River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-01-15

ness, and begging her TO reply at once.
Her reply was received at Blissford, but
u was not so worded as TO assure him
that all was serene, and his desire to
hear more and oftener is several times
repeated in his answer. The name,
Frank, is plainly ruse, for, besides
asking the reader ito clean up the
house and make things look half way
decent, queer message to send to n
man, and stranger one still to so
North Ninth street, where no one Of
the male sex then resided, the writer,
IN another place, gives Mrs. White
some good advice, concluding with, 'lf
you ever expect to be little lady, now
is the time to commence" The pas.
sage. "0ur photos will also appear in
Frank Leslie's," refers to the photo
graph of Katie King standing alongside
Mr.. Holmes, which was taken by Mr..
Horn of this city, during a priya,e
seance held for the purpose. should
here state that interviewed Mr.. Horn,
shortly after the occurrence, and he
stated positively that the figure which
came from the cabinet, and which he
photographed,
WAS NOT SPIRIT.
The possessive pronoun "our" used
III the sentence quoted is, under these
circumstances, very significant, when
1t is remembered that the writer refers
to photograph of himself, Mr.. Holmes
and the reader, Mrs. White, now known
to the world as Katie King. The fol.
loving letter was received by Mrs.
White while still at No. so North Ninth
street, and is proof conclusive that the
correspondence between the two was
purely Of a business character, and
that that business consisted in working
together to humbug the public. In
this, as in the foregoing, the writing is
without doubt the chirography of Nell
son Holmes, and the carefulncss Of
punctuation. as well as the style of
eliminating the vowels, which could be
readily replaced by a compositor, shows
the effect of force of habit in the wri.
ter, Holmes being at one time the edi.
tor OF a Baptist paper in one of the
Southern States. The following is a
verbatim copy Of the original:
BLrssFoRD, Mich, % Aug, '74.-DEAR
FRANK: We have decided on locating
at Chicago, and as soon as we get set.
tied and everything to rights | will
send you ticket from Philadelphia to
Chicago, and as soon thereafter as pos
sible / will redeem your pledge from
the pawnbrolers. Out Of 5000 that j
had before leaving Philadelphia have
but little of it left now. Jennie's peo-
pie here are poor, and cdnt do other
wise but help them. So far our trip
has been very expensive, more so than
| intended. This is nine days since
our goods were sh'pd and no signs of
them yet. The nights are cold and |
need many things th't we left behind IN
box. We gave seance one night last
week to these sapheads here; it was like
''casting pearls before swine" The
"quill-driver" Of t. luminary here un-
dertook to be cute at our expense.
The most bitter dose Of gall tht he ever
took was my reply, which find enclosed.
The boys all laugh at him now. Jennie
has bad spells of vomiting blood in
quantities. Some seem to think it can.
Ger Of t. stomach, and others ulcera.
ton Of t. stomach.
FRIDAY, 2Sth, 4 P. M.--Yr's of I. 20
is at hand. We will leave here for
Chicago on Monday next. You had
better send yr goods to Vineland, care
of Julia Allen or sell them. IL is too
late for you now to go to Lee. To go
there and return here and do all you
wd desire wd cost you at least 800.
Now my advice to you is tht you get
y'rself in trim to come to us by t. 18th
or 18th Of Sept. We will send you a
ticket to Chicago, and if we can hdr-
m0flize, will do better than we did in
Philadelphia and will try and avoid such
loolishness hereafter. have no doubt
but you did I. best youiknew how; |
did not mean to find fault with you
am only sorry that didn't move out
before t. 18th OF Aug, and went to
Viueland and arranged matters to stay
there till we cd prepare ourselves to
turn round. | now wish tht ! had let
DR.. &. pay t. rent for Sept. Is. How
ever, better luck next time. Jennie is
put out because you didn't send her
bed room carpet, as she thout good
deal Of it. We wont be long in making
some money when we once get started
again. You can send for yr things in
pawn with very little additional ex-
lenses now. Let this matter be fully
understood. We will send you yr fare
from Philada to Chicago and then, as
soon as we can, will pay you back all
that you have expended for us and
make matters all square again. Now
in yr reply to this state explicitly what
we may expect, and if this is satisfac-
tory, we will know how to proceed.
You will like Chicago, and we will ar.
range it so TIT you can go out and
come in when you please and enjoy
yourself. From there we will gradu-
ally work our way back to Boston and
remain there till summer. This is t.
best can offer now; hope you will az
cord with us in this matter. Yrs as
ever, MELT.
p. S. DO your "bz' in my hat and
then send it by express. ! need It. My
white hat is too conspicuous. Still ad.
dress yr letters here. viii notify you
where to address us in Chicago. Bet.
ter send yr things if you think best,
but send {. balance Of ours on.
In the above epistlo il will be seen
a