Well, if you want a pair of shoes, 



It's go get an order from A. J. Matthews. 



And it's "charge it," my boy; 



It's "cliarse it, ' my l)oy. 



O soupy! O soupy! without any lieaiis — 

 O meaty. O meaty! without any lean. 

 And it's "charge It" on McFarlin farm; 

 It's "charge it," my boy. 



Well, Mr. McFarlin, he thought he was rich, 

 So he ran his old thresher off into the ditch, 

 And it's "charge it," my boy; 

 It's "charge it," my boy. 



About everythin.^- among these "shear crop- 

 peis" is set to the above lines of expression 

 in the way of rhyme, and if you are here for 

 a while you will learn that there is more truth 

 than fiction in it. 



October 10th. 1912. — It seems that our eldest 

 boy was not to get off with chills and malaria, 

 but must shed some of his poison via the 

 "lising ' loute. 



October 20th, 1912.— So far. Mrs. Studabaker's 

 affection from the climate had been confined 

 to headaches and light fevers, but this day 

 she was taken with a regular chill, and her 

 constitution was so affected by it — her fever 

 going to 105 — that for an hour her circulation 

 was hardly noticeable. Such cases need heroic 



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i^GUE TONIC 



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FOR THE LIVER 



TASTELESS 



CHILL TONIC 



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MALARIA 



Fence and Tree Decorations. 



treatment and as quickly as we could she was 

 taken to Hotel Marshall in Sikeston, where, 

 under the careful treatment of Dr. T. V. Miller 

 and a trained nurse, Mrs. Carroll, after one 



more chill the chills were checked, and in just 

 a week she was able to return home again. 



Now we were more than thankful that we 

 were in a position to, and could do this, but 

 did you have a good crop on your farm and 

 were able to make money out of the land, you 

 would dislike to have to pay it out for outings 

 of that nature. Her week's treatment cost 

 about one himdred dollars. You can hardly 

 realize how pleased we all were that our days 

 ill this malarious climate were numl^ered, and 

 from this time till our public sale, Januar> 

 30th, 1913, I had Mrs. Studabaker stay in the 

 north all that I could. 



November 18th, 1912. — Naturally, enterprising 

 medicine companies advertise their wares, and. 

 as this is the country where malaria and chills 

 exist to a greater or less extent, and general 

 stores, drug stoies and doctors have sale f(vr 

 anything that looks like it might be good for 

 the "shakes," it is not to be wondered at that 

 signs like in the picture that I hand you here- 

 with appear on the fences, buildings, trees, etc., 

 and that is not a beginning of the chill tonics 

 prepared and sold and. for your selection, 

 should you care to lay in a supply before going, 

 if you are interested in a drug store or have 

 a friend that is, I print you a list that are 

 manufactuied and sold, I am informed: 



List of chill tonics that you might wish to 

 select from: 



chill-t-tonic. 



armistead's ague tonic. 



aspinwall's fever and ague tonic. 



crabbe's chill tonic. 



ford's chill and fever tonic. 



greer's chill tonic. 



grangp:r's aromatic chill tonic. 



grove's chill tonic. 



hill city chill tonic. 



howell's chill and fever tonic. 



johnson's chill tonic. 



kidds chill tonic. 



knox's chill tonic. 



leonard's tasteless chill and iron 



TONIC. 



LILLYBECK'S "TWO-BIT" CHILL TONIC. 



LOXA BARK CHILL TONIC. 



MENDENH ALL'S CHILL AND FEVER 

 T(~)NIC. 



PLANTATION CHILL TONIC. 



PLANTER'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. 



PLATT'S CHILL TONIC. 



DR. PYNES' CHILL AND FEVER TONIC.' 



RED RIVER CHILL TONIC. 



RICH'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. 



SCHAAP'S LAXATIVE CHILL TONIC. 



.^niONS TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. 



SMITH'S CHILL AND FEVER TONIC. 



SPAIiK'S TASTELESS CHILL AND FEVER 

 TONIC. 



ST. JOSEPH'S CHILL TONIC. 



l^CATAN TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. 



UNCLE SAMS CHILL TONIC. 

 , VICK'S LACTATED CHILL TASTELES.S 

 TONIC. 



WINTERSMITH'S CHILL TONIC. 



WOOD'S CHILL TONIC. 



REXALL CHILL BREAKER. 



November 21st, 1912. — Our eldest boy and I 

 went pecan hunting in what is known as the 

 St. John's bayou country and camped in this 

 earthquake-torn-up country on the banks of 

 this bayou where the water was said to be 

 forty feet deep during the high waters of last 

 spring. 



November 23d, 1912. — As I have been showing 

 you all along, this country is mostly inhabited 

 by the tenant class, and they have city folks 

 "beat a block" when it comes to moving around 

 Some of them stay a week in a place and 

 some a little longer, and, in fact, it seems to 

 you that the country is always on the move. 

 We saw The section wherein we lived changed 

 completely, other than ourselves, for we were 

 safely tied, you know, three times within the 

 near four years we lived there. 



December 6th, 1912.— While in St. Louis with 

 some live stock. I met Mr. J. F. Cox of the 

 Hoosier Land & Investment Company, and in 

 talking over the progress of my settlement 

 with them on land that I sold to Mr. Lindley, 

 he told me if I would call at the office when I 



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