The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-23

, The most intense Greenbacker We
hev 10 the Corners is Sam Popman
the drugger at Secessionville. Pop
man does nothing from morning till
mite but devise inanshel skeems foI
the payment nv the Nashnel debt
wich, ez he hezn'r never bin able to
pay any NV his own, he is entirely
competent to do. The histry Nv
Sam. Popmsn is one Nv the saddest
that hez grown out NV Sherman's
crooel polisy
In 1861 Sam. Popman wuz drug
ger at Secessionville, hevily in debt
He ovid for bis stock NV drugs, and
be ovid for the cloze bis wife wore
and also for them wicb adorned his
person. So desprit wuz Ssmyooel's
forchoons, in conscience nv his pre-
dilecshen for boss races and draw
po ker. and sicb, that be seriously
contemplate skippin to Texas, and
embarkin in the generally poplar and
alIuz profitable bizness Nv steelin
hosses on the Mexikin border.
The inflashen NV the currency con-
sekent upon the expenses az the war,
changed Samooel's career He found
his stock Nv drugs goin up 90 per
cent. a day. Jollop, wich be owed
for at the rate of six cents a pound,
shot up to 20, to 80, to so, to any
thing be chose to ask for it, and il
KEEP shootin up aud up till the little
stock he ned NV $4,000, wuz wuth
$4,000, and no matter vat be bot, it
went up on his hands, and Samyoos Il
found h.sself wuth q 100000 ia no
time
Uv course Samyoosl to-wunst COM
menst 10 live in style commensu-
rate with his increased meens. He
went and bilt an adisbn to his house,
putin on two wings and an extern
shun back, bildin il fact completely
around the old house, and putin an
other story on the top. Then his
wife immeJitly got two hired girls,
and his two dawters wuz sent to a
seminary in Louisville. Samyooel,
for bis OWN pleasure invested in a
fast trotuin boss, and jined the Ken
tucky Club in Lcoisville, and played
poker ez much ez he pleased, and be
pleased to do good deel Nv it. 1t
didn't make q partikle Nv difference,
for every dollar uv goods he bot
doubled on his hands every day or
two. Mrs Popman utterly refoosed
to DO any work NV any kind, and
spent the beft uv ber tine tryin on
dresaes, wIich she bot in Louisville,
ana takim excursions 10 that city, TO
wear ei.. 1t was rGther q gorgeous
time fc. the Pnpmaas.
I Ia lSJ3 Samyooel diskivered there
wuz change. The war had bin
over some time, and the debt wich it
he'd cost ned to be paid Samyooel
didn't see any necessity for payin it
1T Ill. Samyooel he'd lived out all
the profits he he'd made by the raise
in the valyoo Nv his goods, and he'd
gone hevvy into reel estate. He
he'd bot large amount Nv lands,
wich he'd bin goiu up jist the same ez
drugs, and he'd bot em all on credit.
He hedn't made eny down payments,
but in place of actual money down on
his moo purchases, be ned given
mortgages on the property bot, and
also on his house and store, and sieh
ether reel and pursonal property ez
he he'd. 1t worried him.
Ez the kentry, uDder Sherman's
rooinous polisy, begun to git down tu
6 gold basis, drugs began to drop 10
per cent. day, instid uv raisin 20,
and reel estate commenst to foller
drugs, and sich, with friteful accoo-
racy. The land wich be he'd agreed
TO pay 81, 900 aker fer, be eoodent
sell fer SIS, OWN tu the fact that no.
body wantid it, and the quinine be
bed paid 81 ounce fer, dropped N
81 20. Consistently Samyooel wuz
forst to succum, and be wuz skoop-
ed.
The other drGgger in SecesshuD-
vile wuz another Kind Nv q man. He
acceplid the raise on his stock doorin
the war period in Criscben sperit
Nv tbankfulness, and bived. very
keerfui.y, all the muney il made MIN.
He lived in the same old house, thro
it al, bis wife eontinnered. in Girls
chen way to bake her own buckwhete
cakes and 60 her own washin, and be
set his face like Gin. agin fast hess
ss and expensive hkkers And this
WIZ wat worried Samyooel Wen
the turn cum, his opposishun bed
plenty Nv muney il bank, and he
marked down his goods with the saim
childlike and Crischen sperit that in
1862 be marked EN- up. He sed to
hisself:
Il he'd the benefit Nv the Tise-l
Will take the consekences Nv the fall,
blessid be the name Nv the Lord, "
and be went rite along, and contin
nered tn do biznis and prosper. while
the Sheriff wuz clozin out Samyooel.
This other drugger never howled
about hard times.
Samyooel Popman firmly believes
that be wuz destroyed by Sherman,
and | agree with him. He'd Sher-
man gone on ishooin twenty milyuns
nv greenbsx day, and payin EN-
out, for bosses and mules and army
supplise, the greenbsx wood heg con-
tinnered 10 go up, and so wood Sam
yooel's drugs and out-iots. And as
all Samyooel he'd to do in them bal
cyon days WIZ TO mark up the prices
nv his goods every mornin, be Good
hev continnered 10 keep bis fast moss.
and Mrs. Samyooel Good he'd contin-
nered TO live in Louisville, and bot
satin dresses Mr.. Samyooel feels it
keenly. In the time before the pros
perus days be wuz conientid with
sod.corn wisky and stogy segars, but
his appetite got attooned to shampane
and Haysnas, and finds it ecceedinly
diffiikult to go back to the simple ar
cadian habits Nv former times. Mrs.
Samyooel hez got ber hand out in
cookin ard sieh. and she utterly re-
fooses to 90 back TO the habits Nv the
cid times, and eonsekently there is
trubble in the popman household
The dawters new bin hrot home frum
the seminary at Louisville, and they