The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-16
Nasby.
His Stay in the Cabin-A Conprsmise Q
P.opo,ed-Intsrconver Bonds.
CoNFEDRIr X. ROADS,

wIuH is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
felt that eff he'd to stay anuther week In
this internal cabin shood die. With nuthin
but hoe cake to eat-with infrekent aud onre-
liable drinks, with no society watever. life didn't
seem to me to be with hevin. Therefore
sent note to the citizsns,,u the Corners, ask
10 for promis Nv safety, that mite make EN-
a propossheD, wicb, ef they would accept, wood
enable the bank to go and bscum ez permanent
ez time herself.
The Corners met and decided to reserve me,
and appinted commtte to heer my proposi-
shep, and on reseeving their answer i made
my way thither.
The meetin wuz held in the church. II wuz
an impressive sene. Ga the platform In front
Nv the pulpit sot the committe-the orditorium
in from wuz crowded with citizens, the most
Nv whom he'd baskets Nv my currency, and
thar wuz an expectant murmur ez entered.
1 wuz deli;ed to see that thar wuz q winder
jest back nv wbar L wuz to stand, aud olso thet
it wuz open; tibet it wuz only feet to the
ground and thst the woods wuz only about so
rods to the reer. Old ez am, kin make
fsrely good tine fur rods.
wuz respectfully invited to make my state
ment.
Ez rose a most anxshus silence pervaded
that assemblege. You Good hev heerd q pin
drop eff anybody he'd dropt one.
Wipn my streamin brow / remarked that
he'd never intended that the Corners shood loose
cent by our bank, nor did / now SO intend. 1
contest that lookin simply to the idee Nv infa-
shun. follerin the idees of the Dimocracy uv
Ohio and Pennsylvania, he'd not given sich
careful attenshen ez l shood hev done TO the
matter Nv redempshun.
A. this pint ths awjencs seemed to bs vsably
pleesed
he'd he'd week Nv solitood, and 1 he'd en-
ployed that time a wrestlin with the question
NV finance, and L wuz happy to say that he'd
finally mastered it. 1 he'd mastered skeem
fur redempshun wich 1 wuz willin to present
"Go on! go on" the people shreeked DELFT
edly.
L propose to redeem the ishoos nv Onlimited
Trust and Confidence in the Bonfs Nv the
Company"
Their faces resoomed an expresshun Nv stol-
dty wich 1 did not like.
"Will them bonds bear INTEREST,"" they all
| asked in korus
"Certainly they will We shell be generous
You may fix the yate Nv interest at wat 500
| cbuse."
| "That seems fair" they exclaimed
| 1 congratulated myself on hevin got through
tollable easy, aud was steppln off the platform
| to go over to Simpsons to hev the bonds printed
| when that feend Joe Bigler, who wuz sittin
with Pollock, rose and remarkt thet he ez a
bill holder, he'd a question to ask.
$50 ou," sez L.
"You'li give interest bearing bonds for your
| notes, will yoo?
'Certainly, josef sed I, ''uv coarse we
| wiH"
swat do you propose to redeem the bords
iu?'
"Wby, our notes, NV coarse Wat else hev
we TO redeem them in? Our notes, with
privilege Nv convertin nv em into bond" s' ss'
time,-and faith-is the best mo "a, y. ~ 40, ~,
world" in tn'
"Then watll you redeem. tba notes in on nor
sisted d Josef with fsenf..sh psrtenassity.
.,n. wy .39 poncs, Nv course" was my re.
| sPoo sc. wa. Gin eny wun want better thar
| in'erest bearin bonds, and wat currency kin o.
eetter than that wich 700 kin convert to suct
ponds? My trends, whenever yoo want bond
ior 5oor currency don't heztate TO come for
emESon ne afrade nv givin' the officers
trouble: 1t is our pleasure to serve the pubic.
ana well go to any lengths"
Bat wat did 1 understand yoo'r goin to re-
deem them bonds iE?" askt Josef sgip
Oar notes"I answered, out nv pashense
"But yeo redeem the Iotes with yoor
% ,Csrtiuly; iist ez our trends Nv Ohio psrposs
W Day tne nasheDel debt
And this goes for time and eternity?"
"Certinly, josef A finanshel iustitoosbsn.
constructed ez ours Is, kin go on from time 10
! eternity, oecoz 1t is convertible-oue species nv
paper into another, and another into one You
Eyes. I see; but, citizen Bascon. when 700
ney sold all yoor likker agin for this paper,
and yoo turn around and convert it into bonds.
nev yoo eny ashoorance that they'll take them
Donds IN Louisville for more lkker? Did they
/ nOtQg oh hzkk -
the bonds make 'em? Fellow-citizens of the
Corners-(J osef spoke impressively) Fellow
citlzens nv the Corners, inoggerate this system
agin II yoo choose, but feel it my dooty to
warn 700 that in week there won't be drop
Nv likker in the Corners, and watts more VOC
| won't be able to git drop. Yoo are stapdiu
on the Drink Nv pressipis. Haul off before is
| IS everlastinly too late.
\ -, Ihe people seed it to wunst. and with glare
| like SO many infooriatid tigers they riz and
| went FUR me. l didn't keer to stay to arpoo
nnance with EN-. The winder wuz open, and 1
sprang throo it and made fur the woods, wich 1
| wood hev hung me out NV hand,
=, am now In the cabin in which hev spent
tne last week, sick and sore Does fnapseerin
meen perpetyooal shooting for the woods? Am
l 10. 70 aillz be escapin with my life? for
| PETROLEUM v. Massey.
PRESIDENT nv the late Onlimitid Trust and Con-
| fdence Company.
| P.S.-The niger who owns my hidin place
hez discovered who am. He went to the Cor
ners to get pervishens with the money gave
him. and then the cat wuz out nv the bag He
sed he'd he knowd who wuz and wat wuz a
nidin for, he never wood hev took me IN. He
thot wuz merely huntid and distressed hoss
theef. Ez he'd nothn to pay him in he came
in while wuz asleep and took my cote and
boots, witch he sez kin hev when give him
good money for that wich pade him 10. He
bleeves hev sum good money about me some
where. How L am to get away from here the
lord only knows. P.V.N.