The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-01-27
RUFUS SANDERS TALKS,
8A5 LUCK AMI HARU TINES HIS TOPIC
THIS WEEK.
The Proper Time TO Hang Up the Fid.
die and the Bow--some Examples of
What There Is in Luck and
Pluck

Pluck.
New Year has come and gone and the
next thing is somethin else There is a
right and proper time for everything.
and the time for feastin and fiddlin and
dancin md frolickin is now about over
till Christmas comes again. The past is
past, and you can't ehurn butter out of
split milk. My doctrine is that people
ought to take things as they come, live
all they can while they are at it, but out
inthe country it will soon be a good time
to hang up the fiddle and the bow, aud
trot out the shovel and the hoe.
HARD TIMES.
Money is right smart different from
men. 1t never gets tight till after
Hard times come mighty
nigh every year right about when coun-
try folks are windin up the past and
for the future, when the good
average farmer is rollin logs and fixin
up fences and burnin brush and clearin
up the briar patches, and you can catch
the smell OF fresh plowed dirt hither and
yonGer.
| amt very much when it comes to
moanin and wailin about hard times till
hard times come. | don't believe in
crawlin and walllin when can ride, and
it is plenty time to burn down the bridge
after you git across the creek.
Fifteen or sixteen years ago today Dunk
Strickland swore off from gittin drunk
for Twelve months to come. He had
been on spree continually all the time
since Christmas, and his good wife gives
it out that it is now his turn to quit.
She was way yonder the best man in the
family, and nobody didn't know the facts
any better than Dunk Strickland did
So she got out the family Bible and
made Dunk come to his kness and kiss
it, and swear by all that was high and
holy that he wouldn't git drunk any
more till the next New Year folowin.
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Toms daddvl cot knocded ont the east
est and quickest by a little hard timrs
of any man in all nv acouaint,nces He
set bad example to follow. and a GOOD
one To break away from
Before the war old Asburv had = big
plantation. and it was well stocked and
in good fix. down on Panther Craek
He also had mules and niooers and MO
GERS and mules till he copIdn't count
them. He wore fine clothes and drunl,
good whisky and used the hest tobacco
and rode fat horse with a screaI,in sad
die He wouldn't put his foot into a
pair of boots that cost less than fen dol
lars. and he maintains continually tbat
the world couldn't turn out any Goods
that WIS too fine to 90 on his hack ue
went in very deem on GOOD clothos and
fine STYLE and family standin. When he
went to a town or a cburcb in his car
riaoe his driver mad the n,arocor,o,t &C
fine team and if the horses didr,+ ba,o
tbcir heads nr,lod wav nm and = na+oo+
leatber shine On tboir bai. = ,i,,ra,sI,i,,
WAS mora than lil,aIv T., ha +,nrod ~ a.,
Piekeps ouarter that niobt
Rut fine va,. lyi1Ied ala Ashrrv pio1.oa.
alonp with hundreds and thonsands 80
otbe,. nood and usofnl r,a, Il aid,,,4
oft him in tbe tticl, of +bo e,rl,+ 80
rot him all the sauna at last ia birod
another man for u son +o toto b,s r,,s,,
eft and answer. t,e roll whom bis na,no
was caleJ And vot II lool,od 1iLo .r,.,r
had marl,od hin, fo, ho,. onn Il a.
maybe si, months after tbo bovs b,d
ruIed their a,gs and ororrdod tboir
arms at Annom,frox before be diod bpt
if stood lam mn to reason Win oyorv
Indy tl,at tha var l,illod him Ittiuad
him with bad luck and hard times
From that fine sn,ino morning when
old Asbuy woke up and found his oin-
house burned and his corn-crib sacked
IN, ,vas D., cl,,r,,,j man t1.,,..,...'l ~.
fer,nt fran bim.oIf os irho na, s,,,a,
body elise entiraIv # .eoro. uL,.hola.,
MI intarest in t,o aaroo ,,t,n ,l,.+ a.5
he nIavcd his bandoof fast ,o1o,,i.l,
liz. walked overbis nlant,tior 1,oa os lis
,iooers had rodo off with his s,JdIa
horsel and when bo oot haol, T., n,,hon.a
he had the general annearnant If a., man
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