Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1890 — Very Close to It. [ARTICLE]

Very Close to It.

I asked an old colored man who was rolling cotton in a warehouse in Macon if many of his race didn’t speculate more or le<s In the staple, and he promptly replied: “Heaps of ’em, sah.” “Did you ever buy any futures yourself?” “N —not ’zactly, sah, but I cum mighty clus to it once.” “What stopped you?” “De purleece, sah.” “But why?” “Kase I was gwine out of do yard at night wid 200 pounds of cotton on my back. ” — New York Sun.