The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-18

and put her arms about me and kiss
me so kindly. And none will ever know
how loved her for it. Tell her, How
ard, that she will never know, on this
earth, how much good she has done me,
and the memory of her and her gentle
ways will ever be an untold help to me.
Dear Howard, often when am with
you, 1 want to say so many things to
you, but feel too full for utterance but
surely you must know. Do not worry
bout Mr.. Reeds questions. He only
asked where you were, where you board
ed when in the city, if I was your as
sistant, and how long I had been with
you, and when you would return. He
called again last Monday, and acted
very friendly, introduced himself to me,
informed me you had been admitted to
the Warwick club, and asked for your
address. Dearest, pray constantly that
God may be very near to all of you i'll
this sad, sad hour. 1 realize too well
what the loss of her means to you, and
can only pray that God will strength
en- and comfort you as He alone is able.
Yours ever lovingly, MARTHA.
'Senecaville, o. Nov. IS. 1892
CLEVER DESCRIPTIVE WRITING.
Scarcely a letter was written by Miss
graphic and original description of some
incident met with in her travels. In a
letter from Buffalo, December 6, she
gave a clever description of the tussle
conductor and motorman had in put
ting a man off a street car. When the
trouble had reached the stage where
the obstinate passenger braced himself
and the conductor laid hold upon him,
Miss Smith was about to scream with
fright and suppressed excitement. She
thought she would faint when the mo-
torman ran to the conductors assist
ance and both began to tug, but she
shut both eyes tight and decided not to.
When she opened them again, she saw
a man in the street with bleeding face
and hands and tattered clothes, stoop-
ing to pick up a badly battered hat.
TALKS BUSINESS.
The following extract from letter
written from Rochester, N. Y, Deem
Der Is, 1897, shows that Miss Smith was
a keen, shrewd. business woman, and
even took advantage of such things as
scalpers' tickets in order to save. All
her travelling expenses were paid by
DR.. Lowry, yet she was so bent upon
helping him to make and save as much
as possible that she economical on both
street car and railway fare.
The extract is: you can't get any
scalps off of the New York Central rail-
road. You can't get anything but two
cents a mile straight. Not even if you
buy straight through to New York. My
darling, think it would be best to sub
scribe to Dun's the first thing, so if
anyone wants references when they pay
their So, I can refer them to Dun's and
it will be all o. K. Keep up courage,
darling; every cloud has a silver lining,
and Fudge loves you SO much and viii
help you. Perhaps it will be a little pull
till after Xmas, but things are bound
to come our way. Ever since Sunday it
seems to me can hear you singing the
tenor of that song in church. 1t just
rings my ears"
This letter went still further into bus
mess plans looking to their success and
explained details OF schemes by which
signed, Lovingly and devotedly,
FUDGE
DISAPPOINTED AT HIS GOODNESS.
In a letter from Buffalo. N. Y, De-
cember 6, 1897, she expressed disappoint-
ment that he had not eVinced more en-
thusiasm over a meeting that had been
arranged between them at st. Louis
few days ahead.
She says: MY Darling, My Sweet
heart: Why have you not written to
me. Don't you want to come to St
Louis very much, or what is the reason
you seem so Indifferent? 1 shall be very
glad indeed to see you. 1 want to talk
over something with you and see what
is best for me to do"
She revealed one of the little tricks
of her trade in a letter from Cleveland,
October %, 1897. In it she observed,
slyly:
Secured another order today at
$22. 80. The man just simply couldn't
resist the new set, especially since 1
gave my commission off and in order
to keep my orders up to usual numbers, |
as had been seriously hindered by the
rains this week"
A letter which DR.. Lowry's lawyers |
especially relied on to show Miss
Smiths bad character is one written !
August 8, '97, and ending as follows:
Destroy this when you have read it |
and don't forget to address me as Mrs. |
and not Miss. That would be fatal. |
Be careful of that. Care Mrs. Boden- |
hamer, 400 Broadway, Cincinnati
In the letter she had arranged with |
DR.. Lowry to meet her at her boarding i
place in Cincinnati. Throughout the |
spring, summer and fall of 1897, while |
Miss Smith was travelling for him, she !
and Dr. Lowry arranged six or eight !
different meetings. The meetings were |
at St Louis, Cincinnati, New York and |
at various other places in the vicinity |
of which business happened to call the |
doctor. Sometimes he wanted to meet |