The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-06-11
DARKIES HUSTLlNG.
ONE WAY OF MAKING THE EASY GO
ING NEGRO STIR HIMSELF.

Colored Folk Originated by New YORK
Tourists scrambiing for siiver-Div-
Ing Rr Grsenbacls.
A steamer was just leaving Charleston,
bound for Jacksonville, Fla. A stop Of
several hours at the famous old earth
quake city had made a pleasant break .
IN the three days run from New .
York. Many Of the passengers had |
taken advantage Of it to drive about the |
quaint old town, curiously observing the |
great cracks caused by the upheaval |
that still remains in many Of the build
inga Others took a sail over TO Fort
Moultrie or to Fort Sumter, where the
civil war was started. Perhaps the
most interesting point for the sightseers
who remained ashore was old st. Mich
aels church. Some of the more sturdy
climbed far up into the steeple, from
whence General Beauregard had
watched and directed the battle, until
the Yankee gunners had got the range
Of his observatory and put a cannon ball
right through the steeple, not far from
the generals head, when he discreetly
retired.
These passengers were so much inn
pressed with the historical associations
connected with the place that it was al
most relief when half hours diver
sion came to them. As the steamer was
moving away from her pier an ambitious
little tug that pulled and snorted and
footed enough for a couple Of ocean
liners missed its hold, and the big steam
ers bow drifted slowly around until she
lay broadside to the outer end of the
pier. Here she was held for awhile by
a stiff breeze that pinned her up against
the pier and by the mud that griped
her keel.
Perhaps it was the cheerful recOllec-
tion of past experiences which they
hoped to have repeated that caused all
the darkies, big and little, the six-year-
old pickaninny and the grayheaded,
stoop shouldered Renaissance of slavery
days to hurry down to the end of this
pier. There are few things that will
arouse the duslzy southerner who makes
his home along the river front, He is an
easy going, happy natured fellow, fond
OF Of laugh than he is Of work, who
finds his greatest content in doing
away in some sun sheltered nook upon
the wharf, resting to the full from the
arduous toll that he fancies he may be
called upon to perform in the week to
come.
They were of this class who came
trooping down to the steamer by the
dozen and score. A careful patching
into one suit of the attire of half of them
.wrr..fI have 10 haotafff1r1 3
garb for one. 1t is doubtful if the most
conscientious and painstaking cobbler
could have constructed a decent pair of
shoes out of the material he found upon
that pier.
However, it was diversion to the pas
sengers on the upper deck to see that mot
ley crowd, and when dumpy little fellow
with wonderful mouth, that must have
created great vacuum in the atmos-
phere every time he breathed, pranced
to the front and shouted, "Now, ladies
and gents, jes' you tro a dime at dis yere
hole, n if don ketch it she don count,
there were instantly three or four dimes
aimed at the "hole." But none of them
made a bullseye. l fancy the game
must have been played before, for the
instant the dimes flashed in the sunlight
a half dozen stalwart negroes leaped
upon the shoulders of the possessor OF
tho mouth and bore him to the ground.
Then there was a scramble! A Yale
Harvard football scrimmage is supposed
to contain as much of writhing, contor
tioning, muscular humanity as it is posi-
Bile to get into given space. But Yale
Harvard tangle would be a sort of kin
dergarten frolic in comparison. THAI
one scramble lasted more than ten min
utes. During that time the pile of dusky
humanity was ten feet high at least, ant
there were twoscore of wIithing form
in the heap, all struggling with despera
ton to get at the unfortunate fellow
down below who We're supposed to b.
clutching the dimes. I'll warrant tina
during that ten minutes there was al
individual waste of energy that woull
have kept the participants in food for {
week if otherwise directed.
But that was only the beginning, TIL,
sport became as exciting 10 the watcher
as TO those who took part Quarter
and half dollars began to shower upoi
the wharf, which was now thronge(
with an eager, dark faced multitude
whose eyes glistened. The most sobe
minded passenger caught the infection
and began TO feel around in his clothe
for silver. A well known Bellevue hos
pital physician, DIR. j. S. O'Neil, gather
ed together all the silver dollars tina
had been given him in change il
Charleston, and kept half dozei
heaps of darkies in turmoil at once,
The climax came as the steamer begal
slowly to move away from the pier
Some one waved two dollar bill am
asked who would dive for it, Il will!
came from two dozen throats, and ther
was general peeling of jackets-fror
those who were dudish enough to wea
jackets. The bill tiuttered on to tn
water ten feet from the pier. There wa
an anxious, hesitaung, regretful paus
and scratching of heads. Then ther
was a plunge, a few sturdy strokes by
young negro, and he clutched the bill
The passengers gave him a cheer an
the steamer sailed away.-New Yor
Herald
Like n Hero.
An English civil engineer, Mr.. Franci
ii, Grundy, relates what he calls "Th,
abort story Of an unknown hero" "Bill
the banker" he was called, and even Il
the inquest over his body no other nam
was forthcoming.
He was only poor NAVY; his usua
place was at the top of forming EN-
bankment, among the Tip wagons
During the building Of the Mancheste
and Leeds railway he was top man owe
shaft of one of the numerous tunnel
which were being constructed on tn
line
Here he met with a gloriously disas
trous accident, and his conduct should b
emblazoned in letters of gold upon tn
history Of his country. He was only
NAVY, ! say, and probably could neithe
read nor write.
The shaft was perhaps 200 feet deep
solid rock sides and bottom. His dut,
was TO raise the trucks which had beef
filled below and run them to the tip
returning them empty TO his mates a
the bottom. If chain broke, or a bil
oowlder fell OF the truck, he had L
shout, "Waur out' and the miners be
low orept farther into their drives
and allowed the death dealing article l.
come down harmlessly.
One unhappy day Bills foot slppe,
hopelessly, aud he knew that he must b
smashed from side 10 side of the marrow
shaft, and landed a crushed mass at tn
bottom. But his mates? II he screamel
the unusual noise would bring them ou
at once to inquire the cause.
He never lost his presence of mind
Clearly went down the signal, "Wau
out below and his mates heard il
safety the thud, thud, smash of hi