Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1879 — A Base Proposition. [ARTICLE]

A Base Proposition.

A Detroiter who has the reputation of being hard pay was waited on the other day by a man who began: “Mr. Blank, I hold your note for seventy-five dollars. It is long past due, and I wanted to see what you would do about it.” “My note? Ah! yes, yes, this is my note. For value received I promise to pay, and so. forth. Have you been to the note-shavers with this?” “I have, but none of them would have it.” ■ ' '“Wouldn’t, eh? And you tided the banks?” “Yes, sir, but they wouldn’t look at it’.’ "■Wouldn’t, eh? And I suppose you. went to a Justice to see about suing it?” “1 did, but he said a judgment wouldn’t be worth a dollar.” “ Did, eh?' And now what proposition' do you wish to make?” “ This is your note for seventy-five dollars. Give me five dollars and'you can have it.” “Five dollars! No,.sir! No, sir! I have no money to throw away, sin” “ But it is your own note.” “ True, sir, very true, but I’m not such an idiot as to throw away money on, worthless securities, no matter who signs them. I deal only in first-olass paper, and when that note has a negotiable value I Will be pleased to discount it. Good day, sir—looks like settled weather again!” —Detroit Fret Press. » '*“?***■+*■*•» Americans eat more potatoes than any other Nation on earth.