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Show WAT REESE WRITES BACK Tells about his trials and tribulations. Offers Good advice to young men. KDI'IOII ISlJI'l iii.ii as Deal Sit: I have leeehed initio lettei from ftlunds or mine In I.ouan telllnk' me that most uery body Is anxious anx-ious to know of no wlieic.ibonts, and stale futther that If they knew they would have me bioiik'ht luek to Lo-Kitn. Lo-Kitn. They fin titer saj that If I will wnteto them they will let no one know whcie 1 am. Well, I novel was afiald to let anyone know wheie 1 was oi what I wasdolnir M address Is Wat Iteese, Vancouvei, I! U, at tlie piesent, so If anybody wants me they can veiy easily Hud me. The leasou 1 left the way 1 did was because my little boy had run away rr oil) h'Meand I thoiik'ht I mlk'lit llnd him In San Kianeisco, California. Anothei thlnu when 1 bought the Iliiuiswick saloon 1 ak'ieed to pay all bills amountliik' to tl.010. As time lolled on bills kepi coming in to over t.t.ooo, which I nevei did pay and nevet will. I thought the best way was to sell and put my mind at test, which I did I settled with most even body I was ow lug since 1 went Into the saloon business, except one liquor dealer, and 1 settled with him in Officii when lie had ShcillT Itigby stop me llicie. I owed Mr. Langton lor it buggy, but I left him a note stating that I would settle witli hltn in six weeks, which 1 intend to do. Theie wiis also one other bill for W8 which 1 intend to settle light away. 1 paid out over 400 tlie day 1 leit Logan, and I can't see who could have started the story that 1 skipped and owed everybody; for that i did not do. I will admit th.it I am a bad egg, and do lots of things that ate not tight, but I do hate to have people to whom 1 hae tried to be a friend to spread news like that, when the know It Is false I intend to come to Logan with plenty of money In the spilng and settle set-tle down and make a man out of myself, my-self, If such :i thing is possible, foi I acted anything but a man tlie hist time 1 was theie. Still I did nothing tindeihaiided liut a saloon is a hell on eat Hi and bad booe makes bad heads. I would rathei staixe than be in tlie saloon business again. My ad- ice to all tlie young men of Logan Is to keep itw ay from till such places If j they eei want to bo happy and make i any thing out of ihcinsehes Some people seem to think that 1 am happy and hae an easy time, but Just tnin some young man out into the woild, uneducated and without a ttadc, with a family and amongst sli.iugcis, he wIIInooii long for home and father and mother. The life I have led foi the last seventeen years makes my blood run cold when 1 think of It, and the next time 1 come to Logan, if the people will icspect me and give me a chance, 1 will show them that a man can Jump ftoin the guttet to be a man once again. Hut let a man get down as I have, and with no one to speak a good woid, and ovciybody seeking to make him blacker anil blackci, you will lind that It Is haul to walk witli your head up. No mattei whethei I do right or wrong. It Is all the same to some people, they will say the woist they can anyway, and to live a life down that 1 have been leading a man needs a little help and a kind woid once in a while. Sometimes, with a little eiicouiagemant. such a man will tiy to make a man out of himself and not a saloon bum. Well, I suppose If you publish this lettei, people will say I am eiay but I have a good heait In mo and it hints. me to be the mouthpiece of oveiy body, w Itli not one to speak a good word and most of them would lie about me If the titith did happen to be In my faun. Well, dear friends, 1 have been wandering around California for a few weeks but am hard at work Hying to live down one of the wotst habits tiny human being on eatthever had, so a kind lettei from a Mend some time would not hurt you and would help me to tiy and make a man out of mj-' self 1 remain, as ovei, Wat Kki:si' Vancouver, II C |