The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-06-05
THE RACE PROBLEM AGAIN
The Bantam Hen Hatehes Out Her
Tiny Brood and Bills Little Grand
children are Greatly Elated,
and Muehly Rejoieed over
the Event.

Mhey can I talk luSL enough 10 Ten me
about them. There are little things In
our domestic life and there are big
things, but believe the little things
are the biggest.
For a month or more these children
have been watching and waiting for
the bantam hen to lay her litter and
hatch her little brood and this morn
bag the telephone bell rang furiously
ard It said: "Our bantam hen has
Matched" and soon they came running
to tell us about them, but they didn't
stay five minutes. They had to 90
back and look after the bantams.
Well, there Is nothing prettier
In all nature than a little brood Of
bantam chickens and my faith is they
we're created specially to make little
children happy II seems that they
adglnated in a little town Of that name
. n the island Of Java and have been
-cransplanted to other countries. They
are a game bird and bantam rooster
will attack and whip an ordinary game
cock of five times its weight. These
little children come to see me every
day and to comfort me while am sick
and their presence is the. best medi-
cine | have found. The happiness Of
our children Is the biggest thing in
me- and my desire to live Is mainly
heir sake. The papers are full of
b. things, but they won't compare
with the little ones.
Clark Howell went thousand miles
to make a big speech about Grant.
That was all right. l have more re-
spect for General Grants memory than
for any big man who was on that sido
! but still fail to understand how Lin
! colin came to appoint slave holder as
y General of the army. But time keeps
rolling on and Grants attitude on the
problem seems to be the popular
"a now among our northern brethren.
= The census and the result of negro ed
ucation has at last convinced the ne.
gro lovers of their mistake.
I couldn't imagine what Booker
Washington was to do with that $500.
900 of Carnegie's last gift, but see BY
Boxers late card he is going to ex-
pendN 1t in manufacturing tooth brush
es, and he says he can reform the
whole race by supplying them with
tooth brushes. That is all right
anything to get ria of the money that
keeps on piling up. He migSt add a
side factory for toothpicks.
But, speaking about General Grant
reminds me of his magnificent tomb
at Riverside, and that reminds me OF
a good thing on one o. my boys who
when in New York, not long ago, was
invited by some congenial friends to
take a ride with them and see the
tomb. They stopped in front and my
boy heaved a sigh and said, yes
that's (old Bob Lee-the greatest sol
der who ever lived, and there's what
he saidy at Appomattox when he save
Grant back his sword, Let us have
peace" When informed Of his mis-
course, but my father was, and that's
what happened-so he told me General
Grant surrendered his sword to Gen
erai Lee and old Bob gave 1t back to
him and said: Let us have peace
Box. we want no mistake made
abouAN Ne negroes down here In Dixie
We wan no more slaves. We would
not hay9e one as a free gift. We are
ready to give them away to anybody
who wants them. The last census re
port says the negro is much the most
criminaiNo our population and is in
creasing b crime with fearful rapidly
The negqoes who can read and write
are far more criminal than those who
cannot. The negro is four and one
half times as criminal in New England
whereshe is educated, as he IS in the
e he has not been educated
be done about this. "Toott
des says Booker Washington
Eely the man was joking, but that's
the wayit read over his own signature
Reform the race with tooth brushes
II there is anything in the world that f;
negro does not want 1t is a tool
brush. There is Sam Henderson work
ing in - garden now, and envy hin
fs-f full of big, sound teeth
Jtst {sn9e si one pulled or plugged or t
-tsacffe. love to see him mounting
watermelon
No. It seems to be now admitted b,
northern philanthropists that tn
sonthern negro has been pretty WEI