The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-08

wild all sorts of folks de niggers and
white trash. Hannah Kershaw, she war
buyin' all de time klone water and pink
silk stockings. When you gwine pay for
that sweet scent and dem shin kivers?
says l to Hannah, for Hannah was
good-for-nothing CONAN. Dey Is mighty
nice people, says Hannah, familious like
and dey don't turn up dere noses on Mig
gers as you does, for you Is always down
on your own color says Hannah
"You knows the end of that Hawkins
ship? Not a Niger paid cent. Nor as
for that did the white trash. Hawkins
didn't get a pound of cotton-and he bust
ed. Dat was familious bring contempt
Mar,Iny is sensitive TO a degree, and an
unkind word on the part of those who
do not know her special qualities Is highly
Irritating to her. The other day she was
dsconsolate. Some white person had
doubted a statement Of hers, and she said:
Miss Glare, you know my temperature
AS 1t was an excessively hot day, we could
not Judge Nanny thermometrieally.
Then Nanny went on: dis we're way
some folks has of paying no 'tention TO
anudder's temperature Is de cause OF haif
de contentious in dis yearth, especially
wild oomen" Then we ''caught on"
Nanny meant temperament.
IL never would do, If nanny were to be
Maybe she has been too thoroughly in
doctrinated in the ideas OF the past. Born
in slavery times, she was fortunate In
having had for owners people who, ac-
knowledglng her sterling qualities, regard
ed her as a friend more than as SER
want, for from her childhood 10 her Old
age her life has been one OF devotion. The
old colored woman's pecunarities of pro-
nunciation are but scarcely initiated in
what follows:
1.-THE colored people souf," nanny says
for she has made frequent visits there
of late In the state which she was born
and raised-"is muffin like as good-as de-
cent-as moral-as dey was when dey was
slaves. OATS all bad enuff bat dey don't
see de main chance. Dey is lazy. Dey
won't worruk. Dey has no boss to tell
'em, DO dis or do dat Dey gets married,
and don't keer for their chulluns-don't
feed 'em-don't put no clothes on 'em.
Dey can some on 'em read and write, but
readin' and writin don't give EN- no meat
nor bread. Dey has no 'pinions OF der
owner eff dey has dey follows the ijeas of
some white man dat only keers to get on
top-uslng the niggers like ladder-and
when he gets away up he kicks the prop
from under him, and down goes the mig
ger on his head. Jess my heart Is sore
when / sees old families Of honest colored
people, good simple souls, In slavery
time, lust disappeared from OF de face OF
the yearth. Not one OF 'em left. Yet
thanks God for liberty-but maybe was
lucky, for / hain't felt no difference In
freedom. / had to do less when was
slave than did when was free. II was
the good trainin l had souf-that was
everything. Decent folks In the same,
norf OF souf-and amt no smarter nor
the next one-but bein' brought up with
ladies' and gentlemen, l always tried TO
get service with such.
'Dere is some good colored folks IN the
souf yet, but dey Is fast runnin' to seed.
It's the wanderin' way they has, that Is
a KILN OF 'em out. Ninety-nine times in
a hundred when colored man moves
from Alabamy to Georgy, or from Georgy
TO Texas, he just signs his death warrant.
He may have been badly off In one place,
but he's wuss on in the next.
1T haint been twenty-five years In New
York. consortin' with my own people,
without knowing something. Southern
colored folks say from Virginny, that
comes to New York. particularly the 90
men, is Just good for nothing. They was
born of the new stock just after the
war. and don't know anything about home
service. Can't help 1t, Miss, they don't
know their place, and don't want to be
taught They never had no Bringing up.
A mistress in Richmond knows just what
they are, and what Is 10 be expected OF
them. But n nOIlncEH ldNJ Jun - A<AA-
cashunl Why don't they learn how to
cook or sew? It's about one colered ooman
In a thousand that knows how to hem
kitchen towel AS to flxin' decent food
for a table, save fryin' In grease, or COOK
ing greens, that's all they knows or want
to know. I don't know, Miss, but IL is
this here poor southern stock comm TO
the norf that isn't dom no good to the
coiored people IN the big cities. It's a.
crowdin' out the better class OF workers.
IT'S creatin' a kind Of prejudish against
cclored oomen as house servants. why
shouldn't there be more OF en- In SER
vice? Just because they are worthless
That's a hard word, but they's not worth
the money they ask. I've known some
real capable coIored oomen, neat, handy
fifteen for the kitchen or the bedroom, but
this was the trouble. They couldn't make
up their minds to stay In the one place,
but wanted variety. and never seed q
CONAN change places three times IN one
year that didn't In time get lost. Done
YOU talk to me about the Washington col
ored persons. They is mighty poor people
to have In house
.srhere are ever so many decent color
ed people in Baltimore as Is brung up
thar, and you can get good servant
thar Now, these here remarks OF mine
h mostly to be taken as 20 oomen. There
are lots OF southern colored men in New
York. occupying tip-top positions, Janltors
ana SIGH, and, what is more, holding
them. / been trying to account for that.
They Is the colored people as has been
tried in the fire and has not Melted desc
isn't dross negroes. tell you. Miss-and
know-there never was such a good man
in every way as the old-fashioned body
servant in the souf. / don't mean alone
the waiting and attendance. but he was
the most honest of men, and his masters
interests were his own. But the last body
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Miss Clare. There's an old grave yard
In Mississippi-and I've seen it--and 1
can't read, but have had the writin' on