The Progress., 1893-04-15
NYRNA'S REALM.
WEEKLY CHIT-CHAT,

~ ,ions and find on this bright. new
e mare. a nice little sancium all any
eve own. nj j1j Market street lifted mp
bv nv ever kind and thoughtful Chief,
-.,h the most comfortable of editorial
,oirs A." convenient desk. aud everything
anduciye to bright new ideas, which 1
INC will come to me as easily as all
,hsse appreciated comforts.
s,;1l another comfort is to have Uncle
nan - the veteran Foreman of North
louisiana TO defend us from the "mur-
Sars" our copy has so often suffer
"A He warninZly Informed me
mat for - years he had al
,vavs "bossed" the work Of the Off e. As
INV sanctum is proof against the devil
4 hope nv Iri.h will stay where it prop
o,,v belongs aud not afford Uncle Ben"
new experience after so many years of
undisturbed "bossism."
VI
In last weeks issue our Chief proved
that his moral courage is quite rs true
and strong as his physical courage. by
acknowledging, in a very graceful com-
nIiment TO Miss Mary Land of the Louis
lana Review, that women are as capable
a men in the journalistic field. Miss
Land is Shreveport girl--we have
known and loyed her since childhood,
and though she has for the past five or
six years bestowed her wealth of woman
ly graces of heart aud mind upon sister
community, Shreveport will ever proudly
reserve the right to call her Daughter" 4"
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A friend sent US the following excerpt
with the marginal qIcstIon-Can any of
your old darkies beat this?
In telling the story of MON Cely's
Wonderful Luck" in The Atlantic Month
ly for March, Mrs. Bellamy gives this re-
alstlc sketch of the Oldest darlley yet
heard from:
Nom Cely is very old wOman-so old
that she caunOt estimate her age exactly,
but she can distinctly remember hearing
the big cannon fired when Christopher
Columbus first came to this country.
The white folks had but one cannon at
that time, Nom Cely says, aud it burst
In honor of the great navigator's arrival,
and the noise of II so scared the Indians
that they never came back from beyond
the Mississippi except "a scatterin'
few." Ifinquired of concerning George
washipggton. Nom Cely truthfully ac-
knowledges that she never saw him,
though she was "raised" in Virginia; but
she affirms that she has heard of him
many time. when he was no more than
a baby, and she herself Jest about
growed." "He hacked his paws cherry
tree. Imind, she comments; "an' hukkom
dee let de chile meddle wild IA hatchet Ia
lax ter know? S'poslu' he'd ha' chopped
his feet, an diet - lockiaw spasms,
whey'd ha' been dis country DEM"
The contemporaries Of Christopher
Columbus and George Washington being
dead and gone, nobody undertakes to
dispute Nom Cely's chronology; aud in
deed her appearance is conyincingly sug
gestive of a fabulous age, so small. so
black, so wizened is she, with a little tuft
OF snowy white hair standing out over
each temple from under the many color
ed bandana that binds her brows.
Nom Cely is certainly ahead of all my
acquaintance In age and exaggerations,
but heard of n darkey in Minden who
can ''beat this" for natural wit. He is
mulatto, and like all of his peculiar
soade, is ever ready 60 poke fun at the
deeper shade OF Others of his race. One
day at noon, when be aud "A coal black
Ing their dinner, the latt-r picked up a
clear glass bottle of milk aud emptied IL
at one draught. The mulatto watched
the milk disappear with IA longing eX-
preston and, when il was all gone, said
"Humph! If dat aint turnin' light in ter
darkness, never seed IT,"
ut
Through the courtesy of an IN. ID ,
friend enjoyed reading in the New Or
leans Medical and Surgical Journal re-
sumo Of the Shreveport Charity Hospital,
ably written by DIR. A. A. Lyon, of our
city. The review begins ut the inausu-
ration Of the hospital by Drs. w. III. Will
Hams, J. 5. Cutliff and ID. NJ. CLAY. is car
ried progressively through the many diff
hculties that have retarded the noble aim
oil its founders. and ends with deserv-
ed tribute 10 the capable and practical
management of to day, while still laboriug
under financial restrictions. Among
those who begun their noble profession
as resident students of the hospital are
mentioned Drs. II. G. Coty, w. L. Egan
Randell Hunt aud :. III. Hicks, "all busy
Practitioners" of Shreveport, and DIR. J
N. Billiu, (son of DIR. ID. ii. Billiu of thi,
city,, now of New York City, all of Who'll
have made successful physicians, right
at home.a feat that true worth alone car
accomplish. Drs. I. G. Ford. w. w. Ash
ton, ID. NJ. Clay and ]. w. Allen hav,
successfully held the responsible position
OF surgeon in charge, and filed the chaii
with credit TO themselves and honor tt
The profession. The present incumbent
Dr. J. w. Allen. is filling his secopd term