The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-06-17

bt 10y Of the simplest order. A pep into
a white mans home one story high d.
closed a room twelve by fifteen teet 10
sLe. The simple meal was being cooked
IN the fireplace, an Occasi9nailo board
kept one feet Of q the damp earth Il Dor.
and a bed. a table and b, nch consii
tuted the furniture Yet happy families
live cOntentedly in ,ach quarters. with
no tendency to race suicide In che
cJlOred home a widDwer with siI childfcn
married a wife thirteen years Of age and
now At the age Of thirty. three she smiles
On her seventeen children whi!e her hus.
band has his twenty three.
A strikir feature Oi the poor - hites
Is the compete absence Of foreign blood
Uf y hch fact they seem very proud.
The attractive features are the town
homes u the well TODD. They invariably
live here. ard their handsome homes
with their lofty colonnades their well
rhis led features and courily manner,
their open hospitality and high ideals
stamp them as a peculiar people whose
bluc blood sprung from royal ancestry
These towns loom up along the railroads
at intervals Of ten or fifteen miles and
often aC;ive in their commercial and
manufacturing interests !, NAV he re.
marked that the greatest rivalry exists
among them. and is most cOnsp'euous!y
shown on the baseball grounds. each
town having its crack team We saw
GpldsbDro b,a. Fayetteville on the
latt,r's ground by score Of 10 3, the
game bang AS well played as We have
ever seen
All farming is done bV t,nant,-laTgely
c1lgred-but the landlord retains almost
complete contr He or his foreman
outlines he system of farming and directs
its d ,ily operations. expecting 10 see a
the activities Of the placet~ &C daily, and
in his leaie he reserves the right TO re
move triil ny tc lant during the season
and complete the years operations at
the latter's expense. The extent of
plantation is indicated by its number Of
mulrs. one lc'ng allpac1for thirty acres,
40 that thirty mule plantation means
one Of nine hundred acres.
The Niger las he is universally called
and his mule which is generally good
one, are inseparable partners Thtir day
lasts from sun tosun' except on Satur
day afternoon when both are bound u
20 to town. load VI truck etc, often
be- ny taken toe1chansc for merch andise
Tn, planter nearly always runs com
nissary department and at tn. end ut
the year owns the tenants crops for al.
vance, previously made.
The law goytr ing trespa,s'ng stock is
] the reverse Of ours we must keep our
stock within our own enclosure, The
SIuthern'r must keep OUT every one
elscs This makes the burden heavy AS
much land lie. In commons. h'ch support
,tctrc4tt'c and "raz1r backs Allcalv,s
are turned out to grow; many die but
{ 1e survivors have cost nothing To raise
and at two years cid are worth eighteen
~ twenty d, liars Tn. razor back is
everywhere, cleaning for precafiOus
living and is expected to weigh from
seventy 20 eighty u1ds when one wear
old Recently thrifty fellow was seen
to watch his chance and dash up the
steps into the express Office where he
grabbed up an express package andtoOk
TO the woods to discover its contents
dog has no chance to catch him on a
run and 1t is only during the last month
or so Of his life that he does not live
rpvin life In the woods
To US the most depressing .izn is the
hopeless lack Ct ambition mong the poor
rr classes They are satisfied because
they never know anything better and
the child naturally steps into the shoes
of the parent Little girls are II universally
Ien chewing snuff two yellIw streams
uniting at the has- Of the chin. and their
appetite is satisfied with food on which
We could not exist -Four months Of
school is the most thai is available in
the country and as much illiteracy eIists
among the whites AS among the III ,cks
To their credit be it said, int DIicants
have been hanished hy their state cpnsti.
tuition, so that sDbfiety and order preyail
where in the past the i'll effects Of in
Temperance were prevalent
II tie thrift OF the foreign invader were
introduced we believe its benehc ial effects
would he great. but the cncTyating in.
iluence Of their climate. the traditions OF
the past and the baneful effects Of large
proportion Of tn, If negro population will
in our Judgment for generations to come
seriously counterfeit the many blessings
bestowed by nature on this land Of milk
and honey" Hartford, as place to live.
where the standard of living for the
10 VT classes me ans some hir more than
merely staying In the world, beats the
south every day in the week