The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-30

Aotnln Ter eat said an old family ser
S va LAWN laying a store OF provisions before
Il cannot take these things from you.
Peter, said his eX-master, land leave
YOU and your family TO starve."
No danger OF dat; Peters used ter
tleipln nlsset, and dat massa, you neb-
Der could do. nor ole miss neither"
Ills masters eyes filled with tears as
ne SAID, Il may live TO repay you. Peter"
l.or sake, massa, you's done dat al
ready. Nou's took care Oh Peter a good
many years an Use sure it's his time ter
tax care OBJ you an ole miss"
The following incident carries with il
touch OF pathos that is quite heart reach
ING. young widow. after losing her hus-
band and fortune. was suddenly bereft
OF her only child, a little girl. on the day
or her death old daddy Ben. who had been
IN the family since his boyhOod. entered
lne silent room, bringing wiA him some
white roses. He found the young mother
seated by the bedside holding one of the
little hands in hers. Daddy Ben" said
she, do you know that little Miss Alice
VIII nave TO be buried in pine cofiin2
nave no money to get any other kindY'
Not while old Ben lives. Miss Caline.
Will dat chile be bury in a pine coffin. No
in pine box"
So saying. he kissed the little white
hands, placed the roses in them. and
left the room. He went directly to his
cabin, dressed himself. took an old wal
let out Of a well-wom hair trunk and
started in row boat for Charleston.
Arriving there he went to an undertaken
and said: Il want ter see de incest coffin
you Sc got suitable for little chile 10
years ole. He bought II. and taking out
the old wallet sOliloquized after this man
ner Mars Robert nehber tink wen he
glib de ole man dis jes' fore he gone TO
dc wan dat II was gwinter TO buy coffin
for his little Alice. But I couldn't look
Mars Robert and ole Mistis I'm de face in
de mex wori eff / let dat chile be put in
a pine coffin The old man had the cof-
fin placed IN his boat and rowed back to
lhe Plantation with feeling Of self-con-
graduation that he had done his duty.
some OF the experiences. however. just
after the war bordered on the ludicrous.
one old darkey said: If Mars Jeems
would Jes' len him mule an let him
go ter de surrender and pick up some of
dem lettns of de yankees dat he would
come right back and go to work"
me mule was provided, and Uncle Am
mon went on his way. Two days after
ward he returned with no visible change
IN MS outward grandeur except an enor-
nous pair of brass spurs.
When questioned about the spurs, he
said; You see. Mars Jeems, de yam
KEGS is gwinter gin us forty acres o. Ian
an mule. Some O. dem niggers down
dar spent all.der time a pickn' up trash
turned. l 1es' got me all dis harness
yere, behind, an desc yere spurs fur
sunday, an come along home den W en-
l gets my Ian an mule, I'll be jes' ready
TO sOt up"
One Of the most respected citizens of
Charleston, 5. c., is George Washington
ringer at st. Michael's church. He is
welcome wherever he goes. For half a
century he has rung the chimes on the
historical old bells. Uncle George" is
a walking encyclopedia. He has the gem
ealogy OF every prominent Charleston
ian, and can give you day and date for
everything of note that has happened
in the city for the past fifty years He
always mad a great desire to visit George
bancroft, the historian, in order, as he
said, to see him right Oh a matter Of
history. Mr.. Bancroft, he asserts, states
in his history that the first blood OF
the revolution was split in Boston by one
Attacks, half breed"
Here Uncle George draws himself up
WITH pride and boldly asserts that At
tucke was not a half-breed, but "a full
blooded negro like himself. and / am
Attacks Guard in Charleston, and is
really one of the historical features of
the old city by the sea.
If he hears that any Of the tourists. who
continually pass through the city, have
expressed pleasure in listening to the
chimes. he Immediately calls and thanks
them for the compliment Uncle George
Is first, the chimes secondary. He GER
tainly knows how to bring out the sweet
| est melody from those old chimes, al
l though on patriotic occasions he gets his
! patriotism and his religion terribly mixed
Yankee Doodle" Dixie" and Rock OF
/ Ages may. be followed quickly by 'Taffy
! Was a Welshman," Nearer My God, 10
/ Thee" or The Bonny Blue Fag"
The strides which the negroes Of the
/ south have made in almost every branch
! of industry stamp them as a wonderfully
| adaptive, acquisitive and tractable peo-
| pie. The great desire of the older mem
bers of the race is that their children
/ shall be well educated.
Some Of the finest graded schools at the
/ south are colored, and the proficiency
made by many of the pupils at the end OF
! the terms reflect honor. not only upon
| them, but upon the painstaking teachers
in charge.
What race thus suddenly enfranchlsed
can show such a record?