Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-02-01

IlbTt dIS uditOAS hhN Wi00"ht
and all are kind and consideratc
to me. My wife and / are the
chaperons and hold down the
brakes, and she holds me down
when | get to uppity and bigoty.
she doesn't say anything, but |
when man has lived with a
woman for forty-fve years he
he can tell from the wink of her
eye or the dimple of her chin or
the pose of her head what she is
thinking about. | am getting
deaf now and can't hear her
when | don't want to, When |
get blind | don't know what she
will do. The little girl orders
her about, "Grandma, l want a.
new calico dress. Grandma, |
want 'spme bread and syrup.
Grandma, want some scissors to
cut paper dolls" She that is al
she is good for now-to wait on
the grandchildren, and she won't
be here long to do that. When
ever you hear a grandmother say
that, you may know she isn't
near ,iead-iust wants somebody
to pet her. l always tell her she
will outlive me six years, for |
am Just that much older. Speak
ing of dying, had a letter from
i school boy the other day who
wanted speech for a debating
society, and the question was,
"Is it possible for man to die
before his time comesF' Il
maintain said he, that it is, for
one day Tom johnson was a
walking along ty a wall that
was bindin' an brick fell On
his head and kid him. If he
hadnent walked along thar just
at that time he would hav been
livin' vet" That boy is not a
good Baptist. / wrote him that
the evolution Of that question
involved such an elucidation OF
the abstruse doctrine of predes-
tination and its concomitant en-
vironments that | was not able
to fathom its ambiguous ratio
cinations, but my best diagnosis
was that a speech in lucid eluci-
t dation Of that controverted ques-
3 ton deserved a postage stamp
These young people here gel
5 up Questions and plays and cha
! rades and card parties to pass
t away the long evenings. Some
: read and some write, and al
! talk. Some go rowing by moon
\ light and are proud of the bills
: tiers on their hands. Almost ev
d cry day they go sailing with tn
young men who own or charte
d The boats and come here to spen'
e the winter and their money
u The little town is crowded al
Is ready with nice people. Som
5. are very rich ard some are poe
a and needed rest, but ali seem t
q be well raised and well manner
l. I'd people and have good creder
sc tials, Oranges continue to con
ii in limited quantities, for thel
Ut were some projected spots, an
Ell the fruits that were on the inn,
is limbs were not all frozen. G.
IS. .coanuts and pineapples a
nj brought from lower points, ar
wv grapes from somewhere and q
re pies from the north. Your
is strawberries were killed but t
lH plants are blooming again al
,l5 so in few weeks fair Flori
nd will he herself once more,
hc There is no politics do,
lie, here. 1t is never mentiont
ss The great freeze has exringnis
5he ed parties and partissns. B
las I never heard it discussed befc
of, the freeze, for there are no of
no seekers in this sequestered sp
| asked citizen one day "
ere, was governor of Florida.
e. studied a moment and s
ELI "Corbett.n Another citizen {
sh rected him and said. "Why
nar Mitchell, you goose y Eve
oi said he, 81 know'd it was Nit
,an, al or Corhatt one " A II