Show 3 BY I 1 THE PEOPLE EOPLE i Editor Telegram How many chain I 1 letters have hav you had And how bow do they affect you It seems to me that ervery cry ery friend I I lever ever owned has started sending out chain letters and they all Choose me as an addressee I 1 am I flaked ked to send a dime to this and a dime dimet t u that and a dime to the other society and nd to send three six or ten more lett let- let t ts is to to other ther innocent victims and make them do the same sanie And It Is nothing to get several chain letters for fort I t the e same purpose purpose each bearing a aI plaintive nl plea that I do not break the I Chain ain as It means a loss of 50 dr r to the cause If I am so remiss If U I I kept up faithfully with all the c hains that have been wound around me me I shouldn't have timo time for very much lse Ise t And And It takes peculiar strength of ot mind nd and stoniness of heart to break those confounded chains One wanders i about with that dismal loss of dol dollars ars arsI o I I i ih h an irritated conscience and nd cordially cordially cor cor- cusses the sender who picked one out ut for a n. victim And nd with the full ll 1 knowledge that if one doesn't break 1 tho the chain all t the e victims on n selects 1 f oneself will be cussing us as cordially By one mail I received ved two chain letters letters letters let let- on behal behalf of disabled soldiers one for French orphans and a chain prayer for peace A generous response to them means two letters to send dimes one to send a quarter eight eighteen en letters to other victims considerable mathematics mathematics mathe mathe- ma matics ics in working out prop proper r numberIng numbering number- number Ing and the copying out of six long prayers to say nothing of a young fortune fortune fortune for for- tune in postage stamps A nice thing to let a busy man in for to say nothing of a Journalist who may mayor or may no not possess the necessary affluence to disgorge disgorge disgorge dis dis- dis- dis gorge dimes and postage st stamps ant and eat at the same time But behold the concluding plea Please do not break breal I the chain as it will mean a loss of ot to the good cause Was ever mora moral tyranny more ruthless And the conundrum i is Did I or did I Inot Inot not break those chains Y R R WOLF WANTS A CAMEL Editor The Tobe Telegram I have n noticed with considerable in interest interest in- in terest your campaign in behalf of an elephant I am of the opinion that a camel would be more appropriate con con- ering coming events A SUBS SUBSCRIBER CRIDER |