The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-18

A DREAM OF THE FUTURE.
same. shall put in pumping works In
September and lay q wire screen to keep
the largest of the children from falling
into it and giving chalybeate taste to
the water.
Berries have been very plenty this
season, straw, black and whortle, at
five cents per honest quart. They are
very fine indeed, and grow in great
profusion everywhere. never saw a
country SO well provided with berries
and small fruits. Everything in che
way Of fruit and colored people grows
almost spontaneously here. One picka-
ninny seems to call for another, us /
heard man say 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
difficulty than there was when the first
Shipment 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 a
state militia 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 blessing when new Industries
open up in the south, and with his won
derful powers of imitation and quick
ness to learn all sorts of manual work
he is most assuredly safer man to en-
ploy, if he could have the training, than
fire eating, disturbing, dynamiting out
cast from Europe.
hope L am saying nothing that NAV
weaken my social position, which is now
the wonder and the delight of 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
tho trades, so that peaceful but de-
pendent race might have job, it would
make the disturbing clement pay atten-
tlon and be great and good work ap-
plauded by God and humanity.
There is little news here in our coun-
ty. except that it has not rained since !
began this letter, and neighbor from
Iransylvania county, who agreed to sup
ply us with butter from last February
until our arid COW should again give milk,
and who has never been here since, lust
dropped i'll to say that he had no more
milk than he needed himself, but would
be glad to supply us with frogs legs
next spring.
The following item take from the
Skyland Advance. published at Skyland,
this state:
Tho other day rs we were taking n walk. n
motherly blue hen sailed down upon us with
her hair standing ON end. Wo knocked her
over with strip of bark and fired two stones
at her and she retreated and talked about It
editor OF that proof sheet affair, which has had
TO suspend publication because they lost a let
ters. who she could run all over town.
This shows that even in Skyland there
are chickering's and jealousies among
journalists unworthy the age in which
we live.
Will the class please parse the SEN
tence, "She mistook us for the editor of
that proof sheet affair, which has had to
suspend publication because they lost a
letter S. who she could run all over
town.
The following letter has been received
from Texas cowboy, whose name il
suppressed:
Mr.. f. w. Nyc: -
MY DEAR STR-I have friend over at Beau
mont who take newspaper which publishes
your most highly pleasing letters. and he some
times brings them out to the ranch for we fell
lows to read, and wo have q regular mple-bray
laugh when VIC look at your pictures and read
about your chickens and your ,peU and your
farming and your neighbors. We imagine you
arc quito a nice and polished gentleman and
would like to have you visit us. that Ia IL you
ever leave home. Our ranch Is on Alligator
Bayou. and we boys have had n great deaf of
fun this Spring branding and marking our
stock. which consist OF cvtrS horses, mules and
their descendants; and as We are about through
for this season. and a. II has been tho custom
for two OF US To get n leaf of absence each sum
mer, and as this Is tho summer fur Jim Rake
straw and me would like TO know of Won.
II your part of she country Is summer resort
and II go. how should q cowboy dress TO come
among you. and further moro would IL ho In
Keeping with propricty, should come, if you
said So to bring my spurs md riding habit
Qurt. saddle and lassoc. and show those TAR
HEELS what n native TcIdsdn II and what hc
can do with u hor3o.
am to BIO married this fall. that f., we have
agreed to do SO, but II you should think VIC
rpnld enjoy tho month OF August pp there
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