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Show MAIL NUISANCE Tlitit Tlire:il,;netl to Inundate the Familj of a ?ev Fat!ir. At an Adelaide street residence thg servant went to the door, met a perspiring per-spiring and scowling letter carrier, and took in a basketful of mail. It was. the third such lot of the day, and there had been a like delivery for a week. "Dump it into the furnace." roared the young man who is at the head of the family. "I'm going to see the postmaster, post-master, write the head of the department depart-ment at Washington, and get out an injunction. I'll see if there is not some way to abate this nuisance." "But there may be some other mail; something that wa want to read," interposed in-terposed a gentler and feebler voice. "I don't care if thete is. I don't care if there's a draft or a postal order in every other envelope. Chuck the whole outfit into the furnace and don't lose any time doing it. V.'hoever's working work-ing this rig on me may think he's smart good and plenty. It's the con-foundest. con-foundest. meanest, smallest, most impertinent im-pertinent thing I ever heard of." "But it's only a joke, my dear." "I'D j0-Ke 'em. Do you know tlitit we've received over a car lot of catalogues, prospectuses, prospec-tuses, and al! that sort of thing from female 'seminaries in the country? There were over 2uy in the first batch and that was the smallest one received Dump the whole batch into the "ur-nace, "ur-nace, I say. Xice thing! I guess not sending up titose iVniah. seminary advertisements ad-vertisements and our lim,, nQ). two weeks old yet. You can. bet that I'll stop the thing or know the reason why." Detroit Free Press. |