The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-02
Indianola Man Tells Unique Story OF
the COlored Brother in the
Mississippi Delta
Country.
LIKE IN THE WORLD UNKNOWN
An Account of the Various Phases of
Delta Life Amongst the Ne
gro Race-Their Char
acter.

admirer of the wondrous works of
God. In my early days, birds, bees,
bugs and flowers were a reverend
ing source of pleasure to me; and
when lad of more mature years /
have laid for hours in the shade of
some friendly tree and played with a
toad frog or June Bug until dinner
supposed to have been diligently hoe
ing cotton. In after years have sat
silently on the seashore and watched
the tide ebb and flow; have climbed
the lofty mountains and stood on the
banks of the worlds greatest river
and watched its turbulent waters roll
by; I have looked above into the
starry decked dome of heaven and
gazed upon the far-away planets and
comets performing their stupenduous
and harmonious revolutions and have
seen written upon the face of all
nature the glory and wonder of the
great Creator. But I have always,
and do now regard the negro as his
masterpiece. He stands alone in a
class by himself; and while the Yazoo
and the Mississippi Delta is peculiar
ly suited to his needs, yet he can ad-
just himself to any kind of climate
fand live and die happy under the
most trying circumstances.
Sleep in the Sun.
He can lie down beneath the scoreh-
ing rays of monday sun and sleep
the sleep of the seven sleepers of old
without suffering any evil effects
from it whatever; or he can weather
the fiercest winter gales, clad only in
q pair of cotton overalls and a blue
jumper. He can also wear an over
coat to Fourth of July celebration,
or pair of linen pants and an alpaca
coat to Christmas tree and be per-
fectly comfortable.
And strange as it may seem, any
body's clothes will fit him and look
nice on him. King Solomon in his
declining years, when he had become
thoroughly disgusted with high So
ciety and fast living said that there
was nothing new underGhe sun; that
he had gone all the gaits and had
: seen the whole show, from the free
exhibition to the grand concert, and
that there was nothing to it, or words
to that effect But it will be remem-
bered that he never had any negroes
to deal with or he would have had a
new problem to solve every day of his
eventful life. There is nothing else
like the negro under the sun. He sees
all things, hears all things, believes
all things, and has implicit faith in
everything he sees or hears and
stands ready at all times to step
aboard of anything that come along
from young mule to a flying ma
chine.
Has Used Wireless.
Wireless telegraphy is nothing new
for him; he has used it for ages;
every negro's mouth is transmitter
and every ear is receiver. If any
thing Of Importance happens on
plantation at night, every negro for
forty miles around will know it by
morning.
If you ever arrive in a Delta town
on the train on Sunday and the whole
colored population is not at the depot
to meet you, do not get off the train,
for you may know that of surety
some catastrophe has just struck that
town.
Saturday. is his special day by Gus
tom and common consent, and if you
have any business to attend to in a
Delta town on Saturday, attend to it
early and get off the streets before
you get hurt. A negro cannot see you
Saturday, unless you owe him some
thing, and if you get in his way he is
liable to step on you, sit down on you,
or back you up against brick wall
and smother you to death. He does
not usually do these things or any of
them through any evil design as
many sometime suppose, but he sim
ply cannot help it Il you get in his
way, for he is busy and cannot look
out for you. Saturday is his crash
ion" and newspaper exchange day,
and in addition to having all these
things in his mind, he has to shake
hands with every negro in town and
hug every negro woman he meets.
You had better take out an accident
policy or get off the street Saturday.
Stomach Like an Aceordian.
The standard "Rashions" for a ne