The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-04
THEY TALK AND TALK.
And Bill Arp Is Tired OF Reading the
I Senator'S Speeches-Sorne Good Stories
Told by Lawyers-The Negro's Rea-
son for Stopping His Divorce
Case-Other Good
Stories.

CaSe-Other Good
Stories.
"And the king and Raman sat down
to drink, but the city Of Shushan was
perplexed." They seem to be having
big time at Washington, but the patti
ence of the people is about exhausted.
Their respect for that august assembly
known as the United States Senate has
changed into disgust. The argument
has been exhausted. All that is worth
saying has been said and the country
demands a vote. How long, oh, ye'
Catalines will ye abuse our patience?
We want no more speeches. We have
ceased to read them. They only make
confusion worse confounded. The peo-
pie feel very much like the drummers
did in Texas last fall. They made it
rule on every train that if drummer
dared to say Hogg or Clark they would
put him off at the first station. They
did put one off at Palestine, but learned
afterwards that he was going to stop
i there anyhow. For PHYS sake do let
us have q rest-vote and be done with
| it. We don't care much now how you
vote, but do something and stop this
everlasting fuss. Silver and gold and
bimetallism and single standard and
free coinage have been thrust into our
!! eyes and our ears until patriarch like
me is afraid to open newspaper or go
to town. I read about two men running
| for life over another man and the police
arrested them and asked them what
were they running for and they said
! that the other fellow was just back from
| Chicago and wanted to tell them about
the fair and they had heard it so often
they couldn't stand any more Of it.
Just so am ready to evacuate when
man begins with silver and gold to me.
| I had rather read about snakes or cy-
clones. DR.. Parkhurst, the great preach
er, is over in Switzerland climbing the
Matterhorn and the Weisshorn, and in
late letter says it is just glorious to
get away up $4,000 feet on Alpine
heights where no daily news of Tam
many .or heresy or bimetallism can
afflict you. envy him and would 60
there, too, if I could.
The other day travelled with Judge
Brown and Bill Glenn and General
Phillips, from Marietta to Atlanta and
not single word of politics was men-
toned. They are tired too. Judge Brown
cut his wit keenly all around and put
US in the cautious state. I didn't know
that he could be So delightfully."- sar-
castical. He got after Bill Glenn, but
tdidn't make much off him in the long
run. He told many anecdotes abou
how Glenn used to worry him when,
be was on the bench and how he al
| ways got even with him.
Their talk reminded me that few
| weeks ago I visited the >ordinary's
Office to find out how many marriage
licenses he had issued to white folks
tand how many to negroes in this coun-
| ty during the year. I wished to COM
pare the ratio according to population,
| and to my surprise r found that the;
negroes got married about like the
whites. 20 yes," said the ordinary,
''the negroes culinary the whites,
some Of them marry two ort three times
| a year. A negro will quit his wife in
Atlanta and come up here and get an
other one and call for his license and
get married and stick until she quits
him or he gets tired of her and then he
skips over to Rome or somewhere and
tries it again. They are very fond OF
getting married"
Colonel Stansell was sitting by and
said in very mournful, tone of voice.
| 'sthat is so major. I have a nigger's
note in my Office for s25 that he gave
me last fall to get divorce from his
wife. She had quit him and tuck up
with another niger, so brought the
suit, and just before the last court L
learned that he had gone to Chat
tanooga. I wrote to him to be sure and
come down to prove his case and be
wrote me back very promptly and said
| Colonel Stansell, since I bin to Chat
tanooga done found another 'oman
what pleases me mighty we'll and so
about that divorce bisness you can jes
| drap it."}>
I was reminded of this when Judge
Brown said I never saw my friend
Glenn so completely demoralized as he
| was in his divorce case Of Henry Brown,
negro, against Susan Brown, his
wife. The divorce was desertion and
| other bad conduct and Henry was put
| up as witness to prove it. The woman
| did not appear nor was shesrepresented,
and Glenn seemed to have very easy
going case. He proved all that he
wanted to by Henry and told him to
| come down. Now always sympathize
with women, white or black, IN divorce
cases, for it is generally the man who
is the rascal and so I thought I would
ask Henry question or two at random.
:'Hold on minute, Henry" said I,
"where is your wife now?" "She's at
my house, jedge," said he. "What is
she doing there" said I. "She's cook
ing and washing and picking cotton,
jedge." ""Are you living togetheras man
and wife," said I. "Oh, yes, jedge, in
course we is. After she lef me, she came
back and poligized and what else could
I do, jedge, but forgive her."
II looked at Glenn, and it seemed to
me be had shrunk up some and said
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