Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-09-23
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NAsBY's MONEY TROUBLE.
The Progress Of Imitation at the
CorEers--The Trouble that MIR.
Perkins started--The Present
Status Of the Great Idea In the
Place Where IL Is Being Tested.
CONFEDRIT Y ROADS,
WICH Is IN TIE STATE w KENTUCKY,
September II, 1875.

0eptemDer IL, 1870
hev he'd trouble enough with the
unenlightened people Nv these Corners,
for the past week, to neerly drive me
mad. Indeed / shood hev bin in q
loonatic asylum ere this he'd not bin
sustained and soothed by an unlimited
faith In the correctnis NV the doctrines
nv the Ohio Dim mocrisy, ez regards
money. And feelin that / wuz sssis-
tin, In my humble way, in putin them
doctrines into practis, | determined
not to 60 mad, but TO persevere unto
the end.
But the perverse people are dOin
ther level best to drive me crazy, and
fam not shoor they wont succeed. |
bought pare NV horses Nv one NV
them for S., 900, and paid him in our
own money. He thOt he'd rather not
tech it.
when will this be redeemed?" he
innocently asked.
ANY time you want it," replied.
''In what?" he retorted.
''In other notes onto the same bank"
sez |.
"And how will you redeem them
notes?" seq he.
sin list the same way" sez I.
"Then all there Is NV Ii, ;" sez he, ,"yoo
70 on tskin' up one note by givin On
other, and all Nv 'em without interest
nor nothin'."
"That's 1t eggsackly," sed l. "You
see, can't 700, or are yoo an ijeat? tina,
money means faith. Now ef the proud
finanhsel fnstooshin in wich ] am the
head, ishoos il. note, you must hev
faith, and everybody else hez that faith,
80 that they take It for money, you
never want the money on 1t. So long
ez money Is taken, 700 don't want il
redeemed, for 1t Is good enuff, 700 seeI
Our money Is made good by faith-an
ez long as 1t Is sustained by faith it will
60. Whed the notes 700 hev now
wears out, come to us and we will re-
deem ON with new ones. But every
body must hev faith. Can't 700 gee il?
EVERYBODY MUST HEv FAITH Faith
in the fshoos Nv this bank NV ourn is
nessary to It's success and stability
Faith in our money IS, ez 1t it in re-
ligfon, the substance of things hoped
for, and the evidence NV things not
seen, only more 20. Wait till get S.
0G0 from the pTiutin offs, and take
them for your horses, and go your way.
Hev faith"
Perkins, that WIZ the farmers
name, took the money and went his
way pondern, ez he went. He walked
down to Bascom's with deep lines uv
thot onto his face, wlch resolved itself
into a eXpresshun Nv stern determin-
ashen ez hs entered the door.
"Kin 700 sell me a bari NV whisky
70 IL
Certainly" sed G. W., smilingIy,
certainly, Mr.. Perkins. It's only
worth $40 gallon, *1,GSOOO per bari
this mornin."
"I'll taken barl," sez Perkins.
Gan rite," wuz G. WIS response,
"1'd ez soon sell bari to wunzt ez By
the single drink"
So G. w. and his wife, and his oldest
son Jefferson Davis, rolled barl up
into Perkinses wagon, and Perkins re-
markt that he wanted to pay for that
Hkker on the spot. Bascom smiled
pleasantly. There wuz nothin so pleas
ant, Perkins continyood, ez payin for
things wen 700 get EN-, ez it saved
bookkeepin and vaxashus troubles Nv
all kinds.
"Cive me pen, ink and paper, G.
w." sed the outrageous Perkins.
NOnplushed, Bnscom did so mechan-
ically; and Perkins ran his tongue out,
ez people do In the Corners when they
attempt writin, and after thirty min
ties Nv intense labor, with swet rollin
from his brow fearful, he handed Bas-
com the followin dokeyment:
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS, Sept. !, rs.
/ promise to pay G. w. Bascom six
teen hundred and eighty dollars.
JEHIAL PERKINS.
"Wats this?" asktthe astonished Bas-
cCm, with an eXpreshun NV intense dis
gust usurpin the place Nv a smile.
PAY for that likker," replied Per-
kins, calm ez a Joon mOrnin.
but this amt pay-its yoor promise
to pay, and you amt got time nor place
fixt for payment-you amt got no in
terest exprest, nor nothin. Wen do
you perpose to pay it?''
"Never, g. W., never. Under the
100 dispenshashen, promises to pay is
money. All you want is faith. So
long ez yoo bleeve that that paper is
money, wat do 700 want NV money!
With faith enuff that paper is money.
l hev bin tiggerjn this matter out il
my intelllck ever since l hev bin ia
I'm your bank money. It's all the