The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
ATLANTA constitutional


ones. If | write that Neptune is sixteen
hundred millions of miles from the sun
and it comes out in print sixteen mill
lions il worries me. If | write that the
doctor sewed up hare lips and it comes
out hair lips. | don't like it. The typo
didn't know that a rabbit had a slit I'M
der it's nose. II write that / walked
ont into the garden to let my choler
down, meaning my anger, the typo thinks
I meant my shirt collar, and SO changes
the spelling to suit his own IDEA. But
since read an editors defense In New
York paper l feel better, for he says it
is amazing how few of these mistakes
are made in the great dailies that have
to be rushed through with lightning
speed The constant pressure on type
settlers and proof readers is tremendous,
but they rarely make any serious blun-
ders. and the intelligent reader can gen.
orally correct them in his mind. Ana
so / will not worry any more about 1t.
There are some other little things that
are of more consequence just now. Our
cook has quit, and so has the house maid
gone off to Rockmart for week or
two-gone to a house party, thinK.
That is all right, for the cook has peeh
faithful long time and needed rest. olie
10 a good servant and keeps clean
kitchen. and we have had house party
ourselves for several months. l nave
been sick, but now we are reduced TO tue
regular family OF FIVE and have Dut niue
to cook and can get along on TWO means
n day My wife arranged IL lor lhe "
fire up the stove and fill up the Kettle
and grind the coffee and put on the
hominy and then ring the Dell lor the
oirls IN get I'm and finish up the break
Post che said that if l felt like it
MIGHT sween out the hall and the front
veranda and settle up the front room.
Well. of course had to split up some
kindling and bring in the stove WOOD,
but / am getting along fairly well ana
nv wife thinks the exercise is doing me
GOOD Last night she limited that the
veranda wag badly tracked up since the
rain and needed a good washing. 80
tbis morning | turned loose the nose
nine on it. and she praised me right
smart and brought her some roses
from nv garden. We let her sleep untll
breakfast is ready, for she cleans up ner
room and makes UP two beds ana lheh
sews all day for the grandchildren. But
I want that colored house party to breaK
nm as soon as possible. for don't nan
ker after this morning business as
regular Job Mrs. Mimms says sne likes
II and think she does. She has good
room in the back yard and good furnl-
ture and q handsome lamp to read by,
and her little grandson lives with her'
and 1 don't know of apA colored woman
that has a better time. n fact, l know
of lots of good negroes 4 town VINO are
contented with their 81 sation and will
continue so if they are let alone by the
Northern fanatics and Southern cranks.
What craze has come over that man
Sledd to cause him to write such TOOL
piece for the Boston magazine? What
good can it possibly do, if it was true!
But it Is not true and only the product
of a diseased imagination | would write
hard things about him, but for his family
For their sake he had bet
ter have smothered his feelings and his
pen. The Atlantic Monthly has never
shown any love for the South. and why
he should select that as his organ
passeth comprehension. Professor Sledd
SAYS the negro is an inferior race. Then
why does he insist that we give him
Mace in our own churches and hotels and
railroad cars?
1t was the work of the Creator that
made him inferior, and he will remain
so-and neither education nor miscegena-
ton will ever change it so far as social
equality is concerned. Moses violated
the law of God when he married that
Ethiopian woman, and he had to discard
her, and Aaron and Miriam ch1ded MIN
for it a long time afterwards. Numbers
xii. The story goes, according 10
Josephus, that the Egyptians were at
war with the Philippians and had surfer
ed defeat in every battle until Pharoah
was advised that no one could COM
mand his army successfully but Moses. so
Moses was given command and he marcn-
ed with the army to the borders OF
Ethiopia and met the enemy and deIeateo
them and then marched on to Saba. the
royal city, and attacked the walls, ana
Tharbis. the daughter of the King, saw
Moses from the window or her tower.
and he was so handsome that she Tell
desperately in love with him and sent
a messenger to him to say that II he
would marry her she would surrender the
city and army to him. Moses agreed TO
this and their marriage was at once con-
summated Then Moses returned with
his victorious army to Egypt He did
not take with him his Ethiopian wife.
but not long after he married Zipporah,
the daughter of Jethro the Midianite.
So We must suppose that Moses mar
ried the Ethiopian princess as a war
measure and with no idea of keeping
his promise. At any rate it caused
trouble and shame in the family, and SO
it has done ever since whenever white
person mates with a negro.
What a monstrous falsehood to say
that the Southern negro is dehumanized.
Right here in our town every negro me-
chanic is employed It good wages. Black
smiths, carpenters, masons, painters,
draymen are all busy. Cooks, nurses and
washerwomen find constant employment
--and they are not only contented but
sometimes dare to be merry and laugh.
Where did Sledd get all that rot about
kicking and curSing and beating the
negro? We never hear of such treatment
in this region. Mr.. Milan, a truthful
gentleman, whose business keeps him on
the street told me the other day that
he had heard but one oath uttered by
ANYBODY within a year. and that was by
a Northern man towards a negro who