The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-09-21

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THE FINGER OF sCORN
When colored man asks for money
ahead of what he has earned, we may
well inquire, What is to become of the
country?
Below is the pitiful appeal of Henry
Clay asking fer rations and Offering that
'the first work that Jaffrey (his sony do
you coud tax it Back"
And yet we have been crying out
for months, ''Give us more 'Rashing,'
whether, you demonetize silver or not.
We need the 'Rashing' bad"
These letters are absolutely genuine,
the names only having been changed:
JUNE II. 1893
Mr.. Howard Balcomb:'
DEAR SIR-I write to tell you / have very
Bad Painn in the Right Side Work from my
Side to my Back Tuesday, EWING sick think
it is Simmer Conplanid Please Sir let me have
fifty cts for to get Sumo Rashing the first days
work Jaffrey do you coud tax it Back need
the Rashing Bad HENRY CLAY.
The following indicates the state of
the money market, also the fin de steele
method of spelling ''allow." It also
shows how the writer understands that
vague allusion to death will get funds
sometimes when all other efforts fail.
He does not state whose death he is go
ing to blow in the $1.25 upon, but prob
ably it will go to buy cut flowers for the
grave of Ham, who was cut down
couple of thousand years ago by mala-
rial fever brought on by the surface wa
ter and hot weather around Ararat:
Mr.. BALcoMBE-Please arrow me to have
one Doller & Is cts this week for am in Sure
JOHN c. CALHOUN.
Mr.. Calhoun. on the back of the note.
states thathe is not bimetallist, but a
Baptist with tendency toward SOM
nambulism. Many are the times, he says,
that he has awakened from sound sleep
and found himself in the middle of
watermelon patch bathed in cold sweat
and big melon rind in his hand.
Mr.. Mason, who accidentally discov-
cred last week that he had been emanci-
pated 80 years ago while he was serving
term with the gang, writes as follows:
Captain please Sir yu can Be kline anuft to
let me- have my thirs day money and will pay
the Day on next week IL 70 Will Do So for me
please Sir that is all SLIDELL MASON.
Mr.. Lemons, who writes below, no
doubt indicates as fully and uncon-
sciously between the lines how times are
with him as any exhibit that has been
made this summer, and notice toward
the close, where he admits in his own
touchful photography, II would not
worry, but am distressed why worry
you"
His wife also sis Bear feet" meaning
no doubt that there has been a Wall
street movement to depress her feet.
He also intilnates that if Mr.. B. does
not ''trus" him he will bust:
Mr.. BALcoMBE-You and Mr.. w. E. Bal
combe can Len me $500 dolor and tell hav the
chanc Of making Sum money. Do if you Pleas
Sir you can Len me becos my Wife is Bear feet
and il you don't trus me Sir you can Git Lean
on half aker of Rice but know Sir I can pay
you before that Sir. II was not destrus Sir
Wod not Worry but / am destrus Wi IVORY
you do If you Pleas Sir you can Len me.
PETER G. T. BEAUREGARD LEMONS.
The following item also, taken from
the Asheville Citizen few weeks ago,
indicates that chickens are close and
hard to obtain this season and that money
matters were never more seldom, espe-
cially among the colored people, than at
present:~
VIII Young, colored, aged about Is, was tried
for stealing two chickens and found guilty.
He has served two terms In the gang-the first
time for stealing watermelons. Judge Jones
gave Young a four years. sentence, thinking it
might break him of his long fingered habit
When the sentence was pronounced, Young
said. THANK you, sir" to Judge Jones.
Comment on the length of the SEN
tence would seem out of place here at
this time, when, so nearly as may be,
fraternal feeling should exist. It 10 in
timated, however, that Mr.. Young was
pronounced bimetallist, whereas the
court was opposed to that idea most bit
terly.
may be wrong, however. The court
win please take notice that this comes
to me as hearsay, and also that my apol-
ogy is ready at moment's notice in case
am wrong in putting the Judge down
as an enemy, Of bimetallism. I, do not
care to be sentenced to 1000 years for
finding . fslon On the finger Of scotn. !.
/ Speaking of courts and the law. ~
minds me of an incident which occusred
il the great / mort ut I W winter
ChrietaAiia coantyti . NV ortdnil lttionjjl
and the comfy seat still has freah paint
On n ssssSSs IssssFets syyeasssis &
In February merchant who sslls to
: r.