Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — How a Darkey Can Sleep. [ARTICLE]

How a Darkey Can Sleep.

I saw a queer illustration of the sleeping qualities of a negro the other day. Every one knows that a genuine unadulterated negro can sleep on a board with his face to the sun and without covering for his eye 3 oq tha hottest July day—and he sleeps as peacefully as a white man on the softest Cot and in the darkest room- It has been said he can sleep under the mouth of a cannon in operation and I believe it. Or, at least, I believe the one of which I shall speak could. In going down to Augusta a few days ago on the regular day passenger we were a few miles below Union Point when the train suddenly stopped. The fireman jumped from the engine and ran back to the passenger coach crying, ‘There’s a dead nigger behind.” Every one looked out, and sure enough just behind the rear coach, with his head resting on the cross-ties, was what appeared to be a dead negro man. Two or three train men and a crowd of negroes ran back to see if the train had struck him. “Dat nigger ain’t dead. He’s er sno’in,” said one of the negroes, and he jerked and kicked him until the sleeping negro awoke, arose and walkoff, followed by a kick from the brakeman. > The wheels of the engine and cars hod passed within a few inches of the negro’s head, and had not even affected his snoring,— Atlanta Constitution. The difference between the elevator and the toiling sufferer who pulls the rope is that one lifts the worker and the other works the lifter.—Somerville Journal.