Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-27
Aamoruus department.
From the Rome (Ga.) Commercial.
BILL ARP ON THE PANIK.

can. Geo. Wyatt axd for my views upon the
situation and that's Exactly what | told him.
Says l, George, DO you 60 home to your hash
house and do the very best you can" George
seemed to understand me and made tracks for
his tavern. He'll cum out all right-George
will. When possoms get scarce he can live
on koon.
The main isshoo in this crisis seems to be a
little di6ikulty in exchangin the produkts Of
Of the country. Everybody says there is a
plenty of everything when there is no money
to keep it movin. Sum foaks who used to
credit right smart are now runnin the cash
skedule, which amounts to regular blockade.
I should think lunatik would know that its
the worst time in the world to begin cash
system, when there aint no cash. If every
body would swap round what they have got to
spare it would suit most ov US nifty we'll.
Anybody is welcum to swap with me for any
thing in my line of business, and if my price
don't SCOT em I'll cum down to there's rather
than break trade, for you know the margin
on my side is big enuff to allow right smart
room for dodgin. At all events intend to
do the very best | can.
The credit system is good euuf for me, and
in my opinyun it is highly harmonious and
friendly institution. 1t makes people respect
full and respectable. When l owe good
hearted man he feels kindly toward me be-
caus he has befriended me. He feels sorter
like I was one of his pet lams. When he
reads over the parable of the good Samaritan
he unkonsciously y says to himself "that's me-;
I helped Arp and his lovely offspring when
nobody else wouldn't" think it would be
good thing if everybody owd one another
all round. 1t improves the tone of society.
1t enlarges the heart and has a good effekt on
the liver. 1t settles ones dinner, and hence
Mr.. Solomon writ about bowels of mercy and
bowels of compassion. I never knowed one
Of these corked up cash men but what was
dispeptikal. I never kuowed a man who paid
cash for everything who had any cash to lend
poor feller without sekurity. A cash man
is always an independent man, and you can't
joke with him to do any good. l 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 want anybody to borrer
their wheelbarrer nor get water out Of their
we'll. Still suppose they are tryin to do the
very best they can.
l like man who can't refuse poor fellow
credit when he needs it, and is tryin to pay.
In fakt it's better to credit him and lose it
than to be dodgin round the truth to keep
from it, or to die from ossi6cashun of the
heart and pek rocks in the next world for a
living. knowd poor shoemaker onst to ak
a storekeeper to trust him for pair of shoe
pinchers. The storekeeper told him he would
do so, but that he didn't have pair in the
house. The poor fellow looked around sadly
and happened to see EN- upon the top shelf,
with one pair outside the rapper. "Why,
there's sum, Mr.. Mack" says he. Mack
wilted for moment, but he rallied and says,
''them up there are steel pinchers, and arc
worth Just two dollars and half Joe knowd
they was iron and was worth 373 cents, but
he inersently remarked that he had never had
a steel pair and he believed he would try EN-.
Mack always declared them pinchers was
nifty well sold, tho he never got the money.
l think, however, that every man ort to do
the very best he can.
But of all times in the world look upon
the credit system as just the thing for panik-
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 at my house.
was born in strain, and its follered me up
like shadder ever sense. I've got akklma-
ted to it, as the doktors say. It's part of my
daily entertainment to contrve for future sup
plies. 1t keeps me lively and polite and ami
able. | hear these merchants tawkin about
"bridgin over" and "hedgin in" and diggn
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 hav got a patent
right for all that sort of bisness 20 years ago,
and had it renewed for improvement ever year
since. No sur, I've no idea of jinin the cash
system at my time of life, and espeshually just
at this pertikler period. My konstitution
wouldent stand it. It's goin to be jest all that
feller can do to git through this squeeze on
a credit, and as for me would perish to deth
in two days if my existence depended on the
cash. Its going to take double team to pull
through this mud-hole, shore, and right smart
pushin behind. We've all got the breechin
on at my house, and we'll 60 through if the
hame strings 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.. Nevin, 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
hav confidence. If everybody who has got
surplus will lend it to them who hasent Gone
of whom am which) things will git equalised
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 man
aged to git my sheer, though at times it's re-
quired more strategy to keep the little Arps
in vittles and cloaths than Bonypart displayed
in his retreat from Moscow. tell you what's
solemen fakt, whole passel of children of
all sizes, from saddle tack up, will sharpen
poor mans wits quicker than anything in the
world-espeshualy if the old hen keeps up a
respectable cacklin in the rear. "Keep a
movin, old man." says she, "keep a movin
and never say die Bull runs shoes are out
at the toes, Chickahominy hasent got whole
coat to his back, and you know he's beginnin
to notice the girls little and wants to go de-
cent; Shenandoah must have merner dress
for the winter, and the baby is obleeged to
have pair of little blankets for his crib.
Five or six of the others wants shoes and
stokens jest as soon as you are able get 'em.
The shugar is out, and the coffee is low, and
last weeks washin aint paid for, and you must
send man to fix that leak in the roof to-
morrow"
My good wife is thoughtful oman, and
when she tells me she wants anvthinp as soon