The clarion., 1885-01-28
Bill Arp on Living Beyond Ones In
come.
Home and Farm.


times with the new. The times when
eggs sold for 6 cents dozen, and butter
lor cents pound, and coIn-fed pork
TOR 9 cents and now the New York
farmer gets three times these prices, and
still Is on strain and can't gel rich, and
The reason is that his mother 1rye a
calico gown to meeting, but his wife
can't get 10 heaven through his church
without wearing a silk. Well, that l.
sad isn't it2 bat still alPs well that ends
| we'll, and if we can get u heaven at ali
we will be happy, silk or no silk, though
think We ought 70 go there as well
dressed as possible. | don't see any
harm in folks wearing silk if they can
afford 1t. IL Is human nature to better
our condition-have better houses anu
more comforts-and it il woman's
nature to adorn herself and appear d.
lovely as she can. Woman loves dress,
and jewelry, and ornaments; and VIII,
shouldn't she! Our Heavenly Father
dresses the birds with plumage, and thc
tlelds with Il .wers, aud the heavens with
stars. 1t Was this that made Ahashu
irus hold out the sceptre 10 his queen
aud saved nation from destruction.
Isaac understood this when he sent Re
Oecca the earrings and the braceletsl
Noses says these earrings weighed hal.
shekel piece and according TO the
Hebrew table that made the p-ir cost
.xactiy 62l cents. Couldn't catch Re
Jecca now with such jewelry a that.
But still this love oi ornament should
Je prudently aud modestly INDUCED
IL is Il sin for wife or daughter to Keep
The good man who supports them ON :.
strain, and great many OF them do IL.
lt Is no sin for a woman to love Orna
.nent, but when her envy or her am m5ition
Jrompts her to dress It's line or finer than
.Ier heighbors, she is 10 longer a hep
nate, Dut is rather u fraud. y true |
AOnIan, Il true wife or daughter, will |
count the cost and respect the income, |
and keep within it. Nearly all the |
world lives fully up to income and |
little beyond, whether eggs are 8 cents
{ dOze1 or 10. We are All mOying along |
IN the same old way, and spend about |
Is much as We make and trust to luck |
and Providence. Only the few get rich |
tine many keep poor-we live Oft OF
jne another. Il 1 sell my ne'ghbor corn |
It 20 cents bushel,. 1 give HIM 81 for
load OF light wood, and both of us
.hlnk we got Il good price for what we
,Uld, and both OF Us keep poor. 1t Il
very much like AN old couple who were
foud OF whisky, and their daily earn
lng5 went that way. % they concluded |
that 1t cost too much To pay by the
drink, and they sold their COW and
bought Il barrel of whisky and had Il
nickel left; when the old man wanted "a
drink he gave the old woman the nickel
Ind got 1t, and when size wanted Il drink
size paid the old nau the nickel back |
dSaiu,a ,and they congratulated themselves
tnat whisky WAS 50 cheap, and kept the
nicket going back and fourth like Il
shuttle cock until the barrel was empty.
But alter all, poverty Is no very great
misfortune. | don't allude to that
pinching distressing poverty that means
want aud sutfering--we have but little
Ot that in this blessed Southern land.
don't know OF a case III all my country.
w hen we speak OF poor folks, we include
the common Tuu--the masses, the hum
Ole farmers and working men. | used
70 waste much sympathy on them
more than | do now would rather see
everybody poor than rich. There is less
danger to morals and family peace and
good government. When i used to live
in Il city l was sorry every day for the
wood haulers who came three, fOnr or
five miles to town over muddy road,
and some times in the rain, with a load
Of wood and sold it tor 81. Now | am
ia the country; live by some of those
wood haulers, and as they pass me, |
talk to them, and they are about as
Happy as | am. That dollar is as big to
them as ten dollars Is to me. Their wants
ra few while mine rp many al |
real, and mine are imaginary. They
love life more than they love money.
they are sociable aud kind. When one
is sick they nurse INN. When he dies,
they dig his grave and bury him. For
a while they are sad and tell of his vir-
tues, and that is the end of the chapter
Not long ago visited an old man in
his cottage home. He lived alone, for
MS children had long since married ami
gone; but he would no. follow them
ur he loved the spot where his old wife
was buried. Before the war he was rich,
aud he staked it all on the Southern
and lost; but he did not
lose his pride, nor his dignity nor his
moral strength. Always cheerful, he
welcomes those who visit him with the
same courtesy that he showed in his
AllS anu li5
wish to help him and bring him COM
forts, but he says, "No my good friends;
my wants are too few for you to give
Yourself any concern. live comfortably
On 10 cents day, and SO can any one,
except perhaps the laboring man. who
must have meat. / hayea COW that gives
me milk and butter. | have bread and
rice, and coffee, and what more do
waat?'
Old age brings man to that. Youth
wants more ana ought to have 1t for IL
is nature~-human nature. Our Crea-
tor is kind-very kind He tempers
our wants to our condition. When we
are young and vigorous and buoyant,
and the world seems bright and beauti
full lie gives us a relish for all its good
things. But rs we approach the grave
and have to let go, He prepares us tor it
by degrees. Its beauties fade, its pleasures
vanish, and we are ready and willing to
20. That is, the good man is willing,
but the bad man is not, for he has
doubts about his destination. Then let
us all so live that when the summons
comes we may lie down, as it were, to
pleasant dreams. BILL ARP.