The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-29

man servant nor manu-
10y. rise before the sun. maxi ny
fire. take up the ashes. sweep the room,
then fire up the stove in the kitchen. M
III the kettle. put on the nom ny, SIiHu
fine coffee ana then ring the bell for my
female aids de camp. who appears in due
time and make biscuit and brol the STEAK
and finish up the breakfast. | bring III
wood and coal. split the pine. go to the
butchers and bakers and the posto1fce.
tie male boy and the mail boy. Last
week was hard on me. for | had TO repot
the greenhouse plants and change the SOL
and move them into the PIT ana water
+bnm and Yesterday my female forks
took Il notion they wanted some Of ih@
nrefticst chrysanthemums taken up ahu
potted and brought into the haIl' 50 l
made little tubs out of nail kegs by saw
mo them down and putting rope handles
10 them and then | carefully upheaN,u
the plants with a spade and cot them IN
al rioht. And then the boy had - carry
them in the house and ARRANGE thell'
and now they are beautiful 10 henp-d
all gorgeous in their lovely coloCS -
white and yellow and brown an pax
and gold. | am proud Of them. Tor | am
the boy that did it. 1t was heavy Work
and hard work and | am sortcr rhenmat-
L. ana broke OONu III TIE i'9' h'' -
folks wanted it lone and I'm the COY. 1t
isn't every family that's got q 10y.
What a luxury it is to rest vhen YOU
have finished your job and are -lr"d!
What a luxury is sleep when bedtlhe
comes, What Il wholesome. tootlSome APP
netita does labor give and makes 4 10y
like me relish the buttered steak or
smothered chicken and coffee and biscuits
-. la,,I,u md DDCC 4 VpI
on both sides and loose in the middle.
That's the fare to say grace over ana De
thankful. Labor is good medicinal
tonic that regulates digestion. Labor is
an antidote for the little fret and troubles
of our daily life. When | get clean our
of money and the little duns come TAlck
and fast in love letters [ fly to the wood
pile and chop stOyeWood. or | go % fhc
garden and fork up more ground ana
TRANSPLANT more Strawberries from the
scattering runners. / ave now $40
plants and they are fine and ali came
from home and all have been mulcdrd
with stable manure and cotton SEED "nu
covered with pine straw, and l am the
hoy that did it. | am the horney-handed
son Of toll that you read about. My VIE
has got siXty-five rose bushes that /
planted for her and watered and nour-
ishpd and pruned and scratched my hands
with the thornS. and she luZurlates
among their beautiful flowers and cuts
Ih0unuctS for the nabOrS and VISITORS.
Sometimes when herase the papers ana
their sentiments make me mae or fatigue
my Indignation | go forth among the
flowers and study them and ponder upon
their innocence and beauty and get calm
and serene. Only yesterday | read an
80. :. M. N-,,-- NnJ1- JfvncG tho
leading Republican paper, and il said the
White ~Southerner was rapidly degenerate
ING and the negro was coming TO the
front; that the white man could not grow
cotton at IL cents a pound, but the ne
gro could and that their race would IN
time own all the lands and the whites
be their tenants; that we have dceenera
ted in craftsmanship and intellect and
have not got q white man IN all the
South who viii compare With Booker
Washington: tina the ante-bellum types
are gone: the times that produced Cal
houn and Toombs and Stephens ana
Davis and Benjamin and Lamar are
forever past, and that our sO-caileQ
statesmen. such as Bailey and Butler
and Gilman. are but Il fair sample Of
our ~degeneracy and that this ~degeneracy
all comes from orr inhuman treatment
! OF the negro ana Is Il It0dtIOll u 'Dd.
Then he threatens us and says the
North is very busy now with important
concerns growing out Of the Spanish war.
but will attend to us in due time and see
to it that we shall have no representa-
ton in Congress from districts where he
negro ballot was intimidated or suppress
ed.
Well, of course. I had to drop the pa
/ nov and fv IN tho v-qplnila and ayprp
stroke | made with the AK | tried to
imagine that that malicious and ma IL
nant editor was under it. What is to
be done with such people? Here we were
Roasting that at last. yes at last. the sec
tiOnal lines were obliterated and we Were
now a reunited people. when that paper
that organ of the q. o. i. that boasts
of its daily circulation DEM 10000
greater than all the other Republican
papers in New York and Brooklyn com
biDed. wipes out all harmony and reneWs
its war against the South. Isn't il
strange that he does not see the fallac,
Of his own argument. for if such grand
men as Calhoun and Toombs and Ste
phens and Lamar were produced under
the regime OF slavery ant we have al
dogenerated under the influence Of
freedom, why not 20 back IL
Sl1NeGN again ana SIOp lIldt itGcller1CN .
But there is no use IL replying to such
men. 1t is 4 waste Of time. They have
fattened on the last war, and would pre-
cipitate another if they could. That New
York Press fought Roosevelt bitterly un-
til he was nominated. and | reckon it was
because he was Al illustrations scion OF
Southern stock, a great-grandSon OF
Georgia's first rebel governor and a son
Of a noble lady who was born and reared
in Georgia. Georgia had to furnish the
rebel stock for their governor and South
Carolina had 10 furnish New York city
a mayor, and it is. the prevalence 81
Southern men and Southern blood in the
city Of Gotham that makes it so over
wheimingly Democratic, Tammany or no
Tammany.
but no more Of this. I cannot rumi-
mate upon 1t with serenity. Reckon I
mad better 90 out to my garden and