The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-05-17
DEATH OF UNLCE JOB.
AN EDITORIAL TRIBUTE TO AN OLD
TIME DARKEY.
Vrender Lines in the augusta News Upon
the Death of the old Janitor--His
Kind Nearly All GONE.

Tender Lines ia the Augusta News Upon
the Death of the old Janitor--His
Kind Nearly All GONE.
The Augusta News comes to us with
is editorial columns in mourning for
she old-time darkey who was janitor OF
she Office, and here is what Bill Moore
says of him:
A more faithful true, honest negro
never labored for his bread. All liked
him. He was as gentle as dove ana as
courteous as Chesterfield. Had he
lived until May 2 1898, he wolld have
been 81 years old. He literally 'died in
harness" without murmur or COM
plant than, after being attacked by
severe chill, he lay down on the floor IN
the engine room and quietly murmured,
'Its about over with me-
Old "Uncle Joe" turned off the very
first issue of the Evening News That
was sixteen years ago, very nearly, and
it was from handpress that he turned
out the first number of the pioneer after
noon paper in the south. Electric pow
er and modern Improvements have now
esupplanted the ancient haDdpress, and
'SUncle joe has had years of rest from
the old time and terrible strain on his
muscles, necessitated by running Of hun
dreds and thousands of papers every
day by the physical strength of his good
right arm. The old man always worked
hard. however, and a more faithful en-
pIove never served in a similar station.
''Uncle Joen was one of the old-time
darkeys, and he was a gentleman, even
though dis skin was black and his work
was humble. Patiently and with perfect
politeness he passed IN and out among
us day after day, and for sixteen years
his glimmy face and bent form made the
most familiar figure of the office and the
engine room. In winter he was the fire
man and had warm seat by the stOYe,
and in summer he handled the ice tongs
and cooled himself in the breeze which
always swept through the9alley.s
He was always on hand, and a three
days sickness covered his only absence
from duty in the sixteen years. He was
here even before the News was estab-
lished, and when the first day of the new
paper life was struggling along with
guntried hands and feet 'Uncle joe was
the only veteran on the force. He was
never known to volunteer to
speak to anybody except at Christmas
time, and then his hat in hand and ex-
seuded palm made up more eloquent
object lesson than his few words of smil
ang greeting.
The old man was general favorite
and he never left the office on holidays
empty handed. His hats were always
worn by the editor-in-chief, and he
allowed many friends on the force to
break in his wearing apparel lest his too
stylish appearance on the st ,eet might
cause envy among his fellows or subject
shim to remarks and extra taxation. His
tfondaess for secondhand clothes was his
beast fault, and in all the years OF his ser
vice on the paper he was never seen to
refuse free lunch or to go back on
single tradition of the journalistic pro-
fession. He was faithful to the end, in
fact as we'll as sentiment and the memo
ny of the old man will always be kept
green by the veterans in the office or in
the composing room, and even by the
newcomers and Office boys, who learned
to look upon him as fixture of the es-
tablishment.
Good bye, Uncle Joem You are the
first to go; bat who knows who viii go
next? You turned off the first issue of
the Evening News and your last paper
has been folded away on earth. This is
sue is sacred to your memory, and
although many may have made more
noise in the weird than Uncle Joseph we
can truly say that few will be more miss
ed in the old sane .um in the old alley.
You have finished your four score years
work on earth and have gone where the
good dar<eys go.
His funeral will take place at o'clock
this afternoon, AMI nearly all the entire
force of the Evening News will attend
Deafness Cannot BE Cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There IS only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness IS caused by an infamed con-
sdition Of the mucous Ening of the Eus-
Gachian Tube. When this tube gets in