The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-11

,sss every day epd keeps up With Ghe
..nsations. Mo3t ofthe time she sits
:. her accustomed corner and plies hel
AssaIo End thread, eL:sgs. .:.sls gar.
msnty for her grand children, Of new
lovers for the cushions or mendine
ruderclothes or darning ~Btockipgs
:, something. When she getg tired
she walks in the garden or goes down
n see Jessie and the children. She
vent to town yesterday and bought
some thread and some toilet soap and
~, weighed and asked the family all
around to guess how much and one
messed it, exactly one hundred and
] SSi iiy pounds. She; asked mo TO guess,
4 Init I said no-she had had hst way
! 50 often and SO long that I couldn't
come near it and she shook her ast at
due. Good graoiousl when I married
! her she didn't weigha hundred and
8vore number two shoe 8 end stepped
Hike a deer. "Tempus fugit,' next
week will be the f~lfty:fonrth anniver-
suy Of our wedding day, i~fty-four-
sths talismanio number made up Of
mines or its multipleS as 81 9. 9, 1927,
A,-3 and 6 are 8, I and 8 are 9, 2
5,pd Z are 9, E and 4 are 8. Aud soon
our birthdays will come along again,
B,hs first and fifteenth Of Jane, and
3Stine keeps rolling on.
j Ny wife was reading the paper and.
y 4uuddenly stopped and spoke to me,
laying: "Well, isn't It about time to
lquit writing about the negro2" "Why
8soY' said I. "Why, don't you Gee
shat the whole business Of the raos
& problem was settled in Atlanta last
Sunday? The mayor and the preach
1s, black and white, eli made speech
s es, and seemed TO agree and every
hing is harmonious. So il I was you
would write about something else.
lake up George Washington for q
3hsnge and let Booker so dead"
Il Well, they did play on the harmoni-.
= an right smart and I hope tho prob
en will take a rest, for everybody is
lsd Of it. Even Crnmpaoker is
bred, and now says the h zrni must
ork out his own salvation. That's
right. When they call off the
pgs, I'll quit. They are waking up
the true character Of the negro. "a
hicago man who has been. visiting
DO prisons says there arsabonrt; forty-
K thousand negroes IN that city
}hiSh lis about two PER cent OF the
aaanla.ion and Tat the prison records
shown him By vardens, show the
esgroes to be thirty per dent OF alll
sAe criminals confined; and that the
Ssegro quarter Of the city is the rem
lNOus and the refuge Of nearly all
white burglars and thieses that
PEST the city. ..ls Ss5
But that none Of my business, as
y wife says Chicago needs them
4 municipal politics. But I have
pit. Let the negro, go along aud
1alute, as Crumpacker says. + had
|sher look out Of my window andssee
70 little girls comic up Che walk
fnd in handt 10 me than to write:
|sut anything: And the little boy.
coming too. His nurse is rolling
in his earrings and he will run to
Us soon as no gets in stheroom and
nestle on my knees and say his.
te words, and my greatsas comfort
That all of them love me and won't
home without kissing me q awasti
pdby. That nurse is 4 copper.colos
girl aboue twelve years OLD, and she
/ Iss and watches him al carefully as
bother. She is the daughter 81 orr.
fton, who is the janisor of che pub
school. He and Lis good vlse aret
;ptions to ell the frailtiss of the
/, and so are theiF children. If
70 we're manylike thep1here would,
20 race problem. Those three little
loren Como 20 see me day and,
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