The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-11-06
BILL ARP HAS \ GOOD TEXT.
The Negro North and South
n Graceful Compliment is
Paid Him.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
My Northern friend who asked M
TO hold up on the negro and let him q
deal has sent me clipping from
Newport paper and says: Hero Is
good text for your ncXt letter. L
reads as follows: "Ncwport, Octobe:
l1.-At meeting Of the school com
mittce today, George Ellis and wife
| objected to having their Son taught by
colorcd teacher and SAID that if thcil
| son was not admitted to another school
where the teacher was white thoy
would keep hlm 1T home. The com
| mttce refused to change hun and
ordclod the boy to he arrested as a
truant The father filed plea OF not
guilty and the case will go to the high
or court and be tcstcd.' They have
compulsory education there. 1t seems
that this teacher is the daughter of a
preacher, who is the American consul
at st. Thomas. He is a loyal Rcpubli.
can and there is politics in it, and the
lily whites arc in the minority. She
may be one of tho 400 that Waiter
son is troubled about, and 50 | will
Tho same mall that brought me the
text, brought letter from my grand
sou, who is IN the employ of The West
lnghcusc Company, of Plttsburg, and
Is an electric engineer and is now put
ting down Il plant at Utica, N. Y. lie
writes that his contractor had Il num-
Der of white men employed, but as
labor was scarce he picked up an idle
negro and told him to go to work. The
white men rcbcllcd violently against
This and threatened to quit, and so the
negro had to be sent Off. When | was
last in mississippi the barber who
shaved nc said he came down from
ILLINOIS on account Of his health and
was amazed to find white folks down
here patronlzc negro BARRIERS, and that
ii one dared to open shop in anv
town in Illinois he would be mDbbcd
and run out of the place.
like Banquo's ghost, this race pro-
blcm Will not down. 1t has as many
phases rs there arc times and places.
Shortly after the war the Yankee
school marms hurried down here TO
educate the negro, but they soon tired
of it and went back. Now Il negro
woman has gone up there to teach
their white children. That is all right.
We don't caro-. AS Cobc says: It's
all optionary with me-" Now will
let the negro go dead for awhile. 1t
VIII take many years yet to settle the
problem, but it will be SO. tlcll. The
TWO races work together very harmon.
i"nsll ~ our I" II and county u,,i we
are recon, LED /" IT," S'tn,:i0n.
| wish that u,crl G., immunity had as
many blessings as We 'ni " No
atIikcs, DO murders nor uulraycs of uny
kind-no street fight, no cussing, no
cyclones nor floods nor raminc-nu
pcstllcnce, no fires. We havo good
schools, good churches, good preachers
and good humble congl ogations.
Every church has Il nco comfort
able home for tho preacher and
there is one more for the prcsid-
ing elder. We have good s0ciablu
community "L' 80 >,uckur families.
Not "rt,. ;>.,.. j u - /, ks put on any
: ira ".''I ;n' I,.,i - us. | visited them
| II "a ,E, eve ANA was treated with
Ahn Ia st t. r'lmi hospitality. Their
h ne : 4 paInCr and their garden and
| ~ uiiIS II llt,c PARADISE.
| a!a Sultlng strong again and walk.
10 town last week for the first time
| IN Lhroc M Inths--whcn | came home
| my wife shook her fist at me ana said
:" believe you will oullivc me yet.'
From tllc tone of her voice I.thought
maybe she was mad about it. We
| have 4. early compile cd the finest c0ur,
house in the State. 1t is in full
view from the window whore write.
and l never get tired Of looking at the
beautiful dome that shines hlio silver
il the sun. "a thing of beauty is q
joy forever" Our garden is now
| adorned with beautiful roses and | cut
+ them every morning and my wife al
| lows me to send them TO the prett,
giris-no, l mean to The ancient moth
ers IN our neighborhood. My wife is
| peculiar about that. Nr~\ .
At night l have to help a prctt,
lassic with her arithmetic aud algebr
and Latin. get stalled sometimes
but we generally get through all right
| Wo have a telephone and my dauyh
ter, who lives q mile away, has one
so when her daughter gets stalled sIi
telephones here and our lassic tell
her over the 'phone how ito do i,
Sometimes it takes many figures, mul
tIplylng and dividing, etc., and if thcr
lii mistake: made of only one ligur
near the beginning it runs through I
The end and gets bigger and bigger &
| it goes. And 80 my asslc is disaI
pointed because she did not get ti
answer. Then 90 over all the .llgur,
carefully and find the error, and ST
hasit to do over again. :,
i Just so it is with our habits anu CO.
duct. If a little boy tolls libs or st
|, ries, the habit win grow; on him az
by the .tlme he is grown he Will te
lios. II q boy swaps knives with q
,, other boy and cheats him, he .swlll. g
:, into a habit Of cheating in O. trade al
nobody will trust hin. When To
Il Bonton was fof the first time cane
!, date for Office, it was told ,op him til
when he was a school boy lie stole
knife from ,an9ther boy anti had to- ei
it up and take a whipping. :. And 90
didn't get elected. Ny. father. ,alws
said that knife story was just a lpo1l
I.nnt la L,.I -