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 flatly. She then inquired whether or not I was a member of any social organizations or clubs in the city, and receiving a positive answer she offered me $3 for a testimonial, including the statement that Pay-Runa had been used by the members of the Southern Athletic Club with good effects, and raised it to $5 before I left.

"This female exhibited to me what purported to be a letter of introduction from ex-Governor, of Texas, 'To whom it may concern,' and

among other interesting documents sheets of letterpaper signed in blank by happy users of Pay-Runa, which she was to fill out to suit her herself.

No Questions Desired.

"Upon my asking her what her business was before she undertook the Pay-Runa work, she became very angry. Now, when a female is both very large and very large, the best thing for a small, thin young man to do is to leave her to her thoughts and the expression thereof.  I did it."

Testimonials obtained in this