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 A Cure for Hard Times. 
 
 A POEM. 
 
 By B. Y. SINGLETON. 
 
 When to the good people 1 seud graetiug. 
 Wliilc they indulge luuch good eating. 
 And bid them be of good cheer 
 Wlien I predict prosi)erity the coming year. 
 
 If yoii would have times good. 
 Let it be well understood 
 That you must spend your money fiee, 
 Alid in this good sense see. 
 
 Don't keep nine dollars out of ten 
 Still as a setting hen. 
 But keoTj it jmssiug round, 
 'Till not one in debt can be found. 
 
 Let all unite in the good Ciuise 
 
 Of bettering times witout congressional law.s, 
 
 By every one being an honest man 
 
 And paying his debts fast as he can. 
 
 Let farmers plow and plant, 
 
 And keep busy as the ant, 
 
 Then reap their grain and store it well. 
 
 And wait for a good time to sell. 
 
 And when you sell for a good i)rice 
 Come and buy every thing that's nice, 
 For goods and wares are very low. 
 And this will i^lease you well I kuov/. 
 
 If merchants wish to do well, 
 Let them advertise all they have to sell; 
 Then let it be iheir daily pleasure 
 To lay up much gold treasure. 
 
 And always show respect to all 
 Who on them for goods do call. 
 And never slight the honest poor, 
 Lest with you they deal no more. 
 
 Let mechanics rise early in the morn 
 
 And work till they bear the breakiV.st horn. 
 
 After which let them to their work i-eturu 
 
 And many standard dollars earn. 
 
 Let preachers preach Christ, and Him ciii- 
 
 cifi&d. 
 And Tsdth this let them be satisfied, 
 -Without preaching war, woman's rights and 
 
 politics. 
 With many other cunning tricks. 
 
 Let it be their constant aim 
 
 To preach eternal life tlrrough Jesus' name. 
 
 And always keep tliis hope in view 
 
 And they "will have ei:ough to do. 
 
 When doctors do their patients kill, 
 Let them charge a small bill, ■ 
 And assure the family of their good will 
 'Till they want another pill. 
 
 When love-larks go tripping round. 
 Looking where a beau may be lound. 
 Let them be careful about those 
 Who love masquerade balls and minstrel 
 sliows. 
 
 If gentlemen want the best lady for a wife; 
 They may bet their jjocket knife 
 That I know the best to be found. 
 For twice ten miles round. 
 
 When poets do the world amuse. 
 Why shoud any them abuse; 
 Their lot is hard enough 
 Without getting a rebuff. 
 
 Though I'm so well satisfied, 
 Let this truth be not denied, 
 When x>eople close their money bags. 
 Poets have to go iii rags. 
 
 Let those who expect soon to die, 
 Never this solemn truth deny. 
 Of all the cemeteries near round, 
 Bose Hill's the prettiest to be found. 
 
 And if at the resurrection you wouldn't be 
 
 forgot, 
 Buy of Couant & Son a beautiful lot, 
 
 And sure as you would your soul save, 
 Vow you'll be buried in a Rose Hill grave. 
 
 When you have money to store away. 
 Whether your head be black or gray, 
 Doposit in Frackelton & Oo.'s bank with 
 pleasure, 
 i check it out at leisure. 
 
 J ' you want a pleasant g'me. 
 
 
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 That you can play without shame,< 
 Go to ElUott c% Harper's bilhard liuU. 
 And play till some presssing duty call. 
 
 When gentlemen want to marry, 
 Go to Ole and don't tarry, 
 And engage the finest boots ever seen, 
 Your marital boots I mean. 
 
 And if your shoes are holey. 
 Have them repaired by Ole ; 
 He can do it vejy nice 
 For a hard times price. 
 
 When you want a nice beef steak, 
 
 G< od enough for any one of it to partake, 
 
 Go to the old meat slicer, 
 
 Ki own by the name of Dan. Eicher. 
 
 When you want work done in a hurry. 
 Go to tlie shop of Morris & Murphy, ■< ^ 
 They do their work in good time, ^ 
 
 .-^-nd don't think hard if they charge you i 
 dime. 
 
 If yt)U would be a happy soul. 
 Buy of the junction men your coal, 
 Always patronize the honest laborers. 
 And seud to them your neighbors. 
 
 When you want the best Imperial tea. 
 You ever did or can see. 
 Go to the coal company's store. 
 And buy it evermore. 
 
 When you want a buggy strong and neat, 
 And that's very hard to be beat. 
 Go to our enterprising S. B. Bryant, 
 Who is very self-reUant. 
 
 Sure as I'm a good guesser. 
 
 Buy your wagons of Sam. Deerwester, 
 
 They" are made in good style, 
 
 And will last d long while. . 
 
 When you want a drink of rock and rye, 
 To make you feel four stories high. 
 Go to the' mammoth saloon of HoSheimer. 
 But don't tfike enough to make you stammer. 
 
 When you want to pay your money. 
 For a drink of peach and honey. 
 Go to the saloon of Henry J., 
 And don't hurry to get away. 
 
 When fanners want good tiling. 
 To set them all to smihng, 
 Buy of Eastman Anderson & Co., 
 W'hen they the best tiling show. 
 
 If you want a refreshing drink. 
 
 Th !t will of ii easaut things make you think, 
 
 (to to Otto's sample rooms, 
 
 Kept clean as if swept with new brooms. 
 
 Sure as there's a handle to a pitcher. 
 Buy your jewehy of Oharhe Fisher, 
 And when voir want your watch repaired, 
 Go to Charlie and by others don't be insnared. 
 
 Let all those who can. 
 Buy coal of the South Valley man. 
 And always do the best you can. 
 By dealing with an honest man. 
 
 Lot me wish those a happy New Yeai-. 
 Who for the poet and printer do cai-e. 
 May they in business prosper well. 
 In -whose hearts the poet and printer dwell, 
 
 Petersburg, 111., Dec. 23d, 1885. 
 
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