The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-06-10
COLORED ORATORY.

A young lady of Morris county, N.
| j., who is visiting in Southern State,
| sends us an address delived by a negro
! teacher in one of the small Southern
! schools of the vicinity where she is
visiting. 1t was delivered at Christ
| mas tree entertainment and the orator
endeavored to pay Il eulOgy to some
| Northern ladies who have worked q
great deal among the colored people,
and with aid from their friends erected
| the building which he refers to- The
man teaches in different neighbor-
hood from that in which he delivered
the grafton, which was as follows ::
'Friends;-Itis but natural for me
| to feel my own self Importance, and
self insufficiency ON this momentous
and direful occasion, but as | seldom
have resource to the high absurdity
of apologizing, l shall continue to
proceed, notwithstanding do not feel
| myself absolutely tantamount to the
! task you have imposed upon me.
We have met, fellow friends, on this
| delightful and desecrated spot for the
sublime purpose of amusing our Sun
day school scholars and fellow workers
in the cause. -.s.
Fellow friends feel my want of
that hypocritical learning so necessary
to complete disembodiment of my ex-
aggerated imagination. Let US now,
with the deepest toned energies of the
heart, take d transient survey of the
| many communicating causes which led
to the masculine erection of this build
ing yea, cause which caused dia-
bolical amputation of one of the most
transcendent of the Northern States
coming South, seeing the need of the
colored race, using all coercive meas
ures to better their conditions. A
Christian brother of the South who
gave the spot for the erection of this
building for the welfare of the colored
race. Let us then in prolixly brief
way, glance at, or rather anticipate
some of the ostensible causes which
gave rise to this mighty work which
teaches the heart as we'll as the brain
from the nethermost depths of con-
temptibility the most dignified ladies
the world has ever saw, ladies whose
characters are particularly and unin
tentionally stamped upon the ever in
Vulnerable lists of fame where they
must ever stand, highly ridiculous
and venerable, far above the reach of
the most copious mind that ever
exaggerated in the ethereal blue.
GRATITUDE.
Gratitude is not common virtue,
but it sometimes induces the making
of handsome requests. An old lady
left $50, 900 to a gentleman for no other
reason than because he once held her
pew door open. Charles Reade, James
Payn, Upper, and several other writ
arc IraIa haap han1snmaIIr ra,nam har-
ed in the wills of admiring readers
Very thoughtful was the man who
left a large sum of money to his neph-
ew, on condition that he would get
married in six months, and not be a
miserable old bachelor, like his uncle
The question is sometimes asked
whether women are or are not meaner
than men. Some say they are less
generous in giving tips to servants
and others. If this be the case (Which
is doubtful,) perhaps the reason is be-
cause the money they have generally
belongs to some one else, and they ale
too conscientious in the management
of it to be generous at another's ex-
pense Men appear to be more gener-
Gus because they have generally more
money to spend, and certainly few wo-
men would have recompensed a ser
vice as shabbily as a man did in the
following instances:
Having been rescued from drown
ing by a sailor, he presented the latter
with the magnificent reward of one
shilling As the man was known to be
rich, indignant murmurs arose from
the crowd who had witnessed the res
cue. Among them was the poet
Burns, who said, my friends, the
gentleman must know his own value
better than we do"
A poor woman, on seeing the sea for
the first time, exclaimed, at is grand
to see something of which there is
enough for everybody"