Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-11-12
THERE is
NOTHING LIKE
BEING LUCKY
As Mckinley is Elected
lie May Have Better
Luck. III he Works Hard
Enough.

For the EAGLE
IL was a tall. gaunt. knock
kneed individual. with hair.
complexion and eyes all OF the
same faded neutral tint. aud
features that betOSeued
chronic state of despOndeucy.
while his seedy attire and
stumbling sIOuchIng walk
seemed a part Of his eonstitu-
tiOnal make up
~Thar's nothing like being
born lucky he observed. as he
seated himself upon a goods
box IN front of a store. aud be
gan industrEously whiting a
stick
Thar goes wIdder Browns
boy Jake he continued with a
sigh as he noticed several had
paused near his stand. with a
wagon load of garden truck.
with butter and aigs and chick
ems enough To run a hotel
week. and the whole family can
be dressed and sboed. and he
won't tech a cent of his cotton
msuey- He'll pay off that
mortgage his dad left on the
farm this fall. TOR b. made four
bales of cotton with Jest his
one mule. and as dry a year a.
ever comes
Now I trapped just on the
JInnin place and didn't make
rent The cotton got swamped
from the June rains. and my
corn burnt up 80 | let her mp.
and thar amt 80 much a. an
IRguu or a later on that place
y cows too much trouble to-
tend to- so I'm jest going to
leaf Ground my friends this
YEAR Thar goes Ms Homes ia
a bran new buggy Well It
does beat me how lucky widder
women air. Now tAat W0msn
married a man THAT vas unlucA y
like me. and When he died and
left her q nalf dozen chiIdEu
land a mountain of debts. she
paid EN- and gII everlasting
E0ne Of them ehIldgn a collie
edicatIOn. and now they are
supporting her, and her a-rislIug
around enjoying herself How
did she manage IT, you SLY
Why she tuck IN sewing and
kept bOaFiers and taught school
and pears like luck jest struck
her in everything Hovdy do.
Ned Can't We stop for a fev
minutes chat No Well il
seems that you're IN as bie "a
rush now that you've got rich
as you Wis when We Was
la-swinsing the pillow together
Ned and me was hired out to
the same boss one year, and be
wore hickory shirts and bro
gans Jest SAME as me- But the
way he could pillow aud hoe vas
a caution From daylight till
he whistIed up and down them
corn rows like "a robin and
never once did / get him To-
drap down for a little snOoze m
the shade. He could pick more
cotton in one day than | could
IN week. yet when our boss
wanted tn double his wages
and hire him another year he
wouldn't stay when Id been
clad to have staid hired at the
same wages. only the boss
wanted somebody else Ned
was as stiugy and saving with
his money as could be. and
when come To town Saddays
and spIurged = little Ned went
/ fishing. Well ne was just
lucky and | wasn'5. for he's the
big stOrekeeper of the town
row Strange now, amt II,
that sich a good pillow hand
should be spilled. by him 5eIn'
a stOrekeeper, and | was never
much at blowing and I'd like tO
be a-keeping Ned's store, l tell
you. and a-settin' down bOssin
his clerks
Thar goes Tom and Bill and
John and Jim. the FisIn' men Ol
the town. with money plenty
and tat positions But we was
all raised up in the country and
worked in the fields and went
to the little log school house
together Jest like brothers
But they tuck To TasIin' with
them old blue back spoilers and
the multiplication as Ell theII
very lives depended on IT, and
got ahead of me. anu seems like
I've had nothing but bad lHeS
ever sence- Some folks y bOrH
with gold spoons in then
mouths anyhow, they say bat
believe in the old saying. It
better to be born lucky than
/ rich I'm neither, but | wonder
why
But the seeGy gentleman dis
covered his audience had de
parted, and his stick had given
out. so he shambled across the
street and spent his last quar-
ter for plug OF Battle Ak
AS Mckinley j. elected maybe
my luck will change he oh
served TO the clerk $50 I'll
Jest risk my last cent on 4 good
chaw.-
U-~-r- ~ $780,,