The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-27
THE LETTERS PASSING
HOW PORK PACKERS DAUGHTERS HAVE MARRIED TITLES.
Japanese school Boys Adopt . Wise Method for Raising Funds for
 Soldiers Families.

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 | Washington, Dec. 26.-(Special. Ut may be far cry and a long squeal from a pg-pen to a dukedom, but there is no strain of rhetorical imagination in contemplating the passing of the | famous Letter family from Washing | ton. The Letters came to the capital mainly the women-folk of them after | the old man had grown enormously rich killing hogs. Since the comedy young women. with superior advan- tages of education and travel have been Illuminating society at home and abroad they have been succeeding brilliantly in making marriages with British persons privileged to appear in all the books of the kingdom carrying the English nobility.
 | With the marriage of Miss Daisy | Letter in this city today to the Earl of Suffolk there will be a passing of the Letters from Washington and America. Henry Molineux Paget How ard is the unvarnished name of the noble earl as it appears on his mar riage license. He gave his age as twenty-seven and that of Miss Letter as twenty-five.
 | Miss Letter made her debut in 1897, when the occasion was celebrated with much splendor and expense at the fam | ily's palatial residence on Dupont Cir | cle in this city. A sister married Major Campbell, of the British Army. Novem- Der 29. Major Campbell Is an aid to Lord Curzon. another Letter husband. in India. The children of the pork packer will have a chance to show what there is in American reared girls. no matter how and what their forbears did for a living.
 Touching Appeal from Japan. | A letter for His Imperial Highness the Lord Mayor of Washington was the other day laid upon the desk of Henry G. Mcfarland. President of the Board of Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia" As Mir. Mcfarland | comes nearest to the august designa- tion in the letters address. the missive was naturally delivered to him. The contents were found to be in the Jap- anese language. and the letter was sent to the Japanese legation with a request for a translation.
 The letter was found to be from a juvenile Japanese patriot, a school boy by name. Tajima Hisakichi, of Xii | lWakayama, prefecture Japan.
 Tajima writes that he and his school I fellows are anxious to raise money for the purpose of assisting the families of soldiers killed in the war. They find it difficult task, for SO many ot | the people are poor; nevertheless each | schoo1-boy Is trying to do what he can | and several of them, who have been collectors of postage stamps. decided to offer their treasures for sale for the benefit of the fund. It occurred to them in their conferences that perhaps they could get better prices for their stamps in foreign countries than in Ja- pan especially for such rare issues as that commemorating the silver we'd ding anniversary of the emperor and empress. As the boy writer had no ac. quaintances in America, and knew oi no one to whom he could appeal he ventured to hope that he would not be regarded as impertinent or a beggar for anything that the Lord Mayor could do for him he expressed in ad. vance appreciation and thanks.
 Commissioner Mcfarland and his as. sociates of the Board. touched by thi: little manifestation of school-boy pa. triotism have contracted to sell the stamps at good prices. If any one who reads this desires to show sympathy with the Japanese cause and especially with the patriotic school-boys of Xii let him send his contribution to Com missioner Henry B. Mcfarland, Wash. ington, D. C.