The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-13

HDdEleu OUT IN tie business Dub 1 sOon
got well and quit. They are too fire.
quent like and numerous now, I only
make my fggeration. for our children
to come up to the general average, and
,yonwl neg hear tell Of old man Cas-
gfunbin Il they 40 chat veil.
Ilno ~ Ear Is boys b with the
common run 81 sicK dry cattIe, IcaIco
late that some 81 them will turnout
first class some only middlin and some
handly that It may be Different with
the but as for the boys, Il I can
bat raise three or four rale good ones
apt y pack T viii be plum willin TO
blanks and say nothin. Some peo-
bought think they could raise them
l ap ia be great men. but I know
whole lot better than that. They are
all boysand ali my boys-reguiar open
faced stam-windin America boys.
"Yon e this here younster. with
the pale and puuy look and a head on
him slbig as ahaInper basket, Rufds?p
says the old mani iayin his hand ona
boy that stoodaboat middle way Of the
row. Wen, this is my comm con-
gresham. The old lady she has picked
out two OF three for preachers, and III
tell her that out of the whole bunch we
had ought to raise one that will do to.
send to congress. So 1 have picked
the winners and this is him. 1 will let
him take his growth natural and slow
Cor a few years longer and then I win
put HMM trainin to run with patience
the race. set before him. 1 don't see
how it would make any particlar diff
ference whether he has got any name
or not. Rufus, but anyhow. the name OF
our comm congressman is Jeemes-Jest
plain Jeems." !,
"That Boy Jeems' In Training.
I forgot to tell you in the outstart.
but anyhow, old man Gas Garner was
one of the best fixed men in all of the
surroundin country. He want to say,
no ways rich, but he wore good,clothes,
and rode q fat horse with a scfeakin
saddle, and had plenty of everything
around him.. 1t was some six or seven
years after that Sunday evenin when
the old man called up his fine bunch of
boys for me TO look at, and named the
winner for congress, and / was over
there to see the Garner folks onct more.
1 soon took notice that the family
looked ruther swunk up in size, and
went on to ask about the boys and
girls. It turned out that two of the
girls had already took and got mar
ried whilst the others had went to
havin company right tolerably con-
slant. Some of the boys went 70 the
city, and got in business, and thee &c was
two or three of at college takin onthe
fiDislin touches to preach.
what about our comm congress
man, Uncle CASE" saysI.
"Who, JeemsP Well, Idon't tryto6eep
very clost up with that boy, Rufnsy;but
he is summus around the place." the
old man come back, and then he sorter
loosened up and went on to say:
EFF Jeems amt plowin the best pair
aof mules on the place and layin by
Swamp corn, I reckon you will find him
runnin the wagon and haulin timbers to
build a new barn, or either down on
the creek clearin up a new ground. You
must recollect, Rufus, 1 am trainin
up Jeems for congress and learnin him
how to go in all the gaits. He is farm
in on shares with me this year. give
him a third of what he can make, With
his board and washin free. If The sea-
SOM hold out good and no bod luck
comes u way, l reckon Jeems will go
to school some this comm fall and win
ter. 1T all depends on what we have
got left after the crops come il and we
count up and divide ont. I will give
him the time providin he can rake and
scrape up sufficient money to pay his
way. He takes to books as quick and
natural as o hound dog to a meat house
and would be in school all the time ifit
was so he could.
GAS to that, Rufus, you know good
and we'll i am able to send the boy to
school for 20 years hand runnin. but.
Jeems don't know that audit amt none
of my business to tell him. 1t wouldn't
do nohow tor d boy in trninin for con
gresSs He has gotiplenty Of speed On
him right now, butaI must WOE hin1.
somehow and manage SO al TO put the
muscle on him ana give aim zone stay
in qualities. He has got plenty of
sense, but it will take some hard work
to round him out and fill up the low
places. The upper machinery is per-
fectIy all right now, but in ordermentto
make him a dead sure winner I am
bound to look out for the underpinnin.
Jeems must learn his right hand from
his left, and stand alone and walk be-
fore he can run a winnin race. Idon't
claim to know much about anything in
this world, Rufus, exceptin corn and
cotton and niggers and mules and
boys, but I'll be ~everlastinly dad
smashed if j don't know all about
themi
"Now the boys that my old lady has
picked out for preachers, they are off
at college.and our future merchants are
now clerkin around and dom about in
town. That Is wen enough and an
right for them, l. reckon, but as to
Jeems, the comm congressman, he
must sweat for his feed and swim
without gouFdA. Rufus. n never
would do for things TO come Easy with
Jeems. l am nd goin to push the