Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1890 — Great Improvement. [ARTICLE]

Great Improvement.

Capt. Jasman, who owed a bill in a neighboring town, was drawn on through the bank* “What’s this?” he asked of the collector. “It’s a draft for $50.” “The first one I ever saw. Now, they get’em up in good shape, don’t they? Well, sir, there has been a big improvement in such things since I could first remember When I was a boy, circus bills were mere daubs of red ink, but now look at ’em” “Are you going to pay thisdrnft?” “Oh, I don’t want it. Tell that feller that I am much obliged for the kind attention he has shown me, but that I cannot afiford to pay so large a price for 60 small a piece of paper. Good-day.”— Arkansan, Traveler.