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

our lIuleS Gull IldIulS yet OH OF OH LOT
the negro brigade. There is dozen
on one OF our business streets and are
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
towns of negro Incidence and negro in
science. They must be eliminated
from the polls just as they have been
in Atlanta. The dens must be broken
up, the sidewalks kept clear for ladies
and the passways to and from the trains
unobstructed. Ben. Franklin said that
idleness was the parent OF vice and
crime. The young bucks who congre-
gate at this den are either living off OF
some hard-working man or some cook
or washerwOman, or they arc stealing
from somebody. Every vagrantshould
be arrested and put to work or we will
soon hear of some outrage and have
another lynching. These are perilous
times. The old devil seems to be un-
chained and is going to and fro upon
the earth and walking up and down in
it. The daily papers are full of crimes.
! White and black seem dcmoraliZed
and we are getting hardened to the
sinful and bloody calendar that every
day meets our eyes. When will this
! thing stopa started to write a little
essay on politeness. The lack OF it
among our young white men is pain
/ fully observant. Last week, when
the day was hot and the dust was
deep, young man with his best girl
dashed by two of our ladies in a buggy
| and almost stifled them with dust.
They had to stop, for they could not
see. He made no apology nor said
please excuse me, and yet he 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 seat and kept them
there within six inches of my head
while he gassed away to his companion
until the cars reached his town.
looked daggers at him, but it did no
good. leaned as far away as could,
and felt like treating him like / did a
cowboy once in Texas. The cowboy
stuck his big boots and spurs on the
back of my seat and I deliberately got
ND and-went over on the other side.
/ would have done this tough, iil-man-
nered 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.
A true gentleman will fire and fall
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 mp close and
cover half a dozen boxes and peep
through the glass at the postmaster
until he gets bis own. The best man
nered man at the postoffice in our town
raised lads in our town whom it is
always pleasure to meet; They make
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 a E,oor
young woman because, as he said IN
his will, "She always gave me pleas
ant smile wien she met me-" The
Irish, as race, are naturally polite.
"Pat," said : good lady, "yon passed
me on the str ,et yesterday and never
even looked at me-" "Ah, me sweet
lady, | was in a great hurry and ! knew
that if l looked at ye / couldn't pass
you.' My good father was an old-time
schoolmaster in 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 a talk, and said the
boys must make a respectful bow and
the girls courtesy to him before they
took their seats ip the morning. All
complied pleasantly except the biggest
boy in school, who said lie bedogond if
he was gwine to make a bow to any
body. Father gave him Il 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 q 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 I'll 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 a mighty commotion, but the
hickory was going all the time and all
the outside scholars were pceplng
through the cracks of the log school
house. After q long struggle the boy
gave up and bellcred his way home.
That was the end OF all rebellions i'll
that school, and my fathers reputation
rs a teacher was established.
"As polite as Frcnchman' has
grown into proverb. The whole ma
tion 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 at
the hotel door 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 c0urtesics of social
intercourse are never forgotten; no,
not even in quarrel. Two English
men had a bitter quarrel here i'll our
town while | was present. and each
addressed the other as ''my dear friend'
and pray excuse me" all the time they
were quarreling. But still that was
better than our American style OF "yOu
are an Internal liar and you are an
other" and then a blow or q shooting
scrapc. Englishmen quarrel, but they
never fight. Americans fight but rare
ly quarrel. With them it lis word
and blow, or what is worse, Il ball
from a pistol drawn from the hip
pocket. / have no respect for a man
who habitually carries pistol. Ile is
a coward. BILL. ARR