The log cabin Democrat., 1914-11-23

the night I saw eight bales of cotton piled up under shed, and, knowing osemthing of the conditions, after we had sat down by the fire, I was inter- ested enough to ask MT. Title about his success in producing so much cot ton.
 When he commenced to tell me about it, he told me about the business of his whole years labors. He and his wife, his widowed daughter and the little orphan, nine-year-old child, on 12 acres of land, cultivated and harvested the eight bales of cotton, besides other crops. For hired help, for all cultivating and harvesting, they only paid out $6.50 in money. They raised corn enough to run them another year. During this year MT. Title has sold $160 worth of cattle. He raised mule colt which he says he would not sell for $100. He raised all the potatoes of both varieties which he needs for his own use. They have cleared, fenced and put into cul- tivation about four acres of new land. They have this fall planted five acres in wheat and about two acres in bar ley for winter pasturage. MT. Tit ties cotton and the seed from it, at the present low prices, would bring him $320, his mule colt $100, the cat tie sold brought him $160, his corn would be worth $75, his potatoes and other garden stuff would be worth, say $50, making a total of $705 the first year from an old place which no one else would have and for which he paid only $339.
 But the labor and self-denial under which such results were attained could never be appreciated, except by some one who knew the facts in the case Mr. little, in the beginning al most an invalid, made the help of his wife in doing the most laborious work a necessity. She is woman not overS ly stout and about 50 years of age. The daughter at the death of her hus band had two little helpless children and in the future was to become the mother of still another, with no other home and no other means of support than dependence on her aged parents. She therefore did everything in the way of field work. She plowed, she hood, she picked cotton, worked the garden and assisted in cooking the meaus. She did this all for the pur- pose of Tightening the burden on her mother and father and to provide the necessities of life for herself and lit tie ones. Her third child is now a bright babe about two months of age.
 In addition to the other labor per formed, they have partially built two new rooms to the old house. I slept in one of them last Wednesday night, the coldest night of this season, and l could see the moonlight through the unceiled cracks all around, but the bed was a warm one, made up from feathers picked from geese that be- longed to the place; there was plenty of cover, and by means of an old silk neck cloth which I had with me to cover my head, slept warmly and got up the next morning feeling bet ter than had felt for some days.
 But one Of the most significant statements in connection with this eX perience is that in going through with all of this work and responsibility, MT. little lost sight of his own feeble ness and has now almost entirely re- covered his health While was there the table was supplied with the best of food, we'll cooked, and mostly pro- duced by themselves on their little farm. They are not now worrying about debts. Their hogs now being fed in the pen will make enough meat for another year Their cows will supply milk and butter. This family is contented and happy.
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