The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-04-13
A WARM REPLY.
Copy Of Letter Written to the Sprasue Collect.
ing Agency in Reply to one Of Their Duns.
HELL's HALF ACRE. Ga, July Z, 1897.
Sprague Collecting Agency,
No. 210 La Sale St.

Chicago, III.
Gentlemen:-Your sulphurous letter
received, in reply will say it came open,
with one cent stamp on it. 1t afforded
the boys much amusement, but when the
melancholy thought came back to US that
you had no better sense than to abuse,
SANDER and dun gentleman in an open
letter, our sympathy knew no bounds.
Now you speak of honor. If you are a
lawyer, you know not whereof you speak.
If you ever saw an honorable lawyer you
have hair on your teeth. You speak OF
giving me considerable trouble. Great
Lord have already had enough trouble
to send a brigade of YANKEES to hell fifty
times, you say you are surprised at my
actions. Z you knew what know, you
would not be surprised much. Now ]
will give you few facts in the case, and
then if you are surprised at my actions as
regards the Leasless Oil Co., you are
undoubtedly the worst set Of fools God
ever let live on this earth.
To begin with, in 1883 I bought saw
mill on credit, in 1884 bought an OK team
timber carts, chains, ETC., pair OF Texas
ponies, gold watch, breech loading
shot gun, Winchester rifle, a amilch cow,
a pair of fine hogs and hired hands to dig
a fish pond.
In 1886 mill, gin and press, corn mills
burned fiat to the ground and never left
me burned thing. hired my only horse
to some Internal, insignificant, prognosti-
Gated Jew drummers, and they killed
him. Then Joined the Farmers ALI
ance and the Methodist church, took the
homestead and benefit of the honest
debtors relief law, and had my applica-
tion wrote out to join the Masons.
Nv father died and my mother married
niger, and my brother Jim was hung
for stealing. In 1885 my sister choked to
death on button, and had to pay the
funeral expenses. In 1888 was trying
to make q shelter and let it fall on me and
ruined one of my legs, in 1889 got burn
ed out again and took to drink, and soon
run through with the interest on what
owed, which was all I had left at that
time.
Then I warnded around and sold ma
chinery, and dead beated the people until
1892 when crossed the dead beat river
and was taken with an ungovernable case
of spasmotic asthma which run into
heart disease and dropsy and I have been
down sick ever since year ago, and my
family is now in want. In 1898 my wife
run away with another man, and don't
care continental cuss what nobody does
or what they don't do,
Now, if you feel like tackling me, pitch
in. but my private opinion is that you
had better wait till I die, and buy my
carcass to make Octagon soap OF, but
don't forget I am not dead yet, or at least
have not been notified. You speak OF my
making no effort to adjust the account.
ri swear if turkeys were selling for ten
cents piece I couldn't buy a jay bird.
You asked me if I expected to receive fair
treatment under the existing circum-
stances. I answer no, by Juda Priests, l
don't expect anything only death' hell
and obstruction showered down on all
LAWYERS, merchants, doctors, and all other
humbugs, deformities, etc.
Good by, got to 60 to bed.
Respectfully, G. W. s.