The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-02
little Dolly Warden valisc and pointed up

~'C hAiAiA' NASH -iIJl1ONr-D IN
THIS YER KYARi
And some OF my best relatives fought
four years to cmancipatc that race!
WAS not disturbing any one. 1 was
just attending to my own business, yet
| had to get out of there and 90 back in
to Pullman, where the air was not
pure ut all
Many of our folks were abolitionists
and helped to break the shackles of these
Same people, and yet had to go out of
this nice car, back into the sleeping car.
where the air seemed fixed, and George
NJ. Pullman was to blame for it.
Race prejudice is III. awful thing. The
only race prejudice I%ver had was at
Jerome park ono time when 1 tried to
pick winner in six lessons without q
master.
Race prejudice is a thing I hate. l
have never missed an opportunity to
elevate tho colorcd race whenever /
could, and yet was ordered out of their
car with contumely and lot moro such
things as that which colored man al
ways has at his tongues end, but which
an uncolored man does not understand
Henry NJ. Stanley once told me that
his colored boy Saato one day in Africa
changed sides with him deftly, and the
great explorer asked him why he did it.
Politely as possible Saate explained that
he wanted to take advantage of the
breeze, as the odor of the white race was
offensive to the African
So where is white man to go? If
Africa feels that way, Ireland, which is
now practically deserted, is the only
home see for an oppressed race. Who
will help me to form colony for Ire
land?
The only way 1 SEQ to get even for
being fired out Of the colorcd car is to
tell of an incident which occurred to IL
neighbor of mine.
In November he butchereda shotc for
the purpose of making Roman holiday
i'll Rome, Ga, and left the carcass out
overnight to cool The pig had cob in
its mouth, and its thoraX was pried
open by means of fat pine stick. The
animal hung head down with hickory
gambrel or two foot stick in each fctlocll
to keep his hind legs we'll apart, and
thus the moonlight could touch up the
kidneys and cool spare ribs and ceiling
of his cold clay.
A cOlored sOmnambulist came that
way, lifted the stitfcncd form to his
shoulder, ran his head up between the
two hind legs, so that the hickory gam
brcl would rest against his windpipe
and started off with the pork draped
down his back
In the morning the owner missed his
pig, and strolling along to the worm
fence he found the somnambulist choked
to death on one side of the fence, with
the pig on the other. In climbing the
fence the pig had got over first and hook
ed the hickory stick across the windpipe
of the somnambulist. Together they were
found i'll the chill embrace of death
| They We're buried i'll one grave.
This Is true story and leads us to
| inquire whether or not direct tax in
Hoopcr's Creek township and blockade
whisky i'll Charleston will give us relief
the colorcd people in this neighborhood
arc very we'll behaved set of people
and much more agreeable to get along
with than many of their pampered breth
rem i'll the northern states.
This Is delightful country i'll every
way, and Il few choice lots adjoining my
place may still be had by applying on
the premises. Good ncighbors, and only
eight days from Europe. Fine timber
| Early climate. One lung here is ample
for breathing purposes.
The following news item take from
| the Myrtle correspondent Rutherfordton
| Democrat:
MIR. Zcb Freeman was picking his
ear the other day and got pin ont of it
that is supposed to have been in his car
| for about seven years, as he has been
partially deaf for that length of time,
which the pin is supposed to have
| caused. -
probably a coupling pin, but the pa
| per does not state. Otherwise do not
see anything startling about it,
Before closing this letter l must crave
space to make IL personal remark.
Last week [ received Il paper printed
| in South Africa containing paragraph
marked with blue pencil. 1t claimed to
be careful reading CT my handwriting,
GWRa taf,r