Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — How It Began. [ARTICLE]

How It Began.

Representative Hay of Virginia tells Bf an altercation in a colored club jn Richmond that resulted in nearly all the Baembers being haled before a police magistrate. “You were present during this trouble?” asked the magistrate of a witness. “Yes, ,vo honah.” “Then tell us. in a few words, just how the difficulty began?’ - “Well, yo’ honah?’ replied the darky, with much gravity, “I think it was when the chairman of de entertainment committee swatted de secretary ovah de head wif de lovin’ cup.”—Collier’s Weekly.