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Sharp County record., 1896-06-19
The Old South
A Southerner's Lament Over the Passing
OF the Old Nanny.
New Orleans Picayune.)

With the passing away OF
a single generation of old ne
groes, now, alas! nearing the
end of the journey OF lite,
one the most picturesque tea
lures of the south will be
lost.
Already the sight OF
a at, respec c t full,
respectable old colored aunty
with a gay bandanna tignon
on her head, is growing rare.
She has been superseded by
the "cullud lady" cheap and
gaudy fnery, who scorns to
demean herself by being po-
lite to any white person, or
doing any work.
The Aunt Dinahs ample of
girth, clad in clean cottonade
belonging to the old genera
ton. They boasted that
they laid a heavy hand on
the seasoning in compound
Ing delecacies for which they
were famous, and at dinner
would poke an anxious ear
through the dining room
door to hear the compli-
ments bestowed upon their
art. In their kitchen hun
cry children knew surrepte.
tious dainties were to be had
for the teasing; that wonder
full ducks and chickens were
fashioned out of biscuit
dough, and the perpetual
grumbling of the high priest
ess of the pots and pan S
meant nothing more than
the roast and the gumbo lay
heavy on her mind. Here
..l fhara ench -fn.,-a rt;11
fingers in a kitchen, but she
is growing too old to work.
and her mistress thinks with
horror of the time when d.
nah, will be gone and the new
colored woman reign in her
stead. Then, indeed will
dyspepsia and confusion
worse confounded S t a ! k
through the house. For the
new colored woman does not
burden her mind with inslg-
ni6cant details that 60 to
make good cooking. She
dashes a lot of things togeth,
er, and if they tura out all
right, we'll and good; and If
not, also well. All she is
in drawing her wages and
carrying back and forth the
basket that is the comnlisary
department of a tribe of idle
friends.
Time was when e ver y
housekeeper with pointed
blue calico, so stifHy starched
it ratified like the best tafeta
With what precision did
she draw your mosquito bar?
With what sympathy did she
press on you the hot bread
at breakfast? She, too,
might answer to the auction
eers cry of Going, going,
gone!" Now a frowsy girl
in a dirty trimmed party
waist condescends to wait at
the table or answer the door
bell, when she feels like it.
1t is said that an intelligent
Chinese servant can insult
his master in several thou
sand different ways, so deft-
ly that the master remains
in ignorance of it. The new
colored woman employs no
such fnesse. She goes right
TO the point, and makes the
distinction of invariably
speaking Of her race as
ladies and gentlemen and
yours as men and women y
When you are told that there
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back door to interview the
charwoman.
The new colored woman
has one desire that ranks a.
bove all others, one fixed am
bition, and that is to be a
school teacher. There must
be in the south several hun
dred thousand young negro
women who have announced
their determination to follow
thiscareer. They are in
the process of being educa-
ted. Year after year they
60 to school, with, so far as
the outsider can see, no di-
rect results except an added
insolence and laziness. Of
course, here and there one
probably gets a fair educa-
tion, but most never get be-
yond the superior elegance
of saying "have came" and
scorning the humble and ad-
miring mother who takes in
washing to support her
daughter in idleness.
The older generation of
negro women who W e r e
brought up before the war,
had the advantage of close
association with gentle and
refined ladies. Essentially
initiative as the colored race
is, they copied the manners
and the graces of the people
they served, many an old
black nanny has the man
ners of a grand dame, many
an old uncle the country
grace of a Chesterfield.
One of the sadest features
of this passing away of the
old-f fashioned negroes is the
loss of that negro nanny
t., nrrn. s7~.,+har.. hn1ne she
was a figure unique IN INC
peculiar love and tenderness
that surrounded her. In her
strong arms every white ba-
by was first laid, with the
certainty that nothing amiss
could befall it there. On her
broad breast childish sorrows
sobbed themselves out and
broken baby hearts were
mended by the magic of mani
my's touch. Her hands gui.
ded the first faltering steps,
her tongue first opened the
doors of romance and mar.
vels; her voice, deep, soft,
mellow and sweet as the
voice of love, crooned the
melodies that lie on the
threshold of -by-land.
The passing years but
strengthened the ties that
bound the black nanny and
her white children. It was
her province to watch over
their growth, and her mind
your manners" was an ad.
monition no;,well- bred south
ern child dared to disregard,
She packed the trunk of the
boy about to start to college,
she inspected the suitors
who came a-wooing, an d
passed judgment, often as
shrewd as unconventional,
upon them; she pinned the
veil over the face of the
bride, and gave sage advice
on the best way to manage
husbands to her "baby" about
to embark on the uncertain
sea of matrimony. In every
event of life, Joy and sorrow,
mammy's faithful heart beat
like the echo of her white
folks.
Did sickness come, what
hand so tender on the aching
brow, what watching so un'
wearied as mammy's2 Who
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SOCIETIES.

A EVENING SHADE LODGE No. Ia. r. n
~ \. NJ, holds regular communications on
N the Saturdy before LIST Sunday in each
month h. S. BACON, W, NJ.
JR Metcalf. ssc'y.
A EVENING SHADE CHAPTER, No. n q
ZE. s., meets at Masonic Hall list 1h1rs
TX day IN each month, ut . clock d. m.
MRS. kATEHUDDLESTl N, W, NJ.
Mrs, WILLIE AuLT, Sec'ty.
l1glgB RURAL CHAPTER No. SO, r. A N
55Ax z holds regular coRvocations at Masoni.
'zsasS llal' IN Evening Shade, the sd Saturdol
"S1'~S in each month.
JNO e. MoCALEB. H..
Sam II, Davidson, See.
- BEREAP LODGE, No. G2. q n
Sd<-r%s f., nolds regular meetings every al
c2l[rsas1% ternatc Friday night.
na So = touin, e,o,, LT' MEDLEY, NG.5
>>>$SNN5SHIZ</< EVENING SHADE Lopou
~ laS} sGEDzz<- No. 2l9O, X, Of On
- f'lN,5V VgN.=- meets first Tu
=ssaelA lEglHY'-day nights inev Yer
- .tts51tS-L .t5t--Ly W, month.
1I2slN2S W. Carroll SHAVER, D.
FW" C.J Wilson r.
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Directory.
RELIGIOUS.

Preaching at Methodist church first and third
Sundays IN each month Rev. \. Il. ualtous
pastor. Everybody is invited to attend,
Sunday School every Sunday morning Of
O'Clock at the Methodist church. Everybody ia
invited to come &. j, WIISON'
MISS fAla NTalg, secretary. Superintendent
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7, J. DAVIDSON, N. P
AND ------
Real i: Estate : Agent,
EVENING SHADE, ARKANSAS.


I GREEMENTS or LEASE, ACKNOWIFDGE
A menls, Qnldavts 10 accounts, Dispositions and
I" renewal O' mortgages taken Abstracts Of
title furnished, Bll8 Of sale, bonds for litc,
decds Of uust-pcrsOnally and rculy-dccds,
guit-cam, husbands, unmarried persons, wins
land, warranty, with accomplishment Of dover,
labor c0hlraci8, mOrlBagcs-rcal estate, ChaJllo
and el0p-and p0wGrs Of attorney written nNd
n0cdged ON reasonable terms,
Applications Tor hOmosouds ind prescriptions
and donations prepared and patents procured
Applications for redemption Of lands from
state, and petitions 10 refund taxes enormously
paid.
Persons who homestead now hnye six months
TO 20 ON their homcstcadS from date sl EcglsOrs
and RccclNcr'N receipts,
COrrCBUOudourr solicited II
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COTTON BELT ROUTE.
Cheap Rates to Points on This
 Popular Route.
TO MILN.A .AUKEE.

Annual meeting Baptist Young Peoples Union of America, Milwau- kee, Wis, July 16 to 19. 1896. For the above occasi )n the Cotton Belt will sell tickets to Milwaukee and return at one fare. From Pine Bluff S21 8. Tickets on sale July II, 15 and 16 Return limit tickets will not be honored leaving Milwaukee prior to July 20th nor later than July ?, except that an extension of return limit can be secured by depositing ticket with joint agent at Milwaukee on or before July 20, 1896.
 J. W. FARLEY, Agent E. ". LABEAUME, c. P. x T. A.
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work and sleepless nights The machinery of the whole system is demotalized business man feels that he cannot afford to be i'll enough to quit work. He drags along day after day, makes bad deals, says the wrong thing and health and business col lapse together There's no need of either disaster. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a gentle, effective renovator of both stoin- ach and bowels. They assist nature with out threatening to tear the body pieee-mcal. There are no gripping pains, no nausea. One is barely perceptible laxative Two give more noticeable results, and they may be continued until the system is throughly renovated, strengthened, and put into har- mony with nature. One need not tear s'habit" of taking the Pleasant Pellets" As soon as health is restored they may be discarded without a return of illness be- cause of their absence. Therefore, you don't become q slave to their use.
 A GREAT BOOK FREE.
 When Dr. K. Y Pierce, ot Buffalo N Y. pub Ished the first edition of his work, The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser, he announced that after GOO copies had been sold at the reg ular price, {.so per copy, the profit on which would repay him for the great amount of labor and money expended i'll producing 1t, he would distribute the next half million Gee. As this number of copies has already been sold. he is now distributing a5solssiy free, soo,ooo copies of this most complete interesting and valuable common sense medical work ever publshcd-- the recipient only being required to mail to him, ct the above address. twentyone (2T cents in one rent stamps to cover cost of mailing oair and the book will be sent post paid. It isa veritable med cal library, complete in one volume. It contains The F,xe Eaifios is precisely the same as those told at q except only that the books are bound n strong manila paper covers instead of cloth. kad NOW before all are given away.
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MRS. HETTY GREEN says she will spend $1, 1000, 900 on her son to elect him Governor of Texas, if the Re publicans will nominate him. All loyal Texans should pray for that nomination. He couldn't be elected for Texas will not have anything of the Republican ilk-and it would turn loose lot of good money.
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To St. Louis.

National Populist and American Silver Convention, St. Louis, Mo, July P, 1896. For the above occa- sion the Iron Mountain route will sell round trip tickets for eleven dol lar and fifty cents, $11.50. Tickets on sale July 10. 20 and 2l, with final limit for return of July 2.
 II. B. Mizell,
 Tkt. agent.
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Impure

blood, to take Hoods Sarsaparilla, and prevent such eruptions and suffering.
 1T had a dreadful carbuncle abscess, red, fiery, fierce and sore. The doctor at- tended me over seven weeks. When the abscess broke, the pains were terrible, and thought I should not live through 1t. l heard and read so much about Hoods Sarsaparilla, that decided to take it, and my husband, who was suffering with boils, took 1t also. It soon purified our
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Hoods
 Sars apariIIa
jerseys, what would the American girl of Long Branch do in skirtless
 bathing suit?

THERE is reason in all things, and so in the election of Daniel as tenn porary chairman. For many years the school boy writer have called him the silver tongued.
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DIR. REA & co.

ii you suffer from diseases you want the best treatment that can be pro cured. Justice to yourself demands that you should consult the Leading Most Skillful, Most Experienced, Most Successful Specialists in the United States.
 Dr. Req &t Go. have no supefiors in diagnosing and treating diseases of deformities. They will give $50 for any case that they cannot tell the di- sease and where located in five nin- utes.
 Treats all curable medical and sur gical diseases, acute and chronic catarrh, diseases of the eye. ear. nose. throat and lungs, dyspepsia, Bright's s disease, diabetes, liver. stomach, constipation, rheumatism, chronic female and sexHal diseases, neuralgia, sciatica, dizziness, nervousness, slow growth in adults, defOrmities. club feet, curvature of the spine, diseases of the brain, paralysis, heart disease eczema. yarieocele and hydroeele promptly treated. Epilesy, or fits, cured. Young, miadle-aged and old, single or married men, and all who suffer with lost manhood, nervous debility, spermatorrhea, seminal losses, sexual decay, failing memory, weak eyes. stunted development. lack of energy, impoverished blood, pimples, impediments to marriage, also blood and skin diseases, ,sXp philis. eruptions, hair falling, bone pain, swelling, sore throat, ulcers, effects ef mercury, kidney and bladder troubles; weak back, burning urine, incon- thence, genorlhea, gleet stricture receive searching treatment, prompt relief and cure for life. Both sexes treated contidentially and privately.
 Piles. tistula, Assure and rupture cured by our new methods.
 Wonderful cures effected through correspondence. Write for symptom blank, enclosing stamp to insure re- ply. Consultation free.
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To Hot Spring gs, Ark.

Knights of Labor, Hot Springs. Ark, July 18th to l7th. For this occasion the Iron Mountain will sell round trip ticket on the certificate plan for $495. Limit of certificate July 2lst. H. B. MlzELL,
 Ticket Agent.
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AT the Socialist Trades and Labor Alliance meeting recently held in New York, Gompers, Powdefly and Sovereign were denounced as fakirs. Just like Populist meeting.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-08

SENATOR BLACKBURN says he is for the man who can get one more electoral vote thar Bill Mckinley, but hastily and sensibly added, "Teller is hot that man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-08

Order screen Doors and win- dowS, shingles, lumber etc., from Hardin Lumber Co.,, old Rigging mill. Telephone Con nection. 5 4 d&sw If
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SOMETHING las been said of the Mckinley ground swell Every one knows that a ground swell will ulti- mately end i'll surf, and surf always "bustsn before reaching the beach.
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Ineradicabie.

Kentucky's wishing for free silver as a panacea for all evils will never lessen the country's thinking of that state in connection with the gold cure. --Phila- delphia Times
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To Fort Sm tn, Ark.

Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, (colored) July 7th to 9th. Fort Smith. Ark. For this occasion the Iron Mountain will sell round trip tickets on the certificate plan for $S775. Limit of certificate July 18th.
 H. B. MIzELI.,
 Ticket Agent.
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BoiiIs

It is often difficult to convince peo- pie their blood is impure, until dread ful carbuncles, abscesses, boils, scrof- ula or salt rheum, are painful proof of the fact. It is wisdom now, or when ever there is any indication of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-08

TnsRE seems to be something sig nificant in the fact that it is Col. Mark Hanna, and Maj. William Me Kinlev.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-08

AND now the Populists say they will never support Bland. Hadn't he ought to be thankful for that?'
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ITs a question of Katy did and Katy didn't at Chicago, with odds on the side of the aids.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-08

EVERYBODY seems to be getting so a boom, so what's the matter with Coxey?
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Entered at the Post-ofiice at Pine Ruff. Ark, aa second-class mail matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-08

Ir the Cornell men shock the English by the wearing of sleeveless
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Blood

built me up and restored my health so that, although the doctor said I would not be able to work hard, have since done the work for 20 people. Hoods Sar- saparilla cured my husband of the boils, and we regard it wonderful medicine" MRs. ANNA PETERSON, Latimer. Kansas,
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|llN business can a i'll an q O
 whose system is in a
 state of disord CT !? Headache is only a symptom. It is not a disease. The pain in the head is the sign of
 rebellion. There have been mistakes i'll diet. There has been over.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-01
PROPOSED SILVER BILL.

The friends OF silver in the house,
no doubt realizing the impossibility
of securing the passage of the bill for
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at the present time, have decided
ed upon measure that is less objec-
tionable to the opposition, and which
stands some show of becoming law.
The bill which they propose to intro
duce provides for the coinage of $780,
600, 900 in silver bullion stored in the
mints into subsidiary pieces. 1t is
stated there is always a good demand
for smaller coins in the spring, and
many banks purchasing it for their
customers refuse to take pieces which
are at all abraded. To take advantage
of this demand and thus reduce the
bulk of silver in store is regarded as
desirable.
The government would derive extra
profit from this, as the seigniorege on
token coins is about five cents more on
dollar than that on silver dollars.
AS it is now there are s53,0o0,00 in
seigniorage available for the proposed
increase of subsidiary coinage. All
the rest of the silver is required by the
Sherman law to be used only for coin
age of standard dollars, hence the need
of proposed new legislation in order to
make the amount s1OO,000,00O
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-01

In another column we give space to
a long communication from Prof. Sny-
der, criticising the voters Of Hood
River district for voting down tax OF
% mills for school purposes, and levy
ing instead mill tax. If, as Prof.
Snyder says, this will result in the
closing of the Hood River schools the
next year, it is indeed to be regretted;
but 22-mill tax, when added to a
county levy of Il mills, would be an
extreme burden for the property own
ers of that or any other district, such
a burden that only the best paying in
vestments could stand. If 6-mill tax
is required to pay interest on the
bonded Indebtedness OF district No.
8, evidently the voters Of that dis
trict overreached themselves when
they erected a s6500 school building last
year, they assumed an Indebtedness in
commensurate with their resources.
The fault lies with their past acts,
and it is little wonder they opposed
the levying of tax that, under exist
ing conditions OF business, would al
most mean confscation Of their prop
erty.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-01
CUBAN RESOLUTIONS.
Report Made by the Foreign Relations
Committee.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Morgan, from the committee on fore.
Ign relations, very promptly after the
senate proceedings began today, re-
ported on the resolution for the recog-
milton of belligerent rights of the Gu
ban insurgents. The senator read the
report in full, as follows:
Resolved, By the senate, the house
OF representatives concurring,
that the present deplorable war in
Cuba has reached magnitude that
concerns all civilized nations to the
extent that it should be conducted, if
unhappily it is longer to continue. on
those principles and laws of warfare
that are acknowledge to be obligatory
upon civilized nations where engaged
in hostilities, including the treatment
of captlves who are enlisted in either
army, due respect to cartels for the
exchange of prisinors and for other
purposes, truces and flags of
truce, the provision of proper hospitals
an hospi tai supplies aud services to
the sick and wounded of either army.
Be it further
Resolved, That this representation
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-01
ANOTHER NEGRO LYNcHED.
Killed q man While Resisting Ejectment
From a Train.

From Train.
| BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Jan. 2S.-Al-
exander Jones, negro desperate,
boarded passenger train at Keystone
| last night, under the influence OF
| liquor. He was very quarrelsome.
The negro became much incensed
when an attempt was made to eject
him, and pulled two revolvers. and be-
gan firing promiscuously.
| W. 81. Strether, the postmaster at
Elkhorn was shot through the abdo-
men and killed. Conductor McCul-
Tough was shot in the side but was not
seriously injured. Peter Rice, colored,
was shot through the right breast and
probably fatally injured.
Jones was incarcerated at Elkhorn to
waita train to convey him to Hunting
ton for safe keeping. The train ar
rived at 2 A. M. and the officers and
prisoners boarded it without molesta-
tion. Meanwhile mob had been or
ganized at Welch, Is miles west of
keystone. At Hamphill, small sta
tion west Of Welch, the train was
tagged, and a mob numbering 100 men.
boarded it, and dragged Jones to tree,
where he was swung to limb and his
body riddled with bullets.
Thesfollowine note was attached to
the body: "This deed was done for
the purpose of an example warning to
negroes; 80 bewarer' Jones, it is al
legged, killed three men prior to his
last offense.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-01
BOND BILL IN THE SENATE.
Senator Mitchell Finds Occasion for a Sill
Yer Speech.

Senator Mitchell Finds Occasion for a Sill.
Yer Speech.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Mitchell OF
Oregon TODAY addressed the senate on
the bond bill. Mitchell said that the
question presented was, whether it is
necessary to increase the bonded in
debtedness to maintain the gold stand
ard or by greater issue of silver re-
store it to its primary place as the
money of the constitution. Mitchell
pointed out that our foreign indebted
ness during the past twenty-five years
had greatly increased.
"There is in my judgment two reme-
dies to be applied, first, our shipping
laws must be amended, our merchant
marine must be encouraged and built
up and we must become our own car
riers, and second, we must legislate to
increase the value of our export com
modities so as to enable US to meet, re-
duce and, if possible, wipe out the debt
which today makes the people of this
country virtually slaves 10 the money
lenders Of Great Britain. We must
reduce our expenses and instead of is
suing new bonds stop incurring obliga-
tions abroad and increase, if possible,
the value of our commodities, includ.
ing silver, with which to meet this in
debtedness.
"As to the bond bill as it came from
the house." he said, II decline to give
further authority to secretary uf the
treasury to issue additional bonds in |
lime of peace. am unwilling under
any plea of necessity to aid the party
to which belong in doing that which
as party it has emphatically con-
demned in Others"
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Revenue rarlr Biz Untouched.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 2S.-Senatcr r
Jones, of Nevada, was present at to-
days meeting of the senate commit ,e
on finance, but the revenue tariff bill
was not taken up. II is the understand
ing that the bill will not be considered
again by the committee until after the
silver bond bill shall have been dis
posed of by the senate, when it is be-
leived it will be promptly reported in
some shape.