The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-12

An Irish %bigrapher OF Roberspierrf
wrote. The unfortunate man lett no
children except one brother who was
killed al the same time
The ridicule OF public men in high
pIaces is often ridiculous. 1t IS so easy
to throw mud at those We NOV will not
even look at us.
The New York alleged literary week
fes utilize most of their editorial
strength in demonstrating that Bryan is
the man of least influence" Bryan has
made too many enemies ever TO be for
gotten.
A high official of the celestial kingdom
| was asked for his opinion regarding wo-
man suffrage, and his reply was
"Wuttiquitinuskichi yawatawchowschichi
youhomottiforjoi." And that is what
| every intelligent person thinks about II.
| Rev. Frank Siler, of Asheville, in be-
| ginning a crusade against a particular
evil, had sense enough to investigate
what he was about to do in order that
| he might know whereof he spoke. There
are many people who would not have
| gone so far as he did, and an equal num-
Der who would not have made a begin
ming.
A Tennessee debating society of color
ed people has just decided (Which is the
more profit to ~man-money or educa-
ton" 1t was claimed that the world
would not be half SO large if it We're not
for education, but the opposition silenced
such talk by declaring EFF 'tWant TO
money, how you niggahs gwine to ride
on de kyars."
It is reported that a man in Chicago
fell from the top of a twelve story
building to the stone pavement without
being injured. He was an insurance
agent and struck on his cheek. AT the
time he lost his balance he was leaning
over the edge of the roof showing his
papers at a painter whom he had freed
on a swinging scaffold.
The Ladies' Home Journal for May
contains a specific and dignified answer
to the question Which is correct. I did
or 1 done?' who did or we done?' it
is a pity that some one does not ask as
to the relative merits Of Il amt and Il
hain't." We are also told that the
weight of testimony favors pr%onouncing
gard rather than guard from which
We infer that Gears" is preferable to
''kyars.' Thanks. Thus are old tradi-
tons swept away.
The esteemed Atlanta Journal rises to
remark that the present lack OF Demo-
cratic Senators from 4>orthern States is
solely attributable to ,Ae foolhardiness
of Deocratic platforms and nominees in
thu T---;1 ~: W.
presume the same thing accounts for
Democratic success in the South, and
now, if some one will please reconcile |
this cause with the similar condition
which existed about 1860, we shall be
satisfied.
on for the wings of a dove she sang,
and the young man who had gone way
back and sat down" and was acting the
part of a third wheel to a chariot, gent
~ took up the strain and sang silently |
to himself, "Oh for the wings of a.
dove or a buZzard or a bull-bat or a bull
dog that | might fly away to a remote
island where l would be the only man.;
and another "love-lorn ~critter' who had
enough heart-sickness, if scattered, to
supply a hospital with patients, joined
in the chorus.
In some aspects, the race controversy
is not different from what it was forty
years ago. The following extract from
the Charlottesville, Va, Chronicle, of
February Is, 1866, could not have been
more timely then than it is now:
I'VE alluded to the editor of the Alex
State Journal the other day as
our 'colored friend To our great sur
rrico r. .ooIo Ill., 49,
man preaching negro equality day after
day, and yet he considers it degrading
to be called a niger. This forcibly il
the sincerity of the Radicals.
can't see any harm In being called
a Niger if they are as good as white
One day an old negro was standing on
a street in a Northern city looking like !
he had had about enough of it when he
was accosted by two gentlemen, one be-
lng a Northerner and toe other a South
erner. Uncle said the first politely,
Will you be so kline as to please direct
Us to the nearest HOTEL The negro
rolled his eyes as he replied 81 do know
rothln bout no hotel-you amt no
O. mine Here, you black
put in the Southerner, take
this grip to the hotel, and get a move
On you" The negro grabbed his cap in
his hand said, "Yassir; yassir, BOSNIAN,
lse gwine right dar now" Which of
the two was best qualified to deal with
he race troubles?
Did it ever occur to you that the race
is all in the North? 1t has
been so. Negroes were brought
here from the North or by Northern
the slaves were induced to run
way by the North, and now social
is being urged by part Of the
North. They can say like Jack Falstaff {
said OF fun, 1T is all by me or of me-
Inc deeply lamentel Or. Curry said that
the North believes in social equality {
down here That some of them do I
lrge 1t is certainly trne: DR.. Truman
Backus said in his speech at Winston :
salem at the Educational Conference in
April, 1901, that the curse of the South
S social dlsassociatiOn." 1t is so easy !
or them to talk such high sounding non
entities because they are not directly
concerned in the matter, but no one ever
nears of social equality in the North ex-