The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-09-11
ARP PULLING FODDER.
a Rural Task for modern philosopher

want to see which is the cheapest But
they get me anyh.w, and I cant help IL.
If they pull by the day they don't make
$50 good bundles apiece, which they
ought to make at seventy five cents day.
and If they pull by the hundred they
make over 200 bundles, and some Of them
are mighty light But it is all right
reckon. They are watching me and
am watching them. It is the sane old
s!ory-capital against labor There are
tricks in all trades. You can count the
hands in bundle, but you cant count
the blades in hand. and so they can
make them heavy or make them light
according to pay. I've hired cord wood
cut by the cord and they can pile 1t so
loose that pack of hounds can follow
fox right through It and never touch a
hair. But it Is no deep laid scheme to
cheat you. They are just sloshing along
| and you can. settle with darkey easier
than with any creature upon the earth.
a mean man can pay them in bacon at
! fifteen cents'a pound and -four ut four
when the cash would buy one at ten and
the other at three, and he can cheat them
| twenty FIVE per cent. in the weights and
they will never know any better and
, never care. The Lord never made such
| an easy, unsuspecting creature as free
niger. There are white men who take
advantage Of them and cheat them and
get their labor for their viltles and
clothes, but tho iarkey is sure nf a living
| anyhow, for If lie cant earn it be can
steal it. so it il all right anyhow and the
races keep about even. Some farmers
are tricky, too, when they take chickens
to town the sickly ones are sure to 20,
and the best potatoes are put on top Of
the basket. The richest pine is ON the
outside OF the load, and some rotten
corn will get IN the shelter when the
meal is for market The merchant has
his tricks too. He will bait you with
something for less than cost and, make it
up on something else n fifty per cent.
To keep up. with hard competition he
will sell you shoes with pastehoard soles
and nails that break in two under the
hammer and shoddy goods OF oil sorts,
for his customers want everything at the
lowest price whether It is good or bad,
and 1t Is buckle and tongue whether the
merchant can get ahead Of his custnmers
or they get ahead Of him. One thing is
certain, when the merchant forgets TO
charge anything 1t is lost, forever lost.
If he makes mistake in change or
weight or measure he hears of it If it is
is in his favor, and If 1t Ia the other way
maybe he don't. don't know for certain.
The miller mixes corn meal with his
-four nowadays. They all do it up north
aud our millers say they have to do it too
to keep up, and they comfort themselves
withoothe idea that it is healthier and bet.
ter, even though 1t is a fraud upon the
consumer. The baker gives six loaves
for a quarter instead Of five, and that
satisfies his customers, though the FIVE
weighed just as much as the six do now.
Anything to satisfy aud keep the people
calm and serene. There In power of
comfort In going home and showing up
your bargains. 1t proves that you are
smart In trade, or popular with the
merchant, and that shows how smart q
good merchant is for he can make ninety
out of one hundred customers believe he
likes them better than anybody. Civility
capital for merchant. If my wife was
to hear accidently that a merchant In
sown :oid assnehgiy .hsE she had tbs
prettiest and best hammered daughter in
the community she would 20 right there
to trade and wouldent jew him down on
anything. When was young man I
was O merchant for several years, and
Mrs. Arp. that now is, used to como and
trade with me and fell in love with her
across the counter, and was sorry the
counter was as wide "a 1t was, and che
was sorry too reckon, and I showed my
devotion 40 tenderly and said such sweet
things that she used to come most every
day and she done all the family trading
and some for the nabors and naver priced
anything but just said 60 many yards or
30 many pairs and had liked TO have
got rich off of her before I married her,
which was all right reckon for it kept
the money in the family and no loss on
our side. A store Is good thing TO
marry on, that is dry goods store, but
the young man had better own 1t if he
wants TO make sure thing oe bis GiE!.
After he marries the next best thing he
can do is to sell out his store and quit
that sort Of business. for merchants
own family account breaks him oftener
than anything else, for II is. 80 easy to
send to the atore and It does look 40
much like that things out of ones own
store don't cost anything. I never kept
store but six months after got married,
but me and my wife have kept other peo.
ples stores going for the last thirty
years, and they have done pretty we'll
considering. ,EttstG
But the biggest fraud of all is in the
o.o..y1o6 Suo'bSooJ suu euo hlau 10 Butsty
Of it heap ofteuer than the woman. I'm
not talking about the regular society
woman In town or city for don't
think that anybody can cheat her, che is
generally an iceburg inse pasael Of fine
clothes, and she don't know how to do
| anything but read novels and visit, but
the average girl who marries for love is
oftener fooled than the average man.
The time used to be when @ man dident
begin to forget his wife until he had been
married ten or fifteen years, but now he
forgets her in few months and wont
stay home of nights ifshe can help 1t.
Some nice sweet.temperedy young mar.
ried woman may be secn now q days
walking to the end of the piazza about
ten times In fifteen minutes looking up
the street for her husband, but he don't
| come hardly ever according to time.
Folks dident do that way in my days,
and my sort of folks don't do IL vet.
Mrs. Arp don't have to look up the. road
| for me. No sir, I'm on hand before she
| wants me. Tam. This shows the good
effect Of early training, and so I am
Obliged to advise tho young women 70
break In their husbands as soon as poss
| sible. You can manage q colt mighty.
easy with care and kindness, but Il; 10
almost impossible to reform ! q balky
horse. ;, 55 y S,
Then there are the tricks Of the law
yers that would Gil book aud are too
tedioas.to mention, and the tricks Of the