Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1889 — A Necessary Addition. [ARTICLE]

A Necessary Addition.

Congressman Frank T. Shaw was sitting in bis room yesterday busily answering letters and inquiries from his constituents, says the Baltimore American, lie was interrupted by one of the colored waiters of the hotel. He catne in timidly,and after considerable preliminary talkjthe waiter 1 mil ly told the doctor that he wanted to write a letter to a young lady in St. Mary’s, and wouldn't he please write it for him * Dr. Shaw is eminently a philanthropist, lie put aside a mass of letters, and getting all the necessary data from the waiter, wrote out the letter. Into it he breathed tender devotion and coy love, and when at last he signed the waiter’s name he felt conscious that he had written a letter that he might in other days have been proud of. He gave it to the eager lover. The waiter read it over?' Then he said: "Would you add one more line, please, doctor?” ■Certainly,” replied the good-natured member. "Well, sab, please just say: ’Excuse mistakes and bad writing on account of poor pen.’ ”