The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-01-30
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BiiI ATp Gives His Experience afid aotzss
Advice the Subject
AtIrnta Constitution.

BiiI Arp Gives His Experience nad aosss
Advice "a the Subject.
Atlanta Constitution.
As long as a man tries to do right it
don't matter much whether he is rich OF
poor, lucky or Unlucky, whether he is q
member of Congress or q Methodist
preacher, nor whether he lives in atlanta
or in the county of Tanning. His shsre
of happiness will measure out about the
same number of quarts, though I don't
pretend to say that the quality OF It
would be just alike in every instance. |
believe like SwedeDbOTg, that Moses has
u better kind than LsEarus, though both
OF 'em have just as much as t-eF can to
enjoy according to capacity. 1t don't
matter much what a mans business Is or
how much skOolin' he has had OF whether
his daddy was a well>digger or a Van
derbilt, the law of compensation comes in
and levels him with veTyb1dy else. II
he's poor snd tumble, the more comfort
he takes in his wife and children, his
pipe and terbakker, his bacon and beans.
If he's rich or great, the more care and
| trouble, the more envy and SANDER and
it takes trokees and tOniCs. and liver
medicine, and Durang's great remeHy,
and manhood how lost and how restore,
and Station D, Bible house, New York
City, and Mighty nigh a whole drug store
to keep him in tolerab!e beaIths
These observations amt altogether
original with me. King Solomon made
similar remarks a long time ago, and
now that I am grOwiDy old I find that
me and him have pretty much the same
views on a grea many subjects. When
q mans sand of life has nearly run out
he viii discover something in South
Ameriky, or somewhere else. that he
don't know before, then he turns phil
anthrOplst, and wants to cure every body
whether they want to or not. The
trouble is that nobody is going to b5lie7e
either me or Solomon until they have
been dumped around for half century
and are most ready to step of this sub
| loonary stage, and then it don't matter
much, practic cally, whether they believe
US or not Everybody has a very high
! respect for Solomon and all his glory,
| but they will do just as they dUrn please,
anyhow, and they pay about as much
attention to his observations on the vanity
of riches as they do to giving a man a
COAX because he took their coat away.
1t does look ike q pity that folks amt
born to take in much sense until they
| get too old to enjoy life, and the last
pitcher gets broken, and the CRASH pper
seems to weigh about a pound and halt
or two pounds. They 20 off on the wild
hunt after money, and it's just like
man getting up in the night 10 so on a
fox hunt. He runs the fox all day and
tires himself down, and his nag down, and
the dogs down, and the poor brute amt
worth a cent after he catches him. If
every man would cultivate cOntentment,
which Solomon says is better than riches,
human happiness would be wonderfully
increased.
Every now and then I come across a
contented man, but they are mortal
scarce, which is most astonjshin', con-
siderin' the cheapness of the article, and
the number of people who say they would
ike to have it. The other day / met an
old friend in Rome who started lie a.
poor as minus nOthin', and was ambitious
to be worth hundred thousand dollars,
ana went tCr 1t night and day like KILN
snakes, and he told me he had lately
found out there was nothing in it
Trouble and af1ictiOn slipped up from
behind aud overlook him, and his money
wouldn't insure lie or health, nor peace,
nor cOntentment, and now he was going
to take his time and 90 slow, and try and
make some deposit up YOnder that he
could bank On after he was dead. And
the same day l came across couple OF
good, healthy young men who said they
lived in Tanning, aud hsd app'es to sell.
| They said it was the first time they were
ever out of their county, sud had never
seen q steamboat or the cars. AugeiiBe
and nanny spun, and wOve, aBd made
their cloths. and the blankets and quits,
and the wagon sheet. Pap made their
r shoes, and the wagon gear, and most OF
{ the wagon, and they raised the mU Is
, themselves, and done the cTappin.
When Mr.. 81 Williams told 'em to
walk back and he would settle for the
: two bushels of apples he had bought,
, the biggest one said he couldn't do that,
for it wasn't the trade he made; that be
, must have the money. AlT- Mack Cx-
! planned, and the young man aid be
. thought settlin' was tskin' q note, and
pap told him not to take sny body :
/ note. / axed him what he was 60 Tg To
do with the money, and he said he was
r going to take it home, except enough II
: pay for his salt. Says |, Don't you
want some sugar, and coffee, AMI calico
and tobaker, and snuff, and soda, and
some store clothes. to go a cOUrtiG' IN p
r and he said: ~ We don't drink coffee.
. Pap says milk is better. Mix Is in the
? scriptures, but coffee ain t, sad AngeliDe
, SAWS calico wouldn't last hlr q week
Zap says SODA DreaQ IS SLOW plsen. ana
tobaker makes a man love liker. I've
done done my courtin' in this here jeans,
[ and reck'n it's good as any owine TO
be married Christmas, anyhow. Pap
says young man ought to splice as soon
as the fit took him, if the gal was clever
r and industrious that it was akKordiL' TO
nature anH scripture, and kept a feller
r from hankerin' and runnin' around" +"
> I found ont that they COu20 read aud
write, but they didn't have any books
, but the bible, for pap says it wss enough,
/ aud didn't have any lies ia it. Pep
/ voted for Speers, but was q powerful
! Lester man, and had sot on a juEy."
/ You are all contented? ?" said !. "a Yes
sir, reckon. We don't want nOthin'