Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-04-19
Bill Arp on the Rack-He PLEADS Al
Jermanic Duties at , In the Morning.

BILL ARP, editor OF the Rome Com
,oercioy. has been swimming around the
council chambers every night during
the inundation of his city, and here's
what comes of his being out. 1t VIII APP
ply 10 other places as well as Rome
Every night, Here it is half-past
one O'Clock, It's a wonder you come
home at all, What-dO-yOu-thnk
! woman-is made for? i do believe II a
robber was to come and carry me of You
woul Init care a-What is 1t you say?
| CITY council business must be attended TO!
How do l know you go to the city coun-
ell? Does the city council meet every
night? They don't mectb but once week
in New York. But | suppose R-o-m-e is
a more important place. Oh. yes, out
every night. Twelve o'clock-one O'Clock
two o'clock. Here | stay with the chill
dren all alone-lying awake half the night
waiting for you. Couldn't come nome
any sooner, OF course you couldn't If
YOU didn't want to. But Il know some
thing you think Idon't, but do. That !
do. | wish I didn't. Where Were You
Monday night? Tell m, that. The mar
shall told me that the city council didn't
meet that night. Now what have you got
to say? Couldn't get 4 quorum Well,
if you couldn't, why didn't you come
home? Out every night-hunting for
-a-quorum. Bat you wouldn't hunt
for me this late if was missing. Where
were you Thursday night and Friday
night There was show in town, wasn't
there? What did you buy that bottle of
hair oil fer and hide it? Oil for your
hone, indeed! Who ever heard OF hair
oil for MILESTONE. SO you think |
didn't see you in the other room brush
ing and grCasing your hair and looking
i'm the glass at your pretty self! A man
ought to be decent. He ought. ought he.
Yes. indeed, a man ought TO, and de-
cent man will stay at home with ms
wife sometimes and not be out e-v-
cry night. How comes it that the city
council didn't meet but twice a month last
year? Trying to work it out of debt. es
/. that's probable-very-laug and jok
ing. and smoking and swapping lies vii
work debt off, wOn'tit: NOw-l-wan
-t0-knOw-how-m uch-longer-yOu
are --going-to-keep-u p-this-night-
business? Yes. | want to know. On
every night. City council, Frecmasons
shows, hair oil-and brush, and brush, an,
brush until you've nearly worn out th'
brush and your head TOO. What Is it yol
say? 1t helps your business to keep al
YOUR social relation? All. indeed. lou W
gOI Ttldllolls ncTc III lloilt. eli. my ItC''
keeping up some should think. Wha
, did YOU say about catching it the othe
night at a whist party Fellows, its l
O'Clock. but let's play while longer-w
won't catch il any worse when we &c
home. A pretty speech for d-e-c-e-n.
: man to make. Catch it. Catch it! Well
: intend you shall catch ia little. What
| that you say! If wouldn't fret you 81
= YOU would stay at home more. Well, sir
do YOU stay at home first Il few nights AM
a try it, Perhaps the fretting would stop
: Out every night because | fret you SO
. What's that sil? You know ladies VIII
A amt always scolding their husbands
You do. do you: How come You TO know
: them? What business have you TO know
, them? What right have YOU to kno.
whether other women fret or not: That
, always the way. IOu men think all othe
women are saints but your wives, oh, ye
Observation-Disclosures. I'll have you :
{ know. sir. that there isn't a woman i
l this town that's more of saint than am
, know them all sir--a heap better tina
you do. You only see the sugar an
honey side of them, and they-only-se
ar-sidc-of-yOu. Now, sir,
/, Just want YOU to know that if you can
4 stay at home more than you do, I'll leav
n these children here to get burnt up an
), IN 90 out every night. When poo
Q woman gets desperate, why, sir. she is
: she Is desperate. that's ALL