Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1914 — FELT HE HAD BEEN DECEIVED [ARTICLE]

FELT HE HAD BEEN DECEIVED

Why Old Mose Insisted He Had a Distinct Grievance Against "Marse Tom.” "Economy has its pains as well as Its pleasures,”' says a Washington preacher, "if the experience of an old darky of my acquaintance in Virginia qounts for anything. “One spring, for some reason, old Mose was going around tpwn with a face of dissatisfaction.. When questioned, he poured forth a voluble tale of woe’in these terms: " ‘Marse Tom he come to me last fall an* he say, ‘Mose, dey’s gwine to be a hard winter, so yo’ be keerful, an’ save you’ wages fast an’ tight’ “‘An’ I believe Marse Tom, yassuh. I believe him, an* I save, an’ save, ah* when de winter come it ain’t got no hardship, an* dere I was wid all dat money jest thrown on my hands!”*