The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
Mr.. Fasby Goes to washington and
is Disguised.
CoNEEDERIT X ROADS,
witch is in the State NV KY
March 80, 1885,

up the money am WEllin TO advance |
enuff for sleepin cars. 1t is espeshly |
a terrible thing to make the trip at |
this pertikeIer time. The cars are |
crowded with sad-faced men, witch /
hev bin watn a sentoory for suthin
to come witch amt come yit. and is
in dout ez to whether it ever will
come men witch is loOkin at 700 ez
eff they wuz mentally kalkelatin
whether 700 he'd % cents about 700
wich they Good borrow, and also ez
tho the problem Nv gittin a bed to
sleep in, when they got Their Wuz not
yit solved.
1 didn't look that way. | thot /
knew Washington. l Good, alluz, in
the old times, ring in at the bar
rooms fur my likker, and knew the
free lunch routes eZ they wuZ.
wuz disappointed in all. this, but Nv
this more anon.
Bascom, Deekin Pogram and Issa-
ker Gavitt put up enutf money to git
me to Washington, and l insisted
that they give me enuff to git me
home, but they wuz firm.
EFF 700 don't git back at ALL sed
Bascon, I'VE shell be happy, and eff we
give yo0 a return tikkit 700 will
sell it and squander it in whisky. 1t
wood brake my hart to see my good
money go into another 'oloon mans
till'
So / made my way to Washington
in a second-class car, settin up mites
and days. and, undismayed. l to-
wunst perceeGed to an old haunt NV
mine on the avenue wher the lunch
yoost to be good. TO my horror Their
Wuz nuthin on the counter.
'Wher is the lunch p | demanded
Nv the barkeeper.
I'VE amt settin out q free lunch
this spring. he remarkt,with a stern
ness that | never saw exalted. We
did it till the sixth NV March, and
quit becoz bankruptcy wuz starin us
in the face. Their is difference be-
tween lunch and full board, and
Their got to be SIGH a rush NV fellers
like 700, with turned paper kOllars.
witch wood take a full-groWn persons
dose NV liKker and eat a square meal
and then tell us to hang up the drink,
that we wuz fOrst to suspend The
lunch and require the drink to be
paid fur invariably in advance. And
we hey a able bodied pugiiist to turn
EN- out atmidnite, fur they commenst
vigorously sleepin in our chares.
We keep 'sloon, not a hospital or
infirmary.'
[ tried all my old places with the
same result, and BEGUN discouraged.
However, | went immejitly to the
Postmaster General, and got awience.
L representa- to him that the niger,
Jim Lubbock, had held the Post Offs
at the Corners sence Linkin's time,
and that in the interest NV Civil Ser
Wis Reform he shood be moved, and
l put in his place.
The Postmaster-GeneryI wuz af
fable, too ID affable. He recognize
ed the necessities NV the case, and
wuz goin to do his best. he said to
me that the Wuz considerin the cases
in alfabetikle order. He WuZ egg
samin each case on its merits. Lut-
book l. was the tenth letter in the
alfabet. There is 10000 Post offises
in the Yoonitid States. and l. WuZ
about half away down. He Good
eggsamine about 20a day, and cf Their
wuz about 10000 before 700 come to
the L's he shood say that he would
git to the LIS in about three years, to
determine whether Lubbock should
be dismissed at all or not. Then my
name, Nasty, commencin with N.
Wuz also about halfway down the
list. and ez Their WuZ, on average,
so applicants fur each place. it would
require suthin more than that time
10 u0teTIUlllG WHtllltI i obtOA bt a Y
pointed or not. That wuz the sitooa-
shen. Good MORN, Call agin when
yUo come to Washington
But 1 exclaimed, 'ef this is the
way 700 are goin to do it 1 shell be
ded NV starvashen an cold long afore
700 git to me. Remember, sir, our
sitooashen. The free lunch counter
is entirely done away with-they de-
mand cash for likker. | can't stay
here and can't live at home. / wuz
patriot, sir, doorin the campane l
kin show the coal oil on my coat from
the torches | kerrled, and to me,
more than any other man, is doc the
result in Inieany.'
'Yoor patriotism duz 700 credit,
remarked he, smilin sweetly, 'and
you hev yoor reward in the cOnshus-
mis- Nv doin yoor duty, Look and
see wher Mr.. Nashy's appicashun