The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-06-02

and briug the ~stepladder- She wants
the vines On the %trellis tied up. and l
am the boy. That ladder is old and
r,ckety and l am subject to vertigo
sometimes. I'm afraid OF that ladder,
tu, never in ny life did l admit to
be. that l was afraid Of anything. and
50 | will mount that ladder With all
the ~alacrity / can. The time was when
had black boys ami white ones. too, to
wait on me, but DOW 1 huve to tote my
own skillet and nurse the grandchil-
dren, too. There are two little ones
here half the time and they love me
dearly and l have to stop writing
whenever they say so. They want me
ia the garden to get flowers or pick
strawberries or make sand houses or
mrd pies or get some water or some
thing to eat, aud l have to follow them
around or carry the little one while my
wife is making some more little
dresses for them. Their mother has
no servant and lets them come up
here by themselves to be petted while
she is sewing or cooking or playing on
the piano. My wife and l do more
work nowadays than VT ever did in our
lives, but it sweet work and We like it.
! How the children aud grandchildren
will get along When our time is out
and We are eff duty / cannot see, but
one thing know, "the Lord will pro-
vide" for He tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb"
| But aoont the negroes. Hardly a
day passes but what | hear somebody
say: Il wish to the Lord that they
were all ont OF the country" 1 don't
know about That. The iron makers
and miners and lumber men and rail-
road men and the big farmers would
object, for their labor is both useful
and profitable. wish l could scatter
aud apportion them all over the coun-
ry from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
there are at least 500 in this little
town that we would like to spare, bu,
We would like to pick them.
There are no doubt 10, 900 in Atlanta
mostly young bucks and wenches
who have been educated aud are now
vsgabonds-plrasites who live off the
labor Of good working negroes just as
the v%agabonds do here. We have many
good negroes hero who are good
citizens and give no trouble, and they
are our draymen. ~ carpenters, car
rage makers, blacksmiths, BARRIERS,
gardeners, cooks and washerwomen.
Ihesa trades are shut out 70 them al
the north, but the north keeps on send
ing money down here to educate then
n to keep their leaders ia line poll
{voo1J.. FTln k,,il - Alok III Al.c In
vilment that has Of late so agitated ou1
people comes from politics. 1t is
planned and designed for party pur
poses aud MI. Mckinley was a party
to it when he appointed negroes to b.
postmasters and revenue Off GERS il
white communities. I nave had DO re
: spect for him since he did it. The,
say that he has quit it. but he has no
apologized. How much longer is b.
going to keep that educated ncgr'
politician in Office at Hogansville
And yet there are thousands of demo
, Gratis, men and women in Atlanta VIII
3. gave him welcome and threw hir
! flowers and shouted "All hail Nc
kinley !" I've no respect for then
; either. l want TO live long enough t
d see a man In the presidential chair VIII
is far above such machine politics
I They say they van t. break up til
> solid south and yet they do the yer
THU gs to Keep it solid.
Il Bnt my wife is calling mo AGAR
She says it is abou, time for me I
begin to water the roses. 1t take
Y about fifteen buckets of water ever
. evening, but the hydrant is heal b
Is aud l don't mind it. The little char