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CHATTANOOGA MUSIC COMPANY,
, CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.
WE Wil,l, SAVE YOU MONEY. P. E. SWENSON, Manager.
CHRISTMAS ON CREDIT.
How Bill Arp’s Folks Outwit the
Foor Ol<s Man.
A WOMAN’S SLY DODGES
Te Raid tin' Husband’* and Father's
Bucket 800 l Fliiancjuriiiff
on a Domestic Buds.
Published through the Courtesy of the Atlanta
Constitution.
It’s three weeks tn Christinas, but
they are plotting against me right
nww. I was taking my evening repose ;
U;ey thought 1 was asleep ami began to
•infuse their plana, ami so 1 snored a
kittle gently ever ami anon just to get
the bottom facts, anil find out the
Jamil) secitls, ami especially what
tht% were going to do for yae. 1
didn't seem to be in it except to foot
the bills, but maybe they will think of
me later. Yesterday, while 1 was dos
ing, 1 noticed the arrival of a lot oj
ladies’ cloaks which they slid they
.were just sent for them to look at and
to try on—only this,f and nothing
moie. Ami so they looked and tried
on, just to oblige the accommodating
merchant., and 1 overheard him say
that these cloaks were out»as very su
perior samples ami would have to be
returned to .New York if he couldeut
dispone of tliem at prime Cost. We 11.,,
it looks like a pity to send such beau
tiful cloaks away back to New York.
11 is a/election on Cartersville. And
when fine goods are offered at cost it
js a great temptation .to anybody to
,buy them, especially when the kind
hearted man says he will wait until
January lot the money. Credit for a
mouth or set? makes a wonderful differ
ence. 11 seems sorter like getting a
.thing for nothing, for when the first
dun comes it is only a warning. It
don't mean business. The bookkeep
er does that as a matter of form, it
is a credit moltilier. It moves along.
Pay day is away off somewhere, and
.there’s no telling what might happen
before then. Somebody might die
.and leave you a legacy, or your ship
xtome in, or the world might come to
3n end, and so it is a great inducement
to buy on a credit. The only trouble
js that the days are all coming this
,\vay. But still credit is a wonderful
.thing. .Most all great enterprises are
done on a credit, ayd the longer the
credit the better the debt. A bond
.thirty years sells fora higher premium
than one for Jen years, and so 1 don’t
see why a mer.cihiWit shouldent wait oj.i
a irfan forever and Jet the debt get
gooder and gooder all the time.
THEY GOT iWE CLOAKS.
These are idle speculations, I know,
but it is nevertheless a fact that the
kind-hearted merchant dident carry
back as many cloaks us brought to
my house. The girls kept two to look at
a Rule longer—“first look, then linger,
then embrace,” says the old song, apd
THE AIIGES; DALTON, GA., SATURDAY,, DECEMBER 10.1 SSS.
when 1 gently inquired if they had
made any purchase, I was affectionate
ly informed that their mother would
pay for them. Os course she will.
She always does when she makes up
her mind. She basent got a dollar in
the world that I know of, but when
she takes a notion to dress up her
children or make Christmas gifts or
pay missionary money, 1 recognize
the fact that we twain are one flesh,
“with all my wot Idly goods 1 thee en
dow” has been of force jn my family
evei since I married her, and her opin
ion is that a healthy man who is not
an idiot has no excuse for not having
a little money for his wife when she
wants it. Thanks to the good Lord, I
have maintained her respect tn that
line up to date and 1 will have Christ
mas money for her, if I have to go to
Texas again to get it. The home and
the heart are about all the gentler sex
have to live for, and it’s a man’s busi
ness to keep both happy if he can, ——
“Mamma says she will pay for them”
and 1 could see a mischievous twinkle
in their eyes as they added, “they won't
cost you a cent.” They know who the
family broker is—the banker, the
queen, the w ipse dixit.”
' WORKING IN HARNESS.
For years and years 1 have been
working in the harness —pulling the
family wagon, wearing out my collar
going u.p hill, and wearing out my
breeching holding back when on the
down grade; but they comfort me 411
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
a good old horse and pat me and rub
me, and sol keep on pulling and expect
to continue pulling 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 man must
keep pegging away. Sometimes I
think 1 have softening of the brain,
and not long ago Mrs. Arp hinted that
my faculties of perception were not
as bright as they usad to be—-but
my load is not lightened, and that I
perceive. The monthly bills are all
the same or samer, and 1 have to
shin dig and kite and lap over as
much as ever. Not long ago 1 got
behind a little with the bank, and I
got. a notice of it Sunday morning
through the mail, ami it disturbed
my tranquility at church, and liked to
have.cured me of opening my mail on
Sunday. Just get behind with a bank if
you want to learn what “effectual call
ing” is. My banker called on me the
next day to know if I got his note.
But they are mighty good to me all
round—r-mercljants and bankers, too.
-AS INEXORABLE AH DEATH.
In fact, everybody, but the state and
county and the town. This tax huai
n°ss Is as inexorable as death, and the
dsyil is at the bottom of it. If every
body was a good citizen, there would
be no tax, <»r so little that we wouldent
feel it. There would be no courts,
uo jails, no calaboose, no sheriffs, or
constables or town marshals, no locks
o,r iron bars or night watch or pis
tols. Good gracious! what a millen
ium shat would be. But here we go
and there we go. Everybody is try
ing to reform something, and its all
theory and but little fact. They have
gotten up a “single tax” and “looking
backwards” and trade unions and sub-
treasury schemes, and 1 don’t know
what all; but if a man will devote the
time he -wastes on tlyese things to
working for lim family, my opinion
is he will be better off in the long
run. If we all fight the devil while
we are working it is the best thing
we can do, for he is going about as
a roaring lion. This is a fact find
not fancy, and the older I grow the
more 1 am convinced that he is a
power in this sublunary world. 1
don’t know why nor wherefore, but
there is some evil influence working
against us. My little grandchild that
1 love so well, sometimes gets mad
and strikes her mother and there is no
reason for it except the devil. He is a
bad citizen. When David was all right
and in harmony with every thing that
was.good, he wrote from the abundance
of his heart: “If I reward evil to him
who is at peace with me may mine
enemy persecute my soul and take it.
Yea, may he tread my life into the
earth and lay mine honor in the dust."
HIS SIN BEFORE HIM.
Was there ever a more terrible curse
invoked ami yet the old devil got after
him and made Him plot the death of
Uriah, a man who was at peace with
him. Poor fellow, how he did sin
in haste and repent at. leisure. With
what anguish he exclaimed. “I ac
knowledge my transgression and my
sin is ever before me.” I heard old Dr.
Axson preach from that text once. If
there is any bigger text in the Bible. I
don’t know it. “My sin is ever before
me ” Booth nor Forrest nor McCready
could have thrown more of anguish
into the recollection of crime than he
did. A thousand times have I thought
of it. “My sin is ever before me.”
There is no retreat, no hiding place,
110 extinguisher. Young man, young
woman, don’t commit any sin that
will ever be before you. Life is an un
solved problem any bow and the best
we can do is to try to do right and be
humble and hopeful. Life is uphill
and down hill and on a level, but a
good horse will never stall going up
and he will hold back going down.
Just so it ought to be with a man and
I think of that sometimes when the
load is heavy and the hill is steep, but
I do want somebody to scotch occa
sionally and let me get breath. Alex
ander Stephens said he wanted to die
in the harness and he did. but I don’t.
I want to die grazing arond in the
cloverfield or the barley patch and have
nothing to trouble me but conscience
and not much <>f that. I don’t want
many of the luxuries of life, but I do
want the comforts for Mrs. Arp and
myself in our old age' and enough
spare money for her to pay for cloaks
and hats and m-'ke Christmas gifts to
the grandchildren. Somebody will
take care of u* I know, but when the
old folks have to quarter on the chil
dren it looks like they had made a
failure ami dident die when their time
had come. It is a pitiful sight to see
them outlive all their property and
not leave enough for a tombstone. I
know graves of grand old people
that are still unmarked and will bo
.until Gabriel blows his horn. But
maybe they can rise soone. without
the marble over them, and I reckon
tltut is why the children left the pa
rents uncovered. I reckon so.
Bill Arp.
Far bill beads, go to Tag Argus office.
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IN EFFECT OCT. 30, 1892.
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1892-FALLa WMHBB2
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THE TAILOR, DALTON,
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