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Show SAW HIS DUTY POINTED OUT Advertisement of John Ware Gave Valuable Idea to the Traveling Salesman. "While working through Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania recently I how an advertisement that ought to bring relief to a few distressed dis-tressed soula.' said the traveling ialesmau. "It beaded the persona! column col-umn and said: "He It hereby known to all my correspondents cor-respondents that I have this day de-it de-it roved all letters they would wish to be destroyed. JOHN WARIC "That notice was so extraordinary (hat I stopped over for a late train and c:illed on John Ware. He was a genial old man and willing to talk. He id he was a person to whom people voluntarily vol-untarily confided secrets; that many persons In bursts of confidence bad written letters to him which they no doubt afterward regretted having written. 'Sometimes they said, 'Destroy this;' sometimes they didn't. Anyhow, John Ware had kept niost of those Incriminating In-criminating letters. Hut now that he was getting old he had seen what harm might result from those letters falling Into strange and unscrupulous hands, and he had burned thrm and had taken that novel way of notifying his correspondents that they were safe. "That talk with John Ware set me thinking. The first thing I did when I got buck to New York was to burn a batch of letters." |