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Miller: he paid me Oi'f he said, "Who in the world are you, 

 anyhow?" 



I said, "I»m the postmaster of Richmond." 



He said, "Why in the world did you stay here 

 in these kind of conditions?" 



I said 1 had to. 



"What are you going to do?" 



I said, "I'm going to take that money and save 

 my stocks and bonds." And soon the depression was 

 over, and the stocks rose, and I was in good condi- 

 tion again, and I sold them and I ran for sheriff. 



This was one of the different ways in which I 

 accumulated a little here and a little there, and 

 of course as sheriff with, say, $6,000 a year net, 

 because I had all these emoluments and everything, 

 according to my income tax return. So it was in- 

 vested, it mounted up here and there, and I reached 

 the place where I wasn't wealthy but I could have 

 enough to comfortably live# 



And many other things we did. As soon as I 

 became sheriff I started a move to publicize the 

 state. The old spirit of congeniality and 



