Year: 1874




TIE SAWDUST SPINDLE.


Some enterprising persons who had a genius
for making money by engraving promises W
pay, precisely like the Government promises
and who, no doubt, would have been wlilihs
to redeem them, just as the Government does
with other promises, had the opportunity Deeh
afforded them, went into business in this city
few years ago. They hired an Office down
town and advertised largely. They received
money from their customers and consigned 10
them therefor, not greenbacks, but sawdust.
They held themselves out to be public bene-
factors, and perhaps they were. But there
was no furniture in tho Office, nothing but
sign on the door. An INDECENT lad with saggy
trousers and moist nose, a considerable giIt
of bad language and an uncomfortable
desire to throw slops on passers-by'
idled around the entrance earning precanous
pence by misleading inquirerS for the hrn'
With increasing business the boy grew conhe-
duential, loafed on the banisters with more
of the air of an articlcd clerk, screwed
round piece of glass i'll over one eye, anu
wrnlllcd one side of his nose III the queer
way of people who devote their whole mindS
TO that species of scenic effect; and he Thought
he was doing business himself. SO when one
morning an unusual distribution oil saWduSt
had brought a larger crowd of inquirers than
usual to the door, he family demonstrated
not with his employers they did not tolerate
that-but he SAID to tho general public, " ms
"is altogether too much.r Shortly afterward
be was lifted by the scrntf OF
the neck into the presence of his en-
ployers and informed that if he was not more
careful they would discharge him and get
another boy. The whimperng lad had got
| the notion that he was the organ of communI-
cation between the firm and the public. lie
was not an organ; only IA Tyre. lie never re-
monstrated after that, but the atlluence OF pro-
family with which he pOuncod upon anybody
| who intimated that tho firm had disappeared
was in its way quite frightful. he was a
queer boy; all that he knew was that the
| members of the firm were "out,' aud that
was all the information he could give To the
gentleman who had received sawdust.


1t seems 10 be quito the fashion for persons
in the sawdust business to keep offensive and
unwholcsome young persons at the door to
misead the public, and between spells annoy
tho neighborhood. Here is the Administration
!


bcwildering rate, and whenever any innocent
| person who has been fooled comes around
making inquiries about the Civil Service, or the
FraDking Privilege, or the Natlona! Finances,
or any of the other things 1t advertised to
take care of, he finds nothing but the sign
over the door and the fOul-mOuthed young
persons standing by expectOrating bad IAN
guage. They have lately broken out with un-
usual VINEGAR because The TRIBUNE casually
remarked that the party which made so many
fair promises at Philadelphia in June, 1872
cannot be found by the people who accepted
them. They say TIE TRIBUNE intimated that
the party is dead, which is false, and they are
as noisy and imporiunate about 1t as mon
| grel dog OH a bakers wagon. Well, II is all
right enough and proper enough. we presume,
| for these creatures to fulfill their mission. 1t
really makes no difference with the public
whether the party is dead or has only moved
away. What the people want 10 know Is


Where is the party that made the promises OF
June, 1872 and who are those people Ill Con-
gress and elsewhere who have issued 50 much
| sawdust