The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-01
The Imitation Idea-The Further Progress
Comp.ay-Continued Success. 20 ~
CoNFEDRIT X. ROADS,

| two pare nv stockins or return to the stern vr-
choos NV the Republic in its better days and 60
| barefoot. Coin barefoot or hevin o change is
necessary to the keepen nv Bank Presidents
office in sweet smelin condition.
But this is digreshun. Suffice it to say, L
am clothed. pade three dollars and half q
pare for them stockins-they is cotton-wich Is
| three dollars and quarter more than they wuz
worth in the old money, but wat difference
does it make? That three dollars and half
| wuz made by four pulls on Simpsons printin
press, and when money kin be made in that
way wat difference does 1t make wat pay for
cotton sox? M r...-.-, ~. ..s
At thu beginnin we ishood 10, 20, 25, and 30
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 for one and the
| frackshnel currency wuz desided to be yooslis.
Besides, it costs jest ez much to print ten cent
| note ez it does dollar, and L bieeve in econo-
| mizin. q. r 20 Hll er sa.g. lr
| Simpson, the printer, is maxim us little
| trouble. At the bsginnin yoosed to pay him
for printin our bills by just signin enuff nv em
ez they come from the press to make his
| amount but lately he has refoozed to take
our money. We tried to ovsrswe him,
but when he threatened to publish
| the fnanshel condition Nv the President
| and Directors, it wuz considered advisable to
humor him. 1t is singier that sich men throw
| impediments in the way nv progress.
| The obstacles in the way nv the Bank that
| hev thus far developed therselves, hev bin hap
PLY and easily removed. Bsscom demanded
| wheat nv us to ship to Louisville to git more
whiskey, and we he'd to let him hev it and take
| pay in our own money. And ez he demanded
| that we take our own money, we met a heavy
| loss. The account stands ez follows:
| 1000 bushels Nv wheat cost u.s. in our own
money at $3.50 per bushel. $4,000
| Sold il to Bascom at Louisville prices, wich y
is 81 per bushel.takin pay IN the same o,o a.
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We he'd one more trouble, wien we got on
| easier with. Pugsby, the snoemaKer' VINO took
| our money, run out Nv leather, and wnen ne
sent 70 Looisviile Tor more, tue mefonan.s tnere
| ez In the case nv Bascom, reieozed 70 TAKE our
| currency. Pugsoy knew Nv BsScom experi-
| ence, and he came up smilin to heS Us sell MIN
| wheat enuH at louisville prices to renoo his
| stock.
NV at kin we dor demanded in dire ois-
| tress, for really didn't see why Pugsby sh0Hd-
ent hev wheat to renoo his stock ez well ez Bas-
com, exceptin that whiskey Is more necessary
to the Corners than leather. 7fal fgst o.
."Dop sed Issaker Gavitt. with expreshun
nv skorn on his classick feechers. "D0i And
| yoo claim to be hnaniseers? Hez Pugsby
| safe? No? Wall, whar does he keep the S12-
| 600 Nv our money? In his desk? Yes? And
| that is wooden. Aud his bildn is wood Very
| good. Tell Pugsby to come tc-mofrer and We
| will give him wheat at dollar q bushel for all
| NV our money he has got. We have twenty
four hours" fsaL 1s ta -HA9 a-oeas =.
And Issaker put some matches in his vest
pocket-about So worth. Matches hez gone mp
S4 so box-our money. nta Hl1 se
That mite Pugsby's shop burnt up and the
fire commenced jist under his desk. The next
mornin that unforchuuit man came to us and
insisted on hevin the wheat on the score av the
money he he'd Nv ours.
Bring us the money" said Issaker, BEAM
ing sweetly onto him, 'and we'll give yoo all
the wheat yoo want" fat f 9lul -
But 700 know that bed yoor money, and
that it wuz burnt up last nite."
II persoom yon he'd sum nv our money, but
i don't know II" replied Issaker. "No well
regulated bank kin live if they shood take
evry mans word, ez yen want as to. How kin
L tell but what yoa hev that money conceeled.
and that the burnin OF yoor shop was skeem
to defrod your creditors. am not shoor that it
isn't my dooty to investigate the m alter.
And Issaker looked SO stern that Pugsby left
the bank with q howl OF terror. -
lssaker 10 deyeiopin SO great genius IN u
nancern that I'm RELY Jelus Nv him. He Is
the master sperit nv the lnstitooshun.
At the Board meetln last mite we dlscust wat
we shood do In sich cases ez Pagsby's hereafter,
but arrived at no detnit conolooshun. There
is several NV EN- and they Will hev to be met.
Issaker bleeves in the style nv trestment he
yoosed in Pugsby's case, but cant consent to
it. Its heroic. admit, and good enuff for a
temprary expedient, but 1t wont do for regu-
lar system. Eff our money stimulates mans
biznis to the pint Of his bildin new house, we
hev benehtted him, and the commoonty ez
well. But ct to avoid the inconvenience nv re-
deemin that money we hev to burn the house
wat good hev we accompisnt! none; we
Ihev got to md sum otner way. don't see
any other way but no doubt 1t viii selest itself
to me in ime.,
1t is aston1shln how the corners Is boomln,
now that it hez money enuff. Five new rale-
rodes are bein built, twelve new turnpikes, one
hundred and twenty-eight cellers for new
houses is bein dug, and last week the corner
stuns Tor eight factrys wuz lade with approprit
ceremonies. The gradin IS beln dun on the
ralerodes and turnpikes, and that part Nv the
work will be pushed to an early compleshun,
for the labrers furnish their own shoveis and
picks and take our money for wages. The Ia
brers buy their Twin nv the farmers along the
line with that money, and then the farmers
come to the Corners with 1t and cheer their
soles at Bascom's
So far, all is serene and sweet. So far the
money sheds blessns, ez skunk duz perfooms.
But at this point comes the worry. Wat Is
Bascom TO do with 1t? The Louisville mer-
chants refews to tech 1t for lkker, and we cant
afford to give him wheat at LOUISVILLE prices
can't afford to pay for the rails, the stillin
apparatus IN our money, and we amt gos emmy
0.uel. put, luanh an of9rlui.u ILosiuonoo5
bascom hez hkker enuh 70 ,ast Two weeks' ana
suSnin VIII tura up aiore .nalis gone. ..
IIceo neV gono up so snas ~ saAes e. Vass
volume Nv currency 10 transact tne olzuls uv
the Corners simpsons power press won't
answer the demands made opto u, ana ne ne1 s
purchased power press, wien Wili print l,uov
sneets an nour ANA 10 iaciiiIate oiZnis, ana
" " MAKE IL periecty sno0r tuat we snoii noV All
Tue currency we want, nev ned my name ano
isaakef engraved, SO tnat IL KIN De prlnseu IN,
tnus saVin US tne trouble Nv siuin em WIN
pen.
erai prosperity prevaies. fugsoy gits PAU =
par now Tor peggea poots great oeai eszler
tnan ne yoost TO glt "a, ana bsscom hez pqs
dLInks up 10 oo cents ior new wniskey, anu 20
wnen yoo tak snoogsr IN IL LOIS IN sn9 vsr-