The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-02
AND AXUM LAUGHS!
n straight" FalStaf in Ebony SIX
Yards "ROInd. -AdmIreS
Clerk Russ.


If you remember the negro min
stref cartoons OF Upper representing
the Trusts and the common People,
you VIII know exactly now Juror AN
um Hinton of st. Mary township
looks wnen he throws back his head
ana laughs because he is 50 fat he
can't help himself.
Juror AXum is cold black and evil
IDENTIFY amused at the tact that ne Is
SO big that he has to get his clothes
made for MIN specially and is grow
ing so fast that he has to get new
suit every SIX months. 1t is funny to
AXum to weigh something over -FOUR
nundred pounds and tote 1T around
win MIN Inc court is funny, people
are Iunny-lt Is TO laugh! IN ms case
laughing Is IL ponderouS operation. II
Jars luv DuIluing with both the volume
OIL its sound and the guSto or It's Vi
DrauonS. The AXum laugh has notn-
ing creepy ABOUT II. 1t comes from
mouth that threatens 10 swallow
ITS mead when il opens, 1t rlppleS OIL
a tongue as pink as that or a hound
pupi,v, il beiiowS in Ilme 20 tWlh
uons of fat about the JoWfS as DIG
as porUernOuSe steaks. ABOVE al II
Is the laugn OF a Niger and 1t Is con-
taglouS and Infectious. When AXunl
laughs the word laughs Win MIN
UNI opens until only the top-moSI klnk
OF hair is visible over the grim, ms
great black nose wrinkles and curls
up over MS upper mp, ne snakes Win
an overlooking undulaton WhlcA
threatens TO swamp the premises anu
from the interior of AXum, the lduSh
comes forth with the music or the
helds, the jollity of corn-snucklng
and the taste OF 'possum. taters anu
mr.
sion OF .ha, Ha, Has, and Ho, no.
HOS! Looking at Axum laugh one
mo. hos" himself or he has the lean
and hungry Cassius beaten TO the
red flag as a cynlc.
When Axum hinton walked To-
wards the jury box those In the court
room looked a moment in his d1rec-
ZION and exploded The court grin
ned. the sheriff grabbed himself with
his hand over his mouth, the water
trlckted from the eyes OF the law
yers AXum seeing the conInotloll'
worked inwardly nke a volcano tndI
was trying to be good ana keep lhe
peace. He was evidently lmpIesseu
with the court but four hundred anu
fifty mounds of five feet six of height
is ant TO make a fellow selfconsclous.
When Axum, felt that the eyes OF the
room were upon him he maze no
mistake With a roll ana an anple'
he sided to the jury box. tested ms
chair and miraculouSly seated nlii-
self with the jury. Instantly the ciidii
disapoeared 1t could be located ohly
&C ner the indentations in the person
of Axum. One marked the arms as
thew sunk into the flesh but saw thelh
not Axum overlooked on either sue
bv the weight of two year ola shod.s
AS he leaned back with a tremendous
militarism of carriage, MS iroht pIo-
iected well-nigh to the jury poA.
Somehow the chair withStood the
strain and Axum eyed the court as
ono who intended to sit on the jury
because having Sot, he knew not now
to pet ND again. When a moment ol
so later he was stood aside the opel
alton of arising was an aIIalr ol o'et -. !;
The chair was attached TO Axuin ahu
the foor TO the chair. There was udli-
ger of pulling the room through the
roof While Axum and the crowd
laughed some more, he eaSed MS Ieel
from the rostrum, placed ms hahuS
on the chair arms and holSteu away:
There was an ominous creak, put Az
nm cot up and left the CHAIR oehiiio'
Had the scene been elsewhere llia.i
a court there would nave peeh WIZ
ferrous applause. a of
c,lerl. of the Court Russ. The clerk
is something of a man hlmseH. ne
and Axum eyed one another admii :
;noty hut the day was Axum's. Inc
c1ark looked like the Babe In the
WOOD which he used to perform TO
the delight of Raleigh audiences.
.Said Axum: "You sees m agellili
sorter fat an Mr.. Chance Ran-yo
All knows who he is-he told me ud'
mavbe eff [ come to see Marse russ,
he cud sell me some CLONES Wiid
nd fit" At this point Axum wen. III
to eruption with his laugh ana con l.
versation ceased for several iiiiliu' =
How much does | weigh! loliiie, % -,
the laughteD. Well, you see, san uey .
ask me dat so much Is sorler go
cuten de habit NV weighln lhioi
lGughter).
can L wuk? Yassir; [ wuks every
day 1 bitches, an L noes an
swubs, an I picks.
How much cotton kin | pick? Wen
| useter pick three hunderd an my
but I can't nick but two hunderd now,
Won sees I'm agettin' fat I'm agettin
f;ttter all de time, yassir, an 1 m aSit-
t;n' weak. When l want so fat L amt
never see de man whut could hanule
me but | amt de man l wuz!
Axum was turned around and exam
ired bv the crowd. He is, roughly
four and a half feet thick, three and a
half feet wide, and about twenty yards
nround-whether that is mathematics
an not. | know this because | walked
around him; it was quite ii little stroll
"Axum." said Clerk Russ, lis al
RIGHT. He owns one of the best farms
N the county, eighty acres in st
Narys bought on time and paid foi