The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-10-13

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ness in the fifiies up on the Nimmy
coggin, but 10 fifteen years he haC
managed to pay up everything buf
a claim of $l8 due 10 Lo Bartlett
One day he met Lo on the street
and gave him a check for the a
mount, for he had deposited it foi
that very purpose.
The bank is long since sunk IN
oblivion, having gone Into that bus
mess about half an hour after Black
Jim put his money in there. Run
ming across 10 a little while later,
he gave him a check for the amount.
"Why, that bank is wreck, f"
says Lo. "Notics on the door says
she may 90 into liquidation, but at
present it is deemed advisable, ow-
ing to stringency oI the panic, to
close"
| Jim went over TO the presidents
room and knocked.
"Who's there ?" was the state
ment OF voice inside.
"Its me, "says Jim, ,"Jim Kelley,
Black Jim Kelley of the Nimmy.
coggin-and I'm in something of a
hurry"
"Well, we're very busy now, Kel-
ley. Can't you come again this
evening ?" exclaimed the demonet-
lied but silvery voice.
ttTbat .,t1l ka too .orooI.. I ~,
very busy myself" said James the
brunette, jerking an iron hitching
post out of the sidewalk and sand
ing bis hands, like the man at the
bat. "Now is the accepted time.
Will you open the door, or shall /
open it ?"
The president with the bullion
voice opened it. for it was a good
door and belonged to him personal
ly. It was not bank assets.
"What do you want with me2"
exclaimed the president, taking a
large sight draft out of a tall bottle
marked "Mucilage," but smelling
more like the matriculating room Of
a bichloride institution. "What are
you intruding here for27
81 wanted to see you with regards
TO certificate of deposit I've got
here calling for $l8."
"We cannot pay it. Everything
is gone. We have taken cash on
deposit and loaned on approved Sc
curity, but we cannot realize at once
upon our securities. All we want
is confidence"
$50 you are one of these here
confidence men I've heerd tell of,
are your
"No, no; not that not that !
Oh, me Gawd, that 1 should be call
ed a confidence man by low, bru-
tai man with a retreating forward
and whiskers on his hands !"
"Well, I'm here" said Kelley the
black, "to get them SIS or leave you
looking like a Hamburg steak.
Eighteen dollars is not much to you.
You give more than that every lit
tie while towards making the heath
EN- free moral agent, but / have
been twenty years paying up my
debts acquired by reason of rise in
the river which took my logs to
Corpus Christi when / had agreed |
TO deliver same TO parties at Still
water. Eighteen dollars will relieve |
the mental strain. Otherwise /
shall paper this room with your
poor, perishing body and very like
ly asphyxiate the cat with your
SOUL"
The president hesitated a mo-
nent, and then with a sigh took |
a roll from his bootleg and paid Jim
bis little old SIS.
"sYou will not mention this on
the street, of course, " said the pres
ident, with a bright, wan smile, slap
ping Jim on the shoulder aud rals-
ing a cloud of dust.
''No," said Jim, giving the presi-
dent a hearty slap on the back that
shook a lung loose and made it fall
The whole length Of the poor mans
chest, "not till / get there" And
he left the iron hitching post on the
presidents desk and came away.
When the crowd broke in they
found it there, like a mighty paper
weight, lying across a doctored
statement.-Bill Nye in New York