Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1915 — Unfortunate? [ARTICLE]

Unfortunate?

An old darkey appealing to a lady for aid told her that by the Dayton flood he had lost everything he had in the world, including his wife and six children. “Why,” said the lady, "I have seen you before and I have helped you. Were you not Die colored man who told me you had lost your wife and six children by the sinking of the Titanic?” “Yeth, ma’am," replied the darkey, “dat was me. Most unfort’nit man dot ever was. Can't keep a fam’ly nohow.”