Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-11-13
Bill Arp on the Panik.
I. Errybody ort to DO the Very Best
lie Can.o
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[Flom the Rome Commercial
Mr.. NEv1N-Sur-In these Ii, u
times I think every man ort to dl
the very best he c.4n. George Wyatt
axd for my views upon the situation
and that's exaktly what | told him
Says /, "George, do yon go home IL
your hash house and do the very bes'
you can. George seemed to under
stand me and made tracks for his
tavern. He'll cum out all right
George will. When possums gel
scace he can live on koon.
The main ishoo in this crisis seems
to be a little difficulty in exchang'n
the produkts of the country. Evry-
body says there is plenty OF evry,
thing but there's no money to keep il
movrin. Sum foaks who used to cred.
it right smart are now runin the cash
skedule, which amounts to regular
blockade. / should think a luniab
would know that its the worst time
in the world to begin a cash system
when there aint no cash. If evry'
body would swap round what they
hav got to spare it would SCOT most
of us nifty well. Anybody is welcun
to swap with me for anything in my
line of bisness, and i, my price don't
SCOT EN- I'll cum down to theirs rath.
er than break trade, for you know
the margin on my side is big enufs tc
allow right smart room for dodgln
at all events 1 intend to do the very
best I can.
The credit system is good enuf fol
me and in my opinyun it is q highly
harmonious and friendly institution
1t makes people respectful end re-
spektable. When I owe goo& heart.
ed man he feels kindly towards me
Jest bekaus he has befriended me
he feels sorter like was one of his
pet lams. When he reads over the
parable of the good Samaritan he
ENTHUSIASTICALLY says TO himself that:
me. I helped Arp and his luvly off
spring when nobody else wouldent.
I think it would be good thing il
evrybody: owd one another all around
It improves the tone OF society. Il
enlarges the heart and has good eff.
fekt on the liver. 1t settles ones din.
ner, and hence Mr.. Solomon writ
about bowels of mercy and bowels o.
compassion. / never knowd one o.
these corked-up cash men but what
was dispepkital. never knowd
man who paid cash for evrything who
had any cash to lend a poor fellel
without sekurity. A cash man is al.
ways an Independent man, and you
can't joke with him to do any good
I don't like them sort much. They
think their money is little better
than anybody elses money. They live
ut home and board at the same place,
but the latch string don't hang on the
outside much. They don't want any
body to borrow their wheel -barrer nor
get water out of their well. Still, !
suppose they are tryin to do the very
best they can.
But Of all timesin the world I look
upon the credit system as just the
thing for panik-not that the panik
is anything pertikler to me. By no
means, I've been right in the middle
of one all my life. I've never seed
the time that there wasent crisis at
my house. / was born in a strain,
and its follered me up like a shadder
ever since. I've got akk!imated to
it, as the doktors say. It's part of
my daily entertainment to contrive
for future supplies. It keeps me live
ly and polite and amiable. | hear
these merchants tawkin about bid
gin over" and "hedgin in" and dig
gin hole to-day to be filed mp to-
morrow. Well, every man and wo-
man in these times ort to do the very
best he or she can, but as for hedgin
and bridgin, l could hav got patent
right for all that sort of bisness 20
years ago, and had itrenewed for i'm
provements every year since. No
sir, I've no idea of jinin the cash sys-
tenn at my time Of life, and espeshul-
ly Just at this pertikler period. Ny
constitution wouldent stand it. It's
goin to be jest all thata feller can do
to git through this squeeze on cred,
it, and as for me I, would perish to
deth in two days if my existence de.
pended on the cash. It's goin to take
a bubble team to pull through this
mud hole, shore, and right smart
pushin behind. We've all got the
breechin on at my house, ard we'll go
throughif the hame string don't break
and the burned thing don't last teo
long. One of these long winded pan
iks would strain my credit system
powerfully, but everybody must do
the very best he, she or it can, ana
trust to Providence for the sequel.
MIR. Neyin, sur-Now is the time
for foaks to show what metal lhey
are made of. Now is the time for
foaks to hold up their heds and hav
confidence. Ii everybody who has
got a surplus will lendit to them who
hasent Zone of whom I am which),
things will git equalised and regula-
ted in II no time. There is plenty of
money and plenty of truck for eyry-
body If it wss divided out right I've
always managed to git my sheer,
though at times it. required more
strategy to keep the little Arps in
yltels and cloaths than Bonypart dis
played in his retreat from Moscow. ]
tell Won what's a solemn fakt, a whole
passel of children OF all sizes, from a
saddle tack up, will sharpen a poor
mans wits quicker than anything in
the world d--espeshually if the old
hen keeps up a respectable cacklin
IN the rear. " Keep . r-cyin, old
man, 7 says she, keep q movin and
never aay. die. Bull Runs shoes are
out at the toes, Chiokahominy hasent