Show our post office system notwithstanding anding the meddling intentions of dr olds with our post office system were J defeated that branch brandhof hof of the public service service is in a most unsatisfactory condition WO we are 41 t behind the mark 11 which the united states ought never to be and england is clear ahead of us another thing n that ought not tobe to le william chambers one of the res respected p e eted proprietors of 11 chambers magazine I 1 of this matter follows az n e speaks as in the matter matte of cheap postage we the states have had the misfortune to be imitators of england instead of taking the initiative moreover with the f full till knowledge of the post office organic organization tion of the united kingdom I 1 and possessing an revenue the americans have strangely failed to place their postal system on a footing so perfect as it might be the franking privilege accorded not only to members of congress but restrictedly to an inferior class of pott pot md masters ars is an abuse wh which ich surprises us I 1 to sefe see still aill tolerated I 1 more remarkable is it to find that the ordin ordinary ty rate of prepaid postage of three i cents for a single letter does not infer delivery when the american Americ aix post ost undertakes I 1 to convey letters and newspapers the service I 1 to their transmission from post I 1 office to post office for their delivery at I 1 the house 0 of the parties to whom they are addressed there is an additional charge of one or two cents it is an ordinary custom every everywhere where in the states spates to call for letters or newsy newspapers a pers at tho the post office and by an arrangement with the postmaster each person on his has a box boi into which his hia correspondence I 1 is is put in new york I 1 observed great crowds daily it at the post office seeking for letters let this monstrously inconvenient practice be compared with the plan pursued in london of sending out four or five times a day a host of carriers each with his handle bundle of letters and alid newspapers for delivery at the doors of the parties to whom they are addressed without any additional ihl charge an I 1 american gentleman who had been some time in london mentioned to me that I 1 I 1 nothing 1 I surprised and delighted him so much as the incessant distribution of letters I 1 care being taken to transfer the carriers in in detachments 1 ts to their respective beats by means of r rapidly driven ic your YOU r go government stud he 1 is completely ahead of ohis oars in this respect we could not do better bette r than transfer your postil postal system body and bones to the states the tho N Y post remarking upon the above says I 1 I 1 it is singular that the english post office regal regulations actions shou should ld bp be so much M more gre liberal and democratic than ours the english postal system knows knovis no aristocracy nobody harthe has the prerogative of sending bendino letters and news newspapers lapors for nothing our system on the other hand hanc 1 recognises recognizes a privilege P id d class if a m man an happens to be a member of bf congress the I 1 mails carry his letters and alii speeches gratuitously w while bile the plebeian masses pay postage L great oat west MRS partington ON 0 i pedge why do folks make such a 6 to do about abon t their four fathers P P 1 said mrs krs partington to the schoolmaster who was asking her genealogy sho she stopped rolling out the crust for a pie as she spoke e and with ith her hands still upon the I 1 rolli rolling T pin in she looked achim at him over her left I 1 shoulder dei gf why should folks try so hard to find ou out t about their four fathers when its full fall as much auch v Ds as many want to do to find out I 1 that th they ey havo have had one th tho c schoolmaster explained that people were looking more to io pedigree edy r ee than formerly 1 looking I 1 more for r fiddle d ile dedee de dee exclaimed the old hladij lad v I 1 giving gh ing the pin a yin vigorous I 1 gorol as and emphatic roll i as she spoke 11 what makes the difference I 1 bow ho v folks follEs got here so long as ag they are alre gerej here W why hy am i I 1 any be ter pow now because my great I 1 grandfather was 0 one ne of thia the Jugger nuts I 1 that left france on account of their religious notions here was a mine opened for the genealogist ile he never once dr dreamed that tho the antiquated antiquate tO dame before him could have I 1 had a grandfather much more that she could haye descended from the huguenots Huguen 14 are i you indeed a scion of that illustrious sto stock k ill said he be delightedly 11 whose suffering in g find and fidelity to their professions are monuments to their memory e he did suffer terribly poor maii man 11 replied she cato toward the last of it with neurology in his I 1 head and as dousay yo was faithful to his hi 8 profession for a more honest tinker never doddered sod dered a teapot tea pot the schoolmaster was flo floored ored by a simplicity that looked not to ah ancestry for foi glory bep depending ending upon its own intrinsic exa excellence flento for reputation and who would rift not in the days to come rather be that estimable vt woman oman standing thorarin there in times expanse holding that thai rolling pin jn than the grimmeit grimmest grim st huguenot haamen ot of lem em all aft that pie beneath her 0 band and becomes food tor for gods that rolling pin a golden sceptre tre |