The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-23


the negro brigade. There is dozen
OH one uI our business streets and arc
always in the way. AS the Constitu
ton said recently in we'll cOnsidered
article. we must have white primaries.
not partisan, but white. to purge the
to,Snss towns of negro e indolencee and negro in,
science. They. must bc eliminated
from the polls just as they have been
i'll Atlanta. The dens must be broken
up, the sidewalks kept clear for ladies
and the passways to and from the trains
nnObstructed. Ben. Franklin said that
ld!eness was the parent Of vice and
crime. The young bucks who con gre
gate ut this den arc either livin. off of
some Woodworking man OF some cook
or washerWOman, or they arc stealing
from somebody. Every vagrantshould
he arrested and put to work or we will
soon hear or some outrage and have
another lynching. These arc perilous
times. The old devil seems to be I'M
chained and is going to and fro upon
the earth and walking up and down in
It: The daily papers are flAl OF crimes.
White and black seem dcmoralzcd,
and we arc getting hardened to the
sinful and bloody calendar that every
day meets our eyes. When will this
essay on politeness. The lack of it
among our young white men is pain
fully Obseryant. Last week, when
the day was hot and the dust was
deep, q young man with his best girl
dashed by two of our ladies in q buggy
and almost stified them with dust.
They had to stop, for they could not
see. He made ne apology nor said
please excuse me, and yet hc was from
neighboring city and Polls means a
city and politeness comes from Polls.
Not long ago was coming from Allan
ta and Marietta man who sat behind
me elevated his dirty shoes to the top
OF the back of my scat and kept them
there within six inches of my head
while lie gassed away to his companion
until tho cars reached his town.
looked daggers at him, but it did no
good: ! leaned as. far away rs could,
cowboy once in Texas. The cowboy
stuck his big boots and spurs on the
back of my seat and deliberately got
up and-went over on the other side.
l would have done this tough, ill-man-
nercd rough the same way, but the
seats were all full. Young men can
show their breeding anywhere-in the
cars or at church or at the postOffice
while waiting for the mail to be opened.
back and while waiting for his mail
give somebody else chance to look
into their box, but selfish, ill-bred
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 OWL. The best man.
nered man at the postofficc in our town
Is the oldest. There are few we'll
raised lads in our town whom it is
q gentle bow and tip the hat and smile
q pleasant greeting. There was rich
old bachelor who died in Jefferson some
years ago, and he left $4,000 to q poor
young woman because, as he said in
his will. "She always gave me pleas
ant smile when she met me-" The
Irish, as race, are naturally polite.
Pat" said good lady, 'you passed
even looked at me-" "Ail, me sweet
lady, was in q great hurry and knew
that II l looked at ye couldn't pass
you" Ely good father was All old time
schoolmaster i'll the days when man
ners and morals were taught as we'll as
books, The. first day Of his employ
ment down in Liberty county he made
the boys and girls talk, and said the
the girls courtesy to him before they
took their seats ip the morning. All
complied pleasantly except the biggest
boy in school, who said he bedogond if
he was gwine to make o bow to any
body; Father gave him q talk next
day, but it did no good, and two other
boys quit bowling. That evening at
the close OF school father told him to
wait a few minutes. He reluctantly
waited. After the other scholars had
all gone out father closed the door and
told him he had either to bow or take
whipping or quit the school. He
studied awhile and said: .I'll be burned
if III do either" Then the row began,
and lasted quite awhile. They were
pretty equally matched. They fought
all over the benches and under them
and turned over the water bucket and
raised mighty commotion, but the
hickory was going NIL the time and all
the outside scholars were pceping
through the cracks of the log school
house. After n long struggle the bow
gave Up and bellered his way home.
That was the end of all rebellions in
that school, and my fathers reputation
as teacher was established.
"As polite rs a Frenchmanr has
grown into prOverb. The whole ma
ton is polite. men, women and chill
dren; 1t is chiefly artificial, for it is
taught in the schools; but it is pleasing
and seems to be sincere. In Mexico
the politeness of the higher classes is
painful. When two persons meet Mt
Inc HOCel 00Or one Will decline to go in
first and the other will decline in like
manner and it takes minute or more
for the question of precedence to be
decided.
In England the courtesies of social
intercourse are never forgotten; no,
not even in o quarrel. Two English
men had bitter quarrel here in our
town while was present. and each
addressed the other rs ''my dear friend"
and 'pray excuse me" all the time they
We're Quarreling. But still that was
better than our American style Of "you
are IN Internal liar" and "you are an
other'' and then blow or q shooting
scrape;. Englishmen quarrel, but they
never fight. Americans fight but rare
ly quarrel. With them it is q word
aud blow, OF what is worse, ball
from o pistol drawn from the hip
pocket. have no respect sor man
VINO habltually carries pistol. He is
q coward. Bill ARp.
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