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X2a5WSEQI3iw wwwjijiiWwyi j. .r JSfc1 - v 1 A .- ! Miy tllllll H ...,. ii. ii urn iiwiiinwwiirTrini'IHrfflrr'","frc'M":T?' w - s-r v- , . VJf -- THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1884. ZcUteI it Us ?est:Sei, Celaata, Hit., u tieeai elw Bitter. MOTHERS GRIEF. "All that Is left of my darling: Is hid in this little space.7 And the mother drew with trembling halts The drawer from its resting- place, And I saw a baby's garments. Fashioned with dainty grace Out of the finest fabric Edged with the richest laoe. And tiny, brigbt-hued stocking. And little 6hoes, half-worn,' And broken toys, and picture books That baby hands had torn. She touched them with trembling flngeri. Her eyes were filled with tears, "These are all" she said, "that is left to a Through all life's weary years. "These and a little mound of earth, - O, God, how can it be 1 That of all the treasures my baby had Only these are left to me. For hushed is tbe'merry laughter, Folded her dimpled arms. And hidden beneath the eoffin-lid Are all her countless charms. I could not comfort; my lips were duBtb; I could only her sorrow share. . Why 6hould I whisper of Heaven above. She knew that her child was there. She knew jt was "well with her little one," But she lonped to sec Its face. And to fold once more its precious form In a mother's fond embrace. And her heart will never be satisfied. Till the Kiver of Death is crossed. And she finds again in the other world The child that in this she lost. Mrs. E.V.WiL-iun,in Chicago later Ocean. BEAD LETTERS. 4neer Freaks r the Writers Tha "peaers" at Work-Aa Haar with the Experts The Ketaralaa Beparc saeat Sone Odd Nettaas. In my last letter we stpod for half an hour at the sorting table of the Dead Letter Office and listened to our guide as he told us of the different classes of letters that are sent here from all the . post-oihees in the country. We will - continue our stroll and note what is done with tllese fugitive letters. THE "OPEXEKS." "Here is where the opening is done,1' says our courteous attendant as we ap proach a long table around which are seated eight men. "Each has a pile of letters before him and is armed with a thin, sharp knife. With a rapidity ac quired by long practice, he slips his knife through the fold of the envelope and takes out the letter. A glance shows whether it contains an inclosure of Any kind. If it has money or any thing of value it is laid aside and passed into the hands of a clerk whose duty it is to take charge of such letters. Those which contain nothing, or only photo graphsas 50,000 every year do locks of hair and such articles, are carried, ' each with its own envelope, to the 're turn department,' which we will visit before we get through. "It keeps the boys pretty busy," says the guide, "to open letters as fast as they are carried in. In fact we are running behind in spite of all we can do. Each man opens from 1,500 to 1,800 letters a day. That man" Eointing to one who seemed to handle Dife and letters with a singular adroit ness "has opened 3,000 in a day, but there arc not many jfcho can do that. A VETERAN. "You see that old gentleman at the head of the table? His name is F. S. Evans. He is nearly eighty-three years old, but he is just as spry as any of them in opening letters. He was ap pointed to the l'ost-ofTico Department by Andrew Jackson in 1829, and with the exception of two or three years that he published the Baltimore Patriot, he has been here ever since. He has served this department for more than fifty years. He was oditor of the Palribl when the war broke out. Hewasstrongly opposed to slavery, and during the ex. citenient, early in 18G1, a mob com pletely destroyed his press, types, etc., and lie very narrowly escaped with his life. Mr. Evans has been some changes since he lirst came into the post-office." "Yes," remarks the pleasant-faced patriarch, laying down his knife for a moment, "I was here when two men did all the business that now keeps two hundred busy." I may remark in passing that the -employes are not permitted to converse with visitors. One of the clerks did speak to me and 1 replied briefly, or rather started to do so, when the at tendant gently took me by the ear, fig uratively speaking, and politely in formed me of the existence of this rule. I begged his pardon, remarking that T was but answering a question -by tne clerk to me. "Of course it's all right as far as you are concerned," said ne, "but that clerk knows what the rules are." I AT TIIE DESK OF A "GUESSEB." "All the letters opened at this table," he resumes, "are dead. They have "been advertised according to law at the various offices where received and re turned here as uncalled for.. Now I wUl introduce you to one of our ex perts, who I am 'sure will be able to interest you. She is the most skillful of those'who correct, as far as it is pos sible to do it, the misdirected letters, and deciphers the awful penmanship that has floored the postmasters from Maine to Texas. ItvUI leave yon with her for a little time. Ah! I see what you are going to ask. You may talk with her as much as you please; we make an exception to the rule in such a case." The sacrcdness of the mails is didy regarded in the highest degree possible, in all departments of the Dead Letter Office. No letter is opened if it can be delivered without it, to either the writer or the person addressed, in tne case of dead letters there is no alternative; they can only be opened and returned to the senders. But those bearing in complete or erroneous addresses, or so badly written as to almost set human skill at defiance, call for different treat ment. Many of the errors are easily corrected and the letters immediately forwarded to their destination. Others . - tax to the utmost the ingenuity of the experts. Sometimes a "guess" is made and the letter is sent off to try that ad dress. If this fails it comes back and another is tried. There have been cases of letters sent out four or five times, the result of as many different guesses, and finally, after months of wandering about the" country, being delivered to the right persons. Clerks are forbid den, on pain of instant dismissal, to divulge the material contents of any letter opened aud examined. But the lady to whom we have been introduced invites us to a seat beside her. We are soon convinced that she is most truly an "evpert." Her pleas ant face betokens the quick intelligence necessary to success in such perplexing employment. She retains in her mind the names of post-offices, the counties and States in which they are situated, and streets in the various cities to aa extent that is almost marvelous. v Thousands of these are at instant com mand, while for reference when neces-. sary, she has a library of directories. - Before her is a pile of letters gone astray for lack of legible or sufficient address. "They call us the 'guessers, " she gays, "but it isn't all guess work. Every day a thousand of these letters come in for us to corrector decipher the address. Let us look at some of those that -have, just been laid on my table." A FEW KIDDLES. Here is.-one directed to "Mooat Iael- la." She glances at it-foraaiaataat, . jpicks up her pen and "write 'ia red iak "Monticello." "There' cea't be jUKfc question about that," aae says, aa it into the box ready for re mailing. "Thta m ktMar nno Tt ma what can be done with it" The post office is written "Prank coalyoun." She looks intently for a moment or two, refers to a directory and write3 "Franconia." "That corresponds with the State aad county and I think it will "Now nereis one that should not hare been sent here at all. Any post master ought to be able to read that.'' It is addressed "Tappke, Kaace." J venture the suggestion that the design of the writer would he carried out or .sending jt to Topeka, Kansas. "That j undoubtedly right," says the lady, and the letter properly addressed is tossed into the box. "This one is directed to the Wood Countv Sentinel, O.' That paper is published, I believe, at Bowling Green. Thatis easily fixed. "Here is one of a kind that some tiates trouble. us. It has the street and number, but no city or State is given. This is directed to '2518 St Mary's Avenue, corner Twenty-sixth Street,' and that is all. I look at the directories and I find that several cities have streets so designated; but these streets cross each other in Omaha. So St Marv's Avenue, corner of Twenty-sixth Street, must be there. It is strange how thoughtless many people are in address ing letters, and then they blame the Post-office Department" because they do not go. There is more excuse for those who make mistakes through ignorance. We get a good many so badly written that we are utterly baffled; we can't make anything at all of them. Such letters have to be opened, and if we get no clew by that' means they are de- "This letteris addressed 496Tchoupi toulas Street,' and no city, county or State is given. But we know 'that street is in New Orleans and we send it there. Here is another with nothing but '210 Woodward Avenue;' that goes to Dotrojt If in an address of this kind the 'name is -a common one such as 'Washington," or 'Jackson,' we are at sea, for it may go to any one of twenty cities. By opeuing such letters we often find the full address, or some thing that enables us to complete it. "This is a comical one. It was evi dently written by an Englishman. He wants it sent to 'Evewood, Hillinoie," but 'Highwood, Hl.,r will do better and we'll send it there. "Look at this: 'Noragc, Conicut' We will mail that to 'Norwich, Conn.' The writer hit very closely to the way they pronounce it "Here is a letter addressed, as you see, in a verv plain business hand, to Crotry, La 'Salle. County, 111.' The nearest I can come to that in La Salle County is 'Ottawa,' and I presume that was what he intended. We'll try it "We can't do anything with this: Mrs. Rose Story, Montana. That will have to go to the openers. This is pretty good: 'Pat O'Donnell, State of West Sconsen, Oirentown, Sea Co.' I think if I change that to 'Iron ton, Sauk Co., Wis..' Patrick will get his letter. . THE HARD ONES. "In many cases it is not nearly as dif ficult to solve these riddles as might at first appear. If we can decipher the writing we can almost always make out in some way what the addresses are in tended to be. Illiterate persons, who have not mastered the intricacy of our post-office orthography, can only write from the sound as they hear the names pronounced. It is painful to think of the struggles such persons have with many of our post-offices, that often bother the best of us. It is not strange that people mike a mess of such bar barous words asJTpsilanti, Kalamazoo, Oshkosh, Skowhegan, Waukesha and hundreds more that might be men tioned. "Nowlet me show you how compara tively easy it is, sometimes, to correct an address that at first sight seems ut terly unreadable. Here is one I came across a little while ago. If you can tell at a glance what that was intended for" covering the corrected address "I will pronounce you a first-class ex pert" And it does seem as hard as the "fif teen puzzle." It is written "Ocreg, Alia. "Without hazarding a guess we turn an inquiring eye to the lady. "You give it up? Well, I don't won der at it We take a word like that and pronounce it in every possible way until we hit upon something that suggests the right one. It is evident that this word has two syllables. If we sound the 'O' short and the g' hard, we can make nothing of it We will try it an other way. We will divide the word on the first two letters. Now we will sound the 'O' long, the 'c' hard and 'g' soft We pronounce it slowly and we have something that sounds very much like Oak Ridge.' The State is plain enough, if it has an an extra '1.' There is such a post-office in Alabama, and I have no doubt that is where the writer wants the letter to go. This example will illustrate our plan of 'guessing' out these misspelled words. Last year 85,000 of these misdirected letters were corrected and delivered to the right persons. "You can readily understand that Ave have much difficulty with letters from foreign countries. They come ad dressed in alllanguages, and the writers make sad work with our town and county names. But you will learn more of this class of letters if you will visit the foreign department" V PICKINGS FROM THE ALBUM. Postmasters at the offices where these corrected or "guessed at" letters are sent are instructed, if the right per sons are found, to return the empty en velopes to the Dead Letter Office, bear ing the indorsement that the letters were delivered. I was shown a large album in which are preserved the more curious ones. I give below a few of them. The types cannot convey the" faintest impression of the monstrosities in the way of penmanship: WRITTKT. CORRECTED. Inscblantr. Mitchen. TnsUantL Mich. Lfeta Leuce. Oskaloosa. uingioun. Ewington. Jew Citty, CoNN. Jewett City. Conn. Mtsjfur Burt v ten see. Murfreesboro, Ttenn. bracill inda Brazil, ina. -Stewarts town. Newport. Centralis. 111. Buckner Station, Loui Suertson. Kewpar. 8tTulUa.iL Bugnor st, Lulca co. Ro Warty Dunwitty sa uo. Rowanta, Dinwiddle A3. Dountr. CotaeysurellbeltlmorcCockeysvJlle, Balti Co. morD Ontmtv. Indiana Polisind. Rehaner, p. o., of est Rouioun HilL AlBania. Sarogordy, Jole Co. Raura. Walega. Otcaty, Hamdon Co. Gt-Croesen. Lance berg. GwUfort. Pinicreak. Langbracb. HoudgoL Mustwinon. Fairfeld.hlway. Faref eU, Texas. KnewBirge,I.N.D. Ind dit oples. Cigako. Avestro. Pitcaie Bck, Cansees. BryfelL Alibimor. Indianapolis, lnd, Ravenna. Rural Hill. Albany. Ccrro Gordo, Jewell Co. Aurora. Vallejo. Arcadia, Hamilton Co. Great Crossings! Lawrcuceburg. GuilTord. Pine Creek. Long Branch. Houtzdale. Muskegon. Fairfield, Iowa. Fairfield, Texas Newburg. Ind. Indianapolis. Chicanro. Haverstraw. Pittsburg. Kansas. Brienfleld, Ala. THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. .Thanking the lady for her -kindness in so agreeably entertaining us, we pass for a few minutes into the department otioreign letters. We are pleasantly received by a lady of German birth, who is in charge of this room. We learn that two classes of letters are re ceived here misdirected and dead. Mails from foreign countries are lent to the United States chiefly "in balk," and distributed to our Baatereas post offices at the various seaport cities. From these large packages of illegible u mHMiirecreq letssro axe awius xor tae exaerts to wort; npoa. u m she essential that those employed in this department be versed in foreign lan guages as well as in the post-office no menclature of our own country. . Very many letters from Germany, France, Spain, Italy and other countries in which the English language is not spoken" are utterly beyond the power of human skill to decipher. These, with all dead letters mailed in foreign countries, are returned unopened to those countries. Letters from Italy are said to be more difficult to correct than any others, owing to the 'illiteracy of the people, and a greater portion have to be returned as illegible. Here are also received the pouches of letters mailed, in the United 'Slates to foreign countries, undelivered, and returned here as dead. These are treated the same way as other dead letters opened and returned, as far as possible, to the writers. It is a fact which, might at first excite surprise that more than three times as many dead letters are returned from the united States to other countries as are received from them. This is due to the moving of emigrants from place to place before they get finally settled. The same dis parity exists in the number misdirected and illegibly addressed. The superior intelligence of our people will, in a great measure explain this. Dead let ters are returned to and received from seventy six different countries. WHh the fifteen principal countries these ex changes are made weekly, and with the others once a month. Upn the floor of the room are a large number of pouches that have arrived by recent mails, and many of them have made long journeys. We notice sacks from Chili, Persia, China, Java and New Zealand, There is a grim humor in the fact that the pouches used for dead letters in all countries under the British Government are black the color that is always associated with death. Each month about 12,000 letters are re ceived from and 38,000 returned to foN eign countries. We will pause just for a moment as the lady clips the string around a pack age of misdirected foreign letters just arrived from New York. The first one is addressed only "923 Charlotte Street. Afnerica." The next one is but little less vague, "Conn.;Box 140, U. S. A." Another, marked "urgent" is addressed "Trumbull County, O.," and nothing more. Here is one with a heavy mourn-) ing border, mailed at Bristol, Eug., ad dressed, "Mr. Luke Tucker, between; Burwell Street and King, on York,' 344." After consulting the directory the lady thinks this should be Cleve land, and so marks it The experts here employed work in .tho same nauner as heretofore de scribed, with the added perplexity of the mixing of languages equal to the "con fusion of tongues" at Babel. As may be imagined, their skill is more often baffled. THE "RETURNING BOARD." One other department will entertain and amuse us, hut our stay must be brief. Ascending to a sort of gallery that extends entirely around the main office, we see sixty ladies at their desks. Their part in this wonderful machine is to examine the opened letters and to remail them to the writers, as fur as possible. Nineteen-twentieths of them are so returned. The remaining twen tiethamounting to about 00,000 per year are destroyed. The "openers" make no examination of letters, except to see at a glance whether they contain anything of value. This is all done by these lady clerks, who dispose of from two to three hundred letters each per day. In the great majority of cases the date and signature of the letter give all necessary information, and the letter, with its original envelop, is soon ready for its return trip. There are many in which the post-office is not given in the heading. In business as well as social letters the writer often uses perhaps a name by which the neighborhood is commonly called, or some romantic name which he chooses to apply to his farm or residence. In such cases the lack is frequently supplied by the post mark on the envelop. In thousands of cases when the letters are between rela tives and friends the signatures are of the familiar and affectionate sort, such as "Dick,""Sallie," Mother,' '"Sister," or "Ducky" all proper enough in their way, but quite too indefinite to be of any service to the examiner. Such letters are generally of no real value, and are of necessity consigned to the flames. When the heading and sig nature are sufficient the letter is not read, but the class mentioned are ex amined, as the body of the letter some times supplies the missing link. If found to be only a letter of friendship, and containing nothing of importance, it is quickly cast aside to meet its doom. If it relates to business affairs, or con tains information of important social and domestic affairs, such as deaths, marriages, etc.. all reasonable effort is made to discover either the writer or the person addressed. Frequently let ters of inquiry are written by the clerks, and information thus gained may be the means of the letter reaching its 'des tination. But in case the letter fur nishes the writer's name and address no distinction if made as to whether a letter is important or not, all are re turned. It is considered that if a person writes to his friend and gets no answer it will be a satisfaction to him to know that his friend did not receive it In deed the administration of the Post-office Department in every branch is gov erned by the idea, to its fullest extent, that it is wholly for the benefit and con venience of the people. QUIPS AND CRANKS. "Yes," says a lady with whom we are permitted to converse, "we gee many very touching letters that make us re gret the impossibility of sending them to either party. Letters between par ents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands amrtvives, often appeal to our sympathies. We are really sorry to see them destroyed, and the words of af fection, maternal love, admonition, sympathy or gentle reproof lost forever. We see many things also that are very droll and amusing. "Not long ago I had a letter, the only address upon which was this: 'To the Widder of Patrick Murphy, who Died sometime In The War.' "Another simple-hearted old mother mailed a letter directed simply to 'Mis ter Dave O'Donnell.1 Inside, at the foot of the letter, I found this: 'If Dave don't call for this, will the post master of New York City hand it to him at the first opportunity and oblige his old mother.' "Similar to this was one written to a man in London. Englaud. On the en velope was nothing but the name, and at the head of the letter was: 'A prayer to the postmaster of the city of London. Will you be kind enough to look in the directory and find where Mr. George Wilson lives, and send this letter to him?' It is by no means rare to find a request of some kind to the post master within the envelope. It seems as though some people must have an idea that the postmasters open and read all the letters. "Yesterday I bad one addressed to Miss Martha Patten, Steamer Bothnia, Ocean,' and, as unique specimens of orthography, one to JoseyPhine duf fey,' and one to 'Sharloot White.' "Could you suppose a man could write a letter and audress the letter to himself? I have seen three or four cases of that kind. A day or two ago I unfolded one containing a large dose of fine red pepper. It filled the air and set several of us to sneezing. The letter was a mean, spiteful one, the writer saving that he pat in the pepper as an expression of his feelings toward Uhe person addressed. 'Washington WY!m niMiMltmJ-trmnlrl W . WWVIilWIIW MffVf VMm FAIHI AND F1SESIUE. A c Jinptwt of. good muck with lime 1 as .Noiii tiniua buen 1'ouud as c Veclivo a-m:piui, load for load, upDii iightaad heary boils. C'fiicafjo Jouni-:!. If you arc doubtful ah;;t th econ omy of lining the finest j;o'aK(j ? for seed try'a bushc! at least nn.l see for your self which will produce the most and largest tubers. N. T. Herald. Green clover turned under Avill in crease the fertility of land five times as much as the same crop left on the sur face to ripen and dry up and then ploughed under. Western Agricultur ist. The Germantown Telegraph ad vises ordinary farmers to hesitate be fore building expensive silo3, but they need not hesitate to cut down tho ra tions of eorn and feed more roots. Farmer's Pudding: One-half pint of molasses, half a pint of water, two teaspoonfuls of saleratus, one teacupful of any kind of berries rolled in Hour; thicken with Hour and steam three hours. Raisins are nice to use in place of berries. K. Y. Times. Brahmas, sa3s an exchange, are often sick. In niuety-nine case3 out of a hundred the sickness is caused by overfeeding. They are naturally dis posed to lay on fat and mint be made to scratch around alittle for themselves. They are bad fowls to be kept in lots with other varieties, as they require different treatment To a farmer, the idea of currying a cow, milch or otherwise, is an absurd ity; but to dairymen, who have highly bred cows, who take a pride in their business and get the top price of the market for their produce, it is a matter of moment, in that it is known to in crease the flow of milk and the butter produce by ten to twenty per cent We say this is known, and will say further that it is so far an estiblished fact that few, if anv can be found to dispute it Rural World. Rasp the horn with a file to bring it to a smooth, even surface, then scrape with glass in the same manner as a shoemaker scrapes the soles of boots. This if carefully done will leave a fine, clean surface. Then rub with a piece of cloth and electro-silicon wet to a paste with water. Then polish with a cloth aud ovide of tin wet . ith water to a paste. Sometimes the horn is rubbed down for a final polish with French polish instead of the oxide of tin. Whiting and chalk in water is also used. Scientific American. A nice cup pudding is made from this recipe: Weigh three eggs, and use an equal quantity of butter, flour and sugar. Cream the butter and sugar, beat the eggs very light, and when all is well mixed pour into cups; fill only half full. Bake for ten minutes and serve with wine sauce, and have plenty of it A good way to make wine sauce is to melt two tablespoonfufs of butter, drain it from the salt which will settle at the bottom, add the grated rind of half a lemon, and the juice, also; white sugar to suit taste; let this come to a boil, then stir in one glass of white wine. xV. Y. Post. Variety In Fannin?. It is the idea of can learn to farm. many that any one Rut as there are so many branches of farming any one of which will require years of steady and close application to master by the best minds, it is deemed advisable for all farmers to avoid undertaking too many things. There are some vegetables; grains and fruits which have been raised so long and are so well understood that their production does not require so much study and can be used profit ably in making up a variety on the farm. And yet, these simplest things require active minds and close attention to business to produce profitably, and great care and thought to sell to ad vantage. But there are many things which re quire the undivided attention and study of the most active minds. It will not often prove a success if any man at tempts to carry on two or more of them at the same time. And while we would advise variety in farming, the diversity .should be so selected that this one great division snail not be neglected by the care and absorbing attention of others. The successful farmer is most gener ally a specialist It is not safe for a man to attempt to raise cattle, horses, hogs and sheep for breeding purposes, 'at the same time keep a large number of cows and run an extensive dairy, or raise cane and have a sugar mill, or go extensively into grain or raise hogs for pork. 1ms would be spreading too 'wide, and many, if not all the enter prises will suffer neglect. One man's capacity is not sufficient for all these complicated branches of industry. Bet ter way is for a man to make himself a specialist a success in one branch. Conquer it thoroughly. Nearly all men who have made themselves emi nent in the world have devoted their lives to one branch of study or indus try. There is scarcely a branch of farm work but is full enough for one mind, if fully mastered and made a suc cess. And this is especially the case with most of the new branches of farm ing which have been introduced within the last fifty years. If you will look around it will be .seen that previous to that time it was not expected or re quired that a farmer should be a man of hard study as well as hard work. But the new enterprises and plans of farming require the fullest exercise of both of these powers of man to keep abreast of the push and energy of the agricultural and commercial world, both of which are now required to be mastered to insure success. Iowa Stale Register. m Vitality of Dried Willow (items. During the summer of 1853 Silvester Piper, now a resident of Chicago, called my attention to a willow basket in a ditch, which had sprouts several inches in length all around it A curiosity bo remarkable possibly having no paral lel led me to take immediate steps for its preservation. 1 dug the basket up with the greatest care and found it to be a worn-out cast-away, which had done service as a basket until it had be come so badly worn as to render it worthless, when it found its way into a ditch at the base of the bank of the Illi nois & Michigan Canal, about 300 feet from the Bridgeport lock (now within the city), 'from whence I transplanted it with great care, placing it in a wet place in my father's garden; but, not withstanding its former vitality and careful removal, the shock was too great for the tender shoots and thev all died. The basket was made wholly or in part of unpealed willow, whose dried and withered .germs needed only the opportunity to return to life. I have often resolved to have the story of the "willow basket" written and placed upon record, while there were still living other witnesses than myself to verify it Scientific American. Workmen while repairing the old Whitman Hotel at Smithtown, L. L, recently discovered in an upper attic wnat was tne original slave pen or Smithtown before the revolutionary war. The room was lighted by only one window, about twenty inches square, alongside of the old-fashioned chimney, a structure four feet square, as it came out of the roof. It was par titioned off by means of slat doors, the slats being of iron, while the rafters overhead were thickly studded with harp-pointed nails. Under the eaves were found two old muskets and some old-fashioned iron implements snch as were used in the fire-place. H. Mail WIND m F 3 o p 55 o 5- V. CO CO .1 cc rr 3 fad r. GO K 1 THE NEW CASADAY is the lightest draft and plow in the market. -HALLIDAY- WIND MILLS. SUCTION. KOKCK AND Lift PUMPS. 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