The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-12-14
BILL AKP.
Cash and Credit.
dHn,eta Constitution.

AHasata Constitution.
It's two weeks to Christmas, but they
are plotting against me right now-I was
taking my evening repose and they
thought was asleep and began to dis,
close their plans, and SO 1 snored little
gently ever and anon just TO get the bot
tom facts, and find out the family secrets,
and especially what they wers going to
do for me. I dident seem to be in it
| except to foot the bills, but maybe they
will think of me later. Yesterday, while
I was dosing, I noticed the arrival of
lot OF ladies' cloaks which they said were
Just sent up for them to look at and try
on-only this, and nothing more. And
so they looked and tried on, just to oblige
the accommodating merchant, and I over.
heard him say that these cloaks we're
ssnt out as very superior samples and
would have to be returned to New York
if he couldent dispose of them at prime
cost. Well, it looks like pity to send
such beautiful cloaks away back to New
York. 1t is reflection on Cartersville.
And when fine goods are offered at cost
it is great temptation to anybody to
buy them, especially when the kind
hearted man says he will wait until
January for the money. Credit for a
month or 10 makes wonderful difference.
1t seems sorter like getting thing for
nothing, for when the first dun comes it
is only warning. 1t don't mean buai-
ness. The bookkeeper does that as
matter of form. Pay day is away off
somewhere, and there's no telling what
might happen before then. Somebody
might die and leave you legacy, or
your ship might come in, or the world
might come to an end, and 30 it is great
inducement to buy on a credit. The
only trouble is that the days are all
coming this way. But still credit is a
wonderful thing. Most all great enter
prices are done on credit, and the Ion
ger the credit the better the debt. A
bond for thirty years sells for higher
premium than one for ten years, and 30 /
don't see why merchant shouldent wait
On 8 man forever and let the debt get
goodsr and gooder all the time.
These are idle specula,ions, I know.
but it IL nevertheless fact that the kind
hearted merchant diden't carry back IS
many cloaks as he brought to my house.
The girls kept two TO look at little lou.
aer-"irst look, then lingss, then en-
BRACE" says the old song, and when 1
gently inquired if they had made a pur.
chase was afectionately informed that
their mother said she would pay for
them OF course she will. She always
does when sbe makes up her mind. She
hrseut got dollar in the world that
know of, but when she takes notion to
dress up her chid'en or make Christmas
gifts or pay missionary money, | recog
nize the fact tbs. We twain are one flesh,
with all my worldly goods I thee en-
dow" has been of force iu my family ever
since l married her and her opinion is
that healthy man who is sot an idiot
has no excuse for not having s little
money fer his wife when she wants it.
Thanks to the good Lord have main
tained her respect in that line up to date
and will have some Christmas money
for her if have to go " Texas again to
get IL. The home and the heart are
about all that the gentler sex have 10
live for, and it's mans business TO keep
both happy if he can.-"Mamms says
she will pay for them" and I could see
mischievous twfokle in their eyes as they
added they WON, cost you cent They
know who the family broker is-the ban
ker, the queen, the "ipse dixis."
For years and years I have been work
ing in the harness--pulling the family
wagon, wearing out my collars going up
hill, and wearing out my bsitching hold
ing back when on the down grade; but
they comfort me all along the line, and
say that pulling is healthy and that it is
better to wear out than to rust out, and
they call me good old horse and pat me-
and rub me, and so keep on pulling and
expect to continue until something
breaks. When the maternal ancestor
has raised ten children and laid by the
crop, she can have some rest, and ought
to have, but the old psn must keep peg
ging away. Sometimes | think have
softening OF the brain, and not long ago
Mrs. Arp hinted that my perceptions
were not 40 bright as they used to be-
but ray load is not ]ightensd, and that I
perceive. The monthly bills are all the
same or ssmer, and I have to shin dig
aud kite and lap over as much as ever.
Not long ago I got behind little with
the bsnk, and l got notice of it Sunday
morning through the mail, aud it disturb
ed my tranquility at church and liked to
have cured me of opening my mail on
Sunday. Just ge. behiod with bank if
you want to losrn what "effectual call
ing" is. Ny bnnkrr called me the next
day to know if got his note. But they
are mighty good to me all round-mer-
chants ard bankers, too. In fact, every
body, but the State and the County and
the town. This tax busiIeps is inexors-
bio as death, and the devil is at the bot
tom of it, Ifevorybody was good citi-
zen, there would be no TAX, or no little
that We wouldeut feel it, There would
be no courts, 40 jsila, no calaboose, no
sherids, or constables or town marshal!a,
no locks or iron bars or night watch or