The Dawson journal., 1883-12-13

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da.--When shall we all meet again.
And there are more to leave us, and
by and by they viii all be gone, and
our hopes and Joys will frtter aud
fall like the leaves npon. a withered
tree. That is the way feel at times,
but it is not the way we ought to feel.
1t is not the way talk to other
people. "Brace up, ola gentleman, "
I say, brace up. Why, they will keep
coming aud going, and your grand
children viii come TO see you, and
you must make things lively Frol-
&c with EN-, play horse ard bear, and
go hunting with EN-, and tell EN-
stories, and hold your head up like q
patriarch. Grow old graceful, and
he always ready to brighten up the
family heaq6h VITA . venerable smile.
We don't want any long fAceo in this
sublunary world. Chser up aud
make felix's glad to see you. Never
say die until your time comes, and
when il does come draw the drapery
Of your couch about you, as the poet
says, and lie down to pleasant dreams.
There are good many troubles in
this life, and kind Providence has
enabled us 10 fortify against them.
They are more imaginary than other
wise. We can make them big or We
can make them little. A
good MAJOR told
me the other day he had received a
letter from his father. who lived in
Atlanta, and his father wanted hi,n
to get him q cook. A cookl! Lord
help us! Why, the man is worth a
handred thousand dollars and wants
= cook. Darn cook. Why, l can
eook everything I want to est my
self. like cook for the family
and for company, and all that, bit /
can live and thrive and get without a
cook. That is ell imaginary. Some
folks think they are just obliged to
have cook-aad that is what is. the
matter with this generation. They
had cooks before the war, and they
had roast beet, snd roast turkey, and
all sorts Of pies and pastry and they
think they must have it now, but it is
ell a mistake. II 1 lived in Atlanta
wouldent give three cents for cook,
There is bakers brsaai, and nice but.
ter aud cheese. and it don't. take Eve
minutes to cook oysters or b-oil q
steak, aud the cooks might go to
thunder for me. All l want is some
body 10 wash the dishes and clean
up aHer the cooking, and 1 can hire
some little yeller gal to do that. We
attach entirely too much importance
to cooking. Why, I met LADY, in
Aiants-a nice, sweet lady, vino is
! sick, and she lives close 10 me, and
wAsn asked her when shs. WAS com
ing homs she said she dident know,
but she thought she would come
when her husband got her 3 cook.
Is this the problem about a cook
Well. reckon we had better cal lcss
and worry less about vittals Every
body cant dine at Delmoicos. Mrs
Arp wants cook too. She was
raised ou cooks aud waiting maids.
l bink she used 10 lave dozen run
ming around after her, and it was
AiiSH 1syy this and Miss Tavy that,
and they dressed her and undressed
her, and followed her around, and
were proud to have such a princsly
inistress. There were over hun
dsed niggers on the place, and they
all wanted to belong to Miss Tavy
always, sud sheY all wanted 10 fol-
low bel, and SO took passel of
eln alops and managed 10 support
em until Abe Lincoln come along
aud kindly relieved me from the bur-
den Blessings on old Abe. He
dident knew what he WAS doing, but
he lifted = load off OF me sure, for the
dayned niggers ~asent worth darn
cent to me. They were good for one
thing and that was TO child when
she married. II saved the old man
that much expense in supporting
EN-, and it made the child happy in
keeping her old family servants. II
they were fit for anything else in the
mp country never found it out.
liked 70 own EN- first rate. 1 liked
to say Jerry, you black rascal, 60
and hitch up Selim in the buggy,
and drive him around TO the front
gate And liked to hear jerry say
"Yss. mAssa hav him dar quick.
"Wsll, I hired Jerry TO the rail
road as track hand, and the bull
| gine come along one day and cut hi