The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-14

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. 'N'' there in the old
Panther Creek settlement, and beepin
company with the old gang of boys and
girls. could shut my eyes and stop
my ears and see the old home place
oncst more. | could see the smoke
curtin up and the pigeons swoopin
down. i could hear the boys whistlin
and the girls singin and the fiddles
screakin-C Christmas music everywhere.
could see my Aunt Nancy Newton
hustlin and stirrin around in the kitch-
en-, and smell the good things coolsin
for the Christmas dinner. 1t all come
back to me natural like and plain as a
white washed fence around a country
aveyard-Christmas as it use to be
down in the old settlement--and natur-
ally of course wish it was so 1 could
make a cross mark and spit in it, and
turn around and go back and be a boy
oncst more for two or three days any
how.
Christmas and the Young Folks
Bless the Lord for Christmas and for
Santa Claus. Sometimes / think tony
self if Christmas didn't come reglar
oncst year, and if it want for the
music and merriment and fun and frol-
icin that the boys and girls carry on
amongst themselves in durin of the
holidays, this old world would soon
swivel and swink up and die out with
the dry rots. The mainest trouble with
me is that Christmas don't come but
oncst year, and yet it comes so ever
lastin swift and quick. / can remem-
Der when it did look to me like Christ
mas never would come, but when it did
come it brought more happy times and
good things to eat in one year than it
brings now in ten.
What ails you, and what has got
into you here of late. you blamed old
blunderbuss?' says 1 to myself after
thinkin along them general lines for
some time. ''You amt old to hurt.
You can eat like pig and sleep like
baby and turn off as much work as any
man in the settlement What's the use
to git old before your time, and take
the mullygrubs and NOPE and poke till
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the matter with bein boy again if
you want to?"
To be plum fair and square and hon
est with you, fellow citizens, there is
one thing at least that 1 don't like
about the present day and generation
of American people. They live too in
fernal fast and git old too blame soon.
can show you men that ought to be
in the first prime and full bloom of
young manhood, but instid of that
they are hump shouldered and gray
headed and wrinkly-faced and played
out and broke down. They don't know
what it is to take day off for huntin
and fishin, and Christmas never does
come at their house. What are they
drivin at? They are out for the stuff,
to hear them tell it. They are forever
and eternally shaving and scra tchin and
stintin and starvin and savin and fret
tin and worryin and hurryin to their
graves. They are after money. What
will they do with it when they git it?
Pile it up and leave it here for some
body else to blow in. Right now will
oct the best mule on the place that /
have got more solid comforts out of
this vain and fleetin life than the rich
est man in America. For why? Well,
can wear as many clothes as anybody.
They may be more palmer and cheaper,
but at the same time l wear clothes
and most generally go clean and com.
Portable. And then | can eat two or
three times as much as one of these
young-old men that's fore yer busy and
broke down. / can eat more different
sorts of victuals and never miss lick
of sleep nor send for the Doctor.
generally git hongry about three times
aday and then l can eat most anything
SO it is clean and cooked done, and
everything that comes on the table
smells good and tastes good to me.
And if a man don't eat and wear
clothes he amt got no particular bust
ness Twin in this world.
have seen some people that look as
If they thought it was plum sin and
disgrace for grown up man or woman
to stay young and fresh and natural
and human and have the best time
they can. But SO far as my recollection
runs there amt nothin in the scriptures
to make man git old and feeble before
his time. There amt nothin in religion
to make people sad and sour and sorry
and SCHENECTADY continually all the
time. Or at any rates, if there is l amt
got no religion. and what is more ]
don't particular need any. If you live
on and on for ten thousand years you
will never hear tell of Rufus Sanders
pokin up to Heaven with his face pull
ed out as long as your arm and lookin
like the big end Of funeral process
sion.
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60 Let It Re.
So after thinkin it all over 1 come to
the conclusion that there want nothin
In the scriptures and nothin in the law