Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-13
OKOLONA MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY, JULY 49,

ana see tHS pIOopCCl loi IHNO'HN "N"
this valuable piece Of property so
suddenly and easily added to the
Perkins estate. ! went down ~
miles on the train and then hired
horse and buggy and drove out.
When got to the foot Of the noun
tain met an old darkey and asked
him if he could tell me where the
Adams farm lay. He said look er
here boss, is you bought dat farm?
| | told him had and he said: We'll
boss, it don't lay at all, its sot up on
de edge" ! told him ! was hoping
to find it level and nice for farming.
He said there was one advantage in
having it sot up on de edge" as
could work both sides. ! gave himI
a quarter to go and show it to me.
When we had gone through cut in
the moutain, he stopped and said
"dere 20 farm hanging up m de side
Of dat mountain" gazed in astonish-
ment. bad read Of NapoIean seal
ing the Alps and all that kind Of
business. but nothing but squirrel
could scale the side Of my farm in
Georgia. / asked him how | could
get 10 the top to cultivate il He said
! would have 10 go four miles around
and come up on the other side, !
? tried to rent it to him, but he said he
had worked it one year and it Has SO
steep that when he went to pIow his
cotton the dirt kept on rolling down
into Mr.. Jones field and didn't tech
7 his at all and Mr. Jones would not
y nay him cent for wolkin his crop
dat way, so it was time flung away
n was somewhat bumfuzzlee in mind
; and | drove hack to the station. re-
{ Aected on the uncertainty OF human
II events and wondered if my boastec
" character for over coming stupendous
e d;Gcult;ae had MT met its Waterloo
Al Not being made OF the, stuff tina
" gives up without struggle, | rallIet
all my slumbering energies and caliet
IS on my expansive brain for solution
n Of the problem. The most feasible
" plan that | could think of was to hav'
'e an elevator put in to carry my mule
J. and pIow to the top, so ! teIegraphet
10 to the works at Chattanooga to get tht
ID price. The answer came; "S2,UOOi
s. YOU want to carry one mule, S2,5OC
it you want to carry up two. mad
~ calculation to see how the income
IL would compare with the outgo. Ihir
i teen bushels Of COOLERS, $3.50; lou
u and half bushels of corn, $3.50
corn is high down in Georgia Any
'e thing would be high on top Of tha
III mountain. Subtract that from S2,OOO
I'd would leave me S1989 in debt tn
ID first yaar, to say nothing Of the fun
would have in making the crop, whic
y stands as an offset against mule fee
" and other little expenses.
So under oil circumstances, a
1t much as ! regret to give up the IltI
IN farm with Jerusha's reluctant concen
H. We have decided alter much deIibeI
lie alton and prayer (Jerusha alway
!" prays over important matters.
49, always take through the woods an
re do the best can, for ii seems to m
'u' that the Lords mind could be NOR
Sc pro6tably employed than in trying
IS help me decide what to do with til,
ne little farm, for my mind was aIread
IN made up) to place it on the market
e. once. So if you can find buyer Ft
IN me, send him over and il we trade, !
no let you send the children over in tn
to fall to pick up hickory nuts on tt
''y shares. I've been ransacking IN
Try mind to tell you how to recommen
W. W. it. 1t don't suit literary man Tor "
II tried it. know it cant be beat f'
ne one thing and that's to skin a yea
ling. Just tie bis tail to a sapIin
S'' spIit the skin down his forehead ar
"A he will slip OF! Of bis hide before V
iov would have time TO catch him in h
in downward course. So you see ever
al thing was made Tor some useful pu
pose, with no exceptions against q
little Georsis farm