Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-24

Massey LITTER.
W.. Nasby goes to Washington ana
from thcnrc to North EuSion, til.
home Of Onkcs Amcs~-Ws arcou"
Of the Bu"Q"ct ia ho"or u Mr.
Asscs.
NoRTu EAsToN,
(wich il in tho State Nv Massychoosits),
March II, 1873. }
The Credit Mobilicr biznis so OK
cited INC that / coodcnt stay in thu
quiet and classic shades wv the Cor
ners while it wis Soin on. " Where
the carr;on is there will the buzzards
10 also" In tho Credit Mobilcr
smell currion.-to whom ] allood to a.
bu22ard it is not necessary to specify
1 went to Washington.
The State Nv things at the capita
surprised me. | sposed that l shood
tina su,hin thut cooA turn to account
in assislin IN kivcring up this swim
die, the same ez 1 yooscd tn du in tho
good old days Nv Bookanan, but I WI.
disappointed. The Republican mem
bers rctocscd any conccalmen' and in
sisted gu kommitys and sich. When
the plague was rasin in Lundun the
ded-carts wood draw up afore the hous.
cs and the. driver wood houl, "brine
out yer ded." When the Credit hlo
tiIer ragged inv .shington they yelled tc
Congress, "bring out yer ded." He'd
il bin Dimikratis Congress, " wood
hev gone to the door aud svore that
w he'd no dcd, but not 60 with the
present one. Bring out yer ded |!
shouted the people. Here are thu
corpses !: sed Congress, cheer!ully
aud these wuz then laid out on cooliu
boards and ready to BE- sent home 70,
burial.
1t wuz most unprecedented pro.
ceedin. In the old times .uf Demo
crat, devoted tn Sunday Schools aud
temperance he'd bin innucently led by
a plottin skeemer to accept stock in a
Credit Mobiler, the skeemer carrying
Che stock till the dividends could pay
for it, and so on, and charges he'd bin
brot agin him, wat wood hev happened
He wood hev riz, aud printing calmly
to his Sunday Skools and temperance
would hev Indignantly asked Ell lite
devoted tn Sunday Skools and temp
rance wuz tn lie blasted on tho mere
assertion of a plottia skeemer who he'd
not devoted his lite tu' Sunday Skools
and temperance And the Democratic
House wood hev voted him clear and
hev expelled the accuser, and eacl,
member wood hev tripped gaily tn
draw thu divid2ds on the stock which
he held.
| he'd u curiosity to see how the con.
stitooents Nv the great Ames wood re-
ccive him, and l he'd I'M opportunity
tn GRITTY that curiosity. Nj. Anne.
sejestcd to u'e that l shood 60, and HI
slipped suthin into my hand. l tell
into h'z trap the same ez the placic
Colfax did, and sed I wood go.
Ell my people insists on givin inc a
recepshuu," said he, " see to it that il
is spontaneous. I hey conservator,
wich it may be worth YOUR while tt
sce-ef they want flowers to deco
rate their tables but enuH. Speeche!
will he necessary, and we must he,
EN-, but see that 700 slect men tina,
will 10 it spontaneously. Were l ;
hard man l Good make it uncomforta
BILE Tor the honest treemen in Nortt
Easton who shood retoose tn cheer a
the proper time, but. will say II,
more: My family Goctor u,akes Il gooe
speech aud the school teacher. is poet
! hev herd that he hcz he'd an idea u,
writin a poem in which l am tn b.
crowned with laurels, aud the ages dc
homage to me, and possibly he might
hev done it tn read ut this rescpshuu
but Of course it amt for me tn say
My factory will turn out strong u,
coarse. But 80 aud visit North Eas
ton.
did so. Mr.. Amcs hez a factor,
at North Easton wich makes shovels
The physician doctors sick. shove
makers, and insists on briugin intu tn.
world embryo shovel makers the
storekeeper sells goods tn shove!
makers the teacher teaches youn:
shovel-makers; MIR. Amos is the bos
shovel u'aker-a gray-haired man sit
tin on the rooins Nv the biler arch
starin about 10 a wild vacant way.
Mr.. Ames owns this shovel factor,
in North Easton, and North Eastol
believes Mr.. Ames tn be honest. The,
reject with intense scorn the idea tha
he did anything wrong. So the mex
day after my arrival, and after I he,
interviewed the lesdin citizens, . pub
lie recepshun wuz rendered Mr.. Anne
"a spontaneous recspshun on the par
Of the people, Nv which Mr.. Anne
wus kept in profound ignorance, aud
wus requested tn direc. it.
l sejested then that it be teld in tn
skool house (Which Mr.. Ames ha,
built), and that the music be furnishe,
by the North Easton band, (Which NJ,
Amcs equipped). 1t wus denied ncsesa
ry tn give the proceedins a religion
cast, SO 1 requested the pastor Nv til
church wich MIR. Ames attends tn as|
the blessing. The family physician u
the great and good Mr. Ames wuz Sc
down tn preside and propose his lt:alth
and the gineral comfy Nv arrangement
wuz made up from the storekeepcr
| who do business Mir. Au,es stores
The clerks aud bookkeepers in Nj
Ames' factory, were distributed alon.
the tables at regular intervals to pro
doose spontaneous applause at sicl
times ez lshood indicate.
Here trouble set in: Tho famil
physician had relatives away iror
North Easton, and he didn't like to d,
it.
"Preparc your speech" sed I per
emptorily.
"Must I say sed tbis wretche
man, pale with anxiety, "must So
that Mr.. Amcs is an honest man, vic
is the aoblest work Nv God (wich
bleve it is the mob est work, ther is 8
little Nv it,, ind likewise he is gol,
wich hez passed thro the krockodilt
and come out purcr and brightc,
| uncro.. ,~,,,.A1 a..