Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-09

my way about the next presidential
election" said Private Allen in answer
to a question. Harmon seems To he
the man to whom our people are look
ing with more favor than anybody else.
1t is true that since that crank shot
him, MAYOR Gaynor has come into a
| great deal Of notice. OF course, the
elections this fall will have a good
deal to do with prospects, and II Judge
Harmon carries his state he will look
like It to our people down south.
| Yes, there is some talk about the
high cost of living down my way, but
the southern people are not altoSether
|dependent on others for living.
There are fewer large cities and our
people. being more rural than they are
I'D north, for the most part raise what
: they use for food, so that the higher
cost of living doesn't make such an
impression down there as 1t does up
here, where the population Is con-
gested and everybody has to buy what
he eats.
"There is progressive spirit
abroad i'm our state. which reminds
me of conversation | heard Just De-
fore leaving home. Two of the ne
gro servants had just come back from
a big funeral near by
| w dS IL IiuIIl VI
sister asked them.
| "Lawd. yes, missy replied one OF
them. Why, dab was moh shoutin'
an hallelujahin' Ovah dat cohpse dan
All evah seen at revival.
| But why the noise? l should think
at a funeral everything would have
been quiet and sober.
| "Lawd. no, missy. Don't de good
Book say 'Yuh mus not squinch de
sperrit"
Tell that story about the trans
fers." suggested one of the party.
| well, | happened to tell it because
the man who got up the dinner to
President Taft in st. Louis was a
IStreet railway man. There were TWO
darkies who were discussing the Diff
ference i'm the way the negro and the
white man got along, and one of them
said, 'Ah tell yuh what Eph'm, dah' S
a lot in dis heah transfer buS'n
De white man undahstan's it, but de
lniggah don't
"'Yuh see. de niggah done give a
lnOte to de StOhkeeper, an de Stoh-
Ikeepah he write somep'n on 1T, an
give il to de commission man. De
commission man he write SOmepn on
| it, and give it to de bank. P'haps
de bank give it to anOthah bank. Now
| all dem white folks don't do nothin'
an de poh niggah is de only one what
has to pay
That reminds me of negro who
called in at the ticket office in At
lanta and asked what would be the
price of q ticket to Birmingham.
Five dollars he was told.
| "'An' what would be de price or a
ticket foh a cOhpse to Burnin ham 2,
he inquired. Negroes always call
Birmingham 'Burin'ham' from the
| odor and the smoke, it is supposed.
Same price, $5,' was the reply.
1.-The negro thought moment.
Then, An what is the price of a
round trip ticket foh a live pusson
to Burnin'ham?
"'Nine dollars and forty cents
"An' what would you hahge fOh
a cohpse, roun' trip ticket foh a
cOhpse?'
the agent Say, what's tho matter
with you; figuring on taking trip
with n dead man?'
"Look heah, Mistah White Man,
you seem to know more Of nah
business than All does mahSef. Abs
jeS' askin' fOh information. Yuh see,
muh wife's done died, an all huh
folks lives in Burnin'ham. Ah'm fig
urin' whethah hit wouldn't be cheapah
to take de cohpse Ovah dah an let
'em do all de fuSSin' an Shoutin ovah
| de remains, an den bring huh back
heah an bury huh, SOS not to have
all dat passel o hungry coons livin'
off o. me foh a week. New York
Sun.