The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-12
BILL ARP.
Bill Arp Talks of the Comfort of Being
Rich.
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Money is a right good thing and nc
sensible man will turn up his ncse at it
Money brings comfort and leisure and
Solomon says in leisure there is wisdom
A man who has to be digging away every
day for living don't have much time to
read and reflect and ruminate. 1t don't
matter whether he is merchant OF
mechanic or a farmer or professional
man, if he works hard all day he wants
to rest at night.
Money promotes domestic tranquility
and that is the best and biggest thing
know of. But money ought to be hard
to get, so that its real value may be ap.
preciated-money has to be earned to be
priced. If it is Inherited or drawn in a
lottery or won at games of chance OF
found in the road or obtained by lucky
speculations in stocks or bonds or cotton
futures, it goes at discount. 1t is un-
dervalued and don't stick to msn long.
a fortune gained in a year rarely sticks
to anybody. Luck is a right good thing
when it follows along with labor and
honesty, but luck by itself is deceiver.
''Trust to luck" is the DEVILS maxim.
know hard working man who was so
anxious to get ahead that be stinted his
family and invested part of his earnings
in the Louisiana lottery for five years
and never drew but ten dollars. He told
me he had lost FIVE hundred dollars that
way, and every time he saw the list pub.
lished of the lucky numbers and read
about the lucky men who drew the
prizes it fred him up and he tried it
again. Sometimes l wish Uncle Jubal
and General Beauregard would tote fair
and publish list of them fellows who
didu't draw anything. But reckon that
would be so long and occupy so many
columns in the newspapers they couldn't
afford it.
1t is just human know to want more
money than we have got, especially if
we are hard run and living on strain.
want more myself, and if was to find
hundred dollars in the road / couldn't
help hoping that the owner would never
miss it, and never call for it. Just like a
boy who finds pocket knife and feels
like it is his, but that sort of money is
not as solid and satisfactory as money we
work for. I know an old preacher who
had ten dollars and his son had ten
dollars and the young man went
down to Atlanta and took all the money
to buy some things and he came across
a ruha Nf ND foil min
ten dollars just as easy, and 80 he was
persuaded to try his luck, and shore
enough he won ten dollars, and it hope
him up nightly and he tried it again
and won some more, and he kept on un-
til he had fifty dollars and become fool,
for right then his luck changed and he
lost it all and his ten dollars and his dad
dy's ten besides, and he had to borrow
dollar and half to get home on, and
like to have perished to death in the bar
gain. Well, he belonged to the church
and they had him up and tried him and
he made clean breast and told how he
was overtaken and tempted and how he
went on and on until he had made fifty
dollars clean. "And right there" said
the old man, "is whar Johns sin begun.
If he had stopped right there it would
have been all right but like fool he
went on and on to destruction" Well,
john wasn't such dreadful sinner after
all for he wanted the money to buy some.
thing to please the old folks. But money
don't come that easy very often. [ know
man who has been kept on strain for
five years working out of his losses on
cotton futures. Sometimes luck runs
along with man for ten years and more
and that makes him vain and he thinks
his judgment is infallible and suddenly
he collapses like Seney and Emo Keene.
No money is safe except that made by
honest men.
The rewards Of labor are mighty good
and sure. Here I set in my piazza and
look over my farm and see the wheat and
the oats all in strut and waving so blu
tiful in the breeze and I feel proud and
serene for / sowed that wheat myself
and helped to prepare the land and it is
my wheat and my oats and come honestly
and wasn't made out of somebody else,
and it does me good to cut a few choice
heads and bunch 'em and take 'em to
town and show the folks what I can do.
1t beats money made by luck all to pieces,
and 80 does walking in my garden and
digging the potatoes I planted and work.
ing them ever so nice and bringing them
in the house to show to my wife and hear
her say, "they are very fne." She never
says much on that line, she don't, but a
little goes great way with me. She
never INDUCES in rapture, she never uses
adjectives to any excess, such as lovely,
exquisite, splendid and the like, but I
| know what she thinks about anything
just as we'll as if she did. I'm going to
get her mess of raspberries to day, the
first of the season, and I'll surprise her
with 'em at dinner time. She likes that.
Women like these little thoughtful atten-
tions. They are like oil Oh the axletree,
and makes the machinery run smooth.
But then there ought to be little money
to mix up with such things. Money is q
good domestic lubricator itself. A man
feels more like gentleman with some
change in his pocket, and he ought to
always have dollar or so just to feel of.
1t stiffens him up and keeps him from
feeling like vagabond. And women
wants some too. When pedlar comes
along with tin ware or wagon load OF
jugs or the Gypsies come along with lace
or the book agent comes along with pic.
lures, and besides it is such digni6ed
comfort to have little hid away for the
children when they are just obliged to
have something to wear and don't want
to ask papa for the money, for he is so
hard run and talks so poor all the time
This is the kind of money that goes for
all it is worth. Money that comes hard,
money that is earned. Even woman does
not prize money when she has oodles oi
it and has every want supplied. Folks
must be cramped to be happy. They
must have something to stimulate them
Something to provoke economy and in
dustry, and Pm thankful we've always
had these stimulants at my house.
BILL, ARP,