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UiXLE J OIKt JOIKSTIIE CAVALRY FARMERS' BPd GADE BCai0n was good tl was equal- had, for one cause or another, resuU-
, - , . . - - -ly good, and he emerged ia the fall ed In failure, and he was openly skep-
! . . . - . witlTa yield of SO bushels on one acre tical of the value of anything new.
r - .. .The latest Version of .Now Lives lor Old?-.; w , and a prlta in the shape of a'modenv .;Bot he. was again doomed to dUap-
' " ' ' " ... ' ; : riding .cultivator, that- cultivated a. polntment. Henry had made a data
' nTt; , ..-mv.v ..-J row at a through..' v. :,;'"' ' with the county agent, and the latter
FAUO lu colv Y"W,J tu i uius. . . a uo tcoi. ui us Uncle John's Besalmlsm W had ft wison hand to belt him La.rV. Aftr
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cue ;wmi " " tu" . -.uuj.u.-wi . j ""-rude shock, but he wasn't ready to . some little . difflculty In making the
JL 'ere new-fangled notions oughta know and experience, and the note of e , 7.-V ' ' " adjustments everything was In order,
-have a limit somejires. - -So fur ez , drear pessimism pervading - every-. . . -NotMni Dtlt an accident,- he said, and Henry gaVe his corn a good Cul
this.com club-business.- an' agrlcul-; thing. gradually sapped -Uncle John is j never wm belIeve there's any- tlvation in Just one-fourth the time it
tural schools and expeeryment sta- pi cgressivencss. For many years ho;::tlj to what they call these govern- had taken him the year before. Uncle
.tlons. Is concernedr I don't take no ; had struggled- doggedly - with - . - . , .. , . . x
etoclc in 'em; an furthermore, Lmdy, stumpy fields,-adverse seasons and
I think that young, school teacher but low prices; falling behind one year
'af 61'- Union School had better be . and barely breaking evearthe next.
: -'tendln'.to his business, 'stead o run- His' greatest pride lay In 4 his
- fniar 'round here tryin'-V to org'nlze three .boys, two of whom had long
v , what he'calla 'corn clubs.- ..Shucks! I - ago left for the .neighboring city,
; r done forgot- more ?about.corn raisin' "where-they had done well in their
than that-saphead'll, ever learn.' Be- professions. --
sides" we're' beln' taxed .to death to - - "The other boys is a-aolh: well,
' pay him. a big salary., an',1. fur one'- Henry," and the best thing you can
" am in" favor of makin' Mm 'stick to, do is to learn to be a doctor or
Vhis knlttin!.".!.-. V" , V " :-lawyer " yourself, .and git onten
- , Thia tirade of, Uncle John's came here to where you
' v as a result of thV young .teacher's l can do sumpn. Thef
V' hearing "of whit "boys' corn clubs; ain't nothfn ,here
"were doing' In other, sections of the' fur you t .know
r ijstatei'aJicL bis "attempt to. organize a' that, fur I've, tried
; club in.the. local schooi;.Uncle' John's -fur 40 years to find
j, youngest boy, a bright lad of 16, had-, anivin-' an' I don't
become. as,"enthuslastic"over4' the idea believe it'shere. Me
. J as the teacher and his importunities", an your ma'll soon
.1:1 tobe allowed to ioin- had. provoked begone boyant-the
- the outburst of the old man.,, More- , best hope 1 can have
" 'Qver,,the lad had somehow heard of fur you is at you
: 4 the State Agricultural Colleger and aon't have the hard
" ,'had'liad 'the 'temerity to 1 askMs- life e have had.",
; father to send him there In order that : - - , -z -
he might learn something , of
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sure . ijuji xieniy was insistent tnat ne do
enoueh." ui-to-date farming.! But to allowed-to, Join the corn club, at
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" turned a deaf ear, vowing that all r was anytnmg m it. "it don't cost oas. i Deen a-iarmur iur 4U years .aid
- such schools were ."sink holes fur the ' nothin Dad' said he, "an 1 believe vay 'fore them fellers wui born an'
Henry's- pleadings : the" old man had, least that he might see whether there ment and expeeryment station meth-w John was amazed at a machine that
the. work four times as fast and
better than he and his Georgia stock,
people's money an wa n t dom no- , a caa raise as mucn corn on an acre i Jtnow. s iur mat crazy ctrairapuou out natea to say so -t -
.1 body no good - fluy o; tne rest o" tne fellers. - ra qi a piow you gotr want you to Keep- . , , , .
: ; ; - , -love ta try anyway; an I might get It outen my sight Fust.thing any- , A WEEK laterr Saturday afternoon,
r TjJeW better men; lived in Jones , one o' them prizes.' V ' i '"'. 1 1 body knows you'll be a-goin to mill rV. Henry had arranged to give his
J? ; : County than Uncle ' John Smith, s JTteally; backed by his motherfs. on4C;. jfv; , : ..'.... J; ; ,.. corn its second working. .As he fln-
"As a lad near the. close "of wthe 'Civil -entreaties availed, and the old'ttanS
War he had joined Forrest's Cavalry; gruagingrygave his consent. v , out tne next spring uncie jonn m- ly on his cultivator, ..his .father ap-
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and carried with pride a limp and, a"1 - "With that.; sap-headed
terposed.no objection When Henry ; peared
scar where a bullet hadeut" through teacher and that galoot they call the ' agaln and , 'Henry, if you dont mind, I believe
the muscles of his leg., He loved to .ae-monstration agent a-tryin' to teueven assenteq in a negative son oi
'tell of the days when, as a young cav- ypu now io raise corn, -.it snore is a.wayiWe.U;:i
alryman "we lickedthem Yankees tease of the Win a-leadli the blin'enry;s.list
1 1 was: h i D0 ast mat .- one mouni,ea -. vuu, , b"oq, c-
your ol' , dad'll try her a round Tou
pg club wa4; added: to go git some water, .while I see how I '
:rUke:lt,r-;;tf::;;
What'gaye Uncle John most pleas- , Henry went; and when he returned
- soldier was the eQuai'-oi 1 tnree jon r o wv-.vu.ij. wajr j y u watu uq ,noo imcuu Bum.iv,'ri' ""u ; uuuo 4uuu; wb bu -u.copjij' cugtuooou
toot , and ' he ' of ter. declared, -in its ?any sense bout slch things.? " ,Heury hitched up his riding cultivat- and delighted that at first he failed
nrifmVpTninlspencfts. that "if we'd : . - ' - " -'or, for the first time. Most of the in- .to notice the boy Finally, witU a
;a had a. few more Forrests an', a few CHUNG came on apace, and young; novations in : the form of Improve- -twinkle; In - his . old v eye, he said,
more ravalrv reeiments there would- w Henry's .corn was planted .arly omenta .ana aaoo
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. n't a been no Appomattox.
But with all Uncle "John's fighting,
- blood, the ; toll andt hardships of .re
construction i days almost broke hi3
A spirit. As a boy.'his Impressions had
been- of " a prosperous, -progressive
neighborhood, blessed h with a fair
share of wealth ; : as' a man ne'eame
. 'back "t6Aa county ;moat' of whose
youngmen were .dead and' whose
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on a mellow' .fertile seed.bedT .The -had 5come':Jnto his jrather hard life ain't there a baseball game out to the
school house? I . 'lowed you might
i want to be goln', an'-I'll finish, this
j job up fur you." yM-c-K
Late In the afternoon when Henry
got back he found the old man had
; finished the prize acre and, two acres
Jot hl8wn'!corn :as well. . Best of all,,
'. he, had rigged up 'the huge family ;
umbrella over the machine as a pro-
tection against the hot sun. - '
"If you're a-gona do It,.yoU migh
as well, do it right; an' Henry,M said
- the old man; "I jest called Up Jones'
. hardware store an' ordered 'nother
one oV them cultivators. ; Hereafter '
we're gona farm on this farm." -: ;
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ONE ' autumn ijiight; , six months .
later, at the meeting of the Union -Corn
Club; Uncle John was present,
and, after the prizes had been an
nounced,' he was called- on. for a .
speech. ' - y ; . -J:7. v v: ' -y. ', -(' V ; '; '
, Ml can't make, no ? speech, boys,"
- said he ."but I wanta tell you I'm
with you. I fought under Forrest for
-a cause I loved," an reconstruction
wua hard to me; then fur 40 years I
fought them stumps . an' gullies on
the old farm,, and "didn't have no
weapons but my own' muscle.-. I'm
nigh onto ,70 now, boys, aV my sec-
; ond reconstruction has come mighty
- hard, too, but it, has come, and I want
to tell yon fellers; again,. I'm with
. you ; We're figbtln' . under the bet
ter farmln banner,-an V'l 'fur one
have already Joined the cavalry brlg-
v. if ymf Asr ny neighbor .who .flo -Ht
r4 Th Progrewlr Parmer, end u tth
lumei 1 we will send them om- Bmpl
pl -Thn cmll m thm ud atk tbem
to iubwrlfte. ,.--. c. ' .?., :.
THE DASHING CAVALRYMAN
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