Show SLABS IDE GROWLS A Chronic Kickers Views on a Very Complicated PostOffice Regulation Siabaida was in a faultfinding mood when I met bun the other day He usually comes to me with his woes when i am very busy and invariably j corners me and hW it out whenever ho feels f he has some special grievance against thinysra he finds them The fool who invented the present plan of collecting postage on an un prepaid letter ought tohave a keeper he began when he was sure he bod me fixed so that I Could not eseape S him For example suppose you wrfto a letter at Sheboygan to Jdr Jay Gould New York asking hie advise as to whether you should go Icsg l on Western Union or sell it short fora turn and m the hurry of a moment drop tan letter let-ter in the box without putting a 2 cent sramp on it Now does the postmaster at tiheboygan send that letter along with instructionsto the poatmaoter at Jfeff York to deliver it and co1eot 2 cents from Mr Gould 7 No I guess not That would be expediting matters too much There wouldnt enough circumlocution about that sort ot arrangement ar-rangement to suifrsome people who are set up to help run this government Notwithstanding te importance of your unstamped letter and 5 our ex ce ding great impatience alufijyer the Siaaboygah postmaster sits down and calmly and coolly fills up a card to Mr Gould stating that a certa letter addressed to him and unprovided with the required stamp lies in the Sheboygan Sheboy-gan postofHce and that the same will be forwarded per address If the card be returnetd to Sheboygan in a sealed envelope en-velope and accompanied by a 2 cent stamp No it will Cqstrnire irovernnient just as muchto carry thWfc rdfot ribu ncation to Mr Gould as it wotrfd to carry 3 our letter bat the government I will cot tect that 2 cents in the most roundal jout way if ithaio spend dollar dol-lar tod < > iti t 1 V uTo g et your lettRrfxQm theShebdy gan pos toffee Mr Gould must spend a partof Insvaluable I tune which is sad to bewiorthabouta Wand 60 cents a minute enclosing the card and postage stamp ll an envelope anddtrecting it to ihepoat master at Sheboygan Suppose he does this in three minutes he is out aboutll t and SO cents in time to say nothing of an envelope and postage while yo u are compelled to wait about two wed ks for an answer to an impor ianfcfini mcial question that in the or dinary nurse of things ought to have comeire less than five days t iJ > Ir I alwt tys agree to anything Slabside says wh en he has a grievance against eociety or his government It is the only wa y to escape him at all Why nobody but a lunatic could ever ht ve thought of such a foolish plan I le continued growing warmer I and mo e earnest and motif impressive in his q tanner Ive had some exper ience vf ith the thing myself Some tune ag < 5 I i got a card from the postmaster post-master i it Sourappleville stating that a letter ad dressed to rue was held l in hIs office foi r two paltry cents and that it would b e started on its way when he received the eeded stamn VAIL f nm him the infl c rs fi postage and in the course of a week ralong came the letter 6er whichyby this time my curiosity had worked itself np to a fever heat and after aJ I that fooling and trouble and waste o stationery it was nothing but a blamed impudent dun from fourth class si J loemaker I had once favored with m y custom o the extent of 9aHd a half I should like to see men of sense p nt in office to run this government govern-ment bcott Way in Tid Bits i |