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Show ' -1 11 11 urn mi"1 " a-npnnfj-kj-uu ARMOUR'S POOR RELATIONS. STis Bis Packer Tells s. Funny Storj- Aboaft Ono Ho Hasn't Slade Eicli. It hf$s been a matter of enrreat report for years among board of trade men that Phil Armour has no poor relations, says a Chicago newspaper man. "He will not allow any of them to remcinpoor," a veteran of the board remarked by way of explanation of this unusual good fortune for-tune of a rich man. "He makes them all rich." "I have heard that story before," Mt. Armour remarked, with a smile, when one of his friends asked him about it the other day. "Bnt it's a mistake. I have enough of them." Then the big packer burst out in a laugh, and his friends knew a good story was coming. "One of the poor kind he lives down In Illinois is one of the most persist-' enfc men I over knew. Ho keeps writing and writing for money all the time. H6 is not a bad fellow, only improvident, and if ho displayed the same energy in attending to business that he does in writing to me he would have been rich & long time ago. Well, he kept sending one letter after another, sayiug that if he only had 500 ho would be all right. Ho repeated this so often that one day E told my secretary to send a letter saying say-ing that if he wonld't bother me for a year I would send him 500." "Well, sir," and Mr. Armour's sidss shook with laughter, "as soon as the mails could bring a reply I got it He said, 'Make it 1,000 and two years,' and I thought it was such a clover turn that I sent the money. " "What happened next?" "In about three months he wrote again, Baying the agreement was off bo cause his wifo hadn't been included. " Mr. Armour seemed to think the v?hole thing was a great joke and especially espe-cially enjoyed the shrewdness of his poor relation. |