The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-02-04


] Dear sir:--When | wrote you my
last letter, / fully expected to be at
home by now, but it seems that the
! hand Of affection has been laid
heavy upon me and am still here.
am now slowly improving and
hope to be with you all before many
more weeks.
/ Well the war is still going on and
| thought / would sound one more
note Of warning to my friends in
Lee county. AS you know Rich
mond was headquarters for the Con-
federate States during the civil war,
and they naturally feel like theyare
still on the inside Of war news here,
and the papers published here claim
this from the best authority they
can get, that it vii! be some time
before the war ends. Now, i want
to say few words to my friends, be
sure and plant plenty of corn, oats,
potatoes, cane and make plenty Of
meat for home consumption, and
then let your cotton be the surplus
crop. The farmer whofails to have
plenty Of home supplies next fall,
will be in bad fix. Our. farmers
since the war between the states re-
minds me Of what Mark Twain said
about himself He said he decided
to buy him a hog, he gave SO 90 for
| the hog and then went down town
and bought $500 for the corn to
| fatten the hog. He said as soon as
| the hog got fat, heNsold him to bu-
tcher tor $500 and then told his
friends about what fine trade he
made, and that on the transaction
he had cleared $1.00. One of his
friends said, Mark, you are mis-
taken; you lost $500 op:the trade.
MARX said No, you don't under
stand it. I cleared one dollar on the
Ehog and lost $500 ON the corn. /"
Now, that is the kind Of farming
we have been doing In the South
| We borrow 81 900 from the bank to
make cotton, sell in the fall 500
worth Of cotton and when we strike
the balance sheet we claim we clear
ell 500 on cotton and lost $500 on
corn and meat we did not raise.
4 Away with such farming get down
to business and make money and
| live at home.
A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
Since | have been in the hospital
and not long after / came here,
there came in fine looking lady
well dressed and | happened tomeet
her at the door and she asked to1see
DR.. Kellam. | invited her into the
sitting room. She asked me my
nane and where / was from, as soon
i as I told her she smiled and said to
me that she was born in Lee conn-
lty, Ca, and lived there until she
was II. years old. She then said to
me, which one of the Hines boys
are you James, Andrew, John or
Harris. l said, This is John, and
she said, you do not know me, !"
and I said, Know? Madame, l
i don't remember you," She said,
Don't you remember Andrew and
myself where great sweethearts in
our young days" Then said
"Oh, yes, jessie. l remember you
well, and this is jessie Moses. 2 She
said, yes" and we have talked
over old times. She lived in IL
mile of my fathers and we all went
TO school together. She then asked
me all about the old Forester boys,
Billie Newsom, Judge Long, Eas
and Jack Powell. They livedin the
Forester settlement and sold out
this, moved to East Dougherty and
bought farm adjoining my fathers.
/ told her Jack, Eas, Billie New
some, Mrs. Nettie odom and Jud-
&c Long were still living and the
! rest of her old acquaintance were