The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-11-19
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Bill Arp on the Panik.
"EvRypopY Orr TO DO nHE VERY
BEST IfE CAN"
Mn. NEviN N--iSur-In these tryin
times ! think every man ort to do
the very best he can. George Wyatt
uwd for ny views upon tue situation
~ud that's soxaktly what I told him.
Says i, "George, do you 90 home to
your hash house and do the very best
y"uoan." George seemed TO urder-I
stand me- and made tracks for his
tavern. He'll cum out all right.
George will. When possums get
scaoe he can live on koon.
Tho main ishoo in this crisis seems
to be little diffiku'lty in exchangiu
the predukts of the country. Evry.
body says there Is n plenty of evry-
thing but there's no money to keep it
movio. Sum foaks who used to cred.
it right smart are now runin tho cash
skedule, which amounts to regular
blockade. ! shou4d think luniak
would know that its the worst time in
the world to begin cash system,
when there, aint nc oash. If evry-
body would swap round what they
hav got to spare it would SCOT most
Of US nifty we'll. Anybody is welcum
to swap with me for anything in my
line of bisness, and ii my price don't
SCOT EN- I'll cum down to theirs rath. e.
er than break trade, for you know
the margin on my sido is big enuff to
allow right smart room for dodgin.
At all events intend to do the very
best can.
The credit system is good enuf for
me and 10 my opinyun it is . highly
harmonious AID friendly inssitution,
1t makes people respectful and re-.
spektable. When l owe good heart.
cd man he feels kindly towards me
jest bekaus he has bsfriended me.
He feels sorter like I was one of his
pet lams. When he roads over the
parable Of the good Samaritan he un-
konshiously says to himself s'that's
mo. l holped Arp and bis luvly off,
spring whom nobody else wouldont."
I think it would be a good thing if
cvrybody owd one another all around
1t improves tho tono Of society. 1t
enlargcs the heart and has a good cf-
fekt on the liver. It settles one din
ner, and hence Mr. Solomon writ
about bowels of mercy and bowels of
compassion. ! mover knowd one Of
these oorked-up cash mon but what
WAS dispepkital. never knowd n
man who paid cash for evrything who
had any each to lend poor fcner
without sekurity. A cash man is al.
ways an independent man, and you
can't joke with him to do any good.
l don't like them sort much. They
think their money Is little bctter
than anybody elsos money. They live
nj homo and board ut the same place,
but the latoh string don't hang on tho
outside much. They don't want any
body to borrow their wheel -barrcr nor
got water out of thoir we'll. Still,
suppose they arc tryin to do tho very
best they can.
But of all times in the world look
upon the credit system as just the
thing for pauik-not that tho panik
is anything pertikler to mo. BY no
means, Ivo been right in the middle
of one all my life. I've never seed
the time that there wasent q crisis at
my house. was born in a strain,
and ita follcred ne up like shadker
ever since. l'vo got akklimated to it,
as the doktors say. It's part of my
daily entertainment to contrivo for
future supplies. 1t keeps mo live
ly and polite and amiable. 1 hear
thoso merchants tawkin about "brid.
gin over" and s'hedgiu in" and diggin
hole to-day to fill up tomorrow.
Woll, every man and woman in these
times ort to do the very best he or
she can, but ask for hedgin and brid.
gin, GOULD hav got a patent right
for all that sort of bisness 20 years
ago, and had had renewed for i'm.
provements every year sinoe. No
sir, I'vo no idea Of jinin the cash sys.
tenn at my time of life, and espeshul.
ly just at this pertikler period. My
constitution wouldcnt stand it. It's
goin to be jost all that Teller can do
to git through this squeeze on ored
it, and as for me l would perish to
deth in two days if my existence de-
pended on the cash. It's goin to take
bubble team to pull through this
mud hole, shore, and right smart
pushin behind. We've all got tho
breeohin on at my house, and we'll 10 |
through if tho hame string don't break |
and the burned thing don't last too
long. Ono Of these long-winded PAN
ike would strain my credit system
powerfully, but everybody must do
the very best he, or the it can. and
trust to Providence for tho sequel.
Mr.. Mevin, sur-Now 10 tho time
for foaks to show what metal tbey arc
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