The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-11-13

| you know ne Deglnnln 10 nOLce Ine
girls little, and wants to go decent
Shenandoah must have a meriner dress
for the winter, and the baby is obJeeged
to have a pair of little blankets for his
crib Five or six of the others want
shoes and stokens jest as soon as you are
able to get 'em. The shugar is out, and
the coffee is low, and last weeks washin
amt paid for, and you must send man
to fix that leak in the roof to morrow"
Ny good wife is a thoughtful oman,
and when she tells me she wants any
thing, as soon as l git able, / know ex-
actly what that means. 1t means she
wants it by tomorrow night, if not sooner,
and | tell you always display my finest
taktiks In such emergencies. In fact, l
do the very best / can. It's the cumfort
Of my life to look back and say, I've
almost always worked up to her skedule
If the future looks dark I shut my eyes
and dream over the past. | like Ed
Newton bekaus he keeps his spirits up.
He's a drummer in New York, and he
sed that in all this tremengious crisis,
which have shuk the nation from center
to circumference, the New York drum
mers had stood firm and solid as the rock
of gibrawlter. He sed they was all a
/ doin the very best they could Sid Hughs
/ is an envious man, / reckon, for he
sed the New York drummers was even
with the world, and had nuthin to bust
on. That they owed about as many as
/ they dident owe and dident keer a darn.
! Well, | know that Ed is nifty clever for
| he give me hat-which hat, however,
| hav excited some invidious and random
remarks sense | got home. Sich remarks
| are very natural when man goes to
| wearin new cloaths before he pays for the
/ old ones.
My motto hav always been to do the
very best you can, and keep one eye open
| to the bright side. The mountains most
always disappear Jest before you get to
'em, and if you do hav to climb over ok
kasionally, you are shore to find few
flowers on the way up if you look for EN-.
A chestnut burr has got sweet nut hid
away in the middle of it. There's heap
of good things with burrs over 'em, and
he's sensible man who knows how to git
the goodies out without stickin his fingers.
I'm not a goin to 60 crazy about panik
or lost money, or busted banks or any
other transitory circumstance. A little
meal and few potatoes will do my fam
lily till times get better, and | know a
dosen clever farmers who will trust me
for that. Farewell sirkus farewell, old
clown! There'll be big gap in your au-
Hence this time, shore. Me and the boys
can make up a respektabul ring and play
hos at home if we want to, and Mrs. Arp
and the girls can set aronnd and holler,
whOpee At any rate, we are bound to
do the very best we can.
It's every mans duty these times to be
keerful and prudent. Paradise wasent
made for fools. | went a chestnut hun
tin one day with Teller, and he got out
on limb and cut it off betwiXt him and
the tree. He broke his arm, and had
like to have broke his neck. | heard
poor carpenter say yesterday that he'd be
doged his cats if he wouldn't lay down
and die before he'd work for less than
two dollars day, panik or no panik. l
don't feel responsible for no SIGH. They
may go to Heaven in their own BILLION,
if they want to. Me and Josh Billins
was lookin at the Graffik BILLION the
other day, and after it was gone he heav-
ed sigh and, says he, ARP, | don't
like billions About Is year ago l tux
arou I'd hat to raise IS dollars to hire
Teller to go up in one, and he went up as
strait as an arrow. 1t was cam, still
day in June, and | gazed at him and saw
him go up, up, untell he went clean out
of sight Nobody has ever seen that bill
loon or that man from that day to this,
and my hope is that he went ded strait to
heaven; tho | amt warrantin that line
to nobody at this time" Well, | don't
like EN- either, but | will advise them
who aspires to go that way to heaven to
do the very best they can.
Lastly, Mr.. Nevin, | want to remark
that these paniks, the collapses, these
bust ups, these ''top nots cum down, are
Just as necessary for the good of the
country as an emetik is to an overcharged
stummak. Mummy to be healthy must
be shattered around so that everybody can
git sum. When its most all piled up in
a few pyramids the least jostle will tum-
bic it to the ground If [ was King I'd
/ fix a remedy for bloated fortunes nifty
quick. I'd tax a man nuthln on an IN
cum of 5 thousan dollars and under. I'd
tax 10 per ct. on all between and ten
thousan. Twenty per ct. on all between
| 10 and 20 thOusan, and so on dOubhn up
to so thousan. Above that I'd take it
all, evry dollar / tell you that will git
EN-. That will keep down these Wall st.
rings. 1t will let a man hav enuf for all
decent 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 avariee
and keep mummy in better employment
than payin $50, 900 for a horse or 100
thousan for diamond 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. 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
I Yours, BILL ARP.