Show UNDER COVER LETTERS I Lnclc Sam IpietN Ilans to Deceive Tlirotifirh the Mail Many awkward explanations would be saved many a young man wouldnt make a ninny of himself while llatiering himself him-self that he is i n hero in the eyes of some fall damsel if he knew of the existence of a little postal Jaw elating lo letters hich postmasters receive under cover with a polite request that they be mailed by him Yet every month there Is received mlst ceived at the posomce I In this city letters from peisons In other places with the trtr request that they bfe forwarded Tjgjllus Mr A who Hvts in Albany floes not care to go to Troy us he promised Mr B or Miss C that he would He laIn a predicament and thinks nimself hujfflib prrlcent he can make nls employer kt or friend believe I that he has been unexpectedly unex-pectedly called out of town In f 1UT and 6 he sits down and write atciever little letter l date at ltc N acever telng Miss C that hiim41tlearest ntint is seriohsly ml Cthi d fst ill In this cIty He was telegrphfi to come Imnieshiutehy nn l UUilnCiJUUULI V Wclll not fuinil his enBaseoient lor this evening even-ing Is very sorrjr etc Then he encloses It in an envelope addresses anu rUmp l eg Sea or tl It as usual anu encloses the whole in a second envelope t with a note Addressed to I I k4 t I the postmaster in CUca asking him to kindly mail the enclosed letter Of course the postmaster malls the letter but not until he obeys a certain postal law which was intended to expose such frauds and when Miss C in Troy received the apolog and explanation the envelope which contained it was indorsed in red Ink in this style Received under cover from Albany N Y to be mailed at this fflce Utica N Y FeU 2 ISM Thee The-e was nailed In red nk on the paper which carried i so plainly and undeniably tat time next time truthful lames called his i reception was not entirely unlike an Ice harvest in a parlor The government will not allow the malls to be used for wi alow use fraudulent purposes We receive said Deputy Postmaster I 3hilleo several of these under cover letters a week Sometimes there is a note accompanying i saying that it is a little joke which the sender Is carrying out Often we believe that to be so that no ham will come of it but that does not excuse us from indorsing them as undercover under-cover letters and they are all marked in that way Other letters we receive wit out any note or explanation the sender assuming I suppose that we know what to do with them We keep a record too of all such letters which we have forwarded for-warded by keeping the cover in which we received them with a memorandum of the case ce Another postoffice oflicial said I we Anotwr lstofce could read the under cover letters which pass through our hands and trace them up we would be able to fill the newspapers news-papers with sensations Most of the under paper cover letters received a addressed to ladle In male handwriting and there is no doubt that deceit Is Intended Ladies receive the most protection from this law and it causes most annoyance to men Utica Observer |