Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-05-25

am easy TO get acquainted win ana
hard TO shake of. You can always
have fun with me if YOU go at it right,
John, and yet there are few men who
can knock the tar out of general de-
liver window equal to me. do not
allow business care to weigh on me too
heavily. My grocer is generally more
thoughtful and chastened looking man
than | am, and yet can distribute
more lower-ease mail in an hour than
anybody You ever saw.
would also want two pair of seal
brown socks with eight day clocks Of
some contrasting colors.
Doubtless the president may have
some one in his mind for the New York
postofiice, some one who will shine
more in society perhaps; some one who
will please the eye more for the mo-
ment; but what we want for that posi-
ton is pure, good man, who loves the
old flag, and who wants TO see a good
postoffice in New York, where man
can 60 and present money order with
out being indicted by grand jury
before he can get away. | believe,
General, that man who leads good
Christian life ought not to be jumped
on and hooted and trod into the earth
Just because he has presented a money
order at the New York postoffice for
payment. We are all liable TO make
mistakes. presented a money order
once at the New York office, thinking
that the Office would be as eager TO pay
an order as it was to sell me one, but
was young then and had seen very liz.
tie Of the world. Anybody could fool
me with kind word then. Now have
remittances sent to me by freight in
side a joint of gas pipe and don't have
to wait so long.
My hired man, who mows the lawn
and salts the hens at my chalet-by-the
sea, will also want suit of clothes as
the weather gets warmer. wish you
would figure on a suit for him-a suit
that will look better than it really is,
and cost very little, will do. The cost
may be mere bagatelle. Could you
arrange 1t so that the cost would be
mere bagatelle.
have been elected also to an office,
at one time, by the people themselves.
say this to show you that / am well
thought of by my neighbors. My cleo
tion was rather a surprise to some. 1t
showed that even then, young and poor
as | was, | was a shrewd politician and
well calculated to succeed. We COM
bined three elements in such way as
to bring out not only the full strength
OF the party, but also to draw some
from the other party. These three ele-
ments consisted of:
First-Enemies Of the other man.
Second-Riyals who wanted to see
him put under the sod
Third-Creditors who saw no way Of
getting their pay unless | was elected.
With these elements we succeeded
without the aid of money in purifying
the ballot and electing good man.
Do you publish catalogue and price
| list of your general store in Philadel.
| phia? We trade now with New York
houses almost exclusively, but am
told that your prices are reasonable
and goods all right, also that we can
| get anything in your place, from
| toothbrush to a straw ride. Mr.. Mac
Veagh told me that you were general
dealer in glass, putty, lingerie, road
| scrapers, perfumery, hard and soft
coal, cut flowers, live stock, neckwear,
real estate, gumdrops, guanO, teething
| rings, hides and pelts, moxie, seamless
burial caskets, marshmallows, curled
| hair, mattresses, health food, fence
nails, golden syrup, saddles, soda
water aud tar roofing. Also that at
your mammoth store, undertaking, en-
balming and ice cream in all their
branches could be participated in.
/ wish you could send me a catalogue
and price list and also keep it as quiet
as possible, for would not wish to be
discovered by heavy New York dealers
i'm the act of buying my groceries in
! Philadelphia. More especially would
this be the case should / accept the
portfolio of the New York postotfice, a
position to which | have given no
thought whatever, hoping the presi
dent would settle on some more avail
able, but perhaps less worthy man.
Anyway, will you do me the favor to
keep this letter out Of the hands Of the
press, for should it get into the public
prints / would never hear the last Of IT,.
Mr. Cleveland has kindly offered to
give me anything within the gift OF the
government, but / fear he Is chatling
me. What do you think?
We are quite we'll at home, bar
ring slight restlessness among our hens
at night, caused by the presence of an
unknown person in the barn who is
liable some day to go home with his
pancreas wrapped up in an old fashion
magazine.
Seeding has already begun here and
farmers are feeling iubilant. The
streams are released from their icy
letters and 90 laughing and frolicking
adown the grassy meads. Spring
lambs are beginning to do the hill
sides, and horse radish made from
Swedish turnips and capsicum tine. is
to be had.
IN NH