The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-03-27

uahce must pay the hddler. Capi~
tal Is very particular nowadays.
When capital wants young man
1t looks round for one who doesn't
drink or smoke or gamble-one
who saves his money and doesn't
run about every night. Family
influence isn't worth a cent now. A
Young man stands on his merits, his
habits, his associations. | know a
young man who lost his place be-
cause he kept bottle in his room.
So he quit for a year, and was Just
about getting a good situation,
when be got on a spree aud that set
him back for another year and dis
couraged him, and now he drinks
whenever he can get it and does
odd jobs around, but can't get anv
regular employment. Nobody but
sick folks ccD afford to drink, and
1T doesn't do them any coed. 1
never saw a father who was willing
Tor his son to drink / never saw a
son who was willing for his father
to d.ink. The wife feels as much
concern about her husband drink
ing as he does about her taking
morphine. Young man, there is s
blue book in every town and your
name is on it. But there is no e.
cuse for a young man failing to get
employment in this blessed coun-
try. If he does not it is his own
fault. If he can't get rich fast he
can slow. If he will begin young
and work hard and behave himself
he will accumulate a plenty for his
old age. Old age wants some mon.
ey. 1t wants rest and ought to
have it. "Otium cum dignitate" is
the Latin for dignifed leisure. but
| heard Judge Underwood say it
meat, "rest comes by digging"
Dig first and rest afterwards. Old
age don't want to get up on a cold
winter morning and make the fire
and cook the breakfast. Yester-
day morning a little darby tapped
at our bedroom door and said:
"Mammy say she sick and her
can't come des mornin'," and then
| heard female voice reply, "Oh,
dear me, there it is again. l
thought last night she was fixing
10 get sick. She is such an aggra>
walton. wish she would quit and
stay quit. Here it is seven o'clock,
and not even fire made" And
so the breakfast was like the trains,
an hour late, and the children we're
late to school, and got marked, and
everything was out of joint,
and haven't got enlightened out
yet. Eight dollars a month and
perquisites won't keep cranky
cook in order. In such emergen-
cies l used to get up and cook the
breakfast myself, but l won't do it
now I've struck. I'll do without
it first. | want my otium cum dig.
Mrs. Arp shan't do it, either. She
wants her otium, and is entitled to
it. We have another darby close
by, and so the case is not desperate
but 1t is provoking, There is a
good deal Of provoking in this vale
OF tears. Last night l started to
town. The silver moon was SHIN.
ing nearly vertical, ard as | steps
ped oil the piazza to the pavement,
| thought | saw our black dog ly>
ing by the step, and so | stepped
high to step over him, and Mrs.
Arp says she, what are You step
ping so high for-you remind me
of blind horse with the string
halt" 81 didn't want to step on
the dog" said I, Indignantly. She
just laughed and said, children
did you see your pa trying to step
over his shadow--~there is no dog
there" AID they all laughed but
ME. Such things always disturb
my serenity.
Go to work young man and lay
up some money for your old age
for the time when tho grass hopper
will become burden and the cook
will quit before breakfast, and you
will think your shadow is dog.
"N hat about the giris?" says a
friend. Let the girls quit their
foolishness, as sam Jones says. If
they can't make money, let them
quit spending it. ! know young
ladies in this towp whose fathers
arc on a strain, and yet they won't
make their own dresses. They have
them made by the milliner. They