The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-12-05
nm Arp ON the T,nni1z.
EVERYBODY oRT TO DO THE VERY BEST nE
CAN"

Mn. NEvIH-SuR: ln these tryin times
think every man ort to do the best he can
Geo. Wyatt axd for my views upon the stu.
alton and that's exaktly what told him.
Says I, "George DO you go home to your
hash house and do the very best you can.
George seemed to understand me and mado
tracks for his tavern. He'll cum out oil
right-George will. Ayhen posslms get
scarce he can live on koon.
The main isshoo in this crisis seems to
be q little difficulty in exchangin the pro.
dukts of the country. Everybody says there
is plenty Of everything but there's no
money to keep it movin. Sum foaks who
used to credit right smart are now runnin
the cash skedule, which amounts to regu.
lar blockade. l should think lunitak
would know that its the worst time in the
world to begin a cash system, wlen there
aiDt no cash. If everybody would swap
round what they hay got to spare it would
SCOT most of.us nifty well. Anybody is
welcum to swap with me for anything in
my line Of bisness, and if my price don't
SCOT 'em III cum down to theirs,ra than
break trade, for you know the margin on
my side is big enulf to allaw right smart for
dodgin. Atall events intend to do the
very best can.
The credit system is good cnuif for me.
and in my opinyun it is highly harmoni.
GUS and friendly institution. II makes peo-
pie respectful and respectable. When l owe
good hearted man he feels kindly towards
me jest bekause lie has befrendcd me. lie
feels sorter like | was one of his pet lams.
When he reads over the parable Of the
good Samaritan be unkonshiously says to
himself "thats me. helped Arp and his
luvly offspring when no body else woudent." )"
| think it would be a & ood thing if every
body owd one another all around. It i'm
proves the tone Of society. 1t enlarges the
heart and has good effekt on the liver
IL settles ones dinner, and hence Mr. Solo.
mon wrote about tho bowels of mercy and
bowels Of compassion. | never knowd one
of these corked up cash men but what was
dispeptical, never knowd man who
paid cash for everything who bad any cash
to lead poor fellow 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 tfeir whcel.barrer
nor get water out Of their vel. Still,
suppose they are tryin to do the very best
they can.
! like man who can't refuse a poor Teller
credit when he needs it and ia tryin to pay.
In lakt its better to credit him and lose it
than to be dodgin rouud the truth TO keep
from it or to die Of ossifkashun Of the
heart and peck rocks in the next world for
livin. knowd poor shoemaker onst
to AK storekeeper TO o'trust him for pair
of shoe pinchers. The store keeper told
him lie would do SO, but that he dident have
a pair in the house, The poor Teller look
ed around sadly and happened to sec en-
upon the top shelf, with one pair outside
the rapper. "Why, there MIR. Mack" "
says he Mack wilted for a moment, but
he rallied and says, "them up there are steel
pinchers and are worth just two dollars and
a half. Joe knowd they was worth 371a
cents but he inersently remarked that he
had never had steel pair and he believed
he would try em. Mack always declared
them nifty well sold tho he Eeyer got the
money. think however, that every man
ort to do the best he can.
But Of all times in the world look upon
The credit system as fust the thing for a
panik-not that the panik is anything per-
ticker 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 was not a
crisis at my house. was born in a strain
and its followed me up like shadder since.
I've got akklimated TO it, as the doktors
say. It's part Of my daily entertainment
to contriye for future supplies. 1t keeps
me lively and polite and amiable. l hear
these merchants tawkin about 'bridgin
over" and hedgin in" and dggin hole
to-day to be ~fiIled up tomorrow. Well,
every man and bridgn could hay got a
patent right for all that sort OF bisness 20
years age, and had it renewed for improve
ments every year since. No sur, I've no
ider Of jinin the cash system Mt my time OF
life, and espeshually just at this pertckler
period. My constitution wouldent stand
it, It's goin to be jest all that Teller can
dn IN oft thrnnOh this snuneza nm a cradit