The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-29
Our REyEnY..OR rLAr nR0Kr.


cradle sat en- dry goods boxes and whiled
away the sweltering hours in discoursing
as to the relative merits Of the antagon-
lists IN a game of quoits being played
meath the shade Of Ward & Junes' drug
store. Scmi-frequcntly the monotony Of
our single street was disturbed by the
rafting of a buggy, the dull rumbling Of
wagon, by the sharp crack of carriage
whip, or the lazy whoa !" Of the OK
driver. The lazy lorel danced and flitt-
ed before dreary eyes, made drousy by
the proceeding nights dissipation, and
all the world seemed to wag as drcamily
drearily, drousily sever. July sat on a
golden throne, and the parching rays OF
old Phpbus sent the perspiration to the
exterior Of many corporal tenemcnts,
and sweat in big drops exuded from the
arows Of those of epicure tastes who had
taken too much dinner and were made
exceedingly somniferous thereby.
Within we Sat-our arms rested on O
table--our bead was supported by our
hands. Around us, hplter-skelter. were
scattered exchanges from all points. In
some were re-hashed Kansas articles, in
others--nothing. We had read till wea-
ried, both in mind and body, and our eyes
refused TO follow the thoughts of others.
Ideas, may be dreams of the future, in
trude themselves On a willing mind; but
to tell what we dreamed would be foreign
to our purpose. Our heart was gay and
rife of future biss--uncOnsciously our
eet played with the papers lying on the
foor some one of which, ever and anon,
we would essay to pick up, but as quickly
think to ourSelf, "therc's no news in it,"
and willingly forego the pleasure of hunt
ing for items. Unbidden, Imagination
conjured tempting image Of the new
five dollar bill which, solitary and alone,
lay so nicely folded in our pocket book
Twas, every red we possessed, and that
had been received for announcing the
name of one of the would-be peoples SER
wants, and for the present was our love,
our life, our joy, our hope. "Out of this
goes two bits to the devil, fifty cents to
the washerwOman, dollar and half to
pay taxes Z J, and on the balance we will
'splurge, we softly lisped. Thus we
thought till heart and soul were light as
air-sultry weather and newsless papers
We're forgotten we were glad, happy as
king and impudent as wood-sawyer 3
But noise on the stairway interrupts;
putting and blowing our Deyilsiood On
the threshold of the sanctum, and, with
that fiendish grin which devils alone know
how to put ON, yelled Northern Mail.
Sir" Eagerly We opened the papers
We wanted an item; but, as We looked,
our cheek grew pale, our eye became dim
with wild anxiety, and curse, not loud
but deep, was regiStcredin heaven against
the robber President of the Citizens
Bank at Memphis and Nashville. With
out groan we read of the demise of this
swindling concern; but within our heart
a bursting volcano burned as hot as July,
and stewing with disappointment, We
drew forth our solitary five dollar bill and
reviewed it in cur madness. Words, we
know, are feeble, and instead of saying,
I'VE intend to wage bitter, unrelenting
warfare against this rotten, corrupt sys-
TEN of wildcat banking" we will only
say, eve are henceforth agin banks"
and mean what We say We are not dis
posed to give the Citizens Bank kick
because everybody else is doing so, but
because We feel anti-bankish generally.
1t cannot be denied, there are some good,
solvent banks, ready and willing at all
times to meet their liabilities but the
majority are mere machines for the man.
ufacture Of money which is scattered
broadcast over the country, when the
bank colapses and defrauds the holders
of the worthless stuff out of their just
earnings. If we wish to save ourselves
from being the victims of these schemes
of wholesale swindling, banking must be
stopped. 1t cannot be done at once let
the reform be gradual but sure.
ANNIE LAURIE.
TTbss "a fha % n,;a a,r;au that hae cxvallad