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ness and no money, d d if I believe there's $500 



in circulation in the hole United States. 



Yours Truly 



I reproached him for having broken his solemn 

 word about swearing. " Well," he said, " I tried not 

 to, but I couldn't help it ; times were so awful pore. 

 Why," said he, " I owed a man ten cents who lived 

 eighteen miles off, and he drove in one day and sat 

 around for over an hour when he said he wished I 

 would pay him that ten cents, as he had driven all 

 the way in after it, which would make the round trip 

 thirty-six miles for ten cents." He told this incident 

 to prove the scarcity of money in his locality. 



Last year a lumberman who had drifted into finan- 

 cial difficulties allowed three notes which I held 

 against him to go to protest. I was advised to give 

 them to a firm of lawyers in a neighboring town to 

 collect. So I drove over and found that the firm con- 

 sisted of two brothers, one of whom was that very 

 day in the height of excitement, running as a candi- 

 date for a public office of a responsible and honorable 

 character. After a chase I finally captured the other 

 brother and gave him the notes for collection. He 

 said he guessed there wasn't much use, but he'd try 

 his best; and putting the notes in his pocket drove 

 off. Last week I happened to meet the maker of the 

 notes, who was joyous over the fact that he would 

 soon be able to pay off his creditors and asked after 



