The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-20
From tie Rome (gaa cansmereiaz.
,..,o BILL ARP, ON THE ,PANIK. =
seEyeryboay Ortto Do the Very best He Cam"

Mr.. Msoin-SR: In these tryin times I
think every man ort to do the very best he can.
George Wyatt axd for my views upon the stu
alton and that's exaktly what told him. Says
!. "George do you 60 home to your hash house
and do tae very best you can" George seemed
to understand, me and made tracks for his
tavern. He'll come out all right-George will.
When possums get scace he can live on koon.
The main ishoo in this crisis seems to be
little. difkulty in exchangin the rrodukts of
the country. Everybody says there is plenty
of everything but there is no money to keep 1t
novin. Sum folks who use to credit right
smart are now runin the cash skedule, which
amounts to regular blockade should think
a luniak would know that its the worst time in
the world to begin cash system, when there
amt NO cash. If everybody would swap round
what they have got to spare it would suit the
most of ,us mighty well. Anybody is welcum
to swap with me for anything in my line OF
bisness; and if my price don't suit EN- I'll cum
down to- theirs rather than break trade, tor
you know the margin on my side is big enuit
to, allow right smart room for dodgin. At all
events intend to do the very best can.
The credit system is good enuff for me and
in nv opinyun it is mighty harmonious and
friendly Institution. 1t makes people respect
full and respectable When I owe a good har-
ted man he feels kindly towards me jest bekaus
he has befriended me. He feels sorter like /
was one. of his pet lams. When he reads over
the parable of the good Samaritan he unkon-
,shiously says to himself "thats me. L helped
Arp and his luvly offspring when nobody else
wouldent." I think it would be good thing
if everybody owed each other all round. 1t
improves the tone Of society. 1t enlarges the
heart and mas a good efekt on the liver. 1t
settles ones dinner, and hence Mr.. Solomon
writ about bowels of mercy and bowels of COM
passion. T never knowd one of these corked-
up cash men but what was dispepkital. l
never knowd man who paid cash for evry-
thing who had any cash to lend poor feller
without sekurity. 4 cash man IS always an
independent man, and you can't joke with him
to do no good. I don't like them sort much.
They think their, money is a 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
like fur everybody to borrow their wheel.bar-
suppose they are tryin to do the very best they
can.
I like man who can't refuse poor feller
credit when he needs it and is tryin to pay.
I'm fakt its better to credit him and lose it than
to be dodgin round the truth to keep from it
or to die of ossifikashun of the heart and peck
rocks in the next world for a livin. I knowed
q poor shoe maker onst to ak store keeper TO
trust him for pair of shoe pinchers. The
store keeper told him he would do so but that
he didn't hav pair in the house. The poor
Teller lookd around sadly and happened to see
EN- upon the top shelf with one pair outside
the rapper. "Why. there's sum Mr.. Mack"
rallied and saws, 'Them up there are steel
uinchers and are worth just two dollars and a
half Joe knowd they were iron and was
worth Jest 37A cents, but he inersently remark
ed that he had never had steel pair and he
believed he would try EN-. Mack always de-
clared them pinchers was mighty well sold tho
he never got the money. think, however,
that every man ort to do the very best he can
But of all times in the world I look upon the
credit system as Just the thing for a panik-i
not that the panik is anything pertikler 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 wasent crisis atny house. was born
in a strain and its fol)ered me up like shad-
der ever since I've got akklimated to it, as
the doktors say. It's part OF my daily enter
tainment to contriye for future supplies. 1t
keeps me lively and polite and amiable.
hear these merchants talkin about "bridgin
over" and "hedgin in" and diggin hole to-
day to be filled up tomorrow. Well, every
man and woman in these times ort to do the
very best he or she can, but as for hedgin and
bridgin, could have got patent right tor all
that sort of thing 20 years ago, and had it re-
newed every year since for improvements. No
sir. I've no idea of jinin the cash system at my
time of life, and espeshually just at this per-
tikler period. My constitushun woudent
stand it. It's goin to be jest all that teller
can do to get thrugh this squeeze on credit,
and as for me would perish to deth in two
do1
It's goin to take g. bubble team to pull through
this mud hole, shore, and right smart pushin
behind. We've all got the brichin on at my
house, and we'll 20 through if the hame string
don't break and the burned thing don't last
too long. One of these long-winded paniks
would strain my credit system powerfully, but
everybody must do the very best he, she or it
can, and trust to Providence for the sequel.
Mr.. Neyin-sur, Now is the time for foaks
to show what metal they are made of. Now
is the time for foaks to hold up their heds and
hay confidence. If everybody who has got
surplus ill lend it to them who hasent Zone of
whom I am which things will git equaiised
and regulated in no time. There Is plenty
of money and plenty of truck for everybody If
it was divided out right. I've always managed
to cit nv sheer, though at times it's required
more strategy to keep the little Arps in vitels
and cloaths than Bonypart displayed in his
retreat from Moscow. I tell you whats SOL
emn .fakt, q whole passel of children of all
sizes, from a saddle tack up, will sharpen
door, Door mans wits quicker than anything in the
World-espeshually if the old hen keeps up
respektable cacklin in the rear. "Keep a
movin, old man." says she, ..keep movin and
never say die. Bull Runs shoes are out at the
toes, Chickahominy hasn't got ia. whole coat to
his back, and you know he's beginnin to notice
the girls little, and wants to go decent; She
nandoah must have a meriner dress for the
Winter, and the baby is obleeged to have
pair of little blankets for his crib. Five or
six of the others want shoes and stockings
Jest as soon as you are able to get 'em. The
shupar is out and the coffee is low, and last
weeks washin amt paid for, and yon must send
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