
tell me that there ought to be pleasing
contrast bstween the color of the skin
and the color ofthe stockings, but as that
is matter that don't concern me, have
no opinion.
But like the negro. / was raised
with him and know him, and know how
to get along with him, and Ihaveno fears
of trouble if Sherman & Co. will let US
alone. They haven't as many big sins
to answer for as the white race, for money
is at the bottom of mos all iniquity, and
as the negro hasn't got much of that nor
much love for it, he doesn't do as much
big deyilment. he will steal and get
into the chain.gaug, but he is very gen.
erous stealer. have known him to steal
watermelons from Nabor Freeman and
bring them to my cabins and get my
children to go.out and help eat them.
John Thomas would steal a melon for
Carl in minute; for in the first place
he loved to steal, and in the next place
beloved Carl, but he was the best negro
ever saw except my Tip-Tippecanoe,
who was named for old General Harri-
son, and the President ought to do some-
thing for him right now, for reckon he
is the only living darky who was named
for his grandfather. A stingy negro is
rarity, but stingy white man is a very
common institution.
was talking to Guss Bates about that
and he said it was race Trait of the
white folks-sel6shuesa and coyetousness
and they couldn't help it, said he.
zone time l had nabor, who was SO
stingy he wouldn't dig fish bait on his
own land. He came to my house one
day for basket of peaches and helped
him pick the basket full and then 1 asked
him ifhis orchard had failed to hit and
he said no, be had right smart, but was
feeding them to his hogs. I told a friend
about it and he said, why Of course, I've
known Jack ever since he vas boy,
and he used to make fuss and cry
if his mother did't give him his full share
of caster oil when she was dosing the
children for the sum mer complaint"
But we will wait little longer on
this negro business. ! was in Macon,
Mississippi, last year, where there are
thirty thousand negroes and six thousand
whites in the county, and they we're get.
ting along in peace, and I reckon the
rest Of US can. At all events, let US
keep pegging away on that line-sher-
man or no Sherman. We are going to
! attend to our own domestic affairs as
long as ne have any domestic.
BILL ARP.
.s.9The fund for the soldiers graves
| is getting along pretty we'll. Governor
Bullock has sent me fifty dollars. /
received dollar from Nova Scotia from
Rome boy, which shows how strong
patriotism is. The further off'a man
goes the more he loves his native land
and her people and the bones of her
dead. A poor, uneducated woman from
Senoia sends a dollar aud says: "Please
fix up won soldiers grave for me. If
you receive this Please name it in the
paper, as I Am not posevt About your
Address" Poor woman-good woman
She did what she could and that money
came hard, but it came free. Marx
Hardin says: "Get marblehead stones
Georgia marble-and draw on me fol
FIVE dollars more" I am going to dc
that if the money comes. 1t will double