The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-09

The inhashen Nv the currency consekent
upon the expenses Nv the war, changed
Samyooel's career. He found his stock Nv
drugs goin up % per cent day. Jollop
wich he owed for ut the rate NV six cents
apound shot up to 20, to 10, to 80, to any
thing he chose to ask for II, and II KEEP
shooiin up and up till tho little stock he
he'd Nv 5000, wuz with $50, 900, and no
matter wat he bot, It went up on his hands,
and Samyooel found hisselt wuth $780,
900 in no time.
Nv course Samooel to wunst commenst
TO live In a style commensurate with his
increased meens He went and bilt an al.
lishn to his house, putting on an exten.
shun back, bildin in fact completely
around the old house and putin another
story OH the top. Then his wife immejit-
" got two hired girls, and his two dawters
waS sent to Seminary in Louisville
SalnyoOl for his own pleasure invested in
u fast trottin boss and jined the Kentucky
Club in Louisville, and played poker ez
much ez he pleased, and he pleased to do
a good deel Nv 1t. 1t didn't make parti.
kle Nv difference, for every dollar Nv goods
he bot doubled on his hands every day or
two. Mrs. Popman utterly refooSed to do
any work Nv any kind, and spent tho heit
Nv her time tryin on dresses, witch she bot
in Louisville, and takin excursions to that
city to wear EN-. ltwuz ruther q gorgeous
time for the Popmans.
In 1873 samyooel diskivered there WIZ
q change. The war had bin over some
time, and the debt which It he'd cost he'd
to lie paid. SamyOoel did't see any neces.
sity OF payin 1t at all. 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 heVy into reel estate. He he'd
bot large amount Nv lands, which he'd
bin goin up Just the same ez drugs, and
he'd bot EN- all on credit. Hehedn't made
any down payments, but in place OF actual
money down on his moo purchases, he he'd
given mortgages on the property bought,
and also on his house and store, and SIGH
other reel and personal property eZ he
he'd. It worried him.
Ez the kentry, under Sherman's room.
Gus polisy, begun to git down to gold
basis, drugs begun to drop ten per cent n
day, instid OF raisin' twenty, and real cs-
tate commenst to ioller drugs and sich,
with iriteful accooracy, The land wich
he he'd agreed TO pay 81 900 aker for he
coodent sell for Sl5, owing to the fact that
nobody wantid it, and the quinine he had
paid 81 u ounce for dropped to 81 %. Con-
ently-Samyooel was furst 10 succum,
and he wuz scOoped.
The other drugger In SeCessionvlIle wu2
another kind NV man. lie accepted the
rize on his stock doorin the war period in
a Chrischen sperit Nv thankiulness, and
hived. very keeriully, all the money II
made him. He lived in the same old
house thro' it all; his wife continnered, in
a Chrischen way, to bake her own buck.
wheat cakes and do her own washin, and
he sOt his face agin fast HOSES and expen.
sive likkers. And this wuz wat worried
Samyooe. When the turn cum, his op.
posishun he'd plenty Nv money in bank,
and he marked down his goods in the
same Childlike and Chrischen sperit that
in 1862 he marked EN- up. He said to his.
self, ~ he'd the benefit OF the rise-I will
take the consekenCes Of the fall, blessed
be the name NY the Lord" aud he went
right along, and continnered to do biznis
and prosper, while the Sheriff was closing
out Samyooel. This other drugger never
howled about hard times.
Samyooel Popman firmly believes that
he wuz destroyed by Sherman, and
agree with him. He'd Sherman gone on
ishooin twenty milyuns Of greenbax a
day, and payin en- out, for HOSES and
mules and army supplies, the greenbax
wood hev continnered to go up, and SO
wood Samyooels drugs and his out.lots.
And as all Samyooel he'd 10 do in them
halcyon daySwuz to mark up the prices NV
his goods every mornin, he Good hev con.
tinnered to keep his fast boss, and Mrs.
Samyo'e ell Good hev continnered to live in
Louisville, and bot satin dresses. Mr..
Samyooel feels 1t keenly. In the time be.
fore the prosperous days he WIZ contentid
with sod.corn whisky and stogy segars,
but his appetite got attoOned 10 shampane
and Havanas, and he finds 1t exceedingly
diiEikult to go back to the simple rrcadian
habits OF former times. Nrs. Samyoocl
hez got her hand out in c0okin and SIGH,
and she utterly reioosed TO 60 back to the
habits Nv the old times, and consistently
ther is trubble in the Popman family.
The dawters hev bin brot home from the
simenary at Louisville, and they cast con-
toomly on ther father, witch hezn't the
meens to keep EN- in the luxury they hey
bin for 10 years accustomed 10.
This is only one case in a thousand
here. Whene'er take my walks abroad
| see men bustid, and leenin agin lamp.
posts, moanin and wringin their hands in
despair. They hev paster.lots which they
cut up into City lots, witch are gradooallv
growing up into huckleberry pastors, aud
won't sell for nothin. They look to their
old places Nv biznis, wher they used to
chirp cheerfully ez they marked up the
price Nv their goods, and wher they thot
nuthin Nv takin ten dollar note every
day for likker and cigars, bCcoz they Good
afford it, and they see other men in DO.
seshun workin mite and day to support
their families in comfort, and these men
lay Their own room FISHERMAN, ez | do.
1t is crooel outrage. 1t costs the Gov
eminent nothin toprint money, and Their
is no reason why it shood not hev KEEP on
printin currency. Whatisa Government
for? Is 1t for the people? Is not Sam.
yooel Popman one Nv the people? Then
why shood the Government Culliyatea
taste in Samyooel popmun for fast HOSES
and shampane, and then jist for the sake
NV payin of a debt, contract the currency
and room him?
The other drugger at Secessionville re.
mar&t that II Samyooel he'd saved the
money he made by intiashun he wood hey
bin safe agin the etieck NV contrackshun.
But that he he'd no sense into it. Inflashun
shood hey bin perpetool. When TEN.
perance man seq to me that he wood like
to git drunk IVA mite, only for the reack.
shun that follows when he gifts sober, |
alluz remark that the troo safeguard agin
that Is never to hev no reackshun-to keep
drunk oil the time. The prinsiple foller
as to likker Is the one wood hey adopted
in finance. To avoid the reackshun that
follers intlashun, | shood never stop It,