The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-11-13
Bill Arp on the Panik.
..vrRYr5DY ORR TO DO TIE VERY BEST He
CAN"

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-.a5e-l think every man ort to do the
very best he can. Geo. Wyatt aXd tol
,.fa,ys upon the situation and that:
avaktlv what told him. Says 'George
d, yoG go home to your hash house and
Ilt9.a very best YOU can George seemed
g.. understand me and made tracks for
hfs tavern. He'll cum out all right
G4orae will. When possums get scace
he can live ON koon. ..
The main isshoo in this crisis seems to
la little difficulty IN exchangin the pro
4al.t- af the country. Eyrybody says
there j plenty Of evrythIng but there's
~, money 90 keep it movin. Sum toaks
,rha used 10 credit right smart are now
-,,,uin the cash skedule, which amounts
tn'a REGULAR blockade. | should think a
Iuniak would know that its the worst
time Id the world to begin cash system,
when there amt no cash. Ii everybody
zrauid swap round what they hav got to
y,,sre Il would SCOT most Of us nifty well.
tnv body Is welcum to swap with me for
an,fbiog in my line of bisness, and if my
nr;ce don't SCOT EN- III cum down to theirs
ratber than break a trade, for you know
the margin on. my side is big enuf to
allow right smart for dodgln. AT
all events | intend to do-the very best l
can.
The credit system is good enuf for me
and in my opinyun it is a highly harmo-
nous and friendly institution. 1t makes
people respectful and respectable. When
/ owe a good hearted 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 unkOn-
shiously SAYS to himself 'that's me.
helped Arp and his luvly offspring when
nobody else wouldent." | think it would
be good thing if evrybody ovid one an
other all around. 1t improves the tone
of society. 1t enlarges the heart and has
a good eHekt Oh the liver. 1t settles ones
dinner, and hence Mr.. Solomon writ
about bowels Of mercy and bowels of
compassion. | never knowd one of these
corked-up cash men but what was dispep-
tikal | never knowd a man who paid
cash for everything who had any cash to
lend a poor feller without sekurity. A
cash man is always an Independent man,
and YOU can't joke with him to do any
good | don't like them sort much.
They think their money is little better
than anybody elses money. They live
at home and board at the same place,
but the latch string don't hang ON the
outside much. They don't want anybody
to borrow their wheelbarrer nor get wa
ter out of their well Still. | suppose
they are tryin to do the very best they
can.
like a man who can't refuse a poor
Teller credit when he needs it and is try
in to pay. In takt its better to credit
him and lose il than to be dodgin round
the truth to keep from it or to die Of os-
sifkashun Of the heart and peck rocks in
the next world for Twin. | knowd a
poor shoe maker onst toax store keep
or TO trust him for pair of shoe pinchers.
The store keeper told him he would do
SO but that he dident hay a pair in the
house. The poor Teller lookd around
sadly and happend TO see EN- upon the
top shelf, with one pair outside the rap
per. "Why. there's sum Mr.. Mack, -
SAYS he. Mack wilted for a mment. but
he rallied and says, them upthere are
steel pinchers and are worth justtwo dol
lars and half Joe knowd tlev was
worth 37l cents but he nerseutIy re-
marked that he had never had steel
pair and he believd he would try EN-
Mack always declared them pinchers was
nifty well sold tho he never got the mon
ev. | think however that every man ort
10 do the very best he can.
But of all times in the world I lool
upon the credit system as lust the thin.
for a panik-not that the panik is any
thing pertikler TO me. BY no means
Eve been right in the middle of one al
my life. I've never seed the time tba
there wasent a crisis at my house.
was born in a strain, and its follared ms
up like Il shadder ever since. I've oot
akklmated to it, as the doktors saw
It's part of my daily entertainment 10
contrive for future supplies. 1t ksens
me lively and polite and amiable. 7
hear these merchants tawkin atnnt
''bridgin over and "hedgin in" a,d
diggin hole to-day to be filled up h.
morrow. Well, every man and bridgi
l could hay got patent right for all tina
sort OF blsness 20 years ago, and had i
renewed for improvements every yea
since. No sur, I've no idea of iinin tn
cash system Mt my time of life, and es
peshually Just at this pertikler period
My constitution wouIdent stand if. II,
goin to be jest all that Teller can do +,
GIT through this squeeze on a crepit, an,
as for me L would perish to deth in tw
days If my existence depended on tn
cash. Its gon to take a bubble team +
pull through this mud hole. shore. an,
right smart pushin behind We've 81
got the breechin on at nv house on,
we'll go through if the hame string don
break and the burned thing don't last to-
long. One of these long-winded panik
would strain my credit system powerfully
but everybody must do the very hest he
she or it can and trust to Providence e.,
the sequel. ~
Mr.. Nevin, Sur-Now is the time 60,
foaks TO show what metal they are mad
OF. Now Is the time foaks to hold n,
Their beds and hav confidence. If ever1
body who has got surplus will lend II !
them who hasent Zone of whom 7 on
which, things will git equalised and REQ
ulated IN no time. There is a nlentv 8
money and plenty of truck for every
BODY If 1t was divided out right. w
always managed to get my sheer, though
at times it's required more strategy I,
Keep the little Arps in vittels and cioatb
than Bonypart displayed in his retraa
from Moscow. tell YOU what's q sola,,1,
takt, whole passed. of children of so eli =;
aes' from a saddle tack up, will sharper
poor mans wits quicker than anytb;n,
u The ENTHUSIASTICALLY if the old her
Aeeps up a respectable cackIin in II.
rear. Keep movin, old man" skeer
movin and never say die. Bun rnnl