The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-07-25
An ANSWER.

Common courtesy requires that you
should always answer letters received.
Some people are very careful and prompt
in matters Of this kind, but a very large
portion of the American people, We are sor-
ry TO say, are decidedly careless, and COM
NIT many breaches of good manners by per-
mitting letters to go into the waste-basket
and many of those who are
reasonably careful to answer their letters,
always treat circulars as though there were
no law Of courtesy requiring them TO even
so much as acknowledge receipt. But 1t
gives Us pleasure to record at
least one notable exception to this rule;
in this hurrying skurrying
age, when the worlds motto seems TO be
"every fellow for himseld and devil take
the hindmost," it affords US real pleasure
to find one who can take time froLa the
sordid affairs of the world TO discharge those
little duties of disinterested courtesy which
meet us now and then like oases in the
desert of life. We have just met with such
a case: A short time ago We sent the cir
eular in regard to our sewing machine pre-
MUM, accompanied by sample copies OF the
THE TINES, to all the names in Kansas
recorded. in Dun & Cos. directory, and
among the numerous responses received Is
the following, which shows that the writer,
l. 4. 4 ait tb,rt |, hsa
sewing machine, is courteous enough 10 say
so, and to communicate at the SINE time var
ious other items Of interesting information
not demanded by strict adherence to the
line Of duty, but prompted by finer re-
gard for the gratuitous amenities OF life.
We give the letter in full:
CAwKER, July 18th, rs.
ID. H. dnt.Ony, LcaUen,c0Tth, han:
DEAR SIR: received your TINES and ad-
dressed TO Marie NJ. Graft, and wish TO in
form you that Is not my name, although il
wasonce. j was married to him in January
Is72, and divorced from him in December.
He was a drunkard and a gambler, thief
and forgcr lie sto,e from me a god watch
worth $50. A large gold ring, that cost DIR.
Patee So. / shipped him in hurry, and
divorced him, and since ls72 have went by |
my own name, Marie NJ. DE Ford.
have seen the Wilson machine, there is |
an agent here, bur / have u Singer, and
prefer il TO all Others.
am now laying out the town OF De Ford, |
South of Cawker. My cousin, A. j. DE Ford, |
owns eishty-f)ur acres joining on the South, |
this gives us two hundred AMI forty-four
acres 1t is decided by all that the depot of
the Kansas Pacific, solomon Branch, and |
the Solomon and Denver, called SO from the |
{. B. u. b. to CConcordia, to- Denver, where |
they will go some time. The two railroads |
will be here in October. My Cousin has
worked i'll the Cincinnati Commercial Office
twenty years. Halstead will not |
give HIM up, for the time
the Printers Union was started, he stuck 10 /
his employer though tie mob Of printers
tried 10 catch and make him join the Union.
He had to run for dear life TO get into the Of
flee, bat when he locked himself in, with one |
other young man, they brought out the CoDi-
nerciai on time every morning for three days.
They were fed there in the best of style, and
being faithful 10 their employer, and work.
ny so determinedly, the proprietor gave each
# them an advert sing case. and from that
ime held them, and made sI75 a month
he is highly respected by the officers and
nen employed there. have also two other
jCzS. in TIE office. One hasbeen proof reader
or many years. The oldest is named Alec
5ently, who was on the body guard, as Lieu
enant, of Gen. Scott, during the Mexican In
-asion. He Is now IN the Chief Justices Of
ice, in Washington, II. G., has been there
ince 1857. Before that he was employed in
he Treasury Department for twenty-five
ears. 1t was Alec that wrote up that an
wer TO the impeachment of A. ]. Johnson.
The Atty Gen being Republican, swore he
would never sign that document, but Coz A
howed him the law he had TO put in his de-
ense and he had 10 yield and sign the docu-
nent
presume you know my Coz. in Ottawa
IAN. John De Ford, Daniel David and James,
hey all in brsineSs there. Pardon the long
-tter Yours Truly
Marie NJ DsfDrd.