The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-11
KEMPER VS.. TEXAS.

COL. WEBB THINKS THAT NO MATTER
WHAT POSSIBILITIES, THERE'S
"No PLACE LIKE HOME"
ENoNDALE, MISS, Junee, 1908.
Editor KRMPER HERALD:
Mr.. A. Henderson wants to
know what "Old Bill Webb" has
done that entities him to be
called Colonel" All! brother,
you are still III the dark about
this matter; you don't have to
do things in Kemper to get pro-
motion. 1t is saying things
talking with your mouth, that
lifts you up in old Kemper.
And, brother, it would amuse
you to see 'Old Bill' trying to
walk and talk like IA "Colonel,"
trying to cuss like "a "ColoneI,"
and oh, Lordy! how he would
like to wine and dine like a
shore 'nough "Colonel."
Ont in Texas where "Old Bill'
was, this "Colorel" matter had
; purely a property qualification.
All the big landlords We're gen
erals, colouels and majors, and
"Old Bill'' telt so doggone small
among them that he just allowed
his wife to show him the way
back to old Kemper, where one
man feels himself as good and
big as aaother-if not little
| more SO.
! Bro. II e n d erson's assertion
that bis wife is full blooded
! Kemperite was all he need to
have said. All Kemper ladies
are 3good-looking, and what is a
little peculiar about this matter
is that all the pretty children
take after their mother.
The advantages OF Kemper
over the rest OF the world are so
many that | hardly know which
to mention first. | might an
swer Bro. Henderson by quoting
a few lines from Hallack and
say 1--WE love this land because
| it is our own, and we scorn to
give any other reason Why" and
this would cover a whole lot OF
] the ground.
First, the great maj ajority of the
people OF Kemper are Southern
raised and to the manor born,
and when / say "Sou h er II
/! raised" that, too, covers big
piece, for everybody knows that
/ the native Southern man is the
most hospitable, highest. minded
! man on earth, and this quality
is more fully developed in old
Kemper than at any other place
In the South that | have ever
lived. The poorest man IN KEN
per will divide his last crust with
"a man in need, and it he finds "a
man down in the gully he gets
down and pulls him out, sets
him on his feet and helps him to
stand aud walk. Now | found
this very different in the part OF
Texas | lived,
There were people there from
nearly every State in the Union
and some from Europe. All
might have been, and probably
were, good men; but they did
not ieel like home-people to me,
and ] ielt sorter like stranger
"a long Ways from home. And /
expect Bro. Henderson is feeling
a little that way himself, il he
would own up to it.
Now / don't think Bro. Hen
derson is the kind OF man who
would call fifteen acres in cotton
ii one man crop here IN Kemper.
Why not SOW ten acres in wheat
III OcIOOer, teu acres IN oats III
November and ten acres III Feb.
ruary, and corn. potatoes, sc ?
1t can be easily done. All you
/ have to do is to run one horse
cultlvator twice to the row be-
tween cotton.
And why rent land here or
work on halves? Lots OF our
merchants have lauds that they
had TO take from men emigrat-
ing to west Texas among the
grass h . PIP ers-looklng for
place where they can ride and
plow-whicn they viii sell to
energetic Young men on time.