Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1878 — His Ruined Feeling. [ARTICLE]

His Ruined Feeling.

“ No, I can’t pay you!” exclaimed he; “sure’s I stand here, I haven’t got a cent of money to my name!” And, bringing down his hand on the side of his leg, by way of emphasis, he all unintentionally awoke to the echo the slumbering dimes, quarters and half* dollars in his trowsers pocket. Then, as his creditor gazed into his eye, he wildly fled, while he gasped: “ Silver will be the ruin of this country yet!” In a hearing before a committee of the Maine Legislature, Neal Dow dedruggists’ shops as “the tyorst punishqps jp the State.”