The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-11-04

NV Northern friend who asked me to
| hold up on the negro and let him 20 dead
has sent ne a clipping from 4 NeWpor
paper and says: Here is 4 good text
for Your next letter. 1t reads as follows:
Newport. October 14.-At a meeting OF
The school committee today. George ellis
and wife objected to having their son
taught BY a colorcd teacher ana Sald
that if their son was not admitted TO an
other school where the teacher was
white they would keep him al home. me
committee refused TO change him ana Or
| dercd the boy to be arrested as a truan'-
The fathe filed a plea of not guilty ana
the case viii go to the higher court ana
be tested They have compulsory edu-
cation there. 1t seems that this LeacheT
is the daughter Of q preacher, VINO IS
the American consul at st. Thomas. lie
is a loyal Republican and there IS pom
| tics in 1t. and the lily whites are in
| the minority. She may be one OF the
| 400 that Watterson IS troubled about,
| ana 50 l will turn over the text TO HIM
The same mail that brought me the
! text, brought q letter from my grandson,
who is in the employ of the WeSting-
house Company, of PittSburg, and IS an
| electric engineer and is now putting
down a plant at Utica, y. Y. He writes
| that his contractor had q number OF
white men employed but as labor was
| scarce he picked UP an idle negro and
j told him to go to work. The white men
;, rebelled violently against this and
| threatened to quit, and so the negro had
to be he sent Oft. When | was last in
! Mississippi the barber who shaved me
said he came down from Illinois on &C
count Of his health and was amazed to
GA .,I;+o f1ll,- lov,, LC,O# p MIR 20
gro BARRIERS, and that # enc dared to
open q shop in any town in Illinois he
would be mobbed and run out Of the
place. Like Banquo's ghost, this race
problem will not down. 1t has many
phases. Shortly after the war the Yam
kee school marms hurried down here to
educate the negro, but they soon tired
of it and went back. Now a negro wo-
man has gone UP there to teach their
white children. That is all right. We
don't care. AS CODE says Its all OPP
tionary with me- Now l VII let the
negro go dead awhile. 1t will take
many years yet to settle the problem,
but it will be settled. The two races
work together very tremendously in our
town and county and we arc roconcilod
to the situation. l wish that every com
munity had as many blessings as we en-
JOY. No strikes, no murders nor out
RACES of any kind-no street fights, no
cursing, no cyclones nor floods nor ia
mine-no pestilence, no fires. We have
good schools, good churches, good preach
eIs and good humble congregations.
Every church has a nice comfortable
home for the preacher and there is one
more for the presiding elder. We have
q good sociable community with no
! stuckup families. Not even Sam Jones
folks put on any airs over the rest Of us.
/ visited them on Sunday eve and was
treated with the most cordial hospitali-
ty. Their home is a palace and their
garden and grounds a little paradise. I
am getting strong again and walked to
town last week for the first time in
three months-when l came home my
wife shook her fist at ne and said. Il
believe you Will 0utlive me YETI From
the tone Of her voice | thought maybe
she was mad about it.. We have nearly
completed the finest court house in the
State. It is in full view from the window
where | write and l never get tired Of
looking at the beautiful dome thai shines
like silver IL the sun. "A thing of beau
" is a JOY forever" Our garden is now
adorned with beautiful roses and cut
them every morning aud my wife allows
me to send them 10 the pretty girls-no.
l mean TO the ancient mothers in our
heighborhood. My wife is peculiar about
that. At night l have to help q pretty
lassie with her arithmetic and algebra
and Latin. | get stalled sometimes but
we generally get through all right. We
nave a telephone and my daughter. who
lives a mile away, has one. SO when
her daughter gets stalled she telephones
mere and our lassie tells her over the
phone how TO do It. Sometimes il takes
many hSures, multiplying and dividing.
etc, and II there is a mistake made Of
only one figure near the beginning II
runs through to the end and gets big
ger ana bigger as it goes. And SO nv
laSSie IS disappointed because she did nor
get the answer. Then | go over all the
hgures carefully and find the error ana
she has It TO do over again. .Iust So II
IS with our habits and conduct. II n If
tie boy tells hbs stories. the habit will
grow en- him and b. the time he is grown
ne VIII tell lies. If a boy swans knives
with another boy and cheats him no will
get INTO a habit of cheating in q trade
ana nobody Will trust him. When Ton,
! bthton was for the first time 2 candi-
dale FOR Office, it was told ON hin, tb,+
"neh ne was a school boy he stole >
knlte from another boy and had 70 oiro
~ up and take a whipping. And so no