New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27

dcy mout DO some place in tho Census ion my young
mlssls She's dlsarvin but is too proud to ask ION
anything. Isc ben studyn' nigh yeah no" "ai'"'o
could get somethln' fob do mssus and when 90 mean
waah. sab, put you to my table jest sad' 40 h@"u
will PROVIDE
who IS the woman. wallace1" Mr.. Porter asked
"sho's de only chile Of my ole massa 10 dc wah
Massa was killed an msls an dc chile came MOTT "nen
dey los all Dey lib above Great Falls an doah tel
H. sab, but dcy's YER poah."
As Wallace finished some ono came up TO taik WIN
Mr.. Porter and the matter forgotten. Wallace
knew how to wait and It was not unh announcer rorT
night that he said hopefully
My young mlssis, sab. fohgot to say dat she YER
intellectual an do everything consciously"
wallace had the dagby's aptitude for sounding worus
and passed among his colleagues as that mysterious
Titan college graduate There was ludicrous
pcdantry about him that made ono think he must nave
been born a college graduate. 1t was his elect
destiny Mr. Porter received further condolences from
the honest fellow who could do what few white people
would do in this selfish world ask favor for some
one else before himself and, I'm this case, for the
daughter Of the under whom he had suffered
bondage
Promising to remember the "ycung missis,' MI
Porter left and might have forgotten her II IL had not
been for the faithful ever-watcbnl wallace Flhai'y
one saturday night he sad:
"Well Wallace / have something for your younS
mistress Tell her to come around to the Census
Bureau next week and there Will be some work for
her.
Later he learned from the lips Of the young missis'
that Wallace had walked fourteen miles through the
rain that saturday night after HIS work done to tell
her the good news Of her appointment She had moi
known that he seeking the place for her, although
for some weeks he had remarked mystenously " de
Lawd am prOvidln'"
II have met in my day and generation some pretty
tough subjects 10 interview" said prominent Wash
ington correspondents bur the hardest met
IN the interviewing line when he in the humOr
for II was General sherman. In the summer Of 1881,
when Garfield dying General Sherman was stop
ping for a few hours in Western city where ! was
a reporter I was ordered to get a column interview
with him at least | found the General I'm his room,
and after few Introductory remarks, asked:
"'What IS the object of your visit here, General, at
this time"
al don't know that Is any of your business.
"'Whcre do you go to from here, GeneralP
"'About my business, sir
"'What Is your opinion of the medical treatment to
which President Garfield is being subjecteap
"'If you wish to know anything that point, write
TO Or. Bliss; am not medical expert
And the interview continued. NY questions
were pointed Ones TO be sure. but not more pointed
than the Generals replies. l should have withdrawn
from the room at very early stage Of the proceedings
had not observed merry twinkle in the old warriors
eyes, while / also noticed that his companions
nearly suifocang in their attempts TO control their
evidently mirhful feelings. | saw then that the
General was trying to bluff and was determined
not to be buffcd. The next day the paper came out
with the inlcrvcw just It occurred and It created
a good deal of amusement, which, subsequently
Informed, the General secretly chucklcd over in a
very sef-satisfed manner"