The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-10
A SPICY Letter From Tishomingo
County.

SOuubys
Too Much Eating, 100 Much Wasting -How Unele
81 eono1ai1es Beats Going In Debt = Iuisa
normal Institute. Feeds welI-The sveet-Gum
Route to Matrilnony yellow Creek Wants an
Appropriation. and John Allen Must get titles
Good on Garden seed.
EDTroR CLARION: We live away off
up here in the extreme northeast corner
Of the State, in Tishomingo county.
Iuka, our county site is on the NJ. x Z.
Railroad, eight miles from the Tennes-
see River, on the north, and five miles
from the Alabama line on the east.
Tishomingo county has never been noted
for her exceedingly fertile soil, but she
has ever been proud of her honest, hos
pitaUle, law-abiding citizens. In days
past, when Alcorn and Prentiss counties
were a part of Tishomingo, and
OLD JAc-NTo WAS THE COUNTY SITE,
/ tell YOU she was a whizzer. In those
days, the high sheriff ruled over
county nearly as large as some of the
little countries of Europe.
While really rich farmers are scarce
in our county, still the churn-dasher
keeps moving once a day in nearly every
home, and almost all the corn-cribs have
few ears in them the year round.
Bread and buttermilk are generally on
hand, and so long as the corn-crib is not
empty, and the cow don't go dry, and
the hens don't stop laying, and a hog
goes into the smokehouse occasionally
to take up winter quarters, the people
are all right.
We have fine medicinal springs here,
and every summer the
MISSISSIPPI BOTTOM PLANTERS
come up for awhile. They stand around
and look at the poor hills. Every now
and then one of them will say,
declare, this looks like starvation" But
he can't see well. He's got from peck
to a half bushel of that Mississippi
bottom mud IN him ;his spleen is swollen
until it is big enough for "bustle" If it
was in the right place, and all this makes
him cross-eyed. After awhile our fine
water works the mud out of him, and
his eyesight gets all right. The "Bot-
toms" furnish him money and malaria;
we give him health and pocket his
ducats.
A man in this county with an average
farm, with an average family, and with
average industry, can make plenty to
live on. 1t don't take SO much; mighty
little will sustain life and give strength.
The truth is, our people eat too much,
and worse still, they waste TOO much.
The American man is good deal
LIKE A HOG IN PRODTGALITY.
Pour out a bushel of corn to hog, and
he will eat some and root the other In
the ground to rot and be lost. We waste
and throw away enough to feed another
nation as big as ours. Many house
wife empties provisions enough in the
slop bucket every day, to feed family.
We must learn to save; If we don't, hard
times will teach US. Yes, rs Uncle u
Oberly SAYS, eve must learn to
'conomize. Uncle 81 Oberly, (eyery
body calls him Uncle Si) is neighbor OF
ours. down here on Yellow Creek, and /
must tell you about him. He is sixty
five wears old. His assets are one
hundred and sixty acres of poor land, a
little mule and cart, one milk COW, few
chickens. a dog, wife and seven
children. He didn't marry till late IN
life, and his children are all young; the
Oldest, a girl, fourteen, and the youngest
two wears old. BE has no liabilities, for
he never goes in debt. he 'conOmizes."
| His farm consists of fifteen acres, and 1t
| looks like, when he went to clear 1t, that
he picked out the fifteen poorest acres
on the quarter-section. Well, all the
neighbors were wondering how Uncle
81 got along so well,
AND KEPT OUT OF DEBT.
They knew he made but little on his
farm, yet he seemed well led. 80 pa
made bold to interview him one day.
He said. Uncle 81, how is it you get
along so we'll, one year with another,
never going in debt2 you always seem 10
have plenty.
"Yes, sur, do that, an you wan, to
know how / manage. Well, sur, kin
tell you. It's economy, sur. l 'eonomlze.
If all the folks on Yaller Greek wud
practus economy like do, we'd all be
rich durectly. Now, sur, I'll tell you
how it is. That thar thing inside OF
man, you call his sUommlck IS NIFTY
strange thing. It's jes like little chile /;
an les as easily split, you can pet 1t an
pamper it, until it'll want everything
you give it, an more, too. Many a
man, sur, has lost his fortin by spin.
of his stommick; giyin' 1t TOO much, an
giyin' it too often. You van tu
| know how to git along; I'll tell you: l
plant my crap in the spring, an work
hit along purity regerlaiy till layln by
time; then / ies set aroun an let the
/ rain am sun do the rest. Ii thar hap
pens to be too much or too little NV
either. an see my crap amt agwlne to
pan out much, why, gin to gether
simmons right straight. put the ole
woman an chiliern at 1t, too. I've got
| plenty O. 'simmon trees on my Ian an It
don't take long to gether big pile An
! VIXEN | git enuf gethered, fIll up a bug
tub with water, then take a chlp an put
suIphar on it, an set the chip atioat IN
the tub o water, an then set the sui
nhar afire an | kiver the tub with ole
sack. an KEGS it kiyeTed till the sulphar
ali burns up, Then l fill up sum big
lars I've got with simmons an pour the
s,lphar water over 'em, tie rag over
tba top O the Jars an they're ali right.
That sulphar water II keep um fresh.
W. alwavs gether the simmons bout
ba1f way green, an they stay that way
rrLan YOU preserve um like say. When
we git thin we set 'em away fur hard
times. Well, when | gether my Crap
an see thar's precious little nv IL, at
every meal | say, 'ole woman,
BRING OUT THEM 'sIMMERN's-
She goes an gets 'em, an | eat one,
an make the ole woman an the chiilern
eat one apiece, for awhile. Well, sur,
the effec' Is amazin'. After the frs day
you won feel like eatin' SO much, an
its the Gods truth, after eatin' these
| 'simmerns at every meal fur week you
git so that big piece o bread an a
glass o. butternilk 'ull nearly founder
We; yes, sur, we 'cononize by reducinl
the dimensions of oar stommiks with
simmerns in bad crop year, an we
keep out O debt. If its hard winter
we feed 'simmerns to the COW an mule
too, an it acts the same way on thai
stommicks. In fac, I've bin thinkin
about winterin' Jake-that's my mule
on 'em entirely. Yes, sur, believe III
practisin' economy"
Just so. This is one way to economic
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