The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1901-10-03
Our back yard Is always coming.
Our back yard Is always with us.

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Our back yard Is always going.
Its current and compulsive course
knows no retiring Obj, but keeps duo
on to tho Mississippi and the Gulf
and returns purified on the "clcvated
route tho Ozark mountains aud
down and SO over and over again.
We sit In a rocking chair, Frank, Oh
the front porch and catch cat, buffalo,
drum. bass, carp and G.. A. X. fish
whilc tho bullfrog on the bank makes
goo.goo eycsat the submarine snakes.
The rivea Is at low water mark just
now, horse can ford 1t. A Ay out to
center field would cross the water now,
but in tho fall II goes up thirty feet
higher. Then the steamboats, come up
from the Mississippi, $50 miles aud
60 hundred miles further up and
load with cotton. This is good cotton
country oil along both sides Of the
river. Good cotton land 10 worth
S75 all acre aud rents Tor $5 10 Sc.
II has been so dry this year thoro
will bc but one-third of crop and
about tho same of corn. No grass.
The poor farmer leaves his home
and crop to como down and work on
tho railroad with his poor little plow
mules that are no good for ripping
up roots and rock along the edge of
the bluff that skirts the river.
We are expecting the hobo soon.
Ilc is bird" a migratory bird. flee
ing from tho frosty North to the
balmy, sunny South. Ho eau find
work hero but need not advertise
tor him through the The Star. llo
has kind Of grapevine telegraph OF
his own, u sort of wireless telegraph
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
system by which he keeps better
posted than most railroad officials.
lie has put In all his life in camps
and is past master in the art. lie has
worked on every road In the West;
knows every "flll," "culvert," "cut,"
curve and tangent on tho road; every
contractor and how no "fccds;" every
cook and how he cooks. lilo will
have no kick coming in this camp.
Think of fish every day, milk from
the COW without formaldehidc, cream
for your Scotch oats, butter from the
|, churn, chickcns from the barn yard,
bacon from the razorback and eggs
that know no Gambling and would
, got bad" at the mention Of cold stor-
/ age! Think of all that! We can think
T of il here, and you have tho same
, great privilege. Well, that ia the
D way II might have been and ought to
I be, but see tho poor cow come down
4 from the woods to tho sandbar TO ont
|, willows--how do you expect her TO
D give buttcrl So VIC have to send
y from way down In Arkansas to Kan
sss City packing houses for butter
| aud to q Kansas City grocer for con-
n ,lcnsed cream--nnothor OF your COM
;. mercial raids in foreign territory.
Furthermore, the milk from the COW
:, | will cut out, and some of the eggs.
I, but ! won't cut any Oh tho razorback
aud fish story.
See the "John boat" coming up tho
river? A John boat" Is box twon-
. ~ feet long, three feet wide and one
" doep. The tall man standing in tho
bow is "poling'-pushing 1t along In
|" tho shallow water along the bar. The
= two big barcfootcd girls, ono In tho
D. middle, the other In the back end OF
the boat, are padding canoo fashion
y They come over and tic to our boat
= They have in their boat:
" Two quilts.
- One skillet.
- One coffee pot.
> One fish net.
~ One fish box.
= One old mnzzle loading shotgun.
i" One powder horn.
. One squirrel skin shot bag.
~ One charger, mnde from u piece o
" cano out of the Arkansas cane brake
~ A charger, Charlie, is q little cul
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