Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — Determined to Take Things Easy. [ARTICLE]

Determined to Take Things Easy.

“I can’t pick up a paper,” said Brother Gardner, on Friday night, -*without bein' startled by de announce ment dat we eat too much, sleep too little, sit up too late, go to bed to airly, dress too warm or tbocold—walk tbo. much Or too little. De croakers Sre constantly at work to put de rest of us onide ragged aige of anxiety: r *o;'r; “I has been finkin’all dese flbgs ober. I has bio worried an’ harassed*!!’ bait * scart to death ober de drift period, de predicted climate changes, de astronomical changes an’de sodden diskiveries dat human life am shortnin’ rip , like an ole clothesline on a rainy dayI has got to dat pitch dat Fm gwin’ to sot down in my cabin wid a pan of ap-; pies on de right ban’ and a pan of pop, com on de left, an’ let de world turn bottom up an’ be hanged to her. If white folks* want to go on Worryiu’ ober science an* philosophy an’ predickshuns an’jjrophecieaJnt ’em duil r .. but my advice to ae call’d race .am to worry ober noffln’ higher’ a de rioof of - a bouse or deeper down dan de bottom of-a cellar. When your day's, wqrjkMa;* dun, sot doWn in dqj>ig cheer., light yer pipe, an’ let de* Cofl’en an* de' dqg loose fur a good time.” • ' —**.— { —»+*-'•' 'ft ;tt The after-crop of melons in Jackson county is regarded as little short of miraculous. jxt