The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-12-22

dollars but him and his folks wanted
about two hundred thousand dollars
| ness and aneriss-w onlen't the PEG
mice? To BE- certainly of course they
down ON the lift with the same old dia.
| ease Of hard times. II people could but
! only put up with what they need. and
! make ont on that for . few years, the
country would soon come around right
| side up onc.t more.
IF you will but only keep your eyes
will soon find out that your aunt Nan
| cy is about three thirds right along this
4; line. One person may be a little bit
enough. have been visitin and mixin
around in the settlement SO much till
| can't exactly always practice what I
mon disease till am bound to own up
that have caught q slight tech Of il
/ myself. Maybe you monght not think
me.jest perusin around in this vain
| and deetin world waitin for my time to
! come-would want more than She
needs, but do. am not in positive
victuals and clothes to keep the body
warm and comfortable, and plenty Of
then can catch myself wantin a new
alpaca dress like the one old Miss Mil
ligan had ON at meetin the Sunday be-
fore. don't in fact need it, cause my
| old one is good as new. It is faded q
little here and there around in spots.
and no difference how much switch it
| can't make it whistle like silk any
more, but outside of that there amt q
! break in it, and it ought to last me two
or three years longer yet.
but you wanted me to tell you what
is ailin of the country, and have now
give you my opinions as best I could.
| It amt free silver and it aint cent cot
fon. Rufus; And it aint because we
needy, but we are too everlastin VANITY
and that is mostly what is ailin of the
country.
Andy Lucas, the natural-born horse
week to see ifhe couldn't work up some
| sort of swap with me. But we
couldn't trade no way we fixed it. Now
better than town hog loves Stops. but
he don't generally go into trade ex-
ceptin only when he can see somethin
Square 'e and h' r TO ne Rna %
could return back the same compli-
ments to me with double breasted in.
horse trade between me and Andy I
reckon one was slSeered and the other
was durn glad of it, and we took it all
out in talking. But when we got back
ut the horse rack for a few minits and
I got Andy's private opinions as to
He would ding in little horse talk as
he went on givin out his opinions, but
1 will give them to you like they come
to me-fresh from the only Andy Lucas
that ever had his day and generation in
this country.
Il have been carryin on a right
smart thinain a11ng the line myself
amt a mighty tough question, but bein
as you have opened the pot reckon 1
mooeh t as well II stay stay in The game with
country. 1 don't reckon l know Rufe
burned if it don't look to me sometimes
like don't know anything for certain.
1t may be that the track is too rough.
or too heavy-it mought be that there
was some dirt and monkey work in the
start-or it lnought be that we amt got
winner. For twenty years past we
have been laying our money on cotton
and droppin our wad as reglar as pig
a general favorite. Rufe, with plenty Of
takers, but it has been goin lame con-
slant every year, till now at last it has
with all the odds agin it and but durn
few takers at ; cents n pound. To
many people thinlsin the same way at
the same time and bettin on the Same
hind she distance flag and the country
went dead broke. It will take a whole
we viii have to take the old white
horse off of the track for few heats at
any rates. and pull off the shoes and
turn him in the paster for a little restin
and plenty Of rough feed he will some
time come forth Hike 4 strong man to
run another race. 1t is powerful
hard thing to break off and quit bettin
on horse that has been a dead sure
winner way back in the pnst, but the
quittin time has come and we mought
as we'll quit. And with all my figura-
ton l never have found out but the one
way to quit, and that is to take out and
a new horse and try him for few heats
anyhow. We can't name the winner
right now, but maybe we can some of
these days in the future time to Gomez
II don't sorter make out like INV
mouth is prayer book i'll regards al to
what is the matter with the country"
says Blew Scroggins, when tackled him
with the great quest ion. 1t mought
be 5 cents cotton, aud it mought be too
unfernal much talk about free silver
and not enough of it. but what are we
mainest question with me, Rufc. 1t
amt SO much what is the matter but
how are we going to help it. Most any
body-even to Andy Lucas. I reckon
could tell you how it has come to pass
that we got lost. as it were. in this ter
rib1e confusionment, but they don't tell
you what we must do to be saved.
They can tell you all about the why's
and hows and whenceness Of the smash
how can git out of it with whole
| hides and no bones broken. You can
find ten doctors that will give out fifty
different names for the disease, but
when a an is down fiat OF his ck and
sick a bed the mainest thing with him il
to git some medicine that will make
him sound and we'll oncst more.