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Career Of Fred Douglass.

| Frederick Douglass was born neal
Eaton, Md, about 1917. He was {
bright mulatto, and the son of s
slave mother. He lived in Balti
more after he was ten years of age
and secretly taught himself to read
and write. Endowed with great
natural, moral and intellectual
ability, he fled from slavery at the
age of twenty-one years, and after
going to New Bedford, married and
supported himself by day labor on
the wharves and In the workshops.
In 1911 he spoke at an an anti.
slavery convention at Nantucket,
and soon afterward was made the
agent Of the Massachusetts anti
slavery society. He lectured eX-
tensively in New England, and 60
ing to Great Britain, spoke in nearly
all the large towns in that country
on the subject of slavery. He was
an orator of magnetic power and
great elOquence and everywhere he
went in Europe and America at
tracted great attention.
On his return to the United States,
in 1917, he began the publication, at
Rochester, n. Y, of Frederick
Douglass Paper, weekly newspa-
per. Previous to this he had pub
lished his famous Autobiography,
which had an enormous circulation,
and did much toward the increase of
anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
During the war and since he was q
prominent figure, and has done more
than any individual of his race to-
ward the hetterment of the condi-
ton of the freedmen, by his writ
ings and lectures. In 1870 he be-
came editor of the National Era, of
Washington City, and in 1875 was
appointed marshal of the District of
Columbia. Since then he has served
as register of deeds in Washington.
Fred" Douglass, as he was IA
miliarly known throughout the
world, accumulated considerable
wealth and spent his declining years
in handsome home which he pur-
chased on the suburbs of Washing
ton, surrounded by an interesting
family. He was a tall, command
ing figure, and as he appeared in
public places in the capital city, his
distinguished appearance, which was
added to by his snow white hair and
beard, which he wore long, always
attracted attention. He was in
much demand on the lecture plat
form. In his death one of the most
eloquent voices in America has
been Sllenced.
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FIFTY PER CENT OFF.-Suitor {:
l called, sir, to ask the hand of
your daughter in marriage.
Her Pa: Is that all you want?
Suitor: Well-er-that's a mere
figure of speech. OF course sir, you
know what l mean.
Her Pa: Is that all you want?
You want the entire article. Well,
sir, you can probably give expert
testimony on the first point to be
considered--how much does she
weigh?
Suitor: You astonish me, sir! l
have never had any occasion to
Her Pa: Ascertain her weight
according to Fairbanks? Perhaps
not. But in the lapse of time dur
ing which you have been acquainted
you have certainly had opportunity
to guess her heft, SO to speak.
Suitor: Ahem! I--er--really
can't get the drift of your intentions.
but TO humor your mood l will put
her weight at about 130 pounds.
Her Pa: You've struck it to a
dot, sir. Now, then, one-half of
13O is 65. Gold, we'll say, is worth,
in round numbers, $3.50 a pound, Ga
times $3.50 is SIC, $50. There sir
when you can come to me with that
amount in coin of the realm l may
consider your proposition.
SuitOr: What! l never heard
anything so amazingly mercenary in
all my life.
Her Pa: Mercenary? Do you
cal! it mercenary for a man to dis.
pose of one of his possessions at one
half the investors estimate. Didn't
you tell my daughter last evening
that she was worth her weight in
gold? And haven't 1 fixed the terms
of transfer at 30 per cent. less than
your own figure? Surely, young
man, if you were sincere in your as
sessment of value, you must con
slider my conditions as incompara
lively liberal. Think it over, my
dear boy; think it over. Good
day!
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POETRY
YET, AM l OLD!

L never knew that | was old
Like truth in dreams that truth yet
seemed
Until the honest "photo" told
Me L was old
AS children turn from ghostly dark,
AS our hearts chill at barbarous tales,
We will not look, we will not bark,
Our age to mark,
We know our hope has broken wing,
WeknOw we shall not miss the world
But all is nothing to the sting
The old lines bring
Yet, after all, when once we bow
Submissive to the iron fact,
We find that life can, even now,
Enthrall, somehow!
Eyes that are kind o'erlook the gray
That shimmers on Our whitening
head;
Kisses from lips we love delay
Joys but day
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CHORUS:
Get out the way for Old Dan TucLor
GeC out the way for Old Dan Tucker
reI out the way for Old Dan Tucker
ou are too late to get your supper.
Daniel Tucker come to town.
ana rode yoke Of oxen down.
lie cracked his whip, and he cracked So
They thought twas thunder in the
clouds. '''
Daniel Tucker come to town
ana swallowed hOgshead Of moasses
down. ''''''
Inc hogshead swelled and then did bust.
ana ne went up in thunder gust.
The prettiest girl ever saw
Lived on the banks of the Arkansas
hose was nat and her face was full
ana on her head was ten pounds of
Old Dan Tucker was very clever feI.
low, '
Born on the roof, but died in the cellar
lie went to bed, but 'twant no use
His foot stuck out for a chicken roost
Old Dan Tucker. he got drunk:
He fell in the fire and kicked up n
chunk
a red-hot coal got in his shoe,
And the way he made the ashes flew!
Inc owl In the wood III the hollow tree
Poked his snOut out for to see:
The lizard got him by the Snout.
And he hollered for Tucker to pull HIM
out.
Daniel Tucker climbed tree
His lord and marster for to see:
The limb did broke and Tucker did fall.
And he never seed his Lord at all.
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NUMBER ~.

He CAUGHT ON.-Rev. Wea-
ryum: Mr.. Organist, have gotten
the idea that it would impart addi-
tional impressiveness to the striking
passages OF my sermons if you
would introduce at such intervals as
your Judgments suggests, pianissimo
performances of something in accord
with the sentiment. Could YOU
think up something appropriate?
Organist: Certainly, and if you
will excuse my frankness, l will
venture to suggest that "they're all
nodding, mid, mid nodding" would
fill the bill every time.
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Respect Due TO SuperiOrs.

A very solemn looking colored
man, who appeared to be sixty years
old, with his bald head and gray
eyebrows, was sweeping the steps of
the Courthouse when chunky chap
of his color, dressed in check suit
and carrying cane, came around the
corner and was passing down the
street when the old man hailed him
with:
"Heah, yo' pusson cum back
heah !"
"What you want?" asked the
chunky man as he returned.
"Hain't y'r name Johnsing?"
Dats my cognomen, sah."
"Cum down heah bout a month
ago from Atlanta?"
eyes, sah."
Head waitah ober to de Bram-
bic House, hain't yo'?"
Eyes, sab, 1 dun occupies dat oc-
cupashun. What does yo' want
sab ?"
"What does 1 want? Does yo'
know what buildin' dis amp"
/" It's de cote house, l reckon"
Yes, sab, it's de cote house, whar
all de law bIzneSs am transacted. I.
Does yo' know who 1 amp"
"No, sah."
"Does yo' understand de posishun
dun occupies aroun' heah ?"
"NO, sah."
"Well, sab, 1 wants to adventuate
few remarks for y'r benefit. My
name are Green, an allus spelled
wild big g."
Yes, sah."
While Pee technically de jani-
tor of dis cote house, I'ze a sort of
assistant to all de judges"
4" see, but what has dat got to do
wild me?"
"What has dat got to do wild yo' I?
1t has got heap to do wild yo', sab {!
Fur instance, eff | should go upstairs
to Jedge Gillian, an tell him dar
was a sawed off, one story nigger in
dis town who was swellin' aroun'
an passin' dis cote house widout
speakin' to me, wha' Ambiguous dis
observashuns do yO' imagine he
would fling out?"
He couldn't do muffin ?" replied
the chunky man, though evidently
somewhat alarmed.
He couldn't! PussOn, doan' yo'
deceive yo'self! He would say to
me he would: William, yo' keep
yO'r eye on dat aforesaid nigger.
De next time he passes yo' widout
bowin' I'll hev de Sheriff bring him
in heah, an We'll try him fur ali
mony an send him up fur five
y'arsn Dat's what he would say,
sab, an you'd quit yo'r swellin'
around mighty sudden!''
"MIsser Green, kin l spoke to
yo'?" humbly asked the chunky
man.
Eyes, sah."
"Den l should like to say day dat
OWN to my precarious hurry to
cotch de depot 1 didn't perceive
yO'r presence"
"Den it's all right-all right, Mis-.
ser Johnsing. Not dat l keer about
bein' perceived, yo' know, but it's
fur yO'r own benefit. In de fucher,
when yO' pass dis cote house am see
me aroun' heah, it will be jist as
well if yo' articulate de prognostica
shun an recognize my existence"
M OTAn
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THE intellectual young lady looked
over her glasses at the average
young man and asked suddenly,
" How old would you take me to
be?" The average young man
fell into train of thought. -
WONDER" said he to himself
" whether she wants to be rated five
years younger on the score of her
looks or five years older on account
OF her brains? Darn these advanced
women anyhow -
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81 HAVE come to ask for your
hand, Miss Judson," said Perkins ia
the Business Girl of the period.
Well, Pm very sorry, Mr.. Perk.
ms; but 1t is already taken. Mr.
Wiltenberry called last evening and
1 gave him the refusal of it for ter
days." replied the fair one. off he
decides not to take II permanently,
shall be pleased to have you renew
your Offer"
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WHAT SHE kNEw.-Here are a
few questions Led by real woman
at ball game one day last summer ::
" Does the umpire play on our side
of the game or on theirs ?"
How many 'outs' does it take to
win the game?"
When man comes in, does it
count for them or for us ?"
When a man runs clear around
without stopping, that counts him
out, and he can't play any more,
doesn't it?D
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with you the worst way.' And
with twinkle in her eye and she
aided: And he surely did,"
Lincoln's dancing, it may we'll he
imagined, was not the niece de no.
S'SSdhce OF his accomplishments.
Mr.. stanton, who was Secretary
OF War, used to tell how she took
tne WIND out Of his sails once,
"hen Early's Division was an.
proachlng and firing on Fort Ste
'ens, the fort was not very well pro-
tected, as history knows, and the
president and wife drove out there
one afternoon. Mrs. Lincoln was
very interested, and went out on the
ramparts to view the situation. She
was in full view of the Confeder.
ates, her skirts blowing to the wind,
ana her whole attitude absolutely
intrepid. AS soon as Mr.. Lincoln
realized her dangerous position, he
at once made her come down. La.
ter, when Fort Stevens had been
captured, Secretary Stanton, whom
Mrs. Lincoln accused of not provid-
ing sufficient forces at this fortifica-
ton, said: "Mrs. Lincoln, l want
picture of you standing on the
ramparts reviewing the Confederate
troops"
That is all right" she quickly
retorted; elf you had placed a few
more old women like myself there,
you wouldn't have been conquered. -
SOME OF MRS. LINCOLN's PECU-
LARITIES.
Was Mrs. Lincoln fond of enter
taining?" / asked Mr.. Carpenter.
mo. 1t was a remarkable fact
that she was less hospitable than any
previous mistress of the White
House. No one could ascertain the
reason of this"
She was eXtravagantly fond of
dress, and had more gowns than op-
portunities to wear them, consider
ing how little social life she allowed
herself. Chests were kept filled to
the brim with finery, if only in rolls
Of rich material that she might
some day make up. You remember
that after the assassination she came
to New York to dispose of her
clothes at auction, claiming that
Congress had not allowed her suffi-
cient appropriation.
She was devoted mother, fairly
idolizing her boy, 'Taddie' (Robert
Todd Lincoln.) The loss of their
son, Willie, was grief too deep for
the President or herself to refer to.
Mrs. Lincoln's personnel was very
pleasing. She was short, measured
by her tall, lanky husband, with
brown hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and
plump, round figure. She was
convert to spiritualism before her
death, and even during the admins
tratiOn held several seances with
noted mediums. Her latter years
were spent abroad, in an unhappy
state of health and with limited
means. Congress gave her a COM
Portable income, which was not al
ways wisely dispensed.
She was wretched and despairing
after Mr.. Lincoln's assassination. 1t
was a grief as uncomfortable as her
temper had been toward the man
she loved so we'll. Time had no
healing in his wings for her sorrow,
and she died broken hearted. She
had had no daughter, and her
mind, without any intimate woman
relative to confide in, brooded over
her grief until death came to relieve
her troubled spirit. t."--Harrydele
Hallmark, in Richmond Dispatch.
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TT Is THEIR Doodle
man: / have often been accused of
being an ASS, but that was only as q
joke; and yet, do you know, l often
wish / was an ass?
Flasher: For what reason, my
friend?
Doodleman: For the simple rea.
son that would then be relieved OF
all necessity for mental effort.
Flasher: How do you make that
out? Every ass has to do a certain
amount OF brayin' work.
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PARTING PANGs.---" Goodbye,
old friend; 1 am going to leave you.
am going to Mexico, and / will
probably never come back,n said
Gus De Smith to a friend.
{" Will l never see you again ?"
"Never."
EDO me one last favor. Lend me
S25."
"Oh, no; don't let us do anything
to increase the pangs of our part
ing"
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BIBLE TERMs.-A days journey
was about twenty-three and one-tifth
miles.
Ezekiel's reed was nearly eleven
feet.
A Sabbath days journey was
about an English mile.
A cubit was nearly twenty-five
inches.
A hands breadth is equal to three
and five-eighths inches.
A fingers breadth is equal to one
inch.
A Shekel of silver was about fifty
cents.
A Shekel Of gold was eight dol
lars.
A talent of silver was five hun
dred and thirty-eight dollars and
thirty cents.
A talent of gold was thirteen
thousand, eight hundred and nine
dollars.
A mite was less than a quarter OF
cent.
An ephah, or bath, contained seven
gallons and five pints.
A hin was one gallon and two
pints.
A firkin was about eight and
ven-eights gallons.
An omer was six pints.
A cab was three pints.
A farthing was three cents.
A gorah was one cent.
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PAT-Yez know thot wake Oi
tould yez Oh wor goin' ~ invoite
yeZ t.?
Mike-Yis.
Pat-Well, it graves me heart t.
disapp'int yez, but tn docthor sez
now thot me wolfe will git we'll.
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DANTE was married to Gemma
Donati, woman of stern, imperious
temper. He was hectored and bull
lied day and night until his exile,
which was, In this respect for him,
not an unfortunate occurrence. He
does not mention Gemma in any of
his writings,
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"I'M saving up to buy you birth
day present, grandpa" said Willie.
THAT'S very nice of you, my
boy" said the old gentleman
How much have you got ?"
WE'LL" Willie replied, elf
you'll give me ten cents, I'll have
eleven altogether"
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AN ORIGINAL RACE WAR;
" Were you ever in race war, Un-
Gle Jim?"
"Only one time, suh." .
"Well, how was it?"
" Hit was dis way, sub l had de
turkey gwine 'long en- wuz des ez
quiet ez could be, but somehow de
dog got wind of it, en- me en- him
had de big road fur bout mile, but
we finally compromised it,"
"And how was that?"
ooh, L des give de dog de tur-
key en- pair er britches 20
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QUESTION FOR QUEsTIoN.-Some
rude speeches merit rude answers.
care you the waiter ?" asked an
overdressed woman of guest at an
evening party recently.
"No," replied the man, 81 am
not. Are you the chambermaid ?"
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CORRECT MEASUREMENTS
years ago there lived i'm the city of
N rather eccentric old man, re-
markable for his shrewdness, who
kept pork shop. Three young fell
lows, thinking to have some fun
with him, entered his shop one
night, and asked what his pork was
yard.
The old man promptly replied
"One dollar"
One of the young men then said
"I'll take a yard"
Where is your money ?" said the
old man.
The dollar was laid down, which
the old man quickly pocketed, anG
then produced three pigs feet with
the remark: "Three feet make ont
yard"
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MRS. WATTs-Isn't it in Turkey
that woman is not allowed to see her
husband until the day of the we'd
ding? Mrs. Potts-I don't remem
ber, but anyway it is not much worse
than the American way of seeing so
little of him after marriage.
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BANK CAsHIER-You'll have to be
identified before / can cash this
check. Patrick Grogan--Begob
that's aisy enough. Here's me pho
tygraph as l had tuck in Jersey City
lasht week. Ye'd know me any
where by it.
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NEW clergyman in rural district,
Ito barefoot boy met during first
walk)-Well, my little man, are you
a farmer lad? "Yes, SIR" "All
farmers hereabout, are they not ?"
Yes, SIR" "All simple, honest
farmers, eh ?" "Not all of 'em.
Most of 'em keep summer boarders.n
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NHAS. M. ALDERSON,
~ ATTORNEY AT LAW.

WILL practice in the Courts of
w Greenbrier and Summers and in
the State and Federal Courts at Charles
ton. Prompt attention to all business.
Oflice with j. E. Chiffon, 751 Capitol
Street, Charleston, w. Va.
April 26-6mo.
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"EF I had the money!" remarked
Mr.. Weary Watkins, "ju know wha,
I'd do? I'd hire me a private car
with real feather beds on the trucks.
an travel about in one blessed dream
of happiness the year round"
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Scotch and Irish.
LINCOLN IN THE SOUTH.

Secretary Herbert was the princi-
pal speaker at banquet given by
the Pennsylvania Scotch Irish So
ciety in Philadelphia not since
since. In his speech among other
things, ne said:
81 don't think there is any more
striking illustration of the real SEN
timent in the South to-day than the
aftectionate and continually growing
reverence in that section for the
memory Of Lincoln, who / believe
was of Scotch-Irish descent. Born
in a slave State and reared in free
State Abraham Lincoln was the
spirit incarnate of the struggle for
the preservation of the Union, slav-
cry or no slavery. 'If,' he wrote to
Horace Greeley, ito preserve the
Union 1T is necessary to preserve
slavery, | am for the preservation of
slavery Fortunately it was or
dained that slavery was to go down.
With Abraham Lincoln the Union
was, indeed, 'the paramount object
Of patriotic desire
NEW STORY OF LINCOLN.
| hear d recently an anecdote which
DON'T remember to have seen in
print. 1t is attributed to ex-senator
Henderson. Very early in the civil
war extremists began to urge Presi-
dent Lincoln to issue a proclamation
to abolish slavery. Mr.. Lincoln was
slow in making up his mind. While
the matter was still under considera-
tiOn the present ex-senator Hender-
son went to see the President at the
White House just as Mr.. Sumner
was leaving. Mr.. Lincoln said ::
Henderson, did you meet Sumner
out there at the door?'
Yes, sir
well, that man comes here once
day. There are three of them who
have entered into combination to
compel me to issue a proclamation
emancipating the slaves. They
want it done now, whether 1 think
the time has como or not. Ben
Wade comes early in the morning,
Sumner comes at noon and Thad
Stevens comes at night. I've gotten
so [ hate the sight of them. Every
time L lay eyes on one of them /
think about the boy who was put to
reading the Bible at school and got
stumped when he came to the names
of the men who walked through the
fiery furnance. He read along glibly
enough until he came to those
names; then he halted. The
teacher scolded him, but 1t was of
no use. He trounced him, and still
the boy could not get out the names.
Then the teacher shouted 'Shadrach,
Meshak and Abednego, you Ounce,
skip them and go along,' and the
boy read along very smoothly for a
page, and then all at once broke out
crying. What's the matter?' said
the teacher, and the boy blubbered
out, "Here comes them internal
three fellers again."
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SATIATED.-First Boy-Did yeh
have plenty Of nice things to eat
at that party?
Second Boy-Did we? We had
such loads of everything that wen
Mrs. Goodsoul gave me some iced
cake to take to my mother, l didn't
even lick it going home.
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ANOTHER MATTER.--Clara-
hear your father has forbidden Mr..
Higgins calling on you.
Cora-No, you are mistaken.
Did he not tell him last night
never to darken his parior again ?"
"He did, but that referred to his
turning down the lamp"
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WHEN lover tells his sweetheart
that she has ruby lips, eyes like dia-
mOnds, and teeth like pearls, she
naturally interprets his remarks "a
DreciOuS tones
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SOME people don't know the diff
ference between cursory remarks
and profanity.
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81 WONDER why he married
her ?"
"As bargain, suppose, on ac-
count Of her age"
81 Her age?"
eyes; it is 90, marked down from
37.n
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POETRY.
Ole Dan Tucker"

r ! went to town the other night
EUur,'i : V near 5he noise and see the sights
Everybody was a runnin' around
i'oiierln Old Dan Tucker has come to
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THE man who dies of fever and
ague is apt to be "well shaken be-
fore taken.n
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SOME people might as we'll be
crazy they have no sense.
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GRAINS OF WISDOM.-Justice to
one is mercy to thousands.
1t is pitiful to see the penalties
which folly has to pay.
No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burden of it for an
other.
We attract hearts by the qualities
we possess.
A clear conscience can rest easy on
bed of granite, while an evil one
would be uneasy on one of swan
down.
He that thinks himself the happi-
est man, really is so; but he that
thinks himself the wisest, is gener-
ally the greatest fool.
There is no computing the num-
ber of times we have served az a
link in the chain of the inevitable
in the lives Of those whose paths we
| have crossed.
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THERE is nothing more contagious
than grpmbling.
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"THEsE times" said Meanderine
Mike, sis the mos discouragin'
ever seed"
" Whut's the matter ?" asked
Plodding Pete.
Every place l stops an asks ful
work they offer me some."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-03-14

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