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Show r ay tl Lien Am LETTERS. Th Western Union Telegraph company about a yritr ago. astonished the worKI by announcing th i,t it would Ke:id right letters of fifty words ill length nt t!ie hh 111! rste hs ten-word telegrams dinpatehtd I tlay. ' . It was a mighty convenience to the geucrHl put). I.e. In the year perlmps it saved men from writing a n.uliou letters, because with a little practice lnimt men learn that all they say in a long letter can be lit in fifty words if they concentrate a little. It inist have been profitable, too, to tho Western Union company, for now they announce a "day li tier" service at one and a half the cost of a tnt-word tnt-word inesxage, and advise the senders to fil? them before noon to insure their delivery withiu the business hours of the same day. It is said the' Western Union officers are enthuoiaritie about the system of telegraphing letters for -business and so-cinl so-cinl purposes. The Postal company hits its doubts,, but it followed the example of th Western Union in the ease of the night letters, and no doubt will ui the case of the day letters. I All that ought to be a lesbon to transportation companies, which is that the cheaper transportation transporta-tion that can be made with a fair profit will bring in more revenues in a year thau heavy cost of transit trans-it nation. We believe, for instance, that the rail-n rail-n ails would make more money if they would make a one-cent rate per mile between Ogdcu and Provo, because now men g when their bimincni rails them; tvitii the cheaper rate they would go for fun very i.ftc'1 and tak their wivea and fa mi lien, and it would not require any more kteain, any more wear mid tear of the railroad track or the cars. Very ili.'iip transportation is a certain lure to draw money from men's pockets. Some of ua remember when to send a letter anywhere cost 23 cents. When tlu.t system was done away with and the cheap postage introduced, the revenues to the department were greater than they had been tinder the, high P' staire, and the rule ia inviolable that ill figuring tr Hii-portatioq the great public docs not figure what t ie ullimate amount will be, but how much per i,,!!e; and they are prone to ride four miles if the e. t is 01 v twice what that one mile has been be-f be-f . tiiel t e railroad gets double fare. |