Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-03-21
Pay For the "HeIo."

people, and one reason and about
the only one for that condition of
things Is that q great many persons
do not mean what they say.
This paper in many issues DUR
ing the year contains notices from
so and So" to lis creditors, that
they must come up TO the captains
Office and settle" by & certain date.
Mr.. $50 and So don't say it in so
many worde, but he very strongly
intimates that if said creditors do
not do what he says. he will pro-
coed Immediately to tear up the
earth and every thing thereon.
Wei, the great day comes; the sun
rises in its usual majesty and pur-
sues its same course through the
heavens to It's usual plac9of going
down thereof ard yet the earth
abides and what is thereon con-
tinues to be. Finally after several
spasrms after this fashion. Mr.. $50
and SO" has good luck in corner
ing q victim, and as quick as wink
he draws a little scrap Of paner
with "printin'" on it, saying some
thing about paying at The High
land County Bank" and The very
sight of it would (that is it ''use 10
would give the poor fellow what
Il hunter terms a genuine case Of
"buck fever TIE fever having
subsidized sufficiently the negotia-
bic paper is duly signed, and then
time and tide" and Vegetables
wait for 10 man, and the first thing
YOU know here comes the little
ticket from the Bank, and then the
due day arrives ~(By The way
that reminds us). 1t has come ever
so quick, but we have found time
to learn that a negotiable note is
not such terrible thing after ali.
and if our phone hasn't been cut
out, we call up Mr.. so and So
and have little talk which max IS
him say "w 0rds" after carefully re-
moving his mouth from the trans
| mitter; but in the event that We
can't knock the drop, We take our
pen in hand and we write, VIZ:
Darling so and So please take
care Of my paper at Highland
County Bank. Lovingly yours,
| &c. It works like a charm and even
after that we haye 10 more feyei
whe. We sign negotiable notes
But in the enG my dear readers W.
have to pay for the "IIelo," but
sometimes we have to pay for it il
lie start, and that's what was OF
oar mind when it commenced Il
= wander.
The other day Z. II. McCiiDtiC
manager Of the NJ. & 5. Telephone
company said to his phone holders
You will please paw up by a GER
tain day, and il rot your phone
,, will be cut out" Well, you see W
i, had been moving along after tn
+ fashion outlined above, and W
t treated the matter as joke, infac
we thought but little about it, I'll
a morning or so ago Mrs NJ. yer,
! earnestly desired to call up Mrs "
to ask her wien lye floats an egg
=, # that's a sign Of strong I've 0
S strong egg, and don't you know
: that old box wouldn't DO il thing
Mrs. NJ. got weak right Of and sa
down, and said, III just bet some
body's saying something and
= wont get to bear it, and here soaI
making is right on Us. Now ] d'
; wonder, do yon suppose that Nc
Clintic actually did go and do VIVA
! he said lie would? John! Ior
e paid You phone rent for tits year.?
Mo- wife. Why? What's wronG?'
} Wrong! Every things wrong
| never will know what I'm miss
: ing this blessed minute. Nov yoj
git to town and and pay, and u
, quick about it,!
1t is needless to say that John got
and he paid and when lie wen
, home he thought he would tell Iii
J wife news ami that there were 9th
ers who had teen cut out, but &
he drew near ho more fully than
ever realized that he had paid 10
bis "Ilello" for the wire was al
ready warm enowgh to smoke.
+, His phone was in again, and with
bright smile met him at the door