The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-07-30
LETTER FROM RIIKINS.
The Political Atmosphcrc-Whe
Bill Moody Struck Texas-Some
Important Hints About Cattle
Raising-Also How to Raise Chill
dren Right.
bIIhIHsNIIIt, y z, July ZS, I3Us.
Correspondence OF The Caucasion
Enterprise

Enterprise.
The perlitical atmosphere hain't
| cleared up much yit Hit won't new
er clear up much az long az Billy J.
Bryan liz loose in the land. Every
| time | think about Billy Bryan |
purity nigh jumpt out oy my sox, fer
| Billy IL nifty man. Betsy seq Mr..
| Bryan wuz born on Friday or he
would hev bin eleckted too long ergo
ter thing erbout. But / don't know
Billy formed the habit ov runnin' a
long time ergo when he wuz very
young, an hit seems that he can't
git over hit. Bill Moody sez Mr..
Bryan heZ speeches plum up ter
judgment day an that he will make
ELL hez the most curious noshuns
ever hearn ov, anyway. He went
West a long time erga when he wuZ
very young, an when he got off the
train at a little station in Texas, the
cowboys serenaded him with pistufs,
part ov the program being that
he must dance ter that sore ov mu-
| oIChJ dhu lie hdlh htNtE DlH eAdCIIy
himself sinse. Bill don't like ter
talk about that part ov the trip even
now. But [ hev hit strate an he IL
too guide man ter deny hit. But
still l notis' that whenever we git
ter talkin' erround Texas an other
Western States, Bill awlways lites
hiZ pipe an goes off fer a walk. HiZ
head liz purity gray now an they say
hiz hair began ter turn jist as soon
az hiz feet struck Texas soil, though
he wuZ but twenty-five years ov age
at that time. The other mite Bill
got ter talkin' erbout what he would
do ter sum folks that he had bin hav-
in a little argymint with if they did
MT go slower the next time. [ re-
marked that a man who could shoot
2-handed, az he claimed he could,
Orter aWlwayS be ready fer anything
that mite cum up OV an amuSin' ma
ter like that. In less than no time
Bill wuz ingaged in the peaceful oc-
cpashun ov litin' hiz pipe. If any ov
my friends ever meet with Bill an
hev any business ter transackt with
him, I'd advice them ter attend ter
the business first an then begin ter
talk erbout Texas an the cattle boys.
Hit certainly liz a real sore subjeckt
ter Bill.
In roamin' erbout the country l
often meet with or hear ov speakers
who air goin' erround the country
tellin' the people how to raise cattle,
buy hogs, an how ter farm in every
particular. | hain't nothing ter say
ergin this in general way, fer this
gives the folks sumthin' ter think
erbout, and in rounderbOut way
may do sum guide, so I'm not sayin'
anything ergin hit. Besides maybe
sum of them speakers who kin tell
so much erbout how ter raise cattle
an do guide farmin' may heV bin
purity we'll starved out while they
wuZ tryin' ter farm, if they ever did
try, an hit helps them no little ter
git a guide payin' job ov that sort.
What l started out ter say liz that
after goin' erbout the world fer
few years | heV cum ter the con-
clushun that the people in general
know a guide deal more erbout rails
in cattle an hogs than they know
erbout raisin' children. In the mat
ter ov raisin' children 1 am honest
enuff ter admit that my experience
hez bin sorter like that ov sum oV
them fellers who go erbOut teachin'
farmin', fer I hev done but little ov
hu hnfh ovoc how
learned enuff ter deliver a few
speeches on the subjeckt, an though
I am not hintin' ter the Agricultural
Department that am open ter job,
II frankly admit that the officers in
charge mite do worse.
The raisin' ov children, like that
ov raisin' cattle, hogs, an corn hez
bin leadin' industry fer thousands
ov years an hit goes on in purity
nigh every country under the sun.
They iz not many spots on the earth
| where it iz either too hot or too cold
ter raise children. Az in the case ov
cattle or pigs, guide blood liz impor-
tant. But az guide blood does not
run in the veins ov all cattle, neither
does hit in the veins ov awl children.
A few ov the most important things
necessary in raisin' guide children liz
plenty ov guide switches, which grow
on trees, plenty ov exercise, sum
work, an the proper trainin'. II
| they git aw1 ov this they will be apt
ter grow up aw1 rite an your neigh
bors will not wish every day that
your house would fall down an Grip
pie awl your children so they can't
never git erway frum home. l am
sorry ter say that they liz far too
many ov that sort. I hev often Wis
tied at homes whar the dogs an the
cats, horses an pigs, and everything
ov that sort looked fine and awl be-
haved jist az nice az sich animals
ever do. But the children! Their
faces an hands wuz dirty, an sun
ov them didn't hev any more man
lners an guide behavior than you't
Iexpeckt wild animals ter hev. Their
sum grown-up people air too careles:
: erbout how they talk before theil
children. They discuss many sub
jeckts that children should never
hear, includin' the faults an failin''
ov their naybors, and children bein
very bright, more so than they 81
| credit fer, naturally know awl tina
v liz goin' on, guide an bad. Peopl
who would not allow their pigs te
run with their nayhor's nigS fer fea