The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-10-18
JIM'S LETTER.
Always Full Of Interest and
Rad With Pleasur9 By
the People.
HARVESTING, COTTON AND
POLITICS.
All Discussed in a Pleasing and
Practical Manner.
Center, Oct. II. 1895.
"The melancholy days are here,

"The melOncholly days are here,
The saddest of the year"
October in some respects, IS the
most beautiful season of the year,
and it is also the most sad and
mel ancholy, for it is during this
month that all nature throws aside
the green garb of spring and sum
mer, and assumes the oscar and
yellow leaf" of Autumn. A lone
some stiffness pervades forest and
field, interrupted now and then by
the rustling of a falling leaf or nut
or the solemn chirp of the cricket.
All nature wears the sign of decay,
thus reminding us that the spring
time and summer of our lives have
been spent, that the autumn OF de
cay is upon us, and that the winter
of death will soon be ushered in.
Cotton picking is nearly ended
in this section of the county, the
weather having been very tavora-
bic for both the maturing and gath
ering of the crop since the first OF
September, and the farmers hav-
ing become excited over the seem
ingly high prices as compared with
last year, are rushing it to market
with astonishing rapidity, and soon
it will all be gone from the farms.
Cotton which is now selling for
81 is really worth Ioc. if the law
OF supply and demand has anything
to do with prices, cotton will bring
10 cents in the near future; mark
, the prediction, and then will the
farmer 60 and quietly kick himself
, for rushing his crop on the market
at 81 cents, while by waiting
little while, he could have realized
at least 81 or IS per bale more fo1
: it.
. lust take ramble through thu
! forests and swamps in this section
of the country, and note the tree
!, loaded with acorns, the beech ant
hickory trees loaded down will
nuts, bushels upon bushels of mus
cadines and grapes, and chesnuts
ch1nkapins and persimmons il
abundance all going to waste, ant
for the time being, at least, on
would wish there was no stock lay
in force. and that our stock coul
utilize all this waste to a great ad
# vantage and saving to the owne'
% who has now to keep them IN DR.
!. pastures and feed them from HI
,s short corn crop. Is the stock la
is an advantage or otherwise? is stl
,e an open question, and will agal
- be an issue in our county IN tn
4 near future.
= AS the election draws near, II
- = farmers, having nearly hnishe
i their crops and having compar
% 70 lively leisure time, are beginnln
y to discuss political matters an
the different candidates who as
~ for their support and the prime
y pies upon which they stand. The
is no excitement or bitterness gro'
ing out of the differences OF OPP
rs ion among our people, the best
~ feeling prevails, and those wi
\ expect to ride INTO Office bypreci
- itating a red-hot, bitter and mu
- singing canvass, will signally fl
''' so far as the voters in this secti
are concerned, And MIR. Can(
vn date keep quiet yourself. If "
w. %'Ia can't speak we'll of your opponeI
- don't say anything. your OPP
nent has faults the people will II
them out without your aid. Do
oh get ratified because some vote
'ty whom you had calculated on
I'D support have concluded to vote
lsy the other fellow, don't fret a
sp, squirm when you learn that n
ast Blank has quit your party and &C
b. over to the other side, Rene
\ Der chat MI. Blank is perhaps
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