The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-01-04

ueFloidole state OF AFFAIRS among this
large class OF our populations God only
knows. But we all know that these peo-
pie are here and that they must live.
THE INTELLIGENT COMPOSITOR.
He and the Devil Compare Notes on the
Weather.
From the East Macon Truth.
"It's pretty cold," said the devil.
"Ive seen it COLDER" said the intelli-
gent compositor.
give seen it so cold," said the devil,
that the mercury froze in the thermome-
ter"
"T've seen it so cold" said the intelli-
gent compositor, "thas the bottom would
fall out of the thermometer and the mer-
curry would get down on the floor and
crawl under the stove and try to warm
itself.''
81 have seen itso cold," said the devil,
''that people couldn't keep warm sitting
on red hot stove"
81 have seen it so cold," said the in
telligent compositor, "that people had to
wrap blankets around red hot stoves to
keep them from freezing"
81 have seen it SO cold, said the dew
il, "that it would burn you to touch a
piece Of ice.
81 lave seen it so co-d," said the in
telligent compositor, ''that it you built
fire out of doors the flame would freeze
solid, and you could work it up into
earrings, finger irings, and other orna-
ments, just like it was gold"
81 have seen it so cold" said the:dev-
il, "that when people were talking the
words would freeze as they came out of
their mouths and would fall at their feet
in little pieces of ice, just like hail
stones"
eyes, L have seen that myself" said
the intelligent compositor. SIN town
where l used to live was man who was
terrible fellow to talk. He swore like
a pirate and told the truth only about
half the time. One day he was standing
on the street corner talking to another
fellow and was trying to talk him to
death. 1t was Eful cold, and as you
say the words froze as they came from
his mouth. When he told lie it made
blue ice, swhen he swore it was red, and
what truth he told was white. Well, he
kept on talking, oursing, telling lies and
an occasional truth, the words freezing
and falling AS he spoke them, and he
talked so fast that in fifteenl minutes he
had stacked himself up to the neck in a
heap of red, white and blue Ice. 1t look
ed like he was trying to wrap the ma
tional colors around him. Just then the
tail end of a blizzard came sweeping
around the corner and froze him and his
conversation Into solid mass. They
left him standing there. all winter as
solemn warning to liars and blasphem-
ers. The sight affected me SO that |
haven't told a lie SINCE" and the intelli-
gent compositor spit in the stove and
put the fire out
The devil was discouraged. It was
evident that he was only lightweight
liar after all. But he made another eff
fort.
81 don't mind steady cold much,' he
said, "but sudden changes of tempera-
ture get away with me. l once lived in
a country where the changes were awful
sudden. 1 was was walking by river
one pleasant, sunshiny day when all
was warm and balmy. The little fish
were playing in the river, frequently
! jumping out the water and high in the
air. There came change of tempera-
ture so terrible and sudden that the riv-
er froze over as quick as a wink, and the
fish that had jumped out of the water
half a second before fell back on the ice.
Iskated out on the river and picked up
enough fish to last our family a week"
eyes, I lived in the same kind Of
country myself" replied the intelligent
compositor. 81 was out one awful cold
day, having a snowfall fight with anoth-
er boy, when there came one of those
sudden changes you speak OF. I had
Just thrown big snow bail at the other
boy, and the temperature made such a
quick change that when the snowfall
struck him it had turned to boiling
water, and it ,scalded all his hair off.
His hair came out again in the spring,
but it was fiery red whereas it had been
black before. have always felt sad
about that boy" and the intelligent com