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Show UNCLE SAM FROSTS CUPID Refuses to Carry Missives Adorned "With Second-Hand Stamps. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept 23. Tho plight of Kate Kilbride, who stuck a canceled can-celed stamp on a letter to her sweetheart sweet-heart and was found out by a heartless postal inspector, makes Cupid sick. Kato was taken beforo United States Commissioner Commis-sioner Craig, who held her in $100 bail to answer in tho United States District court. If sho had mailed tho letter without any stamp, tho postofflco would have delivered de-livered it and collected -tho 2 cent3 from her sweetheart Kato cried bitterly. Sho wept becauso tho letter with ltB burning passages did not reach her sweetheart. She wept, too, becauso she was badly frightened. It seems Incredlblo that there should exist a postal Inspector with a heart so seared agnlnot tho lender passion. It is equally incredlblo that a man of as kindly and benevolent a disposition as Commissioner Commis-sioner Craig is known to possess should find it In his heart to hold Kato for court. But Undo Sam can't run his postal business in partnership with Cupid. Carrying Car-rying letters is a cold business proposition. proposi-tion. After all, it isn't likely that anything very terrible will happen to Kato when her case comes up. |