Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-27

have to climb over OCCASIONALLY, you are shore
to find a few flowers on the way up if you
! look for em. A chesnut bur has got sweet
nut hid away in the middle of it. There's q
heap of good things with burs over em, and
he's sensible man who knows how to get the
goodies out without stickin his ingres. Pm
not goin crazy about panik or lost money
or busted banks or any other transitory SER
cumstance. A little meal and few potatoes
will do my family till times get better, and
know dozen clever farmers who will trust
me for that. Farewell, farewell, old
clown Therl be big gap in your aujience
this time, shore. Me and the boys can make
up respectable ring and play at home if we
want to, and Mrs. Arp and the girls can sit
around and holler whoope. At any rate VIC
are bound to do the very best we can.
It's every mans duty these times to be kccr-
full and prudent. Paradise wasn't made for
FOOLS l went chesnut huntin one day with
feller, and he got out on a limb and cut it
off betwixt him and the tree He broke his
arm, and had like to have broke his neck. |
heard a poor carpenter say yesterday that he'd
be dogged his cats if he wouldn't lay down and
die before hed work for less than two dollars a
day, panik orno panik. Idon't feel responsible
for no sich. They may 60 to Heaven in their
own BILLION, if they want to. Me and Josh
Billins was lookin at the Grafik billoon the
other day, and after it was gone he heaved a
sigh and, says he, carp, I don't like billoons.
About Is years ago tux around hat to
raise rs dollars to hire feller to 60 up in
one, and he went up as straight as an arrow.
1t was calm still day in June, and l gazed
at him and saw him 60 up, up, untell he went
clean out of sight. Nobody has ever seen
that BILLION or that man from that day to this,
aud my hope is that he went ded strait to
heven tho 1 amt a warrantin that line to
nobody at this time" Well, 1 don't like eul
either, but will advise them who aspires to
60 that way to heven to do the very best they
can.
Lastly, Mr.. Nevin, I want to remark that
these paniks, these collapses, these bust ups,
these "top-nots cum down" are just as all
emetik is to an overcharged stummak. Mum
ny to be helthy must be shattered around so
that everybody can git sum. When its most
all piled up in few pyramids the least jostle
will tumble it to the ground. If was King
L u AA iciuCuJ 1Ol plodlCu loitouCS
quick. I'd tax a man nuthin on an incum of
thousand dollars and under I'd tax 10
per ct. on all between 10 and 20 thousan, and
so on doublin up to 30 thousan. Above that
I'd take it all, every dollar. I tell you that
will git 'em. That will keep down these
Wall street rings. 1t will let a man hav enut
for all decent and respectable purposes, and
after that he must do his sheer for them who
swet and toll and haven't been as smart or as
mean or as lucky as himself 1t will put a
limit upon mans avarice and keep mummy
in better employment than payin $4,000 for
horse or 100 thousand for diamond pin.
When this law is passed, Mr.. Nevin, our fam:
lily 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 galorious time let US all do the
very best we can. Yours,
BILL ARP.