The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-20

ference, the New York drummers hao sto0u
firm and solid as the rock Of gibrawter. he
sed they was all doin the very best they could
Sid Hughes is an envious man, reckon, tor
be sed the New York drummers was even Win
the world, and had nuthin to boast on. That
they owed about as many as they didn't owe
and didn't keer darn. Well, know Ed is NIFTY
clever, for he give me hat-whlch nat, now
ever, hav excited some invidious and random
remarks sense I got home. Sich remarks are
very natural when man goes to warm new
cloths before he pays for the OLD ones
NV motto have always been to do the very
best YOU can. and keep one eye open to the
bright side. The. mountains most always dis
appear lest before you get to EN-, and if you do
hay to Climb over Occasionally, you are shore
to find a few flowers on the way up if you
look for EN-. A chesnut burr has got sweet
nut hid away in the middle of it. There's a
heap of good things with burrs over 'em, and
he's a sensible man who knows how to git the
goodies out without stickin his fingers. I'm
not a going to 60 crazy about panlk or lost
money, or busted banks or any other transltory
circumstance. A little meal and lew pota-
toes will do my family till times git better, and
I know a dosen clever farmers who will trust
me for that Farewell sirkus-farewell, old
clown Therel be big gap in your aujince,
this time, shore. Me and the boys can make
up respectable ring and play hos at home If
we want to- and Mrs. Arp and the girls can set
around and holler, whoopee. at any rate, we
are bound to do the very best we can:
It's evry mans duty these times to be keerful
and prudent. went chesnut huntln one
day with feller, and he got out on limb and
cut it off betwixt him and the tree. lie broke
his arm and like to hav broke his neck. i!
heerd poor carpenter say yesterday that he'd
be doged his cats if he wouldent lay down and
die before he'd work for less than two dollars a
day, panik or no panik don't feel response
Bile for no sich. They may go to Heaven in
their own BILLION, if they want to. Me and
Josh Billins was lookin at the Graf6k BILLION
the other day, and after it was gone he heaved
a sigh and, says he, carp, don't like billions,
about Is year ago I TUX around hat to raise
IS dollars to hire q feller to 60 up in one, and
he went up as strait as an arrow. 1t was q
cam, still day in June, and gazed at him and
saw him go up, up, until he went clean out OF
site. Nobody has ever seen that billoon or that
man from that day to this, and my hope is that
he went ded straight to heven; tho amt a
warrantin that line to nobody at this time"
Well, don't like EN- either, but 1 will advise
them who aspires to 60 to heven that way to
do the very best they can.
Lastly, Mr.. Nevin, I want to remark that
these paniks, these collapses, these bust ups,
these stop nots cum down." are jest as necessa-
ry for the good of the country as an emetik is
to an overcharged stummak. Mummy to be
helthy must be shattered around so that every
body can git sum. When its most all piled up
in a few pyramids the least iostle will tumble
it to the ground If was King I'd fix 3
remedy for bloated fortunes nifty quick. I'D
tax man nuthin on an incum of thousan
dollars and under. I'd tax a man 10 per Ct.
on all between and ten thousand, twenty per
ct. on all between 10 and 20 thousand, and so
on, dublin up to so thousan. Above that I'd
take it all, every dollar. Tell you that will
git en- That will keep down these Wall street
rings. It will let man hav enuf for all de-
cent and respectable purposes, and after that
he must do his sheer for them who SWEET and
toll and haven't been as smart or as mean or as
lucky as himself 1t will put limit upon
mans avarice and keep mummy in better EN-,
ployment than payin $4,000 for hos or 100
thousand for dimon pin. When this law is
passed, Mr. Nevin, our family supplies will be
so cheap that the likes of me and you and our
wives and children can frolik half our time.
1 think your tother leg would grow out and the
hair cum back on the top of my head, the
place where the hair ort to grow.
Until that glorious time let us all DO the
very best we can.
Yours, BILL ARP.