Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-03-02
BlLL Was JUST HoMEsIoK.


81 vas down in Douglas County
ast week, and I sag & real hank
ring for dad and the home folks"
aid the SouthdOWn drummer after
le had made his report and got
way FROM the managers desk,
ccording to the Chicago Inter
Ocean, ''and / also shaw a farmer
'ure g pumpkin Of q love affair.
lou know that country down
here is filed up with prosperous
|armers, who can afford to hire q
young HOOsier or Kentuckian to
DO the work while the farmer sits
around the country store aud
bakes his shins. This young fell
low / am going to tell you about
was from southern Indiana, and
he had been working in Douglas
County since last spring at oats
sowing time. he was a strapping
big fellow, about "a years old, and
you could see he was a BOBBY from
the soles Of his shoes to the button
on his cap. He came into the
country store, where / was load
ing the merchant up with the
finest goods in the world. The
farmer be worked for came 10 with
him. The merchant cashed q
check for the farmer, who in turn
courted out twenty silver dollars
and handed them to the hired
hand.
"Y' amt still of a notion to go
home, are ye, Bills" asked the
farmer after he had paid him.
"Yep, Pm goin' home as quick
as them ears kin carry me, an
don't think y'n see me out in
these diggin's fer a considerable
SPELL" said Bill.
"Y' amt sick, are ye, Billi''
said the old farmer.
"NOpe, l don't guess Pm sick,''
said Bill, shut Pm gOin' home ia
see pap an the boys. They never
work an they amt a starvin' tC
death, and they hev a purity good
time. What hev 1 been a-dOin'i
FeedinA cattle all winter. l tel
We I got the blues, an Pm a.honin.
to see pap. He's been good
enough te me, an then twenty
wagon wheels We guv me is gOin
into pap's pocket as soon as l gel
home"
"Won't We hev a bit of candy o.
q cigar, Bills" asked the farmer
sI wisht to dickens We wOuldn'
I 90 home. / kin do the chores
but them cattle is %a-puzzlin' me
Better stay, BILL
stNope," said Bill.
ssBetter stay till the show Gomez
to Tuscola. I'll take you owe
there, an it won't cost ye a cent,
said the farmer.
"NOpe; 1 got the blues, an
there amt 10 curin' Of 'em," salt
Bill. ''Why darn it, / amt see'
my girl fer nigh on to a year now
an she's quit writing. Pa.
wrote me she's galaYantin' arOur
having a good time while l bee
a-feedin' cattle"
can ye won't stayi" sske
the farmer.
"NOpe.p
"Tn give ye s21 q month, sal
the farmer. "That's q dolla
more'n any other ieller lie geN
TIM"
.WiI ye let me hey q hOri
and buggy on Sunday nightsi
asked Bill.
eye can hey anything I go
Bill. Y'knOw me-"
can right. I'll stay. Pap
get along ell right"
eye can write an tell yer 81
why We amt a-comin' home, Bill,
said the farmer.
aI amt a-carin' fer her II / ca
hev q horse and buggy. These
as many girls in Illinois as the
is in Indiany, an I kin get one
got q horse an buggy"
81 guess It's about time to
home an do the feedin', amt its
added Bill, as be gave bis overall
q hitch and broke of q plug
tobacco between his teeth.
4 phase OF life in New 70
that is not common in other citi
fs exhibited in the large numb
Of house owners who let the
homes to other people and live
hotels, apartments and bOardil
places. Many wives are indih'
ent hOusekeepers, or dislike t
burdens OF 8 home. They knC
nothing OF managing. They ca
not get along with tho servant
The hotel is the place for them,
the boarding house. Il thoy desl
a small home, the fats the plal
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