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Show ARMOUR'S POOR RELATIONS. Ilie Bigr Packer TUg a Funny Story AbM One He Hasn't Hade Rich. It has been a matter of current report for years among board of trade men that Phil Armour has no poor relations, sayaj . Chicago newspaper man. "Ho -will' not allow any of thorn to reraein poor, ' a veteran of the board remarked by way of explanation of this unusual good for-j tuno of a rich man. "He makes them allrioh." "I have heard that story before, " Hr.-Armour Hr.-Armour remarked, with "a smile, when one of his friends asked him about it the other day. "But it's a mistake. I have enough of them." Then the big packer burst out in a laugh, and his friends knew a good 6tory was coming. "One of the poqjkind he lives down in Illinois is one of the most persist ent men I ever knew. He keeps writing and writing for money all the time. He is not a bad fellow, only improvident and if he displayed the same enersr in attending to business that he does in writing to me he would have been rich along time ago. Well, he kept sending one letter after another, saying that if he only had $500 he would be all right; He repeated this so often that one d2y I told my secretary to send a letter saying say-ing that if he would't bother me for a year I would send him $500. " "Well, sir," and Mr. Armour's sides shook with laughter, ' 'as soon as the mails could bring a reply I got it He Baid, 'Mako 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, saying the agreement was off because be-cause his wife hadn't been included." Mr. Armour seemed to think the whole thing was a great joke and especially espe-cially enjoyed the shrewdness of his poor relation. |