Show longevity personified senator benjamin F tillman relates an amusing ane anecdote dote about a colored nian named jeff who has been with u neighboring south carolina family bince before tho the war mar one day paid said mr ir tillman his hl mistress waa was rather surprised when old jeff asked to have a few days off to go as he put it up to de do old state of Il hosting to see hij hia aunt ahr why jeff said 11 the lad our aunt must be pretty old lent lant she besin yes Ye sin in he replied desm roah mah aunt must be pretty ole no aehee bout ah hundred an alvo years ole now one hundred and five earsl ears ex claimed bis his mistress rol itress what on earth Is ehe she doing upshere up there in boston deed I 1 Is a denno what hat abes doln dola maam rejoined old jeff in 1 all seriousness Berlo shoo he up dere livin wid her gran gram mother |