The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-22

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How YOU lounge there By y0nder fence
And klox those kisses through that
FOR Lydia win be seventeen.
1T p. AfdrirA.
ELL MES THKEE LETTERS.
Ne Tells HIS Kspev1enee win the
Representative 81 . Csnnsrciai
Agency.
New York World
Two letters have been received at
my suburban "1o~h.r ~ We say In
the German, during the past week,
and they seem 70 relht. 20 closely 70
each other, and 70 be II such general
interest 10 the public. that ! take the
liberty OF printing them. The fisst
hsx the letser-he1d Of q boot and she's
man in Pennsylvania and runs ~ fol-
lows.
Dear Sir: Without knowing you
uersonajly. desire 10 ask you II RS
Ire custom generally through the
sOuntrv 10 let total strangers come IN
10 4 man Z store and psy into his affairs
on the ground that the pryer Is the
Iorai REPRESENTATIVE Of q lag comtnes-
s.iaI agency For twenty years J was
3 shoemaker, and pounded my knee
with a squatty hammer. and no man
durxt to come into my place and ask
me how much | was In debt, or II
there was any encumbrance on my
rtock. Last year found that my
machinery folks could get their boots
male for about half what IL cost ms
10 make them, ii didn't charge any
thiuu for my time and then boarded
myself. ! found that ! was gradually
running more and more 10 hcGifng,
haif-soling and foxtpg. 20 concluded
70 omen n little store and gently get In
10 the boot and shoe traffic. Last week
n Young party claiming 10 he the IocaI
AGENT of a commercial agency slid In
Kind Of sneakg and asked to see the
proprieto-. | was ia the back count
iug-room nj the time stitching the
collnters for q pair Of $li high-heel
boots, which skinny White, that
brakes No. II, ordered last March.
came forward and says: II am the
proprietor. What can | show your"
lie then said he didn't wish to buy
ANYTHING. bat fhoyes out his card
and begins to ask me how much stock
/ carry, and II have ever
failed, and II 50 did do well
by il. had lap stone ON the floor
and I reached for that, but concluded
that the jury wouldn't instiiiahle-
homicide the case II / hit him with
that so askcd him first II he was an
assessor. He said he wasn't. and then
began TO look over my sales-book on
the counter. l am not a very good
writer and keep a record Of my sales
In my own way and in an old butch
er's book. and don't allow no man
a. look into that book, therefore took
Z role Of cole leather from the top shelf
and swept him OF the counter with 1t.
Then we clinched, and ! fell with my
head in a tub Of water which we keep
~ snak leather In for heels ard taps.
THAT revived me and | got out grad
uaIly. though he continued on the
un,,sr side OF me. | then reached
brad anvil near by and with II penetrat-
Ell his person. He then aru c Ianguid-
lv. and as hs went cat the door l
threw a shoe-peg grubber at him,
which struck him over the ear,
think.
To-day | got letter from THREE
different jobbers in stock and four
wholesalers of boots, ladies, gent.
and chIldrens fine shoes IN New York,
stating that they cannot supply me
with goods any more except the cash
accompanied the urler, AMI TINT they
were sorry 10 hear ! am SO deeply ~.
yolved, aud that they hope van
null out all right and so live that at
last | viii meet in an unhroken circle
where parting win be no more.
II Is true that mems business stand
ing l. busted IN this way, and that q
vo,,nr roSliu, little tutti fruiti, hy-
un-the creek. a ed.heatled. animated
p,,,n.arop, a lop-cated thing To button
a collar on, q white-livered pup, who
does his thinking with a eustard intel
lrct A peyed carrot with clothes on
N mn intellectual hole In the atmos-
phere, an intangible gas leak ~ the
great ECONOMY of nature. can besnitrch
The integrity OF a man who has never
heard a whisper against II for sixty
y.ars. Yours in haste,
on the same day this letter was re-
ceiyed hearing the same roatnark a.
the other, -,
pear Sir: | write 10 know II there
he no way In which certain facts ~ re-
lation To the business standing oi re-
taiiers throughout the country may be
nscertained for the use oil whole 'aiers
and iobhers without inelrung the III
feelinr OF the small merchants OF the
interior. The custom among large
commercial agencies in order to obtain
f,,r Tho ,,sa of manufaet uFcrs aud job
hers the condition al Their customers
cr,.Iit il 10 secure the services OF a
vo,,ng attorney who didnt know any
better. and by promising him the col.
lection business of that especial agency
Tor his town tn induce hin 10 80 aud
a,k various merchants all about taesr
affairs. and thus offend them very
much. IL i a dissgrreals'e job AMI
now learn that the e,aer lawyers VIII
not 10 IL at all, but leave It % those
who are in the heysiey AMI thii,y
stage Of the profession.
onened 4 law Office here last fall.
4, t,ad my aipioma and joined the
Il, .,r,,h. after which patient'y hooked
,,tnf the win.iew and tried my new
,.a,ial seal ON almost every thing
,uld get hold Of. for yoa have no isea
how cute my name looks squat into =
hlotter or biz red seal.
I'm 10 last month only two men he
sides the paper hangers had Teen IN
nay Office One came III ana s~ere -
hi. circulation and the other dtopiiei
in by mistake. thinking that the town
clerk had his office there. IN Arsii l
got a note from the North AInei !. an
Slosa Boot and l,rogan company ,ilih-
iteuf, IN Ntleb t4tcy esatt -
hal decided Co hestos aroh t'ie the
position os collection agent for my
town, aud asked usst Tue ssshai,as
nj a small boot aud shoe man he
returned them by mail. J did
NOT have 10 find out much con
.crninr him, SO decided 10 I've prompt
The Stega Root ard Rfogan Company
only waited 10 know his fun name,
iirm, name and nom dc plume, Tau
name OF each partner, previosS rest
,isnc,, and name while taere, date 81
terinniug business, wdoui nc sue.
ecAlsA and WHY he sucoeeSied, amount
al actual capital Of his own now IN the
hosiness amount Of stocs. Insurance