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Show Poetr- and Hog. The following letter has been received at the Erie Railway office: Barrinitiix, Cook Co., 111., Oct. 17, 1S70. Messrs. Fik it' UviiU: Gentlemen: The spi-insi of my youth and the summer of my manhood are slowly wasting into the nightfall of ace, and the shadows of the past grow deeper as if life were on its close. It is pleasant to look back, through the vista of time, upon the sorrows and clicities of years. If we have a Lome to shelter us, and friends have been gathered by our fireside", then the rough places of wayfaring will have been worn and smoothed away in the twilight of lite, while the sunny spots we have passed through will grow brighter and more beautiful when the vibrations of the pendulum of time have brought us to the evening age. In consideration of the lbregoing 1 earnestly folicit you to loan me all the money you can to grow and fat lings with. I will give you sixteen and two-thirds two-thirds 1 10 i per cent, for u : but you must wait two years tor your firit year s interest. I shall want it six years; but will pay the interest every year afer the first. Please answer this by return of mail, and oblige your humble servant. A. A. Ho.MKU. |