The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18
NASBY ON INITIATION.
[ From tho Toledo Blade. I

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
WICH IN THE STATE wv KENTUCKY,
August 9th, 1875.
Eff life ever wuz rose-tinted dream tt
me at any time dooring my mortle pilgrim
age, this is the precise time. am thoroly
happy-so happy, indeed, that privashens
and troubles that hev been thro are fadir
out Nv my memory entirely. l hev paid
| Bascom's account witch hez bin runnin fol
so many years, and hev his reject in my
safe-my SAFE, say. Proudly rite these
words. My safe. Who, thirty days ago,
wood hev supposed that l should ever say
MY safe? Then hev two scots NV close
good ones-wich is one and ahalf more
| than l hev he'd sence l was Postmaster
under Johnson-Heven rest his sole. l hev
two shirts for the first time in my life, and
l am wearin stockins! | hev but one pare
ez yet, but one can't rise to the summit Nv
hooman grandjer in wun bound. / shell
buy another pare in week or two. |
! think every bank president ought to either
hev two pare Nv stockins or return to the
stern virchoos Nv the Republic in it's better
days, and 60 barefoot. Coin barefoot or
hevin a change is necessary to the keepin
Nv bank presidents Office in sweet
smelln condition.
But this is digreshen. Suffice it to say,
l am clothed. pade three dollars and
ahalf a pare for them stockins-they is
cotton-wich ist hree dollars and quarter
more than they wuz worth in the old money;
but wat difference does it make? That
three dollars and ahalf wuz made by four
pulls on Simpsons printin press, and when
money kin be made in that way wat differ
ence does it make wot pay for cotton sox ?
At the beginnin we ishood 10, 20, 25 and
80 cent currency, but we hev quit that.
Prices hev gone up so, under the general
prosperity, that there amt anything in the
Corners that sells for less than dollar per
one, and the frackshnel currency wuz de
sided to be yooselis. Besides it cost Jest as
much to print ten cent note ez it does a
dollar, and we beeve in economizin.
Simpson, the printer, is maxim us little
trouble. At the beginnin yoosed to pay
him for printing our bills by jest signin
enuff Nv EN- ez they come from the press to
make his amount, but lately he hez refoos-
ed to take our money and insists on green
bax. We tried to overawe him, but when
he threatened to publish the finanshel con-
dishun of the president and direktors it
wuz considered advisable to humor him.
1t is singler that SIGH men throw impedi-
ments in the way NV progress.
The obstacles in the way Nv the bank
that hev thus far developed themselves,
hev bin happily and easily removed. Bas-
com demanded wheat up Nv to ship to
Louisville to git more whisky, and we he'd
to let him hev it, and tax pay in our own
money. And ez he demanded that we ia *
our own money jest the same ez greenbax,
that bein the standard in Louisville, we
met heavy loss. The account stands as
follows:
1000 bushels Nv wheat cost us, in
our own money, at 81. so per bus. 81, 500
Sold it to Bascom at louisville
prices, witch is 81 per bushel,
takin pay in the same money we
he'd pade for it, 1000
Loss (Which is easily fggered) $500
We he'd one more trouble, witch we got
on easier with. Pugsby, the shoemaker,
who took our money, run out Nv leather,
and when he sent to Louisville for more the
merchants there, ez in the case of Bascom,
refoosed to take our currency. Pugsby
knowd Nv Bascom's experience, and he
came up smilin to hev us sell him wheat
enuff at greenback prices to renoo his stock.
"What kin we do ?' demanded, in dire
distress, for really didn't see why Pugsby
shoodent hev wheat to renoo his stock ez
we'll ez Bascom, ceptin that whisky is more
necessary to the Corners than leather.
"Do" sed Issaker Gavitt, with a ex-
preshun Nv skorn on his classik feechers.
edo? And 700 claim to be finanseers?
Hez Pugsby safe? No? Well, wher
does he keep the $4,000 of our money !.
In his desk? Yes? And that is wooden.
And his bildin is wood. Very good. Tell
Pugsby to come to-morrer and we will give
him wheat at dollar a bushel for all Nv
our money he has got. We hev twenty
four hours, and banks, ez we'll ez nashens,
kin be saved in twenty fours."
And Issaker put some matches in his
vest pocket-about So worth. Matches hez
gone up to $3.50 box-our money.
That mite Pugsby's shop burnt up, and
the fire commenced jist under his desk.
The next mornin that unforchnit man
came to US and insisted on hevin the wheat
on the score Nv the money he had Nv ours.
"Bring us the money" said Issaker,
beamin sweetly onto him, "and we'll give
you all the wheat you want"
"But 700 know that l he'd yoor money,
and that it wuz burnt up last Mite"
81 persoom 700 he'd some Nv our money,
but 1 don't know it," replied Issaker.-
" No we'll regulated bank kin live if they
shood take every mans word, ez 700 want
US to. How kin tell but wat you hev that
money conceded and that the burnn Nv
yoor shop was skeem to defrod yoor cred
itors? 1 am not shoor that it isn't my
dooty to investigate the matter"
And Issaker looked so stern that Pugsby
left the bank with a howl Of terror.
Issaker is developin so great genius in
finanseerin that Pm really jealus Nv him.
He is the master spirit of the insttooshun.
At the Board meetin last mite we DISGUST
wat we shood do in SIGH cases ez Pugsby's
hereafter, but arrived at no definite con-
clooshin. There is sevral Nv EN-, and they
will hev to be met. Issaker bleeves in the
style Nv treatment he yoosed in Pugsby's
case, but cant consent to it. It's heroic,
1 admit, and good enuff for Temporary e1-
pedient, but it wont do for reglar system.
Eff our money stimoolates mans biznis
to the point NV his bidin a new house we
hev benefited him, and the commoonity ez
we'll But eff to avoid the inconvenience
Nv redeemin that money we hev to burn the
house wat good hev we accomplished p
None. We hev got to find som other way.
I don't see apy other way, but no doubt it