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Show LET'S HIM8ELF DOWN EASY A "card of thanks" In tho Winftald (Kan.) Courier from n deflated candidate of tho legislature, reads & follows' "I cannot forego this opportunity to express my thnn.ks to those friends In WInfleld particularly, who 30 kind ly Intervened on election day and protested against my being dragged oft to Topeka this winter to Je exposed ex-posed to tho allurements of modern civilization. Knowing ns thoy did of j my constitutional frailtlos, mental weakness, moral characteristics und physical delinquencies, It wna an ex-ceptlonal ex-ceptlonal exhibition 'of Christian charity char-ity and a philanthropic devotion toward to-ward a fellow citizen who, under a thoughtless and Inconsldornto ImpOso threatened to throw himself Into the arena of political turmoil and unselfish unsel-fish dovotlon to the public .velfaro. Here In WInfleld, whoro I am Debt known, the larfect utoreat In my per sonnl welfare as manifested. What little usefulness and sweetness there Is left In mo at my advanced nge thoy wanted to be retained nt aotue and In our midst, .tnstoad ot being wasted on an unappreclatlvo nuM'.o. This evidence of devoted consideration considera-tion for my personal welfare will be a solace to the sunset of life. Surely the Lord takes care ot his own.'' |