La Junta tribune., 1910-03-12
Way Down South
in Land of Dixie
Mr.. Patterson Tells - U1IoostAted Timbor Lands
and Prospective 0al VNulls in LosaisiAna. Also
OF Southern Ho6pata1DnH with Corn Broad for
q Chaser.

= that We are spending our money
oor>and We don't propose to give 1t
ioUoy.' Another. I'm an employe
- l can't talk That was all
k1G4. II was In line with their
aqeons and it was their business.
1ois part OF Arkansas WAS settled
- very early day. About two miles
~ Bradley is the little old village
a4Nalnu, Hill. not A. large as Brad
- hut it has bank with 5000
0o1tal and about $4,000 deposits.
Do4ley has no bank. Near Walnut
vas shown the residence OF
~ first governor OF Arkansas. II
= . somewhat pretentious old south
ssn mansion. with q beautiful site
~ once beautiful grounds. l was
ODane 10 say his name was Conxer.
bak u has Just escaped me. Mr.Carl
esd had ridden to Walnut Hill
hoeoeback. We were invited to din.
- W ~ stNh6ha, ,he ptesiucut
a tn bank and a prominent physi-
clan OF this part OF the country.
hAd splendid appetite. and We had
royal dinner. | never ate such
Z flne corn bread. One must eat corn
bread baked in a southern home to
raoiize the luxury there is In an ear
o( corn. ! was brought up in iii.
nois. where corn and hogs are the
great staple products. but 1t is in
the South, where neither sufficient
corn nor pork is produced to supply
the wants of the country that corn
and pork are the staff OF life. Why.
~ httle corn bread Is found on the
tAooos OF Illinois. Iowa, Indiana. Kan.
soAahd Nebraska. the great corn rails
49, ei,.aa. ~ -whss I was 10Y. u
~ns'odly the poor. the very poor. that
ate corn bread. and people rather
felt dhgfaced to be found with corn
bread on the table. and that too when
Illinois produced little whaet. Dr Me
knight and his wife have a beauti
fu home grsced with two sweet IT.
Z tie girls and are most intelligent and
entertaining people.
There II u school OF two rooms
at Walnut Hin. The principal
called upon. n gentleman by the name
: OF Hinshaw. who had come south
from near my former home In Illinois
/ He seemed TO be glad to see a 'fel
low sucker One day one OF Or
McKnight's little girls asked him II
the schools In the north were moi
better than the schools In Arkansas
He replied. mo. because the best
I teachers have come from the north
to arkansas. This reminds me ol
another story heard In Arkansas
In the early days they plowed those
stumpy fields with great twenty-five
inch plows. drawn by six and eight
yoke Of oxen. One Of these Arkanxas
pioneers. who always did more won
dcrtul things than anyone else In the
world and who could always beat any
other story anyone told-this fellow
wore bucksktn brecches. carried q
great Oh lash that could nip the hAir
of an Oh twenty feet away and drove
eight yoke Of oxen to one Of those
great pIows, lifted out and lowered
into the ground with long lever
the md os the plow beam carried on
immense. heavy trucks and. as h.
plowed. his psow struck 4 pix stump
square in the middle. Il first stalled
the oxen. but he jumped upon the
plow. cracked his OF soad. when the
oxen heaved 10 their yokcs and the
plow split the stump and went
through. but the stump closed be-
hind the plow. catching the seat OF
his buckskin brccchcs and pulled out
the stsop.
nave been riding for three days
on horseback and. N I have not been
In The saddle for about four years
I have . few tendcr spots and. some
how, ! like - stand = good deal.
ROBT. w. PATTERSON.
Shreveport. La. March Z. 1910.