The Dawson Journal, 1883-09-06

"Not much," said the bad boy, as he saw that he was paralyzing the grocery man. "Women have been about the same ever since Eve. She got mashed on the or original - iginal original dude, and it stands to rea reason - son reason that Solomon's wives were no better than the mother of the hu human - man human race. Statistics show that one woman, out of every ten is red headed. That would give Solo Solomon - mon Solomon an even hundred red-headed wives. Just that hundred red- Leaded wives would be enough to make an ordinary man think there was a land fairer than this. Then {there would be, out of the other nine hundred, about three hund hundred - red hundred blondes, snd the other six sixhundred - hundred sixhundred woul! be brunettes, and may be he had a few albinos and bearded women and fat women and dwarfs. Now, a thousand wo women - men women had appetites, desires for dress and style, the same as other women. Imagine Solomon saying to them, "Girls, . let's all go down to the ice cream saloon and have a dish of ice cream." C(Can you, with your brain muddled with codfish and new potatoes, realize the scene that would follow? Sup Suppose, - pose, Suppose, after Solomon's broom brigade had got seated in the ice icecreamery, - creamery, icecreamery, one of the red-headed wives should cateh Solomon wink winkingat - ingat winkingat a strange girl at another table. "You may think Solomon did not know enough to wink, or that he was not that kind of a flirt, but he must have been or he could never have succeeded in marrying a thousand wives in a sparsely settled country. No, sir, it looks to me as though Solomon in his glory, was an old masher, and from what I have seen of men be being - ing being bossed around with one wife, 1 don't envy Solomon his thou thousand. - sand. thousand. Why, Just imagine that gaug of wives going and ordering fall bonnets. Solomon wonld ' have to be a king, or a Vanderbilt to stand it.. Ma wears 85 silk stockings, and pa kicks awfully when the bill comes in. Imagine Solomon putting up for a few thousand pair of silk stockings, 1 am glad you will sit down and reason with me in a rational way 'about some of these Bible stories that take my breath away. The 'minister stand= me off when I try to talk with him abouteuch things and tell me to study the p.'u'ublie of the Prodigal Son, and the dea deacons - cons deacons tells me to go and soak my head. There is darn little en encouragement - couragement encouragement for a boy to try and figure out things. How would you like to have a thousand red redheaded - headed redheaded - wives coming - into the store this minute and tell you they wanted you to send carriages around to the house at 3 o'clock, so they could go for a drive? Or how would you like to have a hir hired - ed hired girl come rushing in and tell you to send up six hundred doe doetors - tors doetors that six hunered of your wives had been taken with cholera morbus? "O, don't mention it," eried the grocery man with a shudder. I wouldn't take Solomon's place and I be the natural protector of a thou thou"What -

Mr. H. W. Tiffins, Bull's Creek, Ga., says: "My wife recovered very quickly from malaria and biliousnesa. by using Brown's Iron Bitters." The Troubles of a Boy. Poor boy! Down to his' grave he. is self-willed, disobedient, foolish, slow to learn, hard to manage, born. to evil and full of§ correction as a proot sheet. He reaches in a fenca corner for a blackberry and picks up up"pisen" - "pisen" up"pisen" vine, and so he learns too late the mine he bought was salted. He is spanked in the cradle, flogged at school, and scourged the rest of his life and #till it seems to do him no good. He lives under an un unchangeable - changeable unchangeable law of painy and penal penalties. - ties. penalties. Incessantly his ears are boxed "to every thou shalt not"is appen appended - ded appended a threatning "and if you do," and every thundering "thou shalt" is seconded by the terrifying "or you'll wish you bad." Inexorableis the. master of his school, he can appeal to no board of pardons. No tender hearted Governor, figuring for re reelection, - election, reelection, overlooks his misdeeds. The administration has no need of bim or bis influence. Do not keep such late hours, and do not eat hot suppers at midnight. Bat all the same, he does keep late hours and have a good time on the sly, poor boy, thinking if he gets in at roll call it will never be known. But as he answers to his pame the order is en entered - tered entered : "Dock that man'd life ten years." The care of your teeth is a regulation of the school. But while nobody is looking the foolish boy lets his teeth take care of themselvea So he is entered to lose Lalf his tecth andlfined $l5O to be paid over to the nearest dentist having jurise diction. "Do not bite on that bros ken tooth," came the command from. the head of the table. But the boy tries it just to see what the master will do about it, and instantly he gets such a box on the jaw that it makes him think he has bit & thune derbolt. It is not a bailable offense, and execution of sentence cannof be postponed until the next term of court. "Do mnot run through the wet grass i your slippers," is shout shouted - ed shouted to hiwm from the upstairs window. The instant the window is closed he skips across the lawn, knowing no one can see him, and for this he is collard and led into the house, doubled wp with vhenmatism for ten years, or perhaps torchered the rest of his life. He plays lawn tene nis until he streams from every pore. He hastens to refresh himself with a glass of clear] ice water," says his watchful master, «I will - kill you." He believes no one could be so evuel

e Women of the South. G enover _the demagogue Qf' o lities grows weary of ers PO ; y assails ax in the South, he as til : Lorn WOmen: He claims they thusiastic over secessiom, f"ml rebellion and that the "Yankee" with ';Cmess almost personally ous, The first part of the i ne - the latter an out outder. - der. outder. Modern history b a war in which wives rsand sisters and daugh daughof - of daughof any army were _1!1_10_1'0 en ene - e ene and self-sacriiicing. - DU | o men of tlu_' bou'tl_l the war o solution of a political prob- To the women it seemed an l,g.,{the North to conquor Lolate the country. They ~d earnestly believed that .th had long been oppress oppress-1 - -1 oppress-1 that the war was to furth furthridge - ridge furthridge rights "and liberties. - ¢z thus it may be safely ol that nineteen out of twen twenmnen - mnen twenmnen in the South were Tro. n their courage, Spartans n tortitude and I@Qmane in fiith and self-sacrifice. Hus Hus. - . Hus. and fathers and brothers nade ready for war and giv givwoman's - woman's givwoman's blessing, and even Je Confederate conseription cen less stringent the able iman who shirked military e could not have livediat. for the taunts of the women. ory will never detail the wcrifice and heroie courage athern women. No matter ) the right or wrong of the they ]wii«'\'wl it was I'ight. plow fell upon the family hold early and with full In Virginia seven out of families were without lnenl at home within three months the first battle. The wife| wther gave all she had and turned to face further anxie- There were thousands of nin the Old Dominion who never laced their shoes nr! ol their hair. The sl:n'e] it hand to obey every m)d.."! e women sent their husbands sons to the front and then | {he q iestion ot food Hllpp]}'. any cases the slaves ran away. n this occurred the women into the fields and put in

A THOUSAND DOLLARS. The Bad Boy's Ideas Regarding The Wisdom of Solomon. "Sit down on the ice box," said the boy to the grocery man. - "What you need is rest. You are overworked. Your alleged brain is equal to wilted lettuce, and it can devise ways and means to hide rotten peaches under good ones, s 0 as to sell them to blind orphans, but when it comes to grasping great questions your small brain cannot comprehend them. Your brain may go up sideways to a great question, and rub against it, but it cannot surround it and grasp it. That's where you are deform- ' ed. Now, it is diiferent with me. I can raise brain to sell to you grocery men. Listen! This Solo Solomon - mon Solomon is credited with being the 'wisest man, and yet history says he had a thousand wives. Just think of it! You have got one wife and pa has got one, and all the neighbors have one, if they have had any kind of luck. Does not one wife make you pay atten attention? - tion? attention? Wouldn't two wiyes break you up? Wouldn't three cause you to see stars? How would ten strike you? Why, man alive, you do not grasp the magnitude of the statement that Solomon had a thousand wives. A thousand wives, standing side by side, would reach about four blocks. March Marching - ing Marching by fours it would take them twenty minntes to passa given point. The largest summer resort hotels only holds five hundred people, so Sol wounld have to hire two hotels if he took his wives out for aday in the couutry. If you wonld stop and think once i a while you would know more." ' The grocery man's eyes began to stick out as the bad boy contin- | ued, as though the statistics ha-(lI never been brought to his atten attention - tion attention before, but he was bound to stand by his old friend Solomon, and he gcaid: "Well, Solomon's wives must have been different from our wives of the present dav."

Crops as (I]("_\' could. \\'here ' laves remained the mistress orced to act as her own m:m-' eud overseer and assume nlli usibility. There are p=len'(y| eleral troopers still living found educated and cultured ern women wielding hoes wolding plows in the cornfield usix months of the opening e war. ' was the Southern women than the provost marshals lecied desertion and made fnce odious. The Confed-! iho left the front witlumtl tound no weleome outside of | Wi i':'.m-'!_\'. He who came by authority, and with a dtoattest Lis bravery in ae aewas - was aewas a Lero until duty com- Lhis return. No man ever night so wild that a South Southwoman - woman Southwoman would not face it to news to Confederate soldiers. | Y woman was a scout and a if the mother eould not g 0 laughter was sent. If there 1 daughter a dispateh or p2e was hurried off by a ne nerasignal - rasignal nerasignal was made. They accurately estimate the kth of marching columns, to iy one make of guns from ¢r i the batteries, and where s and spies could mnot go the ncould. Tt was the women #ved Moshy again and again. 145 @ woman who told Gener Generkson - kson- Generkson the exact strength of ederal force at Port Royal e he fell upon it in carrying is valley campaign. It was a '- who told Early just how idan's army was distributed edar Creek, and there was Felv a battle on Virginia's soil Wulch women had not some some-10 - -10 some-10 do as the boarers of in inon. - on. inon. Onee enlisted in the they did not know what dis - They gonc their bedding ¢ Lospitals, their provision to Finy, :fml their jewelry to a ' o the Confederate arms in Ve. When the Confederate timent could not furnish ra rathe - the rathe Confederate women did. Live asked hundréds of Con- L, Soldiers how they made a T the war, and in nearly v isince the answer began

The Old ¥Fotks. Not long since we were at a club house where duck shooters were sitting around the stove dur during - ing during the evening, smoking and talk talk}mg, - }mg, talk}mg, and the subject of the treat treat'ment - 'ment treat'ment of 'sons towards parents came }up. Speaking of some person 'who has been unkind to his father or mother, a young man who was present, and who has one of the grandest of fathers that a young man ever had, smoked a moment in silence, his eyes flashing fire and then said, "T'll tellfyou boys, there ought to be a hanging in this country. A young man who illtreats hus parents by word or deed ought to be hung. Our young friend may have expressed himself strongly, but his remark will find an echo in many an honest heart. The man who can treat his old father and mother in any manner that will cause their hearts to feel tired, has got something wrong about him. Old people should constant constantly - ly constantly be made to feel that they are distinguished guests and every care that it is?possible to Ilift from them by a son should be lifted willingly, and;with a feeling that he is doing it as he would play when he was a child. It should be a pleasure. When the fathers and mothers become so old that they cannot take as active a part in the affairs of life as they once could, they should feel that their children are not anxious for them to die, but anxious to have them live a long time without pain or care and be happy all the time. - The spectacle of an old man or woman, even with no relatives on earth, in a poor house, is sad enough, but to see an old father and mother in Isreal, who have worked hard during a long life, in a poor house, when sons and daughters are living in luxury, is enough to make one think of a vig vigilance - ilance vigilance committee.

During the ten years that fol followed - lowed followed the sudden, disastrous over overthrow - throw overthrow of I.y first fond hopes, I managed to live and to make mon money. - ey. money. I'rom a printer I became a re reporter, - porter, reporter, and finally an editor. Pa Patience, - tience, Patience, industry and steady habits brought their reward in good time, and, when I had secured a comfortable competency and some little fame, a yearning desire siez siezed - ed siezed me to visit my old home, and see once again my early love. So to Hartsville I went, on a lovely June day, and, with only memories crowding thick and fast to my mind, walked along the dear, familiar old road that led past the small brown house wh re Mattie had lived in her girlhood. It was there, under the maples of a stall September evening, T had told her of my love. Oh, well-re well-remembered - membered well-remembered scene! and Mattie, with nut-brown hair, and eyes dusky as the night, standing close beside me, with a little trembling hand resting on my fustian sleeve, and a smile hovering on her lips that [ eagerly fancied might be born of awakening love. Strangers lived in the small brown house, now; so I went on to the old Palethorp homestead, with its currant bushes, and lilacs, and emerald-green hop vines hang all fragrant and bloom laden in the dreamy afternoon sunshine. A little, tow-headed boy, play playing - ing playing in the middle of the dusty road, scampered to one side when he saw me approaching, leaving itsdirt pie to its fate, and eyed me, with a long and distrustful stare.

Such rates as these will kill the goose that lays the golden egg, even before the accommodating bird has been allowed to demonstrate her capacity. If these rates are to con continue, - tinue, continue, it may be set down as afact that the shipment of melons to the west will not be continued. There is no reason why more than forty dollars a car should be charged for the transportation of melons. Even this rate could be reduced con siderbly to the roads. They could afford, indeed, in order to encour encourage - age encourage truck-farming and melon-grow 1 ing to haul at half rates, and they would be greatly the gainers by% such a course, ' We have no doubt the managers of the roads can be brought to see that their ratesare too high. They are men of more than ordinary en ergy snd business- foresight, and they do not need to be told that Itbey now have in their power to build up a branch of agricuiture in Georgia that will in time, give them miilions of dollars in ireights and profits. Indeed,the roads should not only reduce their rates on mel melons, - ons, melons, but they should improve thuir tacilities. should bave prop properly - erly properly ventilated ecars, and instead of piling the melons on top of each other, they should be placed side by side in low compartments. This sort of handling would not only in insure - sure insure careful delivery to market, but would enhance the price and help everybody concerned. In matters of this kind, it i 3 necessary only to give railroad managers a hint in order to engage their co-oppera tion.