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Show Black and White. One of the features of the Michigan copper country winter is the enormous amount of snow that falls and Btaya ' for months. Also, though the idea may , seem apropos, there are few negroes in the district. The only colored folk seen aro the few waiters and porters from the railroad. Two of them were walking along the principal street of the coppei , town just after a heavy snowstorm. Said one lo the other, in speaking of a mutual acquaintance t "Dat niggah jes' treats me wff contempt con-tempt lately. He jes' ignohs me. Passed Pass-ed me on de street yestidday wifout speakin to me ' "Maybe didn't see you," suggested the other. "Didn't see me! Say, man, you mean to say dat one niggah could pass nud-der nud-der on de street in dis yeah town an-not an-not see him An' in all dls snow"" Atlanta Journal. |