Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1890 — His Time Had Come. [ARTICLE]

His Time Had Come.

The most remarkable specimen ol the fatalist which ever came beneath the writer’s knowledge, says the Washington Post, was old Unc’ Davey Trent, an aged house servant in South Carolina, who had fallen by the vicissitudes of war from the proud position of maiah domer r to Kunncl Robert Trent; sah,” to the humble lot of owning himself and choring around the house of M ij. T. Unc’ Davey could break crockery. The fragile ware would somehow slip through his trembling black fingers and dash into a hundred fragments on the hard pine floor. ‘‘There, Uncle Davey, that makes the fourth plate this month,” his mistress complained. "How can you be so careless?” ‘‘Unc’ Davey an’t keerliss, Miss Carrie,Bress yo’ heart. Unc’ Davey neiber bruk nutfin’ in he life. Dis yer plate time come, dass all. Hit time war eoine, 4 Plate mus’ die; you mus’ die; Unc’ Davey die sometime, ’spose—heaben know when; eberyting has ter die. Plant die, chicken die, cow die Dis yer ears die. Eberything die ’cep’ God. Don you tek on ’bout wan 111’ s isser. Unc’ Davey nebber dun bruck it tall. Hit jes’ die nat’ral, lak'er Chrischen. Hit gone stret to heaben. Plat got soul, fersho.”