Evening star., 1896-01-11

was certainly worth anyhow S1.5O to earn
est Christians. They say send IS cents to
EN- and get a Ararat cactus. They say
they also got another big offer to make;
that being anxious to introduce Ararat
cactuses to all Christian homes, they
wanted to get personal letters aboat 'em
and that anybody that would send 'em 65
cents and get one of hem Ararat cactuses
had the chance open to 'em of making s25
or $50 week by writing letters about it.
They say they was willing to pay 10 cents
for every letter. Say the letters needn't
be too praising, but just what folks really
thought. and the shorter they was the
better Say they'd pay the same rate for
q Whole lot of copies of the same letter;
tnat they wanted to send 'em to folks all
over the country, and didn't matter if they
was the same.
Well. bless the Lord-' I say. Here's
the way right open for me to go to con-
Eention! Well, haEelujahp And 1 mailed
60 cents to them Ararat cactus people that
day, and letter telling them TO send the
cactus right off.
Look like 1 couldn't breathe easy or
settle down to nothing till that Ararat
cactus come. 1 give * weeks time and
then L commenced to keep the street pret-
" no. between me and BUndys. Finally
1t come l was kind of surprised when 1
unwrapped it, it looked so little and Or
merry. and no bigger'n a. hickory nut 1t
was growing in a little two-cent flower
pot. What on earth can I write about
such a measly looking thing, and tell the
says, Who hath despised the day of small
Things" and the more 1 thought about IT
and now that cactus come clean across the
ocean, and all the way from Mount Ararat.
ana done been there ever since the food
the better / felt, and more like / hadn't
thrown away them IL cents.
Il commenced on the letters right away
l went right back to Bundy's store and
bought me dollars worth Of writing pa
per and a new pen. Tommy T. Nickins he
asked me how much paper I want. and
when / say about dollars worth he look
ed plumb surprised, and seen he got his
suspicious. He reached his hand in the
showcase and pulled out box of paper
that had a bouquet of blue and pink flowers
All across the front page, and he say may
De I'd rather have that than the plain
paper. l looked az him mighty straight.
Tommy t. 1 says. you needn't be getting
out no such as that for the likes of a
widow woman like me- 1 says and sane
TINED. Gimme the plain paper 1 saws.
looking at him right stern. I know It
wasn't no particular use, though trying
to go against Tommy T. Nfckins' snsn
all over the station that 1 was writing
every day to a widower down in Georgia
and about to step off
Wen, L commenced on the letters.
folks always said 1 had a considable tall
emf Ior writing, and 1 knew I wrote a toll
had much trouble with the letters I'd wrote
q heap Of letters to The Narrow Path about
my experiences, and it wasn't hard for me to
nnd the words. 1 wrote ten different letters
saying about the same thing, and as prais.
ing as could in reason, but wording 'em
different, and then l turned in and made
fourteen copies of each one of 'em. That
made 1JO letters. 1t took me all the week to
DO 'em, getting up at sunrise and working
all day OF course, l wanted 'em all to look