The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-05-09
CONFEDERIT Y ROADS. !
(wich is in the State NV Kentucky J
March 80, 1885.

he'd 70 cents ABOUT yOO Wicn tnty
Good borrow, aud also ez tho the
problem NV gittin bed to sleep
in when they got ther wuz not yit
solved.
/ didn't look that way. l thot
| new Washington. l Good, alluz,
In the old times, ring in the bar.
rooms, ez they wuz. l wuz disa-
pinted in all this, but Nv this more
anon.
Bascom, Deekin Pogram and Is
saker Gavitt put up enuff money
to git me to Washington, and i in
sisted that they give me enuff to
git me home, but they wuz firm.
"If 700 don't git back at ALL"
sed Bascom, I'VE shel be happy,
and eff we give yoo a return tik.
kit 700 win sell it and squander
it in whisky. 1t would break my
hart to see my good money so in
to another 'sloon mans TILL"
SO made my way to Washing.
ton, in a second.class car, sittin
up mites and days, aud. undismay'
ed, I to wunst purceeded to an
old haunt Nv mine on on the ave.
nue. wher the lunch yoost to be
good. To my horror there wuz
nuthin Oh the counter.
'Wher ia the lunchi l demand
ed NV the barkeeper.
ave amt settin out free lunch
much this spring." he remarkt
with a sternness that | never saw
exalted. ave did it till the six
nv March, and then quit becoE
bankruptcy wuz starin us in the
face. Their is a difference between
a lunch and full board, and theirs
got to be sich q rush Nv fellers
like 700, with turned paper col
lars, wich would take a full grown
persons rate NV likker and eat Q
square meal, and tell us to hang
ND the drink, that we wuz forst tc
suspend the lunch and require the
drink to be paid fur invariably II
advance. And we have able
bodied pugilist to turn EN- out a
mid.nite, for they commenst wig
J gerously sleeping in our chares
We keep a s'loon, not a hosplta
or infrmary."
1 tried all my old places will
the same result and becum dis
couraged. However, | went im
mejitly to the Postmaster Genera
and got awjence. l representa-
to him that the nigger, Jim Lut
. book, had held the post oils a
J. the Corners sence Linkin's time
8 and that in the interest Of civl
I servis reform he shood be move'
4 and l put in his place.
}. Tho Postmaster General was O.
1 fable-too id affable. He re'
{ ognized the necessities nv tn
r case and wuz goin to do his bes
!. He said to me that he wuz consit
!, erin the cases in alfabetikls orde
e He wuz eggsamipin each on II
y merits. Lubbock! L was tb
|, tenth letter in the alfabet. TheI
|. is 10000 post oflises in The Uoon
>. ted States, and L. wuz about ha
d way down. He Good eggsamlr
It about twenty q day, and ez thu
WIZ about 10000 before 700 con
to the LIS he shoed say that |
wood git to the L's in about thr'
is wears, to determine whether Lu
r book shood be dismissed at all
" not. Then my name, Nasty col
RS mencin with N, wuz also abo
10 half way down the list, and ez th
is wuz, on a average, 40 applican
h fur each place, it would requi
ct suthin more than that to dett
re mine whether shood be apppoir
" ted or not. That wuz the sitoc
IT. shun. "Good mornin. Call az
I'd when yoo come to Washington
10 .But,n I exclaimed, "ef this
~ the way 700 are goin to do it
'e shell be ded nv strayashen q
'e' cold long afore yoo git to n
D. Remember, sir, our sitooasht
"' The free lunch counter is entire
" done away with, they demand ca
ne for likker, ! can't stay here and
y. can't live at home. wuz pal
.s =, ct, sir, dooring the campane
VI kin show the coal oil on my CT
On from the torch l kerried, and
he me more than any other man,
'e' doc the result In Injeany."
se "Yoor patriotism due 700 CT
~ it,r remarked he smilin swee
M and 700 hav yoor reward In
OF, conshusnis Nv doin yoor dr
en-. Look and see wher Mr.. Nasby's
Of pIicashun comes In" he sed turl
Fn to a clerk.
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