, 1879-01-07
HOOS1ERS IN MISSISSIPPI.


AVVoAHlso AN mAooAoolI1A'
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How Some 1ndlantans outwttted Natlvs-
one ot Senator La,nar's storics.
Not long ago a company Of people from Judl.
ana "ent 70 'i1so.sslpp' a' 'essa ,' .ss' '@S."s @
snels s.oek, % Masons, s'e, VIVA 'nen. me!
tbey have held their own against the method.
of 4 n.tiva. I viii tell vol, Tho storv. a, nearl1
y. 49, ~ sa,.t.. a,.ss.. ,,,,,, ,rr,,.
as cam IN senator Lamnf's own WORDS
"stowers was, before the War, an oversecr On
Jake Thompsou's plantation. and, hariuv po
family md ! good salary, saved nearly all that
ha ea,nsd .sTrmnn.on % w.. h. 1,anrer' and NJ.
vIsed him about Investments 80 tbnt In ls6o 10
found himself wealthy man for our partS. i
suppose ho had $4ooCU or $4,000. This money
ho tnyrstrd in innd and stock. There i. No bet.
teF Investment III tne "oF!o' 'ust oelo9e sl.
homo for Washtngton, FEAR ago last oetoher.t
saw Showers, and he WAS Ia the best OF spirits
me Il omit hls oaths): you ought 10 coms
down and sec my pIace. Got lot o. them In.
dlanians working on nv laud. Never saw nny-
thing llxe them. They do twice rs much work
as niggets. saw. soma q them here In town;
that il they would co,no down and work III
would put In the feld and tho mules, and they
might do tl,e work and rive mo one-tourth OF
LHo EV{T CfUp% 10 4uS C1kl0uf AkEEEA ~ Enp
them fifteen acres OF land for every bals Of rot.
fop thpy would raise aud QiYa the.
. stt.Wqll. t1r,.theJ came down with tns.r mules
and wagons, and thcy'go been putting tn some
oats. You ought to sce that field, They puWel
u one WY and then the other; they went oret
It With harrow, anil - ms II don't be-
licvc that, when my back was turned. thcY went
over It with u tlne-tonth comb. It Is a. smuotn
as i floor. They've been ptowlnR t,p my corn
land, TOO. ! tell yon they do tNtce ~ muvh
work In day .ns the niaecrs do. and do II
sight better, and tlev ret more work out Of thu
| mules, They don't bang them ahout. and they
feed anu watcr them regularly. Tho .atoSk
actually grows fat under 1t. Why, sir, even
| let them pIow with tny old horso Bob. whoE, n0
nlgger could get to look through a collar, aud
IN tl!a kind Of weather they ret . Ileap o. work
| out OF him aud mud don't turn q lnlr. And tle
| fences thcy've put up1 They'ra hors.-llgh,
! t,uil-stroug, and ptg.thtck. They'dt bntfd tie
ont the stock.' And old Showers WAS the na'r
| piest nau III tho county,
"Wcll, When went hnme last Jnns fnund
| that the boys were laughing ut Showers ubu.,t
something that ha wus unwilling to spcak If,
mud It was only when l had an opportunity to
talk to HIN privately md urged him, thss I
could yet an explanation. Finally hc brokc out
with: 'D-n tic lndIan!ans,' and this Is tho
| words;
"'Abort tho time them oats began 10 come
up the cusscd Indtanlnus came 10 me enc ,laJ
mil saIti tluy were about out ot prnyisios aud,
I Il
| vance, Then one 0f 'cm pulled ont OF his pocket
a paper with writing o.i II. "What's thlst" |
asked, "it's iist Of thu things W. need, they
said. 1t was rather hard On the old man 10 NIX
htn Ia read writing ut ain saId Lafnnr; bnt
after getting on his eprc!ncles aud spellinx cut
tho words viii, much labor. he linally h..
!! gan to comprehend the paper. The 0rst
1trIn wss barrel vi flour, and then there wesu
suIrcs md nauy other kinds of groceries, beside
atmt thiurr TINT Showers never lcarI Ut bcfnse
"Why. Sir" suid tc, YOU won't bciieye II, hit
thcrr was Two kinds pf stlgnf apG lots vi t[5ns'
! fur the women, WoIl, QUO Of 'ctn saI.l thcyM
| ukr h hRye the nools ~ sUon as posa!bIc md |
tuiti hi1l, id see htu, 10 deep thpt thc whites Ut
4 lila svrs wouldn't shuw before ha got .tleU
| They insisted that Ind agreed to furnish pEu-
] vtsi1na. mad asked thrtn II ttluy wuuiInt |aya
hnrars and ra,riares unil drivers and fuUtune,, or
nnythjnv alse III ihak kIud. sall i'd rIyu ihrln
| rn,luIi and threo.uuarturn of bacon and i neck
of tprt, npjccc. and tust. with tho eNcrt-p.,ta.
tuol md COW. peas. tkey could ret alunu az we'll
nj thu t,Iepers tf[d Thcn fhny sufd they wo,yItns
atay nt,i tuld them 10 70 and tia quicker tha
| hat}rr. anil fhnt If i ra,,rht anv III thrm nm Mr
Ind orntn. III sho1t fi,r tou II thcir hsa1s ILL.,
-. NEIL thrr narkcI IN tnrir tL1nrs In ibrtr
wapons. aml NJ fhny started oiY ti,ay raijcu ms
| ol.i mar nrt, snIi fkry,I cI,ne and hnrvrat Tho
| an. whrn tirs u.ro lin. foiI fhrui i,.t 1It
| ,i,.r1o ~ I.n,t i'm sia,n ir 1hsv iii Wkrn
thr .,aIs w.rs civ,t ,t,.t ans Una cr,tfr, ,town
nv ."rt,,.s and sars,mtns, ,e,. m. me nj nv
,,i1e"I. ,. r,,',,,in~ ~. n ths h,Ir" o,,e iay
~ xnid th.$ t{,.. t,,tlt.i,fn,A xars 3nvtt IN the
| tr,tfrti Iput my rtstol md stuFtc cJ dow H. aud