Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-08-09

lIOOt VI. W. WuH NY e1ioNAi
"but can't 700 see that to hey silver
wood relieve the dettor class? Even
now, afore it is legal tender, it's only
with 80 cents ON the dollar, and when
the country is flooded with it it will go
still lower. Then we, or rather SIGH nv
Us ez hev property to raise money on,
kin pay off. "
"Eggsactly So" retorts Bascom I;
"you kin pay me for the good, honist
hkker nv mine witch you hev con-
soomed in coin witch is less than the
dollar you promised All rite. But look
here-come in here all NV you. want
you silver men to know exactly wat you
are rushin into. "
And this feend led us into the back
room-that back room w 'ich contanes
the subsistence nv the Corners There.
in long rows, wuz Bascoms stock.
There, in barrils, piled one on top nv
another, wuz the delshus whisky nv
Louisville, nv different ages, rangin
from that Nv two weeks old to that
witch he'd jist left the still and wuz
scarcely cold yit There it lay, and ez
my eye ranged affeckshunately over it l
felt eff I Good hev the drinkin nv all
that ikker wood be content to lay
down and die when the last drop wuz
gone.
Bascom p'inted to an immense tank
witch be he'd erected within q few days,
with a pipe runnin in from the roof.
Il shant raise the price NV likker in
conscience nv bein paid for it in a de-
preshiatid currency :" sed be.
1 fell on Bascom's neck in an ex.acy
nv delite, while the others SHOUTED,
"Rah for Bascom !"
sc. W p" l remarkt, while teers suf-
foosed my eyes, Il never placed you
much below the angels, out this gener-
Gus act has histid you a hundred per
cent in my estimashun. Bless you, G.
W., bless your
but I'll tell you wat she'll do. Do
you see that tank" sed he
"May ask wat that is for?" sed.
"That tank will fill with rane water, !"
sed he 1.-THE moment you git to payin
me in silver l she'll take ont NV eech NV
them barrils jist eggsactly three and
one-ffth gollons NV hkker and fill it
with water
"Merciful hevingsr' we all exclaimed,
land your likker so weak now"
And when silver gifts down to 10
cents on the dollar l she'll take out %
per cent nv whisky and fill her up with
% per cent Nv water, and so on down.
Ell silver goes up, l she'll add whisky
eggsactly in proporshen. In short, my
whisky is jist a-goin to foller currency
and nOthin shorter. You fellers witch
work for wagis may SWEET, but Iwon t. "
but you II increase the size Nv your
glasses?" sed L
mot any But you may drink twice
ez many times to git the same amount
Nv drunk ez before by payin for eech
drink. "
And Bascom stalked hawtily back and
took his posishen behind his bar.
Their wug consternashun in the Cor
ners SIGH ez hev never seen. Their wuz
hurried consultashen at the Deekin's
house, and l sejested that we emanci-
pate ourselves from the dominyun Nv
this tyrant by startin grosery nv our
own on the joint stock principle, witch
wuz agreed to, each man agreein to con-
tribbit $40 to the capitle stock, witch
wood be enuff to buy bari or two for
a beginnin.
We wuz enthusiastic till we come to
ballotin for the man to keep the place,
when it wuz found instid nv my bein
chosen yoonanimusly, ez I eggspected to
be, that every man he'd votid for hissef.
EE not a soul Nv EN- would recede, the
skeem wuz blocked rite there and finely
he'd to be abandoned, and we went back
to Bascom S and SUBMITTED. That tyrant
hez us.
w course we can't stand likker d.
LOOTED in that manner. We are willin
anuff to diloot the currency with W 'ich
we pay for hkker, but we want our lik-
ker full strength. We coodent help it,
but that mite we signed and sent to our
representative a remonstrance agin the
silver bill. The Corners is now for a
honest currency Wood, OwoOd that we
he'd some Nv i'll
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Finanseer.