cause there was no railroad built, and they told the collectors to ‘show me the railroad and we will pay, ‚ and that is where ‘show me‘ originated.“

	“My wife died when we had three children. She had had to work hard all her life and ehe said she didn‘t want her children to have to work as hard as she had, and I promised her on her death bed, that I would educate our girls. So I worked and sent the girls to school. ~ytwo girls both graduated from Ottawa university, the oldest one being the first colored girl to ever graduate from that school. ifter graduation she went to teach school in Oklahoma, but only got twenty-five dollars a month, and I had to work and send her money to pay her expenses. The younger girl also graduated and went to teach school, but she did not tt~ach school long, until she married a wellto-do fanner in Oklahoma. The older girl got her wages raised until she got one hundred and twenty-five doUars per month. I have worked at farm work and tree husbandry all i~r life. My oldest daughter bought me my first suit of clothes I ever had.“

	“I have been living alon~about twenty-five years. I don‘t know how old I was, but ~r oldest daughter had written my niother before she died, and got our family record, which i~r mother kept in her old Bible. Fach year she‘ writes me and tells me on my birthday how old I am.“
Told by Bil] Simme, ex slave, age 97 years, Ottawa, Kansas.