Show HUSTLING ONE WAY OF MAKING THE EASY GOING NEGRO STIR HIMSELF A pleasant industry for the charleston colored folic originated by slew york for silver alv ins for greenbacks Green backs A steamer was jost leaving charleston bound for jacksonville fla A stop of several honra at the famous old earthquake city had made a pleasant break in the three days ran from new york many of the passengers had taken advantage of it to drive about the quaint old town curiously observing the great crac bs caused by the upheaval that still remains in many of the buildings others took a sail over to fort moultrie or to fort sumter where the civil war was started perhaps the most interesting point for the sightseers who remained ashore was old st michaels church some of the more sturdy climbed far up into the steeple from whence general beauregard bad watched and directed the battle until the yankee gunners had got the range of his observatory and put a cannon ball right through the steeple not far from the retired these passengers were so much impressed with the historical associations connected with the place that it was almost a relief when a half hours diversion came to them As the steamer was moving away from her pier little tag that puffed and snorted and tooted enough for a couple of ocean liners missed its hold and the big steamers bow drifted slowly around until she lay broadside to the outer end of the pier here she was held for awhile by a stiff breeze that pinned her up against the pier and by the mud that griped her keel perhaps it was the cheerful recollection of past experiences which they hoped to have repeated that caused all the darkies big and little the sax year old and the gray headed stoop shouldered reminiscence of slavery days to hurry down to the end of this pier there aro few things that will arouse the dusky southerner who makes his home iong the river front he is an easy going happy natured fellow fond er of a laugh than ho is of work who j finds bis greatest content in dozing j away in bome eun sheltered nook upon the wharf resting to the full from the arduous toil that ho fancies he may be called upon to perform in the week to come aney were of this class who came trooping down to the steamer by the dozen and score A careful patching into one suit of the attire of half of them would have made a beautiful crazy quilt garb for one it is doubtful if the most conscientious and cobbled could have constructed a decent pair oi shoes out of the material he found upon that pier however it was a diversion to the pi congers on the upper deck to see that mot ley crowd and when a dumpy little fellow with a wonderful mouth that must hav created a great vacuum in the atrens phere every time ha breathed pranced to the front and shouted now badii and gents jes yon tro a dime at dis yere hole n if 1 don ketch it she don count there were instantly three or four dime aimed at the hole but none of them made a bullseye bull 1 fancy the game must have been played before for the instant the dunes flashed in the sunlight a half dozen stalwart negroes leaped upon the shoulders of the possessor of the month and bore him to the ground then there was a A yale harvard football scrimmage is supposed to contain as much of writhing contor dioning tio ning muscular humanity as it is possible to get into a given space but a yale harvard tangle would be a sort of kindergarten der garten frolic in comparison that one scramble lasted more than ten minutes during that time the pile of dusky humanity was ten feet high at least and there were two score of writhing forma in the heap all struggling with desperation to get at the unfortunate fellows down below who were supposed to be clutching the dimes warrant that dureg that ten minutes there was an individual waste of energy that would lave kept the participants in food for a week if otherwise directed but that was only the beginning the sport became as exciting to the watchers as to those who took part quarters and half dollars began to shower upon the wharf which was now thronged thron ged with an eager dark faced multitude whose eyes glistened the moat sober minded passenger caught the infection and began to feel around in his clothes for silver A well known bellevue hospital physician dr J S oneil gathered together all the silver dollars that had been given him in change in charleston and kept halt a dozen heaps of darkies in turmoil at once the climax came as the steamer began slowly to move away from the pier some one waved a two dollar bill and asked who would dive for it 1 I will came from two dozen throats and there was a general peeling of jackets from those who were dudish enough to wear jackets the bill fluttered on to the water ten feet from the pier there was an anxious hesitating regretful pause and a scratching of heads then there was a plunge a few sturdy strokes by a young negro and be clutched the bill the passengers gave him a cheer and the steamer sailed away 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