The Pulaskian., 1920-09-02
Dianlond Rattier.

copies Ot the PulaSk1an, and reading in them about the birds and animals and failing to see his name men, toned, he became blind with jeal- ousy and rage and started out to put an end to all of it. Being mad, he did not use good judgment and, as usually happens under such condi- tions, he got the worst of 1t. Instead of coming direct to the Pod man he concluded that the best thing for him to do was to make a fight as directly on Uncle Sam as he could. The only representative at Wye of Uncle Sam was the postmaster, and as he is the man who takes the Pod leters on the first lap of their journey to Little Rock he decided to attack him. Sat urday the mail was late and the train did not get to Wye until after dark. Mir. Chapman started to the depot with the mail on his faithful mare and had barely gone a hundred yards when the rattler made a vicious lunge of some four feet at the mare. The mare was too quick, though, and lodged him. MT. Chapman almost fell off. He got down at once and commenced throwing rocks at his snakeship. Mrs. Chapman, noticing the fight, sent an ax to him, and he soon finished the job and cut off the rattles, which are now on exhibition in the postoHice. There are nine rat, ties and a button. F. k. Austin measured the snake and it was four feet and eight inches long. It was the largest one killed here in a long time, and the firt one tha several of those who came after their mail ever saw. If he had not come around to have stopped me I would have hat 1rUtt1iriil1g to write afbour this week.
 ] have been very much surprised by noticing in the last two issues of the Pulaskian several requests from different parts of the county calling on me to visit them and bring rain with me. supposed that every part of the county was getting plaenty of rain, for we have been having a rain nearly every day at Wye and my garden has just gotten dry enough to work for the first time in a couple of months. Il has rained so much that though l am right on top of one of the highest hills in Pulaski county, that my butter beans have made al- most a complete failure because of the wet weather We did have few days of dry weather which enabled me to get one mess of beans, but that was all While 1t has been hard on the beans it has been good for al- most everything else. My broom corn made fine and 1 am looking forward to some extra nice brooms i; in fact l have had visions of taking first premiums on them at all the community fairs. I made my first cutting sometime ago and put the straw in building because it was faining every day. Ii was so damp though that 1t molded and did not cure nice. 1 have made a second cutting, but have not sufficient sum- shine to cure 1t nicely. But 1t cer- tainly did grow fine though.
 l did not plant any cantalopes, but sent off to a big seed concern and got some cassaba seed. Instead of having the name on the package there was notice that the company was not responsible for what they were nor whether they grew or not. They did not grow very we'll. I don't think they made a melon. Of course l hated it. There were several vines came up about my garden and 1 sup. pose the Wandering Fairy had Jennie Mole to plant them. She got the seed out of my compost heap, where l had thrown the seed of muskmel. Ions and cassabas, which l ate last year. We'll, l just had one to cal about every other day, which was all and more than l needed. so divided with my little neighbor, Marian Austin. They were awful good and tasted as sweet as a. water melon and the cassaba had almost the flavor of q wetermelon. Marian says she is going to plant a garden next year and plant nothing in il but cantaloupes and cassabas.
 4 Little Hill Farm.
 I.went over to Charley Eschbach's to get some eggs the other day and met him just as I entered the field where he was cutting hay, and he showed me his crop. was aston, ished at if. He has eighty acres, all