The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-31
TRUCKING.
Especial Correspondence.

topcClaI NoIIcS pOHutIICt'
Mr.. Editor: Have you ever
tried trucking? If not, you have
missed an experience that makes
"1ife worth living" 1t is So
called business that all classes
may engage in, for the reason
that you need not own a foot of
land, a mule, a pillow, or a hoe
but the only requisites necessa
ry are large expectations and
ready funds. While you know
that you are engaging in q spe-
cies OF gambling, you still 20
about it DIS if engaged in legit-
innate avocatiOn, for trucking
bears the same relation to farm
ing that buying futures in a
bucket shop does to a regular
commission business. But it is
so interesting, fascinating and
eXasperatiDg that once caught
iii the whirl, there is no letting
30. You know there is a hun
dred to one chances against you
and this makes you try the cast;
for you are heroically leading a
forlorn hope against the yam
KEGS, with the slight difference
OF feeding instead of killing
them. Be patient and you will
find yourself wishing your truck
had killed them.
After Christmas you will find
lout rocket book 80 depleted
that you naturally look around
for something to make up the
deficit, and like q gambler "look
for money where you lost it .
you conclude to "truck." During
the holiday evening while your
wife is looking at for the fiji
tIeth time) the Christmas cards
and Brio a-Brac sent her, you
h"Nu your nose Ill a highly col
ored seed catalogue where you
lind potatoes represented as big
Is the baby'a head, pea-vines
with pods thicker thau the hair
Oh the aforesaid, and wax-beans
with snaps a foot long.
You order these "sub-rosa" to
get ahead Of your neighbor, but
find later that lie has done the
same thing to get ahead of you.
Seeing others planting, you rush
around; hire your patch plowed,
get out your red pea bags, SOW
them yourself until you are sure
that your back is broken, then
pay a negro double price to fin
ISL the job while you sit down
and proceed to raise a blister, as
big as a nickle, cutting potatoes.
When your peas are up and
growing finely it is time to look
for the cold wave, which arrives
on time to cook your peas and
profits. Treading close on the
heels of the freeze is the "Job's
comforter" who meets you with
a broad smile, and the saluta-
tion Colonel, how are your
peas? p Dead. Eyes, saw they
We're, and think the freeze got
your potatoes, too" You wish
him III a warmer climate and
pass on to hurry to your patch
TO see for yourself. But the
weather has been kinder than
his wishes, for you get a stand
on t"o-thirds Of your patch, but
strip through the center is a
sahara with potato GASES here
and there. With peas goue and
potatpes only moderate, you
make up the deficiency with
beans, for you have heard of
the "bsan eating yankee" and
yon determine to feed him.
Great minds run in the same
channel and you find that the
trucking fraternity have great
minds and the consequence is
"sCme BEANS
Crops planted and worked out
y0u are relieved for a time of
the higger, who the moment the
job is fished will hunt you up,
hide where yOu may,l asking
tor ''for that little change, Boss. -
l believe, on my soul, that the
negro calls it chat little change"
b, the amount five cents or
live dOilars-on purpose to fiat
ter you. 1t is suggestive that
You are blOaIed trucker and
that five dollars every day or so
is bat trifie out of your i'm
mense store. At this season the
trucker reaps his crop Of stem
ellis and postals, that is always
abundant, but blesses him that
gives more than him who takes.
Finding your crop will be pota-
toes and beans the generous
stencil donor predicts high
prices, as the crop is Gu: off
down South. How sorry you
are for the Southern trucker
while you thank the pre- dict ter
of its high prices for stencils
and postals.
When your potatoes are about
the size of Inarble.-you know