Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25
MONEY.

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After the audience had assembled in
barn Hall to listen to the sixth of the
John Spicer course of lectures the
| speaker took his usual stand, bowed,
and proceeded as follows: -.,.....'
Ladies and Gentlemen: My subject is
Money. Money is the best thing there
is to get [applause], because when you
have money you can get anything you
want to. mean if you are where it is
or can send for it, and the one that
owns is willing to sell and YOU have
money enough The ones that own
tatfy and other good things are willing
to sell, and most always you are where
they are or can. send for them-I meal
where the tatfy and other good things
are or can send for them-but YOU do
not always have money enough. mo!
Oh, no! from the audience.l Money is
very hard toget Applause. ! People
do not give you money for nothing-I
mean people that are not your father
and mother, or oyour uncles and aunts,
or your grandpa and grandma, or
some Kin to You. 1t is very hard
to keep from Spending money when
you have any. Applause The
reason it is so hard to Keep from spend
ing money is because there are so many
things people have to sell, T..That' S
it!,' from the audience NY father
says Robinson Crusoe lived in good
place TO keep money in. When you
have a cent in your pocket you keep
thinking. about it and taking hold of it,
and first thing you know you have
bought something with it, and next
thing you know you have eaten it all
up. mean eaten what you bought up.
Fellows try TO get money in a good
many ways. One way is to pick up old
iron to sell to the man that buys it.
Sometimes ashes barrels have nails in
the ashes, and sometimes you can find
nails and spikes and other old iron by
crawling under places and around
wharves. Another way is to sell bones
to the one that buys bones, but I've for
got what he wants them for. Back
yards are first-rate places to find bones
in. Once | almost got bitten by dog,
trying to get bone that dog buried up.
Once my cousin Tom found most a
whole dead horses bones up in pas
ture
You can get money by keeping hens,
if they lay. Red pepper is good for tlat.
Once 1 sold a hen to another fellow. and
while he went to get a basket, she
aid. did not know whether that was
my egg or that other fellows, and he
Hid not know. My father said we must
,all meeting of the hens and let them
settle the matter. My mother said she
knew way better than that, and she
broke the egg in dish and stirred quite
4 lot OF sugar up in it and gave us two
spoons and we bot4 ate it up.
Once L got sixty cents by selling a
kitten. First my aunt bought her for
sixty cents, but she scratched the baby,
and she gave me ten cents to take her
back. Then sold her to my grand
mother for ten cents, but she could not
keep her from clawing the cushions and
carpets, and she offered me ten cents
20 take her back, and / took her Then
sold her for ten cents to woman TO
catch mice, but she was too lazy to catch
any and stole things to eat, and she said
she would give noe ten cents if / would
take her back, and / did; and six times
ten makes sixty.
know a good many money stories
that my father and my aunt and Tom
and other people have told me- A girl
about, seven years old wanted TO give
her mother something for birthday
present, and poor woman came, along
with some good holders to sell for ten
cents, and the girl : bought one, and
one of the cents the girl paid
her was an old one that wouldn't
pass, and that girl knew it wouldn't
pass! ,(Groans from the, audience. /
know a big fellow that borrowed q cent
of little fellow ever so long ago and
he's never paid him yet! [Groans, and
cries of .Name!] / shall not tell his
name He is not one of these here.
One boy did two mean things. When
he was sweeping out a school-house, he
found a ten-cent piece and kept it pri-
yate.. And when store-keeper gave
him back cent too much change, he
spent the cent, when It wasn't his cent.
Once there was boy and he had Sis
ter and they were both small children
and they both had banks, and they
heard about the great Michigan fire.
That hire burnt up a great many peo-
Pies houses, and barns, and cows. and
horses, and clothes. and everything they
had. This boy and girl heard about the
Michigan children that had to 90 With
out stockings and shoes, and they took
the money there was in their banks
and wrapped it up in piece of
brown paper and got somebody to
write on it: ITO help bury shoes for
the children that had theirs. burnt
up" And that money was sent to
Michigan with grown peoples money.
Applause. Ever so many years ago,
two girls, one named Susan, and one
named Rebecca, were friends to one
another, and Susan was going away
somewhere to make a visit, and she
gave the other girl, the one named Re-
becca, tin box with thirteen quar-
tiers of dollar in it to keep for her.
And while she was making the visit,
her uncle came there and bought her
very good clothes, and carried her
somewhere to 60 to school, and she
grew up and got married to a Captain
OF q vessel, and went to sea with him
in that vessel. The girl that was
named Rebecca took care of the thir-
teen quarters, and when she grew up
and her husband died, and she could
not get enough for her children to eat
live children-people said: "Why
don't you spend the thirteen quarters
you've kept so long?" She said: 81
VIII not; they are not mine.n When
she was an old woman, then people
said: ''Oh, Susan will neve. come back!