Evening star., 1931-12-06

healthiest and happiest
He says he was 80 years old when he went
with his white master to war in 1861. Maybe
he was, for the oldest citizens here agree that
when they were children, Uncle Nose looked
as old as he does now. But for all his years
his black, vevety skin is unlined, and hardly
thread Of white shows in his thick shock Of
wool.
When the war was over and he was a free
man he took up well digging for living while
his younger brother SAM ran for the State
Senate and defeated his opponent, prominent
white man, by large majority.
Uncle Nose thinks Sam made bad mis-
take when he took up with carpet baggers and
former slaves who were drunk with freedom,
but he tells with pride kow Sam was offered
fine plantation to cast his vote for measure
that threatened hardship for the white people,
and refused because he had white friends at
home
This is true. When Sans term In Office
ended somewhat abruptly and he came home
he was given title to a small piece of land.
The rest OF his life he lived in cabin at the
top of the steep, broken hillside and plowed
his brindle OK, trying to kill the joint grass in
patches of cotton and corn that struggled for
life between rain-washed gullies.
Sam liked to laugh over some of his ex-
periences in the State Capitol at Columbia,
but the only Material things he had left to show
for them were his Prince Albert coat and black
derby hat He wore them to church and 10
the village every Saturday during the so years
he lived afterward, and when death took his
soul to the green fields Of Eden his old body
wore them to its grave
Everybody called Sam Senator" and every
body respected him, for he was honest in
dustrious sober and courteous, good citizen
so long as life lasted.
He and Uncle Nose learned to read and
write when they were boys, along with chill
dren of their white master. Today Uncle Nose
can repeat the multiplication table from twice.
two-are-four up to the twelve times a-hundred
SO glbly his thick loose lips move like a
shuttle in a loom between his sparse black
mustache and beard.
He can start with b-a, ba, be be, b-i bi and
recite the whole old blue-black speller without
hating He can name without hesitation every
President and Vice President from George
Washington to Hoover tell where they came
from, how long they served.
e lives alone in tiny cabin, does his own
cooking and housekeeping The younger
Negroes laugh at him, make sport" as he calls
it, when he tries to set them right, but 1t
rarely disturbs him. When he wants q SYM
pathetic listener or a change Of food he visits
some of his white neighbors.
His legs are short, his body heavy, his feet
bare but he take his foot in his hand"
and walk five miles ten and arrive without
a sign of fatigue.
He sits patiently on the back door step and
waits until the spirit moves one Of the servants
to announce him. They resent him and he
knows it. He sghs over their lack of manners
and says times have changed since he was
young. The cook complains that he eats too
much-as much as three men could hold.
Uncle Nose answers that he has lived as long
as three men, done as much work seen as
much, and three times as much food is his
nf fha 9TH
wearies them out, telling them how to act
Uncle Nose says he despises unmannerable
people worse than anything in the world and
reminds them that once God sent bears to
eat up children who made sport of wise old
man They had better be careful
His old features are built so they cannot
register sorrow. The only sign he gives OF
worryation is shaking his head Lately saw
his head shaking so earnestly I asked what
was wrong. Uncle Nose said sorrowfully that
Satan would get all his people if they did not
change their ways. They had forgotten God,
thought only of pleasuring themselves, dressing
up acting big doings Most of them were bad
az Belshazzer ever was. Only last Sunday-it
was convention Sunday too and the church
was so crowded with delegates some had to
stand outside in the yard-the deacons let a
man fetch barrel of corn liquor and sell it
to delegates and members They got drunk,
had fight, the sheriff came all the way from
town and carried two truck loads to jail What
did Jesus think Of that?
If the people did not quit their doings, God
would lose patience and send curse on them
worse than the curse he put ON Ham Black
people are under Hams curse to this day God
has them marked. They had better watch out
what they do
Ham was lot like the young people now.
God let him go in the ark and be saved be-
cause Noah, his daddy good Christian
man The angel sealed the ark up and took
the key off. Rain came, flooded the rivers,
covered the land, drowned everything in the
world. The ark rode the waters until the sun
came out. After that little dove came back
with an olive branch in his bill the angel un-
locked the ark and came in. He had talk
with Noah and told him the land was full Of
dead folks. Noah would have to bury every one
six feet deep, for the living cannot stay among