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I stood looking at this kindly mun and 
remembered n strange thing. lie had 
stood with his regiment, on Marye’s 
Heights, at Fredericksburg, when my 
father, with his company behind him, had 
charged up the hill. Perhaps Colonel 
O'I'.rien had fired the fatal shut ! Who 
knows? lie had told me about the fight. 
“They were fine. men. When they 
found they couldn’t, reach ns, they stood 
up and shook their -.sts at us. We hated 
to shoot them. If they had only gone 
round the side, they could have driven us 
Mill ” 
“Colonel,” T said, “I think T know the 
psychology of Sol’s mind. I think I can 
get him. Let's take up these forrtis and 
«tart.” 
“But. who will run the press?” 
“I will; at least I'll start.” 
He snorted at that. Jr wasn't a white 
man's job, he said, and T couldn't stand 
it. anyway. But he was game, and finally 
we carried up the forms together and 
fitjed them into the press. The colonel 
said he did it hint to humor me, but he 
lit his pipe anil mounted the box to feed 
iri while I took hold of the crank. The 
press was still' and clumsy from the cold, 
and as I turned the crank th‘- old machine 
sent out a wheeze and clatter IhnL went 
ringing all over the little town. I counted 
the papers as the press tossed them out. 
I had set my task at 50 papers before I 
stopped for breath, but l had no idea how 
hard lhe job was. At 3i> my back and 
arias were ready to call another labor 
strike, but I struggled on. Just, at 40 
a black face peered in at the door, and 
there stood Sol. lie had gone to bed 
with his clothes on. and had made a 
quick toilet. 
The press stopped right there. 
"Sol. you black rascal.” growled Colo¬ 
nel O’Brien, "where you been at?” 
"Sorry, boss, hut t reckon T overslept. 
I hear that, press a-goin’. I reckon it 
done waked me up. There ain't nobody 
goin’ to run dis press but me." 
How he did make that press hum! 
What an issue we printed on that cold 
day! I call it a triumph of psychology. 
Some time later I was in a store where 
a dozen men were talking. As they saw 
me they stopped talking and looked quite 
embarrassed. Later one of them told me 
they were discussing my strikebreaking 
about as follows: 
“They tell me that Yankee done make 
a nigger go to work.” 
“What'd he do, shoot him?” 
“Xo; didn't do nothin’ to him.” 
"Just like a Yankee. Bow'd he make 
a nigger take up his job?” 
“Went and done it himself, an* when 
the nigger heard him. he come a-runnin’.” 
"Htth ! Too nmeh work for me!'* 
T have lived some years, ami have 
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things done, you must do it voureelf. The 
reason why the politicians and handlers 
and educators have absorbed most of the 
pleasant things of life is because we have 
said : “Huh ! Too much work !” 
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