The Old Way

Mr. Halloran, an up river pilot of celebrity, who was studying the lower Mississippi river, told me that he remembered when it was the custom f or the mates to hit lazy negroes on the head with a billet of wood "and knock them stiff." The other negroes used to laugh, presumably as the sad faced man laughed when the photographer clapped a pis;ol to bis head and said, "Smile, or I'll shoot you." When the felled negro carne o the others wonld say, "Lep up quick an git to work, nigger; de mate's a-comng." They do not urge the help with cordwood now - so the mate of the Provdence told me - because the negroes get