Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-15

Inc Oh1Ceo States Is ahead by thun-
der" And Pennsylvanians, naturally
enough when Mr.. Childs' residence ia
considered, away in the lead. Here are
few instances of State and National
| desires:
"A woman in Lebanon County desires a
loan OF one thousand dollars to pay off a
mortgage and asks for it in this way:
'out OF your many millions will you not
spare me one little thousands"
A man in Lancaster County says; II
have been praying for help out of my
troubles, and my mind has been direct
ed to you, Mr.. Childs," and on the
strength of this wants Mr.. Childs to buy
his farm, which is about to be sold in
order to pay two thousand five hun
dred-dollar mortgage.
From Raleigh, N. c., comes the propo-
sition from "a paid State official''-as he
| styles himself-that thirty thousand
dollars be sent him with which to start
cotton mill, the chief aim of which
shall be, apparently, to employ the Or
phans who are compelled to leave the
State asylum at the tender age of fifteen.
Requests for aid in founding institu-
tions and business enterprises are as
plentiful as roses in June. Schools,
clearinghouse, asylums, hospitals,
stores, each appear in turn, demanding
capital and influence, particularly cap
ital. One letter recently received came
from the daughter of one of the war
Governors of this State, who asked that
Mr.. Childs would make an investment
In sheep-raising out in Wyoming Terri
tory. She would herd the sheep and
manage the enterprise herself, giving
him the original amount invested with
half her profits as return for the in
vestment.
The desire for adoption by million
alre seems very general, and by no
means confined to the colored twins.
who, as has been so often told, wrote
Mr.. Childs many years ago, asking him
to be father to them. Other children,
both colored and white, have had the
same desires. One little girl at Chest
nut Hill writes in quite q plaintive
strain: "Would you like to adop a
girl, for I would like some one to
adop me. If you do not care about
adopting me, if you knew any one who
would like to adop me please let me
know; but I would like very much if
you would adop me as your daughter. :"
Such persistency surely should be re-
warded by ''adop"-tion by somebody.
Whenever mortal man or woman
gets hold Of a patent or discovery, he or
she torments Mr.. Childs and his brother
millionaires for money with which to
perfect it, generally saying that some
divine influence has prompted such &C.
ton. The following letter is one of this
very large class:
Mr.. GEORGE w. CHnDs, DEAR SIR: The
coming Monday intended to go to some In
fuential German with my discoveries, in
case you will have nothing to do with them,
AS disliked to do that, my Lord and master
has prompted me to let you know of my de.
cision. Please write to me and oblige, yours
truly.
In single days mail recently came
letters from woman in Florida, who
wrote for money to send her daughter to
school because she ''could not keep tn.
girl in at nights;'' from a man in In
diana, who wanted Mr.. Childs' picture
for publication in an illustrated paper,
and from woman in Portsmouth, O.,
who wrote to ask for Mrs. Childs' cast
off clothing, on which, she announced,
she would gladly pay the freight A
girl at Smiths Landing, N. j., says she
is an invalid, in need of thirty dollars
with which to pay for medical aid,
(which now," she writes, ''is an impos-
sible thing"
Political requests are, and, of course,
have been since March 4, exceedingly
numerous.
Retentions in Office, Government posi-
tons, and particularly consulships, have
been the raiso'a detre for hundreds Of
letters to the editor Of the Ledger"
whose Endorsement their authors evil
IDENTIFY consider worth the having. Dur
ing the first three months under the
Harrison regime over one hundred APP
plications for consulships from Irishmen
were received.
Poems by the bushel, valued at from
five dollars to a hundred dollars each,
are received all the time. Envelopes in
which letters have never been placed
and envelopes containing letters meant
for some one else are of almost daily &C.
currence.
Verify, millionaire philanthropist's
daily mail is a marvellous thing.-Chi-
cago Herald.
Tho Value of Politeness.
Magistrate Ito prisoner, upon whom he
is about to pass sentence)-Do you ever
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