The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-24

As the Constitution said ryps-,ly Ne
mus, have white primaries. no, parll-
san. bu, white. 10 purge the towns Of
negro inco,enoe and negro lns,lcnce
They mus, be eliminated from the polls
just as they have bsen n Atlanta The
dens mus; be broken up. the sidewalks
kept clear for ladies and the pasSxays
TO and from the trans unoSs;ruc.ed
Ben. Franklin said that Iatcness Was
the parent q vice and crime The
young bucks who oorgTegate at this
den are either living OF Of some hard
working man or some cook or washer
woman or they are stealing from some
body. Every yagrant should be arrest
ed and pun 10 work or we will soon
hear OF some outrage and have another
lynchirg. These are perlious times
The Old devil seems TO BE- unclaimed
and Is going TO and fro upon the earth
and walking up and down In IL. The
daily papers are full OF crimes. White
and black se1cn demoralized. and we
ale getting hardened to the sinful and
bloody calendar that every day meets
our eyes. When will this stop? |
started to write little essay on polite
ness. The lack OF Il among our young
white men is painfully Cbservant. Last
week. when the day was no; and the
dust was deep, young man with his
best girl dashed by two OF orr ladies
in a buggy and almost stifiod them
with dust They had to stop. for Icy
could not see. He made no opology nor
said please excuse me. and yet he was
from a neighboring city and Polls
means city and politeness comes from
Polls. Not long ago was coming from
Atlanta and a Marietta man who sat
behind me elevated his dirty shoes TO
the top OF the back OF my seat and kept
them there within six inches Of my
head while ne gassed away to mis- com
panfon until the cars reached his town.
| looked dasgers at him. but it did no
good. l leaned as far away as could,
and felt like treating him like l did a
cowboy once in Texas. The cowboy
stuck his big boots and spurs on the
back of my scat and / deliberately got
up and--went over on the other side.
would have 1cne this tough, ill-man-
nered rough the same way, but the
seats were all full. Young mon can
show their breeding anywhere-in the
| cars or at church or at the postofI.oc
| while waiting for the mail to be open
ed. a true gentleman will fire and fall
back and while waiting fer his mail
| give somebdy else a chance to look into
| their box, but a selfish, ill-brei man
won't He will stand up close and cover
| half dozen boxes and peep through
| the glass at the postmaster until he
| gets his own. The best hammered man
at the postoffice in our town is the
| oldest. There are a few well-raised
| lads in our town whom it Is always a
| pleasure to meet. They make a gentle
bow and tip the hat and smile pleas
| ant greeting. There was a rich old
bachelor who died in Jefferson some
| years ago, and he left $4,000 to a pCcI
| young woman because, as ne said in hi.
will, She always gave me a pleasant
smile when she met ma" The Irish. a
a race, are naturally polite. Pat" said
a good lady, ''ycu passed me on the
street yesterday and never even looked
at me-" "Ah, me, sweet lady, | was in
| a graf hurry and l knew that il l look.
ed at We couldn't pass you" My good
father was an old-time schoolmaster II
the days VIXEN manners and moral:
were taught as we'll as books. The frs
day CT his employment down in Liberty
county he made the boys and girls {
talk, and said the boys must make re
spectful lew and the girls a courtesy
to him before they took their seats IL
the morning. All complied pleasant!
except the biggest boy in school, VIII,
said he tedogord if he was gwine Il
make a bow to anybody. Father CAV,
him a talk next day, but it did no good
and two ether boys quit bowling. Tina
evening at tie clcse of school fathe
/
luctantly waited. After the other schol
ars had all gone out father closed tn
door a2d told him he had either to bov
or take whipping or quit the school
He studied awhile and said: I'll b
burned if I'll do either" Then the TO,
began, and it lasted quite awhile. The
were pretty equally matched. The
| fought all over the benches and unde
them and turned over the water buckl
and raised a mighty commotion, bu
the hickory was going all the time a.
all the outside scholars were peepin
, through the cracks OF the leg schoo
, house. After a long struggle the DO
gave up and bellcrei BIS way hom.
That was the end Of al rebellions
that school, and my fathers reputatio
j., as a teacher was established.
:, LAS polite as a Frenchman" hs
grown into a proverb. The whole n
, ton is polite, men, women and chi
dren. 1t is chiefly artificial. for it
!, taught in the schools; but 1t is plea
ing and seems to be sincere. In Me!
leo the politeness Of the higher class
is painful. When two persons meet ;
tie hotel door one VIII decline to go
first and the other will decline in I'll
manner, and it makes a minute or mo
o for the question OF precedence to
6 decided
g In England the courtesies Of soci
intercourse are never forgotten; n
= not even in a quarrel. Two Englis
= men had a bitter quarrel here in o.
=, town while / was present and each a
dressed the other as my dear frien
and pray excuse me" all the time IL
. were quarreling. But still that W
: better than cur American style Of ~,
& are an internal liar" and ''ycu are a
| other" and then a blow or a shoo;i
scrsoe. Englishn,en quarrel. but Tn
a.