The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-16

umn of country correspondence from
the village Of De wife was discovered,
IL was from De VAtt that g large part
of the men rode who were responsible
for the killings And i'm the center OF
that little batch of items stating that
The election passed of quietly here
and everybody Is ready 10 80 10 work
and that there was a heavy frost
Sunday night appeared this para
graph.
"The excitement al ST. Charles Is
about played out. Ii was started by
negroes knocking two white men in
the head with a table leg
That was absolutely all, but it was
sufficient to indicate one Of the most
significant and dangerous angles Of the
race prOblem-that the life of negro
is looked upon bE great many people
in the black belt of the south as Of no
more importance than that Of yellow
dog.
A southern man who was questioned
about the race problem by northern
er answered by telling this story:
Once there were two boys, school
mates brought mp in the same town
and always good chums, They both
moved to a large city. one of the boys
prOspered greatly and quickly With
I'm ten years he had acquired a fortune
If quarter Of a million dollars The
/ other boy did not fare So we'll. in the
same length Of time he had got t0geth
er only q few thousands The poor
man was Jealous Of his rivals success.
I One afternoon the two men met at
club and the poor man took advantage
of the opportunity TO question
his old playmate
I'D like "a know, Bib n said, why
you've got along so much better and so
much faster than I have We we're
ra iSed together went TO school togcth-
er, and 7 never thought you had any
more brains than I have. Now, tell me
what's the secret of your SUCCESS
Jack answered BILL do you re-
member old JEFF Hawkins who used 20
Keep store there in the pOstohice block
in our old towu2'
yes / remember him
''Weli. one day my father told me
that old jeff got rich by mindiug his
+ own business
Tie rich man stopped and waited to
{ see the effect Of his rebuke on his ques-
TONER But &c did not make the slight
] EST impression
NO wonder" answered Jack. HE
( had a monopoly"
Tive years ago two men from Chi
cage were the guests for day OF an
! extremely rich and prominent old man
q
member Of Forests famous cavalry
during the war, and was noted as
hFe-eater- One afternoon the old man
and his TWO northern guests got on
street ear together at one of the prin-
cinaI street corners i'm Memphis.
It happened that one side of the
/ street ear was pretty well filled At
one end OF the other seat half dozen
/ people were sitting, leaving more than
enough room to accommodate the new
/ corners. But midway i'm this vacant
/ space sat a young and loudly dressed
NEGRO man,
The young negro looked up as the
three white men entered the car, but
made no sign of moving over so as to
/ leave space Tor the three Of them to
! sit down together. The old sOutherner
said nothing. He sat down beside the
negro. put his hand into his wsistcoat
dainty penkuife. Deliberately he
and reaching over iabbed the negro
lin the leg with it. The negro gave
wild yell Of terror and ieaped from
the car still calmly and deliberately
the old man closed his knife. put it
/ back in his waistcoat pocket. and, with
courtly GESTURE TO his two friends
from The north. who were still stand
ing. said.
sit down. gentlemen.
Nor did he ever again refer 90 the in
cident. As for the two men from the
north they were too greatly aston
ished to call attention to it.-Chicago
Tribune.