| Show THE DARKEY IN THE SOUTH LEBANON ky aug the conred man to la no great favorite I 1 in the he bauth since slavery has baa been abolished the laboring white people would prefer that be was back JD in africa tor for the negro will work in the cities for a week and his board the hotel keepers livery stable owners and many wealthy people of the cities are glad they are here aa the motley money paid out for lue work doue done is but little many of the owners of the larger plantations would rather have them here as ahry like to have a lot of 0 colored people to boo boas and then they can hire them for their tbell board and a little clothing without paying out any solid cash it if the colored man accumulates a little wealth and desires to live in respectable and fashionable city district districts nobody will sell to him sometimes a negro is able to make such auch a purchase through a white man but whenever this happens all his neigh deig bore bora for a square around become dl dia pleased and make every effort to got get him film out of the neighborhood the same rule role is followed with the renting of houses housea and property so ao generally the negroes are under the necessity aty of living in certain quarters along with others of their own color in nearly every city of the south there is a section which belo begones belones nizo to the colored population usually c called ailed by some name as aa georgetown or cot col ored towo P lu lu the colored districts irom from the balance of the towo town then the railway service of he be south bautti drawn drawe the separation line between the white and colored people very plainly on every train that leaves the depots there are ewe cars maikel for white people and cars care marked por for colored people 0 O the negroes of the south are divided into three pretty distinct classes classee the well to do wiio who has others work ing for him bin the negro degro who Is IB making ft a dally daily living and the indigent pilferers piller pilfer ers who depend tor for a living on the dum number of chickens and other food they can steal the majority of colored people though dont seem to bother their beads much over financial affairs just juat so BO wey they have enough to eat day by day they seem to kp be as free from care and as happy as aa chi children luren the colored people of the south have their own scho schoola olp lc with teachers of their own color presiding in the cities they have their law lawyer yere and doctors and pre achere the ne DO grobe grObS as a rule like to attend church services in one city I 1 was in there had bad been a protracted meeting going on for two wo months moo the meeting every night and the church was crowded all we the time and many sinners loners had come up to the be mourner mourners mour neri Is bench and got re ligion Jigio nand oland been take akeo a joyfully into the folds of the church many or of the darkles darales are fine bus eln gere and when lh the s whole congregation in a are singing it sounds splendidly T the h darkies like the warm summer eummer weather iaus I 1 was walking along a pike road the other day with my umbrella up and just juet roasting the thermometer only registered degrees in the shade 1 and I 1 met an old darkey coming up ur the road with a pitchfork in one hand baud T and a bucket of nice cold looking water in the other 3 mighty warm said 1 I have you some drinking water ahert Yesa ii he said help yourself youre your elf gelf this weather just juet suits me las e went weal OD 1 I can cant stand cold weather and ILS the same with all the dar sl kie a they all like thu the warm weather I 1 1 est beat last winter so eo the story goes there il was a colored protracted cue eting r incon ing on bod and the preacher in telling tg his congre congregation gation where they would go eo if they repent spoke of baraoa re gione as an a place where pitchforks would us oe thrown at the people all the birno llor zi after meeting ous oue of the bembera 0 of his bia congregation came up to adminis ad minie ter a gentle reproof re and he asked him 1 why he be told sold the people this bie the preacher replied by sa saying ying that hw he f care t ta tell them it was a heated region for fear some of his bis rheumatic congregation would want to gu tile chepa too bad J the watermelons water melons are rips ripe here in old kaintuck KaiD tuck now dow tile atie corn top ripening and the birds are making music gytis TIB summer and atio all are gabill gay J JOHN C CUTLER JR JB |
