The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-07
NOTES FROM BILL NYE
The Race Question Not Bother
ing the South Much.
TIE SIR KNIGHTS TOURNAMENT.
Bill Gives Away His Tan Shoes ana DE
cycle Hose, and His Kind ACT
II Misinterprcted.

Buck SHOALS. n. c., Aug. 4.-lSpecial
Correspondence. Times here are quiet
but the weather has been cool and deiight-
full in the Western North Carolina noun
tains. and health-coarse, rudy heai'n-
may be seen on every hand.
Water was struck in my we'll in paying
quantities a short time since, and tomor-
row 1 will go down into it to wash OH the
powder stains and kalsomine same. l
shall put in pumping works in September
and lay a wire screen to keep the largest
of the children from falling into it and CIV
ing chalybeate taste to the water.
Berries have been very plenty this sea-
son, straw, black and whortle, at cents
per honest quart. They are very fine,
indeed, and grow in great pro-
fusion everywhere. never saw
country SO well provided with berries
and small fruits Everything in the way
of fruit and colored people grows almost
spontaneously here. One pickaninny
seems TO call for another, as heard man
saw in Buncombe county not long since.
And what are we to do with the race
problem at the South? Everywhere
hear that question, especially where there
are no colored people. Hence there seems
to be no more probability of race dlffl-
Guilty than there was when the first ship
ment of colored people was received from
the coast of Guinea. There are no strikes
where colored labor is employed. Wages
are very moderate, and while state mill
tia has to be called out now and then In
cities where there is no race question, the
South, with all her former woes, has had
very little trouble of that nature.
The colored man will yet prove no
doubt a blessing when new industries
open up in the South, and with his won
derfui powers of imitation and quickness
to learn ali sorts of manual work he Is
most assuredly a safer man to employ, II
he could nave the training, than hre
eating. disturbing, dynamiting outcast
from Europe.
hope | am saying nothing that may
weaken my social position, which IS now
the wonder and the delight CT all who
have examined it, but if some philan-
thropist like Mr.. Carnegie or Mr.. Gould
would start colored kindergarten for the
training of young colored men In the
trades, so that peaceful but dependent
race might have job, it would make the
disturbing element pay attention and be
great and good work applauded by God
and humanity.
There is little news here in our county,
except that it has not rained since began
this letter, and q neighbOr from TranSyl-
vania county, who agreed to supply US
with butter from last February until our
arid cows could again give milk, and who
has never been here since, just dropped in
to say that he had no more milk than he
needed himself, but would be glad to sup
ply us with frogs legs next spring.
The following article l take from the
Skyland Adrdnce, published at Skyland,
this state:
The other day as we were taking q walk, q
motherly blue hen sailed down upon with
her hair standing on end. We knocked her over
with a strip of bark and fred two stones at her
and she retreated and talked about IL the rest of
the day. She mistook US !or the editor of that
proof sheet affair, which has had to suspend
publication because they lost a letter 5, who she
could run all over town.
This shows that even in Skyland there
are chickering's and jealousies among Jour-
nalists unworthy the age in which we
live.
Will the class please parse the sentence,
''She mistook us for the editor of that
proof sheet affair. which has had to sus-
pend publication because they lost letter
s, who she could run all over town."
The following letter has been received
from Texas cowboy, whose name sup
pressed:
BEAUMONT, Tex, July 20
Mr. E. w. Eye:-My Dear Sir: l have friend
over Mt Beaumont WIN takes Il newspaper which
publishe, your most highly pleasing letters, and
he sometimes brings them out to the ranch for