The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-26

thing can think of anyway, but in this
new form it seems to me too much like
swallowing some Of the campaign statis-
tics which have heard secretly.
l presume that every one who writes
pieces for publication receives more or
less in the way of correspondence pro or
con, and a good deal Of it is evidently the
work Of inlolent or morbid minds. but
now and then letter that is not only
gratifying, but full Of ideas, relieves the
monotony.
My own correspondence in that direc-
ton is a most Kaleidoscope one, ranging
all the way from the wobbly vaporings
OF rancid mind mp to the magnificent
suggestions offered me without money
and without price by those who have
been most wonderfully unsuccessful ex-
cept as suggesters.
There are four mirth provoking mani
acs who have been writing to me for
years regularly. One of them sends me
page after page of Scriptural references.
as, for instance, Il Timothy, 3 to 10
verses " Chap. Revelations, s and 9
verses WI Genesis, 90 and 81 verses, "
etc. Once looked up these passages
of Scripture to see if there could be
any Conference or point to their use in
my case, but found that they were evil
IDENTIFY furnished by man in California
whose mind had been neglected ut a
season when he should have put the Bor-
deaux mixture on it.
Then every little while got letter
in female hand, breathing words of
love. They have been coming for over
five years now. and though, as heaven is
my judge, l have never replied to one of
them, they follow me over the Union
wherever / go lecturing and tell of a
tender heart that is throbbing for me, of
warm affection that has been inspired
by the beautiful but rather idealized
portraits made of me by the able but
INSCRIPTIONS artist. Oh, is it not com
fort to know one is beloved even by a
stranger whose mind has slipped cog:
Is it not encouraging when life is over
cast and ones manager or ones breakfast
disagrees with one, to know that far
away in some quaint retreat there is a
heart that beats for one?
The following letter is given here be.
cause it is out of the usual run and has
some quaint lines in it which the public
ought not to be deprived of. So take
out names and dates and give it below:
Oct. 0, 1901.
Edgar w. Nye:
My DEAR SIR-I don't want you to write Il
i Tyxrv 1..a r,x..
| each week through the press. and on my study
table Tor rather on the hull OF a dismantlet
sewing machine) in little room over the stall
which my employer kindly allows me to share
with his deed box and an old pistol left him b,
his father, and last loaded in lsts, to keep dowr
his insurance, and then deducts each weel
| from my salary OF six dollars Sl.5o for use o.
same.
As stated above. on this hull Of a machine
| in company with "Bunyans Pilgrims Prog
| ress," sHow to Get Rich on Two Dollars Pei
| Week." and an intensely humorous book callet
salad for the Solitary" lies a recent numbe
of the paper containing your love letter to Mr.
| Hamilton Aide, which, when read. makes m!
blood Jingle with patriotism till fancy cal
almost see the national colors floating from
| the bare, unused fiagstaffs Of this city. uas
| week. by the way, n man near here did buy
| flag for his hotel-a u. $. flag, may add-ant
| sent his head Porter to fling it to the bredz
| from the housetop, which he innoccntly did
Union do,rn, thereby causing great consterna
| tion among many. And as read and rerea
it. this grand old country seems actually wort
living in.
And when Saturday night comes and sit i
my bare little room with only big. round hal
dollar left for the coming week after payin
my board and washwoman-and a big, roun
lump is in my throat read your letter and
| helps me to forget that l left my home Il
Brockton, Mass, and fifteen dollars week a
making shoes. to come here and sell shoes I
other men because my sweetheart, who hat
seen the play Alabama" and read Mrs. Bur