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CAWTAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1891
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Ice Cream
Ices, Cakes, Candles, Etc.
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ment for catering to private
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"Prompt delivery, pure goods
and reasonable prices" is our
motto.
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SUCCESSOR TO
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LINCOLN
axd usurer or rixmxmir,
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OF THE JWr AL SKKV1CE.
WELLMAN INTERVIEWS POSTMASTEH
GENERAL WANAMAKCR
Klght Thoiuaml I'lecru of Mull lHinlti'il
r.rtrt Mhiillo Alino.t Tnn IIIIIIiiiik hi
Ordinary Lattort a Vnnr ftlily.lliii v
Thoniand roitmattera.
ISpeclal CorrMpondetice.l
Washinoton, Sopt 8. A abort time
go I had n very Interesting talk wllli
Postmaster General Wntiittnnkur on tlx
great postal machlno which Undo Hum
keeps for tho accommodation of tlio no
pto I found Mr Wntiutnakcr etithu
alitstloorurthn tisefnlnoM, thatnagnltiidrt
mid tho possibilities of tho postal servlcu
"Thnro aro not many people," said Mr
Vaimtiinkcr, "who apircciiito tho vatt'
nesi of this service. Tho poshfHce do
parttnent Is not quite a hundred yean
old. It Is truo tho postal system was
tartcd under tho government In 1780,
hut It was not till 1701 that a pormatieiit
establishment was provided for. A
hundred years ago our postofllco carried
but 2,000 letters and pieces of mall per
day Now more than 8,000 totters and
packnges are dropped Into tho malls
every minute of tho year
"I often think of tho dllToronco bo
twecn tho postolllco department of 1760,
when tho lint pontmaster general under
tho constitution canto Into ofllco, and tho
natuo department of this day, Thou tho
postago on u single lettor was six cents
for thirty tnileni sixty miles, eight conta,
and so on at Increasing cost for greator
distances, till a letter curried 450 miles
or farther half tho distance from Now
York to Chicago cost twenty-llvo cents.
A single letter was not pormlttod to
weigh more than a quarter of an ounce
Not a dally mail existed uuywhoro.
There wore only 100 postofllcos In tho en
tire country Tho lougth of all mail
routes did not exceed i!,000 miles. Tho
eutlro annual revonuo of tho aervlco fell
far short of fW.OOO Then tho country
was sparsely settled and not much moro
than a wilderness Tho other day 1
Came across somo queer recommenda
tions made by Postmaster General Old
eon Granger lu IbOO concerning tho
transportation of tho mnlls between
Athens, Qa. and New Orleans. Hero
they aro:
"This imrt of tho ro'ito ought to bo surveyed
and marked nut, and cluftrml of trooi ami tin
durbrmh four foot wldo. It would bo rnthor
an Injury than nn ndvnnlngu to clear wider
than Is neumnry for a slnclo horse, at It Iim
been found to rncouruco n thick growth of un
derbrush. "iKu rhcr Is forty foot wldo and too (loop to
font. Tutu logi mar bo laid across It, so as to
enablo the rldor lu cross with tho mnlls upon
his back, and iwlm his horao nlongsldo. I'ns
cngnula river Is 2.V) yards wldo. A family lives
thcro and keeps a canoo. In which tho rldor
with tho mail should bo crosi-d, tho horso
swimming alongside tho cauoo,
"Four ears later wo 11 ml Mr. Granger
congrntc itlng tho country upon the
trcmciuh - strides made by tho post
office in -cdlting tho mails. Ho said
that whou"ti in 1800 It required to writo
front Portland to Savannah and receive
a reply forty days, It could In 1810 bo
done in twenty-seven days; between
Philadelphia and Loxlngton, Ky., the
tliuo had been shortened from thirty
two days to sixteen; between Philadel
phia and Nashville from forty-four days
to thirty and botween Now York nud
Canandaigua from twenty days to
twelve. This was Indeed nn Improve
ment, but their fast time of 1810 ftectns
almost laughable to us now,
"Whoa tho postofflco department was
about half a century. old," continued
Mr, Wanamakor, "tholocomotivo begau
to displace tho pony as a carrior of tho
malls. By that tlmo tho sorvlco had as
umod somo magnitude. Thoro wore
about 10,000 postofnees, post routes cov
ered 113,000 miles, and tho annual re
ceipts reached nearly $3,000,000, though
only twenty postoffices received dally
malls. But tho real growth of the postal
system has boou In tho last thirty years.
Since 16C0 the population of the country
has only a little more than doubled,
while tho magnltndo of the operations of
this department has increased five fold.
"We have now such a vast machine
that 1 hardly know how to describe it
for yon. lu the first place, we have an
army of 150,000 employees There are
63,000 postmasters, 10,000 carriers In the
city free deli vory service, 0,000 In the rail
way postofnees, 13,000 clerks, besides
mall carriers, inspectors and the em
ployees of the general office. We have
03,000 postoffices, aud tho total length of
tho mall routes In tho couutry, not In
cluding carrior routes in cities, is 480,000.
Every working day the mails travel a
distance equal to forty-one times around
the globe. More than one-half of all the
postoffices In the country are supplied
with a dally mail, aud the great major
ity of theso with many malls per day.
In the last thirty years our system has
mado great strides toward perfection,
"Tho free delivery service now takes
mall to tho doors of millions of citizens
from two to eight times por day, with
out extra cost That has been added In
tho last quarter of a century, as has the
great money order system, by which
from any one of noarly 10.000 postoffices
sums from one cent to a $100 may bo sent
to any part of the world with absolute
safety. The people use this system to
tho extent of $3,000,000 a week. Another
great step in postal progress was the de
velopment within the last thirty years
of the railway mall service In 1800 wo
used 37,000 miles of railroad for carrying
mails, at nn expenso of n little moro than
$3,000,000, with only 000 employees.
Now we use 100,000 miles of road, spend
$31,000,000 a year in the service, and
have 0,000 employees.
"Tho men employed in this service use
2,800 cars. In a year they travel (in
crews) 133,000,000 miles While travel
ing they distribute the enonuous, al
most Inconceivable, number of 7,000,
000,000 pieces of mail matter, besides
receipting for, recording, protecting and
distributing nearly 17,000,000 registered
packages and more than 1,000,000
through registered pouches. This great
task is performed with such care that
only four letters in 10,000 nro sent
wrong. This docs not mean that four
lotterg In 10,000" aro lost, only that in
distributing 10,000 lutters an nvoraga of
four mistakes Is made by which the
transmission und delivery of thoso four
missives may bo delayed,
"Considering t hu difficulty of tho work,
that every clerk must carry In his mind
tho most direct routes to thousands of
postofllces, theso conditions constantly
changing with changes of railway sched
ules and the tlmo of tho day at which
the distribution Is mado, tho result Is
really most wonderful, approaching
nearer the Ideal than any other branch
of tho public service in this or nuy other
country.'
"Are many lottors lost In tho mails,
Mr. Wanamaker'"
"Surprisingly few, indeed. Ninety
nine nut of a hundred losses nml non
deliveries aro tho fault of the writers
Hint not of tlio service The safety of
our malls is really most remarkable. It
Is estimated that wo carry in a yoar
1,8- 1,070,000 ordinary letters. Tho total
losses duo to carelessness or depredation
of employees was about 14,000, which
you can nco was a loss from this cause of
one letter In 133,500 What Is tho aver
ago money value of a lettor In tho malls?
That is something which wo can arrlvo
at only by comparison, as tho values of
letters aro not declared and officials aro
not permitted to iuqulro what lottors
contain
"It Is lutetestlng to know, however,
that tho average value of tho money tot
ters opened in tho dead letter ofllco Is
$1.0.1; of the letters containing postal
notes, $1.01, and of letters containing
negotiable paper, $35,07. Tho nverago
vatuo of all letters opened there Is twenty-five
cents and two mills At this aver
ago tho value of all tho ordinary letters
lu tho mail in a year would be $107,000,
000, aud of this great sum only $3,000 is
lost through carolessncss or crime on tho
part of employees Evon thin low ratio
of loss will bo greatly reduced now that
lottery letters, which tempt so many
postal employees, nro excluded from tho
malls.
"Now that 1 am on tho subject of
losses in the malls," continued tho post
master general, "1 will tell you somo
surprising facts. Of moro than six aud
a half millions of pieces of mail received
at the dead letter ofllco In n year only a
million contained anything of vnltio. His
almost incredible, but truo, that nearly
ouo-half of theso letters contained no sig
nature by means of which they could bo
returned to tho writers They consist in
tho main of letters from one member of a
family to another, and nro signed 'Your
loving husband, Harry,' or 'Your affec
tionate mothor,' or 'Your own little
wife,' and so on Last year thcro camo
to tho dead letter ofllco 11,000 letters
which contained lottery tickets, and
200,000 contained pictures and papers
unfit for circulation. Of courso all theso
were destroyed. Half n million letters
came from foreign countries aud theso
were returned to tho countries whence
they camo. Two hundred thousand let
ters wero restored unopened to tho
writers. Nearly 800,000 lottors which
contained iuclosures wero restored to tho
writers, and about three and thrco-quar-ters
millions were destroyed, it being
(mposslblo to find the owners.
"I wish the people who uso tho mails
could be made to understand that the
observanco of n fow simple rules would
greatly reduce the number of lost let
ters. A good practlco is always to scan
tho address of a letter beforo posting It.
All writers of letters do notcaro to placo
their names and addresses upon tho cor
ner of tho envelope, but if they would
do bo thero would be fow undelivered
letters. Wo couldn't by law or regula
tion require niTcctionate mothers and
wives and husbands and sweethearts
aud sons and daughters to sign their full
names, and have their address cither at
tho top or tho bottom of their letters,
but If they would do this a million and
a half moro letters would bo restored to
their owners every year."
Walter Weixman
A Story of Mrs. Potter.
New Yohk, Sept. 3. The gossip of
various sorts that has recently been
going the rounds regarding Mrs, Cora
Potter, the actress, recalls a singular
talisman which she carried away from
New York with her. On tho opening
night of "Antony and Cleopatra," just as
Mrs. Potter had taken her seat in the
bargo before making her entrance, a
young man in the company ran up to
her, and pressiug something into her hand
said: "Wear this about you when you go
upon the stage and your auccess is as
sureddo not lose it on any account."
Mrs. Potter opened her hand and saw
what seemed to bo a dingy piece of cord.
She thrust it into her girdlo and thought
no moro about it until the last curtain
bad fallen when she sought and obtained
an explanation from tho donor.
A waiter in n French' restaurant had
hanged himself that morning. The
young actor had a room over the restau
rant, and when tho body was cut down
he begged for a strand of the ropo. It
was given him, and having tho success
of "Antony and Cleopatra" very much
at heart, he divided it and gave Mrs.
Potter half. A piece of the cord where
with a man has hanged himself is said
to never fail to bring good fortuuo to
Its possessor) but to part with it Is cer
tain disaster. The houses were packed
during tho Now York run of "Antony
and Cleopatra," and when tho fair Cora
sailed away her uncanny talisman was
securely nailed insido one of her trunks.
'resident Harrison.
Secretary Halford says of President
Harrison that ho has developed a very
remarkable facility for turning from
one thing to another, and for keep
ing a half dozen things running In
his mind at once. Any man can do
this who is put in a placo where ho
mustseo scores of callers every day, one
right after tho other, each with a new
business to discuss. To this quality of
tho president's mind, this easo of turning
from ono thing to another, and tlio cor
responding easo with which ho relieves
his mind of everything when tho time
comes to do so, and to rest or sleep, I at
tribute the remarkably good health
which ho has enjoyed since ho left lu-dianapolis.
OELIQHT8 OF YACHTING.
tljr a Fallow Who Wat Taken Aboard
for llaltast.
1 assisted at a yacht race about ten days
go, and tho doctor says that 1 may sit up
In brd now and wrlto an account of it. It
Is believed by thei general public that I am
drowned, but my physician Informs me
that this It not truo. Many letters of con
dolcnco have Won received by members of
my family and placed on (He. Ono Is from
tho captain of tho yacht that I sailed on.
He closes by Baying that It must be a great
comfort to my friends to reflect that In life
I mado as good shifting ballast as he ever
used, This captain is a rough seaman, but
It will be noticed that his heart Is on the
right sldo. I regard him as a physiologi
cal phenomenon.
My weight, at times when 1 have not
recently been drowned, Is about 310
pounds They wanted mo to sit on the
windward side to keep the yacht level, aud
I was expected to hIiik "Larboard Watch,
Ahoy," "White Wings" and "The Wreck
of thu.lulc I -a I'lanto" at stated Interval.
I did not know theMo songs, but 1 gave my
pants a hitch and sang "Gathering In the
Sheaves" In a manner that made tho cap
tain look sad
We carried about half nn acre of canvas
and plowed tho billows merrily. This
caused mu to sing a few vorncs of "The
Plowboy' .loy,1' which everybody pro
nounced timely and approptlate. The
captain said that everything depended
upon mo. I was to He flat under the wind
ward rail and Iwardown hard. Ho Bald he
would llku to have me weigh as near a ton
as I could. I was admonished to avoid
drawing lu long, deep breaths as much as
possible, because air was light and It would
not do for me to Iw making a balloon out
of myself at a critical tlmo liko that. The
tnato suggested that 1 might do all the
breathing that was necessary when the
yacht was In stays and hold my breath
when slie was on a tack.
At about this Juncture tho yacht cap
sized There weru live llfo preservers nn
board one for each man. Tho reader who
does not suppose that 1 possessed myself of
those life pieservors in a hurry does not
understand my grasping nature. I shout
ed to the others that I would try to nave
the life preservers If they would endeavor
to rescue tho pig iron that was Inside of
tho yacht. Then I kicked myself free from
tho wreckage and floated oil. Our noble
captain was the last man to leave tho
yacht "Savoyoursolvesr'liocrled. "Never
mind me. I have no wife nor little ones
at home.'
This was true, for his family had gone
to Ypsllautl on a visit. Then this self
sacrificing man took a largo chow of to
bacco and calmly waited for a boat to
come aud take him off. Ho knew that
tho yacht had air cans enough stoycd
away to float her, but ho didn't want any
company.
The other memhers of the crew overtook
me and seized all of the llfo preservers. 1
am Informed that my retiitlns wero subso
qucutly recovered and wore "worked" for
all there was In them by tho llfo saving
crew
Yachting Is a manly aud pleasant diver
sion. Therefore I havo bought a farm in
the Interior of Kansas. Horvey Smith
Tomer In Detroit Krce Press.
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Mrs. Bingo You know we ladles aro
anxious to do all we can toward building
the new church, so each ono of us has
agreed to deny ouruolvcs tho privilege of a
new gown.
Mrs. Klngley How self sacrificing! Have
you subscribed
Mrs. Bingo Oh, yes; 1 got the money
from my husband the first day. Clothier
und Furnisher.
"How Long."
A siory Is told of an old negro woman In
Alabama whose extreme age and helpless
nets caused her friends and neighbors to
supply all her needs.
bhe was very grateful tor all such atten
tions, and never failed to express her grati
tude in original language.
Olio day sho could not sufficiently thank
the sou of her old master, who hud brought
her some choice grapes.
"You Is powerful good to a pore old
'oiuan like me, wid one foot In de grabe an
de oder a-cryin out 'Lawd, how long, how
long' "Youth's Companion.
Sanitary Itana.
Dr. Fowler having had occasion to treat
the family of Sam Johnslug for malaria,
remonstrated with Sam for having the pig
peu so near his residence.
"What's de reason I ought to put de pig
pen furder away from the house" asked
Sam.
"Because It ts unhealthy," replied the
doctor.
"Reckon you Is mistaken," replied Sara;
"ilnt peu has been dar for two years, and
dar ain't been no sickness ylt among de
hegs." Texas Slftings.
Not Treating- Him night.
Bell Boy You gave mo an otd pair of
trousers this morning that you said you
didn't watit, and I thanked you for them.
Guest Well, what of It
Ucll Boy 1 want to tako back the thanks.
1 havo Just found out that you didn't leave
anything In the pockets. Clothier and
furnuner.
Itetiirn of the Wanderer.
It was a stiver headed sago.
With bend bowed down bofore,
His palsied hands could scarcely lift
The latchstrtng from tho door.
A parcel In his nrms had he:
'Thus nil that ho could bear,
As ono by ono his footsteps fell
Upon tho creaky stair.
Mo mounted up four flights, and then
Ho paused, ns If In doubt,
Uefcre the door, ns though he t-pped
The tenant would be out.
lie knocked, And as nn aged face
Peered out, ho spokci "Say, Jock,
I hopo you'll pardon this delay,
Pro brought that dress suit back."
Tom Mnson In Clothier and Fnriilthsr.
Fret Work, Screens and Panels
CABINET WOU.C OK ALL KINDS TO OKDEIl.
Foil Line of 7 HNTELS Always In Stock,
ARE SHOWN IN OUK NEW WaREROO.MS.
NEBRASKA CABINET WORKS,
COUNTERS AND WALL CASES. 1224-28 M Street.
Opened Jan, 1, '91,
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The only road to the Great Hot Springs
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