the old settler 0 my dear san Jua ners I 1 my friend chris rhyne is one of the very finest men in my list of acquaintances he is not a swell dresser nand and sometimes his othes clothes cl look rather frayed and old but he pays his bills ha owes nobody and he has no bad habits babits no fault but one of which I 1 saad I 1 m make I 1 ake mention he speaks very spoor poor and broken english but he jakways always tells the i ruth and I 1 take delight in listening to him his furrowed old face is a fin fine e picture of honor honesty and manhood old chris as he is lovingly I 1 known was born 70 years ago in an obscure village of oan n rui rin western and he was I 1 afi f an orphan at the tender age of eight years before he was 15 he had made nis own way over cooj miles of land ari ani ocean to bah where he learned a new language got an a equate adequate working knowledge of a whole new system of operations secured and operated a faim successfully reared and educated a large family joseph legrand rhyne is one of his sons and holds two college degrees speaks blooded english and dr drus bs les es like a million dollars he was I 1 aborn born in one of the prosperous tans in the north of the sate and his father gave him lull full und and free access to the tha good schools from his early childbed child childhood bod joseph legrand rhyne owes big hopeless bills in a dozen places ile he I 1 is extravagant trava gant intemperate and as unreliable as a coyote and since ills his divorce his habitation is about as aj much in one place he is a fizzle a surprising ds disappointment appointment di sap to everybody who knows old chris now the matter heres where old chris comes in for blame he loved his son all right he loved him about as passionately as the little little girl loves her pet rabbit which she caresses to death much as I 1 am disgusted with that son I 1 know of no reason why he have been as good a man and perhaps a more useful man han ban his father if he had had as good a chance as hs father had stern necessity truthful in all its precepts taught the little orphan chris to earn his bread by honest toil and to get along without anything for which he was not able to pay nobody interfered to contradict the truth as it was presented by the little orphans faithful teacher but chris interfered with the development of his son and taught his son a lie if chris had taken his son at the right time in childhood and kicked him lovingly but swiftly in the pants and told him to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow or go hungry then joseph legrand scan daphyne would not have grown up with and still be holding to the notion that he must his bread smoke his cigars drink his slop and live his fast life by the sweat of some other mans brow ALBERT R LYMAN 0 ribe for thi the th i record