The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-20
ODD PAYMENTS IN KIND.
JUAN -
Nonchalancs Of the Lawyer, Asking
q Side Of Pork From a
Hog Thief.
Circulating Medium Employed in
the Payment of Preachers
In Different Places.
Nsh. Flesh ant Fowl In Lieu OF Coin at
Theatre Door-Cenntry Editors
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the Theatre Door-Ceuntry Editors
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sSend me a side of the pork!" was the
Oonclusiye reply of the American lawyer,
whom Z hog-stealer whom his eloquence had
aayed from conviction proposed to reward
the service with unsubstantial thanks in
default of dollars. He cared as little for
professional etiquette as the old Edinburgh
doctor who pluned himself upon taking
ths unorthodex fee of n sack of potatoes
from a moneyless patient, 1.-THE man.
said he, twas a poor man. We must DO
liberal. Our Master e~nioins it upon US,
and ii il recommended in tho admirable
aphorisms Of Hippocrates. The man had
no money, so / had to deal gently with him
and take what he had; though, as a rule, i
prefer the modern TO the ancient exchange,
pecunia instead of pecus."
Not quite of the same mind was Richard
de Bstonye, the representative of the city
of London in the parliament held at York
by Edward III. in 1928. Taking a fancy to
d certain ~coverlet furred with. meniver,
valued at eight marks, which had come
somewhat mysteriously into the possession
Of the city fathers, he was allowed to take
Il in part payment of the expenses he had
been put to in his parliamentary capacity.
PAYMENT in kind was no unusual thing In
Plantagenet times. Engaging Niehol to be
his gardener of his "manoire de la Sau-
voye." John o. Gaunt undertook to find
such rails and fences as was necessary, but
Nickel was to manure and work the ground
at his own cost, and to receive two-pence q
day. and all h fruits and ''herbages' hs
raised, after supplying the requirements of
time-honored Lancaster's household.
When a boat brought porpoise
TO the landing place at Lon
don bridge, the bridge bailif
claimed the tails, fms and e~ntrails for his
fee. Offenders, even, were mulcted in kind
Instead Of coin. Fol threatening that if he
caught the mayor outside the city bounds
he would insure his never getting within
Ahem again, Roger Therold was condemned
% present the insulted dienitary with 100
tuns of wine; and in 1899 Robert le Bert.
goldsmith, who had been sent with Others
with messages from the city to the king at
Windsor, having taken upon himself to
privily retire from the fellowship of his
companions, was adjudeed to pay one tun
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the commonalty; and he and John de Cas-
tleacre were bound over to keep the peace
toward each other on pain of paying two
tuns of wine to the Same official for the like
purpose.
When Sir Henry Pisrrepont took up his
appointment to the recerdership of Noting
ham in 1908. the town" presented him with
. gallon of white wine, a gallon of claret, a
petite of muskadyne, q pottle of sack, a gu
&ar-loaf, with nine shillings and twenty
penny worth of lemons. In the same year
the Nottingham burgesses gave the earl of
Shrewsbury q veal, a mutton, a lamb, a
dozen chickens, two dozen rabbits, two
dozen pigeons and four capons. AS the
record says nothing OF any services rem
dsred by. recorder or earl, we suppose they
were paid in advance, or in lively expecta-
tion on the part of the burgesses of favors
10 come.
Dear as he might be in one sense to all
the country round, an old pastor of
Crossthwaite could hardly be dear to his
flock of Cumberland folk at an mi
stipend of !95; q hardened sark," or shirt
of coarse linen; the privilege of plying his
knife and fork for a week together at any
table in the parish; and the right of turn
ing his lgeese ON the public ommon Bet
ter Of wvfe the clereymen of Virginia, who
rs late a. the last century were paid for
their m3kistration in tobacco, since with a
little trUdbfe the weed could be converted
into cash, a transformation not to be easily
of proftRbly effected with ten feet of stove
pipe, three kegs of varnish, two packets of
corn starch, a felt hat, a pape, collar. four
palm leaf fans and two bundles of bed
shests, which the trustees of Il western
Pennsylvania church handed over to thor
minister in full satisfaction of the arrears
of salary due to the ~long-sufering man.
One can hardly imagine a procession of
Ifvingites, or 4 troop of the upholders of
the saored lamp of burlesque, hurrying
along that Thespian t~horoughfare, the
Strand, laden with fish, flesh, fowl and 9th
Or comestlbles; but a similar sight on a
small scale might have been seen here and
there in the so-called palmy days of the
drama. when poor players ION circuit
we're hard put to it to make both ends meet.
Portsmouthway, it was the usual thing for
Juvenile patrons of the theEter to tender
fruit, eggs or cabbages to the manageress
and m0ney-taker. who. taking the goods the
Ehelr dlsburslng two-pence in current coin.
Jenny Whiteley owed his popularity as a
strolling manager to his readiness in &C.
cepting anything eatable for as many ad-
missions as it was fairly worth, making his
Treasury" resemble a provision store.
brought him nothing but fish, ana his
company threatened revolt; SO the next
evening. after passing in nineteen people
Tor a shad apiece, Jenny stopped the
twentieth ONE with: 81 beg your pardon,
gay darling. l am extremely sorry to re
fuse you, but if We eat any more fish, by
the powers, We shall all be turned into
mermRids."
Dollars would seem to be scarce with the
saints Of Utah. When Brigham Young in
yited Nine. Rita Sanganelle to appear Mt
Montana he fixed the charge of admission
at one fowl, and supplementary pigeon if
the fowl was not 60 plump as it might be.
The nights receipts amounted to 700 fowl.
and fifty pigeons; and the dancer had no
reason to complain when she was paid their
equivalent in cash, at the rate of sixteen
ehiliinRs per fow and nine shillings per
pigeon; coming better of than the actor at
tne Salt FAKE City theater, whose takinRs
on his benefit night consisted of corn in the
ear. sweet potatoes, young pigs. white mice
and 200 a1-handles, for which he had to
&nd a market himself.
Somebody AYERS that an American coun-
TRY journalist has bat one way of keeping
his subscription book-after this fashion:
Tom Brown, eggs; Jack Smith, fish; John
Jones, butter; Pat Brady, whisky; John
Fitch, whisky; Henry Gray. meat; Box
Rowe, on house rent; JEFF Pink, cash
There 10 some truth in the libel, a Kentucky
editor announcing that any person bring.
ang to the office twenty pounds of pork OF
ten pounds of pork sausages, or two bush
els of sound Irish potatoes, or four bushels
of sound turnips, or ten good chickens, OF
ten pounds of good lard, or one bushel O.
sound onions, should receive the journal fol
twelve months-''for half the quantity hal
the time" while a Dakota man SAWS: ''lW