The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-03-13
Senator Mark Hanna Anent
r-that Ex-Slavo Pension Bill.
IS SIMPLY A GAME OF POLITICS
With stolcal Fortt0de Barlow Man
- Relates an Exciting Experience
With Fire and a Hot Water
Baa-ls Resting Easy.

F. Z
IRE Of the Greeks when they come
} gifts / suspected Mark Hanna
wHea he introduced that bill. He is a
Greek and he is from Ohio. Beware! |
BVt he made a bad break. He was try
ing to get ahead of Teddy, and failed.
Bring IN another horse, Mark. We
were willing for your folks to pension
our old darkles, but your bill would
have salivated half the population, and
Included the 10000 you stole from us
b0 he the war Our old negroes are
best we have got They are still
dmble and trusty. My wife brought
three shuck foot mats from one yes
terday and got another to put split
bottom in a chair. We would rejoice
to see these old negroes handle some |
pension money An old woman go'
S24 yesterday for her husbands ser |
vice and l asked her what he done,
and she said he kept the officers OF his !
company in chickens all the way from
CHATTANOOGA to Savannah. Our old
( Vs5ek. Aunt Ann, said the colored peo-
BE were powerful end OF chickens
too and If her old man could not get
chicken any otner way, he would go to
town and buy one
But 1t now looks like Teddy's hand
has busted on the race problem. lie
can't solve it. The north is worse
puzzled over it than ever,
and Secretary Root has spoken
aut in meeting and says that So
9laf equality and offceholding has to
be abandoned Bishop Turner declareS
that the whole problem is in a more
unsettled condition than it has been in
thirty years, and they must be sent
back to Africa. That Is all right, but
we want those who brought them herr
to be made to take them back. Contis-
cate Fanueil Hall and sell it out for
z enough money to build one ship, and
name it the Jolly Bachelor" which
Was the first slave ship that brought
n EN- here. Load it down with cargo
6f bucks and buckesses under thirty
wears of age. When Turner begins to
ship EN- from this part OF the country
we want to pick 'em. There are about
fifty trifing vagabonds hanging around
this town and we can't kill EN- on WlIn
the smallpox or anything else. Two OF
our doctors went to the niger school
vaccinate em and took the police
Abcked the DOORS but the coons al
jumped out of the windows and some
ran under the house and some raj
home and some hid in a hollow log o.
no
get half of them. But we are gettln'
along fairly well with our negroes, GU
,,household servants, the COOKS an
FLASHER women and their children
hThev we're all brought up here an
vaccinated Negroes in daily conIac
with white employees give no trouble
Tbav are respected and industrious
They do not want to go to Africa an
thew are not going. 1t is this restless
ating population that we want
rid or There are young whit
r.' - not much better, and the phil
9fes lust suits them exactly.
But I am easy now, getting petter-
except on rainy days when the ea
wind nrevails-the same old east VIII
that one Oh JOD 5 AllOAOS SOAAAP A
about when he said, Should WIS
man fiji his belly with the east wind
I am getting stronger in my underpln
Not long ago they were swollen so Da
" that away in the dead hours Oh q
Might while l was nodding in my cna
got up to see what time it was &c
nv perpendicular and my legs ga
wav and I fell in the fire with t
chair on top Of me- My VIE heard t
rs. racket and jumped from her bed a
avt6red me out. did not get burn'
Nut bruised my shoulder where
Enck the CRATE And last night WIN
was suffering in the abdominal
alons she got a hot water bag a
nlaced 1t where it could do most &c
and 7 went off to sleep and slept
sleep of the just until breakfast til
Vfhen all of a sudden the bag blu
"a the hot water scalded me amaz
before 1 could wake up. l halloed
helm and broke up the breakfast,
they all came running and had to st
of nv garments and change the she
and everything, and had liked to n
skinned me as clean as a hog, Tor
water was still as hot as fire. And
1ween FIRE and hot water consl
self an injured person, but my
INKS the scalding did me good
,~oose5 tho alacrity OF my mt