The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-22
Charles E. Stump Has
Left His Farm Awav
Out in Kansas and Has
Started Out on Another
Tour Through the
Southern States

tnat, and there were other soldiers
that did not move so fast, but they got
there just the same. They tried to put
me out of business.
Bright and early, battered, wounded,
L came into Kansas City and sought
shelter where was received with open
arms at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Til
ford Davis, ZIG Washington Blvd. 1
was glad indeed to get there, and it
seemed to me that 1 tried to sleep a
whole week without opening my eyes.
They made me so comfortable. The
son will enter high school in the fall,
and the daughter will enter the senior
class at the same time. She will come
out and he will go in. They are GER
tainly smart children. This girl will
be high school graduate back in her
teen age. Good for that.
1t is good to have friends in this
world, and L am proud that wher 1
was chased off of the farm 1 had a
place in town where I could go for rest.
Mr.. Davis is still toting mail to the
people, and while his wife has been
sick, yet she is active in work which
means the uplift of our people. She
is now the writer in the grand court
of Calanthe, and 1 am told that she Is
a good one at that.
She went to Missouri one night, and
of course went along. We were walk
ing along on that broad big street lead
ing to her house, and all at once no.
ticed that she was jumping and scream
ing. 1 thought at first she had seen
a ghost and had a crawley feeling.
1 was ready to do some real good
running. 1 thought 1 saw something
in the shape of man without head,
and then 1 thought that there were
robbers. 1t was all 1 could do to keep
my heart from jumping out of my
mouth, and when was pulling off my
coat and hat and had thrown them
aside to run, 1 learned that she mad
seen a snake.
Just imagine how 1 felt to find d
snake right in the street, and 1 thought
that it was one of them things which
attacked me on the farm acting as a
spy, and the rule in war is to kill a
spy without warning, so 1 got the
stones, and gave them to Mrs. Davis to
do the killing, and believe me honey
it was not long before she had sent
that snake away from this world.
Then 1 wanted the world to see the
snake we had killed. 1t was just about
the size of a pencil. But he is dead
now, and 1 do not like to talk about
the dead. We stopped by the home
of Miss Laura J. Harlan, who is prinei-
pal of one of the public schools here in
town. We told her of the battle we
had fought, and in commemoration of
our victory she made some fine lemon
ade. She crowned US as heroes, and L
feel like I am some brave man. When
we told Mr.. Davis about it, you know
he is already a poet, and he wrote
poetry, no doubt, about our bloody con-
fiict on the streets of Kansas City,
Kans., and Miss Kathryn Davis, will
make snakeelogy a part of her gradua-
ting thesis, for she has learned so much
about it. The next day they all went
down to see the bloody battlefield, and
all that was left was the lifeless body
of that snake.
Things are now in shape fer the Ma
tional Negro Business League, and the
people are ready to entertain their
guests. I thought 1 was going to in
vite some of them to go out on my
farm, and will do so yet if 1 can get
a regiment of soldiers to 60 out there
and clean up. am going to send to
the paper an ad "Wanted 1000 brave
soldiers to enter the army in Kansas
They are going to have some big
times out here and will tell you about
it next week. Let me hear from you.