The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-23
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] be on the road most of the time. This ! left the buying to my partner The ! trouble was that he wasn't any kind of a buyer. If a salesman came along with cock and bull story about sick wife and a dozen or so starving children Shiuu would buy a bill of goods of him whether we wanted them OF not. The consequence was that ev- cry time came in I found the stock growing in spite of my efforts to re duce 1t.
 Well. the result of it all was that weeping drummers finally succeeded in turning the store Into a junk shop, and We had to quit. Shlun, as ue should have done offered to stand the loss. giving up all the capital he'd put in. acknowledging that the outcome had been entirely his fault If l could have closed Up at once his money would have been juat enough to square us. with no loss to me. but the very day We closed along comes a one leg gcd-commercIaI traveller he called him self-cOusumptIve. wheezing through one lung. and Sh.un had to order $500 bin of him. We closed the order out at about 60 cents on the dollar, making a deficiency Of $1S7+2. This Shiun agreed to pay as soon he was able.
 "Shinu was a bachelor and removed from bis rooms in am apartment house to a little shauty. I sent a man around to collect his Indebtedness. but he came back empty handed. l sent another with orders to be more persistent and be came back. reporting that the door had been slammed lU lIs face. l used tO see Shtuu occasionally on the street. He looked mor0sc and shabby One day saw him give a quarter to a beg. gar. That made me mad. IT he had money to give ~ueh uulsauces he had it to pay hIs honest debts. hired 8 reg ular fighting collector and sent lim round Co Sh.uu's slauty He came back wlN his bead baudaged mp, a black eva and swelIej ID. to say nothiug-af the loss of suit of clothes.
 -I hired several men in succession to gO and get into tho house and stay there till Sl.un came down with the funds. Tho 5~s, 0ue that came back reported hc'd been thrown out. tue sec. ouL shared the sane fate and the third and the fourth and SD on likewise.
 Then 1t occurred to me that I'd send a woman. You see, a man cant fight woman. and there never was a w0man yet that couldn't get the better of man if she wanted 10. There was no womQu's collecting agency iu the town, so l told several friends of mine that I'd give halt the debt Co any woman who'd cOlleCtit.
 About a month after making the announcement a young. good looking woman came to see me and said she'd heard l wanted a debt collected Of Percy Shluu. She didn't look like a business woman at all. but l concluded tc try her. So | gave her an order for themoucy and started her out
 Tt was 8 o'clock when she left me, and waited with d good deal of auX- lety to learn how Sllun would meet this new enemy. expected her back .u about au hour Four o'clock came, but no collector ., 6, [, aud she didn't show up. h fact, sue didn't show up that night nor the next day nor the next G9r the next A week passed. and I began t1 thiuE Sh.un had murdered her Funny wasn't it: Ev- cry mau I'd sent had come back after having Deeu thrown out; the only wO- man Td sent a.Jut Come back at au
 Then l lauo.eI maybe the woman had collected the money or a part of it and gone OF with lt. At the same time it occurred to me that l had suupIdIy omitted to take her address. 1 con cluded to notify the police and started ont to do SD. but thought Id take look on tine way at Shtun's house. So I went a roundabout way and brought up opposite the shauty. Somehow it didn't loDE so tumDleL0wu as before There were white holland shades In the windows and a few flowers in the yard 10 front
 A woman came out of 8 house near where l was standing, and l asked her who lived In the house opposite. She said. Mir. SLlnu.' 'Aug one with hlmT Ills wife T didn't know he was married He wasn't u short time ago There's 8 story connected with it. Mir. Shinn owed some old curmudg con some money and sent a young wo- man to collect it. She was real smart. She told him she was to get half the amount collected: that she was the Ou- ly support of a widowed mother and seven brothers and sisters. She gave such Q pltiful picture that Shiun. who had been a long while starving himself to pay the debt and had just saved the last peuny, went and got 1t and gave it Eo her. You see somebody had told her what kind of man Shiun was She was so cut up by his lovablc man. ner that she told hm to keep the mon ey for all her and be said he would keep 1t till his creditor came for It himself. It wgs one Ot the quickest r7e+7bae oyer hoard OF They only