Show ARP PULLING A MODERN wo we are pulling fodder now ive vve ive lve hired two men to pull puli by the day aud two to pull by the hundred bundles I 1 want to see which is the cheapest but they get me any howand I 1 cant cant help it it if they pull by the day they dont make bundles apiece which they ought to make 75 cents a day and if they pull by the bundle they make over bundles and some of them hem are mighty light B but nut ut it is all right I 1 reckon T they rite lite are watching me and I 1 am watal watching them tk em it is tile the same saine old story capital against labor there are tricks trick S in all t trades rades yon can count the hands in a bundle but you cant count the blades in a hand so ther they can make them beav heavy or make them light according to pay ive lve ive hired cord wood cut by the te cord and they can call pile it so loose that a pack of hounds can follow a fox right through it and never touch a hair but it is no deep laid scheme to cheat you yon they are just sloshing slashing shing along and you can settle with a darkey easier than with any creature upon the earth a mean man can pay them in bacon at 15 cents a pound and flour at 4 wilen when the cash would buy one at 10 ili and th the c other at 3 and he can cheat them 25 per cent in the weights and they will ivill never know any better and never care theford the lord never made such an easy unsuspecting creature as a fre free e there are ure white nite men who take advantage of them and cheat them and get got t their heir labor for their vittles bittles and clothes but the darkey is sure of a living anyhow for if he cant earn it he can steal it so it is all right anyhow and the races keep about even some somo farmers are tricky too when they take chickens to town the sickly ones are sure ure to go and the best potatoes are put on top tp of tile the basket the richest pine is on the outside of the load and some rotten corn will get in the sheller 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 at 50 per cent to keep up with hard competition he will sell you shoes with pasteboard soles and nails that break in two under the hammer and shoddy goods of all sorts for his customers want everything at the lowest price whether it is good gaoa or bad and 1 it t is buckle and tongue whether the themer merchant can get ahead of his customers or they get ahead of him one thing is certain when the merchant forgets to charge anything it is lost forever lost if he hi makes a mistake in change or weight or measure he be hears of it if it is in his favor and if it is the other way maybe he dont dont know for certain the miller mixes corn meal with his flour nowadays they all do it up north and our millers say they have to do it to keep keele up ap and they comfort themselves with the th e idea that it is healthier and better even though it is s 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 muck as the six do now anything to satisfy and keep the people calm calin and serene theres there s a power of comfort in going home and showing up their bargains it proves that you are smal t in trade or popular with the merchant and that shows how smart a good merchant is for he can make ninety out of one hundred customers believe he likes them better than anybody civility and a little pleasant flattery is splendid capital for a merchant if my wife was to hear accidentally thata that a merchant in town told somebody that she had the prettiest and best mannered daughter in the community she would go right there to trade and jew him down on anything but the biggest fraud of all is in the marrying business and the man inan is guilty of it a heap oftener than the woman in a n im not talking about the regular society woman in a town or a city for I 1 dont think that anybody can cheat her she is generally an iceberg a passel sand she dont know how to do anything but read novels and visit but the a average verae vera e girl who marries for love is oftener footed fooled than the average man the time used to be enen a man begin to forget his ilife until he had been married ten or fifteen years but now lie he forgets her ina lna in a few months and wont stay home of nights if he can help it some nice sweet tempered young married women may be seen nowadays walking to the end of the piazza about ten times in fifteen minutes looking up the street for her husband but he lye dont hardly ever come according to time folks do that way 19 in my days and my sort of folks dont do it yet mrs arp dont have to look up the road forme for me no sir im on h hand and before she wants me I 1 am this shows the good effect of early training and so I 1 am obliged to advise the gilds young oung women to break in their husbands as soon as possible you can call manage a colt mighty easy with care and but it is almost impossible to reform a balky horse there are the tricks of the lawyers that would fill a book and are too tedious to mention and the tricks of the doctors and the tile politicians and the patent medicine men the editors help them last fellers out and div divide ide the profits they dont certify to the lies but keep them spread out before the people andl andi scare them mighty nigh to death with their awful pictures of snakes and horrible things well it is a wonder that any body has got anything for it looks like must everybody is bryin trying to get what everybody every bouy has got sot and they take the highest to do 0 lt it atlanta constitution |