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Show day ho assumed his new position. ' " Nobody could accuse him of holding letters np to the light to 'decipher thuir contents, or of reading postal cards, because be-cause he was never seen doing such things; but in what other way ho could have acquired his knowledge of people's private affairs it was certainly difiicult to imagine. A lady in the village was anxious to have a message reach a friend on a cer-i I tain day by the boat which took tho mail to a neighboring town, and hastily writing a few lines on , a postal she signed simply her Initial and slipped the card with several letters into the tox. The next night when slip went for her mail the postmaster handed her back the postal. , , "1 saw, Miss Green,"he remirkcd, with a bland smile, "that yon hadn't finished that card, having left off with the first letter of some word, doubtless an important one. I know you'd slipped it in with your letters by mistake, so I saved it for you!" Youth's Coaipauion. j Too Tlionghlfal. In a tiny seaport village there was installed in-stalled as postmaster, not long ago, a man whom everybody hud alwa looked upon as a quiet, well meanfag person. ' who minded his own affairs. V hether ' his elevation to office changed his nature, i or only served to develop a trait of character char-acter which had long been waiting a chance to display itaelf, no one knows; but the fact remains that curiosity, of a most intense and persistent kind, seemed to take possession of him from the very |