The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-15
lFrom the Toledo Blads.1
tNasby's Scheme.
His Currency ana InconveriibIe Bonds
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS.

NWlcn Is IN Inc stat6 NV hentucky,)
October 20, 81.
felt that eff he'd to stay another week in
this internal cabin shood die. With nuthin
but hoe cake to eat-with infrekent and onre-
liable drinks, with no society watever, life
didn't seem to me to be wuth he vim. The refore
sent note to the citizens Nv the Corners
askin for promis Nv safety, that mite make
EN- proposshen, wich, eff thev would accept,
wood enable the Bank to go on an become ez
permanent ez time herself.
The Corners met and decided to reseeye me,
and appinted committee TO heer my propo-
sishen, aud on reseeving their answer / made
my way thther.
Tie meetin wuz held in the Church Itwuz an
impressive scene. On the platform in front nv
the pulpit sot the con- nmittee-the auditorium
in front wuz crowded with citizens. the most
Nv whom he'd baskets Nv my currency, and thar
wuz an expectant murmur ez l entered. l wuz
delighted to see that there wuz a winder Jest
back nv where wuz to stand, and also that it
wuz opeD; that it wuz only 8 feet TO the ground
and that the woods wuz only about 80
rods to the rear. Old ez l am, L kin make
faiily good time for 8 rods
wuz respectfully invited to make my state
ment.
Ez rose most anxshus silence pervaded
Dat assem- Dlege. Ou GOOD lev hSerQ a
drop eff any body he'd dropt one.
Wpn my streamin brow l remarked that
he'd never intended that the Corners shood
loose cent by our bank, q or did 1 now SO in-
tend. contest that lookn simply to the dee
NV ibflashuL. follerDg the idees of the Dimoc-
racy Nv Ohio and Pennsylvang. 1 he'd not gwen
sch careful attenshun ez L shood hev doae
to the mai ter Nv redempshuu.
At this pint the awjeuce seemed to be VISA
bic pleesed:
4 haI hoIo n..f..z 4 n IL
plnyed that time weestln with the ques-
tion NV finance, and wuz happy to say that
he'd finally mastered it. he'd mastered a skeem
fur redemshun wich wuz wlliin 10 pressnt
"Go on! go Oh! the people shreeked delted
ly.
i propose TO redeem the shoos Nv Onlimited
Trust and Confidence in the bo1ds nv the
Company"
Their faces resoomed an expreshun NV stolld-
iiy wich L did not like.
''Will them bonds bear ipteresl?" they all
askt in korus.
Certainly they will. We shell be generous.
You may fix the rate of interest at wat 700
chose"
"That seems fair" they exclaimed,
1 congratulated myself on hevn got through
tolable easy, and was steppin off the platform
to go over to Simpsons to hev the bonds print
ed, when that feeud Joe Bgler, who wuz
sittin with Pollock, rose and remarkt tibet be
ez a biil-holder, hed question to ask.
$50 on SEE 1.
''Yoo'l give interest bearing bonds fer Jour
notes, will yoo?'
Certainly, josef" sed J. nv coorse we will"
wat do you propose TO redeem the bonds
"Wby, our notes, Nv coorse. Wat else hev
we to redeem them in? Our notes, with the
privilege Nv convertin Nv EN- into bonds at any
tme,-and faiths the best money IN the
world
''Then watll you redeem the notes p" per-
sisted Josef with feendish lerteDassty.
why, the bonds, Nv course" wasi my re-
sponse. wat kneny wun want better than
interest b. arin bonds, and wat currency kin be
better than th at wich 700 kin coDv-I into such
bonds? My trends, whenever 700 want bonds
for voor currency don't hesitate to come for
'em-don't be afraid nv givin' the officers
trouble. 1t is our pleasure to serve the public,
and We'll 60 to any lengths
But wat did understand yoo'r goin TO re-
deem them bonds in?" askt Josef agin.
Our notesF' answered, out OF pashense
with him.
'But yoo redeem the notes wish yolr
bonds?''
'Certinly; jist ez our friends Nv Ohio per-
pose 70 pay the nashenel debt.
And this goes for time and eternity?"
"Certlnly, Josef. A fnanshel institcosben,
constructed ez ours is, kin go on from time to
eternity. becoz it is ,convertible-one species nv
paper into another, and another into one You
see"-
'Yes, 1 see; but, citizen Bascom, when yoo
hev sold all your likker agin for this paper,
and you turn around and convert it into bonds,
nev yoo any ashoorance that they II take them
bonds in Louisville for more likker? Did they
take the notes afore? How much better does
the bonds make 'em? Felow-citizens of the
Corners-(Josef spoke impressvely )-Fellow-
citizens nv the Corners, inoggerate this system
agin if yoo choose, but feel it my dooty 10
warn 700 that in a week there won't be drop
Nv lkker in the Corners, and watts more you
won't be able to get drop. Yoo are standing
on the brink Nv pressipis. Haul off before
it is everlastinly too late"
The people seed It TO wunst, and with glare
like so many infoorated tigers they riz and
went for me. l didn't keer to stay to argoo
sprang throo it, and. made for the woods, Sich
reached just in time. He'd they caught me
they wood hev hung me out nv hand
am uow in the cabin in which hey spent
the lastweek, SICK aud sore. Does iuanseeriu
mean perpetooa! skeeting for the woods? Am
l to alUz b. escapln with my life? Oh for q
quiet, seekoor post-ofisl
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY
President of the late Unlimited Truss and Con-
hdence Company.
2. S.-The niger who owns nv hidin-place
has discovered who L am. He went TO tine Cor
ners to get pervishens with the moaey give
him, and then the cat wuz out Nv the bag He
sed red he knowed who wuz and wat l WOE
a hidIO for, he never wood hev took me in. He
thot 1 wuz merely a hu1teJ and distressed
hoss thief. Ez | bed nothn 10 pay him ia he
came in while L wuz asleep and took my coat
md boots, wich he sez 1 kin hev when give
him good money for that wich paid him in.
He bleeves bev some good money about me
somewhere How l am TO get away from here
the lord only knows. PVN.