The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-04-27

~old oeraon Graham" Pork
Packer, Chicago. Writes 20
His Son Plerrepent
LONDON. October ~. $50
Dear ftarrop0nt Yours OF the
twenty =flrst inst. 90 hand and |
note the Enclosed clippings. You
needn't pay any special atten.
ton "a this newspaper talk
about 10 CumHtook crowd hay.
4 ina caught me abort hlK line
OF Nov einhsr lard. | never sell
goods without knowing where
I can find them when l want
them. and u these fellows try
70 put up their forfeit IN the
trough. or start any showing OF
crowdina. they're HataH 10 flnd
: me fuaAvttlnA my table man
! ncra, too. For when II comes 90
! MUMMY business I'm something
J of a humorist myself And
while I'm too old TO run. I'm
young enough 10 stand and
fight,
FIRST and last. a good many
men have gone cunning for me.
but they've always planned the
ohasduisa before they caught
the deceased 1 reckon there
hasn't been a time IN twenty
years when there wasn't a mics
\ "nassa Ajar" piece all made up
: and ready for me IN some offioe
near the board of trade. Hut
y the first essential uf quiet
y funeral IL a willing CORPSE. And
} I'm Ftiii sitting W and taking
noutlkhment.
There are mighty few people
who can see any side 10 a
! thing except their own aida.
= remember onca ! had a vacant
lot out on the avenue, and a
, lady came In 90 my office and
J On a soothing .sirupY way asked
! N | would lend it 10 her. a. she
wanted to build a erechs on q.
] ! hnstttAtsi a little because 1
= had never heard u ereche be-
: fore. and somewaya u sounded
sort Of foreign aud risky.
though the woman leaked like
a Eo0t. safe, reliable old hsiseF
hut she explained that a crache
was a baby farm. where OLD
maids vent 70 wash and feed
and stick pins IN other peoples
! chilffrn while their mothers
] were of At work or courre.
! there was nothing ia that 90 get
: our pastor or the palice after
J me. - I told her % - ahead.
she went Off happy. bat
about = week later she dropped
] w again. looking scot 81 diasat
] infied. Ca ftnd out II I wouldn't
build the crrcha Issslf It
seemed like a worthy object. 50
] / sent aauHr carpenters over 90
J Anuek ieHethss = la=e frame
! pavilion. She was mighty CRATE
ful. YEA bet. and I didn't see
] heF again FOR a forsAtk at Then
] she called hy % say that 81
long IS | was Ia the business
ana they didn't cost me any
] thiaE special would 1 naind civ
lng her a few cnWH She had n
surprised and Erievs1 expires
sion en- her farr as abe talked.
ana the way she paf u made
mo feel that ought % he
] ashamed - myself TT not haFs
] ing thought - The I've stocA
! myself So threw ia half a
dozen eows 20 provide the 70.
! frcshmnuta.
thought that Wa pretty
gop4 naaaH44ro. bot the Fafpen-
tiers hadn't mere thap finished
the pavilion hefgfe the wumHn
teirphnusd a sharp message o.
ask whY ! hadn't had u
painted
vas too basY that morning
90 quarrel 80 Z sent wnsit that
would - h ny. ard when l
was drlSinS - thsfe newt day
the psiHtsfs we're hard 81 usork
on IL There vas \ sfhty- fooi
fruutaHv % that shSli On the
Z -. .f.as- - - - - - :.
that n sssa fist a natural siEn-
board 20 called ever she
bosa rsinl@r and txf1s4n us W.
eroszd ~ = uire Mssls Al that
rsr spfusihsng Ike tbs
Graham'a Extract
NJ Nakas the Weak stEona
Well sir. Whst sis saw ths
al Hext aefufnE that cid hen
just SCRATCHED EfaYsi Nras Az
around town saying that 7 had
given i've hundred aullsr
SHE'D IN charity ana painted q
thooaa nj dollar al nn 81 Al
lowed ! Que ~ 60 ssnd nsy ch~.k
Tor that amount t. the rrsrhe
fsfud = srt sf u fiii I hogan
90 thtph there might he sufns-
! thinz In Il. aft~r all. ard sent
hsF tha Maf1ry Then I fOund
feiinN who wanted 70 build
In that nrfEhhorhnsd. srid hifu
the lot cheap. and suf out ~
] the rFeeha Industry.
From Letters rom 3 ser.
] Made Merchant 90 It's Son. hT
} George Horace f>orimsr Small
] Maynard a Co. iiastun.