Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-02
BILL ARP ON THE RACK.
lie Pleads AIdermRntc Duties al
Two In the Morning.

Bill Arp, editor Of the Rome CONNER
cal, has been swimming around the coun-
ell chambers e-v-e-r-y night during the
inundation OF his city, and here's what
comes Of his being out. IL will apply to
Augusta as we'll as Rome:
Ever night Here il is halfpast
one o'clock It's a wonder you come
home at ALL What-do-you-think-a
--woman-is made for2 do believe il
a robber was to come and carry me of,
you wouldn't care a-What is il you say2
City Council business must be attended
toP How do know you 20 TO the City
Council2 Does the City Council meet
every night2 They don't meet but
once a week in New York. But | sup
pose Rome is a more important place.
Oh, yes, out every night. Twelve o clock
-one o'clock-two o'clock Here stay
with the children, all alone, lying awake
half the night waiting for you. Couldn't
come home,.any sooner2 OF course
you couldn't, if you didn't want to.
But l know something; you think ]
don't, but | do. That | do. | wish
didn't. Where were you Monday
night? Tell me that. The marshal told
me the City Council didn't meet
that night. Now, what have you got to
say? Couldn't get a quoruml Well, il
you couldn't, why didn tyou come home?
Out every night, hunting fora quorum.
But you wouldn't hunt for me this late
if | was missing. Where were you
Thursday night and Friday night?
There was a show in town, wasn't thereY
What did you buy that bottle Of hair oil
for and hide it2 Oil for your hone, in
deed Who ever heard of hair oil Tor a
MILESTONE So you think | didn't see
YOU in the other room brushing and
greasing your hair and looking in the
glass ut your pretty self? A man ought
to be decent. BE ought, ought he Yes,
indeed, a man ought to, and a decent
man will stay at home with his wife
sometimes, and not be out every
night. How comes it that the City
Council didn't meet :but twice month
last year? Trying to work it out of
debt! Yes, that's probable - very
laughing and joking, and smoking
and swapping lies will work debt of,
won't it? Now-I-wah' 't-to-know-
how-much-longer-you-are--going
to-keep-up-thi = night business ?
Yes, | want to know. Out every
night. City Council, Freemasons, shows,
hair oil-and brush and brush and brush
until you've nearly worn out the brush
and your head too. What is it you sayY
1t helps your business to keep mp your
social relations Al, indeedl You've
got relations here at home, sir. They
need keeping up some should think.
What did you say about catching it the
other night at a whist party2 Fellows,
its eleven clock, but let's play while
longer-we won't catch it any worse
when we get home. A pretty speech for
decent man to make. Catch it
Catch i'll Well | intend you shall catch
it--a little. What's that you say? If |
wouldn't fret you so you would
stay at home morel Well, sir, do
you stay at home first few nights
and try it. Perhaps the fretting would
stop. Out every night because | fret
you so. What's that sirp You know
ladies who amt always a scolding their
husbapdai You do. do yeu9 how come
you to know them2 What business had
you to know them2 What right have
you to know whether other women fret
or not2 That's always the way. You
men think all other women are saints
butyour wives, oh, yes; saints-s-a-i n-ts
I'll have you to know, sir, that there
isn't woman in this town that's more
of saint than am. ! know them all.
sir, h-p a-p better than you do. You
only see the sugar and honey side of
them, and they-only-see-the-sug
-side-ef-you. Now sir, / just want
you to know that it you can't stay at
home more than you do, Ill leave these
children here to get burnt up, and I'll go
out e.y cry night. When a poer woman
gets desperate, why, sir, she is-she is
desperate, that's all.