Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-10-15

rency uy Us wch hE Good yoo-e, wicl, ny
course. We hedn't got none. and he beramt
an opponent nv oar y stem
Two Shoemakers. eacA with $50. 900 Nv
our money, coodent buy side uy sole
leather To eoBtinyaJ their blzncs with. an,.
he'd to stop. Oar railroads aud turnpike had
to stop, becUz. heying got to the pint " here
We he'd to hey iron and nails and sicil
thing, We coodent 20 on ~ all tao labor
ers he'd to DO discharged. wich miisa de
spirit pOpulashen all hpwlin agin as.
But the wust wuz yet 10 como. We Good
hey weathered all this, bat. ala BAsc1M
FAILED
This wuz the fnisha hlos, the great
staggerer from witch the Corners Good not
possibly recover.
BascOm made Il manly .ite. and must SAY
dad all that be Good to stand up for u. lie
raised the price ofdrinks to 81 par drink
and. when he saw his harls rapidly fail
| in, he tried to keep tho Corners agoin by
waterin his likker. jest ez We he'd watered
| the currency.
But these expedience didn't work. TIE
| higher the price he put on his likker tie
more the people seemed to want to drink NV
it. IL seemed to be delite to en- 10 pay
out our money, eff they got anything wat
ever Tor it. Bnt they wOodent do wot Bas-
com most desired. that Is TO say. they
woodent stand his watered whisky. They
sed to him 'Ei 81 drink amt enuf
charge 81 its ali wan tn ~. Set EN- up
asin."
And the bAr-room foil wood step up anl
take suthn, and the man who ask EN- wood
throw down on the bar peek uy our cur
rcncy and tell Bascum TO help himself.
BiscUm come TO Us and begged that We
shood let him hev sn;hin that he GOOD Dose
to restock his bar. lie said the deelers in
Louisville LATED in his face when he oiiered
EN- our money for lIkker, AMI he had bat
two barls lett.
And them two barIs wus wildly siakin
every mint. 1t seemed ez though the pop
ulls got insane for lIkker at the very time
that We didn't want EN- t. hey il For the
iust time 10 ny life wanted tho Corners ~
be temprit, for every drop drawd from the
barls brought our bank that much reerer
its end | sot opposite BaSe0m's aud saw
the crowd 90 in with a sinkin sehsashen
that Was akin to death. Drink by d.ink ii
went. and, ez they coodeni eggshaust it last !
enuf by the single drink. they got IN com
in Tor 1t in Lin dippers.
'now does Il bold out - wGz the mss- /
sage | ,ent him at l0a u
The anser came prompt
1905 q. m.-Wun bari uuluchel 20 gal /
looms in the other. ard sinkin every MIN
it. b.
Then | sent this
lG.i0.-Fill up with water. Keep jsder-
son Davis pOurin in. Hold the Tort. \.
And the snser came
10 l5-JotisrsOn Dasis j. histin in water
e. last az he kin carry it. Mrs. Blscom is
a rinsin out old barls. 10 which sne adds
Ayan pepper and clmiene. Ef | he'd some
Scotch snuff it wood help. VIII hold out
II long e. possible. But its terrible. A
man Jest come III and demand gallon. b.
Twenty mints thereafter BIscom sent
this
Have Just put a spriggot In lat bari, and
he Corners is h0wlin. Ii WON'T last an
l1ur. Il.
Then an expedicnt selested itself To me
sent this note
Time is everything Bust the spiSSi
nd delay drawln. N.
v ieh lac dij. thus keepin the wolves at
,ay Tor al boBf gh bile it wuz bein repaired.
But why harrow the public huzum with
he detail, uy this painful story The end
guz inevitable Drop bp drop. drink by
rink, pint by pint. that likker wuz ebh;n ,
wav, and each drop weakened the bank.
hat likker wuz our liie-bloOd aud ez it
owed We Wilted Waterin the bari wuZ !
ierey psliatiye-and it WIZ with II feel !
a ae releef that sag George ". throw up .
is hands and exelam :
It's all gone but a gallon siiii siel
eep for my own yoose. Its all gona, and ;
can't get another drop in Louisville =
And he dropt his head despondeniy ona
lie nv over SIa 900 nv our currency. wieh a
e hadn't taken of the bar. and wept de
,ondintiy.
why can't yGr get more :" dem lndod
he excited popriis.
"Becoz amt got M money bnt this. and So
,u coodent get 4 blrl Nv whisky ia J0Ois- b
lie for A carload nv it," n
attempted 10 reason it'll the people. / :
IA EN- Nv on. reason Nv our wealth WIZ I /
st 40 bed it ina currency that we Good / l.
It spend away from home. thus keepin ii
If capital amosg ourselves, bat they re h,
o>ed t. listen to re gaey d. d my bink ii
ey id me Thee went foY the bank. -
termined eff there wuz anythisa there r,
AZ they Good be turned into llkkeF. bas ii,
m shool hcy l.. IL was unnecessary II re- 4
,rk that they didat fnd anything. An Ia
Sips,iu an onplea "a ntness. we he'd rcmoy- ar
the yaiysssbies to a place of safety, wich hi
Is III. under siis az my bed at peekin nv
grams h.
Then they demanded that the unsssy they IN
1 be redeemed into suthin they GOOD r.,
Dse. bat ef course We declined 10 discuss Il,
, matter, referrin them to the term. Nv n,
90 az expressed on the note, q well o3 he
.ir own Endorsement nv the skeen. ~
But it dida't satisfy en-. They deliber- ia
ly brought out S675 900 nv the ishcoes NO
the various banks. and, pilin it ue on ~,
street, set fire to il. dancin u iemoniac AZ,
zee around it, "a .ri no
u :.
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tniS ooIecksnuh 10 tnetr reGeeinih Nv u
mat way, but. when seed EN- rtggn the
es to the trees in the visinity, romarkt
ny fellow officers Gentlemen. yoor
-ldent hez pressin biznis in ycnder for in,
!" aud got out ez RAPIDLY ezmy poDr. ~
'ted Inns wood permit. | llitteP a.yself ter
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