The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-10-13
NAsBY on INITIATION.
CONFEDERATE y ROADS, !
WHICH Is IN KENTUCKY, }

CONFEDERATE y ROADS,
WHICH is IN KENTUCKY,
August, 27, 1875.
Ef life ever wuz rose-tinted dream
to me at any time dooring my NOR
tile pilgrimage, this is the precise
time. | am thoroly happy-so hap
py, indeed, that the priyashens and
troubles that | hev bin thro are fadin
out ov my memory entirely. I hev
paid Bascom's account witch hez bin
runnin for so many years, and hev
his receet in my safe my SAVE /
sag. Proudly | wrote these words.
My safe. Who, thirty davs ago,
wood hey supposed that / should
ever say MY safel Then | hev two
scots Nv close-good ones-wich is
one and a half more than | hev he'd
sence / was Postmaster under John.
son--Heven rest his sole. hey two
shirts for the first time in my life,
and | am wearin stockinsl hey but
one pare ez yet, but one can't rise to
the summit Nv hooman grandjer at
wun bound. | shell buy another
pare in 4 week or two | think every
bank president ought either 20 hev
two pare Nv stockings or return to
the stern virchoos NV the Republic
in its better days, and GO barefoot.
Coin barefoot or heVin change is
necessary to the keepin of a bank
presidents Office in q sweet smell in
condition.
But this il : digreshun. Suffice to
say, am clothed. | pade three dol
lars and half pare for them stock
ins-they is cotton-wich is three
dollars and quarter more than they
wuz worth in old money; but wat
difference does it maker That three
dollars and a half was made by four
pulls on Simpsons printin press, and
when money can be made in that way
wat difference does it make wat ]
pay for cotton sox?
At the beginning we ishood 10, 20,
25, and 50-cent currency, hut we hev
quit that, Prices have gone up SO,
under the general prosperity, tha,
there amt anything in the Corners
that sells for less than a dollar per
one, and the frackshnel eurrency wuz
desired to be yooselis. Besides 1t
costs jest ez much to print ten-cent
note az it does dollar, and We bleeve
in economizin.
Simpson the printer, is maxim q lit
tie trcable At the beginnin ! yoos.
ed to pay him for p:intin our bills by
jest sigpin enuii Nv EN- ca they come
tIom the press to make his amount,
but lately he has refoosed to take our
money, and insists on greenbax. We
tried to oyerawe him, but when be
threatened to publish the financial
coudishun Nv the president and direk-
tors it was considered advisable to
humor him. 1t is singler that sieh
Ii en- throw impeaiments in he way
of progress.
The obstacles in the way Nv the
back that hev thus fsT developed
themselves. hav din happily and cas-
lily removed. Bascom demanded
wheat Nv US to ship to Louisville to
get more whisky, and We he'd to let
him hev it, and take pay in our own
money. And ez he demanded that
We take our money jest the same as
greenbax, that bein the standard in
Louisville, We met heavy loss. The
account stands as follows;
1000 bushels uyTssst cost Us, IN ouroyn
money a. {. 50 per bushel. ........,,..,.sl -, ,6ot
Sold It to Bascora at Louisville sreenbag
prices, vich is 81 per bushel, taken pay
il the same money we paid for it...... l,OOC
Loss (which Is easily figured Is, so
We had one more trouble which we
got on easier with. Pugsby, the
shoemaker, who took our money, was
sun out Nv leather, and when he sent tc
Louisville for more the merchant:
there, ez in the case Nv Rascom, re.
.fooZed to take our currency. Pugsby
knowd Nv Bascom's experience, and
be came up smilin to hev US sell him
wheat enuff at greenbax prices to
renoo his stock.
"Wat kin We do?" | demanded 10
dire distress, for really / didn't see
why Pugsby shoodent hev wheat tc
renoO his stock ez well ez Rasoom,
eeptin the whisky is more necessary
to the Corners than leather.
"Do?n said Issaker Gavitt, with q
expresshun Nv skorn on his classic
feechers? Hez Pugsby a safe? No
Well, where does be keep the slI, ,OOC
Nv our money? In his desk? Yes
And that is wooden. And his bildiu
is wood. Very good. Tell Pugsby
to come tomorrow, and we will give
him wheat at dollar q bushel fol-
all Nv our money be has got. We
hev twenty-four hours, and banks ez
we'll as nashens kin be saved in TWEEN
ty-four hours"
And Issaker put some matches in
his vest pocket--sbout 80 worth
Matches hez gone up to 81 SO box
our money.
That mite Pugsby's shop burnt up
and the FIRE commeaced jist under hi:
desk. The next mornin that unforeh
init man came to US and insisted or
heven the wheat on the score Nv
money be had Nv ours.
bring us the money! said Issa
ker, beamin sweetly onto him land
we'll give you all the wheat You
WANT
"But 700 know that | he'd your
money, and that it was burnt up last
mite"
Il persoom you he'd some Nv ouI
money, hut don't know it," replied
Issaker. mo well-regulated banl
kin live il they shood take every
mans word, ez you wont rs to. How
kin tell but wat you hev that mon
ey conceded, and thar the burnin Nv