The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-10-25

, mig az llgnu IN ana git rich
poets today, and then wake nm AS moor
as paste of church mice tomorrow
morniD, ~"
The Changefulness of Man.
| reckon maybe no doubts mar 10
about the most changefulest creature
IN all this vain and fieet;n world anv.
now They use to tell a story on Kit
bfantiey, which the same was true a
gospel taat Will show the general pints
uhat ! am drivin at in this case Kit
was tnS black sheep and the scrape
iE0as OF the whole Brantley generation.
-Au the rest of the boys. eNcept;., KIT
was hustlers and stirrers and strictly
business from base But Kit he lived
over there in the Flat Woods and plow
ed spotted steer and was Jest about as
poor as they ever git to be. One morn
IN sam 'Ncttles was tiXin off on Wis
Jun Urn TO Texas, and on the road TO
town pc passed Kit Brantley drivin his
5l't'e steer to II cart with a load of pine
'Snc is to sell.
How arc they comm today, Kit -
says Sam.
Powerful slow and roonstrous rocky.
sam, says Kit. "Accordin to the wav
the game is runnin now I font see no
chance for me To drive around the 200,
house much longer"
well. | am off on a trip to Texas
SAYS Sam. They tell inc your brother
Kill is out there dom well and maxim
money hand over fist Maybe if he
hnawed the lay of the land. Kit. he
FEught help you out a little"
NOW II 1T comes to pass that YOU
mought see Bill. says Kit, tell him he
mas got brother back here that is
monStrous low down in the ashes of
poverty and fuination, and if he can
heJp me ! would be much obleeped.n
When Kit got to town he sold his load
or pine for six bits and got pint of
white corn whisky for two bits in trade
Then he proceeded to flicker up" AS
usual. and 0bout that time he met Sam
Nettles on the street
III you see my brother Bili IN Texas
Sam, says Kit, tell him am ahead of
tHlc hounds oncst more, and if the crons
1an out all right I will take a fiyin trin
out there To see him next fall"
sam laughed and went on about his
business, and presently Kit went md
laia N another two bits worth of white
whisky. Late along towards the shank
"t the evenin Kit met up with Sam
oncSt more. by this time Kit had
n
quart of corn juice, whereas he was as
tight as hat band and as happy as a
sunfiower
wv hen yoa git out there in Texas.
sam, says Kit, If it so happens that
You mought meet up with my brother
biii' tell him that | am ahead of the
mounds with no fences to climb-plentv
81 money and no poor kinnery-and if
he wants anything he Amt got he can
draw on me and git it,
= =
Got Poor on Prospects.
In this present day and generation, if
n farmer don't watch all the pints and
keep the corners pulled up clost, he is
very probable to git rich or poor on his
general crop prospects, whereas Kit
Brantley used mean whisky to the same
sANtent. When crops are bully and pros
poets bright every farmer needs a scotch
and good pair of holdin back straps
and then he ought to set the back band
back few links to keep from gittin
rich all of a student and runnin every
thing too deep. | took what You
mought call an object lesson along this |
line oncst upon time and feel like |
had ought to put it down in white and
black and give it out for the common |
good of the country and the risin gen
Sration.
You see | had went and put in big |
cotton crop on my bottom lands that |
year, but the dry weather and the cool |
spring morninS come on and luck run |
dead square agin me at the start. The |
cotton all staid right there on the |
ground, but somehow it didn't move off |
to suit me. My neighbors had planted |
cotton on their hill lands and it shot |
right up on long shanks and got away |
as pritty as you ever saw. Oncst or |
twicst | went down to the swamp and |
took a round through my cotton. but it |
was so golnation little and lousy and |
droopy and sickly loolSin, till got tired |
and took out and quit goin to the field |
And if | went over the hills | would |
run right up with Handy Virgins and |
DinlS Ashcraft, with their up land cot
ton fourishin like unto young bay |
tree and loollin plum bully and beauti- |
full. So at last | got to that pint where
I jest put up at the house with mother
and the children and stayed there day
in and night out. If it so happened |
that ! met up with Dink Ashcraft and |
Handy Virgins they was blusterin and
BLOWN about their fine cotton, and it
made me feel terrible small and bad.
They kept on braggin on their crops
and pobin so much fun at mine till
burned if didn't hate to meet them in
the big road. was plum blue and mad
all over in spots as big as saddle blank
ct, and oncst or twicst / thought right
serious about sendin over the creek for
Elder Smith to come and cuss out the
whole entire settlement for me. But
kept on tellin Dinl1 and Handy that if
they didn't look sharp and mind out
would be with them at the packin.
Holdn Down Expenses.
So along about that time turned the
farm over to the boys and the hands,
whilst | stayed around home to hold
Down the store account as best l could,
and to keep from gettin mad and slop-
pin over. The crops had started off
slow and sorry and it was mighty
good time Of year for me to make all the
sdges eat. &sems to me like the Poor