Show OLD NEGRO USES PROP TO LEARN TO READ READI I KANSAS A SAS CITY Mo fo Nov 2 Declaring It his lifelong ambition to learn to read readar ar arid d write John W W. Smith 68 years rears old a negro and a a. former slave last nl night ht appeared appeared ap ap- ap at the night school for negro children chil dren In Kansas City Kan Nan and asked d to tobe tobe tobe be admitted lie will be enrolled but will have to pay 1 a a. month tuition The old negro who followed his owner Colonel Polk In t the he civil war when the master fought the union troops explained his Ignorance by sa saying ing My I old master was mighty good g to me but nobody used to think of ot teaching a slave to lo read or 01 write I have given Iven all of m my bo boys s 's a goods p- p education and now I am going to have my mr turn Almost eve everybody bo y can read and write and when I want to know what is in n a paper 1 I have to got get someone someone someone some some- one to read It to me |