Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-15

Agreement between Bill arp
and solomon IL DeveI-
ODcd The Moral
Pointed.
Atlanta Constitution: "As long as man
tries to do rig ht 1t don't matter much whether
he is rlch or poor, lucky or unlucky, whether
ne Is member OF congress or a Methodist
preacher, nor whether be lives in Atlanta or
in the county Of flaming. His share Of hap
piGess will measure ont about th1 sauIe
number Of quarts, though 1 don't pretend
to say that the quality of 1t would be- jest
alike IN every instance. l believe Ese Swe-
3auUurg, that Moses has q better kind than
Lazarus, though both Of EN- have just as
much rs they can to enjoy GccordIn to capac-
It's. It don't matter much what mans b 81
ness Is or how much sko5in hes had, or
whether bis daddy was we'll digger
or Vanderbilt, the law OF
compensation comes II and levels
him with everybody else. II hes poor
and umbiy, the more comfort he takes 10 bis
wife and children, his pipe and terOakker,
his bacon and beans. If hes rich or great,
the more care and trouble, the more envy
and SANDER, aud l. takes trOkees and TONES,
and liver medicine, and Durangs great
remedy, and manhood how lost and how re-
stored, and Station D., Bible house, New
FORK city, and mighty nigh a whole drug
store to keep him in tolerable health. These
observations amt altogether original with me.
King Solomon made similar remarks a long
time ago, and now that | am growing old, /
End that me and him have purity much the
same views on great many subjects. When
| a maa's sand OF life has nearly run out, be
| will discover something in South Amenky,
| or somewhere else, that be didn't
! know before, and then he turns philan-
| thropist, and wants to cure everybody
whether they want to or rot. The trouble
! Is that nobody Is going to believe either NE
or Solomon until they have been bumped
around for half a century and are most ready
/ to step of this suOlOOnary stage, and then
1t don't matter much, practically, whether
! they believe Us or not. Everybody has
| very high respect for Solomon and all his
| glory, but they will do just as they duru
! please, anyhow, and they pay about as much
attention to his observations on the vanity OF
riches as they do TO giving man q cloak
! because he took their coat away. 1t does
| look like pity that folks amt born 10 takr
| in much sense until they gIt to Old to ENJOY
/ life, and the last pitcher glts broken, and
! the grasshopper seems to weigh about
! pound and a half or two pounds. They 90
| off on the wild hunt after money and ctfis
| Just like a man glttln up IN the night TO 90
| on q foX-hunt. He runs the fox all day
| and tires himself down. and his nag down,
and the dogs down, ard the poor brute amt
| worth q cent after he catches him. II every
man WCQlQ cultivate commandments. WHICH
| Solomon says IS better than riches, human
! happiness would be wonderfully increas. d.
| Every now and then | come across a con
! tented man, but they are mortal scace, which
| Is most astOnishIu, consider the CE5anness
of the article, and the number Of people who
| say they would like to have It. The other
| dav met an old friend in Rome who started
| life as poor as minus nothin, and was ambi-
! tIous TO be worth hundred thousand dollars,
! and went foi it night and day like kiln
| snakes, and ne told me he had lately found
! out there was n0tnIn IN it. Trouble and al
| Fiction slipped up from behind and overlook
! nm, and his money wouldn't lnsuSe life or
| health, nor peace, nor ContentmeHt, and now
/ ne was going to take his time and 90
| slow, and try and make some deposits up
wonder that lie could bank on after he was
| dead And The same day ! came across
couple OF good, healthy young men who
| said they lived ia Tanning, and had apples
| to sell. They Ea'd it was the first time t2ey
| were ever Uut Of their county, and bad neesr
| seen u steamboat or the Cacs. Angelina and
nanny spun, and wove, and made their
clothes and the blankets and quilts, and the
/ wagon sheet Pap made their shoes, and
| tue wagon gear, and most Of tue wagon, a d
| they raised the mules themselves, and done
! the crappIn. Wnen air. 81 Williams told
| en- TO walk back, and he would settle for the
! two bushels or apples he had bought, the
/ biggest Que said he couldn't do that, Tor 1t
wasn't the trade he made, that he must have
| the money. Mr.. Mack explained, and the
! young mao said he Thought ttlIn was takIn
! a note, and pap told HIM not to take any,
| body's note. | axd hun what he was gong
| TO DO with his money, and be said he was
! gong to take 1t home except enough to pay
! for the salt. Says |, 'Doa'5 you want some
| sugar, aud coffee, and calico, and tobaSer,
| and snuff, and soda. and some store clothes,
| 10 go a ccurtiu In? and be SAID: We
d. -, u POI, mil FfEr
! Milk is in tue scriptures, but coffee GiG't; and
| Angelina says calico wouldn't last her
week. Pap says soda bread IS a slow pi en-,
and tobaker makes a man love hker. I've
done done my courhn In this here jeans, and
| | r5cken its good as aDy-gwine 10 be mar
RED Christmas, anyhow. Pap says young
man ought TO splice IS soon as the ht took
him, If the gal was clever Gad industrious;
that it was akkordIn to natur and scrIpter,
and kept a teller from han6eCIl and
runnin around. l found out that they could
read and write, but they dident have any
books but toe bible, for pap SAID 1t " s
enough, and dIdeEt have any lies IL It. Pap
voted for Speers, but was a powerful Lester
man, anG Lad sol Ga q j dEE.-..-40d- axe
We don want nOthin that l know OF,
except about twenty res of Joe Muliinses
and" Next | met Methodist preacher on
the cars, goin 10 conference. ContenSment
don't nigh fi5 his case, for ne was hllarIousiy
happv. From the way he talked Its his
opinion that the Methodist conference IS the
next biggest thing 10 heaven. When VEN
tured to aliood TO the Georgy legislature as
beln also ia session, he said yes, he supposed
it was an average crowd, but It ~aseHt oy
no means an assembly OF men met together
for divine worship. Jesse. he dIdent have
aay house, and mighty little money, and
had to move somewhere befJre Christmas, he
dIdert know where, and If two moves Is equal
to one fire, he had been burnt out nine tunes.
He had preached all over the Sate-haq IiVed
ike a king and like begSar. he had
preached tor Bob Toombs, and thought
well of the generation he was
god man inside, Observation-Disclosures his coca
sonal outside Cussedness-that he bad
faith, and was Il great respehter OF religion
that he had a setter dog that always
come TO clurCh about fifty yards ahead Of
the general, ana il tine general sSat was
occupied the occupant removed when the
6ay come in. Tlombs used to say that faith
in religion had TO be Just like that dog s
faith in him, humble aud perfect CONT
denca without stopping TO question the
command of the master. When l touched .
a little on politics he sad he had always so-
toyed right smart Of It-that the go-ern-
meut and the church moved right along
side by side, and when one prospered the
other did, He couldent help having Pohtl-
cal preferences, and if he had EN- 1t WASH t
wrong to express EN- and MAINTAIN en-
that l..thCr, and John Knox, anu mAtoA,
and the Wesleys took al actFe part IN
pOiitics-tha5 what was said or done IL
that way by preachers should be done IN
an unselhsh way, and from motives OF
christian patrotism-that he was Lester
man all over because be knewd him, and
knewd he would DO TO trust anywhere
that !. ester was one Of his tiock at the close
of the war, and he had seen HIM diggIn and
hoeiu in the field with his one arm, lIvIn IN
a log house, tryin' to make a support Tor his
wife and children, and at the end of the
wear, when the clerk told the congregation
there was twenty-five dollars behind CT the
pastor salary, NOBODY sad :. wOro, Ior every
body vas yGol, and Lester got up, and says
/ he: Brethren, 4 debt 10 the pastor IS
debt to God. Mr.. Clerk, please mark 1t paid.
/ And he paid il, although nobody ~ he
! bad it or how he cnrlH oct If hnt he ala.
| and tn tn was d long time before Bullock
: come. Right then the whistle bowed, and
we separated. always did love Methodist
| preachers, aud my Wlte says hex mother fed
| Judge I:ongstreet on yaller-leEged dOmlnlck-
/ ers forty years ago, and she's got some OF
/ the same sort ready for the FIRST one that
| comes along. Yours, BILL ARP.
The E-aa3 Electric light News.
! The New York Times points out that
| much more has been done on the other side
| the Atlantic than on this toward the praCu
/ cal adoption of the electric light, and a much
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