The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
REV. AMOS WHITE ON
THE MATURE FAKER'
Negro Clergyman Gives His Views on
the Much Discussed
Problem.

week and preached at Pohick meet
ing house on Sundays, in small Vir
ginia town, has come to the assist
ance of his brother clergyman, DR..
Long, in the nature faker" contro- /
versy, which has lately thrown the |
country into various forms of con-
vulsions. This is what the Rev. Amos |
has to say about it:
Dat Pahson Long has wrote back |
some mighty sassy lettahs ter de
pres'd den bout his 'fusin Their bleab |
dem tales what do pahsen done tole |
bout dem animales gwine ter school |
an settin bones an all dat, but | low |
de pahson's one er desc hyah new
tangled kind O preachahs. | low he |
amt no good, olefashion preachah,
what stirs 'em up on de mo'nahs
bench and b'leabs de Bible lax we all
does. Eff he'd er been one er dat kin
he'd er gone ter de Good Book for
argyminths, Std er gittin affidavits
fun dem folks way off yonder n
Injianny an Australy. Wharbouts in
de Bible is de arguments? Why, dey's
all throo de Book, sab, fun de fust
interducemint O. Adam an Ebe.
'Y' see, when he Lawd put EN- in
de gyarden an tole 'em not ter tech
dat ah apple tree o his'n, he let 'em
lone fer er spell jes ter see what
dey's gwine ter do wild deyselfs. An
one evenin', when he's browsin
aroun, lookin' fer ter see what sort
O. crap he's gwine ter hab, he saw
dem peelin's on de groun'. Den he
calls fer Adam an he didn't glib de
man time fer ter say Howdy for he
asst him whar he git dem close an
what he want wild EN-, anyhow. Den
Ebe, she up n tole de Lawd how she
wuz down by der tree, studyin how
she want gwine ter tech EN-, not
chen eff she wan apples twict ez bad
ez what she do, when long come er
snake an say 'Howdy,' jes ez perlite
ez er city man. An she say when she
tole him bout de apples, de snake
jes laugh an say OATS er faiy tale
an dem apples ain gwine ter hut
her none, not chen glib her de STUN
mick ache. An he talk SO lax er puff
feck gemman, she say, dat TO she
knowed it, she'd done got her ap'on
full er apples an "uz er totin' EN-
ter Adam.
Nov, sub, what did de Lawd do?
Did he b'leab dat ah tale what Ebe
tole him an say, Whar dat oWda-
cious snake? Lemme git at dat vii
yum wiz nah cane an break de back
off n him. No, sab, he didn't say no
sech thing. He done say, 'Gwan out
O. dis hyah gyarden, you no count pc
white trash, err tellin' me bout er
snake talking LAX folks. You ain
nuthin' but err passed. O. natuah fax
abs, OATS what you is An he druv
'em out de gyarden an sont sin intuh
de worl' jes cause he don't b'leab
dat tale o. Bbe's bout de snake talk
ing.
Den dar wuz Jonah, one o desc
hyah trabelin preachers. He 'uz er
gwine down ter Ninebah on de boat
ter tell de folks dar wuz all gwine
ter be 'stroyed, when de sailahs, dey
up n chucked hi movahbo'd lax er
sack O. meal. Den de whale come
long an swallowed him an Jonah
bodied wild him fer three days. You
know all bout dat. When Jonah got
down ter Ninebah he went 'roun'
tellin' de folks dey wuz all gwine ter
be kilt mex SADLY, an skeered 'em
all an den he tile 'em bout him an
de whale an skeered em wussen dat.
But de man what run de newspapah
dar, one o. desc hyah papahs lax de
II dlTldA 11G dlu, L IcChOliy HC CoIhc
out in de papah an say, Don you
folks b'leab dat ar Jonah niger; he
ain nuthin t all but er natuah ia
kah', an he KEEP writin' bout Jonah
tel dey rid him on er rail outer de
town an de 'struction didn' happen
t ALL An all cause de newspapah
man wouldn' bleab de tale bout de
whale.
Ay,b low yry,1 10 / n N
what libed obah in de Cyarmel neig-
business in de distric'; dem prophits
O. Baal warn maxim huff ter pay fer
de bread an meat for dey famblys. |
Everybody come ter 'Lijah, cause dey
knowed dey could pend on him. One
day he picked hisself up an went ter
see old 'Lishy, what wuz in de same
business jes obah de mount'n. When
'Lijah come home he tole de folks
how him an 'Lishy, what didn't hab
no mo- ha'r on his haid dan er turkey
aig, wuz walkin' down de big road |
bout de time de school let out an
de chilluns-day wuz bout err mil
yum of 'em-laffed at 'Lishy, an say,
day did: Go up ole bal haid; go up,
ole bal'haid.' An 'Lishy, he say some
words what DON nobody but proph-
it's know, and TO de chilluns could |
tun 'roun' dar wuz two big harry
bars come down outer de mount'n
an ct up de whole kit n bilin' ov
'em.
"'Cose de folks made err great mi
ration bout de bars eatin' up err
whole school full err chilluns an
everybody, deys talkin' bout Lijah
mon evan an bout de sean lous way
dem bars did, when he prophits O
Baal dey got deyselfs an all de peo-
pie togethah an day say ter 'em:
Ain you shamed O. you'selfts
you all folks b'leabin dat scan-lous
tale O. 'Lijah's bout dem ar bars.
Don you all know dat bars don eat
nobody but what grows? Dat man
ain nuthin' t all but er natuah ia
kah, jes ez shos you bawn.'
can dey jus ruint 'Lijah's bust
ness SOS he had ter git up er prayin'
match wild dem prophits o Baal an
beat 'em playing down de fab fun
heab'n TO he could git his trade back
ag'in. He did sho.
can / reckon eff Pahson Long had
ies minded de presden O. some O
dem good ole Bible tales de pres den
would er asst hi inter write some mo-
tales 'hOut de animaleS SOS he cOu1d