Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-04-13
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Chairiest0wn, Jefferson county, West "a.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL IS, 1915.
How a Minnesota Merchant Asks His
- Debtors to Pay Up. ----.o-

| &Hyi 4euT. SStf 81 want TO ask you plain
question, in all kindness and sincerity, and l
I would like to have you answer it honestly and
candidIy; not in two or three years or mouths,
but now, this weekly. Suppose you were as
| poor as Jobs turkey, aud had invested two or
three Thousand dollars in au.euterprise which
| you designed to make an exclusively cash
1 business /; snpPosiny, as a matter of acconis
modation and good nature, you had trusted it
| alLover the country, from Maine to Texas ::
suppose you had kept adding to your means,
and still 'sputIing it ON the books Tor few
days" until your funds were played out ike
old FooFs prayer meeting surprising you had
clal'us coming against you in the hsnds of
! business men who had accommodated you in
good faith, and needed their money, suppos>
! ing 5on had some pride in you, aud meant to
be square tQed aud punctuai, and hated to see
man whom you owed, when you didn't lave
the !egalLtender in your trowsers to pay his
Just and lawful. demands, worse than YOU
would to see an Injun or the Devil and sup,
posing those whom you had accommodated
teit perfectly easy and contented .'shied the
track when you went to see them, and told
the wife of their bosom to answer ''not ut
home, "or come into town and left rh"ut
paying even part; suppOsing they held Your
money and waited patiently for wheat to come
upto 9Oc or dollar, or pork to bring five or
SIX dollars hundred what would you do /?
| Would you let your debts go, 'sand smile ard
be Viilain;" or would you sue every mother's
son ofthem that dldn', pay you il it were the
last business you transacted in town?
Ii you were an honest pIan you'd do the
latter, and that's just what III be compelled
to do, and shall do, as sure as the sun shines.
| / don't want money to look at { l can earn
enough for thaO; l don't want any to salt
d"wn-I never could make it kcep-but ont
OF several thousands trusted ndt. I humbly
want few hundreds, snd I'll be blamed If
wont have it, or an execution returned nuHd
iona.
lFhave. in addition to erecting an extensive
store in FUuntain, been scduced into invest
ing over thousand dollars in a new hall,
which IS an ornament as well as convenience
to the town at large. As you know, | was
promised four hundred dollars cash, to assist
me. Well, out of this little four hundred |
have received just twenty>six. don't ex-
pect any more, aud l don't want it The
hall is douc! 1t is mine and to let when tie
school house cannot be had. Ru, | want
| wha, is owed. 1t is small amount TO you :
II means thousands OF dollars TO ne. I shall
"e h"nc in few days to square up. Let
| DOC. have tie money nov, before co.
There is not ore Of you, man or woman, from
ChrEst'ana 10 Dublin, that he would NOT stick
his head in The IRE to serve. whether he ever
expected apy thing for it or not Get his re-
cEIPt bei"rc l go home, and his soul will re-
JUICE love you myself as mother loveth
her G:st born but | love to pay ny debts
better than love any man, woman or child
on the face of the green earth aud by the
Continental Congress. l propose to do it, if |
have to make costs for every nan in Fillmore
county. N6w, let's have the sponduIrcks. aud
see how sweet aud pretty I can smile upon
you Yours earnestly,
{. S Powers,
Senior partner in tie firm Of G. S Powers &
Sous tA0Lfe1d (Nn".) Democrat.
a New Moron.-A young mechanic in
San francisco thinks he has invented meth
0i ty which railroad trains can hereafter be
run by electricity. He has it all on paper,
aud is confident. Tie Bulletin thus describes
his peculiar notion The principle is the
construction Of driving wheels of enormous
electro magnets, which divcrge from the
ccrtrc in the form as the spokcs of an
ordinary wheel, the poles of each magnet
terminating with the outer circumference.
The electric circle is complete as the ulsguct
impinges upon the steel rail of the track As
the poles Of each magnet forming the driving
wheel approach the track, an enormous mag
nctic attraction is exerted and as they pass
the centre or perpendicular point of the mag
net u;'Ou the track, the current IS cut off from
| elch particular magnet and the attraction
ahn'cd. by tho multiplication of driving
wheels of this description, the inventor cx-
poets to acquire any degree Of power requisite
and accomplish any rate of speed at which
railroad car is capable of travelling, with no
possible danger of the locomotive leaving the
track. In place of the cumbersome steam
boiler and tender loaded with coal, the loco
motive will carry magnetic battery of i'm
menso power.
ELI IN LovE.-..Did you ever do any,
thing in a state of Indifference, Miss Julia ~
asked old sweetheart of mine last night.
"Why, yes, certainly, Mr.. Pc.kius-s good
many times
"Whas did it with absolute, total indif.
ference ?'
''Yes: perfect. complete Indifference, Eli"
"Well. Julia, my beloved" said, taking
her hand, what is one thing you can do now
with perfect iDdifercnce?"
why, listening to you, Eli"
postponed proposing.
a moment afterward my beloved erasped
my hand couvu!sively, looked in my face, and
said
':Bli such devoted warm hearted men as
yOu often make me feel very happy"
GLOW, darling" L asked, too happy to
live.
"why by keeping away from me, EHw
haven't proposed yet.
= a couple of Washington county farmers
recently induced their wives to join the
grangers and report before they would COM
NIT themselves Now, while. they would,
they:cannot, for t~o black balls greet every
aPplicatIon- Meanwhile the wives go regu-
lsrIy and triumphantly to every grange meet