The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-23
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ing sad tonight. To-day I saw
young white man lodged IN jail
on a charge Of stealing. What
viii his mother feel when she
learns of the disgrace her son
has brought upon himself and his
family? Why should any one
steal in this county where a
thousand hands are wanted on
farms and the owners are ready
and willing to furnish them with
whomelsome food and comfort
able clothing? And to think of
white man stealing. 1t is fear
full to contemplate.
Honesty is at a premium just
now. I heard man say he had
a good position on a farm for a
man if he could find an honest
one. Listen at that! Who ever
heard of a man wanting an hon
est overseer? Heretofore the
requisite has been competency as
farmer and as an organizer of
labor. By ordinary observation
you can tell whether a man is a
farmer, and if he can manage
we'll his laborers; but you must
come in close business contact
with man to tell if he is honest,
then he many fool you for years.
Boys, girls, young women. young
men, those of you who are in
the employ of others do not ap-
proPriate to your own use the
smallest article: not even cigar,
stick of candy, or a lead pencil,
belonging to your employer with
out his knowledge and consent.
1t has been said that if boy
would take little thing he would
take a big one. Hearing some
men discussing another man
once, and hearing some very hard
things about the absentee, Mr..
Tom Franklin remarked: You
may say what you please about
him. but he is an honest fellow.
This stealing business carries
me back to childhood when my
father was an overseer and the
laborers were slaves. A hog
was stolen and father had all of
the negroes on the farm lined up
in front of the house, and told
them he would pick out the one
who killed the hog. He began at
the head of the column, took each
negro by the hand and pressed
it's lightly against his nose, after
he had gone through the entire
line he called out two of the
negroes by name, telling them
that it was these two who had
killed the hog. Ever afterwards
they regarded father as a witch
or prophet and let the hogs
strictly alone. You see it is this
way: After killing and dressing
a hog, unless the hands are
washed 10 something to kill the
odor, you can smell hog on them
for day or two and that is how
he pointed out the thieves.
I suppose some of your readers
would like to know a cheap and
sure way to break CALVES and
colts from sucking and men from
drinking. | have a steer, three
years old, which steals the milk
from his baby sister. 70 break
him | made a halter, as for a
horse, to a board six inches wide,
drove it full of ten-penny nails
which had been sharpened, tied
the board to a halter with the
sharp points of the nails in trout
and when that steer approached
his fond mother for his morn
ing's cup of sweet milk, Mrs.
Cow few around the cowpen like
a squaw at a war dance. The
only difference in the use of the
halter on a man is that you have
a rope to the halter and cross il
over a limb of a black jack and
pull gently until his feet are off the
the ground. then make the rope
fast to the body of the tree. It
beats the Kelly cure.
i | saw Hardscrabble today and
the soft sephyrs were playing