| Show You cant believe bellec an honest man on oath remarked nn an old postal clerk all as ashe hI he finished hIs run I recently had a curious experience that proves It As Asan an Illinois Central traIn vas rend ready to put out one afternoon with our malt mall car on the end a fine looking old gentle gentlemen mon men came running along the platform I was standing on the steps ot of the car cara a Are Arc you OU n a mall mail he asked and J I Well here I wish Ish oud take these let tens for tor mo me I was so anxious to be sure the they got off orr In thimi traIn I trust II a messenger but brought them down myself Time The one to Mobile Js is ver very Important lie handed me three letters No Now Its n a curious fact that nIne times out of often ten len n a man will hand letters to a 11 mall clerk with the address on the tho under underside side They seem to thInk we c have han no to lo read the address addres all as If Ie malt mall would arrive nt at the rIght night place lace It we I took the letters and turned em over You sa say that tile the Mobile letter Is important 7 I shouted Yes er erWell ery Well Sehl It a stamp on It 4 Young man the old fellow remark remarked od ed as lie he tit at the envelope envelop I 1 would have havo sworn that I remembered lickIng that stamp anI and sticking It the vay It goes continued the clerk A man cant trust his own senses A few years ears ago a registered package wits was missing from the malls mails be a town down In the center ot of the state and ChicAgo The postmaster ot at atthe the small town B a judge and ond a prom mont citizen clUen swore that he put the package In the mall mail pouch In An gation was commenced and imle hll am alA darit was forwarded to lo Washington What have you OU to 0 M say to that the Inspector demanded or of the clerk who should have handled the package Nothing sir except that thal the pack package age ace In the pouch replied the clerk About n a week otter after that when It looked pretty blue for tor the clerk the post postmaster muter overhauled ills desk on top under an accumulation of at news nes nesI newspapers papers was vas the package which the I postmaster swore Ime he remembered d put putting putting ting Into the mall sack I |
