The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-04-08

and depaseP hn1 near a
hand, but I am siok and canIsot hs..;
YOU this spring. am weak and don;
want to strain my smind: i haven,
been u = the honse but twice il
three months. Ny vile and The aas
tor watch me and won { let me 20. 4
few weeks ago I slipped of 70 d,
daughters one pleasant evening an;
had to be hauled back in 8 buggy. Is,
it is up hill 70 nv house, and va,
weaker than I thought. You see ]
had q sunstroke last june and, have
never reooveredff r0m il. Every night
If the weather 90 bad, these 10 gos s.
about midnight and sit by the fire and
cough for al hour OF two. But 1 oar
answer letters and have froma dozen
to . score every day. Is plesass me
to answer theF. letters OF the young
folks, for many of them need helm.
know that Ibid when I was away
of at school. MY father was an old
school teacher and knew how to helm
me. He wrote nearly all toe nay junior
orators speech and ! got credit FOR it,
though I only crossed the rs and dot.
ted the is and PINT rsy name 10 the
end Of il. But there are hundreds q
boys and girls who have mo help and
am sorry for theG. and SO fofs many
years past I have tried 20 hslp. them.
Some Of them inst want help little,
flew ideas, bpt others want the whole
thing. In fact. one boy asked me ID
write him two SO that he could take
choice. Many e them forgot to en-.
close a stamp and my postage account
got to be such q burden that. as Rim
Van Wrinkle said,iFs. ssote Off and
GUT aas"sT.lg 5uUh iietJefs. Il is
bad manners to write:toa man on busi-
ness that does not concern him and
expect him to pay the return postage.
l receive many long manuscripts with
request to read and critioise and return
and tell where TO have published and
what the writer will probably gst paid
for them. I have two on hand, Just
received-no stamps epclosed-one Is
a grammatical curiosity. Hardly a
line that does not contain bad gram
nar ora misspelled word. IL takos
nearly half . line FOR the word Hspec-
t%acles'' and il has fourteen letters id
it. The word angel is spelled angle,
and yet the writer expects to get paid.
for the story.
The other manuscript is an inquiry
into the race ~problem-nc s.saspsA
and it contains seventeen questions.
te. me 70 sHsHszsFsl.aoshsr long iet-:
ter on FOOLS cap writes OF The good
old times and says in conclusion that
If | will answer Is ha will vri.e me-.
again and put Els name TO the next
letter. There is NO name to this. He.
is an Irishman, reckon. One other
request I wish e make sHont sss.ers.
Please placesyour postoHice addreas
plainly at the bottom. Mary . time
| have passed lettetall around the
family trying to- decipissr the sigma.
ture. Sometimes Ihave out the signa-
ture of and paated il on the back Of
the reply, thinking thas probably the
p0stmaster at theSwriter's home would
recognize il. IL thspostofioe isomit.
ted and the postnark oE the envelope
Is blurred, as Il frequently ID, IL is
impossible / know where reply
should be aent, andsifI guess at it
and guess wrong il goss 10 the dead
letter Office. Nov you yonng psoDle
must not forget these little ssinas, III I .a
they are important especially tha
stamps. Sometimes us literary men
are greatly psrplexed to know what
to do with sorns lettsras lOne moro
request. Do . tWrite TO me at Allan
"a. do NOT live theYe. NY homo Isl
C~artersvills, and I thought everybody
knew it bysthia time. have been
living here over twenty years. &
And now let me ak tho good chari-
table ladies who seek so5do somsthsng
some good Sauae 10 asndno Iaore
ehain letters To ME. They
are a nussries and hare annoyed me-
q thought that Whoa shat
common oh atand swindler, Joel s.
OF Monticello, Ela. was broken up aha
arrested the endless chain buSiness
had stopped, but of late is haaeseviv
% and received shrss last week.
one OF then startedi iii Canada For q
.so-called missionary work and got All
sae way down Iiouisiana ana from
20 ne. venting me 10 copy two
letters and aandt ter cenfsin OhAsts
name and uades nd cirsussances Id
break tha ohains q pns lis