Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — An Automatic Watch. [ARTICLE]

An Automatic Watch.

Washington White, a famous colored man of Boston, was' once observed sitting in a street-car rocking himself to and fro. A friend Inquired If he were 111, and receiving a negative reply, said: "Then why are you weaving back and forth like that?” Washington White made; no pause in his regular oscillations, as he said: "Calhoun, you know Jerome Me Wade? Well, he done sold me a silver watsh for free dollars, and if I stops a-movln* like dis yere de watcledon’t go no mo'.”